"Joey Goes Hollywood" Recap Season 4, Episode 23

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Speaker 1 (00:20):
I sound really nice and at least I have a
voice today yesterday, not no, nothing.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Just because of your sinus.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, it was the sinus, the ears, everything.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's all. Yeah, it's a nasal drip. This is a
great way to start the.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Show though, yet again with your welcome back Sweeden.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Welcome back to the U.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
S A.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
And thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
And I made it in, so there's a plus. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Happy, that's happy to see you. Happy you're here. How
was Europe? Tell me it highlights your losh.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It was. It was amazing. We my mom and I.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Had the best time.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
But it was you know, she hasn't traveled, she hasn't
been in an airport in probably fifteen years. Wow, okay,
she has never traveled internationally.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
And we found out about.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Halfway to the lounge at LAX that her walking issues
were a little more pronounced than she even expected. So
she was like, oh my, she has arthritis in her back,
her knees. She was like, oh my back, my niece,
this is here. And I was like, all right, it's
you know. And then minutes later I itched my ear
and lost all hearing in my left ear for the

(01:43):
remainder of the trip.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
So what.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Let me tell you. The first two hours I was
just sitting there like, oh please please, let this not
be awful. And it turned out to be anything. But
we had the best time.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
We were.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
We started in London, which of course we started in
London and get there for the eightieth anniversary of v
E Day.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
And we're staying down.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
In like near kind of near Trafalgar Square and like
off the Thames, and you know, at the Royal horse
Guards Hotel, which was lovely, and every street is shut down, right,
and that was we got in.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
That was the day we got in.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
They were practicing the parade, so you could still they
like taxi cabs.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Were getting in and blah bla blah.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
The day of the parade is the day we were
leaving and trying to get a cab to the airport.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh no mission and so I was like, oh boy.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah I was.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
That was you know, one of our first hurdles. But
we made it out of London. We saw I saw
the Tower of London. I did audio guide after audio guide,
I read every black I could find.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
History.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh, I was in my history nerdom all the way.
And then yeah, we went to we went to Cornwall
and stayed in Penzance, took the train to Penzance.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, did you of the train? Okay, I'm going to
ask a few did you drive?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I did at one point for about three days. Uh so, Yeah.
We took the train to Penzance and stayed there and
then had a driving tour of Cornwall, which was amazing.
If you've never seen the Menac Theater, which is carved
into the side of the cliff and it was done
by this like older woman by hand in like the twenties,
it's mind blowing and they do productions there all the

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time and the backdrop is like the ocean and it's
just incredible. Anyway, we did that, we drove around then
uh then to the train again, which you know me mom,
the train, luggage stairs, Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
All of it all super fun.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's it's a full contact sport like I you know,
I was like, oh, I'm kind of bummed.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm not going to get to work out, so don't worry.
I got not only my steps in but my my
weightlifting you.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Know, upper body.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
But we made on the train and then uh, from
there we went and we went to Oxford and that
was where we picked up a rental car and I
drove in England successfully. I did it was there was
only only literally the first turn out of the like

(04:20):
the hurts rent a car made it right into the
right lane, you know what I mean, like just into
the thing. And my mom was like, I think you're.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Supposed to be I was like, no, oh, go yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
You're right. That my mom, to her credit, she she
gets a point for being right. I had to admit
it and I will admit it publicly on this podcast
because she told me not to use my phone GPS,
that everything she had read said the phone GPS is

(04:49):
different from the car GPS and it will not work
as well.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh I wouldn't even have thought of that, go Janis.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
So this was because she had nine months to read
everything right right, a thing she had also said. I
also know you have to have everything all your liquids
did a baggy. I was like, Mom, we haven't done
that for like ten years. She was like, no, it's
said on the airth So I was like, so, I
was a little skeptical of some of the advice she
was getting on her Facebook groups.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Right now, pardon me, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Haarbeit for me to say that Facebook is ever a
source of unreliable information, but I had my questions. So anyway,
we're at We drived a Stonehenge okay, oh cool, which
was so amazing.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh I bet list man.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Just and we didn't hit one day of rain our
entire trip. It was blue skies and like sixty eight
to seventy two degrees was incredible, gorgeous. We packed sweaters
and I was like, this sucks, but it was just
the most beautiful trip.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
We stayed in these little inns.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
We went to the Cotswolds, but Stonehenge we was where
my mom won because it sent us around around about
three different times to a road that was very obviously closed,
and every no matter what route I picked, it kept
sending us that way. So my mom was just in

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the you know, passenger seat, like, well, maybe.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
We should try the car sat nav.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
And I was like, okay, you know what, fine, Like whatefs,
you know what I'm thinking, Like, because we got in
this argument. Mom, it's the same navigation. It's that, you know,
because I'm doing Apple car play. She was like, why
don't you try just the map? I did that lo
and behold, we got right the hell out of there.
So I gave her. I said, okay, you.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Were you were right. She gets this one, and she's
so good at sane I'm right without actually saying I'm
right right.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
She's right exactly exactly. So anyway, we did that.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I drove.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I didn't scare us too bad.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
It was a little like mister Toad's wild ride on
those back country roads. But I, luckily I have a
pretty good sense of space and distance, so there are
times my mom was like, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
I was like, now we got this. Yeah, you have
a healthy amount of confidence and lack of fear when
you drive, because I've been in the passenger seat when
you drive.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
At least in America.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
And I'm like, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well you went with me. We drove to Vegas, so
that's a whole other experience. That's the open road, you know,
practically the autumn. But but yeah, wait I did. I
drove us around and then yeah, we went Penzance, We
went to Cornwall, and then we eventually we took the
train up to Scotland and went to Edinburgh and up

(07:38):
to Inverness and we had the most amazing Scottish driver
for three days and tour guide his It was just
me and my mom and Jerry McMullen and he showed
up in his kilt and it just and knew everything,
all of the history everything. So if anyone out there
is ever going to Scotland, look up Carnegie Tours. Jerry

(07:58):
McMullen in ed you will not be disappointed. It was
left and I learned so much. It was an amazing trip.
It was an amazing trip. We made it when the
day we were flying home, my mom got was also
sick and we had a connecting flight in O'Hare and
it was the day that the tornadoes and storms were coming.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh no, so I longest day.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I may tell you planes, trains and automobiles on this trip.
And I at several points in our connecting flight just
said just go and she was like, I don't want
to leave you alone. I was like, if you don't
leave us alone, you don't leave me alone. We're not
going to make this flight. And so I just would
send her because it you know, it took her a
while with her cane and stuff. So it was we

(08:43):
were the last people on the connecting flight. Oh man,
running in I'm sweating with two like like personal you know,
like carry bags and our carry ons.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh man, we did it, but we did it.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
We did it.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
And poor mama was sick, and I got her home
and taking care of her.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Driver picked her up.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
And she and that was it. And then she got
home and she's still very, very sick. And my dad
is sick as well. And then I got sick and
I just slept for three days. I would sleep like
fourteen hours.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
So well, it's worth it, man, worth it for them?

Speaker 2 (09:17):
What attrition and shifts, so much history.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I've scene a beauty. I just I want to move
to Scotland and raise sheep.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't know. It's did you see your Shetland pony
or what was it? Shetland cow?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
The Highland cows?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
So I did.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Now there are the mini like Shetland cows, which is
not what we saw because those are up in Shetland,
which is farther north and apparently very hard to get
to and involves boats in addition to plaine strains and automobile.
So I was like, we's a commitment. It's a commitment,
and it's very rugged terrain. And I could just rugged
was not what we were trying to do. And so

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so I did get to see highland cows though, and
highland cows are the ones that are just really furry
and look like they have a beetles or no more
of a justin bieber, like a very haircut. Yeah, and
they're super furry and they're adorable and they but they
are the size of regular cows and they have very
large horns. So I did not get to pet one pet. No,

(10:25):
it's not a petting zoo unless you really, you know,
are up for becoming a rodeo clan that day.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
And I didn't need.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
To keep it safe. Keep saying keep it safe. And
then yeah, it was amazing. I mean, I my my
mom and I had fish and chips several times. It
was amazing. We had something called culon skink, which is
I know what what, don't call me that?

Speaker 2 (10:50):
No, it was, yeah, it's that's illegal.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
In fifty four states.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, a skink is isn't skink.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's so it's basically it's like a fish, like a fish.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's kind of like our clam chowder, but with smoked haddock.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's no, it's so delicious. Hat part sounds good, but
not the you don't like, Well, there's no clams in it.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's but it's like the consistency of like New England
clam chowder with potatoes and yeah, so good. Yeah had
that I tried Hagis actually really liked it, really liked
the black pudding.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Wow. Okay, see there you go.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah there.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Did you try a traditional English breakfast too?

Speaker 1 (11:29):
With the traditional English mescal eats full English is all
the time?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, yeah, he makes them at home.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
But anyway, Yeah, it's uh, it was an amazing trip.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm so glad I went.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Aside from all of the beauty and everything, uh, my
trip with my mom, I think that'll be one of
the most like special trips that we will ever get
to take. Yeah, and I just I like I was
at her beck and call before you know, I was

(12:05):
like just the trying to anticipate anything she might need,
anything that might she might worry about or you know,
because she worries.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
We know that about Janice.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yes, she's so I was like, Okay, if I were
worrying about things, right, so I would be like, no,
I already called the hotel or I did this blah
blah blah.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
So it was just a really special trip.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
And I had an amazing time with my mom and.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
We had some really cute pictures and fun and we
did not uh, we did not kill each other.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
We survived it.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Look at that, right, I think it wasn't until the last.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Day where like I think just because of the chaos
of flying home and everything that was. You know, I'm
getting texts that are like, your flight's going to be delayed,
and I'm not telling her. I'm just like.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
You need to know, basis.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
But yeah, other than that, that was and she was
sick and I was frands so but you know, we
we did a really great trip, you didn't I got
to see some really cool stuff and oh.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
No, she's going to remember that for the rest of
her life. There's such special memories. When I lived over
there for a year to do my master's. The last month,
my husband at the time, Jeremy, he had to fly
back to the US, so I was going to be
alone and I was newly pregnant with Tate. Came over
to England to York where we were living, and she

(13:33):
and I lived together for my last month of the program.
She was helping me through morning sickness. Nice stuff. But
we would like walk to the grocery store and walk
home with our groceries. So I just I get it
being in a country with your mom. It's like there's
just nothing like it.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, and especially now, you know, having kids and and
just in life being busy and crazy, and you know,
we I don't get to see him as often and
we don't get to you know. And this was this
was like the big blowout trip of her lifetime that
she's always wanted to do. So I was I felt
really honored that I got to do that with her

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and for her.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
So I am so happy for Janice. Yay, what wonderful memories.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
We just got to figure out Mescal's UK citizenship and.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Uh oh off to Scotland we go. Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yes, Yeah, that's the parachute plan right now, and start
establishing my residency over there.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Now, you know, a couple of cows.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Or two, Yeah, you could live in a yurt with
a couple of cows.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
I'm just going to go for the nable villager.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Just take it.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Back to just the Saxons, you know what I mean,
like not even a pre tutor. Let's just go like
like Roman invasion of England.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Let's yes, Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm not showering.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Anymore, living off the land. No, just forget it technology
because because I know how to.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Do any of that, so it's going to work out
really well. We can all be witches. Yes, Oh, speaking
of witches, I did go to several. I mean we
went to Stonehenge, but then in Scotland we also went
to another group of what are called standing stones, and
it was incredible. And these ones you could get up

(15:19):
and touch and be amongst them and in them, because
you know, Stonehenge they only do it now I think
twice a year for for uh Lunar for equinox ceremonies,
which are stonehenges.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
For anyway, we had little.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Divining rods and I saw these people with them. I
didn't have them, you know, like the little metal things.
And I was like, oh this is Look at these tourists,
you know, as I'm paying a tourist and because you know,
they get off the bus and and we're like, oh
you know, we had our like they just hear come
the Highland cattle.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
And so anyway, I watched this lady like.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Walk in between the one set of stones and this
other stone that's on the outer circle and literally they
just the two things go whoo and they're like it
was like, I mean.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Like they flipped to either side.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh, and I was like this ladies doing Look, I
can go for woolo, but I am a healthy skeptic
and I love.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Science as you should be.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yes, I was like, this is I don't know. So
she's like, hey, you want to try, and I was like, okay,
I'll get it a try. So I like, you know,
lightly hold them in my hand or whatever. As I
get to the point where she was standing, when they sad,
it was like they vibrated in your hand and all
of a sudden they just you feel It's like when
you put two ends of a magnet together and you

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can feel that slight pressure.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
That's exactly what you feel. Oh no, it's really cool.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Because you're like, this is there's something that they knew
something different here and I don't know you know what
it is, but like it's it's literally there's some sort of.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Magnet there and you know, some sort of energy. Yeah
it was, but it was.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Really cool and it was cool to be like get
up amongst them and Stonehenge is much bigger than I
thought I.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Was gonna ask, like, yeah, what they's like.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Sixteen feet tall, twenty feet tall? Okay, I think the
tallest one is, like yeah, oh yeah there. I thought
they would be like door six feet yeah, door height
maybe you know what I mean? Like, oh that's good. No,
they're big, They're giant. Yeah, which makes it all the
more impressive.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, super impressive.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Anyways, you wonder how did they how.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Did they how did they do it? How did they
build it? How did they?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I listened to all of the audio tour. My mom
was not interested, but I was like she basically I
would get the audio tour for everywhere we went, and
I was like, do you want it?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
She was like no, you'll just tell.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Me what it is.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
You are the audio tour.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
She was like, why do I need an audio tour?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
And like with my cane and the thing, I can't
I can't.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Deal with though, that just give me the highlights.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
I was like, okay, so yeah it was. I learned
a lot, but I won't go into a complete dissertation
on Stonehenge right now.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
We can save it for another day.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Like that'll be.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Is Neolithic rock formations and what they meant to? Uh,
you know, you know what iron age humans.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
There's a niche for that, Like people would tune in
and totally listen to that and be like, hey, I
mean I would rude style.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Let's just discuss how rude style history, how rud history.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
What did I just got a thumbs up on my
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Did you update your zoom? Whoa?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Now I'm getting fireworksworks? What did I do? You must have.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Done an update? How come I'm not?

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I I guess if I was, like, I come like
from England and my computer.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Is happy to see me. Fireworks were celebrating. Yes you're back.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I'm honored. Yes, I'm honored. Thanks you guys, thanks for
letting me go out on the longest tangent ever and
recount my trip. It's been eighteen minutes and people want
me to shut the hell up so that we can get.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
To the point. No, I could not wait. Don't ever
get to the point, you guy.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
You never point. No, it's either we can talk about
this or roosters or menopause. Like I will did send you?

Speaker 1 (19:14):
I didn't. I think I tried to send you. I
was out somewhere and I saw there was a small
storefront in Penzance called cock soup and I took a
picture of it for you. No excuse me, it was
not in Penzance. It was it was literally like a
soup somewhere that we saw in like a small market,
and I took a picture of it for you. I

(19:34):
should have bought it, but I had no room in
my suitcase for even what I had to wear.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
But yeah, they do.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
They they have cock soup in in England. So you're
welcome and now you can, you know, let your.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Next door cock.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
I can have my soup and listen to the rooster
and it's all very much.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
I wonder if if there's.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
I almost said, I wonder if there's in the soup, Jody,
what because I met, like rooster, I want is there?
I was like, it's actually, you know, I want to
rooster in this in the because would that be weird
to be like eating a bowl of soup and staring
at the one next door. I feel like you'd be

(20:17):
slightly menacing.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah, that's giving off vibes that I don't want to
give off.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
So, I mean, you did talk about him waking up
in the morning. I'm just saying this equal bowl of
soup by the window. You might be surprised my breakfast
cock sitting in the window and be like see this, Yeah,
you see what's coming.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
A little mild threats, that's all.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, just you know, quietly threatening small barnyard animals next door.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Well, thank you for.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Joining us today.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Everyone. You know what I haven't done. It's like, I
haven't done this in two weeks. And I'm like so
excited to be an idiot because I had to be
so responsible.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, that's right, you had to be a grown up
for you.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Just let it out, you know, just let it And
I even I got to see my scal in Edinburgh
because he was in the UK at the same time
for a soccer game. So if you come over and
have dinner with us in Edinburgh for the evening and yeah,
and then he and I went on a graveyard tour.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
So that was what a what a date night?

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well he know he was like, I know you babe,
you you wanted to do something I feels. I was like, yes,
I do you want to go through carrying on ground?

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
I hang out in old cemeteries. I just is that
ly like.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
You can just I guess they're the only ones.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, that's the truth, you know.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Okay, hang out with people just to do you talk
to them or you just walk around? Oh okay, of
course they do. Hang my guys, you don't forever.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
They'll let you know if you have like the D Day,
lots more those thing they have food trucks and everything
and all sit down with friends around the little graves
and be like, Hi, do you mind if we eat
with you tonight? And we'll you know, leave a little
offering for him.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Okay, So I like that. I do like that.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, my next date night is going to be a cemetery.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Let's don't tempt me with a good time.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Your house with a gosh and a shovel. I'm a
grave robbing than that. But it's taking it a step too.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Maybe a Wiji board, yeah, speaking of Ouiji boards shot
the show. I don't know, Oisi boards have nothing.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
It works, so it works. Yeah, Hey there, faner Ritos.
We have a very exciting announcement to make.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
We are hosting a live event on June fifth at
the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, California.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
And it is not just any live event, oh no,
in honor of Jesse and Becky's wedding in season four.
Not only will this event be wedding themed, we will
also have John Stamos and Laurie Laughlin joining us.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
This is amazing. Plus we have a few special guests
who will be making an appearance as well. Trust us,
it is going to be the vow renewal of the season,
of the year.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Okay, We've never done anything like this. I'm so exciting.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I don't know what's going to happen. If you listen
to this podcast, you know you don't either, so.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
But we promise it will be entertaining. You can buy tickets.
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Speaker 1 (23:32):
We can't wait to see you guys there. So dress
in your best wedding attire on June fifth, and we
will see you at Jesse and Becky's power renewal. Yay,
Welcome back to Howard Dan Ritos. I'm Andrea Barber, I
am Jody Sweeten, and we are so glad that you
are Jody Sweeten. Uh.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Today we're discussing finally, Season four, episode twenty three, Joey
goes Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Another Joey, Another Joey Story Like a Joey Story.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
It originally aired March twenty ninth, nineteen ninety one, and
it goes a little something like this. When Joey leaves
for Los Angeles to begin filming his new television series
with two prolific actors, the rest of the Tanner family
decides to join him.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Sure they do.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
It's it's like, it's like this is going on location,
but not like you were traveling from San Francisco to Rollywood,
even though we were taking the thing in Hollywood. So yeah,
missed opportunity for a field trip here. It was directed
by Joelswick, It was written by Leslie Ray and David
steven Simon. And we have two very very very famous

(24:46):
guest stars, Frankie Avalon and Annette Food of Celloo.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
My mom was so excited when they were on the show.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh yeah, my parents too. Yeah. And just like in
the show, you know that for us we.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Were like like, oh who are Yeah, yeah, I'm embarrassed
about Basically, it would be like the Brittany and Justin.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Of their day.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, oh totally, That's exactly who it was. Yeah, it
was like America's couple. But yeah they yeah, they were
the couple. Yes, so you know them best from the
nineteen sixty three film Beach Party and its numerous sequels.
Frankie is still actively touring and performing. He'll be in
Vegas this weekend because he.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Will, Yes, he will. And it still sounds great.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Oh yeah, No, he's very well preserved and just his.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Voice though, you know, he's got it rather he sing
some rather high notes in some of those songs Venus
and Church.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, I'm doing pretty well.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
He's fantastic. And then Annette Funicello. She debuted as a Mouseketeer,
as Danny says in the episode, and she was diagnosed
with multiple sclerosis in nineteen eighty three, but didn't announce
it until nineteen ninety two, a year after this episode. Yeah,
and she sadly passed away in thirteen. So I did

(26:05):
notice that in the show, like they either have her
kind of sitting or leaning up or like something to
grab onto. It's just kind of like those those early signs.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Right, well, I mean, gosh, at that point it had
been over ten years. So yeah, you know, I'm sure
that I'm sure that she was working really hard to
keep it as quiet as possible, which is Yeah, that's
really hard, but it was. But she was so lovely
and sweet and great.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah, she was just the quintessential Mouseketeer just right.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
And she was watching like still a Disney star at
like and just the both of them the smile.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
But yeah, oh they have got that. It's like you
can't teach that stuff. It's like you either got it
or they've got it. Rove with her.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I was like, oh, yeah, you were a child actor,
you know how.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Just it's like you can't take you can take the
child actor out of the studio, but you can't take
the Hollywood out of the so oh oh and fun fact,
both Frankie and Annette reunited in nineteen eighty seven four
Back to the Beach, also starring Lori Lachlan. So yes,
amazing like a little reunion them.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Beach Blanket Bingo Reunion momentw those.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Were great movies. Loved it. And next we have Sean
Aura Ingja Men as Sean Southwick. That's a lot of
consonants all in one. Uh that is one line. She
was married to Larry King for twenty two years and

(27:39):
they have two They had two children together.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Is this did she is she the last one that
they had two kids together, didn't they Yes, yeah, but stiled.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
For divorce three times. But technically they were married at
the time of his passing, so she's the legal widow
of Larry King. I think they were kind of wait,
why are you not or nothing?

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I didn't say anything, doesn't say anything that you were judging.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I wouldn't do that. Judge nothing.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
We jud no, especially when it comes to marriage's divorces, like,
I don't know. I was just like, damn. She was
smart about it.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
No, yeah, anyway.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Very smart. She's She also did a smattering of appearances
on Night Writer Benson, Simon and Simon and Who's the
Boss So fantastic. Then we have Bob Purlow as Bob Purlow.
He's our warm up guy. Yeah, and he's a fantastic comedian. Hilarious. Ah,
he's really, He's really fantastic. He's also a writer. He

(28:41):
wrote for Who's the Boss, Mister Belvedere and Laverne and Shirley,
and he was on another. He was played an announcer
on Full House I think season one, so he's been
seen before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of a recurring announcer,
warm up person.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
He is the Debbie Gregory of the show announcers. He's
just gonna keeps coming back as multiple show announcers at
different places.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Totally yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
And then, last, but certainly not least, we have Michelle
Smith and Cindy Pass as Laker Girl number one and
number two.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
I decided who got one and who got to Yeah,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Know, Yeah, I don't know how.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
It must have been negotiated by their their agents.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I don't know. Yeah. Well, but here's the weird thing.
I looked them up. I don't know if they were
actually late. They're not credited as being actual Laker girls
like I looked them up on Lakers History Lakers website.
I lied to Jeff right there was a dancer that
had appeared in several things as a dancer in Maybe

(29:45):
they were.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
U B string Laker girls, you know what I mean.
Maybe they were the like if somebody, uh gets Nancy Kerrigan,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Fill in somebody.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
The Laker girls under the Laker Girl understudies, right right,
That's what I got for setting off careers.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Anyways.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Uh yeah, So many guest stars this week, very exciting.
We start with the teaser in Michelle's room, Michelle tells
Jesse it's puppet time.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
I love a good puppet show.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
This is right up your alley, yep. But Jesse doesn't
really like this idea, so Michelle gives him puppy dog
eyes and says, I would do it for you. Jesse
congratulates her on her very first guilt trip or first,
but this is like at least the third or fourth
or twelve.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
She's been perfecting.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
This for a while with jesseelse, want him to move
back in? Right?

Speaker 2 (30:45):
That was the ultimate guilt trip? Is like, yeah, Teddy
Bear saw, he.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Won't do puppet show, but he will sacrifice his entire
newly went life, right right?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Come on? So Michelle continues to pout until Jesse finally
gives in. He places a chipmunk puppet on his hand.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
I think it's actually a beaver, but whatever beaver, yeahs chipmunk,
but it is.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's a beaver.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's got two very pronounced front teeth and a and
a non squirrel looking head.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Oh so the squirrel. Yeah, the squirrel doesn't have the
prominent teeth, does it the beaver?

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Squirrel from right?

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:23):
I know.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Let's let's not get into like squirrel atmolishy, he'd easily
go off on another thirty minutes.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
I've listened to a podcast about it.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'm sure okay.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Anyways, so he's got the chipmunk slash beaver puppet and
Michelle has the lion puppet. She growls and says, I'm
gonna get you chipmunk. Jesse is much less enthused. He
blandly states, oh no, oh no, be nice to me,
Be nice to me, and Michelle is not satisfied with
this performance. She reminds him that a chipmunk sounds squeak.

(32:01):
Jesse tries his line again, but Michelle tells him to
be even squeakier.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Stepped on dog toy.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
It totally sounds like it. Uh So he tries again,
and that's when DJ walks in, telling Jesse that dinner's ready.
Jesse responds in his squeaky voice. Coming, Michelle suggests to
her uncle, you stay in practice, I'll go eat. He
picks her up and falls onto the bed, tickling her
in response, all right, short and sweet yep, that'll yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
What more do you need?

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Next? In the girl's room, Kimmy and DJ are seated
at the table doing homework. Kimmy is not so slyly
copying DJ's entire paper. So DJ tells her to stop.
Kimmy questions, what makes you think I'm copying you? And
DJ proves it by picking up her paper and reading
the title aloud What America Means to Me by DJ Tanner.

(32:55):
Then Steph comes trudging in. She announces, I am sick
of Stephanie. Kim Me nods I know the feeling. Steff
rolls her eyes, clarifying that she meant her name. She
goes on to explain that some kid at school called
her step on me and the whole class started going
along with it. Oh the step on Me episode.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, yeah, because nobody called me step on me after that.
I'll tell you that much. Yeah, I know that didn't
get that wasn't my name? You get old. No, no,
I didn't actually live this in my life and want
to change my name to don.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Your poor thing. You had to deal with the teasing
and this isn't even your name, Like that's the crazy part.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, but kids will make fun of anything, but at
the time you don't know that. I mean, look, we
were in the same boat. It was easy. Yeah, No,
it was very, very, very different. I will still punch
somebody in the mouth that they called me step on me.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, I'm kidding, okay, challenge challenge response, I can't help it.
The Pavlovian Steph doesn't know how this caught on so fast.
She turned her back, and sure enough we see a
piece of paper that has been taped to her back
and it reads step on me. Kimmy grabs the paper
and shows it to her. Steph snatches it out of
her hands and says, how rude. Apparently this is her

(34:13):
last straw. Steph decides she's going to change her name
to something cool, and Kimmy offers, well, how about an
Indian name like little pain in neck.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's a great joke.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yeah, this was awkward.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Sorry, sorry, guys, we would like to preemptibly apologize to
the indigenous community for this coming joke.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
It was we were children.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Please don't hate us, okay.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Steph smirks before snapping back, If we're going with Indian
names that would make you big hole in head, then,
Danny Watterson, I do like that one. It's she was
our role, you know, Stephanie was definitely on like a
frenemy role in this is hilarious scene. So then Danny
walks in. He's laughing at a piece of paper that

(35:00):
he's holding, and he continues to laugh as he tells DJ,
your phone bell is so funny this month, I just
had to share it with you. He explains that the
funniest part is a fifty six dollars call to Tokyo.
His smile quickly transforms into a frown as he tells
his daughter to explain herself. DJ insists she didn't make

(35:20):
a call to Tokyo. Danny nods and makes his way
over to Stephanie, who immediately throws Kimmy under the bus. Yes,
but you know what, it's a great just blame Kimmy
for everything, the hole in the wall, the calls to Japan,
like they.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Can like you any less, you know, right, even if
they tell you do not show up. You're coming over anyway.
So it says, Yeah, what's the harm if I just
blame and everything on her. I thought it was a
great I thought it was a great idea.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
But Kimmy insists, I did not make that call. I've
never been so insulted in all my life. Stephanie argues, yes,
you have. I just nailed you with that hole in
the head joke. Don't you remember, of course not. You
got a big hole in your head. You're like doing
a tight ten. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was doing it.
It was uh yeah, it was great.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
It was I tell myself, Yeah, I don't know who
I was.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
I was, who are you?

Speaker 1 (36:14):
I don't know who I was channeling in.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
That moment, But yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
So Kimmy starts to angrily pack her things. She tells
Steph as soon as I think of a comeback, I'm
coming back, and Steph lets out a sigh. Well, then
I guess this is goodbye forever. She bursts into more laughter,
exclaiming that's three in a row. I kill myself. It's
very entertained. She's entertaining herself. Man. Oh yeah. So then

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Joey nonchalantly walks in and tells them, oh, I'm just
going to LA for a couple of hours. He walks out,
and everyone follows after him to see what is going on.
After they leave, Michelle sneaks into the girls room without
anyone noticing. She makes a bline for DJ's phone and
starts to press on random numbers as she sings row
row Row your boat. A woman on the other line

(37:02):
answers Moshi Moshi. Michelle responds, Miko son, Moshi, Moshi. Dude.
The woman recognizes Michelle's voice, and Michelle catches her up
on her latest accomplishment. She can count to one hundred,
so she starts to count one, two, three and casually
lays back on DJ's pillow without a care in the world.

(37:23):
Nko is a very.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Patient person because if a child from another country called
me in a language that I didn't speak and started
counting to one hundred, I.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Know, Miko, it's just you know what, I bet Miko
is another like four year old across the you know. Yeah,
maybe he's a four year old who's also left alone,
and that's why he's answering a virtual friend. Yeah, so
I think this is why this is the The two
four year olds are meeting in this little phone date
to entertain themselves.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
So they're then thus setting us up for why we
go to Tokyo in fuller house even though Michelle's not
there looking for her.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
That's what it is in motion.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Great, why didn't we need to rewrite there? Let's go
reshoot right now. I love it. So next in Joey's room,
we continue Joey packs for his short trip. As the
family inquires about this trip to LA he tells them
he simply has a craving for those honey roasted peanuts
that they give you on the plane. Danny obviously isn't

(38:19):
buying this, considering he wouldn't fly to LA for one
measly bag of peanuts. Joey counters, I get another bag.
On the way back, the girls start to hound him,
asking why is he going, And while they were distracted,
Michelle is still county to one hundred to her friend
in Tokyo. She's already in the thirties, but she accidentally
skips number thirty seven, so she decides to start all

(38:41):
over again. That's that fifty six dollars is going right, right,
So it's not getting chat.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
It's like call me after nine when you know long
distance is free? Yeah, it's everyone everyone under like thirty
five is like long long distance?

Speaker 3 (38:59):
What's they're like long distance? What's that?

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Why don't you just text him? Why don't you sap them?

Speaker 3 (39:03):
And we're like, uh yeah. So next in the living room,
Danny and the girls are chasing Joey down the stairs,
still asking him for answers. Jesse and Becky appear in
the living room, asking what's going on. Danny tells them
that Joey's trying to make a run for it, so
Jesse barricades himself in front of the door to prevent
him from leaving. But then Jesse realizes he doesn't actually

(39:25):
know what's going on, so dj explains Joey said he's
flying to La to get honey roasted peanuts. Joey sighs,
do you guys have to know everything about my life?
They all nod and say yes in unison. Come on, Joey.
That's the codependency of the Tanner family.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
This is the most codependent family ever, because they all
come running and they're like, what's happening? There's a discussions
what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (39:47):
What are we doing?

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Right? Secondly, did he think that anyone was gonna buy
the peanut excuse?

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Is? He? Like?

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Oh god, I can't believe that didn't work.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
They'd leave me alone.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
So I then don't announce it to be like I'm
going to the mall.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Wait for a few hours, come back. None, none the
wiser say you're going for a long, long ride around town. Whatever.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah, you didn't have to this was like, it's gonna
take me a while there.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
It's he goes alone in this house Michelle, except she's
the only one that she's still up.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Talking to Mika. Maybe she it's my choice me.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
She's like, people are together all the time.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Oh, you know what, that's an interesting take. I never
thought of that. It's Michelle's choice to be alone all
the time. I don't blame her. I need some serious
solitude time in that house. So Joey finally admits he's
going to Hollywood to audition for a TV pilot for
a new situation comedy. Obviously, they all cheer him on

(40:49):
because this is very exciting news.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
But Joey, you ever just have you ever actually heard
someone call it a situation comedy other than someone who
is explained I was like, because I was like, maybe
maybe they did call it situation.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
I was like, no, it's always been.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
It's a sitcoms always in sitcom it is, yeah, sort
of portmanteau of yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah, No, I don't nobody uses situational situational comedy anymore. No,
it's just sick. We don't we don't have time for
those long shorten it to sitcom, so Joey is frustrated.
He tells them this is exactly why he wanted to
keep it a secret. Chances are he won't get it
and it'll cause disappointment for everyone, And after weighing those odds,

(41:34):
he wonders, why am I even going? He walks over
to the couch and everyone follows him. Danny speaks up,
where your family, there's no pressure, and then he asks
Joey what the new show is about. Joey tells them
Frankie Evalon and Annette Funicello are starring in it, and
Danny is instantly starstruck. I love her. I got to

(41:54):
meet her. Yo, you got to get this part. But hey,
no pressure. Becky chimes in, this is so exciting. Frankie
and Annette DJ awkwardly asks who are they, and Joey
tells the girls they're the stars of all those classic
beach party movies, Remember DJ and stuff? Say no, so
Jesse takes a different approach. Frankie had all those hits

(42:15):
like Venus and A DEEDI Dina remember those again. Girls
have no clue what they're talking about. Becky tells them
Annette did all those peanut butter commercials and instantly Djay
and stuff know exactly who she's referring to.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
And I have this moment so often now these days,
just so where you were like, do you know that guy?

Speaker 3 (42:35):
And they're like, oh, yep, no, Tho's were great commercials,
Skippy delicious, so uh oh. Danny explains that Annette was
also one of the original Mouseketeers. He begs Joey when
you meet her, tell her. Danny Tanner says, hello, she'll
remember me. I sent her a fan letter back in
nineteen sixty eight. Joey tells him there's no way, but

(42:56):
Danny insists I wrote her a seven page letter and
I sprinkled it with my favorite scent, lemon pledge. Joey
clarifies he was talking about the part he's probably not
gonna get it. Jesse tries to cheer him up, telling
him he's gotta think positive.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, you're a part of this household. You literally and
will get anything that you just think about.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Right, this house is all about toxic positivity, things just
working out, even toxic positivity.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
They're like, just you're gonna get the show, just like
everyone in this house is gonna get what they want.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Right. Yes, the Tanners are at the center of the
universe and they always get thinks always work out for them.
Uh so, Jesse points out into the distance and tells
Joey to picture it. He's the biggest star in America.
The Joey Gladstone Show has just gone to number one.
He comes home after making four hundred million people laugh.

(43:49):
The camera zoom's in on Joey's face, and we begin
a dream sequence. O gotta read them sequence. It's been
a hot minute, so uh here we go.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Don't let there be any giant Michelle's please, don't look
a giant.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Michelle's no, fish eye lenses, no giant, Michelle's yes, no.
This dream sequence takes place in the hallway. There's a
red carpet up there, and Michelle stands on it to
announce he's coming. He's coming. The entire family lines up
on either side of the red carpet, still wearing the
same clothes from the present day, and excitedly whispering about Joey.

(44:25):
Michelle dramatically shouts He's Joey. A fog machine, a bright
spotlight and loud music enhance his entrance as the family
cheers for him. He is sporting sunglasses indoors tight leather pants,
which's so Dave.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Oh, Dave is just such a fan of tight leather pants.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Oh you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
So I'm sweating just thinking about this.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
He's wearing a bright yellow bomber that says big TV
Star on the front and some gold chains to tie
it all together. It's quite the look. Thanks the adoring
crowd and tells them to cut it out. They erupt
into laughter at the classic catchphrase, and Jesse pushes open
the door to Joey's room, which has a big gold
star hung on it. Inside, two Laker girls meet Joey

(45:13):
at two four Laker girls full Laker girls unconfirmed. They
walk him too the center of the room before performing
a personalized cheer for him. Danny breathlessly asks are these
really Laker girls, and Joey boasts really not. No, don't
tell Danny and don't tell Jeff Right, Joey says, at

(45:36):
Laker games they're Laker girls. The rest of the time,
they're Joey girls. The girls each give him a kiss
on the cheek, and Joey playfully tells them to hit
the showers, which sends them running off Becky turns to
Joey in awe, you're the funniest man in America. Joey
waves her off, No, I'm not, and the family erupts

(45:56):
into laughter again. Then Kimmy pops out from under Joey's vanity.
So this was so bizarre. She runs up to him
with a camera strapped around her neck as she squeals,
it's Joey Gladstone.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
There's just there's an old school memory. A camera strapped
around your neck. Right.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
I don't remember this bit at all, Like I was
shocked to see my here in me. It's me, and
I'm acting unhinged. So Joey runs to the back of
the room, saying no pictures please. Yet, he takes the
sailor's cap off his mannequin and places it on his head.
He tells Kimmy, okay, maybe just one. He stands next
to a giant picture of himself and strikes a pose.

(46:38):
Kimmy snaps the picture before running up to him screaming, Joey,
I love you. She starts kissing his neck, so he
calls for security. This is so awkward.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
It was strange.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
I went, oh, gee, I was fourteen whatever I was. Yeah,
I was just it was just yeah, it was just
a weird.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
You could have still grabbed around Oh my god, you know,
like whatever, like lost it. But yeah, I was like,
well we didn't. That was a thing that we did.
But yeah, look we had two the fake Laker girls
that just ran off into the fourth wall like nothing,
and it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Have to make sense. Is a dream definitely doesn't make care.
So security comes and snatches Kimmy off of Joey and
carries her out of the room with ease.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
No, wait, he was actually one of the guards on set,
wasn't he? Or so he was somebody's body bodyguard John.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
He looked familiar, So yeah, I think he.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Might have worked done personal security for John or maybe
for the studio for maybe or wherever, yeah, Sony or whatever.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
But yeah, he looked familiar.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
He didn't he definitely, I definitely think he was either
John's personal security or was our on stage security.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Yeah. I agree with that, because, yeah, he looked familiar
and he did a great job. You should have gotten
a credit. He didn't have a line. They should have
given me a line and a credit. Then the phone rings,
Danny answers Joey's room, his eyes go wide as he
tells everyone's oh my god, it's Julia Roberts. The entire
family gathers onto the bed to listen in on the call.
Joey answers, Hello, pretty woman, dinner tonight in Paris? Hey,

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why not? I'm in the mood for French fries. The
family bursts into laughter at the cheesy joke. Is this
where the show jumps the shark?

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Like?

Speaker 3 (48:22):
This is just what I kept asking myself the whole
dream sequence.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Well it's but again, I'm like, oh, it's a Joey episode,
I know, and it's supposed to be that the jokes
are terrible and that we're just like, oh, sort of
laughing at him, you know.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Yeah, I just you think he's endlessly funny, even though
this is not funny. But yeah, right right?

Speaker 2 (48:42):
It was like some elected officials.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Was.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
It did have the cheese factor turned up to a ten,
and so I was like, oh, yeah. So Jesse approaches
Joey and admits you're my hero. You've got the greatest
hair I've ever seen. I want to have hair like yours.
But then Jesse snaps out of it and asks, why
am I saying this? Joey reminds him it's because it's

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my fantasy Jess. Then he calls for Nelson, the security guard,
to come snatch Jesse away. Nelson picks him up and
carries him out of the room as Jesse pleads watch
the hair the hair. Michelle tells Joey, You're as funny
as bugs Bunny. Joey gives her a knowing smile, and
then we start to fade out of the dream sequence
as Michelle's words echo in his ears.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
You know, I had to think, wouldn't it be a
bummer to have your dream sequence of yourself still not
be funny?

Speaker 3 (49:39):
I know, right? You know what I mean? Painful?

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Make yourself like brilliant?

Speaker 3 (49:44):
You know right now this was almost like they were
making fun of the dream sequence is making fun of Joey.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
It just yeah, because maybe it's because Joey has, you know,
very low self esteem.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
He definitely needs to talk to a therapist, he needs
to work. Where's Michelle? So we're back to reality In
the living room, Joey is beaming after this incredible dream sequence,
repeating Michelle's words about I'm as funny as bugs Bunny.
He frantically tells the family, I gotta get to La.
When the Laker girls get out of the shower, tell

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them I'll be right back. Everyone shoots him a puzzled look,
but Joey begins to rush out of the house and
they all wish him good luck. Right before he leaves,
Michelle walks into the room and asks, what's going on, goes.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I've been out of the room for the whole time.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Yeah, she's been talking to Miko Soltons.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
She's been on the phone to Tokyo.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
That's right. She had to get to her while to
get to one hundred because she kept skipping thirty sevens.
So Stephanie explains where Joey's going to Hollywood, So say goodbye,
and Michelle cheerfully says sayonara, and Joey repeats it back
before leaving. The rest of the family follows Joey outside,
but Danny turns to Michelle with suspicion. He repeats, sayonara, Michelle,

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did you call Tokyo? And Michelle shouts, Hi, Daddy's son. Well, Danny,
he put two and two together. That's what he's been
calling Japan.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Do you think this is what made.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Japanese fans so excited about the moment. This was the moment,
I'm sure, because I bet they were like, oh, yes,
this is exactly how I love to show. It's meant
to be.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
I don't know, but I wonder if we were this
popular in Japan at this point in season four.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Because there's syndicated maybe that.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Would have been after season that would be after season four.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
I would just like to think that we manifested Tokyo
all these years ago.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Yeah, because it's mentioned several times in the original series.
We go there in the fuller series, So yeah, this
is us manifesting it right here. Amazing. The next in
the kitchen, Michelle is drawing at her little table when
Danny walks over. He gives her a different phone and explains,
from now on, if you want to call Tokyo, you
can make a pretend call on this pretend phone, and

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I'll be happy to pay the pretend bills. Okay, except
it looks like a real phone. It's not like a
Fisher Price phone.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
It looks like he just unplugged a phone somewhere in
the house and was like, here have this pretend phone.
Here's your pretend phone that looks like a real phone.
But that's not confusing, right.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
The poor child doesn't even get a toy phone, Like,
come on, like, buy her some toys.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
She's been left alone for hours. They'd be like, I
don't know, pick up that screw off the floor.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
See what she does with it. You know, here's a
rusty nail. Yeah, here's a bag filled with sawdust and joy.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
So Michelle gives him a thumbs up. You got it, dude,
and then Becky walks in and asks if Joey's back.
Jesse says no, but he shows off the special cake
he made for Joey. Once he hits the cake reads
congrats Joey, and Becky admits, well, that's sweet, but what
if he doesn't get the part. Jesse's got it covered.
He explains that if he would simply remove some of

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the wording so the cake would say rats Joey. Pretty smart. Yeah. Meanwhile,
Michelle is pretending to talk to her friend from Tokyo
on her new phone. When she receives no response on
the other end, she realizes this is nuts.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
I'm talking to myself, yeah, which.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Is what she was trying to avoid all the time.
You know, She's like, God, my family's not gonnaalk me.
I'm gonna call somebody in another country, like they took away.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
The one person that would talk to her now, Like
she's just yeah, talking to herself, this poor child. So
Jesse calls out to steph to tell her dinner's ready,
but DJ chimes in, I think you guys ought to
know that Stephanie's not Stephanie anymore. She decided to change
her name. DJ calls out for Dawn instead, and that's

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when we hear a familiar voice. Yeall coming, Danny questions Dawn,
and the former Stephanie boasts, it's got a lovely ring
to it, don't you.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Think, just swaning into the room.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Yeah, your physical embodiment of this name is so yeah.
I just I fully enjoyed this.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
I just needed like a kaftan and it was, you know,
Don definitely.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Wore a cape. Danny asks, well, what's wrong with her
real name? And Don winces no offense, But how can
you compare Stephanie to down? She glides towards the table
with newfound happiness at the name change.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Did you ever have a name that you wished was
your name instead of Andrea? Like, did you have a
favorite You're like oh, I wish.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
No, I don't think I did. Did you ever you did? Oh?
I did? I did?

Speaker 1 (54:44):
It was either Serena or Sabrina, either one of those,
but I leaned more like if I was a princess,
I was always Princess Serena.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Yeah, Princess Serena. I'm going to call you Serena Serena
Sweden from now. Oh boy.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
So.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Then Joey bursts through the door and asks Everyone asks
about his audition. He tells them he doesn't know if
he got the part yet, so Jesse asks how did
it go? Joey can't hide his grin. I don't want
to pat myself on the back or toot my own horn,
but he does just that, imitates a trumpet while patting
his back to brag about his performance. Then the phone

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rings and Joey realizes it could be his agent. He
quickly answers Michelle's fake phone and calls out for his agent,
but no one's there.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Ah, that's why Michelle got a fake phone, right, It's.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
The whole damn reason for this.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
After way too much time has passed, Danny finally gives
Joey a heads up that the phone is pretend This
means Michelle has had enough time to answer the real phone.
She talks to Joey to talk to somebody, anyone will listen.
She talks to Joey's agent and says, Hi, Eddie, I
can count a hundred.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
She just wants to show off for counting skills.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
She does.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
She's got a practice, She's doing her homework.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
She starts to count again, but Joey quickly cuts her
off and asks his agent what's going on. After a
suspenseful moment of him and his agent talking back and forth,
he hangs up and everyone asks what happened. Joey quietly
walks up to all of them before announcing I got
the part. They all cheer for him. Joey is in disbelief.

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I'm gonna be on a show with Frankie and Annette.
We're all going to Hollywood. You guys are gonna see
me shoot the pilot.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
Wooo.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Of course, of course the whole family has to go.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
We are.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Right for tickets can wake up San Francisco jobs, These
jobs transportation, plane tickets details. Yeah, Michelle will be there
to hold down the fort. It's fine, totally.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Yeah, she'll run the house. So next, we're on the
Hollywood set, which is our actual sound stage, ye, which
is just so like core memories for you. Right.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
I can smell those walls, the like wheels, chicken wire
over there, like thick padding of those things that have
been there for like nine hundred years have the ghosts
of old studio actors in them.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
Yeah, it's so dusty and all the lumber and yeah,
this was it was. It's a joy to see the
behind the scenes. Literally, they were like, oh, it looks
like crap. God, I love it.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
I know it's like home for us. So Joey is
backstage in a bathrobe when the whole family swarms him and.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Asks for his autograph.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
He jokingly says no autographs, please, and Jesse mutters, oh,
how soon they forget the little people. Joey caves and
takes each of their books to sign, but then he
jokingly asks what are your names again? Before they get
caught up in his new found stardom. And Nette Funicello
walks by, Danny gasps at the sight of her and

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admits she looks just as beautiful as she did on
The Mickey Mouse Club. Michelle's eyes go wide that lady
knows Mickey Mouse. She asks Joey for her book back
and takes it right over to Anette. She asks the
famous actress, excuse me, are you Annette Funny Jello, and
Annette grins something like that, Hi, sweetheart. Danny nervously walks

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up to his daughter and explains Miss Funuchello is getting
ready for the show, so you can't bother her right now.
He pushes Michelle back towards the family, but apparently his
rules don't apply to him, and he extends a hand
out to Annette and says, it's so nice to meet you.
He gushes, I've loved you ever since the first time
I saw you go, Annette, and Annette reacts her old

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Mickey Mouse Club introduction to show him exactly how it's done,
and Danny copies her, but adds his own name to
the mix.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Danny, so much game, so much game.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
It was a cute bit like it was cute, but
very cute. Enjoyed watching a Nett do her thing. It's
She's just magical. So he gets flustered and he introduces
himself by his full name, Danny Tanner, and sure enough,
Annette remembers exactly who he is she'd never forget his
lemon pledge scented fan letter. Danny grins from ear to ear.

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I knew you'd remember me. She admits it was the
only time a fan offered to clean my house, and
he tells her that the offer still stands.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
That's even creepier.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Yeah, yeah, it is crapy clean your house.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Excuse me, right, I don't think I want.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
You in my under you know, I don't.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Need I don't even need you taking out my trash.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
Really creepy.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
It's okay, it's you know, the joke got to work.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
I mean, the joke work.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Poor Annette doesn't have a dressing room, you know, because
it's such a low budget show. They're all just floating
around backstage and bath hobes.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
So yeah, let's give this woman some like her agent
did not negotiate a dressing room to that contract. So
Jesse and Becky are watching Danny's awkward interaction, and Becky
pokes fun at him for being so starstruck. But then
Frankie Avalon appears and Becky quickly eats her words. She
screams at the sight of him and tells the famous actor,

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mister Avalon, you are so cute. She's frazzled and accidentally
introduces herself as Jesse and points to her husband, Rebecca
that's standing next to her. Jesse casually pulls frank to
the side and asks that they speak mono a mono.
Mister Avalon happily asks what can I do for you, Rebecca.

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Jesse brushes this off and asks, how do you keep
your hair so shiny and manageable? And Frankie spills his
secret he always conditions with avocados. Jesse gaps, me too,
me too, and once in a while, I put in
a little mayonnaise. Frankie advises you ought to try a
little lime juice and cilantro. Jesse asks if that restores

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the pH balance and Frankie grins nope, but it makes
a great dip. This is just does anybody really do this?
Like do avacant?

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
I was literally thinking, was like, can you imagine if
you were backstage and one guy is offering to clean
your house, which he did years ago after sending a
cleaning product soaked letter to you, Yes, and then he's like,
I'll do.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
It now, and You're like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
And then this other guy's like what's's to do with
your hair?

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
Hey, tell me how you candish your hair?

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Well, yeah, I'd be like, wow, this is a security security,
there's no security.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
There's no dressing rooms. Yes, low budget there's no security,
No dressing rooms, Nope, just chicken wire. Yeah, that's it.
So Joey decides it's time for him to interrupt. He
introduces Frankie Annette to the girls, DJ, Michelle and the farm.
Stephanie introduces herself as Dawn Dawn Ariel Tanner. Kind of

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a great name.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
You know, I love me some little mermaid. I was
not sad at the aerial one. Yeah, they might even
let me pick it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Who knows. A crew member calls for the actors to
get into place, and the actors disperse, but Danny holds
Frankie Annette back and asks if I could just trouble
you for one picture. Frankie nods, sure, no problem. He
poses for the camera, but Danny clarifies that he'll be
the one taking the picture of him and Annette. Unfortunately,

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I can relate to this. This has happened to me
too before. And so next we are on the actual
set of surfs up. There's lots of sand, we see
a studio audience. We see Bob Purlow, the actual warm
up guy for Full House, and he introduces the live
studio audience to this new show starring Frankie Avalon and
Annett Foinchello and newcomer Joey Gladstone. So this a separate

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down stage or did they just clear out.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
This was we probably it was probably a pre tape
day and we just put extras in it, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Because there because uh, it looked like it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
Was where the kitchen set should be. Did they build this.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Because remember that was always the that was like the
swing set area every week, so there was like the
kitchen and then there was always the blank space next
door that was either it was the attic, it was
either the basically whatever the swing set you know, was
for that week, whatever we extra we needed. So this
was this was yeah, because I remember it went like

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Michelle's room. It was like almost like an l like that.
And then the swing set was kind of down the
end and this was like the far end of the audience.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
The far the far far end. Yes, okay, okay, so yeah,
I know this was did they have to get release
forms from the audience?

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
Questions extras because they were too into it and nobody
was looking directly at the camera. Yeah right, I was
in the audience, beca, get the camera up there too.
You had to have cameras up above, you had it. Yeah,
was This was a pre tape moment, so it must
have been background, background, background audience.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Okay, well they did great, they did. They were there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
I think they did an excellent job.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
The Tanners all give a standing ovation at the mention
of Joey's name, and Bob Purlow jokes, well, you can
always tell where the family's sitting.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Where this family is sitting, Yeah, for sure. Not quiet.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Then the show starts. The set is beach themed and
a Nette is the first to walk out. She's wearing
heels in this sand bless bless. Oh yeah, so that
sounds awful. And she's got if she's already having mobile Yes,
I give this woman so like flat, no sand, just

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a stable, stable platform to stand on, or give her
a chair.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
So Frankie shows up and he's carrying you know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Something, Yeah, put her a little a little loud that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
I didn't mean that to sound mean, that's not what
I meant. What doesn't sound mean, that would be a
cute moment with Frankie, like pulling her like a little
like a little meat cute, a little date or something,
I don't know whatever. Frankie comes out. He's got a
large surfboard he can't fit through the door. Uh. Frankie
Annette's plan is to entertain all of the beach goers
at this fun new spot, but they need to get

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the people out of the water first, so Frankie yells
shark and that does the trick. Soon enough, they have
an entire audience at their disposal. They start off by
singing a duet of who Put the Bomb? And the
crowd is loving it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
This was a great moment, want.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
So cute?

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
This is?

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
This was really giving me lots of energy During the performance,
Joey runs into the crowd wearing a Hawaiian shirt, a
safari hat, and carrying a mail bag. He waves his
hands frantically to get everyone's attention and yells, hey.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
Beach buddies, surfs up. The crowd is ecstatic.

Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
They all storm back towards the water, trampling Joey on
the way out. He's pancaked into the sand, and when
Michelle sees this, she worriedly shouts, Joey, are you okay?
The director yells cut, and Joey assures her it's okay,
I'm just acting, and Michelle yells back at the top
of her lungs, just checking.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
She must be sitting somewhere far away from Danny in
the audience, because he doesn't really seem to say anything
about her.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Yeah, she's I'm not with He's just like, I don't
know her. She came along like she We're not with her.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Yeah, I don't know how she got here.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
So the director announces that they'll be taking it from
Joey's face in the sand, which he couldn't be more
ecstatic about. Once they're rolling again, Annette and Frankie stomp
up to Joey also known as Flip in this pilot,
and they scold him for clearing out all of their customers.
Flip apologizes and hands a letter to Frankie that may

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make him feel better. In fact, it's a letter from
the Beach Boys. They want Frankie an Annette to be
part of their Hawaii show.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
I thought for sure a beach Boy was coming out, right?

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Is this no?

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
That would have been a crossover of all crossovers. Annette
glances at the letter and asks Flip if he read it.
He mindlessly admits, well, most of it. I had some
help with the big words. But Frankie is a static.
He proudly declares.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
The big kahunah serfs again, cow a bunga.

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
Annette reminds Frankie that he's grown up now and begs
him to stop saying cow bunga. I'm with you, Annette.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Solidarity.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
Then she asks Frankie who would run the restaurant while
they're gone, and Flip answers, duh, I could do it.
Frankie and Nett are obviously hesitant to allow this, but
Flip places a towel over his arm and pretends to
be a fine dining waiter monsieur dude. He tries his
best to be professional, but his surfer voice gets the

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best of him. Frankie holds Flip's mail bag and asks,
don't you have to deliver these letters? And Flip shakes
his head. Nah, I could just mail him. So is
he a mailman or like a what? Yes, he's a
mailman who's not delivering mail and is now going to
run the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Yes, it's a sitcom.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Remember trying to make.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
Questioning the storyline of this show, of this fake show
of a is the storyline of our show?

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
So yeah, telling me why am I questioning this?

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
Yeah? Yeah, So he's basically, yes, he is a he's
a terrible male delivery guy who is not very bright
and bright flips burgers and stuff, which is surprising to
make him a mailman if he can't read.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Right, it's none of this really, you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
Maybe they're on a small island. There's not you know,
slim pickens. There's not really a lot of people to
do the job.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Yeah, it's a rural route, you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Know, lots to come and go, not anybody there who's
there every day.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
But this guy is, he's there, he's he's ready to
make some burgers. So Andette decides they should give Flip
a chance, after all, what could go wrong? On cue,
we see a bunch of smoke appear behind Flip and
his face sours as he asks, do you guys smell
something burning? Frankie points out that he's sitting on the grill.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
Flip is shocked.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Well, then that would explain the searing pain. Yeah. He
runs away from the grill and jumps but first into
the sand to ease his pain.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
Dave had too much fun with this. You can see
his face. You were like, oh god, you know that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
They you know that. Joel was just like Dave.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Yeah, it again, just performing for Bob.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Nobody else needed to be in the room.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Dave was just trying to make Bob laugh.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Yeah, trying to make Bob break right, and you wanted
to do it over and over again, pulling focus from
everything else in the scene, right, Yes, uh so, Frankie
Annette watch him with concern. But Flip is as happy
as a clam as he says, look totally radical.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Rump roast.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
Something's wrong with Flip, I Flip.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
There's too much going on.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
There's too many personality traits here.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
Apparently has that disease to worry. You can't feel pain,
it's like that, like that the novakate movie that just
came out.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
There's a Novak movie that just came out called Novac.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
He plays a guy who can't feel pain.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Oh that's interesting. I want to I want to watch it.
I would like to not feel pain. That would be
or maybe that's signing up for a whole lot of that's.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's not It's not great because then you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:55):
Can like burn you can get like third degree burned.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
And you could be like flip and sit your it's
on a burner and not know it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. Okay, so maybe I don't
want this. I don't want this skill. Next, in the
living room, Danny walks in and he finds down slumped
on the couch. He tells her, I thought we should
have a little talk before we go down to the
Federal Bureau of Name Changes and legally change your name.
He clarifies, are you absolutely sure you never want to

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be Stephanie again? And she nods with certainty. Absolutely. The
kids don't call me step on me anymore. Danny wonders
what she'll do when they start making fun of her
new name, but don doesn't believe that they could make
fun of a name as beautiful as hers. On the spot,
Danny's able to come up with a handful of things.
Maybe they could call you Donald Duck or Donner and blitzen,

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or they could just crowd around you and sing, don no,
that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
I'm like, what's the I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
You could Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Whatever. Yeah, all of it, all of it applies. Dawn
interrupts his singing to admit, now that I think about it,
I'll stick with Stephanie. Tanny responds, Oh good, I was
hoping that thought would dawn on you. She gives him
a look and he throws his hands in the air. Sorry,
I'm all Dawn now, Like, now it's just bad Joe,

(01:12:21):
It's just bad Daddy. Now.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
Now we just left the day with his butt in
the sand. No, but I I will say, like when
Danny's like, are you sure because here's all the other
crappy names they're gonna call you, like, wow, Yeah, I
mean he's not wrong. He's not He's not wrong, and
be like they're gonna make fun of every name.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
But yep, yeah, the point was taken.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
But yeah, he didn't. He didn't hold back. He was
just like, here the litany of ways to make Dawn like,
I've been thinking about this, hold on, I've got notes.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Yeah. So Joey comes running down the stairs and asks
Danny to turn on the TV. Apparently Hollywood Insider is
doing in a segment on surfs Up and they're gonna
find out if it'll be a new series Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
That's a way to find out if it's a new
series or not.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Right, what happened to you?

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Well, obviously nobody has agents if they don't have dressing rooms.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
So this is how they have to get the news
out to the cat They have to get it from
the media because yeah, they don't have agents, they don't
have dressing rooms.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
Leaks on this show, you know what I mean? It
was like it was like Game of Thrones level, Like
they couldn't they had to have fake scripts. It was
wild wow, and let anybody know what they were doing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
So the entire family gathers on the couch to watch
the segment, and sure enough it's confirmed that Surfs Up
will be on the fall schedule, and everyone is so excited.
But following the success of The Simpsons, the network is
changing surfs Up from a half hour sitcom to a
half hour cartoon. Joey will now be a surfing kangaroo.

(01:13:50):
Everyone's size with disappointment.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Who would have thought the Simpsons in full house would
stick around?

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
You know, yes, we're still talking about these two shows.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
I mean, the Simpsons deaf has this speed by I
don't know, twenty seven odds.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Seasons or so but sure, sure, still it was the fun.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
I was like, oh yeah, yeah, staying power right there.
So then it's announced that the three main cast members
will be doing the voices of the cartoons, and everyone
is happy again. Michelle notices the fluctuating moods of her
family members and asks what's going on. Joey explains, all
my life, I've wanted to be a cartoon, and now

(01:14:27):
I am a cartoon. I'm going to be the voice
of Flip the surfing Kangaroo. But then his face fills
with worry. There's one problem. I don't do a voice
of a surfing kangaroo.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Why couldn't Flip's voice be the surfing kangaroo voice?

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
This was my question?

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
He does he does voice like, we can't get him
to stop doing voices.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
I don't do a voice of a surfing kangaroo.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
What why? Now? Like? Why?

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
Right? Well, he's gotta go study several surfing kangaroos and
make sure that it sounds credible. You know what I mean,
it's got a match. You don't want to have a
bad surfing kangaroo accident.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
We want acality.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
People.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
Yeah, people will.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
Shred you for that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
It'll be like the Oscars and that, you know, the
brutallest movie. Like, yeah, it's just to fix.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
It with AI.

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
Oh my goodness. So Jesse gives him the simple idea
to combine his Woodchuck character with his surfer voice and
an add an Australian accent if we need it. This
is what's been missing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
But I will say this is so impressive, you know
what I mean, the layers of voice, Like it's the
surfer lingo, the Australian accent and mister Woodchuck's voice. It's
impress a lot going on, just mentally to change to

(01:15:49):
do all of that, yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Oh yeah Dave.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
And Dave does it brilliantly like he I.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Mean liberally it's like oh and you're like, yep, that's check.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
It's all the boxes, that checks all the boxes.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
He did it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
And then he rolls right into Popeye Bullwinkle Foghorn just
and everyone disperses because.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Their games has been so much fun.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
When he was a kid in class, right, so much
everybody for oh yeah, the teachers loved him.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
So Danny is the only one that stays because he's
trying to turn Joey off with his remote and that
is our show. We did it right, another Joey episode.
You know what, these are all running together for me.
This is like the Star Search episode.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
They didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
Thought when it was joe goes to Hollywood, I was like,
where's Ed mcmade?

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
I was like, we did that the Star Search?

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
What was that?

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Joey goes to Florida and what was we did Star Search?
We did Wayne Newton in Vegas again, so he could
do like some sort of performance.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
So I think, you know, you'd think he'd be more
successful than living in the the way he's living.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
He's got it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
He's got a TV show, he's opening for Wayne Newton,
He's been on Star Search.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Yeah, going to do his own set. He should have
his own residency in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
You know why not?

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
Seriously, I has got some serious street cred.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
But you know that's why he doesn't have a residency
because Frank Hamill was like, you're not taking it out
of my cold dead hands, literally right exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Well, that was a that was an adventure.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
I was it was okay, it wasn't terrible. I didn't
hate it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
But it was again, No, it wasn't It wasn't like
painful to watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
Was just like, oh, and I hate that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
I hate that Joey's episodes keep not.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
Yeah, they just keep recycling the same types of storylines.
There's no like progression of this character. He's stuck in
these voices, trying to make his career happen, trying to
find love and shaking out like you know, it's like
he's almost famous, like all of these scenarios. Yeah, it's
season four, Come on, It's time to give Joey some

(01:18:08):
meat some meaty, a meaty storyline.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
Like he ever does until the last episode, like second
to last episode of Fuller House rights the scene with
you that's like, oh, I know that only time that
Joey ever gets to have a moment.

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
Yeah, yeah, that was a sweet scene. I did love that.
That was a great scene. Felt we're very redeeming. That
was a great scene. But yeah, Dave does a great
job with the storylines.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
Yeah, Dave is amazing at voices and they're great. I
just feel like Joey, uh, it's a it's a situation comedy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
What am I expecting? You know, it's he needs to
have higher stakes problems or I don't know, but this
is the thing of of you know, I forget what
it's called.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
But like you, a sitcom is basically all low stakes
problems that you know are going to be resolved. So
there's nothing you ever in here like worry some about it.
You know it's gonna work out. And the steaks are
relatively like no one's no one's you know, gonna die
like you know right, yeah, it's like yeah, you know,

(01:19:13):
oh no, the washing machine overflowed.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
He dropped a ring down the seat, right right, Ye,
silly problems. Well, I still feel unfulfilled. You have liked
it better.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
Well the Star Search one Joey did have the conflict
with his dad.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
No that wait was it that one? Or was yes?
The dad and Star Search? Or was the dad and
Wayne Newton? I don't remember. It all blends together, the
colonel with the colonel. I remember the backstage in the
dressing room. He had a dressing room that time. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
I thought it was star Wayne Newton. Thank god we
have a producer.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Yeah, Wayne Newton, That's what it was, Wayne Newton. See
they all blend together. Well, yeah, I mean it's you know,
for only so many things you can write for. There's
a lot of cast members to write for. And uh, sure,
Joey's getting the short end of the stick. I don't
like it. I'll accept it, true all of his voices

(01:20:12):
and he does, yeah, and he doesn't. Well, he's getting
kind of one note. I need something else.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
Yeah, you know maybe I think also in the interim,
I think TV has just gotten more layered and the
steaks are a little you know what I mean, Like
we expect higher stakes more like shows now even sitcoms
are a little EDGI or different whatever. So I think
sometimes I'm like, I have to remember, like this was

(01:20:39):
early nineties, like late eighties sitcom that was peak cheese balls.

Speaker 3 (01:20:45):
Yeah, we don't do as many filler episode. There's no
filler episodes anymore. It's like thirteen if that's it. So
this would be considered like a filler episode. Yeah, from
week to week, right totally.

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
So yeah, maybe that's a filler. I mean, this was
a Net and Frankie.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
You know that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
Yeah, that's not the red truckloads of sand you know
all about this. Sand does not come in and out easily.

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
So we had a big budget for this.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
We had a big sand budget, but a very small
dressing room set budget.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
Do you remember meeting Frankie and Annette, I don't I
was vaguely, vaguely.

Speaker 1 (01:21:20):
I just remember them being very sweet and very like
professional and on it and and lovely to work with,
and that my mom was excited because you know that
was her generation, that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Was the generation. Yeah, no, that's what just from afar.
I remember them being very professional. They're just like, yeah,
like sitcom actors, just classic sitcom actors who just they
can turn it on in an instant. They've got stage
presents for days, yea. And they were lovely, just they lovely,
lovely to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:21:49):
I'm speaking of watching things do you have and everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
You look, I probably have the same one you do. Yeah,
we had to say that's okay, that's all right. The
the the the crew, the stage Yeah, stage editor is
our real was our real life stage manager.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
He Richie yah Keith has been he's he's been a
stage manager on several shows in real life. But I
mean on episodes of Full House. I think there were
a couple of times that he's been seen before.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
We've seen him in the horror episodes, that's right. I
saw him in another one I can't remember, and when
he was counting down did you have like a visceral?

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Absolutely too.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Yeah, and you're like, oh, I know, I was like
standing out attentions and I'm ready. Yeah. I instantly was
like do I know my line? Yeah, Like that brought
me right back here. He is boys counting down.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
Yeah, that was like core memory.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
Yeah, that was so cool. That's a good that's a
good everywhere look.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
At and I will say he took much joy in
in shoving day his face into the sand. You can
tell he was just like harder than it needs to Sure,
I'm sure it was like after all Day and Dave
with his butt in the sand.

Speaker 3 (01:23:09):
He was like, yeah, just do it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
It's like just portra the patient, patient patient. Yeah, to
be a first ad like that, you have to. He's
got Joel in one ear right and then you know
these two.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Yea a thankless job. Get no dogs sand.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
That was but that was my only everywhere you look,
that was all I had.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
That was my only That was my only one. But
I was looking at the audience, But I think that
you're right they were all background because.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
I didn't backround and I didn'tee any of our family
or any Yeah. No, it wasn't a fun one. Because
I think our family was like, we we know what
being stuck in an audience is, Like, we don't want
to do that on camera.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
No, that's not fun.

Speaker 3 (01:23:48):
Like everyone's like, oh, that'd be fun. No, no, actually
not first a couple of hours maybe, but by hours.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
The first fifteen minutes really after that it's a little boring. Yeah, repetitive,
but well, I can't believe we're almost done with the
season four. We have one more episodes to go, which
is season four episode twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
Girls just want to have fun.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
We've got no we go to twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Oh, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
Six in this season.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
It's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
Three, we have three more to go.

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
That's okay. Which I'm surprised they didn't end the season
with the wedding. Oh oh, I know how they end
the season. It just occurred to me. I don't so well,
I don't spoil it, spoil it, but I was just thinking,
why was the wedding in the middle of the season.
Why wasn't it at the end? I have a feeling,
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
Because of the baby that was Oh my god, you
spoiled it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
There's gonna be babies. God, what I get baby spread?

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
They get pregnant when boys there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Yes, I know, sorry folks, I spoiled it all.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
Oh boy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
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Now just give us.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Remember the world is small, but the house is full
of sand.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
Sand.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
You're never gonna get all that sand out.

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You're gonna find sand in that stage.

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Yeah, decades the top, it's under your.

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It's in places you don't want sand unless your flip
and just let your butt on fire. Anyway, I am
not a fan of sand, all right, guys, Well okay,
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