November 25, 2024 • 32 mins
The McKinley High kids are twerking up a storm of controversy!
Jenna and Kevin braced themselves for this episode since fans have such strong negative feelings about it, but they were pleasantly surprised! They admit it's a silly episode with plenty of cringe, but Unique's storyline is so timely and relevant and Alex Newell's performance of "If I Were a Boy" was powerful. They also discuss why "Blurred Lines" was their least favorite performance to shoot, the one they had fun doing, and their thoughts on Marley taking on "Wrecking Ball."
Plus, ink-spiration strikes! Kevin has new tattoos, and they discuss the emotional one featured in the episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And That's what you Really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to and That's what You Really mis podcast. This
is season five, Episode five, the End of Tork.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Kevin indeed a controversial episode. Jenna very there's a lot
of those in this season, though, I think.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yes, listen, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Remember this.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm going to say this again over and over again.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We should haven't played before every episode. So this episode
originally aired November fourteenth, twenty thirteen. We're already in November,
which is wow.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Well, I guess we took we took some breaks in
this season. Sure know this kind of makes sense, all right.
So the number one song was Royals by Lord Still damn.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The number one movie was Thor The Dark.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
World And oh, okay, I've seen this.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Have you seen the Thorn movies?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh, I've seen all. I'm a Marvel girly Okay, oh yeah,
I've seen them all multiple multiple times.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I love Thor. Thor is great. I like the Thorn
movies a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, me too, and the second one is very good. Okay.
Glee News This Week November twelve, Darren Cordon Matt attended
the twenty thirteen GQ Men of the Year event at
the will Share Email Theater in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Cute, very fancy, very so. This episode was directed by
Wendy Stanzler. She gets some.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Really weird episodes.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I will say she does, but I didn't remember if
she directed this one or not. And I really liked
the directing in this episode a lot. Great and I
noticed it like the musical numbers were directed really really well.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
She's great.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It is a complicated episode, and it could if you like,
play into certain things of what we've learned from the show.
It could go wrong, is if you lean in too
much to some things. But I thought she really had
the balance down.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, yes, I agreed, she was great. I loved working
with Wendy. Yeah, we have some songs. You are a woman.
I am manned by the cast of Funny Girl. And
this was obviously performed by Rachel.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Blurred Lines performed by Bree New Directions and will mm
hmm If I.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Were a Boy performed by Unique, Unique.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Wrecking Ball performed by Marley.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh Yes, and On Our Way by the Royal Concept
performed by the New Directions. Okay, there's not that much
music in this but there's a lot that happens.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But the musical numbers are big.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Very they feel really big. They are important to the storylines,
they fit their.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Hits hits. I feel like this number, like five songs,
works very well.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I feel like that's the sweet spot solid other they
don't get lost in the shuffle. There's time for them.
You can give them TLC. I totally agree. This is
the fifth episode where every member of the New Directions
present in the episode sings solo lines, and the other
being a pilot Brittany two point zero teen and the
Sky recently and also Katie and Gaga. They're really just
(03:22):
evenly distributing the love.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
This is the first season five episode where a main
character is absent, and that is Santana.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yes, I was wondering where she was. This is the
first episode which Unique has a voiceover.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Which startled me. I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
This is the fourth episode to show a viewer Discretion
Advised Content rating message right before the airing of the episode,
the first being Sexy, the second being the first time,
and the third being shooting Star interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The idea for Christmastake on his tattoo is from an
actual picture that went viral online. Someone tattoo, dude, it's
get better on their right.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Arm, terrifying. I'm sorry, Jenna, I just got new tattoos.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Have you seen what? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Look, hold on, I got seagulls. Wait, how to show you?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I see I see, Oh my god, in New York.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
No, I got it in La.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh my gosh. I have taken a deep pause on
my tattoos. I would do some for my children one day,
but I took a deep pause.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I woke it back up.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Proud of you, proud of you.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, thanks, I thought of you always. I have gotten
almost every single tattoo.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
With you always.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, maybe this was Was this the first time I
didn't get a tattoo with you?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No? No, you got your table.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I've been cheating on you lately.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The last iteration, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's fine. It's
probably better because I feel Oh I did get a tattoo.
I got nice tattoo. What am I talking about? It
wasn't like that long ago. No, Emma really likes this
one because she looks like ballet bow, so she loves
the bow and I always tell her like, this is
Mommy's friend.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's so cute.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
There's a few that she really takes too, and so
that's really one of them. She loves the button on
my wrist.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That one's really good.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
She loves the button on my wrist. It's so funny.
Mommy button, here you go. Don't do it to yourself.
This is the first episode of season five to not
be a tribute episode.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Bree's vine video of Marley and Jake couldn't have been
a vine because it lasted longer than seven seconds.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh right, I remember. Vine was so short. And at
the beginning, when Tina is showing the Glee Club Blane's
twork video, she's wearing fishnet gloves and the next scene
they're gone.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
She hated them.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I probably hated them, It's probably what it was. I
probably ripped them off and threw them across the room.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So in this episode, the Glee Club learns the dance
of the hour, twerking. Meanwhile, Marley discovers Jake's relationship with Brie,
and Rachel tries to convince Kurt that they both should
get tattoos. Very very lifelike there. I feel like Leah
was always trying to give us to get tattoos.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Always let's start a racheon Kirk. So Rachel decides that
she wants to rebel a little bit. So she shows
up to Funny Girl rehearsals with a quote unquote haircut
(06:29):
a bob. It's very cute on her. I will say
very bob was great. The wig is very good also
because I was like, did she her?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I did not know that was a wig?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, very good, And she tricks the director to think
that she actually cut her hair. She says it's of
the time, and they're like, what the heck? Were very upset,
but then they perform You Are a Woman, I Am Man,
which was adorable and charming number, and the director peters like,
(07:03):
I was wrong. This is great the power of performance.
But we do learn that the haircut was fake. She
pulls that wake off and I was gagged, and I
know it was funny that she like took it off.
She was walking, and.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I thought it was great. They also a couple times
in this episode touched on Finn because you know, we've
sort of we ignored it last episode, and like talking
about the grieving and how Kurt and Rachel are both
dealing or not dealing with it. Yes, exactly and so
Rachel says, you know, diving headfirst into these things, let's
(07:42):
get tattoos. Yes, yes, and they go get tattoos.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Kurt gets is it's not good.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's not good.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's not good.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It did not get better.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It's get better. And he didn't even realize that he
gave it to the two artists that way.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, and then Rachel said she didn't get one.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
She lies, She says, I don't think there's anything that
I would want on my body for that long. And
we find this very endearing moment where she gets Fin
on her rip, which I believe is out in the
public that she actually has a few tattoos for Corey
in real life as well. That one got me.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, that was that was really beautifully done.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Because I was like, wait a second, did they write
this in you know, obviously this is all kind of
about how they are, like you said, grieving or not
grieving Fin, And I appreciate these smaller moments obviously, like
we we have moved forward from the quarterback now we're
moved on from it, if you, but like I appreciate
(08:53):
these moments of like how we will continue to honor
Corey and on her fin and talk about it because
I do think it's in and we can't just like.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wash completely ignor.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, and this kind of this whole storyline kind of
goes along with like the rebellion feeling and like wanting
to I don't know, like the twerking of it all,
you know, which is basically the rest of this episode
of like it's the new trend of the day, as
(09:31):
mister Shoe will show the board of education or of
the school about the different eras of trending dances, which
I forgot about that we did that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I really love that moment.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I did too. I thought it was very sweet.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Like very clever. Yes, it was really well done, looked beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yes, I don't know why did it, but I was
like wow, I mean really enjoyed this moment.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It was like, oh, Shoe's actually putting together a comprehensive
plan here. He did something in advance, Like oh wow,
he did learn something in Washington.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah. So the twerking Tina catches blamed talking in the cluster,
which was quite funny, and mister Shoe was like, oh
wait a second, my bulb, let's show our kind of
like down dirty side for nationals. So tworking is the
(10:32):
assignment of the week.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'm sorry, but when everybody's watching that video and then
it cuts to Shoe being like this isn't that bad?
Like why is he watching this? What is he doing?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I think the whole thing throughout is that he's so
involved with the twerking and it's it doesn't quite sit
well with me, like doing blurred lines and like in
support of the twerking. It's just a little Yeah, it's questionable.
It's definitely questionable.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm my expectations because we've obviously heard from all of
you who've written in and we've been talking about this.
This is one of those episodes that people did not
like at all. And I think because my expectation was
so low, yeah, that I did sort of enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I okay, look, it has its moments. I don't know
that like the overall story and message was like life
changing for me in any way or but I do
think that some of this is very timely and some
of these performances were excellent, and you're right, I was.
(11:46):
My expectations were so low that I was like, oh,
I'm actually enjoying watching most of this, most of it,
most of it.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And I also think like there's something about like I
really think Wendy had some energy with how she directed this.
And you know, we've done a lot of numbers lately
it seems to be like a theme where like we're
going through different classrooms, we're traveling during a number. Yes,
but I think this is the first one that I
(12:16):
think is really successful. Yeah. As horrible as I think
doing that song was not the right choice, I do
think it is funny that Will does not actually understand
what the song is about. I think that bit is great.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That is funny.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But how that number was shot and choreographed and how
the whole school felt like it was involved felt really
good and like filled out those classrooms in the hallways
and the auditorium with a lot of extra people, lots
of different cots. It felt like music video style. And
it's nice to feel like things are new in the
(12:54):
in season five, Like we've sort of a lot of
times we were in dance rehearsal, the choreographers would be like,
how do we try to do this in a new
way when we've done hundreds of numbers and we were
shooting at all the same locations.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Same locations exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, where this felt really good and that way, I
think from a technical.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Perspective, agreed, agreed best best job she could with what
she had to work with. Yeah, the song don't love.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I mean the teacher singing blurredlines to a bunch of students.
It's going to be a noe for me.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, I also don't know this song. Also, didn't love
shooting this song, Like I remember just being like so
many pieces and you're like this again, this number again.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, it was not fun to shoot.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, it was not. It was very crowded. I remember,
it was a lot of moving parts. Again, Wendy did
a wonderful job with it. Least favorite number of the episode,
hands down. I also wonder if fans don't like this episode,
like I don't know, I don't know, maybe like the
(14:04):
whole Jake cheating on Marley a bit. I didn't like
it also, rub people wrong. I hated it. It was very upsetting.
But I don't know, I'm just I'm just putting that
out there.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, like there's some negativity attached to it with that
where yeah, you don't we were rooting for them, we.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Were, I mean, it was going too well, but you know,
so Sue is banning the talking. She's trying to ban
the talking, and mister Shue is rebelling against trying to
keep the talking. And then also did a wonderful Sue
storm out with Becky, which I always love.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Honestly phenomenal and Becky getting up and again I'm sorry
I keep bringing it up, but the directing and like
the timing and the editing here very good of like
the xylophone thrown in and her tossing it. This is
this is so good.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, very very good. So back to Jake and Marlee
and Brie.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Brie's gotta go. She's evil, I got to go.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
There's nothing redeeming about her. Jake, we learned had cheated
on Marlee after with Brie, after Marley had turned him down,
and so they're continuing this kind of like makeout cheating thing,
and it is and now Brie is just coming after Marley.
(15:30):
She's making fun of her tworking. She's then going to
just outwardly tell Marlee. I was very uncomfortable in this
scene because I was like, oh my god, this is
so stark. It's like, uh mean, Marley telling you about
(15:51):
the male, telling you about the Oh god, it was
so vivid, and I was so sad, so sad for Marley,
and I didn't want it to be true. I really
didn't want to because it's just not motivated at all
for Jake, you know what I mean, It's just what
it is. He just cheats.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, it's it feels. It was like, you know, it's
high school boys are dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, it happened.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That mole thing though, Oh got me. Oh, because how
how can you contradict You can't. You can't disprove that
if you got the mall, I.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Will say we did get wrecking Ball out of it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's her going through that wall. On the wrecking Wall,
I was like, this.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Show, I know, we've really gone there.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
This show is insane. And also we don't always have
to do the literal thing.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I know I was thinking that too, But I remember
them shooting in It was cool, right, Like I remember
them with her on the ball and like everybody was like, oh,
come see the set, come see the thing. And I'm
sure production wise watching it and like it's so cool,
but like, yeah, maybe we don't need to exactly do it.
But maybe that was a request of somebody in the
(17:07):
writer's room. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Also, but also that's like the magic of this show,
as we can, we can't and do she sounded great always.
There were a couple timely things. One I would say
is Sue's corner was very dark, and.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I actually.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
From my memory.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Did dissociated a little bit?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yes, And then I think the most important part of
this episode, Yes, again, we can have an episode about
twerking and there's a wrecking ball and at the same
time we get this really beautiful story about Unique that
also I think is handled so delicately, where it starts
off with like this bathroom issue where everyone is sort
(17:58):
of changing up with bathroom they're going to, and then
Unique gets bullied, which was like, yeah, really tough to watch. Yes,
and the boys in the Greak club are furious and
you know, I want to find out who did it,
and Unique it's like, no, we're not doing that. And Sue,
(18:22):
in a moment of what it feels like she's come
to her senses, it is like, you know what, after
Unique advocated for a gender neutral bathroom, She's like, okay, yeah,
then makes this looks like the Riddler, but Purple port
(18:44):
a potty and puts it in the middle of the
choir room, and Tina loves it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I love this. I love that she loves it.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Because also Jenna does have to be all.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
The time, I have to be right now. I love
I remember filming the US and like us not being
able to get through it because I kept coming out
of the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And we were losing it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Very funny, didn't we have Joey go in once and
he came out of the bathroom. Yes, one of our
CREA members they I didn't go come out of the bathroom.
He came out of that. But it's very funny. Tina
loves the porter potty, She's the only one. But Sue
Uh screws it into the ground in the choir room,
(19:29):
and she says that she will remove the porter potty
and give Unique a key to the faculty bathroom because
she saw mister Shoe doing that for Unique. If we
end the talking, there should be no effing conditions to
(19:50):
make everybody feel that they can be whoever they want
to be. Sorry, just trying to not get too deep
down the rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Don't apologize. This is a Glee podcast. If they watch
the show, they know how we feel about these.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Things, right, It just feels so timely with everything that's
going on in the world, and I was like, oh wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It also was at a time where people were not
talking about this especially, but it was happening, But it
was happening, and the distortion of what the need actually was,
the distortion of like, oh, these people need these bathrooms
(20:45):
and they're going to be in with little kids, Like no, no, no,
nobody's everybody just wants a safe place to use the restroom.
This isn't about anybody.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Elseybody else, nobody's here, anybody.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
To be able to explain it in ways that Gleiso
often does, I think, in a really like easy way
to get why it's important for people, yes, and why
other people often have to advocate on behalf of the
people who need it, yes, and like why and how
(21:20):
those effects can positively or negatively affect somebody emotionally and
mentally and physically. And so it was I thought, and
at the time, I think, honestly, we were probably so
desensitized in a way on set to like handling big issues.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, for sure, I don't think I even.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Realized the gravity of like what we were doing, what
Alex was that was doing for people and what the
show was doing for people, and watching it now it's
very powerful, no.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Very and I mean kudos to Wendy, kudos to Alex
for the performances, for delivering and for being that that
beacon of hope and whatever whatever or else do you
want to call it?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Just recognitions? I can we exist. We have needs that
other people may not understand, but they are still as
important as other people's, you know. And it's like just
showing it and showing up is important.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Watching you need to do.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
If I are a boy, you prepared me, and other
people have prepared me, but I still wasn't totally.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
No, I only think you can only prepare it to
some to some extent, and then you just have to
experience it for yourself. Really beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
The magic of Alex's voice, Oh if alics can do
crazy technical, insane things, right, But the power of the
restraint in this number, yes, and the presence that Alex
had was just.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I mean, watching watching Alex do this in real time,
just in the choir room was very powerful. I remember that.
But watching it now, after all this time, I am
amazed and disgusted at how important this storyline is still
and current it is in our current climate, but it's
(23:37):
also wildly important to have people feel represented and heard.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
And it educates all of us right right exactly. I
know we touched on it before, but the presentation of
the different styles of dance, I don't know why I
(24:04):
remember that so vividly. I forgot we did it, but
now I remember too. Yeah, in the different style of clothing,
I had a different wheelchair. It was so much fun
to do, and I also thought, like, here's also another
great lesson in perspective. Yes, of it's like, I'm really
enjoying shoemaking sense here and also like learning something in
(24:29):
this episode that we don't normally do.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Totally totally, I really did. I was like, whoa, I
was like, I was tickled by it. I was, I
was really tickled by it. Yeah, it was really cute.
I mean it obviously didn't matter in the end, but
Shoe just having something redeeming, you know, I know. Yeah,
(24:55):
and of course you like he you know, give him
a number, But of course it has to be bordlines,
you know what I mean. I mean, like it's not
his fault. Yes, okay, let's create some performances.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Okay, Brave.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
You are a woman, I am man B plus yeah,
B plus learn lines. The performance itself and the edit
was very good and A plus, but the actual like
feeling of it all a C.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
If I were a boy.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
A plus plus, A plus plus plus.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
If Wrecking Ball A plus. Okay, on our way so random,
we haven't even talked about it, Okay, okay, Sorry, I
knew we skipped something. I forgot there was a carousel
on our stage. I too, but I remember it now me.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Too vividly in that ramp to get up there.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I didn't remember I sang on this song.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I didn't either, I didn't remember everybody sang on this song.
I also, I think this was just one of those things.
The sea is going to be one of those things
where we don't remember a lot until we see it, yes, and.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Then it comes back a lot of group numbers or
were just free for rockout totally.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
This was fun though, because it was different and they
put the camera on the carousel. We got to kind
of like run around and it just felt like it
felt really freeing and fun. And Wendy was so much
fun to work with and she was so like kind
of she had a plan and obviously her episodes come
out beautifully, but she was so laid back that you're like,
how are we doing this? Do you know what I mean?
That was kind of her vibe, and this one just worked.
(26:30):
I thought it was really cute and I like this song.
It was random, but I like this song. It feels
like that, you know, like our new class of our
group of like new McKinley students in new directions. This
number totally fits with what we've been doing. This is
the new year closer, you know, all those numbers. This
(26:51):
totally I'm like, great, makes sense.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Throw it in there, which feels like, you know, you
have something like wrecking Ball, which feels like the Fever dream. Yeah,
and then these numbers feel like real high school and
I just we don't get a lot of them, but
we're getting them more frequently now and it does feel
just nice, like I feel like I'm seeing all these
kids actually get to like play together and there's not
(27:16):
some other drama going on totally which minus Jake and Marley.
And then you have that lash out of Marley coming forward.
Also beautiful shot of Marley coming up there and you
see everybody in the background.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I didn't remember that, but I loved it.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do you remember rehearsing for this number and being on
that carousel? No?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Did they do we rehearse it in the powerhouse? Do
we rehearse on this? Say?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
We were getting dizzy in these I know we might
have rehearsed on the stage, but we.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Dar we did rehearse on the stage. We did, because
I remember seeing it for the first thing being like, wow,
they really did it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I also didn't know how like the wheelchair was going
to work on it, and I was very concerned, like
I feel like I'm going to fly off of this.
But okay, sure.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I was worried about you. I remember that you're just
on there in the middle.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
You know. You were all always worried about me in
some of these numbers, which was nice.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
But you felt, you know, very secure with our crew
that they were going to take care of you, which
they always did.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah. I'll give it an a.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, I'll give it an a solid.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
The joy was nice. We needed that release.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
We didn't need that release, and it was fun. I
thought it was fine. I mean number five, we love
a golden number five kind of five number episode. Okay,
Chartie Jakes cringe moments, twrking, mister shoot talking with us
gree there's quite a few Sou's corner everything that, the
bullying of unique, it's like all of it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, best dance moth I think the dance of the decades.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh, it was really nice. I did think some of
the setups and blurred lines were good. If there's a
lot of talented dancing in there. I think if you
don't watch us and you watch them and the dancers
in there, what they're doing, yeah, it's good, very good,
Like the breakdancing was. Also there's a shot where you
have the breakdancer sliding through the hallway and then it
(29:18):
cuts to match cuts them sliding onto the stage.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Good.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
That was good on their head, that's the best dance.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Move that song. If I were a boy, If I
were a boy, absolutely obviously prop.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah. I also shout out to the lemon Cello and
the tattoos that I liked them drinking together.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, that was fun forgot. Yes, we messed that.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Best line.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Becky saying do you have an appointment? And Will says no,
and she says they get out. Lauren Potter coming through.
I was second that she's got some key stuff coming up.
Stay tuned for Trios. She is on fire.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Laurene Potter was always just bringing it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's so all the time, funny, so funny, so good.
We didn't get to work with her that often, That's
what I'm saying, Trio. I really got to work with her.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, and like when you don't get to work with
these people, you forget so funny that we're like all
on the same show for as long as we are. Yes,
and like watching this and just how like she's on
the show for forever and it's so great.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yes, Yes, and every time it's just it's a singer,
it's a singer performance.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
MVP Alex absolutely ah the okay, First of all, should
we be found a TikTok? You know, I'm obsessed with
Serena Carpenter's album I You Cook on On TikTok listed
themselves dressed as Jane or Sue and said, you know,
(31:00):
Jane Lynch would devour in those sparky little boots. And
the whole thing is, you know, if Glee was still
being made today, Ryan Murphy would have made Sue sing
Taste to Emma. After it was revealed that will and
Sue hooked up on the first week of school. Oh
my God, and a full minute oh my God suit
with wig.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And also the comments somebody said, and that's how Sue
sees it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I mean, it's so accurate. It's very accurate. And also
this performance like you were in yeah to.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
The camera with the whistle.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
We love this someone was like every single hypothetical Glee
plot line number I can literally imagine so clearly totally.
It's like when people get it, you get it. This
is exactly right. This is the spin pushing their back
up against the wall. Absolutely, I see Jane doing it all.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Very good, very very good.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I really need like a compilation of Glee was still on,
I know. And then just like the greatest hits of
all these beautiful, beautiful videos. Excellent, big fan, well done.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well that is the undertwerk. Thank goodness. Although I will say,
better than we had expected.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Listeners, don't they don't lead us astray? You said there
are a lot of great performances. Yeah, And the performances
are there. There, they are, the music there, they're phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know, just one more time, shout out Alex Nol
for if I were boy.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Because gotta go listen to that now, going to listen
to it now.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, thanks for joining us, and that's what you really missed.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
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Speaker 2 (32:41):
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And That's what you Really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to and That's what You Really mis podcast. This
is season five, Episode five, the End of Tork.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Kevin indeed a controversial episode. Jenna very there's a lot
of those in this season, though, I think.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yes, listen, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Remember this.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm going to say this again over and over again.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We should haven't played before every episode. So this episode
originally aired November fourteenth, twenty thirteen. We're already in November,
which is wow.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Well, I guess we took we took some breaks in
this season. Sure know this kind of makes sense, all right.
So the number one song was Royals by Lord Still damn.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The number one movie was Thor The Dark.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
World And oh, okay, I've seen this.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Have you seen the Thorn movies?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh, I've seen all. I'm a Marvel girly Okay, oh yeah,
I've seen them all multiple multiple times.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I love Thor. Thor is great. I like the Thorn
movies a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, me too, and the second one is very good. Okay.
Glee News This Week November twelve, Darren Cordon Matt attended
the twenty thirteen GQ Men of the Year event at
the will Share Email Theater in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Cute, very fancy, very so. This episode was directed by
Wendy Stanzler. She gets some.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Really weird episodes.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I will say she does, but I didn't remember if
she directed this one or not. And I really liked
the directing in this episode a lot. Great and I
noticed it like the musical numbers were directed really really well.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
She's great.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It is a complicated episode, and it could if you like,
play into certain things of what we've learned from the show.
It could go wrong, is if you lean in too
much to some things. But I thought she really had
the balance down.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, yes, I agreed, she was great. I loved working
with Wendy. Yeah, we have some songs. You are a woman.
I am manned by the cast of Funny Girl. And
this was obviously performed by Rachel.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Blurred Lines performed by Bree New Directions and will mm
hmm If I.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Were a Boy performed by Unique, Unique.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Wrecking Ball performed by Marley.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh Yes, and On Our Way by the Royal Concept
performed by the New Directions. Okay, there's not that much
music in this but there's a lot that happens.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But the musical numbers are big.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Very they feel really big. They are important to the storylines,
they fit their.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Hits hits. I feel like this number, like five songs,
works very well.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I feel like that's the sweet spot solid other they
don't get lost in the shuffle. There's time for them.
You can give them TLC. I totally agree. This is
the fifth episode where every member of the New Directions
present in the episode sings solo lines, and the other
being a pilot Brittany two point zero teen and the
Sky recently and also Katie and Gaga. They're really just
(03:22):
evenly distributing the love.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
This is the first season five episode where a main
character is absent, and that is Santana.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yes, I was wondering where she was. This is the
first episode which Unique has a voiceover.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Which startled me. I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
This is the fourth episode to show a viewer Discretion
Advised Content rating message right before the airing of the episode,
the first being Sexy, the second being the first time,
and the third being shooting Star interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The idea for Christmastake on his tattoo is from an
actual picture that went viral online. Someone tattoo, dude, it's
get better on their right.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Arm, terrifying. I'm sorry, Jenna, I just got new tattoos.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Have you seen what? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Look, hold on, I got seagulls. Wait, how to show you?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I see I see, Oh my god, in New York.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
No, I got it in La.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh my gosh. I have taken a deep pause on
my tattoos. I would do some for my children one day,
but I took a deep pause.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I woke it back up.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Proud of you, proud of you.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, thanks, I thought of you always. I have gotten
almost every single tattoo.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
With you always.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, maybe this was Was this the first time I
didn't get a tattoo with you?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No? No, you got your table.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I've been cheating on you lately.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The last iteration, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's fine. It's
probably better because I feel Oh I did get a tattoo.
I got nice tattoo. What am I talking about? It
wasn't like that long ago. No, Emma really likes this
one because she looks like ballet bow, so she loves
the bow and I always tell her like, this is
Mommy's friend.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's so cute.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
There's a few that she really takes too, and so
that's really one of them. She loves the button on
my wrist.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That one's really good.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
She loves the button on my wrist. It's so funny.
Mommy button, here you go. Don't do it to yourself.
This is the first episode of season five to not
be a tribute episode.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Bree's vine video of Marley and Jake couldn't have been
a vine because it lasted longer than seven seconds.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh right, I remember. Vine was so short. And at
the beginning, when Tina is showing the Glee Club Blane's
twork video, she's wearing fishnet gloves and the next scene
they're gone.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
She hated them.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I probably hated them, It's probably what it was. I
probably ripped them off and threw them across the room.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So in this episode, the Glee Club learns the dance
of the hour, twerking. Meanwhile, Marley discovers Jake's relationship with Brie,
and Rachel tries to convince Kurt that they both should
get tattoos. Very very lifelike there. I feel like Leah
was always trying to give us to get tattoos.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Always let's start a racheon Kirk. So Rachel decides that
she wants to rebel a little bit. So she shows
up to Funny Girl rehearsals with a quote unquote haircut
(06:29):
a bob. It's very cute on her. I will say
very bob was great. The wig is very good also
because I was like, did she her?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I did not know that was a wig?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, very good, And she tricks the director to think
that she actually cut her hair. She says it's of
the time, and they're like, what the heck? Were very upset,
but then they perform You Are a Woman, I Am Man,
which was adorable and charming number, and the director peters like,
(07:03):
I was wrong. This is great the power of performance.
But we do learn that the haircut was fake. She
pulls that wake off and I was gagged, and I
know it was funny that she like took it off.
She was walking, and.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I thought it was great. They also a couple times
in this episode touched on Finn because you know, we've
sort of we ignored it last episode, and like talking
about the grieving and how Kurt and Rachel are both
dealing or not dealing with it. Yes, exactly and so
Rachel says, you know, diving headfirst into these things, let's
(07:42):
get tattoos. Yes, yes, and they go get tattoos.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Kurt gets is it's not good.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's not good.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's not good.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It did not get better.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It's get better. And he didn't even realize that he
gave it to the two artists that way.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, and then Rachel said she didn't get one.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
She lies, She says, I don't think there's anything that
I would want on my body for that long. And
we find this very endearing moment where she gets Fin
on her rip, which I believe is out in the
public that she actually has a few tattoos for Corey
in real life as well. That one got me.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, that was that was really beautifully done.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Because I was like, wait a second, did they write
this in you know, obviously this is all kind of
about how they are, like you said, grieving or not
grieving Fin, And I appreciate these smaller moments obviously, like
we we have moved forward from the quarterback now we're
moved on from it, if you, but like I appreciate
(08:53):
these moments of like how we will continue to honor
Corey and on her fin and talk about it because
I do think it's in and we can't just like.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wash completely ignor.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, and this kind of this whole storyline kind of
goes along with like the rebellion feeling and like wanting
to I don't know, like the twerking of it all,
you know, which is basically the rest of this episode
of like it's the new trend of the day, as
(09:31):
mister Shoe will show the board of education or of
the school about the different eras of trending dances, which
I forgot about that we did that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I really love that moment.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I did too. I thought it was very sweet.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Like very clever. Yes, it was really well done, looked beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yes, I don't know why did it, but I was
like wow, I mean really enjoyed this moment.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It was like, oh, Shoe's actually putting together a comprehensive
plan here. He did something in advance, Like oh wow,
he did learn something in Washington.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah. So the twerking Tina catches blamed talking in the cluster,
which was quite funny, and mister Shoe was like, oh
wait a second, my bulb, let's show our kind of
like down dirty side for nationals. So tworking is the
(10:32):
assignment of the week.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'm sorry, but when everybody's watching that video and then
it cuts to Shoe being like this isn't that bad?
Like why is he watching this? What is he doing?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I think the whole thing throughout is that he's so
involved with the twerking and it's it doesn't quite sit
well with me, like doing blurred lines and like in
support of the twerking. It's just a little Yeah, it's questionable.
It's definitely questionable.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm my expectations because we've obviously heard from all of
you who've written in and we've been talking about this.
This is one of those episodes that people did not
like at all. And I think because my expectation was
so low, yeah, that I did sort of enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I okay, look, it has its moments. I don't know
that like the overall story and message was like life
changing for me in any way or but I do
think that some of this is very timely and some
of these performances were excellent, and you're right, I was.
(11:46):
My expectations were so low that I was like, oh,
I'm actually enjoying watching most of this, most of it,
most of it.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And I also think like there's something about like I
really think Wendy had some energy with how she directed this.
And you know, we've done a lot of numbers lately
it seems to be like a theme where like we're
going through different classrooms, we're traveling during a number. Yes,
but I think this is the first one that I
(12:16):
think is really successful. Yeah. As horrible as I think
doing that song was not the right choice, I do
think it is funny that Will does not actually understand
what the song is about. I think that bit is great.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That is funny.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But how that number was shot and choreographed and how
the whole school felt like it was involved felt really
good and like filled out those classrooms in the hallways
and the auditorium with a lot of extra people, lots
of different cots. It felt like music video style. And
it's nice to feel like things are new in the
(12:54):
in season five, Like we've sort of a lot of
times we were in dance rehearsal, the choreographers would be like,
how do we try to do this in a new
way when we've done hundreds of numbers and we were
shooting at all the same locations.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Same locations exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, where this felt really good and that way, I
think from a technical.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Perspective, agreed, agreed best best job she could with what
she had to work with. Yeah, the song don't love.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I mean the teacher singing blurredlines to a bunch of students.
It's going to be a noe for me.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, I also don't know this song. Also, didn't love
shooting this song, Like I remember just being like so
many pieces and you're like this again, this number again.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, it was not fun to shoot.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, it was not. It was very crowded. I remember,
it was a lot of moving parts. Again, Wendy did
a wonderful job with it. Least favorite number of the episode,
hands down. I also wonder if fans don't like this episode,
like I don't know, I don't know, maybe like the
(14:04):
whole Jake cheating on Marley a bit. I didn't like
it also, rub people wrong. I hated it. It was very upsetting.
But I don't know, I'm just I'm just putting that
out there.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, like there's some negativity attached to it with that
where yeah, you don't we were rooting for them, we.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Were, I mean, it was going too well, but you know,
so Sue is banning the talking. She's trying to ban
the talking, and mister Shue is rebelling against trying to
keep the talking. And then also did a wonderful Sue
storm out with Becky, which I always love.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Honestly phenomenal and Becky getting up and again I'm sorry
I keep bringing it up, but the directing and like
the timing and the editing here very good of like
the xylophone thrown in and her tossing it. This is
this is so good.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, very very good. So back to Jake and Marlee
and Brie.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Brie's gotta go. She's evil, I got to go.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
There's nothing redeeming about her. Jake, we learned had cheated
on Marlee after with Brie, after Marley had turned him down,
and so they're continuing this kind of like makeout cheating thing,
and it is and now Brie is just coming after Marley.
(15:30):
She's making fun of her tworking. She's then going to
just outwardly tell Marlee. I was very uncomfortable in this
scene because I was like, oh my god, this is
so stark. It's like, uh mean, Marley telling you about
(15:51):
the male, telling you about the Oh god, it was
so vivid, and I was so sad, so sad for Marley,
and I didn't want it to be true. I really
didn't want to because it's just not motivated at all
for Jake, you know what I mean, It's just what
it is. He just cheats.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, it's it feels. It was like, you know, it's
high school boys are dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, it happened.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That mole thing though, Oh got me. Oh, because how
how can you contradict You can't. You can't disprove that
if you got the mall, I.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Will say we did get wrecking Ball out of it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's her going through that wall. On the wrecking Wall,
I was like, this.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Show, I know, we've really gone there.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
This show is insane. And also we don't always have
to do the literal thing.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I know I was thinking that too, But I remember
them shooting in It was cool, right, Like I remember
them with her on the ball and like everybody was like, oh,
come see the set, come see the thing. And I'm
sure production wise watching it and like it's so cool,
but like, yeah, maybe we don't need to exactly do it.
But maybe that was a request of somebody in the
(17:07):
writer's room. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Also, but also that's like the magic of this show,
as we can, we can't and do she sounded great always.
There were a couple timely things. One I would say
is Sue's corner was very dark, and.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I actually.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
From my memory.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Did dissociated a little bit?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yes, And then I think the most important part of
this episode, Yes, again, we can have an episode about
twerking and there's a wrecking ball and at the same
time we get this really beautiful story about Unique that
also I think is handled so delicately, where it starts
off with like this bathroom issue where everyone is sort
(17:58):
of changing up with bathroom they're going to, and then
Unique gets bullied, which was like, yeah, really tough to watch. Yes,
and the boys in the Greak club are furious and
you know, I want to find out who did it,
and Unique it's like, no, we're not doing that. And Sue,
(18:22):
in a moment of what it feels like she's come
to her senses, it is like, you know what, after
Unique advocated for a gender neutral bathroom, She's like, okay, yeah,
then makes this looks like the Riddler, but Purple port
(18:44):
a potty and puts it in the middle of the
choir room, and Tina loves it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I love this. I love that she loves it.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Because also Jenna does have to be all.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
The time, I have to be right now. I love
I remember filming the US and like us not being
able to get through it because I kept coming out
of the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And we were losing it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Very funny, didn't we have Joey go in once and
he came out of the bathroom. Yes, one of our
CREA members they I didn't go come out of the bathroom.
He came out of that. But it's very funny. Tina
loves the porter potty, She's the only one. But Sue
Uh screws it into the ground in the choir room,
(19:29):
and she says that she will remove the porter potty
and give Unique a key to the faculty bathroom because
she saw mister Shoe doing that for Unique. If we
end the talking, there should be no effing conditions to
(19:50):
make everybody feel that they can be whoever they want
to be. Sorry, just trying to not get too deep
down the rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Don't apologize. This is a Glee podcast. If they watch
the show, they know how we feel about these.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Things, right, It just feels so timely with everything that's
going on in the world, and I was like, oh wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It also was at a time where people were not
talking about this especially, but it was happening, But it
was happening, and the distortion of what the need actually was,
the distortion of like, oh, these people need these bathrooms
(20:45):
and they're going to be in with little kids, Like no, no, no,
nobody's everybody just wants a safe place to use the restroom.
This isn't about anybody.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Elseybody else, nobody's here, anybody.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
To be able to explain it in ways that Gleiso
often does, I think, in a really like easy way
to get why it's important for people, yes, and why
other people often have to advocate on behalf of the
people who need it, yes, and like why and how
(21:20):
those effects can positively or negatively affect somebody emotionally and
mentally and physically. And so it was I thought, and
at the time, I think, honestly, we were probably so
desensitized in a way on set to like handling big issues.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, for sure, I don't think I even.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Realized the gravity of like what we were doing, what
Alex was that was doing for people and what the
show was doing for people, and watching it now it's
very powerful, no.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Very and I mean kudos to Wendy, kudos to Alex
for the performances, for delivering and for being that that
beacon of hope and whatever whatever or else do you
want to call it?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Just recognitions? I can we exist. We have needs that
other people may not understand, but they are still as
important as other people's, you know. And it's like just
showing it and showing up is important.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Watching you need to do.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
If I are a boy, you prepared me, and other
people have prepared me, but I still wasn't totally.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
No, I only think you can only prepare it to
some to some extent, and then you just have to
experience it for yourself. Really beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
The magic of Alex's voice, Oh if alics can do
crazy technical, insane things, right, But the power of the
restraint in this number, yes, and the presence that Alex
had was just.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I mean, watching watching Alex do this in real time,
just in the choir room was very powerful. I remember that.
But watching it now, after all this time, I am
amazed and disgusted at how important this storyline is still
and current it is in our current climate, but it's
(23:37):
also wildly important to have people feel represented and heard.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
And it educates all of us right right exactly. I
know we touched on it before, but the presentation of
the different styles of dance, I don't know why I
(24:04):
remember that so vividly. I forgot we did it, but
now I remember too. Yeah, in the different style of clothing,
I had a different wheelchair. It was so much fun
to do, and I also thought, like, here's also another
great lesson in perspective. Yes, of it's like, I'm really
enjoying shoemaking sense here and also like learning something in
(24:29):
this episode that we don't normally do.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Totally totally, I really did. I was like, whoa, I
was like, I was tickled by it. I was, I
was really tickled by it. Yeah, it was really cute.
I mean it obviously didn't matter in the end, but
Shoe just having something redeeming, you know, I know. Yeah,
(24:55):
and of course you like he you know, give him
a number, But of course it has to be bordlines,
you know what I mean. I mean, like it's not
his fault. Yes, okay, let's create some performances.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Okay, Brave.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
You are a woman, I am man B plus yeah,
B plus learn lines. The performance itself and the edit
was very good and A plus, but the actual like
feeling of it all a C.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
If I were a boy.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
A plus plus, A plus plus plus.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
If Wrecking Ball A plus. Okay, on our way so random,
we haven't even talked about it, Okay, okay, Sorry, I
knew we skipped something. I forgot there was a carousel
on our stage. I too, but I remember it now me.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Too vividly in that ramp to get up there.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I didn't remember I sang on this song.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I didn't either, I didn't remember everybody sang on this song.
I also, I think this was just one of those things.
The sea is going to be one of those things
where we don't remember a lot until we see it, yes, and.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Then it comes back a lot of group numbers or
were just free for rockout totally.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
This was fun though, because it was different and they
put the camera on the carousel. We got to kind
of like run around and it just felt like it
felt really freeing and fun. And Wendy was so much
fun to work with and she was so like kind
of she had a plan and obviously her episodes come
out beautifully, but she was so laid back that you're like,
how are we doing this? Do you know what I mean?
That was kind of her vibe, and this one just worked.
(26:30):
I thought it was really cute and I like this song.
It was random, but I like this song. It feels
like that, you know, like our new class of our
group of like new McKinley students in new directions. This
number totally fits with what we've been doing. This is
the new year closer, you know, all those numbers. This
(26:51):
totally I'm like, great, makes sense.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Throw it in there, which feels like, you know, you
have something like wrecking Ball, which feels like the Fever dream. Yeah,
and then these numbers feel like real high school and
I just we don't get a lot of them, but
we're getting them more frequently now and it does feel
just nice, like I feel like I'm seeing all these
kids actually get to like play together and there's not
(27:16):
some other drama going on totally which minus Jake and Marley.
And then you have that lash out of Marley coming forward.
Also beautiful shot of Marley coming up there and you
see everybody in the background.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I didn't remember that, but I loved it.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do you remember rehearsing for this number and being on
that carousel? No?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Did they do we rehearse it in the powerhouse? Do
we rehearse on this? Say?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
We were getting dizzy in these I know we might
have rehearsed on the stage, but we.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Dar we did rehearse on the stage. We did, because
I remember seeing it for the first thing being like, wow,
they really did it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I also didn't know how like the wheelchair was going
to work on it, and I was very concerned, like
I feel like I'm going to fly off of this.
But okay, sure.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I was worried about you. I remember that you're just
on there in the middle.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
You know. You were all always worried about me in
some of these numbers, which was nice.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
But you felt, you know, very secure with our crew
that they were going to take care of you, which
they always did.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah. I'll give it an a.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, I'll give it an a solid.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
The joy was nice. We needed that release.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
We didn't need that release, and it was fun. I
thought it was fine. I mean number five, we love
a golden number five kind of five number episode. Okay,
Chartie Jakes cringe moments, twrking, mister shoot talking with us
gree there's quite a few Sou's corner everything that, the
bullying of unique, it's like all of it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, best dance moth I think the dance of the decades.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh, it was really nice. I did think some of
the setups and blurred lines were good. If there's a
lot of talented dancing in there. I think if you
don't watch us and you watch them and the dancers
in there, what they're doing, yeah, it's good, very good,
Like the breakdancing was. Also there's a shot where you
have the breakdancer sliding through the hallway and then it
(29:18):
cuts to match cuts them sliding onto the stage.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Good.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
That was good on their head, that's the best dance.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Move that song. If I were a boy, If I
were a boy, absolutely obviously prop.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah. I also shout out to the lemon Cello and
the tattoos that I liked them drinking together.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, that was fun forgot. Yes, we messed that.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Best line.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Becky saying do you have an appointment? And Will says no,
and she says they get out. Lauren Potter coming through.
I was second that she's got some key stuff coming up.
Stay tuned for Trios. She is on fire.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Laurene Potter was always just bringing it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's so all the time, funny, so funny, so good.
We didn't get to work with her that often, That's
what I'm saying, Trio. I really got to work with her.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, and like when you don't get to work with
these people, you forget so funny that we're like all
on the same show for as long as we are. Yes,
and like watching this and just how like she's on
the show for forever and it's so great.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yes, Yes, and every time it's just it's a singer,
it's a singer performance.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
MVP Alex absolutely ah the okay, First of all, should
we be found a TikTok? You know, I'm obsessed with
Serena Carpenter's album I You Cook on On TikTok listed
themselves dressed as Jane or Sue and said, you know,
(31:00):
Jane Lynch would devour in those sparky little boots. And
the whole thing is, you know, if Glee was still
being made today, Ryan Murphy would have made Sue sing
Taste to Emma. After it was revealed that will and
Sue hooked up on the first week of school. Oh
my God, and a full minute oh my God suit
with wig.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And also the comments somebody said, and that's how Sue
sees it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I mean, it's so accurate. It's very accurate. And also
this performance like you were in yeah to.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
The camera with the whistle.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
We love this someone was like every single hypothetical Glee
plot line number I can literally imagine so clearly totally.
It's like when people get it, you get it. This
is exactly right. This is the spin pushing their back
up against the wall. Absolutely, I see Jane doing it all.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Very good, very very good.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I really need like a compilation of Glee was still on,
I know. And then just like the greatest hits of
all these beautiful, beautiful videos. Excellent, big fan, well done.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well that is the undertwerk. Thank goodness. Although I will say,
better than we had expected.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Listeners, don't they don't lead us astray? You said there
are a lot of great performances. Yeah, And the performances
are there. There, they are, the music there, they're phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know, just one more time, shout out Alex Nol
for if I were boy.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Because gotta go listen to that now, going to listen
to it now.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, thanks for joining us, and that's what you really missed.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
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Speaker 2 (32:41):
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