WEBVTT - TGI – Episode 420 “Security Guy” 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.800 Every night when I put Adler to bed. It's some 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:29.240 of my favorite times with him because Jensen hangs out 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.000 with him in his room while I put Keaton to bed, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:33.040 and then I leave Keaton's room and I go into 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.880 Adler's room, and then Jensen says good night to Adler 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.599 and he turns off the lights, and Jensen leaves, and 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.720 Adler and I just stay there in his room in 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.920 the pitch black, and we talk and we can't see 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.280 each other. So there's a whole new freedom, he feels. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.560 It's one of the reasons I think kids talk when 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.920 they're in the car, like there isn't that direct eye contact, 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.840 so they feel more free to talk about things. And 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.080 every night he starts the same way moms talk about something, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.960 and I say, Okay, what do you want to talk about? Now? 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.840 Adler will be five at the end of June, so 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.480 he's not quite five. He says to me the other night, Mom, 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.000 did you know that Damien, who's one of his best 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.840 friends in his class and is also in his karate class, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.600 did you know that Damien had a dog named Angel? 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.040 And I said I did know that, Yeah, Yeah, Damien 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.040 had a dog named Angel. And he goes, yeah, an 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:26.800 angel died. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:28.720 Oh no, And. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.920 I said yeah. I said, it's you know, it's unfortunate, 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:36.920 but dogs don't live forever. And he goes, well, not 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.240 Brunch and Bill, right, Brunch and Bill, They're not going 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:48.480 to die, oh no, And I go, well, uh, you know, yeah, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:53.040 they will die. They will die, and he goes no, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.880 And I just I feel the anxiety and the social 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.680 just dread Phil in his little body. And I said, well, honey, 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.600 nobody knows when that time will be. The good news 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.880 is neither Brunch or Bill are sick. There's no reason 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.560 to think we have any reason to worry about them 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.040 dying anytime soon. We don't know when it will be. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.000 But you may even be ten like that, you know, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:23.760 because to him, the idea of when he's going to 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.400 be ten, he feels like he's been hearing about his 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.800 fifth birthday forever. So no need to go into the 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.200 fact that we had the radioactive cat. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:31.840 And I wasn't even you don't. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.760 I didn't even I didn't even bring it up. I 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.640 just said, you know, absolutely not, no no problems there. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.160 He goes, well, are you I mean, are you sure? 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.720 I really don't think I don't want Brench and Bill 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.160 to die. I don't. I just don't know why that 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.240 needs to happen. And I said, but honey, nothing lives forever, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:57.800 which was a no, because his next question. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.919 Was what about you and Dad? No, what about me? 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:12.920 I'm not gonna die, right, And I just silent, And 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:21.360 he says again, Mommy, I'm not gonna die, right, And 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:27.440 I again silent because I'm in my head. What do 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:28.760 I say? 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.160 The terminator going through all the possible things you can say. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.320 You know, I really pride myself on being able to 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.760 tell him Mommy and Daddy don't lie to you. When 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.480 Mommy and Daddy tell you something, it's because it's the truth, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.080 or at the very least, it's what we believe. When 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.400 I tell him something I believe, I say, I don't 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.480 know for sure, but this is what I believe. Other 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.320 people believe other things, and they don't. Also they also 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.600 don't know for sure, and people are allowed to believe 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.760 different things. It doesn't mean you have to try to 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.480 change somebody's beliefs. So I'm also I'm very clear about that. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.360 And if he asks me something and I truly do 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.400 not know the answer, I just say I do not know, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.000 and if there is the answer to be found, I say, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.840 but let me find out for you, and then I 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.040 can go on the journey of finding it out. So 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:20.119 I'm like my gut, which is to immediately just stop 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.440 the no, not you, you're court because I because that's 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:24.920 all I want in this moment is for him. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.520 I don't know, let me find out. I don't let 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:27.680 me go. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.479 And I also I refuse to lie. And so he 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:39.320 says it a third time, Mommy, I'm not going to die, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:44.480 right And then what came out of my mouth was, honey, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.159 these are adult problems. And he said, what does that mean? 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.880 And I said, you're talking to down the road. Yes, 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.680 I'm punching it down the road. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.240 And I suppose you're the concept of death. So I 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:57.920 don't have to do. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.520 And I said, these are these are not the things 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.760 that for almost five year olds should be thinking about. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.000 You don't need to think about this right now, I said. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.320 And he said, well, I said, there are adult problems 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.560 and there are kid problems. He said, what's a kid problem? 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.280 And I said, at your age, you're learning to read. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.120 Learning to read is your problem. That's a kid problem. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:23.000 Making friends, being kind to people, learning to regulate your 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.159 big emotions. Those are all things that you should spend 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.520 your time thinking about and working on. And these things 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.040 that we're talking about are things that mommy and Daddy 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.919 think about and and not him. And he, thankfully that 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.920 worked very well for him. He said I love you, mom. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.560 I said I love you too, and then he said 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.240 you can leave now, and which is always what he 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.039 says when he's done, when he's done, when he's ready 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.039 for me to leave because he's ready to go to sleep. Yeah, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.400 I've been dismissed. And then he's never brought it up again. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.640 He did bring up Angel again. He did bring up 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.120 somehow something came up. I think I said to Keaton, well, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.000 thank you Angel, and he was like, Mommy, Damien's dog's 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.680 name was Angel. And I was like, I know, but 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.960 but he didn't bring up any of the other stuff. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.840 So I remember this moment from my own childhood. I 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.640 really yeah. I was playing war with Keith Stackhouse, my 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.159 best friend, and we were running around. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:14.600 The war or is there a different. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:17.440 In War? 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.520 And we were like running around in the woods at 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.479 my house and and we were like and I like fell. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.440 I was like, oh, and then I die and. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.720 I fell on the ground and played dead and started bowling, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.720 and I remember poor Keith being like, right, are you okay? 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.680 What happens after I died? 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.240 And then I walked in and I was like and 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.760 he he like probably helped pick me up. And we 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.840 walked to my dad in the garage, and I remember 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.320 my dad was like working us up, and I was like, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:48.960 am I going to die? 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.320 And in classic kings run. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:55.120 Yeah, everything does here just like and I just remember this, 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:56.840 you know, And then we just sat and talked about 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.520 it all afternoon. And but it's so interesting, like I've 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.520 off thought of that as a good example of how 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.520 important play is, right, like how important imagination is, because 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.800 it probably had been told some version of death or thought. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:12.080 But like, for whatever me, acting out death made it 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.160 real for me, and like I was able to like 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.040 have to like realize, oh, I can't imagine what happens 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.520 after I am there, I was next, and what happens next? 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.480 And I didn't know how to act it. I didn't 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.240 know how to play it in my imagination. And it 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.280 was like and yeah, so I just this, like I 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.400 still still see the grass like sideways laying on the ground, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:32.840 like trying to and being like. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.200 Oh, there's there's nothing beyond that. I don't know where 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.040 to go. Yeah, I think yeah, play is important. Man 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:40.480 with your friends. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.120 Thankfully has handled it well. He wears all black now 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.000 and he listens to nine inch nails, and I don't 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:50.160 think there's nothing that nothing eyeliner. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:50.760 Yeah. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.880 No, my parents told me I am going to live forever, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.640 and I believe them, So I'm good. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:00.840 You'll carry on the podcast in ant. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.760 I'm just gonna keep going the entire time, gonna do 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.840 the re listen of the re listen of the re listen. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.000 It'd be great, be like, yeah, this is so here 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.680 we are. It's twenty three forty. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.680 Arcause he's also never gonna die. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.560 Yes, just Adler and I together. I love it. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.440 An angel wherever rest in peace angel right now. Yeah, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.760 like luckily, our luckily, our cat and dog aren't sick 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.480 at all. It's like you just irradiated your cat where 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.360 you had to be at arm's length away. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.840 Listen. We did it so we could buy the kid 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.720 like five or six more years. And by the cat, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.840 I mean the cat, I mean this cat's now gonna 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.280 live forever. We've we've taken care of the one thing 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:43.200 that was causing him to be at rich. Oh, welcome 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.240 to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fischel, I'm. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.520 Right or Strong, and I'm wilfordell. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.280 Well. Welcome to this episode of Pod Meets the World. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.400 It's season four, episode twenty Security Guy. It originally aired 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.600 April fourth, nineteen ninety seven. The synopsis. After getting fired 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.640 from Alan's store, Eric gets a job as a security guard, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.160 but mister Feenie and his family think he's wasting his potential. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.480 All the while, Cori and Tapanga try to convince Sean 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.720 to take an sat prep course. It was directed by 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.080 Jeff McCracken. It was written by There's a story by 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:31.800 Mark Bluman and Howard Buskang and a teleplay by Matthew Nelson. So, 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.520 before I jump into guest stars, did you guys have 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.200 any overall thoughts? I can start if you want. I know, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.040 I always ask a question, and you guys feel like 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.760 I'm putting you on the spot. I okay, I'll get 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.720 my complaint out of the way first. I find it 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.440 a little off putting that no matter how many different 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.920 things Eric tries to do, everything is presented as he 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.680 will end up being a loser unless he takes the 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.040 SATs and goes to college. I know, I find that 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.320 a little off putting. Like I just and I know 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.720 that it was the nineties, and I know that it's 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.360 you know, one of the things that especially back then, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.960 you know, going to college and getting an education, did 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.400 feel like if you didn't do that, your life was 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.360 at risk, Like, well, what could happen to you? Yeah? 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.120 So I know that. I know that I'm not judging 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.920 the show by it, but it does just every time 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.280 every time we have an episode about it, I get 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.680 a little irked because I'm like, geez, is there nothing 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.680 anyone can do without this? With that said, I loved 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:32.520 this episode. 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:33.199 Oh cool. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.840 I really loved it. I thought it was I thought 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:42.560 the performances were great, I thought the I thought the 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.280 there's some you know, kind of maybe outdated stuff with 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.520 the parents and who the blaming and what the roles 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.200 are of parenting that's outdated whatever, But none of that 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.160 really bumped me. I just I loved it. I loved 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.880 the episode. I was very entertained. I thought it was 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.160 really well done and I just enjoyed it. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.439 So I agree with you one hundred percent. I had 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.920 the same problem. I also think, and again looking hindsight 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.400 being what it is and what we're learning more about 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.240 today when it comes to four year schools and things 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.720 like that, I think it's a big missed opportunity to 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.959 show that you could do other things. Eric didn't need 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:20.680 to go to college, that you know, he could have 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.640 learned a trade. Would have been a very interesting way 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.680 to go about it. I thought would have been empowering 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.319 for the character. But that being said, it was a 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.719 fun episode to watch. I remember, unfortunately can't remember the 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.679 actor's name, but the guy who played the other security 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.480 guard I remember. He and I got along very well 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.920 this week. I love episodes where I just got to 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:44.600 work with Rusty and Betsy and Bill. I felt like 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.319 as an actor, and again I had my own little ooh, 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:48.959 I wish I could have done that moment over ooh, 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.080 I hamm that up a little bit. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.120 I had that a couple times. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.560 But for me, it felt like, ooh, they're putting me 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.319 with the adults, and there was something I liked where 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.839 I was like I was now a member of this cast. 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.360 With the adults where it was always kind of floating. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.199 And so to be in that kind of realm as 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.800 an actor of It's Gonna be You and Bill and 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.000 Rusty and Beat. I mean that to me was was great. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:13.599 Like I felt like they were kind of hating me 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.280 on the back, like you're gonna go You're gonna go 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.880 play with the big kids this week, right, So I 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.720 really love that. But yeah, that was my only other 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.280 problem was I thought they they really do, really are 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:24.840 harping on that you need to go to college. And 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.440 we talked about this in the other episode, which is 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:30.920 really interesting because Michael didn't and so it was I 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.880 thought a real opportunity to show that you do not 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:35.320 need to go to a four year school. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:35.720 You don't. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.440 You know, sets are what they are, but you know, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.760 you don't need to go to a four year college. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.600 And having Foene say things like, yes, I think you're settling. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.040 I think you're doing that, it got a little much. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.559 But I loved I thought the episode was fun. I 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.080 thought it was funny. There's times I was I felt emotional, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.000 which I don't normally do that with Boy Meets World episodes. 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.920 So yeah, I very much liked it. Yeah, it was 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.160 you know, it's funny because it's not even the college thing, 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.800 which we've talked a lot about. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:06.080 It's specifically distilled to SASA over and over and over again. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.600 I had no idea our show. I mean, this is 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:12.440 probably the seventh episode of Boy Meets World dedicated to 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:17.160 taking the SATs as the locus of all of your 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.760 academic energy and the benchmark. And I mean, I. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.760 Guess, you know, I guess that's. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:31.680 A an oversimplification, probably because it makes for just a 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.200 very easy story point. Yeah, it's like are you going 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.160 to take them? And then what's your score going to be? 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.319 And it becomes this like a sort of condensed, distilled 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.600 way to be, like, you know, here's a very clear choice. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.120 But yeah, it doesn't age very well because it's so specific. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.840 And of course, like colleges haven't been requiring the SATs 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.400 for like the last ten years. It's now coming back 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.720 in vogue, but like, you know, there's all these questions 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.360 around SAT this is a thing, but back then it was. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.319 And I guess it's just fascinating that our writing staff, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.560 our creative team really decided to just hammer this home 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.079 and like make that all the focus. And yeah, it 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.680 just it just kind of I was like rolling my 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.480 eyes at that. But I wonder if I had been 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.760 if I'd seen this episode without having seen going back 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.880 to season one, you and Jason Marsden studying for the SATs, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.400 if I wouldn't feel that way, if I would just 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.800 be like, oh, this is good storytelling because the sat 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.880 is here actually have a result. We get the number 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.560 like we see it, and it does play well within 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.040 the context that it's just I'm a little exhausted by 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.560 sat talk. Your performance is unbelievable in this world. I 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.200 think I think that you have a lighter touch than 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.080 in other dramatic episodes. It's a dramatic episode, but you 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.200 play it with such a lighter touch. It's really effective. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:46.800 And like you said, you're just in it with the 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.760 adults and you're holding your own and like watching you 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.880 when you walk out in the security guard outfit, it 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.240 just gets a laugh. It's just a great It's just great. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:15:01.280 I find the episode really really really sweet. Yeah too sweet, 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.240 Like there's just not enough sour for me. I need 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.360 a little I need a little bit more conflict, a 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.240 little bit more like I don't know. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.040 It was just it was just like, well, that's it's 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:10.480 a lot of. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.080 Sweet moments in a row, like oh yeah, and now 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.160 we're gonna tell Feenie what we think, and now Eric's 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.880 gonna tell a Feenie what he thinks. No, Russy's gonna 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.080 tell Eric what he thinks. And now it's just like, oh, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:20.720 gets all. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.040 And there's just a little bit of minor confrontation between 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.280 Eric and Amy, but we don't really ever see it. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.040 It's like because he's talking, but you're you know, we 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.080 see Alan say you're not mad at me? No, daddy, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.240 I'm not mad at you. So the conflict is like, yes, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.320 but inside roiling, but it's off screen. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.560 But the other thing, but it's also it's it's again 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.320 like if we're going to nitpicky stuff, it does show 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:43.880 and they and she was in the episode a lot, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.360 but maybe a more powerful episode if instead of going 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.080 to Alan and talking to Alan about how he's mad 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.680 at Amy, it's the scenes with Amy, like you know, why, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.480 why is that not the focus? We've we've established that 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.480 like if it was and again machine wayback machine, all 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.440 the stuff we always talk about, but if we if 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.520 it was still Alan trying to protect him and keeping 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.360 him at the store, and it was Amy who just 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.320 flat out as like, no, he has to go, this 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:12.120 is now bad. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:12.960 He has to go. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.440 It does add another layer of everything that's kind of 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.280 going on, so I get that. But yeah, overall, I 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.440 thought it was great and I remember, and we'll get 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.760 into it as we get to the especially the opening scene. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.960 But I remember, especially the opening scene with Rusty and 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.360 us just losing it with the one armed bear trainer 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:31.200 and how we. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.920 Speaking of which it was mentioned the one arm bear 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.000 trainer with Rusty when we did the sleepover and I 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.040 thought the real bear trainer had one arm. I didn't 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.120 realize you guys were talking about the show. I was like, wait, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.720 you mean to tell me the bear trainer only had 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.000 one arm, And you guys were like yes, And I 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.000 was like, this is the That's one of the craziest 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.560 Hollywood stories I've ever heard. Then there was a bear 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.520 trainer with only one arm. No, no, of the show, right. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.680 Yeah, this is how Hollywood lawa is birthed. 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.320 Right here, the misunderstanding of what's in scene out of scene, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:06.880 and the story gets told and retold. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:13.200 Until my cousin knew that the. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:17.439 Hospital Danielle was on the show, she would and she 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.919 said that there was a one bear was one, that 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.639 the trainer only had one arm. You guys like you 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:23.199 was scared. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.800 Oh, yes, exactly how it would be to it's how 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.280 it works works. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.520 So guest starring Troy Evans, who returns to Boy Meets 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.280 World Now as the Bear Trainer and yes, you recognize 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:39.200 him as the hilarious Ranger Marker, he says, the pod 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.240 meets world favorite city Slackers. He's a legendary character actor 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.439 with a hey that guy face and credits like a spentcher, 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:50.080 a pet detective, teen wolf E r and Bosh And 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.359 then the guy you remembered so well Will Chris Eyer 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.000 as Ronnie. He played Nigel on two episodes of Buffy 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.680 and Doctor pran Jeep on four episodes of Two and 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.000 a Half Men. So, jumping into our recap, we are 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.640 in the Wilderness store. There's a line outside to get in. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.919 Eric explains it's because he called a little lady named 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:14.760 Hollywood and arranged for all those customers to meet TV's Bear. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.520 The camera pans to a real grizzly bear sitting in 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.720 the store. This is the first of two bears. I 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.360 have no memory of being on set. Apparently, Alan politely 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.160 whispers to his son what shows he was on. Eric 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.960 guesses Grizzly Adams, gentleman, national geographic. It doesn't matter. He's 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.760 been on TV, which means he's famous and people love that. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.080 And then a bear trainer walks up to Alan and 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.320 Eric and we see he's missing one of his arms. 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.760 The man would like to discuss the business portion of things, 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.439 as Eric has agreed to pay twenty five hundred dollars 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.639 for the bear's appearance. That's a lot of money. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.359 That's a lot of money, especially in bear money, because 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:54.840 I can get I can get you a bear right 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.040 now for seven hundred bucks and a great one, really 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:58.720 so crazy. 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.480 What's the day rate for a set? It's less than that. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.600 It's not that, it's not that that I mean, but 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.520 it's you. I think it's less than two grand for 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.960 a day. So the bear's, you know, command on a 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:10.920 salary here. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.560 So it's a steep price. But Alan assumes these people 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.679 are going to buy enough merchandise to make it worth it. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:20.200 The bear handler stops him. Those customers can't come inside 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.879 his TV bear can't be around people. Allan is confused. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.960 It's a TV bear, isn't it trained? The one armed 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:34.680 man shouts back, you can't train a bear, Alan forces 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.919 Eric to fix this mess. So Eric brings up the 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.240 fact that this bear was on little house on the prairie. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.320 The man knowingly tells them, sure, he's great with children, 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.239 so Alan is somewhat relieved. Well, great, then they can 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:46.840 have the kids come in and play with the bear. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.560 And then the bear trainer warns them, oh, I wouldn't 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.359 do that. They need another twenty five hundred dollars for 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.720 the female bear as well. Alan is not happy about 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.600 this five thousand dollars mistake. Eric inches his closer to 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.760 the grizzly to assure his dad this is just a gentle, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.280 meek TV bear, and then the bear stands up on 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.359 his hind legs, looking furious. Eric looks up as if 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.320 he's looking at the bear about to strike, and we 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:16.359 hear a terrifying roar from just the sound. Eric's hair 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.560 blow's in the wind, and he's screaming at the top 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.159 of his lungs. Alan and the bear handler are screaming 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.240 as well. Eventually, the bear calms and Eric slowly walks away, 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.640 his face still in horror and his hair all messed up. 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:28.920 We hear the trainer frantically trying to calm the bear 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.359