April 17, 2023 • 41 mins
When Glee started, they didn't know if it would last. So when the season finale became the highest rated ever at the time, they were nominated for 19 Emmys and their album hit #1 on the Billboard chart…emotions ran high. And as Kevin and Jenna recap the episode, emotions are still running high. But are they for the same reasons?
Find out what they were going through at the time, some of their most favorite memories and what Kevin and Jenna wish they had done…that they will never get a chance to do. Grab your headphones and a box of tissues. It’s go time!
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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):
What podcast is this? That's what you really missed with
Jenna and Kevin. That was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Jenna. You're proud of yourself, aren't you? On that one?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
No? Off the cuffs? Wow, she still got it, still
got a kid's Hello, and welcome to the show today.
We are doing Journey Regional.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We did the kids. Yay, we made it. We seasoned
one finale of Glee. Who would have thought? We sure
didn't when we got cast on the show. You've heard
from Ryan three times now and from Ian and a
bunch of cast members that none of us really knew
(00:59):
if we were going to make it this far, and
most of us didn't think we would. But there we are,
twenty two episodes.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And a buttload more to.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Go, and a lot of songs and a tour. And
this originally aired on June eighth, twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Wow. How crazy? Wow?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Okay, yeah, that was late. Normally seasons ends the beginning
of May sort of thing. But I think because we
did thirteen at a weird time, then all that press
stuff happened. Had we had a big break in between
the first thirteen. Yeah, we had to catch up. But
here we are on this week in Glee her story.
(01:42):
We were in Emmy magazine. Do you remember doing this
photo shoot briefly? I remember it very well and then
a month Yeah, I don't know why. I remember it
was downtown and this like studio loft thing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, all of us.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I kept the vans from this photo shoot for years
that I wore.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now did we shoot because I don't remember to shoot
that well. I remember it being chaos because there were
so many of us and they stacked us. Did we
actually take those photos together or did they superimpose us
in there's a group photo of girls and the group
photo of the guys.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't remember. I sort of think it was all individual.
I yeah, they were just trying to make it work
because you know, a month later we were nominated for
nineteen Emmys. No big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Do you remember that When we got to the stages,
there was a huge banner on our main stage that
said congratulations on nineteen. It felt very obnoxious, like I
felt embarrassed, but it was also very cool. But they
did that every time every time. That's not one for
Bagel Awards. We got a banner. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Also on this day, Glee the Music Journey to Regionals
was the album was released, and it featured six tracks
from episode twenty two But when We're going to recap,
including Don't Stop Believing the regional's version with all of Us,
and the EP debuted at number one on both the
(03:20):
US Billboard two hundred and Soundtracks chart, selling one hundred
and fifty four thousand copies of.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
What I Just Got goosebumps. I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The album became the cast third number one album on
the bill What.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's crazy that an EP just from one episode was
number one and sold one hundred and fifty four thousand copies.
That's diabolical, you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I was thinking about it. I was like, how did
we get to number one so quickly? All the time,
like it was we really were here. Huge. It was
a really huge shot. And sometimes people say it and
like it hits like a brick Jenna's brick wall, but
like this, like I'm like, oh, it was really big, yeah,
(04:12):
really popular.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We were bamboozled by it. We still are. And this
was the most viewed episode of any new seasons of
all the season finales of any new shows, the season finales.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I had almost eleven million viewers, and so we
kept growing every single week, and you'll see in season
two it just keeps growing even more.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Now. I this episode, I was very weepy. I remember
the whole time, and then I was weep be watching
it back.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I I was a little weepy watching it back as well,
because there's a couple scenes that feel a little real,
and this is I think goes to Ian's point about
where they sometimes commentate on what's actually happening. And there
is a speech Will gives to the kids about sort
(05:14):
of the journey we've had and how much Glee Club
means to everyone, and years from now you won't remember
what songs you did, you won't remember each other's names,
and it just made me reflect upon our group and
how so far we've stood the test of that time
thus far. But it is one of those things when
you and I talk about this every week, we're like,
(05:34):
do what songs did we do? And things do become
a little blurry. And I was emotional watching Shoe give
us that speech because I don't think we were tired.
It was twenty two episodes. We didn't really know what
was going on, and you can't know how applicable that's
going to be to our futures, and it totally was.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's right. What were we yearing up to do after
this episode?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well after it aired, we had already done tour okay, right,
tour was wrapping up. So it was our first official
hiatus because we started shooting the beginning of July, right,
so we only had a couple a couple of weeks
of doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, I'm looking through my photos right now.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, what do you see?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I see photos of only you and me?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Sounds about right. Let me let me scroll back.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
We went to Monaco, oh yeah, oh my god. We
went to the TV and Film Festival in Monaco, which
was a wild, wild trip of a vacation. Then we
went to London to do press Fergalle. Then we took
a day trip to Paris, where you were very hungover
and he slept on the tour bus. Then we went
(06:49):
back and then I went back to New York and
went home for a while, and I went to Brazil,
that's right. And then we had all the Emmy Press
that we did when we got back, we did that
event at the Music Box. We'll get into all of that, right,
and then we went to the Emmys.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And we started we started shooting I said July beginning
of July, but we actually started shooting the season beginning
of August, so I think they delayed our start a
little bit to give us that time and Jenna. This
episode aired on June eighth, twenty ten. Those photos of us,
of the paparazzi photos of us on the beach of
(07:27):
Monica were taken on this very day and came out
June tenth, So June eighth was the day Jenna and
I became a famous celebrity couple.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
The most famous will ever be same this.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
On this day in twenty ten, we peaked, but we
did it together.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
As weekly we we did it. We made ourselves, tagged
ourselves as a couple. We were moving in together. The
story worked out, I really did. Yeah, so hilarious. It's
also where I went to Brazil during this hiatus. I
passed out, Remember, I got burdigo. We went to Comic Con,
(08:10):
we found out we were going to be only juniors,
and we had another year in school. It was pretty
a wild, wild journey.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Speaking of Journey, Yeah, speaking.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Of Journey, let's let's get into this episode. The number
one song was still on MG featuring When I Am
By a Sure, and the number one movie was still
Shrek Forever After Ever After.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Which, by the way, did you hear that their negotiations
to make Shrek five and the original cast is.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
In I've got to catch up on.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, Okay, all right, So in this episode we have
it was directed by Brad Faulchuck written well, it says
by Brad Peltchick. But as we know, all three of them.
Josh Grobin is back, Graf is back, a Dina is back,
and we just have we have everyone Live Newton, John
Grace us with our presence one more time, and we
(09:05):
have some greatest hits, I mean so much so A
debut at number one.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Until four one hundred and fifty thousand albums sold.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What take us through?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The song Shenna Faithfully anyway you want it, Love and
Touch and squeeze and don't stop Believing all by Journey,
performed by the Nude Erections. H Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
one of my favorite gle numbers ever Shooster with Love
by Lulu over the Rainbow, uh performed by mister Shu
(09:40):
and Uh Noah Parkerman. What's going on in this?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Give me an overview? Overview, Kevin?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Okay, So basically what happens is it's Regional's time and Sue,
of course, is up to no good. She gets herself
on the judging panel and new directions and will completely
spiral and freak out because they know if Sue's one
of the judges, there's no way new directions are going
(10:09):
to either place nor win, which is what they have
to do for Figgins to allow them to keep the
Glee Club happening and funded. So basically, it's what can
we do and what does Glee Club mean to us?
Even if we can't win. That's what's happening, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And there's a fun fact here. I know you said
that this was the highest finale rating for a niche
a series finale watched on TV at the time. In
two thousand nine, ten Journey to Regionals was watched by
ten point nine two million American viewers. That's right, it's
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What's going on? Talk to me.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, So Sue reveals she's a judge at regionals because
she's a celebrity, and it's a celebrity panel of judge
is obviously a glee clubs like, wan't, wan't, there's no
way we can win. So mister Shue has a party too.
He has all the kids over at his house, which
seems suspicious to decide the set list, but the kids
(11:15):
are all crying and upset. Do you remember shooting this.
I remember shooting this.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Very well, so so clearly in my mind, so clearly.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I did not realize this was season one.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I was just so I remember this a season one.
I remember being so happy that we got to sit
on mister Shoe's couch all night. I also remember having
to cry again. It's not easy for me to cry.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So like I told us, you warned us, you said,
once you reveal you can do something, they're gonna have
you do it over and over again. And here we go.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
There it is, and I just remember having to like
stay in it the whole time. And it was a
late night. It was like the last scene of the day.
But I remember I remember Brad coming in. I don't
remember what he said, to us, but I do remember
(12:10):
him kind of I think, mirroring what was going on,
like the we side with the writer's mirroring what was
going on. I feel like there was something emotional going
on in this group. Do you remember shooting this.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I do. We were telling ghost stories, oh, because I
think if I remember correctly, this was a Friday night,
which means this was really really late. There was nobody
else on Paramount shooting at this hour. It was probably
midnight or one am. Paramount Studios shares a wall with
a graveyard, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and so there are
(12:43):
all these stories about those backstages being haunted. Nia was
telling a story about when she worked on the lot
as a child with Red Fox and saw him pass
away on that set, and was telling that story, and
then we were looking up on our phone other stories
about the ghosts and people's experiences, and so nobody was around.
(13:08):
The set was really really dark. They had this like
fake rain going on outside, so it felt so spooky,
and we were freaking ourselves out so badly, and that's
all I could think about when we were well, when
I was watching the scene, everyone's like crying and upset
and I do remember Brad coming in and I he
was always really good at this, at relating it to
real life and having us imagine like if this was
(13:30):
the last time we ever got to do this, like that,
trying to get us in that moment of look how
far we've come, the friends we've made, all that we've achieved,
and now it's coming to an.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
End, and meanwhile we're spooking each other.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, ghost stories professional.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, that, thank you for that reminded us.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
D Cho then goes to Emma and asks for advice,
and she reminds him of like, hey, this is why
you love Glee. Also, by the way, I'm dating someone.
He's a dentist named Carl, but we haven't slept together.
(14:10):
Just FYI. Also, I don't remember Carl being mentioned this early.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I don't know why, but I do remember Carl being
mentioned this early because I remember in my mind stay
most joining around the time cor joined. Yes, that's like
my marker of like you who is joining or the
time the time stamp. And then mister Shoe is driving
in his beat up blue car. Yea pulls over the
(14:37):
side of the road, has a very emotional car journey.
If you will and he don't stop. Comes on the radio,
he pulls over bursts into tears, and is magically inspired
for his next trick to do a journey medley for Brilliant.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know, he had a great idea. He had a
great idea.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He did have a great idea. I honestly do think
it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I think it's a great idea. He smashed it that
we'll get to it. So then it's regionals and they
ian on the mike, introducing all the judges to Sylvester,
Josh Grobe and leaving Newton John and local news reporter
icon Er. I mean, he's just cold.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So oural intensity performs love that Name, and they do
a mashup of living Newton John and Josh Grobe and
new directions. Of course, Spirals freaks out, Shoe walks in,
is like, hey mm hmm, we're not doing this now.
Do you remember also filming this scene, because I feel
like Brad had he had sectionals where we had that
(15:53):
other huge backstage green room scene and yes, of course,
and this one I remember we were all scared of
because the other one took so long and this one
was not that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We were scared that this was going to take that long.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And like he had blocked it in a way, I
think if I remember correctly, before we had even gotten there, Yeah,
to be more efficient than the time before we were
learning no Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And that was one that the green room where we
shot that we was on Paramount and it was actually
some of the Ryan Murphy TV offices.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
That's right. We used a lot of Paramount for this
because the hospital that comes up later on YEP is
also just random halls at Paramount, but.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
That's where the writers hung out and their assistants and
Ryan and Brad and Ian and all them. They had
these like lofts basically, and these were the first version
of the lofts that they had gotten and where their
offices were, so they used that and I do remember
it being much more efficient and much faster, and I
was because there's just so much to do in this episode.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
So this is where we really get into it, so
it's time for new directions to perform. And the scene
at the start of it before we start going between
Finn and Rachel and he walks over to her and
says I love you really quickly. I was like this
whole episode, I was just floored by Corey I know.
(17:23):
I also, I have to say, so I saw that
movie air the New Matt Damon Ben Apple.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I did. I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I saw it and I can't fight this feeling comes
on at some did you cry?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It got me good. And then I went home and
watched this and I was like, Okay, I'm having a
full Corey in my emotions day. Oh yeah, but he's
so good and I know it, but like what pisses
me off is like he was so such a good
actor and I don't think we like necessarily told him
(18:02):
that enough or yeah, yeah, and like the things that
we miss out on getting to see him do right
because he's so good anyway, So the little thing I
love you right before and they do Faithfully, which is
such a good version of the song.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh they sound excellent.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Faithfully is incredible.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I love doing this on tour too. I'd like to
listen to this on tour. Honestly, I'm not sick of
the song. I'll listen to the Journey version. I'll listen
to our version. I think it's incredible. Yeah, I agree,
And then we do love and touch and squeeze in
anyway you want it, which uh. When we were rehearsing
(18:42):
for this, this was the number where we did the Carlton, right.
I don't know if you caught that. You guys, we
do the Carlton. I yelled Jenna's arms, No, you did it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I did. When I was watching the girls and their bumpets.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The bumpets were a whole other thing. The costumes were
very itchy because they were the gold, like that gold
itchy material. We were in them for so long and
they smelled so bad. And those bumpets were a choice,
a choice if you're.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Too young to remember, the bumpet. The bumpet was the
thing you'd put in your hair and to give it
that volume, that height, and.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Then hide it underneath more of your hair. And so
I don't know what they were thinking putting us. We
didn't really have a lot of say yet, none of
the other competition we would. Will we ever look like?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, you'll see between this episode and season two episode one,
glow Up, Glow Up, everyone just looks a little different.
Skirts are a little shorter, makeups, a little heavier.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Hair is a lot longer.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah. This was also when I was on I was
sick per usual and was on some medication that I
had an allergic reaction to, and my entire body and
face broke out in hives and people were like, you
look like you have horns growing out of your forehead.
It was so bad, and Kelly had to take me
(20:17):
to the er. He had to take me to Cedar Sinai,
which was right up the block from where we were shooting.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Were we shooting this number during that? Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And we had a full audience full of people. You
saw like two levels of people. And yeah, just in
the middle of the day, they had somehow they got
me right. I was still in costume. They took me
right in, they gave me all the stuff and we
were at that theater for two days shooting, and even
the next day I kept breaking out in hives. So
(20:48):
I was on all this medicine. I remember when we
came back to shoot towards the end of the day,
I was on so much benadryl. But I had to
stay awake and people were laughing at me because I
was acting very crazy, drunk crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, that was at the Saban Theater. I'm real shore right,
that's where when we shot that.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I would also like to point out if you there's
a shot during Faithfully when it's on Leah. If you pause,
it's the first shot I think of her in profile
as Finn looks at her. You can see the dummies
in the audience, and if you keep pausing it, you
see the dummies in every shot of that audience. So
(21:27):
it's usually on the edges. So if you look like
two to three people in or out of the edge
of the aisle, you'll see all of these dummies.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I have to take a screen shot.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And I also saw Aaron Krueger and I saw Kelly
from Makeup there in the end of the first row,
like our makeup department. So I also don't know if
we were short on people for the audience, but we
had some of the crew in there as well.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Wow wow wow, I remember laughing at doing don't stop
with the key change.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Also, we did not record it like that. No, I
haven't confirmed this, but when we get Adam anders On here,
maybe we'll ask him, because I think they did that
after the fact, which is why we all sound a
little album monkey.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yes, that's right. I think they played it and we
were like, what is that?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
They needed the drama, the excitement.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No, it had to be different than the original don't
stop before, but we did not record it that way.
And then after the performance, which I mean it was
it was really fun to shoot, but I also remember
it being like, it's just those are those two days
were like laborious, They're a lot, they're long, they are hard,
Like you just have to like show up when they
(22:42):
ask you to show up, do your thing, perform a
thousand times, go to rehearsal at night. After we get
out of hair and makeup, we go on the stage,
rehearse again for the next day, go home, sleep, wake up,
come back and do it again. And they're like please.
I remember every actor like Brad Beeker did a lot
of these competition episodes in later seasons, and he would
(23:05):
just be like, just bear with me. We got this.
Just we're in this together and we're just gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
So because it can feel like you're not doing anything
because it takes so long, so you feel like like
what are we actually accomplishing, And so you just had
to like trust the process that they know what they're
doing and they're shooting, you know, bit by.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Bit, and your feeds hurt so bad. You guys were
the meals all day, Well, shees are terrible. Okay. So
then then we come off of performing. We're very happy
with that. We think we have a chance at winning.
And Quinn's mom shows up, Yeah, and she says that
(23:43):
she left her father and she wants her to come home.
And Quinn, what I thought she was going to respond
with was like where were you, you know, to like
stand up for me, but her water bricks and she's
gonna have a baby.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And then we have one of the most insane that's
brilliant performances ever.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It's very Ryan Murphy. It's a very Ryan Murphey montage.
It's brilliant. I watched that and I was like, draw
to the ground. Imagine watching that in your living room
for the first time, not knowing what's coming, and you're
watching that, like the vocal adrenaline in that in the
circle with John Groff in the middle, like like like
(24:28):
a Hua being birth. It's brilliant. It's so good, it's
so good, and they I have to say, I was
watching this and I think I texted you while I
was watching the vocal agrenalin number because those dancers are
doing it. It is that combo is so intricate and
and like you cannot do that unless you are a
professional dancer like they were doing it, and I was like,
(24:53):
oh my god, at least Zack and Brook it to
like show off their their dancing choreography skills, because they
show off their stand in a line still with us so.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Exactly, like Zach Woodley and Brooke Lifton are incredible, and
it was also probably such a treat for them to
get to work with professional dancers and also.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
US vocal adrenaline. Like that number. They probably rehearsed for
like a day and they learned it that fast. And
we rehearse for like twenty days to do a stand
in a lot a straight line.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
So yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's they absolutely got that so quickly.
There's no doubt. Also seeing Haley who was one of
the dancers and she went on tour with us so young,
with Graf basically that whole number.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, and she looks so good. They looked so good.
It was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Graf does incredible like he he's also I think I
think that was the best lip sync performance of anybody
out of that first season. He is so perfectly on
the spit is flying out of his mouth, always graff
trademark yep, staple, and I think I just think it's
like perfect him sitting down on the piano and doing
(25:59):
everything his lips sink is always meticulous.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yep, yep. I also don't think I read this in
the script. I mean, I don't think I was reading
the full script, to be completely honest, by this point.
I think I was reading like you're like searching for stuff.
But I when this. I remember watching this at lunch
with everybody and being like, what.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't remember this either. I don't know if it
was written this way.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't think it was. I think this was probably
a concept of Zac and Ryan came up with like separately.
But I was very impressed and did not remember that.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I can't say, like Diana matching the parts of Bohemian
Rhapsody with what she's saying and having Amber, and I
thought Mark in there was doing a great job of
being shocked and disgusted at the same time, and so
that insane, insane thing. And so she has her baby
Bohemian Rhapsoty is performed and is executed to perfection per
(27:00):
usual best part, and Rachel didn't go to the hospital.
She watches vocal journaline and runs into Shelby and is like, hey,
you should come teach Ugly Club view directions with Sho
and she's like, no, I can't do this anymore. I
need a family. And she says, well, Quinn just had
(27:20):
a beautiful baby girl, and guess who shows about the hospital.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Shelby and they're in the little nursery which doesn't really exist.
I don't know why in the hospital you see these nurseries.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, I've been there. They used to have these, okay,
because when my sister had her baby twenty three years ago,
oh my god, it was like that there was a
window and you could I would go up to it
and you could see all the babies.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
No, these days after COVID, they leave the baby in
the room with you unless you last. Oh yeah. So
literally you go to they like gurney you with the
baby in your arms, and then they have a little
like moving uh fascinette for the baby. It's clear in
the room with like a little drawer of lar dark
darkness and stuff and that's it and then leave you
(28:15):
to it. You can request like can you take the
baby away? But I'm like I'm noting that, Like but
that changed during COVID anyway, I've never seen the that
that glass wall.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But and so Shelby ends up talking to Quinn and
Puck at that little windows, staring at it at the baby,
and Puck says the baby's name is Beth, and Shelby
then adopts her and names her Beth.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
No so cute.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Meanwhile, the judges are deliberating, oh my goodness, and she's
out of control, and the lady Newton John is saying
the wild wildless thing, wildest stuff to Sue, and you know,
started off being mean about new directions, being well, I know,
I feel very bad. I don't care who comes in
for a second or third, but I know who's coming
(29:07):
in last. Right after hearing how horribly Olivia Newton John
is talking about them, which is a reflection upon Sue,
because then they all turn on Sue being like, you're
not a celebrity.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What are you doing here, You're living in Ohio. You're
gonna stay here, We're gonna leave you and going to
LA and I do have to stay. Them playing elevated
versions of those songs. It's very funny.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I love that kind of stuff. I'm a sucker for.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That well, if you're cool enough to like do that,
then like you're a cool person, is what I think.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That's true. And it comes down to where Sue actually
starts defending the new directions and it's sweet and you're like, oh,
how's this going to go? M h, But what happens, Shenna.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
We end up losing. We still don't know who where,
how the judge is actually voted individually, but we do
know as a majority, vocal Adrenaline wins and we didn't
even place no, we didn't feed in place pathetic and
that's and for us, we think at that point, steaks
(30:17):
are really high. That's the glee club. That's it to
each other again. Yeah, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Guess who's not having it? Emma, Emma. Emma's in there
going at it like WWE style with Figgins screaming and
it's fun, always fun. Will and Emma have this moment
in the hallway right after and she's like, you can't
just give up, like you have to fight for glee
club and he's like, you're not just talking about glee club,
(30:43):
are you, and he kisses her and the hallway during
the school day.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know,
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And then Rachel walks up, has no reaction to it,
and it's like, mister she, we'd like to see you
in the auditorium.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You know, unfazed. Honestly, I have to say, as a
teenager in high school, like pretty unfazed. Like maybe that
would have been drama, but who knows, maybe not. So
we get to the auditorium and mister Shoe comes and
we're all sitting there and we dedicate the performance to
mister Shoe, and we all go around and we talk
(31:24):
about how he's affected and how he's impacted our lives.
And I remember shooting this and I remember Brad saying
it's okay to cry. That's all I remember him saying,
is like, bring on the tears basically.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
So I was like, oh, here's another reflection of my
failures and inabilities as an actor. Everyone's going to be
crying except me.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Here's the interesting thing that we were all crying that
I think it would be more interesting to see somebody
not crive.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
That's right, That's why I did it. You know, there's
an intentional choice.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
And we performed this numbers.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Did you know this song to serve with love.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No, I did not.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I do not either, And I remember I I couldn't
remember any of it while we were shooting it. I
was having such a hard time remembering the backgrounds well.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The background loocals were very complicated on this one because
it was kind of like a cannon or around where
Leo was singing the main chorus, and then we were
kind of echoing it and the timing was all off,
and I don't you know, we learn those things, like
Tim Davis comes ten minutes before we start shooting and says, okay,
this is how it goes, and we're like okay.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And it's like when you're doing a full like dance
number you can swing your arms or hair in front
of your face from you don't when you're just sitting
there and it's tears and emotional like dream of little dream,
there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
You're naked, or like true colors, you just nay.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Know the actual words, which sucks.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
But I did get cheery eyed. I did get cheery
eyed watching it, and so does mister Shuster and he's
very appreciative. And then we see Sue in the background
crying or tears in her eyes not crying. Let me
just rewind she's slightly crying.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Sue then meets to in the choir room, and I
want to talk about this scene because I do not
have any recollection of this line. She comes into this
room is as barren as me, just like really quickly
just says it, throws it away and moves on.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
She has a lot of really good lines in this scene.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah, it was crazy. I mean basically what happens after
saying insane things to him like you're a good teacher,
will Now, I don't like you so much, but I
admire you and your work and the work you're doing
with your kids. And she's basically like, I don't want
to lose you as an enemy.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Right, I want to ridicule your hair. I want to
make fun of you for cheering up more than Michael
Landon in the sweeps weeks episode of the Prairie and
Ce Sylvester doesn't want to live in that kind of world.
So also fun fact, misters, she was packing up the
choir room when she walks in, and that that Wiener
(34:14):
dog porcelain thing he's holding is actually from his choir
room and it was his teachers, his music teachers, and
while Sue is giving Will backhanded compliments, she it is
revealed that she actually did vote for New Directions to win.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
And she went to Figgins and is like, give them
another year.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I'm going to continue to blackmail you. And that's it.
And so we get another year. That's how season do.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
And Will gives us the number of his own somewhere
over the rainbow.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And Mattie Maddie performs that that was like something that
he had performed four and he plays skulele, so he
I guess they wrote that in Yeah but for sweet
Yeah that's a great number. Yeah, really nice and I
that is pretty much the end of season one. That's it.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
The New Directions will be back. You get another year
to being nice for a brief moment, because she needs
She's just competitive, right m hm. And somewhere deep down
there she has a heart.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Somewhere deep down she does have a heart. Jane has
said that. And of course, and of course we're going
to get another europe New Directions. Who's who are we kidding?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
New Directions gotta stick around because Fox picked us up
for another season. That's right, and that is season one, folks. Wow,
can you believe it. I love this episode. I loved
it so much that I kept going and started to
watch season two immediately after.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
I didn't, but I did love this episode A lot,
a lot, a lot a lot very well. That episode.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
If you watch season one straightened the season two, it's
a bit jarring, I think, because, like we said, we
do like a little different, some of us more than others.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
We we definitely and season two. The start of season two,
I always say these episodes, the kickoff episodes have like
a lot of exposition again, and I don't know, I
just they never fully meet the expectation of like a
season premiere for me.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it because it's
pretty dick crazy TARTI takes Jenna, let's do it the
last one of the season. I say this, like we're
not gonna be back.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Next week, right, cringe moments aka oucheese.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
I would say, Will and Emma sing in the hallway. Yeah,
I seems inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'm with that one. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Also, I Livington john says some crazy crazy things and
that judging room. But also I sort of like she
can do whatever she wants.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
That's right. I agree, that's why I didn't pick that because.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Worst dance move.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Jenna's arms in the Carlton.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I would also like to point out best dance move.
I mean the vocal adrenaline, the girls flying through the air,
the birth of John Groff through the arms.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, let's just say Bohemian Rhapsody is the best dance move.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
The whole thing, the best song.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Oh man. I mean, I feel like I want to
say Faithfully.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Oh, I say, it's a tie between Faithful and Boheman Rhapsody.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Fair enough, we can pick one in one and call
it gred best performance by a prop. I think the baby.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I was gonna say that too much. Does the baby
count that beautiful newborn? Yes? You want to know something
so disturbing? What that baby's a teen now?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
No, we need to find that baby.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I was watching it and Marco turned to me that
baby's a teenager, and I had to pose it and
catch my breath.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Right, Oh boy, yeah, that baby is thirteen years old.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Uh huh, I hate that for us.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I hate that.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I hate that.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
You're welcome anytime. Favorite lines of this episode.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Okay, well, this sounds like kind of cringey, but also, oh,
really the delivery is excellent, Jane Jane and Will. Will
says I should shake her hand and Sue says, not
unless you got some insanitizer. I've seen that car you drive.
I don't want to catch poor it said old boy.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
She says poor, I don't want to catch poor. I
think my favorite line was Dana's screaming shut up, shut
up during the birthing.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
It's so good, so good. Okay, and and tell me,
tell me what you found.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Jenna should be found on TikTok. It is a Chicago
drag queen by the name of Annie Andrews. If you
go on TikTok her TikTok is, it's Annie Andrews and
she does the full Quinn. She does It's a Man's World,
(40:03):
Oh my God, the pregnancy belly, and she does the
Bohemian Rhapsody birth scene and it's not her playing Bohemon Rhapsody.
They're playing the actual episode version of it. So she's
doing all the lines that does and it is incredible.
So I mean, if you are in Chicago, go check
(40:25):
out Annie Andrews because this, you know, if you're watching
this season of Dragons, past season of Drag Race Lucy
Laeduca got some flat for not having a pregnancy bellion
when she did her Beyonce look. And let me tell you,
Annie Andrews had the pregnancy belly.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
She absolutely does have the pregnancy bellion and she is
giving Okay, wow, it's so good. Drag Queen's doing Glee.
I mean, yep, it's nothing better.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Quinn deserved better.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
That's funny, very good, very good.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Thank you Annie Andrews.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yes, and we did it. That is season one, you guys.
Thank you for sticking with us. That was really fun.
And like Ian said, it's Murderer's Row this season. I
love that. And I can't wait to recap season two
with y'all.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
I mean, we're just getting started, Jenna, Oh my god,
we're just getting started. Thank you for listening. Thank you
for being with us this long. We're so excited to
be doing this and so happy to be like reading
all of your feedback. Keep tagging us and these tiktoks,
and we'll see you next season next week.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
That's how you really missed.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
That's what you really missed. Bye bye. 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.
And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
What podcast is this? That's what you really missed with
Jenna and Kevin. That was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Jenna. You're proud of yourself, aren't you? On that one?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
No? Off the cuffs? Wow, she still got it, still
got a kid's Hello, and welcome to the show today.
We are doing Journey Regional.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We did the kids. Yay, we made it. We seasoned
one finale of Glee. Who would have thought? We sure
didn't when we got cast on the show. You've heard
from Ryan three times now and from Ian and a
bunch of cast members that none of us really knew
(00:59):
if we were going to make it this far, and
most of us didn't think we would. But there we are,
twenty two episodes.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And a buttload more to.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Go, and a lot of songs and a tour. And
this originally aired on June eighth, twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Wow. How crazy? Wow?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Okay, yeah, that was late. Normally seasons ends the beginning
of May sort of thing. But I think because we
did thirteen at a weird time, then all that press
stuff happened. Had we had a big break in between
the first thirteen. Yeah, we had to catch up. But
here we are on this week in Glee her story.
(01:42):
We were in Emmy magazine. Do you remember doing this
photo shoot briefly? I remember it very well and then
a month Yeah, I don't know why. I remember it
was downtown and this like studio loft thing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, all of us.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I kept the vans from this photo shoot for years
that I wore.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now did we shoot because I don't remember to shoot
that well. I remember it being chaos because there were
so many of us and they stacked us. Did we
actually take those photos together or did they superimpose us
in there's a group photo of girls and the group
photo of the guys.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't remember. I sort of think it was all individual.
I yeah, they were just trying to make it work
because you know, a month later we were nominated for
nineteen Emmys. No big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Do you remember that When we got to the stages,
there was a huge banner on our main stage that
said congratulations on nineteen. It felt very obnoxious, like I
felt embarrassed, but it was also very cool. But they
did that every time every time. That's not one for
Bagel Awards. We got a banner. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Also on this day, Glee the Music Journey to Regionals
was the album was released, and it featured six tracks
from episode twenty two But when We're going to recap,
including Don't Stop Believing the regional's version with all of Us,
and the EP debuted at number one on both the
(03:20):
US Billboard two hundred and Soundtracks chart, selling one hundred
and fifty four thousand copies of.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
What I Just Got goosebumps. I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The album became the cast third number one album on
the bill What.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's crazy that an EP just from one episode was
number one and sold one hundred and fifty four thousand copies.
That's diabolical, you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I was thinking about it. I was like, how did
we get to number one so quickly? All the time,
like it was we really were here. Huge. It was
a really huge shot. And sometimes people say it and
like it hits like a brick Jenna's brick wall, but
like this, like I'm like, oh, it was really big, yeah,
(04:12):
really popular.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We were bamboozled by it. We still are. And this
was the most viewed episode of any new seasons of
all the season finales of any new shows, the season finales.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I had almost eleven million viewers, and so we
kept growing every single week, and you'll see in season
two it just keeps growing even more.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Now. I this episode, I was very weepy. I remember
the whole time, and then I was weep be watching
it back.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I I was a little weepy watching it back as well,
because there's a couple scenes that feel a little real,
and this is I think goes to Ian's point about
where they sometimes commentate on what's actually happening. And there
is a speech Will gives to the kids about sort
(05:14):
of the journey we've had and how much Glee Club
means to everyone, and years from now you won't remember
what songs you did, you won't remember each other's names,
and it just made me reflect upon our group and
how so far we've stood the test of that time
thus far. But it is one of those things when
you and I talk about this every week, we're like,
(05:34):
do what songs did we do? And things do become
a little blurry. And I was emotional watching Shoe give
us that speech because I don't think we were tired.
It was twenty two episodes. We didn't really know what
was going on, and you can't know how applicable that's
going to be to our futures, and it totally was.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's right. What were we yearing up to do after
this episode?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well after it aired, we had already done tour okay, right,
tour was wrapping up. So it was our first official
hiatus because we started shooting the beginning of July, right,
so we only had a couple a couple of weeks
of doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, I'm looking through my photos right now.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, what do you see?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I see photos of only you and me?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Sounds about right. Let me let me scroll back.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
We went to Monaco, oh yeah, oh my god. We
went to the TV and Film Festival in Monaco, which
was a wild, wild trip of a vacation. Then we
went to London to do press Fergalle. Then we took
a day trip to Paris, where you were very hungover
and he slept on the tour bus. Then we went
(06:49):
back and then I went back to New York and
went home for a while, and I went to Brazil,
that's right. And then we had all the Emmy Press
that we did when we got back, we did that
event at the Music Box. We'll get into all of that, right,
and then we went to the Emmys.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And we started we started shooting I said July beginning
of July, but we actually started shooting the season beginning
of August, so I think they delayed our start a
little bit to give us that time and Jenna. This
episode aired on June eighth, twenty ten. Those photos of us,
of the paparazzi photos of us on the beach of
(07:27):
Monica were taken on this very day and came out
June tenth, So June eighth was the day Jenna and
I became a famous celebrity couple.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
The most famous will ever be same this.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
On this day in twenty ten, we peaked, but we
did it together.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
As weekly we we did it. We made ourselves, tagged
ourselves as a couple. We were moving in together. The
story worked out, I really did. Yeah, so hilarious. It's
also where I went to Brazil during this hiatus. I
passed out, Remember, I got burdigo. We went to Comic Con,
(08:10):
we found out we were going to be only juniors,
and we had another year in school. It was pretty
a wild, wild journey.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Speaking of Journey, Yeah, speaking.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Of Journey, let's let's get into this episode. The number
one song was still on MG featuring When I Am
By a Sure, and the number one movie was still
Shrek Forever After Ever After.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Which, by the way, did you hear that their negotiations
to make Shrek five and the original cast is.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
In I've got to catch up on.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, Okay, all right, So in this episode we have
it was directed by Brad Faulchuck written well, it says
by Brad Peltchick. But as we know, all three of them.
Josh Grobin is back, Graf is back, a Dina is back,
and we just have we have everyone Live Newton, John
Grace us with our presence one more time, and we
(09:05):
have some greatest hits, I mean so much so A
debut at number one.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Until four one hundred and fifty thousand albums sold.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What take us through?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The song Shenna Faithfully anyway you want it, Love and
Touch and squeeze and don't stop Believing all by Journey,
performed by the Nude Erections. H Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
one of my favorite gle numbers ever Shooster with Love
by Lulu over the Rainbow, uh performed by mister Shu
(09:40):
and Uh Noah Parkerman. What's going on in this?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Give me an overview? Overview, Kevin?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Okay, So basically what happens is it's Regional's time and Sue,
of course, is up to no good. She gets herself
on the judging panel and new directions and will completely
spiral and freak out because they know if Sue's one
of the judges, there's no way new directions are going
(10:09):
to either place nor win, which is what they have
to do for Figgins to allow them to keep the
Glee Club happening and funded. So basically, it's what can
we do and what does Glee Club mean to us?
Even if we can't win. That's what's happening, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And there's a fun fact here. I know you said
that this was the highest finale rating for a niche
a series finale watched on TV at the time. In
two thousand nine, ten Journey to Regionals was watched by
ten point nine two million American viewers. That's right, it's
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What's going on? Talk to me.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, So Sue reveals she's a judge at regionals because
she's a celebrity, and it's a celebrity panel of judge
is obviously a glee clubs like, wan't, wan't, there's no
way we can win. So mister Shue has a party too.
He has all the kids over at his house, which
seems suspicious to decide the set list, but the kids
(11:15):
are all crying and upset. Do you remember shooting this.
I remember shooting this.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Very well, so so clearly in my mind, so clearly.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I did not realize this was season one.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I was just so I remember this a season one.
I remember being so happy that we got to sit
on mister Shoe's couch all night. I also remember having
to cry again. It's not easy for me to cry.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So like I told us, you warned us, you said,
once you reveal you can do something, they're gonna have
you do it over and over again. And here we go.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
There it is, and I just remember having to like
stay in it the whole time. And it was a
late night. It was like the last scene of the day.
But I remember I remember Brad coming in. I don't
remember what he said, to us, but I do remember
(12:10):
him kind of I think, mirroring what was going on,
like the we side with the writer's mirroring what was
going on. I feel like there was something emotional going
on in this group. Do you remember shooting this.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I do. We were telling ghost stories, oh, because I
think if I remember correctly, this was a Friday night,
which means this was really really late. There was nobody
else on Paramount shooting at this hour. It was probably
midnight or one am. Paramount Studios shares a wall with
a graveyard, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and so there are
(12:43):
all these stories about those backstages being haunted. Nia was
telling a story about when she worked on the lot
as a child with Red Fox and saw him pass
away on that set, and was telling that story, and
then we were looking up on our phone other stories
about the ghosts and people's experiences, and so nobody was around.
(13:08):
The set was really really dark. They had this like
fake rain going on outside, so it felt so spooky,
and we were freaking ourselves out so badly, and that's
all I could think about when we were well, when
I was watching the scene, everyone's like crying and upset
and I do remember Brad coming in and I he
was always really good at this, at relating it to
real life and having us imagine like if this was
(13:30):
the last time we ever got to do this, like that,
trying to get us in that moment of look how
far we've come, the friends we've made, all that we've achieved,
and now it's coming to an.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
End, and meanwhile we're spooking each other.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, ghost stories professional.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, that, thank you for that reminded us.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
D Cho then goes to Emma and asks for advice,
and she reminds him of like, hey, this is why
you love Glee. Also, by the way, I'm dating someone.
He's a dentist named Carl, but we haven't slept together.
(14:10):
Just FYI. Also, I don't remember Carl being mentioned this early.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I don't know why, but I do remember Carl being
mentioned this early because I remember in my mind stay
most joining around the time cor joined. Yes, that's like
my marker of like you who is joining or the
time the time stamp. And then mister Shoe is driving
in his beat up blue car. Yea pulls over the
(14:37):
side of the road, has a very emotional car journey.
If you will and he don't stop. Comes on the radio,
he pulls over bursts into tears, and is magically inspired
for his next trick to do a journey medley for Brilliant.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know, he had a great idea. He had a
great idea.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He did have a great idea. I honestly do think
it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I think it's a great idea. He smashed it that
we'll get to it. So then it's regionals and they
ian on the mike, introducing all the judges to Sylvester,
Josh Grobe and leaving Newton John and local news reporter
icon Er. I mean, he's just cold.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So oural intensity performs love that Name, and they do
a mashup of living Newton John and Josh Grobe and
new directions. Of course, Spirals freaks out, Shoe walks in,
is like, hey mm hmm, we're not doing this now.
Do you remember also filming this scene, because I feel
like Brad had he had sectionals where we had that
(15:53):
other huge backstage green room scene and yes, of course,
and this one I remember we were all scared of
because the other one took so long and this one
was not that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We were scared that this was going to take that long.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And like he had blocked it in a way, I
think if I remember correctly, before we had even gotten there, Yeah,
to be more efficient than the time before we were
learning no Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And that was one that the green room where we
shot that we was on Paramount and it was actually
some of the Ryan Murphy TV offices.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
That's right. We used a lot of Paramount for this
because the hospital that comes up later on YEP is
also just random halls at Paramount, but.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
That's where the writers hung out and their assistants and
Ryan and Brad and Ian and all them. They had
these like lofts basically, and these were the first version
of the lofts that they had gotten and where their
offices were, so they used that and I do remember
it being much more efficient and much faster, and I
was because there's just so much to do in this episode.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
So this is where we really get into it, so
it's time for new directions to perform. And the scene
at the start of it before we start going between
Finn and Rachel and he walks over to her and
says I love you really quickly. I was like this
whole episode, I was just floored by Corey I know.
(17:23):
I also, I have to say, so I saw that
movie air the New Matt Damon Ben Apple.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I did. I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I saw it and I can't fight this feeling comes
on at some did you cry?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It got me good. And then I went home and
watched this and I was like, Okay, I'm having a
full Corey in my emotions day. Oh yeah, but he's
so good and I know it, but like what pisses
me off is like he was so such a good
actor and I don't think we like necessarily told him
(18:02):
that enough or yeah, yeah, and like the things that
we miss out on getting to see him do right
because he's so good anyway, So the little thing I
love you right before and they do Faithfully, which is
such a good version of the song.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh they sound excellent.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Faithfully is incredible.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I love doing this on tour too. I'd like to
listen to this on tour. Honestly, I'm not sick of
the song. I'll listen to the Journey version. I'll listen
to our version. I think it's incredible. Yeah, I agree,
And then we do love and touch and squeeze in
anyway you want it, which uh. When we were rehearsing
(18:42):
for this, this was the number where we did the Carlton, right.
I don't know if you caught that. You guys, we
do the Carlton. I yelled Jenna's arms, No, you did it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I did. When I was watching the girls and their bumpets.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The bumpets were a whole other thing. The costumes were
very itchy because they were the gold, like that gold
itchy material. We were in them for so long and
they smelled so bad. And those bumpets were a choice,
a choice if you're.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Too young to remember, the bumpet. The bumpet was the
thing you'd put in your hair and to give it
that volume, that height, and.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Then hide it underneath more of your hair. And so
I don't know what they were thinking putting us. We
didn't really have a lot of say yet, none of
the other competition we would. Will we ever look like?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, you'll see between this episode and season two episode one,
glow Up, Glow Up, everyone just looks a little different.
Skirts are a little shorter, makeups, a little heavier.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Hair is a lot longer.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah. This was also when I was on I was
sick per usual and was on some medication that I
had an allergic reaction to, and my entire body and
face broke out in hives and people were like, you
look like you have horns growing out of your forehead.
It was so bad, and Kelly had to take me
(20:17):
to the er. He had to take me to Cedar Sinai,
which was right up the block from where we were shooting.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Were we shooting this number during that? Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And we had a full audience full of people. You
saw like two levels of people. And yeah, just in
the middle of the day, they had somehow they got
me right. I was still in costume. They took me
right in, they gave me all the stuff and we
were at that theater for two days shooting, and even
the next day I kept breaking out in hives. So
(20:48):
I was on all this medicine. I remember when we
came back to shoot towards the end of the day,
I was on so much benadryl. But I had to
stay awake and people were laughing at me because I
was acting very crazy, drunk crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, that was at the Saban Theater. I'm real shore right,
that's where when we shot that.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I would also like to point out if you there's
a shot during Faithfully when it's on Leah. If you pause,
it's the first shot I think of her in profile
as Finn looks at her. You can see the dummies
in the audience, and if you keep pausing it, you
see the dummies in every shot of that audience. So
(21:27):
it's usually on the edges. So if you look like
two to three people in or out of the edge
of the aisle, you'll see all of these dummies.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I have to take a screen shot.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And I also saw Aaron Krueger and I saw Kelly
from Makeup there in the end of the first row,
like our makeup department. So I also don't know if
we were short on people for the audience, but we
had some of the crew in there as well.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Wow wow wow, I remember laughing at doing don't stop
with the key change.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Also, we did not record it like that. No, I
haven't confirmed this, but when we get Adam anders On here,
maybe we'll ask him, because I think they did that
after the fact, which is why we all sound a
little album monkey.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yes, that's right. I think they played it and we
were like, what is that?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
They needed the drama, the excitement.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No, it had to be different than the original don't
stop before, but we did not record it that way.
And then after the performance, which I mean it was
it was really fun to shoot, but I also remember
it being like, it's just those are those two days
were like laborious, They're a lot, they're long, they are hard,
Like you just have to like show up when they
(22:42):
ask you to show up, do your thing, perform a
thousand times, go to rehearsal at night. After we get
out of hair and makeup, we go on the stage,
rehearse again for the next day, go home, sleep, wake up,
come back and do it again. And they're like please.
I remember every actor like Brad Beeker did a lot
of these competition episodes in later seasons, and he would
(23:05):
just be like, just bear with me. We got this.
Just we're in this together and we're just gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
So because it can feel like you're not doing anything
because it takes so long, so you feel like like
what are we actually accomplishing, And so you just had
to like trust the process that they know what they're
doing and they're shooting, you know, bit by.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Bit, and your feeds hurt so bad. You guys were
the meals all day, Well, shees are terrible. Okay. So
then then we come off of performing. We're very happy
with that. We think we have a chance at winning.
And Quinn's mom shows up, Yeah, and she says that
(23:43):
she left her father and she wants her to come home.
And Quinn, what I thought she was going to respond
with was like where were you, you know, to like
stand up for me, but her water bricks and she's
gonna have a baby.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And then we have one of the most insane that's
brilliant performances ever.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It's very Ryan Murphy. It's a very Ryan Murphey montage.
It's brilliant. I watched that and I was like, draw
to the ground. Imagine watching that in your living room
for the first time, not knowing what's coming, and you're
watching that, like the vocal adrenaline in that in the
circle with John Groff in the middle, like like like
(24:28):
a Hua being birth. It's brilliant. It's so good, it's
so good, and they I have to say, I was
watching this and I think I texted you while I
was watching the vocal agrenalin number because those dancers are
doing it. It is that combo is so intricate and
and like you cannot do that unless you are a
professional dancer like they were doing it, and I was like,
(24:53):
oh my god, at least Zack and Brook it to
like show off their their dancing choreography skills, because they
show off their stand in a line still with us so.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Exactly, like Zach Woodley and Brooke Lifton are incredible, and
it was also probably such a treat for them to
get to work with professional dancers and also.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
US vocal adrenaline. Like that number. They probably rehearsed for
like a day and they learned it that fast. And
we rehearse for like twenty days to do a stand
in a lot a straight line.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
So yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's they absolutely got that so quickly.
There's no doubt. Also seeing Haley who was one of
the dancers and she went on tour with us so young,
with Graf basically that whole number.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, and she looks so good. They looked so good.
It was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Graf does incredible like he he's also I think I
think that was the best lip sync performance of anybody
out of that first season. He is so perfectly on
the spit is flying out of his mouth, always graff
trademark yep, staple, and I think I just think it's
like perfect him sitting down on the piano and doing
(25:59):
everything his lips sink is always meticulous.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yep, yep. I also don't think I read this in
the script. I mean, I don't think I was reading
the full script, to be completely honest, by this point.
I think I was reading like you're like searching for stuff.
But I when this. I remember watching this at lunch
with everybody and being like, what.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't remember this either. I don't know if it
was written this way.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't think it was. I think this was probably
a concept of Zac and Ryan came up with like separately.
But I was very impressed and did not remember that.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I can't say, like Diana matching the parts of Bohemian
Rhapsody with what she's saying and having Amber, and I
thought Mark in there was doing a great job of
being shocked and disgusted at the same time, and so
that insane, insane thing. And so she has her baby
Bohemian Rhapsoty is performed and is executed to perfection per
(27:00):
usual best part, and Rachel didn't go to the hospital.
She watches vocal journaline and runs into Shelby and is like, hey,
you should come teach Ugly Club view directions with Sho
and she's like, no, I can't do this anymore. I
need a family. And she says, well, Quinn just had
(27:20):
a beautiful baby girl, and guess who shows about the hospital.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Shelby and they're in the little nursery which doesn't really exist.
I don't know why in the hospital you see these nurseries.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, I've been there. They used to have these, okay,
because when my sister had her baby twenty three years ago,
oh my god, it was like that there was a
window and you could I would go up to it
and you could see all the babies.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
No, these days after COVID, they leave the baby in
the room with you unless you last. Oh yeah. So
literally you go to they like gurney you with the
baby in your arms, and then they have a little
like moving uh fascinette for the baby. It's clear in
the room with like a little drawer of lar dark
darkness and stuff and that's it and then leave you
(28:15):
to it. You can request like can you take the
baby away? But I'm like I'm noting that, Like but
that changed during COVID anyway, I've never seen the that
that glass wall.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
But and so Shelby ends up talking to Quinn and
Puck at that little windows, staring at it at the baby,
and Puck says the baby's name is Beth, and Shelby
then adopts her and names her Beth.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
No so cute.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Meanwhile, the judges are deliberating, oh my goodness, and she's
out of control, and the lady Newton John is saying
the wild wildless thing, wildest stuff to Sue, and you know,
started off being mean about new directions, being well, I know,
I feel very bad. I don't care who comes in
for a second or third, but I know who's coming
(29:07):
in last. Right after hearing how horribly Olivia Newton John
is talking about them, which is a reflection upon Sue,
because then they all turn on Sue being like, you're
not a celebrity.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What are you doing here, You're living in Ohio. You're
gonna stay here, We're gonna leave you and going to
LA and I do have to stay. Them playing elevated
versions of those songs. It's very funny.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I love that kind of stuff. I'm a sucker for.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That well, if you're cool enough to like do that,
then like you're a cool person, is what I think.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That's true. And it comes down to where Sue actually
starts defending the new directions and it's sweet and you're like, oh,
how's this going to go? M h, But what happens, Shenna.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
We end up losing. We still don't know who where,
how the judge is actually voted individually, but we do
know as a majority, vocal Adrenaline wins and we didn't
even place no, we didn't feed in place pathetic and
that's and for us, we think at that point, steaks
(30:17):
are really high. That's the glee club. That's it to
each other again. Yeah, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Guess who's not having it? Emma, Emma. Emma's in there
going at it like WWE style with Figgins screaming and
it's fun, always fun. Will and Emma have this moment
in the hallway right after and she's like, you can't
just give up, like you have to fight for glee
club and he's like, you're not just talking about glee club,
(30:43):
are you, and he kisses her and the hallway during
the school day.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know,
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And then Rachel walks up, has no reaction to it,
and it's like, mister she, we'd like to see you
in the auditorium.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You know, unfazed. Honestly, I have to say, as a
teenager in high school, like pretty unfazed. Like maybe that
would have been drama, but who knows, maybe not. So
we get to the auditorium and mister Shoe comes and
we're all sitting there and we dedicate the performance to
mister Shoe, and we all go around and we talk
(31:24):
about how he's affected and how he's impacted our lives.
And I remember shooting this and I remember Brad saying
it's okay to cry. That's all I remember him saying,
is like, bring on the tears basically.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
So I was like, oh, here's another reflection of my
failures and inabilities as an actor. Everyone's going to be
crying except me.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Here's the interesting thing that we were all crying that
I think it would be more interesting to see somebody
not crive.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
That's right, That's why I did it. You know, there's
an intentional choice.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
And we performed this numbers.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Did you know this song to serve with love.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No, I did not.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I do not either, And I remember I I couldn't
remember any of it while we were shooting it. I
was having such a hard time remembering the backgrounds well.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The background loocals were very complicated on this one because
it was kind of like a cannon or around where
Leo was singing the main chorus, and then we were
kind of echoing it and the timing was all off,
and I don't you know, we learn those things, like
Tim Davis comes ten minutes before we start shooting and says, okay,
this is how it goes, and we're like okay.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And it's like when you're doing a full like dance
number you can swing your arms or hair in front
of your face from you don't when you're just sitting
there and it's tears and emotional like dream of little dream,
there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
You're naked, or like true colors, you just nay.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Know the actual words, which sucks.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
But I did get cheery eyed. I did get cheery
eyed watching it, and so does mister Shuster and he's
very appreciative. And then we see Sue in the background
crying or tears in her eyes not crying. Let me
just rewind she's slightly crying.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Sue then meets to in the choir room, and I
want to talk about this scene because I do not
have any recollection of this line. She comes into this
room is as barren as me, just like really quickly
just says it, throws it away and moves on.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
She has a lot of really good lines in this scene.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah, it was crazy. I mean basically what happens after
saying insane things to him like you're a good teacher,
will Now, I don't like you so much, but I
admire you and your work and the work you're doing
with your kids. And she's basically like, I don't want
to lose you as an enemy.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Right, I want to ridicule your hair. I want to
make fun of you for cheering up more than Michael
Landon in the sweeps weeks episode of the Prairie and
Ce Sylvester doesn't want to live in that kind of world.
So also fun fact, misters, she was packing up the
choir room when she walks in, and that that Wiener
(34:14):
dog porcelain thing he's holding is actually from his choir
room and it was his teachers, his music teachers, and
while Sue is giving Will backhanded compliments, she it is
revealed that she actually did vote for New Directions to win.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
And she went to Figgins and is like, give them
another year.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I'm going to continue to blackmail you. And that's it.
And so we get another year. That's how season do.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
And Will gives us the number of his own somewhere
over the rainbow.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And Mattie Maddie performs that that was like something that
he had performed four and he plays skulele, so he
I guess they wrote that in Yeah but for sweet
Yeah that's a great number. Yeah, really nice and I
that is pretty much the end of season one. That's it.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
The New Directions will be back. You get another year
to being nice for a brief moment, because she needs
She's just competitive, right m hm. And somewhere deep down
there she has a heart.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Somewhere deep down she does have a heart. Jane has
said that. And of course, and of course we're going
to get another europe New Directions. Who's who are we kidding?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
New Directions gotta stick around because Fox picked us up
for another season. That's right, and that is season one, folks. Wow,
can you believe it. I love this episode. I loved
it so much that I kept going and started to
watch season two immediately after.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
I didn't, but I did love this episode A lot,
a lot, a lot a lot very well. That episode.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
If you watch season one straightened the season two, it's
a bit jarring, I think, because, like we said, we
do like a little different, some of us more than others.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
We we definitely and season two. The start of season two,
I always say these episodes, the kickoff episodes have like
a lot of exposition again, and I don't know, I
just they never fully meet the expectation of like a
season premiere for me.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it because it's
pretty dick crazy TARTI takes Jenna, let's do it the
last one of the season. I say this, like we're
not gonna be back.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Next week, right, cringe moments aka oucheese.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
I would say, Will and Emma sing in the hallway. Yeah,
I seems inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'm with that one. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Also, I Livington john says some crazy crazy things and
that judging room. But also I sort of like she
can do whatever she wants.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
That's right. I agree, that's why I didn't pick that because.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Worst dance move.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Jenna's arms in the Carlton.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I would also like to point out best dance move.
I mean the vocal adrenaline, the girls flying through the air,
the birth of John Groff through the arms.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, let's just say Bohemian Rhapsody is the best dance move.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
The whole thing, the best song.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Oh man. I mean, I feel like I want to
say Faithfully.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Oh, I say, it's a tie between Faithful and Boheman Rhapsody.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Fair enough, we can pick one in one and call
it gred best performance by a prop. I think the baby.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I was gonna say that too much. Does the baby
count that beautiful newborn? Yes? You want to know something
so disturbing? What that baby's a teen now?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
No, we need to find that baby.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I was watching it and Marco turned to me that
baby's a teenager, and I had to pose it and
catch my breath.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Right, Oh boy, yeah, that baby is thirteen years old.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Uh huh, I hate that for us.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I hate that.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I hate that.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
You're welcome anytime. Favorite lines of this episode.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Okay, well, this sounds like kind of cringey, but also, oh,
really the delivery is excellent, Jane Jane and Will. Will
says I should shake her hand and Sue says, not
unless you got some insanitizer. I've seen that car you drive.
I don't want to catch poor it said old boy.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
She says poor, I don't want to catch poor. I
think my favorite line was Dana's screaming shut up, shut
up during the birthing.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
It's so good, so good. Okay, and and tell me,
tell me what you found.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Jenna should be found on TikTok. It is a Chicago
drag queen by the name of Annie Andrews. If you
go on TikTok her TikTok is, it's Annie Andrews and
she does the full Quinn. She does It's a Man's World,
(40:03):
Oh my God, the pregnancy belly, and she does the
Bohemian Rhapsody birth scene and it's not her playing Bohemon Rhapsody.
They're playing the actual episode version of it. So she's
doing all the lines that does and it is incredible.
So I mean, if you are in Chicago, go check
(40:25):
out Annie Andrews because this, you know, if you're watching
this season of Dragons, past season of Drag Race Lucy
Laeduca got some flat for not having a pregnancy bellion
when she did her Beyonce look. And let me tell you,
Annie Andrews had the pregnancy belly.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
She absolutely does have the pregnancy bellion and she is
giving Okay, wow, it's so good. Drag Queen's doing Glee.
I mean, yep, it's nothing better.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Quinn deserved better.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
That's funny, very good, very good.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Thank you Annie Andrews.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yes, and we did it. That is season one, you guys.
Thank you for sticking with us. That was really fun.
And like Ian said, it's Murderer's Row this season. I
love that. And I can't wait to recap season two
with y'all.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
I mean, we're just getting started, Jenna, Oh my god,
we're just getting started. Thank you for listening. Thank you
for being with us this long. We're so excited to
be doing this and so happy to be like reading
all of your feedback. Keep tagging us and these tiktoks,
and we'll see you next season next week.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
That's how you really missed.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
That's what you really missed. Bye bye. 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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Jenna Ushkowitz
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!