May 26, 2025 • 44 mins
If you thought Sue was unhinged in the last episode, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
Jenna and Kevin are back and ready for the craziness of this episode, like Klaine stuck in an elevator thanks to Jigsaw Sue, the character they didn’t realize was back on the show, their thoughts on the performances and the scene Kevin says is one of his “favorite moments of Glee EVER!” No hints, but it’s a scene that still makes them laugh hysterically!
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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 were the miss podcast.
Kevin just yawned, because, yeah, I'm just calling you out.
I'm calling you out because.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I thought you were gonna let it fly.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You clearly don't know me.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Then I saw it in your eyes. I saw No.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Am I boring you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's ten pm. There, we're making this work because Kevin's
doing a MUSICALE. And here we are about to recap
on the one of the most infamous part twos or
episodes of Glee. This is season six, episode five. This
is the hurt Locker Part two.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Can I do a shameless personal plug right now?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So my show out in the UK. I'm in the UK.
I'm doing a show called The Frogs and it starts
in two days. So come see us.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, everybody, go see Kevin's MUSICALE and then report back
to me because I won't be able to see it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, come see it. It's crazy. We're in previews at
the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We have to do a recap of that as well.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Once you're done, okay, great, we can talk after like
opening night when it's officially open. We can do a
little seconding.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Your second show, like this is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Or I guess towards the end, I don't know, Okay,
this area.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
On January thirtieth, twenty fifteen, Uptown Funk is the number
one song and will be forever.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
An American Sniper is still the number one movie.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Still remember thought.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
That title feels so violent to me? I guess it
is Glee News this week. On January twenty seventh, Glee
the music the heart Locker Part two EP was really
it released. It featured five tracks from this episode and
released for a digital download only. Do you see the
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director of this episode, Babs Barbara Brown.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
This is something we have to talk about because I
wasn't here for babs directorial debut. So Babs Barbara Brown
was our script supervisor. And a script supervisor is somebody
who sits on set every day and has the job,
the loving job of making sure that everything is as
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close to continuous as possible. So the best way to
explain is like, if you're like for me, a lot
of the time, my hair would be one place or
the other. On one side it would be forward or
on one side it would be back and like and
then in order for the cuts to make sense from
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take to take and seem to seen like, we'd have
to she'd have to like literally make sure that every
person in the choir room looked the same. She also
did to make she was responsible for like making sure
the days were correct and like overseeing like you know,
say the episode was over four days, that everybody was
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on in the clothing for day two and so you
know that's also wardrobe's job as well, to make sure
that everything is in line. But like, she was the
overseer of all of it on set and our lines
as well, and she would watch every single take all
the time. We would be like saying this, not that,
and she'd be like, it's actually this, so anyway, so sorry.
(03:37):
I hope that makes sense. But Babs was a fan
favorite for all of us on set, and to have
her direct, I'm sure was very exciting. She's the most kind,
so wonderful human and I just I have a wonderful
about this episode.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Our second script supervisor on the show very little turnover,
and the only reason we had a second one is
because our first one, Carol Banker Banker, became a director
as well, get it and so here's Babs, let's go.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, this was written by you and Brennan again, and
so some of the songs were My Sharona performed by
Dalton Academy, and then also You Spin Me Round, which
is in the same set by Dalton as well.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And then you have the Wonderfully. I mean, it's a
good set by the New Directions. It must have been love,
father figure and all out of love.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The context in which they chose these songs is actually
very very humorous. And let's talk about some of these
fun facts and we'll get into the episode.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So this is the seventh episode where all the members
of New Directions present in the episode have a solo
The first of the pilot seconds is Britney two point zero,
then Tina and this guy with Diamonds, A Katie Gaga
and end of TOWERK and then the sixth is Homecoming.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
This is the sixth episode where every member of the
New Direction sings a solo line, the others being Pilot,
Brittany two point zero, A Katie or Gaga at the
end of Tork and Homecoming.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And this episode's the marks the first and last time
in which no member of the main cast is featured
in a song or their current main cast feature song. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It is also the first episode since The Spanish Teacher
season three episode twelve in which neither Rachel or Blaine
are featured in a song.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Wow. This is the second time the New Directions performed invitationals.
In the fifth episode of the season, wearing blue outfits.
So first was ro it's not taken. That's so funny.
We kind of forgot there were invitationals, I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But yeah, when Sue says that she still has six
or seven weeks to get Kurt and Blaine together as
a meta reference to the number of episodes slash weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I caught that hour the end of this Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I love you know, I love that type of stuff. Okay,
Sue is at it again, trying to mend relationships. You
see Kesha, I said, mend, not mend you did you
see the Texas? Okay, Sue is at it again, trying
to mend relationships she thinks need mending. Meanwhile, Kitty helps
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Rachel find the perfect set list to win the invitational,
and Sam recruits football player Spencer to join the glee Club.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I know that last week we talked about her Locker
Part one end. It's a doozy. It's a doozy in
every way shape or for me, it's a doozy. It's
like bad reputation. It's it was not exactly, it was
all out of sorts. Characters were not in character. It
felt weird. The music felt different, like the whole thing
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just felt weird. I was like very prepared for this
part too, me too, right. Do you feel like you
were like, oh, hey, press play, here we go.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
There was a big sigh before it was a big
inhale and a big exhale before the plunge.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes, okay, I have to say yep, I really liked
this episode.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I enjoyed it as well.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It's so funny. The Sue Tiny Sue saw doll what
do they call it? Was?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The elevator is some of the funniest I've ever seen
on the show. I truly was like so tickled. The
elevator was one of my favorite story. I love the music.
I finaled. Sue singing her songs at the end was
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so funny and I really enjoyed this episode. Am I crazy?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No? Because I was preparing to tell you the exact
same thing. And I was like, she's gonna think I'm nuts.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I was laughing aloud, Yeah, what is wrong? Do you
think it was because last episode? Mm hmmmm mm change
or lowered or adjusted our expectations in a way.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I don't. I don't know, because if you had put
Part two first, just you know, out of context, not
storylines being you know, right, I would have still liked
this episode.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I think, Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
It wasn't as weird. It was weird.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It was the regular Glee weird.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It still had the feel of like the invitational happening
and the characters wanting to get together, so like there
was just all these like it was more character driven
in character versus like Sue feeling so out of character
in the last one. You know, it's still a little
inappropriate the way that she's like talking about them, like.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Just watching the.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Videotape and like spying on that and the whole yeah,
and kidnapping them in theory, like it all, it doesn't
it doesn't flash out real well for her, but like
in its own thing, like I thought it was so funny,
so funny.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know what I think it is? And I think
this is where sometimes and I don't think this is
anything on the directors. I think this is how the
episodes are written sometimes, like when LEDI got stuck with
a bunch of those types of episodes where it's like
putting a hat on a hat on a hat, where
when the episode is written crazily like Part one, Yes,
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and then you do visual things that are that lean
into it, I don't think it necessarily works as well
well when you just sort of keep it visually simple
and then let the dialogue be crazy and let you
have your saw elevator with the bathroom moment, because you know,
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last week it was that you had the hypnotizing like
circle thing in the background, and yeah, yeah there was,
and there was a lot of time and the actual
hurt Locker. Because we didn't have to spend much time
in those scenarios, there was less hypnotizing this episode. I
think that just helped.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Let's go through some of these like story plotlines.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We discovered last week with the hurt Locker that Sue's
ultimate goal. Now it sort of seems like taking down
the new new directions is like a hobby, but her
real focus is getting Curt and blaming back together for
whatever reason, we're going with it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I'm for it. I'm into it because I want them
back together too, so let's just go with there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And also giving Jane so much fun stuff to do
as a viewer. It's just what I want. And hers
showing up as a waiter herd State with Walter and
just insults him. Then he goes, well, how old are you?
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Jesuys thirty four?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Also the fact that she's she blames Becky. It's all
really really ridiculous. So Sue's going to create this idea
this she's going to kidnap them, which is like not.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So good, But we're gonna just but blow past.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And it's an elevator. It's an elevator that they very
willingly get into.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Can I I have to I have to point out
I love I love and shows when characters blindly accept
stupid situations. Okay sometimes yeah yeah yeah yeah, the way
Chris and and Darren we're so sort of it's also
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how they played it is what I love when they
see the elevator, like, oh where did this come from?
And they're just like no, It's funny how they do
the same for already was here, I bet you. Oh,
I'm sure all of it was. But I love that.
I love when characters are just sort of like to
do blindly accepting the situation and blindly walking into an
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elevator that has a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
This is I okay, the elevator really made me happy.
This whole episode maybe happy, but this elevator, like it
was a highlight.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I just.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Detrap two characters. It's almost like I like these. It's
like those episodes like en Seinfeld where they get lost
in the parking lot and they can't or like when
they're at the Chinese restaurant waiting for the reservation. There's
something about that. It's so satisfying because it's so simple,
yet it's like you can you're in it for the
(13:26):
whole episode. I would have watched a whole episode of
the two of them starking out the same and that's
all you want because you love those characters. It's written
so hilariously, and then you're also getting your Jane Lynch
of it all, even if she's not in the scene.
I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
The whole setup is such a Sue setup that it's
layered in that way where she's like woven throughout the
entire thing.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yes, I mean and more so like Jigsaw, Sue centers
through a tiny hole in the elevator on a bike,
and the way that they've operated her, she like knocks
into the door, and like the physical comedy of Jigsaw
Fu and the whole thing of like Them. It's showing
up to the two of them and them just like
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being weirded out by but like not so weirded out
by it, you know, like it's so crazy and yet
they're like h And.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's also so cute that little montage of them like
sleeping and then looking at each other and then eating,
having a little picnic.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Like com out in there, and like it just loved, loved.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, you know, really good. I think it's a testament
to everyone involved in front of the camera and behind
the camera to make something like that work, just like
in Seinfeld. It's like a masterclass and making something so
simple be that effective.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
We had Lena on the show that's right this episode,
and she told.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Us and she was right, and she has that jigsaus.
I get it now, I get it. I don't think
i'd ever seen this episode before, Like I think I've
seen snippets of other episodes or like clips or things,
but like, I don't think I saw any of this
episode ever, and it really delivered.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I absolutely have not seen this episode. I know I've
seen stills of Jigsaus.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Sasu on that bike too is I know I've said
this already, but like, the bike is so comical and
it's so tiny, and it really just made me. It
made me kiggle like a lot. So I could talk
about this all day.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I wonder who has that now.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I wish I could have Jigsaus do on the bike.
That's all I want now.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Somebody has to have it, right.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So the whole idea is that they have to kiss
or they'll be trapped in there forever. And it overlaps
with the song that New Direction is in New Directions
performance during the invitation all which we will now merge
into that. But that kiss also, I was like, oh, sweet,
(16:09):
sweet lady, lady, I just.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I wasn't going to say anything, just give me the
kiss all day long. I love them, I want them
back together. I'm rooting for them. I know Spoilerer like
we get a wedding, but like, just give it all
to me, just give it all.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
This is the first time call me a hater, and
I do love them together, but this is the first
time that I'm fully on board with him getting married.
Now I'm like, let's see.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
It, let's get this now.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I also think that was their best.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Kiss, agreed, And just like the kiss, I know, I
was like, whoa, this is getting steamy. But like the montage,
the whole thing, like the music, the client, like the
it all just it was like that was the episode.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And then they're they're running through the hallway and they're
all disheveled and their shirts.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Are cute, so cute. Yeah, obviously they're rushing because like
they missed everything. So I get it.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
But we need once a cheater, always a cheater.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, what's he gonna do? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Oh, we know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I know, I know. Okay, So now Rachel uh has
has two days, very much in mister Shoe fashion, has
two days to get the glee club together, build a
glee club, get a set list, and go. And Kurt
had suggested getting Kitty in there, so well, Kurt's stuck
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in an elevator. Rachel is going to try and recruit
recruit Kitty. This whole thing I didn't know happened. I
was like, oh that is in.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Had no idea, like, oh, and it's great, Like she
gets a nice emotional scene filled with hilarity.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
She's a little softer than when she was originally brought
into the glee club.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It's yep, they left her. She you know, the only
reason she's there. So she's feeling a little vulnerable. Rachel
convinces her that, you know, she loves to sing and dance,
and so it was really nice scene with the two
of them.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And I also love that she calls Rachel out just
like you said, yeah that it's you know, very mister
shoe of you, and I can't tell if it's sweet
or not.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah. Literally, And then even better, so like they cheat,
they cheat, they go in and they get the the
past coode. Well, Katy has the past codes to sue emotional,
(18:56):
emotionally vulnerable songs, a locked password and coded file that
they get. I love that and the song choices for
this for the writers were a plus plus. I love
these songs. By the way, I thought everybody sounded excellent
(19:19):
and I really enjoyed them. What I enjoyed even more
was like watching Sue like her journey from like hearing
them and like being angry about it, like how did
you get these to them? Like being completely moved and
like singing along and Sam singing along in the audience
and the Glee Club like came through. And I really
(19:39):
appreciated new directions, the new new directions, hearing everybody sing
everybody like obviously we loved his voice, like give it
to us all day. But then we got Billy and
we got Laura and Samantha, and it just really it
was very quintessential New Directions and I was like, here
for it. I was like, you sit on those stools.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And I also thought it was quintessential Glee in the
way that it wove in the silliness during these like
really nice musical numbers. Yes where I also just like
I love characters accepting a dumb thing like an elevator.
I love a break in and a password moment, and
love the scene with Kitty in the stall with Becky
(20:24):
and the off brand Mexican twinkies bribing her. I thought
that was so good. And then you have all these
sort of montages like during you know, you have the
curtain Blaine montage happening, and then you have Sue coming
in and being funny just like you said, but yeah,
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it didn't take away from the performance at all. And
little things. I love also seeing like Becca's growth. I mean,
she was good from the first episode she was in, yeah,
even though we found out she had never been on
a set before. Right, But like the little looks she's
throwing between Rachel and Sue. Sue, We're just so satisfying
(21:11):
because you don't have to say anything, you just see.
There's so much of that in this episode where there
there's looks between Rachel and Sam because there's that whole
thing going on, yes, and then Rachel and Sue and
all while this music is going on. And then Sue,
you know, when they announce it one and it's new directions,
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sorry to bury the lead. They She's like, I don't know,
all they did was sit on stools. She's constantly making
fun of the actually new directions.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yes, yes, yes, excellent all around. Like you said, like
just everybody provoted, everybody in this episode.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like I also have another thing I want to say
kudos too. I hate when, for example, this is there's
a world in which this hypnosis storyline plays out in
a way Rachel and Shoe have that moment, you know,
where Rachel is saying, you know, you're right, I'm sorry,
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and she's like, well, I don't really forgive you for
the things you did, like getting Sam to steal my mail,
and she's like huh and they said sue and that's it, right,
But there's a world in which they're like, oh, we
have to get revenge or we have to plot to
get we have to do some sort of other plot
to make her admit that it was her and Baba,
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I hate that, yes, and obviously why it didn't happen.
And I'm not a writer, but you know when shows
do that needlessly, create some drama like that, and it's
just as a waste of time because you know how
it's going to end up anyway. And so we did that.
We just like, you know, trim the fat. Let's just
say and you move on.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And we know.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I was so thankful for that. It's like, thank you,
gleet love what's happening here, like really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Add it to the list of things that she has done,
because she's been wildly inappropriate this whole episode.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But two episodes in a row were like, ladies should
be in prison.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I mean, isn't stealing nail like a federal Well.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, and she's getting somebody else to.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Do it, right. It's bad.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's bad. But the flip side of this is that
Rachel happens to snap when Sam is under some sort
of trance, saying he like want trying to get Rachel
to use the terrible size, which is also a really
lovely moment. Yes, yes, and he's like, I don't know
what's been going on with me. There's just gaps of
time that are missing, and she just is like, Okay,
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you can make it up for me if you find
seven people. Also, are we just going to forget that
we're supposed to have twelve people for this invitational?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, they just changed it for the purpose that they
have only of seven cast members. Yeah, okay, you know
it's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, that's fine with it. And I was like, why
did we bring it up in the first place? Also,
we skipped over this, and I thought this was a
really funny and weird thing. What Sue stating the rules
after vocal adrenaline has already presented, which was also it
seems like oh, we should have thought of that before
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we wrote the first episode, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
We just let's just put it in because.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And I think it's so good. I think it's brilliant.
I don't care what the motivation of it was, but
it is so funny. All these little things just work perfectly.
Where in the last episode they do all these weird things,
you're like, I don't know about that one, or I
don't know about that one. I know this, love it all.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I love it. Also Jake Sase's boy, so's ridiculous. Okay,
we skipped over. Also the Dalton Warblers and their performances.
So obviously Blaine is not he's missing, he's stuck in
the elevator, and the Warblers are going to perform anyway.
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They do a really great job. Did you feel like now,
obviously for the purpose that she makes the joke about
new directions just sitting on stools, and it's her songs
and it's ballad and heavy, and they're not doing huge
dance numbers like Vocal Adrenaline and you know, all the tricks.
Like the Warblers also felt a little different than normal,
(25:38):
like they didn't feel like Dalhold Academy, like steps, step touch,
you know, snaps. It felt like more vocal adrenaline driven
because probably just for the juxtaposition of those two being
like the big showmen and then us kind of doing
the heart thing in the New Directions. But it didn't
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feel like them at all. I was like, where did
these Warblers come from? Is this like a new generation
of Warblers where they're tumbling and doing literally like break dancing.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Fully, I fully agree with you, and I think it.
I think your instinct is completely right on why they
were sort of vocal adrenaline doubt because it had to
be that death juxtaposition against the sort of boring new directions.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I will say it was very good.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It was so good. Also, there's a whole new crop
of dancers in there, and one of our friends JP
was in there. I took a video and sent it
to him. He's like, oh, that was a good one,
and I was like, yeah, yeah, I'd never seen it before.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It was really fun.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah exactly. I mean they are dancing.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Dancing. That's the thing. The Warblers don't dance dance, they move,
they step touch it. It's like an intentional well that's
what we call ours too. But you know, new directions,
but anyway that I just had.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
To still it was a little murky. It was like
this could just be vocal adrenaline and Blazers.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Agreed, which they may have pulled some.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I'm sure they did. Okay, I know this is not
correct to say, but I feel like if any of
us can say it, I can say it. I like
(27:40):
all the gauge you did.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
They were quiet after There were a lot, not all
of them, right, but there were.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Some of them where I was like, Sue has lost
their mind. But the way she's just openly saying.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Like just throw in and look, there's gay.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
There's a lot of gay writers in that writer's room,
so they're writing.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
These jokes, right, and so it's like one Warbler's credit
is really gay.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Warbler exactly, and.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Then there's another one, Kevin other really gay Warbler.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I love those things. We haven't talked about that in
a long time, where Ian would write or the writers
would write those things into the script and stage directions
or character names that are just that is the real
tone of the show, and so I like it. I
know it's a little offensive, but it's pretty harmless in
this in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And so I oh we also can we talk about
Michael Hedgecock? Oh my god, excuse me?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So remember and also what was was he spying for
Sue or something? It seemed very I know.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well he's not. They lost all their funding and so
what is he doing there? I don't it feels crazy.
I don't know what it is. But anytime we can
get Hitchcock on stream, yeah, I want to see it,
give it to us so to I know we're going
all over the place, but I know, whatever to wrap
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up this Sam and Rachel storyline. You know, he's doing
his like sort of cord thing in the audience at
the end, and then they have this look from Rachel,
I say, and she like smiles and looks, you know,
smirks and looks down and it's like considering it. And
(29:44):
it feels like groundwork is being laid. Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Now for the million of the time, I have no
idea what happens, but that's but that's what we're clearly
being fed.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, I missed that last one.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
But okay, there's so many good Sue lines.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I just I.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Like, I God, it's good.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
So Sam is brought in by Kurt for help and
he's gonna go and get Spencer, and Spencer he's going
to join the glee club. Spoil out of there. He's
coming in. He comes in at the very end after
they've won correct in the in the choir room, kidd,
(30:34):
he's in obviously now we've got Spencer in. It was
really sweet that scene.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
It was and it was nice to also see him
just sort of drop his guard for a second.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, I really like this whole Spencer. I like Spencer
in general. If I love this character, I like this
for the show. I think it really I don't know,
I think it moves it in in the right direction.
And I also really appreciated Seam referencing Finn again, Like
(31:10):
I yeah, I really, I just it was sentimental in
a way, and it was like in a really weird episode,
and I was like, just bring it back, bring it
back to the ground a little bit, where like getting
closer to the ground, you know, we're hovering.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Correct And that whole monologue that Spencer gave was also
very real where it was really funny and like also
a nice take in the previous episodes where he's just
like sort of the post post post modern gay right,
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but it's a very real thing in gay communities all
around the world, where you still have that part of you.
It's like, even though it's coming off like he's all
confident and strong and he's choosing to be this way,
that's who he is underneath it. Now we've discovered why
he's doing it, and it isn't necessarily the most natural
(32:07):
part of him, right, and so he is putting on
this facade to fit in. And it's also nice that
it is Sam. Sam's a character that is doing this, yes,
which is pretty sweet.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, And it puts Sam in like the leadership role
that we talked about in like when we were at nationals. Yeah,
our last yeah yeah, yeah, he'll get turned into the
same thing for me.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You know. It's funny. But as we're watching this, I'm like,
we're going to start remembering all these things now because
we're watching it, I fear it's all just disappearing as quickly.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
As a game ohing as fast as it came. Yeah,
but I appreciate the callback to some of these things
is because in Glee, it's so it's so quick to
move on from the thing that we once did. Kind
of maybe like our memory. Maybe that's why it's because
it's so fleeting and fast.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Fault.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, it's everybody else's fault. They've bet for our own
memories and we take zero accountability for that. So but
I appreciate the watching these kids or these adults who
were you know, once former students or our former students
like turn into the leaders of the group. So I'm
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very happy there.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
So after the invitational, when New Directions wins and Vocal
Journaline does not, the lead vocalist of Vocal Adrenaline, Clint
threatens mister Shoe and it's sort of this moment of
is this guy going to get mister Shoe fired? Then
(33:57):
if mister Shoes out of a job, is coming back
to McKinley, But that spot's already been filled.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So I don't know where that's leading, and maybe you
know it's.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Because clearly the fun part of not knowing, so is
he coming back?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Is he coming back? And maybe they need him to
come back so Rachel can like get her mojo back
and go off and do something else. But they're clearly
setting this up to motivate show to be leave.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah, I am, I am curious because I do remember
for two thousand and nine. It's the final episode, right,
He's there, right, And I'm like, but didn't you get there?
And we were so deep out of it at that
point that, like, I don't think that I even asked
that question. No, we were just saying we were reading this, senior,
(34:50):
and it was the final episode of the series, to
be fair, so like you know what I mean, we
were just going back to two thousand and nine and
we were like deep in that whole thing. But I
I did think about that. I was like, oh, mister,
she was there.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
You know, I don't even think I have I didn't
even think that. I don't think I knew that he wasn't.
That's how out I'm in any of these episodes. So
I don't think I even realized that he was never there.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
M Yeah, okay, Well he does do vocal adrenaline for
longer than one episode, which I appreciate too, Like I
appreciate the time and the breath that we have in
these episodes like New York, where things can play out
in a longer, kind of drawn out way where it
actually gets a proper arc. So I'm looking I like this.
(35:42):
I appreciate that I'm not you know, we complain about
some of the things that move too fast. So here
we are, we're living in it.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I like it all. And it's like, I know this
is a part one and part two episode or arc
for everyone, including like Sam's storyline and Will's storyline, like
everyone is split up over these two episodes, but it
is refreshing and it is nice, and I yes, I'm
loving the new kids.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Loving the new kids, loving the whole like leadership, like
we've got Sam a Ppe, and we've got Rachel and
Kerr and we've got Jarrin and we were like I.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Really like, oh my god, wow.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Well I didn't take pe or gym.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I have not heard it called pe in so long.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Is that like gan equated? Is it not called that anymore?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
But I just I don't even think about that. He's
just like the football assistant right assistant coach of football.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Oh oh oh, I thought he was.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Like he probably is, but that would have been a
fun class. We only saw it in dodgeball. We should
have gotten more pe.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Well, in my high school, we took dance. That's wild,
Martha Graham. What we did, Martha, We did jazz, we
did Fosthy did all okay, oh my god. Yeah, my
high school was so small.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
We didn't even have, oh my god, any extracurriculars like that.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, okay, that's sad.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Oh no, I loved it. I wasn't a boy band.
I was doing that stuff after school. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Of course you were like watching the TV, like learning
the in sync videos like of course. Yeah, okay, let's
grade these performances because that is the end of the
hurt Locker series.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
And who knew who knew that we would we were
going to feel.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I feel joy from that episode. I think about Jake
Sasu and I laugh. Okay, my Sharona love ay ay, Yeah,
these are great and you spin me around even better. Yeah. Hey,
it must have been love given an A.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, well I'll give.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
This okay minus then Father Figure a A and then
all out of Love A plus.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I need to go down to that figure.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I was just gonna say, I gotta go listen to
the the the extended version of Father Figure, because when
he opened his mouth, I said.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Okay, yes, and they put that on the book and
I was like, oh boy, I need this episode to
be over so I can go listen to this. It's
so good. Okay, what a gift.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Let's do some tarty takes, cringe moments, Okay, I have
I have one that's not sueer related, but all of
suit but I have won this not Sue related.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
So Rachel refers to the Season four newbies as these terrible,
terrible things that I don't even want to repeat. And
my jaw was on the ground. I said, oh my god,
oh my.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
God, my mom catching strays.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Left and right. I can't, I said, oh, oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
It was very out of character. This really set up
of the joke was funny. Is that you know she's
so like narcissistic she didn't learn any of their names.
That's hilarious. Yeah, but then it gets dark real quick. Yes,
and then Sue's jokes about Karowski were also in line
with that too.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Weird.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, uh, best dance move, I mean the Warblers you're
doing flips and splits and things. There was a move
where they like get on the risers from the sides
and do like a flip into a sit with a
straight leg and a leg bent, and it was so
clean and I was like, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I said, they brought in some new Warblers today.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yes, I also like more of the Warblers being characters,
like more dialogue from different warblers and things. Yeah, I'm
enjoying that.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
We've had like a lot of warblers, so like it's
time best song.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Father Figure. Yes, I know we said.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
All out of love we love but father Figure. Yeah,
that's performances by prop Jake saw So.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Also the elevator sign New Elevator, so funny, really good.
One of the ones that I loved, and it was
more about the delivery than the line itself. Was when
they're watching the video and Becky says, this is like
a dream sequence. How could you film that? And says okay,
Becky shut up, rowing it's honny.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
No Jenna, Jenna. That is one of my favorite moments
in Glee. Ever. I said, Jerry, this looks like a
dream sequence. How did you.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
The whole thing is so good? God? Why did I
don't know it did though it did. It's the two
of them.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Like golly lean into it like on the rooftop singing,
come what may get out of here? Really dream sequence?
So Lauren Potter, oh my gosh, come on, give her
an inch?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yeah, like last episode, you know, she had this huge storyline,
like so much good physical comedy, and then she's also
dramatic and and this she's just has like two lines
is just killing.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
That's the line. No, really in the century.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Excellent, excellent, Okay, great, I'm glad that were a line
there performs MVP.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Honestly, Jane and Lauren. I think it's just Jane again
for me. Okay, it would be an honorable mention for
Christ and Darren Christ and Darren too.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Yeah, but Jane really good?
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Oh god, Okay, so shit. We found on TikTok making
Faye and Brandon's splinner yeah and pronouncing that correctly. Are
doing press for their new movie, Drop and Brandon. They're
asked what their first professional acting job was, and he
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admits that his first one was an extra on Glee
and she guessed it correctly, and it was in Baby
One More Time when he is hanging out with Corey
and fist bumps him in that basketball scene a Baby
one More Time, And that brings me so much joy.
(42:41):
That's amazing, isn't it incredible?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I also love that that's like people's first acting jobs
who are now like making it. I'm like that really
ages us.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Oh god fully, wow. I love that also, yeah, that's
how long ago Glee was.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Yes, exactly, go Glee honored. All right, Well that is
the our Locker Part two. Thanks for joining us for
on that journey. The next episode is we're almost halfway
through the end of the series. Don't talk, what will
we don't Well, we will recap what the world needs now,
(43:18):
which is next. And there's lots of music and also
one of my some of my favorite comedians in our
show that we got to meet and hang out with
of all time, So Jennifer Coolidge and right, duh.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Duh, you're right.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Jennifer Coolidge was like my idle like comedic idol Briant
like I was obsessed with her and I felt I
was very starstruck when she came on.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
So did you watch all the Christopher guest movies like
I did growing up that Jane Lynch and Jennifer coolid
Dread Yes, and Hitchcock Yes. Yeah. So this is was
a It.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Was everything I could have hoped for and more To
come back and hear that they were all these an
amazing guest stars. I was like, oh man, I am.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I have some good Coolidge stories from filming those episodes
as well.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Well I can too. So funny and oh my god, okay, yeah,
all right, we'll get there.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Thanks for doing and that's what you really missed. Thanks
for listening, and follow us on Instagram at and that's
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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 were the miss podcast.
Kevin just yawned, because, yeah, I'm just calling you out.
I'm calling you out because.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I thought you were gonna let it fly.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You clearly don't know me.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Then I saw it in your eyes. I saw No.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Am I boring you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's ten pm. There, we're making this work because Kevin's
doing a MUSICALE. And here we are about to recap
on the one of the most infamous part twos or
episodes of Glee. This is season six, episode five. This
is the hurt Locker Part two.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Can I do a shameless personal plug right now?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So my show out in the UK. I'm in the UK.
I'm doing a show called The Frogs and it starts
in two days. So come see us.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, everybody, go see Kevin's MUSICALE and then report back
to me because I won't be able to see it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, come see it. It's crazy. We're in previews at
the moment.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We have to do a recap of that as well.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Once you're done, okay, great, we can talk after like
opening night when it's officially open. We can do a
little seconding.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Your second show, like this is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Or I guess towards the end, I don't know, Okay,
this area.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
On January thirtieth, twenty fifteen, Uptown Funk is the number
one song and will be forever.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
An American Sniper is still the number one movie.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Still remember thought.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
That title feels so violent to me? I guess it
is Glee News this week. On January twenty seventh, Glee
the music the heart Locker Part two EP was really
it released. It featured five tracks from this episode and
released for a digital download only. Do you see the
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director of this episode, Babs Barbara Brown.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
This is something we have to talk about because I
wasn't here for babs directorial debut. So Babs Barbara Brown
was our script supervisor. And a script supervisor is somebody
who sits on set every day and has the job,
the loving job of making sure that everything is as
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close to continuous as possible. So the best way to
explain is like, if you're like for me, a lot
of the time, my hair would be one place or
the other. On one side it would be forward or
on one side it would be back and like and
then in order for the cuts to make sense from
(02:53):
take to take and seem to seen like, we'd have
to she'd have to like literally make sure that every
person in the choir room looked the same. She also
did to make she was responsible for like making sure
the days were correct and like overseeing like you know,
say the episode was over four days, that everybody was
(03:13):
on in the clothing for day two and so you
know that's also wardrobe's job as well, to make sure
that everything is in line. But like, she was the
overseer of all of it on set and our lines
as well, and she would watch every single take all
the time. We would be like saying this, not that,
and she'd be like, it's actually this, so anyway, so sorry.
(03:37):
I hope that makes sense. But Babs was a fan
favorite for all of us on set, and to have
her direct, I'm sure was very exciting. She's the most kind,
so wonderful human and I just I have a wonderful
about this episode.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Our second script supervisor on the show very little turnover,
and the only reason we had a second one is
because our first one, Carol Banker Banker, became a director
as well, get it and so here's Babs, let's go.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, this was written by you and Brennan again, and
so some of the songs were My Sharona performed by
Dalton Academy, and then also You Spin Me Round, which
is in the same set by Dalton as well.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And then you have the Wonderfully. I mean, it's a
good set by the New Directions. It must have been love,
father figure and all out of love.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The context in which they chose these songs is actually
very very humorous. And let's talk about some of these
fun facts and we'll get into the episode.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So this is the seventh episode where all the members
of New Directions present in the episode have a solo
The first of the pilot seconds is Britney two point zero,
then Tina and this guy with Diamonds, A Katie Gaga
and end of TOWERK and then the sixth is Homecoming.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
This is the sixth episode where every member of the
New Direction sings a solo line, the others being Pilot,
Brittany two point zero, A Katie or Gaga at the
end of Tork and Homecoming.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And this episode's the marks the first and last time
in which no member of the main cast is featured
in a song or their current main cast feature song. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It is also the first episode since The Spanish Teacher
season three episode twelve in which neither Rachel or Blaine
are featured in a song.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Wow. This is the second time the New Directions performed invitationals.
In the fifth episode of the season, wearing blue outfits.
So first was ro it's not taken. That's so funny.
We kind of forgot there were invitationals, I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But yeah, when Sue says that she still has six
or seven weeks to get Kurt and Blaine together as
a meta reference to the number of episodes slash weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I caught that hour the end of this Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I love you know, I love that type of stuff. Okay,
Sue is at it again, trying to mend relationships. You
see Kesha, I said, mend, not mend you did you
see the Texas? Okay, Sue is at it again, trying
to mend relationships she thinks need mending. Meanwhile, Kitty helps
(06:22):
Rachel find the perfect set list to win the invitational,
and Sam recruits football player Spencer to join the glee Club.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I know that last week we talked about her Locker
Part one end. It's a doozy. It's a doozy in
every way shape or for me, it's a doozy. It's
like bad reputation. It's it was not exactly, it was
all out of sorts. Characters were not in character. It
felt weird. The music felt different, like the whole thing
(06:52):
just felt weird. I was like very prepared for this
part too, me too, right. Do you feel like you
were like, oh, hey, press play, here we go.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
There was a big sigh before it was a big
inhale and a big exhale before the plunge.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes, okay, I have to say yep, I really liked
this episode.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I enjoyed it as well.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It's so funny. The Sue Tiny Sue saw doll what
do they call it? Was?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The elevator is some of the funniest I've ever seen
on the show. I truly was like so tickled. The
elevator was one of my favorite story. I love the music.
I finaled. Sue singing her songs at the end was
(07:53):
so funny and I really enjoyed this episode. Am I crazy?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No? Because I was preparing to tell you the exact
same thing. And I was like, she's gonna think I'm nuts.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I was laughing aloud, Yeah, what is wrong? Do you
think it was because last episode? Mm hmmmm mm change
or lowered or adjusted our expectations in a way.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I don't. I don't know, because if you had put
Part two first, just you know, out of context, not
storylines being you know, right, I would have still liked
this episode.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I think, Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
It wasn't as weird. It was weird.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It was the regular Glee weird.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It still had the feel of like the invitational happening
and the characters wanting to get together, so like there
was just all these like it was more character driven
in character versus like Sue feeling so out of character
in the last one. You know, it's still a little
inappropriate the way that she's like talking about them, like.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Just watching the.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Videotape and like spying on that and the whole yeah,
and kidnapping them in theory, like it all, it doesn't
it doesn't flash out real well for her, but like
in its own thing, like I thought it was so funny,
so funny.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know what I think it is? And I think
this is where sometimes and I don't think this is
anything on the directors. I think this is how the
episodes are written sometimes, like when LEDI got stuck with
a bunch of those types of episodes where it's like
putting a hat on a hat on a hat, where
when the episode is written crazily like Part one, Yes,
(09:53):
and then you do visual things that are that lean
into it, I don't think it necessarily works as well
well when you just sort of keep it visually simple
and then let the dialogue be crazy and let you
have your saw elevator with the bathroom moment, because you know,
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last week it was that you had the hypnotizing like
circle thing in the background, and yeah, yeah there was,
and there was a lot of time and the actual
hurt Locker. Because we didn't have to spend much time
in those scenarios, there was less hypnotizing this episode. I
think that just helped.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Let's go through some of these like story plotlines.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We discovered last week with the hurt Locker that Sue's
ultimate goal. Now it sort of seems like taking down
the new new directions is like a hobby, but her
real focus is getting Curt and blaming back together for
whatever reason, we're going with it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I'm for it. I'm into it because I want them
back together too, so let's just go with there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And also giving Jane so much fun stuff to do
as a viewer. It's just what I want. And hers
showing up as a waiter herd State with Walter and
just insults him. Then he goes, well, how old are you?
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Jesuys thirty four?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Also the fact that she's she blames Becky. It's all
really really ridiculous. So Sue's going to create this idea
this she's going to kidnap them, which is like not.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So good, But we're gonna just but blow past.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And it's an elevator. It's an elevator that they very
willingly get into.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Can I I have to I have to point out
I love I love and shows when characters blindly accept
stupid situations. Okay sometimes yeah yeah yeah yeah, the way
Chris and and Darren we're so sort of it's also
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how they played it is what I love when they
see the elevator, like, oh where did this come from?
And they're just like no, It's funny how they do
the same for already was here, I bet you. Oh,
I'm sure all of it was. But I love that.
I love when characters are just sort of like to
do blindly accepting the situation and blindly walking into an
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elevator that has a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
This is I okay, the elevator really made me happy.
This whole episode maybe happy, but this elevator, like it
was a highlight.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I just.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Detrap two characters. It's almost like I like these. It's
like those episodes like en Seinfeld where they get lost
in the parking lot and they can't or like when
they're at the Chinese restaurant waiting for the reservation. There's
something about that. It's so satisfying because it's so simple,
yet it's like you can you're in it for the
(13:26):
whole episode. I would have watched a whole episode of
the two of them starking out the same and that's
all you want because you love those characters. It's written
so hilariously, and then you're also getting your Jane Lynch
of it all, even if she's not in the scene.
I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
The whole setup is such a Sue setup that it's
layered in that way where she's like woven throughout the
entire thing.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yes, I mean and more so like Jigsaw, Sue centers
through a tiny hole in the elevator on a bike,
and the way that they've operated her, she like knocks
into the door, and like the physical comedy of Jigsaw
Fu and the whole thing of like Them. It's showing
up to the two of them and them just like
(14:12):
being weirded out by but like not so weirded out
by it, you know, like it's so crazy and yet
they're like h And.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's also so cute that little montage of them like
sleeping and then looking at each other and then eating,
having a little picnic.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Like com out in there, and like it just loved, loved.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, you know, really good. I think it's a testament
to everyone involved in front of the camera and behind
the camera to make something like that work, just like
in Seinfeld. It's like a masterclass and making something so
simple be that effective.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
We had Lena on the show that's right this episode,
and she told.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Us and she was right, and she has that jigsaus.
I get it now, I get it. I don't think
i'd ever seen this episode before, Like I think I've
seen snippets of other episodes or like clips or things,
but like, I don't think I saw any of this
episode ever, and it really delivered.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I absolutely have not seen this episode. I know I've
seen stills of Jigsaus.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Sasu on that bike too is I know I've said
this already, but like, the bike is so comical and
it's so tiny, and it really just made me. It
made me kiggle like a lot. So I could talk
about this all day.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I wonder who has that now.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I wish I could have Jigsaus do on the bike.
That's all I want now.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Somebody has to have it, right.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So the whole idea is that they have to kiss
or they'll be trapped in there forever. And it overlaps
with the song that New Direction is in New Directions
performance during the invitation all which we will now merge
into that. But that kiss also, I was like, oh, sweet,
(16:09):
sweet lady, lady, I just.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I wasn't going to say anything, just give me the
kiss all day long. I love them, I want them
back together. I'm rooting for them. I know Spoilerer like
we get a wedding, but like, just give it all
to me, just give it all.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
This is the first time call me a hater, and
I do love them together, but this is the first
time that I'm fully on board with him getting married.
Now I'm like, let's see.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
It, let's get this now.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I also think that was their best.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Kiss, agreed, And just like the kiss, I know, I
was like, whoa, this is getting steamy. But like the montage,
the whole thing, like the music, the client, like the
it all just it was like that was the episode.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And then they're they're running through the hallway and they're
all disheveled and their shirts.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Are cute, so cute. Yeah, obviously they're rushing because like
they missed everything. So I get it.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
But we need once a cheater, always a cheater.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, what's he gonna do? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Oh, we know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I know, I know. Okay, So now Rachel uh has
has two days, very much in mister Shoe fashion, has
two days to get the glee club together, build a
glee club, get a set list, and go. And Kurt
had suggested getting Kitty in there, so well, Kurt's stuck
(17:45):
in an elevator. Rachel is going to try and recruit
recruit Kitty. This whole thing I didn't know happened. I
was like, oh that is in.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Had no idea, like, oh, and it's great, Like she
gets a nice emotional scene filled with hilarity.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
She's a little softer than when she was originally brought
into the glee club.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It's yep, they left her. She you know, the only
reason she's there. So she's feeling a little vulnerable. Rachel
convinces her that, you know, she loves to sing and dance,
and so it was really nice scene with the two
of them.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And I also love that she calls Rachel out just
like you said, yeah that it's you know, very mister
shoe of you, and I can't tell if it's sweet
or not.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah. Literally, And then even better, so like they cheat,
they cheat, they go in and they get the the
past coode. Well, Katy has the past codes to sue emotional,
(18:56):
emotionally vulnerable songs, a locked password and coded file that
they get. I love that and the song choices for
this for the writers were a plus plus. I love
these songs. By the way, I thought everybody sounded excellent
(19:19):
and I really enjoyed them. What I enjoyed even more
was like watching Sue like her journey from like hearing
them and like being angry about it, like how did
you get these to them? Like being completely moved and
like singing along and Sam singing along in the audience
and the Glee Club like came through. And I really
(19:39):
appreciated new directions, the new new directions, hearing everybody sing
everybody like obviously we loved his voice, like give it
to us all day. But then we got Billy and
we got Laura and Samantha, and it just really it
was very quintessential New Directions and I was like, here
for it. I was like, you sit on those stools.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And I also thought it was quintessential Glee in the
way that it wove in the silliness during these like
really nice musical numbers. Yes where I also just like
I love characters accepting a dumb thing like an elevator.
I love a break in and a password moment, and
love the scene with Kitty in the stall with Becky
(20:24):
and the off brand Mexican twinkies bribing her. I thought
that was so good. And then you have all these
sort of montages like during you know, you have the
curtain Blaine montage happening, and then you have Sue coming
in and being funny just like you said, but yeah,
(20:47):
it didn't take away from the performance at all. And
little things. I love also seeing like Becca's growth. I mean,
she was good from the first episode she was in, yeah,
even though we found out she had never been on
a set before. Right, But like the little looks she's
throwing between Rachel and Sue. Sue, We're just so satisfying
(21:11):
because you don't have to say anything, you just see.
There's so much of that in this episode where there
there's looks between Rachel and Sam because there's that whole
thing going on, yes, and then Rachel and Sue and
all while this music is going on. And then Sue,
you know, when they announce it one and it's new directions,
(21:35):
sorry to bury the lead. They She's like, I don't know,
all they did was sit on stools. She's constantly making
fun of the actually new directions.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yes, yes, yes, excellent all around. Like you said, like
just everybody provoted, everybody in this episode.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like I also have another thing I want to say
kudos too. I hate when, for example, this is there's
a world in which this hypnosis storyline plays out in
a way Rachel and Shoe have that moment, you know,
where Rachel is saying, you know, you're right, I'm sorry,
(22:18):
and she's like, well, I don't really forgive you for
the things you did, like getting Sam to steal my mail,
and she's like huh and they said sue and that's it, right,
But there's a world in which they're like, oh, we
have to get revenge or we have to plot to
get we have to do some sort of other plot
to make her admit that it was her and Baba,
(22:41):
I hate that, yes, and obviously why it didn't happen.
And I'm not a writer, but you know when shows
do that needlessly, create some drama like that, and it's
just as a waste of time because you know how
it's going to end up anyway. And so we did that.
We just like, you know, trim the fat. Let's just
say and you move on.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And we know.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I was so thankful for that. It's like, thank you,
gleet love what's happening here, like really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Add it to the list of things that she has done,
because she's been wildly inappropriate this whole episode.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But two episodes in a row were like, ladies should
be in prison.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I mean, isn't stealing nail like a federal Well.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, and she's getting somebody else to.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Do it, right. It's bad.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's bad. But the flip side of this is that
Rachel happens to snap when Sam is under some sort
of trance, saying he like want trying to get Rachel
to use the terrible size, which is also a really
lovely moment. Yes, yes, and he's like, I don't know
what's been going on with me. There's just gaps of
time that are missing, and she just is like, Okay,
(23:58):
you can make it up for me if you find
seven people. Also, are we just going to forget that
we're supposed to have twelve people for this invitational?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, they just changed it for the purpose that they
have only of seven cast members. Yeah, okay, you know
it's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, that's fine with it. And I was like, why
did we bring it up in the first place? Also,
we skipped over this, and I thought this was a
really funny and weird thing. What Sue stating the rules
after vocal adrenaline has already presented, which was also it
seems like oh, we should have thought of that before
(24:34):
we wrote the first episode, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
We just let's just put it in because.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And I think it's so good. I think it's brilliant.
I don't care what the motivation of it was, but
it is so funny. All these little things just work perfectly.
Where in the last episode they do all these weird things,
you're like, I don't know about that one, or I
don't know about that one. I know this, love it all.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I love it. Also Jake Sase's boy, so's ridiculous. Okay,
we skipped over. Also the Dalton Warblers and their performances.
So obviously Blaine is not he's missing, he's stuck in
the elevator, and the Warblers are going to perform anyway.
(25:18):
They do a really great job. Did you feel like now,
obviously for the purpose that she makes the joke about
new directions just sitting on stools, and it's her songs
and it's ballad and heavy, and they're not doing huge
dance numbers like Vocal Adrenaline and you know, all the tricks.
Like the Warblers also felt a little different than normal,
(25:38):
like they didn't feel like Dalhold Academy, like steps, step touch,
you know, snaps. It felt like more vocal adrenaline driven
because probably just for the juxtaposition of those two being
like the big showmen and then us kind of doing
the heart thing in the New Directions. But it didn't
(26:01):
feel like them at all. I was like, where did
these Warblers come from? Is this like a new generation
of Warblers where they're tumbling and doing literally like break dancing.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Fully, I fully agree with you, and I think it.
I think your instinct is completely right on why they
were sort of vocal adrenaline doubt because it had to
be that death juxtaposition against the sort of boring new directions.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I will say it was very good.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It was so good. Also, there's a whole new crop
of dancers in there, and one of our friends JP
was in there. I took a video and sent it
to him. He's like, oh, that was a good one,
and I was like, yeah, yeah, I'd never seen it before.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It was really fun.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah exactly. I mean they are dancing.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Dancing. That's the thing. The Warblers don't dance dance, they move,
they step touch it. It's like an intentional well that's
what we call ours too. But you know, new directions,
but anyway that I just had.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
To still it was a little murky. It was like
this could just be vocal adrenaline and Blazers.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Agreed, which they may have pulled some.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I'm sure they did. Okay, I know this is not
correct to say, but I feel like if any of
us can say it, I can say it. I like
(27:40):
all the gauge you did.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
They were quiet after There were a lot, not all
of them, right, but there were.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Some of them where I was like, Sue has lost
their mind. But the way she's just openly saying.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Like just throw in and look, there's gay.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
There's a lot of gay writers in that writer's room,
so they're writing.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
These jokes, right, and so it's like one Warbler's credit
is really gay.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Warbler exactly, and.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Then there's another one, Kevin other really gay Warbler.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I love those things. We haven't talked about that in
a long time, where Ian would write or the writers
would write those things into the script and stage directions
or character names that are just that is the real
tone of the show, and so I like it. I
know it's a little offensive, but it's pretty harmless in
this in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And so I oh we also can we talk about
Michael Hedgecock? Oh my god, excuse me?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So remember and also what was was he spying for
Sue or something? It seemed very I know.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well he's not. They lost all their funding and so
what is he doing there? I don't it feels crazy.
I don't know what it is. But anytime we can
get Hitchcock on stream, yeah, I want to see it,
give it to us so to I know we're going
all over the place, but I know, whatever to wrap
(29:21):
up this Sam and Rachel storyline. You know, he's doing
his like sort of cord thing in the audience at
the end, and then they have this look from Rachel,
I say, and she like smiles and looks, you know,
smirks and looks down and it's like considering it. And
(29:44):
it feels like groundwork is being laid. Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Now for the million of the time, I have no
idea what happens, but that's but that's what we're clearly
being fed.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, I missed that last one.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
But okay, there's so many good Sue lines.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I just I.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Like, I God, it's good.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
So Sam is brought in by Kurt for help and
he's gonna go and get Spencer, and Spencer he's going
to join the glee club. Spoil out of there. He's
coming in. He comes in at the very end after
they've won correct in the in the choir room, kidd,
(30:34):
he's in obviously now we've got Spencer in. It was
really sweet that scene.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
It was and it was nice to also see him
just sort of drop his guard for a second.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, I really like this whole Spencer. I like Spencer
in general. If I love this character, I like this
for the show. I think it really I don't know,
I think it moves it in in the right direction.
And I also really appreciated Seam referencing Finn again, Like
(31:10):
I yeah, I really, I just it was sentimental in
a way, and it was like in a really weird episode,
and I was like, just bring it back, bring it
back to the ground a little bit, where like getting
closer to the ground, you know, we're hovering.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Correct And that whole monologue that Spencer gave was also
very real where it was really funny and like also
a nice take in the previous episodes where he's just
like sort of the post post post modern gay right,
(31:46):
but it's a very real thing in gay communities all
around the world, where you still have that part of you.
It's like, even though it's coming off like he's all
confident and strong and he's choosing to be this way,
that's who he is underneath it. Now we've discovered why
he's doing it, and it isn't necessarily the most natural
(32:07):
part of him, right, and so he is putting on
this facade to fit in. And it's also nice that
it is Sam. Sam's a character that is doing this, yes,
which is pretty sweet.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, And it puts Sam in like the leadership role
that we talked about in like when we were at nationals. Yeah,
our last yeah yeah, yeah, he'll get turned into the
same thing for me.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You know. It's funny. But as we're watching this, I'm like,
we're going to start remembering all these things now because
we're watching it, I fear it's all just disappearing as quickly.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
As a game ohing as fast as it came. Yeah,
but I appreciate the callback to some of these things
is because in Glee, it's so it's so quick to
move on from the thing that we once did. Kind
of maybe like our memory. Maybe that's why it's because
it's so fleeting and fast.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Fault.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, it's everybody else's fault. They've bet for our own
memories and we take zero accountability for that. So but
I appreciate the watching these kids or these adults who
were you know, once former students or our former students
like turn into the leaders of the group. So I'm
(33:35):
very happy there.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
So after the invitational, when New Directions wins and Vocal
Journaline does not, the lead vocalist of Vocal Adrenaline, Clint
threatens mister Shoe and it's sort of this moment of
is this guy going to get mister Shoe fired? Then
(33:57):
if mister Shoes out of a job, is coming back
to McKinley, But that spot's already been filled.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So I don't know where that's leading, and maybe you
know it's.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Because clearly the fun part of not knowing, so is
he coming back?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Is he coming back? And maybe they need him to
come back so Rachel can like get her mojo back
and go off and do something else. But they're clearly
setting this up to motivate show to be leave.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah, I am, I am curious because I do remember
for two thousand and nine. It's the final episode, right,
He's there, right, And I'm like, but didn't you get there?
And we were so deep out of it at that
point that, like, I don't think that I even asked
that question. No, we were just saying we were reading this, senior,
(34:50):
and it was the final episode of the series, to
be fair, so like you know what I mean, we
were just going back to two thousand and nine and
we were like deep in that whole thing. But I
I did think about that. I was like, oh, mister,
she was there.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
You know, I don't even think I have I didn't
even think that. I don't think I knew that he wasn't.
That's how out I'm in any of these episodes. So
I don't think I even realized that he was never there.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
M Yeah, okay, Well he does do vocal adrenaline for
longer than one episode, which I appreciate too, Like I
appreciate the time and the breath that we have in
these episodes like New York, where things can play out
in a longer, kind of drawn out way where it
actually gets a proper arc. So I'm looking I like this.
(35:42):
I appreciate that I'm not you know, we complain about
some of the things that move too fast. So here
we are, we're living in it.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I like it all. And it's like, I know this
is a part one and part two episode or arc
for everyone, including like Sam's storyline and Will's storyline, like
everyone is split up over these two episodes, but it
is refreshing and it is nice, and I yes, I'm
loving the new kids.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Loving the new kids, loving the whole like leadership, like
we've got Sam a Ppe, and we've got Rachel and
Kerr and we've got Jarrin and we were like I.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Really like, oh my god, wow.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Well I didn't take pe or gym.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I have not heard it called pe in so long.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Is that like gan equated? Is it not called that anymore?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
But I just I don't even think about that. He's
just like the football assistant right assistant coach of football.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Oh oh oh, I thought he was.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Like he probably is, but that would have been a
fun class. We only saw it in dodgeball. We should
have gotten more pe.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Well, in my high school, we took dance. That's wild,
Martha Graham. What we did, Martha, We did jazz, we
did Fosthy did all okay, oh my god. Yeah, my
high school was so small.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
We didn't even have, oh my god, any extracurriculars like that.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, okay, that's sad.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Oh no, I loved it. I wasn't a boy band.
I was doing that stuff after school. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Of course you were like watching the TV, like learning
the in sync videos like of course. Yeah, okay, let's
grade these performances because that is the end of the
hurt Locker series.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
And who knew who knew that we would we were
going to feel.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I feel joy from that episode. I think about Jake
Sasu and I laugh. Okay, my Sharona love ay ay, Yeah,
these are great and you spin me around even better. Yeah. Hey,
it must have been love given an A.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, well I'll give.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
This okay minus then Father Figure a A and then
all out of Love A plus.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I need to go down to that figure.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I was just gonna say, I gotta go listen to
the the the extended version of Father Figure, because when
he opened his mouth, I said.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Okay, yes, and they put that on the book and
I was like, oh boy, I need this episode to
be over so I can go listen to this. It's
so good. Okay, what a gift.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Let's do some tarty takes, cringe moments, Okay, I have
I have one that's not sueer related, but all of
suit but I have won this not Sue related.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
So Rachel refers to the Season four newbies as these terrible,
terrible things that I don't even want to repeat. And
my jaw was on the ground. I said, oh my god,
oh my.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
God, my mom catching strays.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Left and right. I can't, I said, oh, oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
It was very out of character. This really set up
of the joke was funny. Is that you know she's
so like narcissistic she didn't learn any of their names.
That's hilarious. Yeah, but then it gets dark real quick. Yes,
and then Sue's jokes about Karowski were also in line
with that too.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Weird.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, uh, best dance move, I mean the Warblers you're
doing flips and splits and things. There was a move
where they like get on the risers from the sides
and do like a flip into a sit with a
straight leg and a leg bent, and it was so
clean and I was like, WHOA.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I said, they brought in some new Warblers today.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yes, I also like more of the Warblers being characters,
like more dialogue from different warblers and things. Yeah, I'm
enjoying that.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
We've had like a lot of warblers, so like it's
time best song.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Father Figure. Yes, I know we said.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
All out of love we love but father Figure. Yeah,
that's performances by prop Jake saw So.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Also the elevator sign New Elevator, so funny, really good.
One of the ones that I loved, and it was
more about the delivery than the line itself. Was when
they're watching the video and Becky says, this is like
a dream sequence. How could you film that? And says okay,
Becky shut up, rowing it's honny.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
No Jenna, Jenna. That is one of my favorite moments
in Glee. Ever. I said, Jerry, this looks like a
dream sequence. How did you.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
The whole thing is so good? God? Why did I
don't know it did though it did. It's the two
of them.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Like golly lean into it like on the rooftop singing,
come what may get out of here? Really dream sequence?
So Lauren Potter, oh my gosh, come on, give her
an inch?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yeah, like last episode, you know, she had this huge storyline,
like so much good physical comedy, and then she's also
dramatic and and this she's just has like two lines
is just killing.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
That's the line. No, really in the century.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Excellent, excellent, Okay, great, I'm glad that were a line
there performs MVP.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Honestly, Jane and Lauren. I think it's just Jane again
for me. Okay, it would be an honorable mention for
Christ and Darren Christ and Darren too.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Yeah, but Jane really good?
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Oh god, Okay, so shit. We found on TikTok making
Faye and Brandon's splinner yeah and pronouncing that correctly. Are
doing press for their new movie, Drop and Brandon. They're
asked what their first professional acting job was, and he
(42:21):
admits that his first one was an extra on Glee
and she guessed it correctly, and it was in Baby
One More Time when he is hanging out with Corey
and fist bumps him in that basketball scene a Baby
one More Time, And that brings me so much joy.
(42:41):
That's amazing, isn't it incredible?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I also love that that's like people's first acting jobs
who are now like making it. I'm like that really
ages us.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Oh god fully, wow. I love that also, yeah, that's
how long ago Glee was.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Yes, exactly, go Glee honored. All right, Well that is
the our Locker Part two. Thanks for joining us for
on that journey. The next episode is we're almost halfway
through the end of the series. Don't talk, what will
we don't Well, we will recap what the world needs now,
(43:18):
which is next. And there's lots of music and also
one of my some of my favorite comedians in our
show that we got to meet and hang out with
of all time, So Jennifer Coolidge and right, duh.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Duh, you're right.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Jennifer Coolidge was like my idle like comedic idol Briant
like I was obsessed with her and I felt I
was very starstruck when she came on.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
So did you watch all the Christopher guest movies like
I did growing up that Jane Lynch and Jennifer coolid
Dread Yes, and Hitchcock Yes. Yeah. So this is was
a It.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Was everything I could have hoped for and more To
come back and hear that they were all these an
amazing guest stars. I was like, oh man, I am.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I have some good Coolidge stories from filming those episodes
as well.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Well I can too. So funny and oh my god, okay, yeah,
all right, we'll get there.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Thanks for doing and that's what you really missed. Thanks
for listening, and follow us on Instagram at and that's
what you really miss pod. Make sure to write us
a review and leave us five stars. See you next time.
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