July 31, 2023 • 39 mins
It’s Kevin’s favorite episode of the entire series!! It was also the most fun for the cast to film because … it was inspired by true events! What was real and what was acting?
Plus, the world’s biggest pop star just beat the Glee Cast’s Billboard Hot 100 record, and they have some thoughts!
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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 where you really missed pod cast.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Jah, I'm Kevin, and that really made me feel
some type of way, and I don't think it was good. Okay, Yeah,
you just said that.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's fair.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's fair. I'm so excited, Jenna.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Tell me, tell me Kevin.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
This is my favorite episode. Look, I don't think it's
just the best episode, but it is my favorite to watch.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Okay. I had high expectations for it because it is
your favorite, and they were met. Oh yes, I forgot
a funny fun we had shooting this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We had a blast, like we were losing our minds.
And I think you see that. I think you probably
should have allowed ourselves to be that free all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You give us license to be drunk, and we really
went for it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, we should talk about the inception of this episode,
and we should also talk And there is nobody better
to lead the charge of this episode than Eric Stoltz,
who literally lets you play further, go farther than the
line allows you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes, because there was a lot of improving there were
a lot of lines that were definitely not scripted, and
a lot of just hanging out with us and asking
our opinions throughout the entire process. So it was a
really cool, unique, unique special experienced. This is Season two,
episode fourteen, Blame It on the Alcohol.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
This aired on February twenty second, twenty eleven. What was
in the news that was going in the world before
we get into the episode?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Tell me so. The number one song in the country
was Born this Way by Lady Gaga, which we ended
up doing in four episodes.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Genius song, genius artist.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, that's also around the time, you know when we
have mentioned this, but when I believe her label or
management or somebody sent Ryan braden Ian an early version
of her album before it was released and played her,
played them the songs, Oh, the Jealousy. The number one
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movie was Unknown, starring Liam Neeson, Dan Krueger, and January Jones.
I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
What was going on in Glee news this week? Well,
our one and only costume designer, not one and only,
that's not fair, but our our queen Louirich. She went
Outstanding Contemporary Television Series for her work on Glee and
for the annual Costume Designer's Guild Awards at the Beverly
(02:45):
Hilton and Awards. I mean, she's a genius, so rightfully
so and well deserved what happened on the charts this week.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So this is timely, yes, it is. At the time
of us recording this, our record on Billboard Hot one
hundred for most entries has not been broken, but as
of probably tomorrow, Taylor Swift will have broken it. So
on February twenty fifth, twenty eleven, the cast of Glee
broke the record previously held by Elvis Presley Dan for
(03:20):
most appearances on the Billboard Hot one hundred chart. Elvis
had one hundred and eight entries and Glee broke the
record with one hundred and thirteen. Glee held the record
until March of twenty twenty, when Drake broke it. Drake
broke it, Yeah, he did. I remember when he did
with two hundred and eight songs. He has more now.
Obviously we got to two hundred and seven songs on
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the Hot one hundred. Damn. That's a lot. But I
also feel like there should be an asterisk next to
our name because we were doing covers we were a
cover band, agreed. Drake and Taylor are actually putting out
original music.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Agreed. Yeah, so we feel like there's about it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, but it's still cool to be We're still a
good company. Top three. Baby, ain't that?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I feel like there's two columns, like our column and
then like the real artists.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean to say, like we broke Elvis's is like
it's crazy. No, we sang other very well written songs.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Agreed. You know yeah, yeah, very lucky to sing them.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay, And congrats Taylor.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, I mean it's good for her taking back control.
I'm you know, I'm a swifty So this episode is
very exciting. It's is Kevin's favorite episode. I've really enjoyed
watching this episode. If you care to know this episode,
do care, so thank you. Kevin was inspired by true
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of real life events and then fictionalized.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I mean, yeah, if.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
If you want to call it that. But we got
caught having a dance party at base camp where were
our trailers are? After going to lunch and getting having
a little bit of some substances, and then by substances,
(05:18):
I mean just soke sake, where did we go sushi?
The one on Larchmont. Yeah, okay, I was trying to
remember weird.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I don't know why I remember this so clear, really.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Funny because I said David last night, I was like, pause,
just you know this was inspired by true events. He's like,
oh my gosh, where did you go? And I was like,
you know what, I don't remember, but Kevin will Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We went out and there was I won't name names.
There was one person who was the ringleader. It wasn't
either of us. No, it was not sort of pushing
us to all drink, and we were like, I don't
know if we should. Some of us partook more than others.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Wasn't us.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It wasn't us. We were back to base camp and
then possibly that ring leader and some other people came
into other people's trailers with permanent markers.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And started drawing on the trailers on the walls that
my trailer had permanent mark or forever on the wall.
I'm like a perfectionist. I don't like things that are dirty,
and I was very upset at it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's also just bad form. You don't get drunk and
mess up your friend's property.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well. Also, then the producers came down and they partook
in our dance party.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Okay, yes, they were laughing there. They were part of.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The dance party, but then went back and snitched on
us and we got in trouble and they wrote an
episode about it. But the only good thing about it
was we got this episode out of it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Was totally worth it to get that talking too, to
get in trouble because this episode is hilarious, and the
whole thing about the different type of drunks that went on,
that was all very much. Do you remember sitting down
with Eric Stoltz because I feel like that it's like, okay,
well we're doing this whole episode that's sort of about
us getting drunk. We might as well lean into it.
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And that was one of those moments where we sat
around with him and he's like, okay, because it must
have been scripted. But my memory of it is that
we sort of chose who was what like in the moment.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's what I thought. My memory was that we also, okay,
she chose it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
My memory of it is, yeah, was it was scripted
certain people. And then I think Eric brought up to
us He's like, does this feel right? And we were
all like, no, it doesn't feel right. Of these characters,
and so we went around and I think and changed it. Oh,
I think one or two couldn't for story reasons.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I think like Santana was right already, Yeah, I was
spot on.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I think Ashley and Dana had to stay the same
for story, but everybody else sort of free form rocked out.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, fair fair, fair fear. I think yeah, there was
something like that it or something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So this episode, like many this season were, it was
loosely inspired by us. The whole Matt storyline that is
not real, that was not like a thing. Matt was
not showing up drunk.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No, definitely not tell me about the songs.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh, so we have the start of the original music
my head band performed written by Rachel Actually, so just
going forward and we get into these insane original songs.
Ian Brennan wrote out these lyrics and then Adamanders and co.
Had to figure out how to put it to music
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and put a melody to it. So they would just
Ian would hand in lyrics, these insane lyrics.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And they'd have to make them songs.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, which sounds so fun and crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's like a game.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Don't you want me blame it on the alcohol? One Brebone,
one Scotch, one beer, and TikTok oh. God tell us
about this episode, Jenna.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah. So it's Alcohol Awareness Week at McKinley, and the
glee club has been tasked with performing at the school
assembly to promote the dangers of alcohol and abstaining from
it in order to get better songwriting. Rachel well, she
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writes a song about her headband because she was supposed
to write what you Know. Obviously it's a very funny
song terrible, so she says she has to have more
life experience, so she hosts a party at her house,
a rager if you will. That leads to lots of
drama and hangovers, which leads to us singing more about alcohol.
Laying finds was all questioning about his sexuality, which obviously
(10:04):
upsets Kurt. With Rachel and Will is overwhelmed with everything
going on in his life, but he realizes that he
has a little too much fun with Coach Beast, which
results in some humiliation led by sus Se Vester. There's
(10:24):
your episode. That's the whole episode episode. This is the
very first song to episode to feature an original song
of any kind. We will have many more fun ones
of those coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was also Heather's birthday when we filmed TikTok Oh.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Interesting, I guess. So, yeah, it's February and we have
We also had hits songs that were hits late in
their original form throughout the episode Earth Move and so
far away from Carol King, so that laters get performed,
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that's crap. We will cover them because why wouldn't we?
All right, Diggins is worried in this episode that there's
an alarming number of children who have been suspended for
being drunk at school, and so he's making it Alcohol
Awareness Week at school, which is apropos because.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
We got drunk on set, y'all, that's why.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And Rachel's parents are out of town, so she's going
to throw a rager to have more life experience, and
we are going to be performing at the assembly at school.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Shout out to the grown ass man who looks up
his shirt during the scene, because that man is that's
a full grown man, that's not a teenager in high school.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Stops so funny, that's really funny. So Rachel's performing my headband.
This number is very funny.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I love the original we love the original songs.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
We love the original song. Because they're so bad songs. Yes,
they're so bad that there.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I can't wait for trouty Mouth out of the no
my cup, My cup.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Finn says it's not good, so she's gonna have a party.
We got a nice scene from San Tittany and art Sadies,
which is the last time I want to hear those
names together. I was like, what is that we're pushing
We're pushing the envelope too far. The envelope is ripped
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and burned.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But you know, I'm a complete horror for these cell
phone conversations.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I do love them.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I love them. And then everybody's obviously already together at
the end of them.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And we decided we're all going to go to the party,
which we didn't really want to go to.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So the party is the main event of this episode
for us. Yes, correct, and blame it on the alcohol. Yes,
And you have to understand. I guess it's like going
to school and you take a field trip. Because we
were getting there was a whole new set built on
a stage next to us. It's like, and it was big.
(13:30):
It's a full basement room, Like it's the real size
of a basement. Yeah, and we spent days in there,
and it wasn't like we were doing some dramatic funeral
scene or you know, it was a party and so
we got to show up every day and lose our minds. No,
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and we were just goofy. Like even the scene, so
it starts out where the party is obviously terrible and
then already as like yeah, we're gonna go like oh yeah,
we have dinner reservations. And so even doing that stuff
all felt so like campy and fun.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It was fun to be on a different set. You're right,
it was like a field trip. It's like a different thing.
And this whole yeah, this whole like party was split
up into like we shot one day I think we
shot the scene scenes before we were drunk, then we
shot like the scenes where we were drunk. Then another
day we would shoot like to spin the bottle, yes.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And spin the bottle? Was we we spin the bottle
the last thing we did.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Potentially, yes, I think. So there's just a lot to
cover in that room too. Write like you had like
all the different like things where like Britney's and you
are making it rain and then like all the archetypes
and the scene with Rachel and Finn and so there
was a lot to do technically.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And I think because Eric Stilts is so quick at
actually shooting things that we were able to cover like
every corner of that set and still had time to
sit with us and talk about what is everybody actually doing?
Once all you start getting drunk, yes, and filming all
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those little things. And we were all in there because
he was moving so quickly, we all had to stay
in there basically the time, and so we got to
watch each other play, like when they do the pairings
of the drunk girls, right, And it was so funny,
and we were all losing our minds off camera the
whole time, like everybody was still making out. We weren't
(15:40):
sure if we were on camera or not. Yeah, let's
just so we did the party over and over and
over again.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Correct, correct, it was. It felt like a party, it
really did. At some point I remember Feuchak coming in.
Do you remember that? No, Maybe still tend to go
for something for the day.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That sounds similar because he did do another episode or
I think he was doing another episode or something.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I just have this memory of him directing us at
one point. Maybe it was one day, but I remember
Falchuk being there.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I think it was a scene.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, maybe it was the drunk girl scene, like the Archetypes,
because I just remember Brad being there. Anyway, that all
the archetypes were really funny to watch, and I remember
Eric Stolt just always saying like, don't play into the drunk,
play against the drunk. Like you know, as an actor,
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you always hear like, the best drunks or the best
the best crying scenes are the ones where you're trying
not to cry or you're trying not to be drunk,
because that's what you would be doing in real life, right,
And I always remember Er saying like, play against that,
don't don't go so too far into it, or it
becomes like a caricature most of yourself. And so so yeah, anyway,
(17:01):
the Archetypes were really funny. I remember shooting with Amber
the laughing drunks, and we got to a point where
the laughter became real and we couldn't.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Stop when we were I was just watching this and
Austin turns to me as he sees you cackle, he goes, well,
that's real and accurate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is Jenna
when she's drunk.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, I'm happy that I'm a happy drunk at least,
Oh yeah you are or sleepy drunk.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You're not any of the bad ones.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Okay, good, Yeah, the archetypes were my favorite from watching
the party back. Your outfit costume of wearing heather shirt
and glasses is very funny.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, that was the other thing. We could just sort
of do what we wanted.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, like it was very much just is what Kevin
would do. I definitely put on some of the girl's clothing.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, that's right, and.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Just go for it. I think Also there were a
lot of like ur isms in this entire thing where
the Santana like mouse kiss me, like she's sort of
making fun of herself or making fun of each other
in all of this.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What about Santana when she says that she's no my.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
God doing the cheers? Oh very much from real life.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yes, that's right, cheers her outfit in.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
This insane it's diabolical.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I feel like there was some like Barber reference or
something in there, but it's just diabolical that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's great and insane. She's hilarious in this whole.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And yes, and this is also the first time that
we we see uh we hang out Darren, we shoot
with Darren.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, and this is the first time, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
M wow. And then there are little karaoke moment with
them where he does they do their little like it
looks it feels like a karaoke stage that Rachel's parents
have built, that built, and.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
That during that is all during this whole thing is
the famous Eric salts everybody making out. God, there was
one couple at.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
A time, always making out. I always making out the
whole time. Yeah, he would do that to you. Eric
would always do that toes and then you have to
do it a million times. Yeah, I forgot that. Me
and Harry were making out on this too. Oh yeah, always, always, always, Well,
that scene was we'll go down in history. It is
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one of the funnest things that we've done on set.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And everybody together, you know exactly, and we're not sitting
in a choir room, and it's all malleable and free form.
And by the time we film I'm pretty sure we
filmed the spin the Bottle last and we were all
takes a lot of energy partying for like two days straight.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You're right, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And it was like late at night and they brought
us in and the some of us I think we're
over it and tired, and I remember some of the
crew being like, who's actually drunk here? Because it seems
like something's off, And I think because it was really
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late at night, some people might have been.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I also think it was just probably exhaustion and the
contrast from what we were doing earlier in the day. Yes,
you're right. I remember being so exhausted at that point,
and then they put the care They never used that shot,
So this is what happens a lot, is like we
get all these really great shots and there's not enough
time to use them. Eric had put the bottle on
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the camera, and the bottle we got the camera to
spin like the bottle where you could see our faces.
And I remember that because we were like another shot.
And Eric is always so great and moved so fast
and made his days. But when you're exhausted, nothing matters.
You're just like, get me out of here. And it
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didn't make it in I have there such like vivid
memory of the camera being the bottle. Well, then we
have the aftermath, so we get to school, and I
loved the scene. I loved the scene. I love the
scene Tina, Tina and Mercedes first with their hangovers and
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their sunglasses, and then Santana joins them and saying that
she was practicing bird calls instead of throwing up to
her mother. But Kevin, you're a delivery of this us,
this line with Bloody Mary's. We think we watched it
about four times. I think we rewound and watched it
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four times because it was so funny. And I remember
Eric saying like, don't talk very loud, because when you're hungover,
it's too loud. I remember all of us like kind
of bringing our voices down. That was the kind of
like detail that Eric would always like include in these things.
Is always like just giving us like a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Speciificity if you will, yes, And we would all be
like spinning around in circles and then immediately recordtore he
called action and then call actions, and oh my god,
yeah it was. It just felt so playful, like I
was just having the time of my life, and like
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I was like, hey, can I wheel myself into the
lockers here because I'm drunk and shouldn't be driving.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And then I got it and then we do blame
it on the alcohol.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
What a crazy song.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Blame it on the alcohol. First of all, shout out
to hair and makeup. Everyone looks intentionally a mess. Everyone's
like a little dewey, like a little greasy. The hair
looks a little crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Like we're in the club because.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Like everyone's supposed to be shit faced. And then at
the end when we're all talking to shoot, everyone is
acting insane, whether they have dialogue or not. Everyone's fully drunk.
And it was great. And I don't think anyone was
actually drunk for this scene.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
No, I don't think so. But it's also weird that
blame on the alcohol has like become a couple of
months ago sort of like had a resurgence on TikTok
became this thing. Yeah, and I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Like it's fine, but it's not the best. No, it's fun, though,
it's really fun.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
It is really fun, and like the context of it
is great.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Like on its own, it's like a sort of a
weird version. But people love it and I appreciate it. Thanks.
It is often overlooked.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Kevin's favorite. Yeah, So then we do the number in
the assembly and now we're just drinking all the time
in the show, the carecters, they're all drinking all the time,
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and Rachel makes a cocktail of scisser and you know,
all these other things, lots of lasts of different liquors,
and we take shots of it before we perform. How
there's dancing and performance.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And this is insane how hard she goes.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But I can't stop watching because it's still so good,
even when she's attending to be drunk. She's so good. God,
it's so good. Maybe even betsmerizing. Unreally, it's mesmortizing. And
and we perform and we all look crazy, and then
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Rachel gets thrown up on. It's disgusting. It's disgusting, It's disgusting,
and then Brittany, Brittany pukes on Rachel Santana pukes because
she sees it, and Figgins thinks it's fake. And he's
so excited that he gives us yogurt coupons, And is
(25:38):
this the first time we see achievement?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I was thinking that achievement because we have said that
for forever.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, he may have done it before, but it's the
first time he did it with us, and I'm being
so excited to shoot that with him, and we all
like did it with him because we were so thrilled
that we didn't get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Everybody is dancing. I don't know if you noticed, but
in this number dancing, everyone's going so hard. I don't
know what was going on this episode, but like everyone
is just giving it. Yeah it's only Heather and then
Amber singing in the song, but everyone is full.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I feel like it was so much fun for us,
Like we were having a good time shooting this episode.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, we got to do something different. Yeah, there's something
about just changing it up a little bit really was invigorating. Also,
I had a friend of mine the other day. We
were talking about Kesha because she put out new music,
and he was like, oh yeah, a key Dollar signed Ha.
And I stopped and I looked at him, and then
he looked back at me. I'm like hmm, and then
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I just walked off because I think he said it
and not didn't realize like where he might have heard it.
And then I'm like, I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this to get weird.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah yeah yeah, but I've never heard anybody like say
it out in the wild.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, it's just it slips into our subconscious yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
This whole bit at the end of Will telling us
like you can't drink at least wait until after Nationals,
I fully believe was Brad Feuchuck being like, guys, it's
fine if you drink your adults, but like not at work, Yeah,
which is rare. Yeah he was right, which is fare
We were not mad that they were mad.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, now I get it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
We were not supposed to do that. Also, this line
of Quinn saying there's a fair amount of the pot
calling the kettle black right now, Britney saying that is
so racist, And I remember sitting in that scene and
reading that scene for the first time but shooting it
being like, yeah, we get it, you guys, we get it,
(27:58):
Like this is so funny that this what's happening in
the story right now?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whoops are bad, it's thees Okay, I
think I missed it too. I think you were, like Jenna.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Well, because there was never storylines written about very specific
about Yeah, there was nothing you pointed at you and
me in any of these episodes. And then because at
this point other things hadn't written this season about other
people specifically, right, that hadn't gone down so well.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
But to feel it hurt the personal pangs of reality.
It was like I was.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Like, no, Jenna were involved in this one?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah right. Meanwhile, and throughout this, Kurt
Kurt brings Blaine around, and Blaine and Rachel end up
kissing during spin the Bottle, which was a very sexy
kiss if you ask me. And Rachel asks Blaine out
(29:09):
and he weirdly says yes because he is not as
sure as Kurt about his sexuality, so he decides to
go out with Rachel. Kurt is convinced and upset and hurt,
but he's also convinced that it's because they were drunk,
but his kind of begrudgingly allowing this to go on,
or watching this go on, Rachel and Blaine had a
(29:33):
really good date, which is strange knowing what we know. No,
obviously that Blaine is one hundred percent k but yeah,
he's experimentings living his life, and and and then along
the way, Kurt is teaching Bert how to make brunch,
(29:56):
and Bert basically Kurt sharing the whole blame situation, and
Bert's like, wait a second, when you have a sleepover
with a boy, you got to let me know, or
you got to ask.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Him walking in on Blaine waking up in bed is gold.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Think about it? Oh fair, you're sixteen years old, like
we're not allowed.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
But it is that he was very reasonable about it.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Hey, I thought so too. And Kurt's being argumentative in
a way or having an open debate about it, because
I do think there there are points that he made
that would be a natural point to make as a
gay man in a very hetero society.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
They were both right, I think, and there things that.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Bothered them definitely, And.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I also think there was like Kurt was also just
antsy about this whole Blaine and Rachel thing as well, totally.
And I liked how he was sitting there watching them
kiss at the coffee shop. She's like, I'm gonna come,
I'm gonna kss him again, sober.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, and then he knew though that's why he knew.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
He did. But it just comes off like you know,
it was like when he when Kurt was going after Finn,
You're like, this is a little much creep.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Creep.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, it's like, well, stop telling Blaine what his sexuality is. Yeah,
that's fair, that is fair, Like let him figure it out,
and he did because he was like, yep, not for me, Jenna.
Now when you saw Rachel turn around and be like,
oh my god, I just had my first love affair
with a man who happens to be gay. I did
that feel relatable? It felt I feel seen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I felt heard, I felt seen, I felt written about.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I mean, I'm sure that's happened to Leah too. I
feel like you theater her girls.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Sure, sure, I mean I think there was a point
where she had crush on John Craffe, who hasn't had
a crush on fair enough me too, So but yes,
I felt seen. And Tina will have her own relationship
with Blade later, so.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
It's speaking of creepy relationship.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yeah, that's when Tina, when Blaine really knows he's fully gay,
and Tina knows he's gay too.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh sweet sweet Tina.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
And then me and then yeah, sweet Tina. Whatever. So
Will is realizing that he's stressed and he never takes
time focus on himself. Emma is looking for a house
with Carl with her husband, and you know, he he's.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Just he needs to release.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Jenna Beast sees that, and so she says, you're coming
to the honky Tonk bar with me, and they.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Go to the hill. I love them together. It's the best.
It's really sweet, and I don't necessarily remember them having
this much together, Like they have quite a bit totally
in these episodes, and they their chemistry as friends, and
this is just so wonderful.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Well, Will needs an ally at the school.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, it's a really nice juxtaposition to Sue.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah. Yeah, So they get drunk. They sing a song
one burbon one gotch one beer beast, helps Will get home,
but then Will calls drunk, calls who he thinks is Emma,
but it's not. It's spoiler alert Sue Sylvester, and he
(33:23):
leaves a very drunken message on her voicemail mm hmm,
and apologizes to Emma the next day at school. That's cringey,
you didn't call me. And then Sue strikes again.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's so good. I do love this.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
It's so embarrassing. And the xylophone doing this little it's
like Grease Grease reference.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, exactly, and Sue reveals that she it was the
one Will call Sue by accident, and she plays the
drunk dial on the voicemail on the fonts on the monitor.
It's really great. It's really really great.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
And that's sort of it is.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I mean, is that all.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Right? There was a lot. It's like it was a
nice episode. Like nothing. The only thing that has any
significance is that Sue. For plot reasons, Sue is going
to be the coach of oral intensity. Nothing else really matters.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well, the kids take the pledge that they're not going
to drink until after originals, and I remember at this point,
you remember Oprah was doing the pledge to not text
it live at that time, so I feel like maybe
that was a reference to that and we all signed
it and yep, everything like that. So thanks, I mean,
(34:53):
the one thing I remembered, so to do some tarty
take yes please, Okay cringe moments.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I thought Sue's sort of belittling about AA was cringey, Like,
so I'm going to build you up the top of
the mountain and then basically get you to fall again,
was pretty agreed. Agreed.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Calling him an alcoholic and all these crazy things.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Like that was not great.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, best dance move, I mean, TikTok, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
But also there is a dance move and blame it
where the girl is getting bent over in front of
the guy and like her elbows are being like brought back.
It looks insane. I don't know what it is, but
vaguely remember that I want to. I think the one
you can see, I think it's Naya in the middle
(35:48):
of the stage. It's sort of from profile. It's such
a very insane dance move and it's great. But yeah,
Heather's entire just Heather.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
M Yeah, I mean just Heather. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Best song, blame it on a Goose.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, that was a fun one. Did you like recording that? No?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I was upset. Why because I want to do that that.
I wanted to do the actual thing, but because it sung,
they wanted me to do it like half as much
I can do the real thing, they didn't want it.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I got over it eventually.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I figured best performance by a prop I think the
wine coolers.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Oh my god, the wine coolers. The vomit.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Oh right, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It was very good.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Best line.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
There's a lot in this episode. I think a lot
of a lot of them are nias. Yes, she's got
a lot.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I also your bloody Marin line. Bloody man, that's somebody marriage. Yeah, hair,
the dog that don't beat your That's a great line.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I also love Santana's I own that guppy mouth. Those
shroudy Aerosmith lips belong to me. So you know what
this is not? Hey, honeys, it's not a big red commercial,
No me gusta.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
So good too, good performance, MVP. I gotta say Brittany's
TikTok was prettyretty phenomenal good.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, you know. I also think Leah's drunk hmmm, drunkenness
and like her at the party is maybe my favorite
Leah performance of the entire series.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I think it's so good and I think she should
have gotten nominated for Comedy Awards. I think it was
very very good.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
It's like her bad singing.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yes, I think I'm just I'm a sucker for her
comedy speaks my language. Should we found on TikTok Jenna
tell me so we were tagged in this. Thank you
to whoever tagged us Glee thing on TikTok posted this okay,
and it is if Glee was on Disney Channel. And
(38:23):
it's an incredible intro with loose are like me, This
whole animated sort of intro introducing all of us as
our characters. It's very accurate, very nostalgic. Makes me want
to see this actually wow and versus hilarious. It's just phenomenal,
(38:46):
like these clips that they did some good time. Yeah,
this is great work. Thank you so much for making this.
I love it because it did take some time. The artistry, Jenna.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
The artistry and really the time. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
This is yeah. Go look, I think up Glee thing
on TikTok it's hey, the nominal.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Well, that that's the episode. That's blame it. Thanks for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Blame it on the goose everyone, Thank you for joining us.
Next week we have a great episode because he's back.
GP's back singing Landslide.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
So the last numbers of the series. Okay, yeah, I
can't wait to watch it.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Great seeing you, Jenna. Thanks everybody for listening. Tell your friends,
tell your family, leave a review five stars. If not,
don't worry about it. See you next week on that's
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See you next time.
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 where you really missed pod cast.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Jah, I'm Kevin, and that really made me feel
some type of way, and I don't think it was good. Okay, Yeah,
you just said that.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's fair.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's fair. I'm so excited, Jenna.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Tell me, tell me Kevin.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
This is my favorite episode. Look, I don't think it's
just the best episode, but it is my favorite to watch.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Okay. I had high expectations for it because it is
your favorite, and they were met. Oh yes, I forgot
a funny fun we had shooting this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We had a blast, like we were losing our minds.
And I think you see that. I think you probably
should have allowed ourselves to be that free all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You give us license to be drunk, and we really
went for it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, we should talk about the inception of this episode,
and we should also talk And there is nobody better
to lead the charge of this episode than Eric Stoltz,
who literally lets you play further, go farther than the
line allows you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes, because there was a lot of improving there were
a lot of lines that were definitely not scripted, and
a lot of just hanging out with us and asking
our opinions throughout the entire process. So it was a
really cool, unique, unique special experienced. This is Season two,
episode fourteen, Blame It on the Alcohol.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
This aired on February twenty second, twenty eleven. What was
in the news that was going in the world before
we get into the episode?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Tell me so. The number one song in the country
was Born this Way by Lady Gaga, which we ended
up doing in four episodes.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Genius song, genius artist.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, that's also around the time, you know when we
have mentioned this, but when I believe her label or
management or somebody sent Ryan braden Ian an early version
of her album before it was released and played her,
played them the songs, Oh, the Jealousy. The number one
(02:18):
movie was Unknown, starring Liam Neeson, Dan Krueger, and January Jones.
I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
What was going on in Glee news this week? Well,
our one and only costume designer, not one and only,
that's not fair, but our our queen Louirich. She went
Outstanding Contemporary Television Series for her work on Glee and
for the annual Costume Designer's Guild Awards at the Beverly
(02:45):
Hilton and Awards. I mean, she's a genius, so rightfully
so and well deserved what happened on the charts this week.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So this is timely, yes, it is. At the time
of us recording this, our record on Billboard Hot one
hundred for most entries has not been broken, but as
of probably tomorrow, Taylor Swift will have broken it. So
on February twenty fifth, twenty eleven, the cast of Glee
broke the record previously held by Elvis Presley Dan for
(03:20):
most appearances on the Billboard Hot one hundred chart. Elvis
had one hundred and eight entries and Glee broke the
record with one hundred and thirteen. Glee held the record
until March of twenty twenty, when Drake broke it. Drake
broke it, Yeah, he did. I remember when he did
with two hundred and eight songs. He has more now.
Obviously we got to two hundred and seven songs on
(03:43):
the Hot one hundred. Damn. That's a lot. But I
also feel like there should be an asterisk next to
our name because we were doing covers we were a
cover band, agreed. Drake and Taylor are actually putting out
original music.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Agreed. Yeah, so we feel like there's about it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, but it's still cool to be We're still a
good company. Top three. Baby, ain't that?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I feel like there's two columns, like our column and
then like the real artists.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean to say, like we broke Elvis's is like
it's crazy. No, we sang other very well written songs.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Agreed. You know yeah, yeah, very lucky to sing them.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay, And congrats Taylor.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, I mean it's good for her taking back control.
I'm you know, I'm a swifty So this episode is
very exciting. It's is Kevin's favorite episode. I've really enjoyed
watching this episode. If you care to know this episode,
do care, so thank you. Kevin was inspired by true
(04:49):
of real life events and then fictionalized.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I mean, yeah, if.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
If you want to call it that. But we got
caught having a dance party at base camp where were
our trailers are? After going to lunch and getting having
a little bit of some substances, and then by substances,
(05:18):
I mean just soke sake, where did we go sushi?
The one on Larchmont. Yeah, okay, I was trying to
remember weird.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I don't know why I remember this so clear, really.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Funny because I said David last night, I was like, pause,
just you know this was inspired by true events. He's like,
oh my gosh, where did you go? And I was like,
you know what, I don't remember, but Kevin will Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We went out and there was I won't name names.
There was one person who was the ringleader. It wasn't
either of us. No, it was not sort of pushing
us to all drink, and we were like, I don't
know if we should. Some of us partook more than others.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Wasn't us.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It wasn't us. We were back to base camp and
then possibly that ring leader and some other people came
into other people's trailers with permanent markers.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And started drawing on the trailers on the walls that
my trailer had permanent mark or forever on the wall.
I'm like a perfectionist. I don't like things that are dirty,
and I was very upset at it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's also just bad form. You don't get drunk and
mess up your friend's property.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well. Also, then the producers came down and they partook
in our dance party.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Okay, yes, they were laughing there. They were part of.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The dance party, but then went back and snitched on
us and we got in trouble and they wrote an
episode about it. But the only good thing about it
was we got this episode out of it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Was totally worth it to get that talking too, to
get in trouble because this episode is hilarious, and the
whole thing about the different type of drunks that went on,
that was all very much. Do you remember sitting down
with Eric Stoltz because I feel like that it's like, okay,
well we're doing this whole episode that's sort of about
us getting drunk. We might as well lean into it.
(07:09):
And that was one of those moments where we sat
around with him and he's like, okay, because it must
have been scripted. But my memory of it is that
we sort of chose who was what like in the moment.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's what I thought. My memory was that we also, okay,
she chose it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
My memory of it is, yeah, was it was scripted
certain people. And then I think Eric brought up to
us He's like, does this feel right? And we were
all like, no, it doesn't feel right. Of these characters,
and so we went around and I think and changed it. Oh,
I think one or two couldn't for story reasons.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I think like Santana was right already, Yeah, I was
spot on.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I think Ashley and Dana had to stay the same
for story, but everybody else sort of free form rocked out.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, fair fair, fair fear. I think yeah, there was
something like that it or something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So this episode, like many this season were, it was
loosely inspired by us. The whole Matt storyline that is
not real, that was not like a thing. Matt was
not showing up drunk.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No, definitely not tell me about the songs.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh, so we have the start of the original music
my head band performed written by Rachel Actually, so just
going forward and we get into these insane original songs.
Ian Brennan wrote out these lyrics and then Adamanders and co.
Had to figure out how to put it to music
(08:49):
and put a melody to it. So they would just
Ian would hand in lyrics, these insane lyrics.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And they'd have to make them songs.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, which sounds so fun and crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's like a game.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Don't you want me blame it on the alcohol? One Brebone,
one Scotch, one beer, and TikTok oh. God tell us
about this episode, Jenna.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah. So it's Alcohol Awareness Week at McKinley, and the
glee club has been tasked with performing at the school
assembly to promote the dangers of alcohol and abstaining from
it in order to get better songwriting. Rachel well, she
(09:41):
writes a song about her headband because she was supposed
to write what you Know. Obviously it's a very funny
song terrible, so she says she has to have more
life experience, so she hosts a party at her house,
a rager if you will. That leads to lots of
drama and hangovers, which leads to us singing more about alcohol.
Laying finds was all questioning about his sexuality, which obviously
(10:04):
upsets Kurt. With Rachel and Will is overwhelmed with everything
going on in his life, but he realizes that he
has a little too much fun with Coach Beast, which
results in some humiliation led by sus Se Vester. There's
(10:24):
your episode. That's the whole episode episode. This is the
very first song to episode to feature an original song
of any kind. We will have many more fun ones
of those coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was also Heather's birthday when we filmed TikTok Oh.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Interesting, I guess. So, yeah, it's February and we have
We also had hits songs that were hits late in
their original form throughout the episode Earth Move and so
far away from Carol King, so that laters get performed,
(11:10):
that's crap. We will cover them because why wouldn't we?
All right, Diggins is worried in this episode that there's
an alarming number of children who have been suspended for
being drunk at school, and so he's making it Alcohol
Awareness Week at school, which is apropos because.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
We got drunk on set, y'all, that's why.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And Rachel's parents are out of town, so she's going
to throw a rager to have more life experience, and
we are going to be performing at the assembly at school.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Shout out to the grown ass man who looks up
his shirt during the scene, because that man is that's
a full grown man, that's not a teenager in high school.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Stops so funny, that's really funny. So Rachel's performing my headband.
This number is very funny.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I love the original we love the original songs.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
We love the original song. Because they're so bad songs. Yes,
they're so bad that there.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I can't wait for trouty Mouth out of the no
my cup, My cup.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Finn says it's not good, so she's gonna have a party.
We got a nice scene from San Tittany and art Sadies,
which is the last time I want to hear those
names together. I was like, what is that we're pushing
We're pushing the envelope too far. The envelope is ripped
(12:51):
and burned.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But you know, I'm a complete horror for these cell
phone conversations.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I do love them.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I love them. And then everybody's obviously already together at
the end of them.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And we decided we're all going to go to the party,
which we didn't really want to go to.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So the party is the main event of this episode
for us. Yes, correct, and blame it on the alcohol. Yes,
And you have to understand. I guess it's like going
to school and you take a field trip. Because we
were getting there was a whole new set built on
a stage next to us. It's like, and it was big.
(13:30):
It's a full basement room, Like it's the real size
of a basement. Yeah, and we spent days in there,
and it wasn't like we were doing some dramatic funeral
scene or you know, it was a party and so
we got to show up every day and lose our minds. No,
(13:51):
and we were just goofy. Like even the scene, so
it starts out where the party is obviously terrible and
then already as like yeah, we're gonna go like oh yeah,
we have dinner reservations. And so even doing that stuff
all felt so like campy and fun.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It was fun to be on a different set. You're right,
it was like a field trip. It's like a different thing.
And this whole yeah, this whole like party was split
up into like we shot one day I think we
shot the scene scenes before we were drunk, then we
shot like the scenes where we were drunk. Then another
day we would shoot like to spin the bottle, yes.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And spin the bottle? Was we we spin the bottle
the last thing we did.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Potentially, yes, I think. So there's just a lot to
cover in that room too. Write like you had like
all the different like things where like Britney's and you
are making it rain and then like all the archetypes
and the scene with Rachel and Finn and so there
was a lot to do technically.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And I think because Eric Stilts is so quick at
actually shooting things that we were able to cover like
every corner of that set and still had time to
sit with us and talk about what is everybody actually doing?
Once all you start getting drunk, yes, and filming all
(15:19):
those little things. And we were all in there because
he was moving so quickly, we all had to stay
in there basically the time, and so we got to
watch each other play, like when they do the pairings
of the drunk girls, right, And it was so funny,
and we were all losing our minds off camera the
whole time, like everybody was still making out. We weren't
(15:40):
sure if we were on camera or not. Yeah, let's
just so we did the party over and over and
over again.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Correct, correct, it was. It felt like a party, it
really did. At some point I remember Feuchak coming in.
Do you remember that? No, Maybe still tend to go
for something for the day.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That sounds similar because he did do another episode or
I think he was doing another episode or something.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I just have this memory of him directing us at
one point. Maybe it was one day, but I remember
Falchuk being there.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I think it was a scene.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, maybe it was the drunk girl scene, like the Archetypes,
because I just remember Brad being there. Anyway, that all
the archetypes were really funny to watch, and I remember
Eric Stolt just always saying like, don't play into the drunk,
play against the drunk. Like you know, as an actor,
(16:38):
you always hear like, the best drunks or the best
the best crying scenes are the ones where you're trying
not to cry or you're trying not to be drunk,
because that's what you would be doing in real life, right,
And I always remember Er saying like, play against that,
don't don't go so too far into it, or it
becomes like a caricature most of yourself. And so so yeah, anyway,
(17:01):
the Archetypes were really funny. I remember shooting with Amber
the laughing drunks, and we got to a point where
the laughter became real and we couldn't.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Stop when we were I was just watching this and
Austin turns to me as he sees you cackle, he goes, well,
that's real and accurate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is Jenna
when she's drunk.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, I'm happy that I'm a happy drunk at least,
Oh yeah you are or sleepy drunk.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You're not any of the bad ones.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Okay, good, Yeah, the archetypes were my favorite from watching
the party back. Your outfit costume of wearing heather shirt
and glasses is very funny.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, that was the other thing. We could just sort
of do what we wanted.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, like it was very much just is what Kevin
would do. I definitely put on some of the girl's clothing.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, that's right, and.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Just go for it. I think Also there were a
lot of like ur isms in this entire thing where
the Santana like mouse kiss me, like she's sort of
making fun of herself or making fun of each other
in all of this.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What about Santana when she says that she's no my.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
God doing the cheers? Oh very much from real life.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yes, that's right, cheers her outfit in.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
This insane it's diabolical.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I feel like there was some like Barber reference or
something in there, but it's just diabolical that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's great and insane. She's hilarious in this whole.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And yes, and this is also the first time that
we we see uh we hang out Darren, we shoot
with Darren.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, and this is the first time, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
M wow. And then there are little karaoke moment with
them where he does they do their little like it
looks it feels like a karaoke stage that Rachel's parents
have built, that built, and.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
That during that is all during this whole thing is
the famous Eric salts everybody making out. God, there was
one couple at.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
A time, always making out. I always making out the
whole time. Yeah, he would do that to you. Eric
would always do that toes and then you have to
do it a million times. Yeah, I forgot that. Me
and Harry were making out on this too. Oh yeah, always, always, always, Well,
that scene was we'll go down in history. It is
(19:51):
one of the funnest things that we've done on set.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And everybody together, you know exactly, and we're not sitting
in a choir room, and it's all malleable and free form.
And by the time we film I'm pretty sure we
filmed the spin the Bottle last and we were all
takes a lot of energy partying for like two days straight.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You're right, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And it was like late at night and they brought
us in and the some of us I think we're
over it and tired, and I remember some of the
crew being like, who's actually drunk here? Because it seems
like something's off, And I think because it was really
(20:39):
late at night, some people might have been.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I also think it was just probably exhaustion and the
contrast from what we were doing earlier in the day. Yes,
you're right. I remember being so exhausted at that point,
and then they put the care They never used that shot,
So this is what happens a lot, is like we
get all these really great shots and there's not enough
time to use them. Eric had put the bottle on
(21:03):
the camera, and the bottle we got the camera to
spin like the bottle where you could see our faces.
And I remember that because we were like another shot.
And Eric is always so great and moved so fast
and made his days. But when you're exhausted, nothing matters.
You're just like, get me out of here. And it
(21:24):
didn't make it in I have there such like vivid
memory of the camera being the bottle. Well, then we
have the aftermath, so we get to school, and I
loved the scene. I loved the scene. I love the
scene Tina, Tina and Mercedes first with their hangovers and
(21:47):
their sunglasses, and then Santana joins them and saying that
she was practicing bird calls instead of throwing up to
her mother. But Kevin, you're a delivery of this us,
this line with Bloody Mary's. We think we watched it
about four times. I think we rewound and watched it
(22:10):
four times because it was so funny. And I remember
Eric saying like, don't talk very loud, because when you're hungover,
it's too loud. I remember all of us like kind
of bringing our voices down. That was the kind of
like detail that Eric would always like include in these things.
Is always like just giving us like a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Speciificity if you will, yes, And we would all be
like spinning around in circles and then immediately recordtore he
called action and then call actions, and oh my god,
yeah it was. It just felt so playful, like I
was just having the time of my life, and like
(22:56):
I was like, hey, can I wheel myself into the
lockers here because I'm drunk and shouldn't be driving.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And then I got it and then we do blame
it on the alcohol.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
What a crazy song.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Blame it on the alcohol. First of all, shout out
to hair and makeup. Everyone looks intentionally a mess. Everyone's
like a little dewey, like a little greasy. The hair
looks a little crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Like we're in the club because.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Like everyone's supposed to be shit faced. And then at
the end when we're all talking to shoot, everyone is
acting insane, whether they have dialogue or not. Everyone's fully drunk.
And it was great. And I don't think anyone was
actually drunk for this scene.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
No, I don't think so. But it's also weird that
blame on the alcohol has like become a couple of
months ago sort of like had a resurgence on TikTok
became this thing. Yeah, and I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Like it's fine, but it's not the best. No, it's fun, though,
it's really fun.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
It is really fun, and like the context of it
is great.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Like on its own, it's like a sort of a
weird version. But people love it and I appreciate it. Thanks.
It is often overlooked.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Kevin's favorite. Yeah, So then we do the number in
the assembly and now we're just drinking all the time
in the show, the carecters, they're all drinking all the time,
(24:37):
and Rachel makes a cocktail of scisser and you know,
all these other things, lots of lasts of different liquors,
and we take shots of it before we perform. How
there's dancing and performance.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And this is insane how hard she goes.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But I can't stop watching because it's still so good,
even when she's attending to be drunk. She's so good. God,
it's so good. Maybe even betsmerizing. Unreally, it's mesmortizing. And
and we perform and we all look crazy, and then
(25:17):
Rachel gets thrown up on. It's disgusting. It's disgusting, It's disgusting,
and then Brittany, Brittany pukes on Rachel Santana pukes because
she sees it, and Figgins thinks it's fake. And he's
so excited that he gives us yogurt coupons, And is
(25:38):
this the first time we see achievement?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I was thinking that achievement because we have said that
for forever.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, he may have done it before, but it's the
first time he did it with us, and I'm being
so excited to shoot that with him, and we all
like did it with him because we were so thrilled
that we didn't get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Everybody is dancing. I don't know if you noticed, but
in this number dancing, everyone's going so hard. I don't
know what was going on this episode, but like everyone
is just giving it. Yeah it's only Heather and then
Amber singing in the song, but everyone is full.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I feel like it was so much fun for us,
Like we were having a good time shooting this episode.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, we got to do something different. Yeah, there's something
about just changing it up a little bit really was invigorating. Also,
I had a friend of mine the other day. We
were talking about Kesha because she put out new music,
and he was like, oh yeah, a key Dollar signed Ha.
And I stopped and I looked at him, and then
he looked back at me. I'm like hmm, and then
(26:49):
I just walked off because I think he said it
and not didn't realize like where he might have heard it.
And then I'm like, I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this to get weird.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah yeah yeah, but I've never heard anybody like say
it out in the wild.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, it's just it slips into our subconscious yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
This whole bit at the end of Will telling us
like you can't drink at least wait until after Nationals,
I fully believe was Brad Feuchuck being like, guys, it's
fine if you drink your adults, but like not at work, Yeah,
which is rare. Yeah he was right, which is fare
We were not mad that they were mad.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, now I get it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
We were not supposed to do that. Also, this line
of Quinn saying there's a fair amount of the pot
calling the kettle black right now, Britney saying that is
so racist, And I remember sitting in that scene and
reading that scene for the first time but shooting it
being like, yeah, we get it, you guys, we get it,
(27:58):
Like this is so funny that this what's happening in
the story right now?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whoops are bad, it's thees Okay, I
think I missed it too. I think you were, like Jenna.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Well, because there was never storylines written about very specific
about Yeah, there was nothing you pointed at you and
me in any of these episodes. And then because at
this point other things hadn't written this season about other
people specifically, right, that hadn't gone down so well.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
But to feel it hurt the personal pangs of reality.
It was like I was.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Like, no, Jenna were involved in this one?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah right. Meanwhile, and throughout this, Kurt
Kurt brings Blaine around, and Blaine and Rachel end up
kissing during spin the Bottle, which was a very sexy
kiss if you ask me. And Rachel asks Blaine out
(29:09):
and he weirdly says yes because he is not as
sure as Kurt about his sexuality, so he decides to
go out with Rachel. Kurt is convinced and upset and hurt,
but he's also convinced that it's because they were drunk,
but his kind of begrudgingly allowing this to go on,
or watching this go on, Rachel and Blaine had a
(29:33):
really good date, which is strange knowing what we know. No,
obviously that Blaine is one hundred percent k but yeah,
he's experimentings living his life, and and and then along
the way, Kurt is teaching Bert how to make brunch,
(29:56):
and Bert basically Kurt sharing the whole blame situation, and
Bert's like, wait a second, when you have a sleepover
with a boy, you got to let me know, or
you got to ask.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Him walking in on Blaine waking up in bed is gold.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Think about it? Oh fair, you're sixteen years old, like
we're not allowed.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
But it is that he was very reasonable about it.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Hey, I thought so too. And Kurt's being argumentative in
a way or having an open debate about it, because
I do think there there are points that he made
that would be a natural point to make as a
gay man in a very hetero society.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
They were both right, I think, and there things that.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Bothered them definitely, And.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I also think there was like Kurt was also just
antsy about this whole Blaine and Rachel thing as well, totally.
And I liked how he was sitting there watching them
kiss at the coffee shop. She's like, I'm gonna come,
I'm gonna kss him again, sober.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, and then he knew though that's why he knew.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
He did. But it just comes off like you know,
it was like when he when Kurt was going after Finn,
You're like, this is a little much creep.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Creep.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, it's like, well, stop telling Blaine what his sexuality is. Yeah,
that's fair, that is fair, Like let him figure it out,
and he did because he was like, yep, not for me, Jenna.
Now when you saw Rachel turn around and be like,
oh my god, I just had my first love affair
with a man who happens to be gay. I did
that feel relatable? It felt I feel seen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I felt heard, I felt seen, I felt written about.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I mean, I'm sure that's happened to Leah too. I
feel like you theater her girls.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Sure, sure, I mean I think there was a point
where she had crush on John Craffe, who hasn't had
a crush on fair enough me too, So but yes,
I felt seen. And Tina will have her own relationship
with Blade later, so.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
It's speaking of creepy relationship.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yeah, that's when Tina, when Blaine really knows he's fully gay,
and Tina knows he's gay too.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh sweet sweet Tina.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
And then me and then yeah, sweet Tina. Whatever. So
Will is realizing that he's stressed and he never takes
time focus on himself. Emma is looking for a house
with Carl with her husband, and you know, he he's.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Just he needs to release.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Jenna Beast sees that, and so she says, you're coming
to the honky Tonk bar with me, and they.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Go to the hill. I love them together. It's the best.
It's really sweet, and I don't necessarily remember them having
this much together, Like they have quite a bit totally
in these episodes, and they their chemistry as friends, and
this is just so wonderful.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Well, Will needs an ally at the school.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, it's a really nice juxtaposition to Sue.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah. Yeah, So they get drunk. They sing a song
one burbon one gotch one beer beast, helps Will get home,
but then Will calls drunk, calls who he thinks is Emma,
but it's not. It's spoiler alert Sue Sylvester, and he
(33:23):
leaves a very drunken message on her voicemail mm hmm,
and apologizes to Emma the next day at school. That's cringey,
you didn't call me. And then Sue strikes again.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's so good. I do love this.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
It's so embarrassing. And the xylophone doing this little it's
like Grease Grease reference.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, exactly, and Sue reveals that she it was the
one Will call Sue by accident, and she plays the
drunk dial on the voicemail on the fonts on the monitor.
It's really great. It's really really great.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
And that's sort of it is.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I mean, is that all.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Right? There was a lot. It's like it was a
nice episode. Like nothing. The only thing that has any
significance is that Sue. For plot reasons, Sue is going
to be the coach of oral intensity. Nothing else really matters.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well, the kids take the pledge that they're not going
to drink until after originals, and I remember at this point,
you remember Oprah was doing the pledge to not text
it live at that time, so I feel like maybe
that was a reference to that and we all signed
it and yep, everything like that. So thanks, I mean,
(34:53):
the one thing I remembered, so to do some tarty
take yes please, Okay cringe moments.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I thought Sue's sort of belittling about AA was cringey, Like,
so I'm going to build you up the top of
the mountain and then basically get you to fall again,
was pretty agreed. Agreed.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Calling him an alcoholic and all these crazy things.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Like that was not great.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, best dance move, I mean, TikTok, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
But also there is a dance move and blame it
where the girl is getting bent over in front of
the guy and like her elbows are being like brought back.
It looks insane. I don't know what it is, but
vaguely remember that I want to. I think the one
you can see, I think it's Naya in the middle
(35:48):
of the stage. It's sort of from profile. It's such
a very insane dance move and it's great. But yeah,
Heather's entire just Heather.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
M Yeah, I mean just Heather. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Best song, blame it on a Goose.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, that was a fun one. Did you like recording that? No?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I was upset. Why because I want to do that that.
I wanted to do the actual thing, but because it sung,
they wanted me to do it like half as much
I can do the real thing, they didn't want it.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I got over it eventually.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I figured best performance by a prop I think the
wine coolers.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Oh my god, the wine coolers. The vomit.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Oh right, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
It was very good.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Best line.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
There's a lot in this episode. I think a lot
of a lot of them are nias. Yes, she's got
a lot.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I also your bloody Marin line. Bloody man, that's somebody marriage. Yeah, hair,
the dog that don't beat your That's a great line.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I also love Santana's I own that guppy mouth. Those
shroudy Aerosmith lips belong to me. So you know what
this is not? Hey, honeys, it's not a big red commercial,
No me gusta.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
So good too, good performance, MVP. I gotta say Brittany's
TikTok was prettyretty phenomenal good.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, you know. I also think Leah's drunk hmmm, drunkenness
and like her at the party is maybe my favorite
Leah performance of the entire series.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I think it's so good and I think she should
have gotten nominated for Comedy Awards. I think it was
very very good.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
It's like her bad singing.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yes, I think I'm just I'm a sucker for her
comedy speaks my language. Should we found on TikTok Jenna
tell me so we were tagged in this. Thank you
to whoever tagged us Glee thing on TikTok posted this okay,
and it is if Glee was on Disney Channel. And
(38:23):
it's an incredible intro with loose are like me, This
whole animated sort of intro introducing all of us as
our characters. It's very accurate, very nostalgic. Makes me want
to see this actually wow and versus hilarious. It's just phenomenal,
(38:46):
like these clips that they did some good time. Yeah,
this is great work. Thank you so much for making this.
I love it because it did take some time. The artistry, Jenna.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
The artistry and really the time. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
This is yeah. Go look, I think up Glee thing
on TikTok it's hey, the nominal.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Well, that that's the episode. That's blame it. Thanks for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Blame it on the goose everyone, Thank you for joining us.
Next week we have a great episode because he's back.
GP's back singing Landslide.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
So the last numbers of the series. Okay, yeah, I
can't wait to watch it.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Great seeing you, Jenna. Thanks everybody for listening. Tell your friends,
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