TGI – Episode 316 “Stormy Weather”

The gang is excited about this episode because it’s time to really dig into the "World" from Boy Meets World, with a focus on Eric and his dreams of being a Weatherman! 

Mr. Tuner gives Shawn the ick after an awkward meet cute, Rusty appears to be done with finals (yet another actor seems busy with his this week) and there’s some very impressive “phacting,” all making this recap a must-hear.
 
Eric is turning 18, but everything is turning up a “10,” on this week’s Pod Meets World…

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
So I'm thinking of cutting off all of it, all
of it, like not shaving, but going like short short,
like like short and spiky again, you mean.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Like writers short and spiky, because I love writers, Lori
Heaps short and spiky.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, like that kind of like but I but again,
I don't know if we want both Rider and I
look in the same. I mean, come on, well, you.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Guys look different enough that just having a similar haircut
isn't gonna.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Will gets recognized as me. Apparently all the time.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well more than I get recognized as me. Danielle can
attest to that. Well, Danielle is like, you get recognized
a lot, and then we'll go together in airports and stuff,
and she's like, you don't ever it's weird, like you
don't ever get.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Recognized, just walks through the world just like that.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, but I'm thinking about It's just it's starting to
get a little annoying having the long hair again. And
it's just I do this occasion where then I'll just
and you know, I'm going to see Lori Heaps today, Yeah,
and part of me just wants to cut it short.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I think you, I mean, talk to her, She'll have
a recommendation for you. I think she'll have I always
trust lur and uh, I think the I mean, I know,
I thought Writer's hair before he got his hair cut
was fine. I was like, yeah, your hair's great. And
then he got it cut and I was like, Writer,
this cut is really good for you.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Like it.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
So I feel like it's going to be the same
thing for you. I feel like you're going to go
in there and you're gonna be like, all right, I
want to do something. I want a big change, and
you're gonna walk out of there and we're all gonna
be like, Wow, this was big.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah. I don't know, but I don't know if I'm
gonna like that or not. I don't know what is Susan.
I'm thinks Susan is much more a fan of short
hair than she has long hair. Susan does not like
short long hair in guys, okay, but she's like, I
love you, you're my husband, and I know you like
long hair, so do what you gotta do, And I'm
good with that. She's sportive, but I think if she
had a choice, she would have me in short surpriser, don't.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
You guys have like a I mean we had an
unusually intense relationship with our hair. Okay, world, Like it
was such a thing, like and I do you guys
remember how I used to braid my hair?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah? I did that once. Remember we did it together.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
When we were every summer because my hair was so
long and I hated it and I hated getting recognized
everywhere I went, So I would braid it like in
little like Christopher Patrick. Yeah, yeah, And that was like
how I dealt with my having hair. And then I would,
you know, not wash it and like just have braided
hair all summer long, whenever we were not.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I have a picture somewhere rider that I will find
that is the two of us with our hair braided together.
We got it. Don't remember you getting your hair one time?
I got it done one time. That was enough for me.
Once the itching started, I was like, I'm out. It
was worse.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
And then the last season they let us cut our hair. Remember,
like I got a hair fut. It was a big
deal that Michael let me cut my hair. Me too,
And then like I just had short hair like all
throughout my twenties because I just hated anything that reminded me.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Of boy hair.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I have so many times wanted just like a lob,
which is a long bob.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
So you know I just told you about a lob.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, I don't want it like right under my chin,
which is kind of what a bob is.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I want to like go longer. Maybe you've never done her.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, Lori Heaps has still cut my hair, and Lori
Heaps like won't let me. I went from letting Michael
Jacobs control my hair, Tondle over the.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Power to Lori Heaps.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
And Heaps when it comes to like she obviously knows
something that you don't about.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, I think it's that I have a full face.
I think it's that I have a full face. And
so when you have short hair, a full face and
thick hair, she thinks it's just gonna go out and
that instead of what I see when I see law
they are sleek. I have too much hair for that sleekness.
And between having kind of a wide face and big hair,

(04:07):
I think she thinks it's not going to be good.
And then you know, of course, there have been a
million times where I've been like, let's do layers, which
to me, I've wanted like longer bangs, and she won't
do that on me, not a bang guy.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
All right.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, recently she sent me an image of somebody and said,
I like these for you, and they were very long
layers and I was like, but I love it. I
love that. Yes, let's do that. So I'm seeing her tomorrow.
I have no idea. I'll probably just look like the
same version of me you guys have always known.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
But maybe I'll convince her to give me a lob.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Let's see, we both we'll all come with short hair.
So there's one person in the world that can pull
off bangs, and that's Taylor Swift. Yeah, he's the only
one who can pull off bangs. But okay, on our set,
you remember with hair, I finally convinced Michael to let
me cut my hair, and they made me go get
a wig. Yeah, and so I had the long wig
because he wanted to do the reveal and it was
going to be this big thing. I walk out on stage,

(04:58):
you know, walk out in the scene, pluff my hair
and everyone's gonna go nuts. And I pulled off my
thad silence, nobody cares, cares, and so he just he
like then put in We talked about laugh guy he had.
They had this big reaction put in. So the scene
where Eric walks out and pulls off his wig and
everyone goes ooh that all that ooh was put in.
Nobody was dead silence, nobody cared. Normally I'd be like,

(05:19):
I'm just gonna cut my hair, But now I've got
to like ask people should I cut my hair? As
I'm not supposed to be right? Do you like short hair?
Should I cut it? Should I not? It's so horrifying.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
We are stunted in so many nice I might cut off,
I might cut off.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
All my hair.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Do it well? Do it? It can grow back. Welcome
to Pod meets Hair. I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm right or Strong,
and I'm will Fordell.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
So today we are recapping season three, episode sixteen, Stormy Weather.
It originally aired February ninth, nineteen ninety six. The synopsis
Eric lands an internship at a TV station and decides
to quit school to pursue his dream job of becoming
a weather man. However, as Eric spends more time at
the station, he realizes the importance of a good education. Also,

(06:02):
Ben has finals.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's what was happening.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah, He's only in that one scene in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, he must.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
It seems maybe midterms.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, it must be midterms because it would have been
January that we were.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
It must have been midterms. I mean he's only in
one kitchen scene and they get him in and out, so.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Is that true? He's really only in one scene?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, yeah, very quick. Yeah, this is this is Eric's
time to shine.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
That's such a good episode for you, So great, so great.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
It was directed by Jeff McCracken, written by Jeff Manell.
Guest starring Lindsay Ridgeway as Morgan Matthews. Brandon Maggert is
back as Pat the news executive. Larissa o'lenik returns as
Dana Prewett, rosaland Allen as Susan. John O'Hurley cast as
Cass Yeah, best known as Jay Peterman on Seinfeld and
the eventual host of Family Feud for four years, and

(06:56):
Matt Kirkwood as the stage manager Matt what is back?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
We just had two two Seinfeld characters on this episode, yeah,
which is very cool.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
That whole bit with you like only being able to
approach from one side is the most Seinfeld joke we've
ever done.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Like, so great.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Isn't that you can talk to him, but only talk
to him from such like, this is the rule about
this person.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's like the most Also the setup with we're all
the same year. He's just a regular person, but he's
got a weird thing about the right side.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
So I'll approach him on the left side.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
It's just and then the little smiley gives he walks
away knowing he's just messing with him. It was great, totally.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
It's very very funny. I thought this was a really
great episode. Again. I loved the continuity.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I loved the continuity from the last episode into this episode.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
I thought it was really great.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
I have a few little problems with some of my
dramatic acting, but I'm getting over that and just giving
myself a little bit of a It got a little
high school acting through some parts of it, but I'm
okay with I'm okay with it. I'm getting better and
I'm okay with it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
I thought you were I thought you were so great.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I thank you.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
I really loved it.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
To jump into our recap, we are in the Matthews.
Eric walks down the stairs fixing his tie.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
He notices.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
This was this was the week that they made me
cut that came down from the network. You have to
cut your hair, and so bum oh.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I know, you look so much better. And then but
I finally have a haircut. So it was like they
just gave us a little haircuts. They're like across the border.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
No, this is when mccrack this is the week we've
talked about that. McCracken. He knew how bummed I was,
so he went home and cut his own hair with
his own scissors. He cut his hair to make me
feel better about me. Yeah, that's the kind of guy
he was. So this was that week. Yeah, yeah, so sweet.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
So Eric notices his family, Hey, you guys are up early.
Allan says they didn't have any choice. Someone was running
the shower at four am singing Hi Ho, Hi Ho.
Then Eric finishes the song It's off to work. Go
oh so cute. Amy asks if they want Eric at
the TV station before school, and he says, yes, if
I get there early enough, I get to help Jimmy
jelly Bean lace up his floppy feet. We all know

(08:55):
how much kids love their floppy feet, right Morgan.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
And Morgan responds with I.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Thought that we get a huge laugh from the audience,
But I was dying her just being.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
I know that so funny. So Alan thought he was
interning for the news.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Eric explains, I am when Jimmy Jellybean takes off his nose,
he's Arnie Cohen with sports. Corey worries, I learned about
potty training from a sportscaster.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Oh, that's just wrong.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Alan reminds Eric, who's in a hurry to leave, that
he's giving Corey a ride to school. Eric says he
loves driving miss Corey to school, but he can't be
late today.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Alan says, if Eric was.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
This devoted to school, he wouldn't need this internship to
pass journalism. Eric corrects him, I wasn't failing journalism because
of lack of devotion. I was failing because I was
lazy and didn't want to do the work. Morgan tells Corey,
I don't need a new toy chest. I can store
all my toys in his head. And again, this is
just where the every little thing, she says is a
little mean, and Eric says, this internship is the single

(09:52):
most important thing I've ever done in my entire life.
He looks at Corey and tells him he can just walk.
Corey says in this blizzard. Sure, I'll just trudge all
the way to school, freeze me my butt off, and
walk through life buttless. And Eric says, good deal and
winks at Corey as he leaves. Alan asks Amy he
used to listen to us, didn't he? And she says,
did you listen to your parents when you were eighteen?
And Alan says he's not eighteen yet. I can still
tell him what to do for two more days.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Important to set that up.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
We set up and it's very like otherwise, kind of
nothing seen, but it's laying all the groundwork.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Amy tells Corey if he can wait, she'll take him
to school, and Corey says, that's okay. I'm a big
boy now. I think I'm man enough to handle a
couple of snowflakes. He opens the door and the blizzard
bombards him. He goes back inside and tells his parents
it's the end of the world. Do you guys remember
how they did this in the backyard, Like I don't
remember you giant fans.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Giant fans would actually have bags of the snow, so
you would right in front of the shake the bag
right in front of a giant fan or just ye
went everywhere look good.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
And again that's something that as young actors especially, you
don't think about, Ooh, that's fun to shoot, and you
don't think about all of it has to be cleaned up,
every little that star was blowing into where the camera's
on the camera at y So it's a big pain.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
That's like a huge thing. Also, what people don't realize
is that the fans have to be silent, So like
that's a big part of like Hollywood technical stuff is
that you can't just have a regular giant fan to
blow win if you have actors talking or whatever, it's
got to be completely silent.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Luckily, I think when he opened the door and the
blizzard's coming out of it, there's no dialogue. And then
when he closes the door to say, you know, it's
the end of the world. So then we're in Phoenie's classroom.
Phoenie is teaching the class. Two episodes in a row,
we get Phoenie in front of a class Love It,
and he's talking about Lincoln freeing the slaves for political
and moral reasons, demonstrating this war was not as civil
as it implies, he concludes, but far more civil than

(11:48):
I will be if I don't see your papers on
my desk by tomorrow. Eric tries sneaking into the class
just as everyone is leaving, pretending he was there the
whole time. Eric says, great class, mister Foene, two thumbs up. Phoenie,
always too steps ahead, stops him and says, Eric, this
internship was supposed to earn you credits, not keep you
from graduating. Eric lets him know he's here now, and
once he's in Phoenie's school, he gives no less than

(12:09):
one hundred percent. But then he gets a notification on
his huge pager pag I love it, love it, and
he tells Phenie Yeah. Picking up the weekend anchors to
pay at the airport, he leans in and says, that's
real panda here from China.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
It's all black with a little bit of white right here.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
But you didn't hear that from me. Phoenie yells back
to Eric, do your paper, don't graduate, and then he
leans into whisper. But you didn't hear that from me.
Really cute scene. And then we're in Turner's apartment. Sean
is laying on Dana's lap as they both read another
little storyline we have that's progressing here, and he tells her,
you know, having a girlfriend has been such a good
influence on me. Look at us just hanging out here studying.

(12:46):
Dana says, we sure are. Sean asks are you reading?
She says no, are you? He responds no. So they
throw their books down and start making out. What now
at this point, with the second week of Larissa being there,
was the kissing now more comfortable and normal than it.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Was at first.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, now you're just used to it.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Now you just feel nothing. Now you're just dead inside. Yes, exactly,
just do this, do this thing.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Turner walks in and asks, I thought you said Dana
was coming over to do homework. Sean apologizes and says,
you're supposed to be at school. Dana's mom was about
to pick her up, and just be nice to have
a little privacy. Dana assures Turner they were doing homework.
She was the one who started kissing him first. She
grabs Sean Sean's face and squeezes it, saying I mean,
look at and Turner tells her, you know, it actually
looks better when you do that. Then the doorbell buzzes

(13:32):
and it's Dana's mom. Turner opens the door and they
both stare at each other.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
It's a meet cute.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, first Seinfeld, she was a Seinfeld character, so she's
number one.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
She says she's here for Dana, and Turner gets flustered,
telling her to come inside. Sean calls her missus maguire
and Turner's confused, saying he thought Dana's last name was Pruett.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
His mom says McGuire. Rachel's mom.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Maybe, oh, man just like folded a for the boy
mut Dana's mom says it was, but she's divorced from
Dana's dad. Turner says he's sorry and says and she says, now,
it's been a long time. They're flirting. Dana butts in
introducing mister Turner to her mom, and Dana's mom asks,
this is old man Turner. Turner laughs and says his

(14:17):
walker's in the shop. Dana's mom laughs a little.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Too hard at that.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yes, he says, call me John, and she responds, call
me Susan, and he tells her it is I just
may do that.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
I just made that. Wow.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Sean pushes the girls out the door. He has got
the ick. He asks John what kind of disgusting display
was that John says, I was just being friendly. Turner says,
you know, just for safety reasons. If you're ever over
at their house and I need to get a hold
of you, what's her number?

Speaker 3 (14:46):
I love?

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Sean says this one eight hundred, take a cold shower.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Sean and Turner going out each other together equals But yes,
it's so fun.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
This is so good together.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
I want more of this. I want it like a
whole show of justice. It's I love it.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, it's really cute.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
And at first I was thinking, is it only cute
and not creepy to me because he's not actually his dad?
But no, because I actually thought it was just as
cute for Dana and her mom for us. For it
to be the reverse that that, it's it's just great.
I love the idea of single parents dating at the
same time their teenagers are dating, and teenagers getting grossed
out by that situation and the same way parents are.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
It's really but.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Also like, no matter how old you get, there's still
that the meat cute and they get a little flirting
and all that stuff. It's the same kind of thing
you see Sean do, and it's all Yeah, it's great.
It's great.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
So Turner questions why he can't ask her out, and
Sean says, it's because she's my girlfriend's mother, and frankly,
there's something sick about this whole situation. Turner tells him
to relax, he's not going to call her. Just then
the phone rings and Turner answers it, and Tony actually
pulls the antenna up and hits a button him straight.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
I was sting, no, he does now.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Push the button. So I thought maybe it was just
like we just have to accept in the Boy meets
World universe and pulling antenna.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
The balls up an antenna, and with the same hand
that he has on the phone, he uses his thumb
and hits a button yep, and looks to Sean and whispers,
it's Dana's mom from the car.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
It's such a Tony she was.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
She was car She was willing to spend fifty five
dollars to call him one phone for one minute.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yes, oh god. Remember do you remember how great car
phones were?

Speaker 4 (16:27):
I sure do.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Big they were like like a giant yeah, and they were,
oh my god, you have the pop out of it.
So ye, we had one because I was in lamism
and we were driving so much. My dad wanted my
mom to have a car phone. Yeah, but we could
only use it in emergencies because.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
It was, like I was very expensive, just like two.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Dollars a minute to use. It was like a buck
ninety nine every minute, the crazy car phone.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, yep, just yeah, I totally remember it. That's where
I got the phone call that I got to Benga. Well,
I was on the phone with my dad telling him
why I was running late. My dad got the call
waiting I was on the it's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
So then we're in the news station.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
We see the weatherman, Cal Kilbride giving a live report
about a blizzard and mentioning he'll be on a Caribbean
vacation while that's going on. He signs out by saying
the sun doesn't always shine, but boy I sure do.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Shoot, he's got that same delivery of everything. It's always
so good.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Eric, watching on one of the TV's in the studio
and pushing the mail cart, says that man's a genius.
The station manager walks up to Eric, telling him he
needs that stock footage. Eric quickly responds on your desk.
The manager continues he also needs the overnight ratings, and
Eric finishes on your desk, he says he also needs
his dog, and Eric whispers being neutered as we speak,
and then the man is shocked.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
He said, I just set a shampoo. Eric freaks out
and yells what.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
The station manager laughs and says Joe and starts laughing
as he tells Eric to laugh.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Eric says, look, Pat, just.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Between you and me, do you ever get nervous hanging
around a big star like Cal Kilbride? Eric admits, ever
since he first saw Cal, all he's ever wanted to
be was a weatherman.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
The power affecting millions of people.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
What do they wear or do they wear sweaters, sunscreen, gloves,
snow tires, yes or no?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
What do they do?

Speaker 4 (18:05):
I love his passion and enthusiasm.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
For the being a weather man.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
It also just makes perfect sense for Eric's car. Yes, right,
like being a weather man because you have to be charismatic,
kind of funny, delivering probably boring information but in an
entertaining way. It's the perfect job.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
For you're a local celebrity. Like that's as far as
you can think it through as it's like, oh, I'm
a celebrity in Philadelphia like that kind of thing. Sure
be great.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
Pat tells Eric to say hi to Cal.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Eric's a part of the team, and Cal's a regular
guy just like everybody else. Just make sure you approach
him from his left He's got a little thing about
his other side. Eric runs up to Cal on his
left side and introduces himself. Cal says, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
We did this for years too. That was like, hey man,
how you doing. Thank you very much? We do that all.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
So funny.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Eric tells him, I just want to say one and
honor it is to be working here with a man
like you. Cal turns to sign something and Eric is
still trying to talk while staying on his left side.
He continues, if there's anything you need to have done.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Physical, you know, choreography with her tapping him on the
left shoulder, so he turns that way, and then you've
got to like jump.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Or rake around. Yeah, all this stuff was fun anytime,
very fun physical stuff.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
He continues.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
If there's anything you need to have done, call me anytime,
no matter how small or personal it may be. Cal
interrupts Eric and says, no, no, no, boy, I don't
believe in that pecking order.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Garbage.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Around here. Come on, we're all equals on this ship.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Cal continues from me at the top all the way
down down to.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
You at the bottom, a more equal than others.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
U Oh, and by the way, could I get my
pants hemmed?

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Eric says he'd be honored, So Cal takes off his
pants in the middle of the station to give to Eric.
He pats Eric on the chest and says, do a
good job on the pants.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Who knows? And he walks away without any pants on.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
So after so this is the only scene he has
in the whole episode, right, he just does this one scene.
And late the next year we were Every year ABC
would always throw this you know party that would happen,
and it was before the new seasons would come out.
It would always be at some really cool place like
the Labrian tar pits or something like that. So the

(20:08):
next year Rider, you and I and Ben were wherever
we were, and we were at the snack like the
food table. We're in a mid conversation and we heard, well,
if it isn't the boys from Boys Meet World, and
we turn around and there he is. There's John o' hurley.

(20:29):
You can remember. No, it's good seeing y'all, and that's
how we talked, how's everybody doing? It was just so bad,
but we always did that. Later we were like, well,
if it isn't the boys from Boys Meet World.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Eric lays Cal's pants down carefully on his cart so
he doesn't mess them up. And this seems like it
could be an hr issue with Cal walking around not
in the nineties.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
He's got those garter are those.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Garters garters suspenders?

Speaker 1 (21:09):
But it's the only way that joke.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Of course this guy wears those things. Of course I
love it.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
And then we are in the school hallway.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Mister Williams stops Eric, who's running through the hallway with
a mannequin head. Eli says, nice to see you finally
showing up around here. He points to the mannequin and
says looks like Johnny Higgins, the weekend anchor. Eric laughs
and says it's his hair. He didn't hear that from me, though.
Mister Williams reminds Eric this internship doesn't excuse him from
his class work. Eric says he'd love to stay in chat,
but if the hair doesn't go on, Johnny Higgins doesn't
go on. Eric runs away as mister Williams is still

(21:40):
trying to talk to him. Eric shouts back, thanks for
helping me get that internship, and we see that mister
Williams is not please again.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
I worked with Alex more than anybody else on the show,
and I just didn't remember that at all, which is horrifying.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I don't think I've like really even had a scene
with him.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Maybe you had, you had one or two in the
apartment in the beginning with Jonathan, but and it was
I was always working with him. It's so strange that
I didn't remember that. That's because they still didn't know
how to use his character. This got a little better
where it was like they gave him a little something right, But.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
It would have been nice to see him in front
of a classroom.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, well we did that on the Janitor Bun episode.
And then we get an establishing shot of a highway
during a big blizzard. Very exciting. We're back at the
news station. Eric is handing a cameraman his coffee just
as Eli surprisingly appears. He walks up to Eric talking
about how bad the blizzard is, and Eric says, yeah,
so blizzardly, you came to the wrong place. You ever

(22:36):
shot the school by about six miles. Eli responds, So did.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
You now you notice that that was our cameraman. Yes, yeah,
he was our cameraman for seven years on Boy Me.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
I totally didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, it was his name. His name was I don't remember.
Here's what I remember about him. He was a heavy smoker,
so he and I would always smoke together, and he
had two different kinds ofigarettes with him always when we
had no it was even worse than that. When we
had a longer break, he would smoke a big, long

(23:09):
filtered cigarette, but when we only had a short break,
he smoked the Chesterfield non filters because he can have
to power it down during the break. So he was
a short name. It's like Joe right ed yes for
part of the time and no for part of the
other time. I think, but it has old school camera
guy like had been there forever and did all seven

(23:30):
years of our show.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
So yeah, very very sweet man. When you'll recognize.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Him the second you see, I think, because I did
very quickly go hey, that was our real cameraman. But
but then it had already moved on and I didn't
spend much time on it. And now that you've said
that I want to go back and see if seeing
like looking at his face actually brings back I had it.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
I feel like I had it last night and I
can't remember. It's like Joe or John or just something
very old school, but it's yeah, he was a very
nice guy. And then Matt Kirkouod is in that same scene. Yeah,
that's what I was distracted by.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
He's left his job at the mall and now he's
working right, and Will's tie. You haven't dropped the turner
tie this whole episode.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
She's got ties, But.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
The next one in the kitchen, like and later in
this episode is the most distracting thing I've ever seen.
Take your eyes off of it. It was like I
felt like I was scaring at your crotch the whole time,
and you'd be like, whoa, that's right. Follow the arrow
well the.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
As Eric tells Eli he had to come in with
the weather, they had a lot of no shows. Eli says,
I'm on your side, but you're not a strong enough
student to keep up your grades and spend all your
time here. Pat walks out of his office and is yelling,
where's rich Herrera. I'm on In two minutes, and I
don't have a backup weather man. He walks next to
Eli and tells him to shut up. He says, you're
gloating because you don't work for me anymore. Eli asks

(24:52):
Pat all the time we spent together, you think I'd
gloat so much continuity. We're tying it all back that
this is where Eli was. It just keeps going. Eric
says this isn't a problem. He says, just have Arnie
Cohen do it. After Sports, they show Arnie and he's
wearing clown pants and shoes, and Pat says that man's
half clown.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Eric so funny, the weirdest, weirdest live it.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Eric watch toward the weather green screen and says, come on, Pat,
anybody can do this. You walk over here, you find
your mark, You pick up the clicker, watch the monitor,
point to the map, big smile, and now back to you, Connie.
Pat asks Eric where he learned how to do that,
and Eric says he's been studying cow. Eli lets Pat
know he only has thirty five seconds. Pat asks Eric.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Why don't you do it? You do a good job.
We both look good.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Don't screw you screw up, don't Pat and the crew
push a shocked Eric towards the green screen and Pat
tells him to get in there and have some fun,
and just like that, he gets the countdown and they're
on air. They introduced the anchors and then weather man
Eric and he says his name in the most adorable way,
that's me.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's me. I remember just how fun it was to
be in front of that green screen and it was
really cool, so cute.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
And then we're back in the Matthew's kitchen. Eric runs
in and he asks, did you see me? Amy gloats
you were so good and you were so handsome. Phoene
is there too, in applaud saying bravo Eric. Amy says,
when you were three years old and you told us
you wanted to be a weather man, we shouldn't have
taken you to that doctor.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
That doctor now, but how could they have possibly caught him?
They had no warning.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Libably, they always watched the news. Yeah, I think it
used to be a nighttime news thing. It was a
thing to do.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Plus, there's a blizzard. They want to know what it's
going to be. It makes sense.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Eric says to Feenie, I can ask you this because
you don't love me as much as them? Did you
like me better on the five o'clock or the ten
o'clock edition? And Phoene says, I'm actually here to talk
about your history paper and the classes you've missed. Alan
chimes in. Mister Phoene says you're in serious danger of
not graduating, and Amy adds, but you're very lucky because
he's allowing you to do the makeup work. Eric says
that's great and asks Feoenie what he has to do.

(26:54):
Phoene says, a two thousand word essay on reconstructionism after
the Civil War. Eric tells him, fine, done. When do
you need it? Phoene says, on my desk by three
pm Friday. Eric responds, ooh, not in my five day forecast.
I'm on call all week. Alan says, well, put it
in your forecast, pal, you're doing that essay. Eric says,
I can't possibly do both, and you can't be asking
me to give up the station.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
I mean, I've finally found something I'm good at, and here.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
We are setting up this conflict so so perfect.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Rusty in this episode.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh, I'm so glad Rusty's back from Finals, the longest
final Alan tells him this isn't a discussion. Amy tells
Eric to think about this, and Eric tells her I
have and I'm going back to the station. I mean
that's where I belong. I don't belong in the back
of some classroom pretending to listen. No offense, mister phoene

(27:44):
and Alan sternly says Eric, that is your problem.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
You don't listen.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Eric says, Dad, I'm going to be eighteen tomorrow actually
in like less than an hour. I think I can
make my own decisions. Phoene urges Eric to reconsider, and
he says there's nothing more to think about. Alan then
says Eric, are you or are you not going to
go to school tomorrow? And Eric says I'm not going
and he runs up the stairs, leaving Feenie, Amy and
Allan in the kitchen looking very disappointed.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Gat It's perfect.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
I can totally see Eric's point of view. Yep, We've
we've seen him be good at this. We're so excited
for him that we're like totally on his side, and
yet we can also obviously understand the value of graduating
high school.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
So yeah, absolutely perfect conflict, really well done. And then
we're back from the commercial. We're in the Matthews family kitchen.
Amy and Allen are drinking their coffee looking depressed. Morgan announces,
I can't believe I'm related to a dropout, and Alan
corrects or he's not a dropout yet. Cory says, no,
he's just taking That's right, Corey.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
We probably shot the two kitchen scenes right and then
and then got out. And this is truly we talk
about phone acting. This is some of the worst serial
acting I've ever seen in my life with Ben.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
But wait, I thought this is the only scene he's in.
Where's the second scene?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
In the first scene, in the first opening scene.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
In the opening scene, he.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Runs out in the blizzard, and then I got it,
and that one it was a freezing open.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
We look at you.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
But yes, his his cereal. Several times he literally puts
the spoon in, ends up with cereal on his on
his spoon. Doesn't obviously want to eat the cereal, so
dumps the cereal out to where there's then just a
little bit of milk, and then he puts it after
pushing stuff around. Yeah, that's great, Oh.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Morgan tells.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Everyone looks like I'm gonna be the first Matthews to
graduate from college, and Corey asks, what about me? Morgan laughs,
you're right, so, like I said, at least she's mean
to everyone opportunity mean she's yeah, she's not just mean
to like one person that would really make his question.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Eric arrives downstairs in his suit and he says good
morning to his parents. Yes the time.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
And this is where I got it, I thought, personally,
and I'm gonna let it go. But I thought I
got a bit overacting. No. I thought it was great
talking to you, kind of like yah, it.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Was just no. I thought it was good.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
You were you were ready to defend your position, and
you thought everyone was going to be coming at you,
and you were really like you had. I felt like
you had been thinking through the night how you were
going to stand strong and hold your resolve.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
I think I played it just a little bit.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
I don't think I disagree with you. I think it's
really great.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
As Corey is about to say something, Eric interrupts core
I'm not really in the mood right now, all right,
and Corey says, okay, I was just going to wish
you a happy birthday, and as Corey gets ready to.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Leave, weird but it's also at least they're acknowledging that
it's a birthday.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Some people are that everybody acknowledges that it's a birthday,
But there have been so many birthdays that we just
ignored that it seems like Eric might not be even
upset the.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Birthdays and his family are weird.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
What's up with our writers and producers who had a
bad birthday experience that then just soured them on every birthday?

Speaker 4 (30:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
But as Corey is ready to leave, Eric softens and says, hey,
take a hat. Another stormfront coming in, and Corey admits, Eric,
you're pretty good at that stuff, and then he's gone.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Amy breaks the silence. Hope you had a good night's rest.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Eric tells her he slept like a baby, and Alan says,
cause you are one I thought was funny Alan. Amy
nudges Alan and says, we agreed. We're going to cool down,
clear our hearts, and have a logical discussion in the morning.
Amy turns to Eric, Honey, I know that last night
was like a dream come true. Eric stops her. Look,
I know where this is going, and I know what
I'm doing. I'm going back to the station. Alan sighs

(31:22):
and announces, and I'm going to yell. Amy tells Alan
Alan it's not going to help, and Alan stops her
and says, no, I Am not going to remain quiet
while Mo's son, while my son makes the biggest mistake
of his life. Now you may be some big shot
weatherman down at the channel, whatever it is, but here
you are still my son living in my house. And
Eric says, yeah, well, I'm eighteen today, And Alan says, fine,

(31:43):
you want to play adult, then let's play. You want
to continue sleeping in that room upstairs, You pay rent,
car insurance, you pay that too, groceries. You're starting to
get the idea. And it's so good because they both
of you.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Are right, both have great arguments.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, but it's also it's such a thing that you
do when you're eighteen. You feel like, oh, I've passed
some invisible lines, so now all of a sudden, I'm
an adult and I can do whatever. And it's just
it's such an arbitrary line doesn't really mean what you
think it means. Some people at eighteen have been adults
for ten years. Some people at eighteen aren't going to
be an adult for another twenty so you just never know.

(32:20):
And Eric is what you but you have that I'm eighteen,
I could do whatever I want. I'm an adult now.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
She's so so funny how when you first move out
on your own and you start really paying attention to
how much the little things cost. Like I remember when
my brother first moved out of my parents' house. My
mom always kept cetaphil that was like cedaphil or setaphil,
however you say. It was the face wash my mom
kept in the shower and he was like living on
his own, and he went to.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Go to the grocery store to buy it, and he
was like Calder.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
He goes, have you been paying fifteen dolluff is fifteen dollars?
And she was like, what you know? And it's just
to him, it was just like, oh, I'm not using that.
Did you see that they have this one for a
dollar fifty over here? So you know, when Alan starts
pointing out, you have no idea how much goes into
truly being on your not just money either.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
I remember when I first moved out, I moved into
the oak Wood with Spencer. It's I'm what sixteen seventeen,
and all of a sudden there's a big pile of
clothes and I'm walking by him, and it took me
a good five days to be like, oh, those don't
magically do themselves. I've got to go.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Clean all that stuff or food, right, Yeah, I had
to buy your own auter pops.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yes, you could buy in bulk and your coke right,
and my coke and I had to get bump. But
it was like no, by the way, I mean Coca Cola,
Coca Coca, yes, no. But I was like, no, I
I have to make my bed, I have to clean
my sheets, I have to There is just all these
things that magically get done when you're a kid. It's
like being a child actor on a set. Everything's clean

(33:50):
the next morning when I come in. Well, yeah, it's
not like that in the real world. So yeah, nuts.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Eric says he gets that they don't realize how important
this job is to him. And you know something, if
pain rent is my birthday present, well then happy birthday
to me. You want your rent? Here, here's your rent.
He slams money down on the table, and then he
looks at the money and says, well, breakfast anyway, breakfast.
Amy stops him from leaving. She tells him happy birthday.
He looks back and says thanks Mom, but Alan still
won't look at him. Amy urges him, but Alan just

(34:17):
walks away. Eric walks outside and slams the door shut.
And Betsy is so good because you can. She's like
about to cry. Yeah, And it's such a tough like
she's playing it like such a torn mom between wanting
to love and protect her son and wish him a
happy birthday and also the parent who really thinks he's
making a big mistake. And then we're in Turner's apartment.

(34:38):
Sean is pacing as Dana sits on the couch. Sean
nervously asks where are they?

Speaker 4 (34:41):
Where are they? What kind of date? Goes past nine pm?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Nine pm? Again?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Dana says, your pacing's making me nervous, and Sean says, oh,
when you're nagging is helping me. And she says, see
what they're going out is doing to us? Dana asks,
Sean says, you're right, we shouldn't fight. We still have
our relationship, Dane ads, which is going quite well. She
pauses and says, wait, what if they really like each
other and get married? They look at each other and
Sean gets up quickly. I'm gonna call the restaurant. Sean
asks where they went, and Dana says, some Italian restaurant.

(35:08):
Sean flips through the Yellow Pages for Italian and looks
up at Dana, concerned.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
There's more than one, more than one. Why couldn't they
have gone to Burgers because then it's only Chubby's.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, just go to Chevy's.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
There's any other restaurant. Well, we've we've referred to a
couple fancy restaurants, right, Labujia, you remember it.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Labuja's where their seniors take their dates.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
And then there was that la because that's always like,
that's when they find that the matches and he's like, Labujia.
But was that the only one? No?

Speaker 4 (35:41):
I thought there was another one, But maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
There's another one too.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Well. Turner and Susan then walk in, laughing, and Turner
asks if Sean and Dana stayed out of trouble. Sean
stomps over to Turner and says, we should be asking
you the same thing. He inspects Turner's face and chest.
Sean says he just checking to see if she left
any lipprints. Just getting a little going a little too far.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Maybe.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Dana questions Sean, who are you calling? She she happens
to be my mother, and Sean responds, well, she happens
to be seducing my buddy over here. Dana, now real mad,
tells her mom, I think we've been insulted enough.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Susan says, nobody's going anywhere. They have something to tell
Sean and Dana. Sean gasps and says, we're sisters.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Dumb show at least occasionally.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
But it's great, it's so funny. Turner tells him, hold it,
hold it, Nobody is Nobody's sister. They all sit on
the couch and he.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Says, nobody's Nobody's sister, like all of a sudden, he's
from back right from New York, even though he's from Westport, Connecticut.
Nobody nobody, Nobody's sister.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
They all sit on the couch and Susan tells the kids, look,
we had a great time tonight, and Turner adds, but
we decided it'd be too awkward for you guys, so
we won't see each other anymore. Dana is insulted and says,
what my mother isn't good enough for you, and she
storms away. Shawn's stands up and says to Susan, you
just never gave them a chance, and follows after Dana the.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Your read of her, the instant change you do when
you're like, you never gave her a chance, Dana. It
was so all the.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Perfect caring boyfriend.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
So great.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Also, I love the perfect representation of just the volatility
of teenagers, so just they could be so passionate about
how wrong.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
One thing is. The second switch, they just switch again.
It's so great.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
It's a great story. Is it right? This is always
it is, It's just it.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Then we're back in the news station.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Eric is doing the weather saying, as blizzard Watch ninety
six continues, schools tomorrow are once again closed.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
That takes me back, doesn't it. And then you say
it in the show, But it.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Does to me.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
No, you don't.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Oh, when you are on the East Coast and you
are you're not watching TV, you are waiting in the morning,
you wake up and you're listening to the news and
they have to say all your things for snow days
and they always pause. They'd be like and the aphon
public schools are closed today, and it's like.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
If your horses were sick, you couldn't take the horse
and buggy to school.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Exactly, you could we have to put the horse were
not almost here strikes exactly. You guys out here in
California doing your drugs and with your cults at you, yeah,
at your raves. Some of us just had to till
the farms and work for a living. My god, you
hippy bastards.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
My gosh. Someone off screen hands him a note.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
He continues, this just in we received a call from
Principal George Feeney, who said it's going to take more
than thirty two inches of snow to close down John
Adam's eigh And Eric, your report is still due. Happy
one hundredth birthday, mister Feenie. He smiles and crumples the paper.
Still on camera, Eric continues, let's take one last look
at the big map, shall we. Then the screen reads
Happy birthday, Eric, and the whole crew gathers around him,

(38:59):
wishing him a happy birthday, giving in balloons and a
giant cake.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
And can we just say so far in this scene,
nobody else has spoken. Will you have carried You've gotten
like ten laughs, It's been like a minute and a
half and it's just you that's shining as just such
a good actor. Yeah, it's like and then it continues.
I mean everyone else is like they're around, but you are.

(39:23):
You are this entire scene. It's so good man.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
It is.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
I really wish they had kept I know, story wise,
you losing the job and everything is great for the story.
But this is a great sight for Eric, do you
know what I mean? The whole Like the fact that
Eric would like go into television and working in news
is a great thing.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
It's obviously it actually could have kept it up where
it's like Eric just now studying to be a meteorologist.
You found what he wanted to do. Totally yep.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
So cool. So Eric says, that's nice. Who told you?

Speaker 2 (39:52):
And they all say in Unison, you you did. Eric
continues away, I'd just like to say thank you. These
last couple of days have been like a dream come
true to me. He looks at the camera and signs off,
I'll see you tomorrow Philadelphia. The camera's cut and Eric
reiterates it was such a nice thought for them to
do that for him on his birthday. Station manager Pat's
size and says, look, there's not a nice way to

(40:12):
tell you this, and I really appreciate you helping me out,
but I got a real weatherman coming down from Boston.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Pats gonna hurts you.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
That's a knife in the gut, not a professional, not anything.
I got a real one coming in.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Pat continues to a totally shocked Eric. Come on, you're
a kid. You didn't expect me to just hand you
the job full time. Eric responds, No, no, I was
just having a lot of fun. Yeah, I guess it
was too good to be true. He continues, Hey, you know,
I love being an intern here, so I'll see tomorrow
right and early. Pat wonders, after being on the air,
you really think you can go back to being a gopher.
Eric says, I gotta do something. I mean, I'm not

(40:48):
in school anymore. Eric reveals he kind of dropped out,
you know, so he could give this one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
Pat's surprised Eric. We've got a problem here.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
This internship's only open to students, and Eric leads, no, no, Pat,
please don't do this to me.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
I mean, you can't take this away from me. This
is all I have. I've got no place to go.
This whole thing, it's not fair.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Pat says, I'll tell you what after college, you give
me a call, I'll be happy to give you a job.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
You're a good man. Your parents should be real proud.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Great And this scel is so good. He is so
great that acting to be able to deliver all of
these turns. There's like three turns in this conversation. Yeah,
and every single one of them, even though it's you know,
their big plot moments, is delivered with kindness and realism.
Like he's so relaxed, So he's not. It's just one

(41:33):
of those like this is like the hardest thing to
do as a guest. Starters come in, carry a scene, yep,
and just basically be there to set up your reactions.
And yet I believe that this is a real person
who really does this for a job great and feel
bad about it, but also can't do anything. It's like
yet all the layers are there and it's effortless. Think
one thing that nobody's talked about. How is nobody at

(41:54):
this point concerned about the well being of rich Herrera. Well,
I mean, think about it.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
He couldn't make it in the first time, they think
because of the blizzard. But now Eric's been doing this
for several days. Where the hell is rich Herrera? And
why are there not people looking for him now? Is
what I'm curious about. So he had to bring in
somebody else. We have a I have a real weather
man coming in. Where, for the love of God is
rich Herrera?

Speaker 4 (42:21):
I don't know. I think he's dead at this point.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Oh yeah, rich Rich. Oh we hardly knew ye.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Defeated. Eric walks back over to his cake. He tries
to cut himself a slice.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
The cake is hard, he can't cut through it, so
he lifts it up and it says property of w
I x B.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Proper department, says Joe.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
The funniest thing. So not to bring it back to Mash,
but I'm gonna there is a scene in Mash where
there's something similar where Radar has to make a cake.
It's a whole big story, but I watched it again
like maybe six months ago, and he cuts he goes
to cut into the cake. I'm like, oh, this is
where it's fake, And it turns out to be the
plastic and then he cuts into the cake. I'm like,

(43:03):
what am I confusing that with?

Speaker 3 (43:05):
I thought you blended really your experience and boy meets
whirled in with mash.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
I'm like, wait a minute, this is a fake cake.
I remember this being a fake cake and it was
from our show. It was like, oh man, it's Hilary perfect.
It's a great writing beat, you know it is. It's
something that like I teach all the time. It's like,
if you can if you can make a story point
a physical object, right, if you could make something like
here's a story point. He's excited and then it turns

(43:31):
out to be fake. You know, his his his whole
birthday is just a sham.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
His whole thing. You know, like that that is great
writing because it's objective. You're showing it, you're not telling it,
but it tells the whole story.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
The people who really love him are the people giving
him the hard news he doesn't want that you need
to be in school, and the people who he's wasted
he's spending his time with are presenting false and fake perfect.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
It's story of delivery and one beat.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Yep, it's it's excellent.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
So Alan walks into the station and Eric tells him,
if you came here to fight some more, I just
really don't have the strength. Alan cuts him off and
tells him no, no, I just came to see how
you're doing, see where you work. There's some awkward silence
between them, so Alan continues, Wow, you know this place
looks a lot bigger on TV, doesn't it? And we
get another little meta joke.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
But also, did you guys get that every time somebody
visited the set of Boys?

Speaker 4 (44:33):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
It's totally meta because that's all you hear when all
you hear sets always look bigger on TV.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
And guess what, so do actors?

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yes, exactly, we are all we are tall.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
So very short, and when you meet us in person,
you will probably say, wow, you're so much shorter than
I thought.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
We hear it all the time.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yes, and acting, Rusty's acting is just and it's just
so good every time. Eric asks Alan what he's doing there,
and Alan says, well, I came down here because well,
I really blew it this morning, and I need to
tell you something. And then Alan explains that after high
school he never went to college. He went right into
the navy, and Eric says he knew that. Alan tells him, well,

(45:14):
what you didn't know is how angry my dad was.
Eric asks, angry enough to not wish you a happy birthday,
and Alan nods and tells Eric he deserves that. Alan
continues talking about his father. He took out all his
frustrations on me the way I did on you, and
things were never the same between me and him after that. Look,
I don't have to agree with what you did, but
dropping out of school made life a lot harder for me,

(45:35):
and that gives me no right to turn my back
on you. You're my son always. Eric smiles, he knows that,
Alan tells him, and I don't want to make the
same mistake my father did. Eric agrees, neither do I.
Alan sticks out his hand and says, happy birthday, son.
Eric shakes his hand and hugs him and says happy
birthday Dad. And Eric aasts and says, you know what
I mean, and they have. That's beautiful, just beautiful.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yep, great, great, you know in mine we've said this
a lot, but like great way in which boy Mean's
world is a lesson, you know, a life lesson for kids,
but also a life lesson for parents. Right, that you
can be wrong and right at the same time, and
that take responsibility for both of those things, and that

(46:21):
the human relationships are a matter and that respecting one
another even when you disagree, and even when you don't
know what the right move to make as a parent,
just admit that and and be you know, upfront with
your kid, and hopefully you can maintain a relationship.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I also like the blending of the a storyline from
the previous episode where Turner tells Sean, don't just tell her,
show her, and he shows her by doing a display
with the picnic that he was listening to her. In
this way, it's exactly the same thing. Alan didn't wait
till Eric came home, and which would have been the
easy way of saying like, hey, I'm wrong. He shows

(46:56):
him by going to his work and saying, I want
to see what you do here, and I have to
tell you something. It's exactly like you said, a lesson
for kids and also a lesson for.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
He also doesn't know what just happened to Eric, so
as far as he knows, Eric is still gonna he's supporting,
and he's supporting him doing this thing that he disagrees,
and he's.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Not saying you're right, you showed jump out of school.
He's saying, you are going to do what you're going
to do, and My job as a parent is to
maintain a relationship with you and support you, give you
my best advice, and then you're gonna have to live
your own life. But I hope I get to be
a part of it, which is beautiful.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Well, that line, one of the most important lines that
Rusty says, is and my relationship with my father was
never the same after that. Yeah, so it's like, I'm
not gonna let this happen because my dad and I
still got along, but it was just it was different
after this moment. That was awesome.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
It's great, so wonderful. And then we're in Phoenie's classroom.
Eric walks in holding his essay. Phoene greets him, mister Matthews,
you're pretty early for someone who's no longer a student,
and Eric says, I thought about it all night actually
while I was writing this, and he shows Phoenie's essay.
Phoene says, your history paper, and Eric responds with, yeah,
just how you wanted twenty thousand words on the Civil War?

(48:04):
Phoene tells Eric, I said two thousand, and Eric responds
with whoa And he rips off the first few pages
and hands them to Foene.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
That should do it.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
That should do it, Phoenie.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
It is distracted by the giant carpet baggers scally wags. WHOA,
I'm not sure what does scallow wags have to do
with the I mean carpetbaggers. I know, but scalo wags?
Is that a reference to a pirate thing? It's like
a it's a word like rep scallion exactly. Yeah, but

(48:37):
you know, yeah, we're not sure what the historical context
with Civil War camp exactly when the pirates have I
wanted to have words like just random words with exclamation
points behind them all.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
The time, strofty britt, the counting crows concarnate so Phoene asks,
you think it's that he walk in here, turn in
your paper and all is forgotten. Eric pleads, mister Feenie, please,
I just had my butt kicked out there in the
real world. They fired me, and I need somebody to
cut me some slack. Phoene questions, why would I cut

(49:10):
you some slack? You got a job, you lost a job,
so you go and find another one. Eric throws his
hands up and asks, without a high school diploma, you know,
mister Feenie, I don't know if you know this or not.
It's really tough out there. Phoene says, well, perhaps you
did learn something from that internship. He says, welcome back.
Eric thanks him, and Phoene stops him. Don't hug me.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Perfect always right on the line. Yeah, I mean this
is the end scene, A boy be twirled like tell
us who love us? I surely will not. Like, it's
just the Feene boundary of like, I'm very heavily invested
in your personal life, but I'm still in control and
I'll get to set this boundary.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
The bell rings and the students start flooding into the room.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Eric goes to sit down in the back and then
changes his mind, walking up to someone who's about to
sit down in the front row, telling them poor kids.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
I know, aggressively, yo, bro, get back.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Me. I was bigger.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
He sits right in front of Foenie and Phoene hands
Eric the book he was going to use for class
today because Eric doesn't have one.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Phoenie announces to the.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Class, I would like to shift gears slightly and discuss
those traveling entrepreneurs. And we see Eric paying attention to
Phoenie and this is.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
So amazing because there's no button there's no button. The
point is Phoene's going to go right into a lecture
and immediately the show is going to It's not going
to be like I was waiting for him to say
we're going to switch gears and to say something that
relates to Eric's life lessoner, but no, school goes on,
life goes on, and now it's Eric's job to come

(50:43):
to meet Foena. Yes, ye, yeah, that is like and
then just to leave it there. That's the show man.
That is just unbelievable writing.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
So I thought I thought so too.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Couldn't love it anymore. And then we're in Chubby's Sean
and Daner are making out and he pulls the way
to It's good to be like this again, isn't it.
She smiles and says yeah, back at each other's lips
instead of at each other's throats. Sean goes on, so,
what if your mom wanted to date mister Turner probably
never should have affected us. I think we kind of
acted a little immature. Dana responds, two people should be
free to date whoever they want. Sean agrees. He says

(51:17):
we should just put this thing in the past and
move on. Dana nods, and says, I know my mom does.
Sean tells her, so does mister Turner. I mean he's
supposed to me to date tonight at Chubby's.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Isn't that great? Tana shocked.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Staring into the distance, we see mister Turner on his
date with another woman, and Dana says, oh my god, mister.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
Turner is hitting on my aunt. Sean responds, we're gonna
be cousins.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
They look at each other and we cut to the
front of Chubby's and we hear them screaming inside.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
I was waiting for it to go wider.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Yeah, the Worry Universe. Yeah, she did correct, not aunt.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
I don't know. She may have said I am, and
I just said aunt because I knew you were listening.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Yeah, Larissa from the West Coast saying Aunt.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
No, No, I don't know. I'm just saying I don't know.
I said aunt because I Will was gonna say. She
probably did say quite wrong.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
I mean I didn't notice that she did something that
she said it wrong, so she probably said I am. Yeah,
and now I just decided to say it wrong for Will.
But I think, yes, Will's right, it's got to be on.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
But we're wrong.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
Anyway, another great episode. Really liked it.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Yeah, me too. A couple of reason.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Season three is picking took midway through season three and
now we are just.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
Flying sailing right along.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
I hate to say this as kind of an overall note,
and it's a wonderful thing for the ensemble, but the
episodes are getting better when they're not solely focused on Corey.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
I think that's just because we're a little tired of
the Cory topanga.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
I don't know, because no, but I also love the
Cory that comes in and hits a blue fuzzy like
hits jokes like that that are just so funny. He's
that awkward kind of like, I don't know, it's Yeah,
that's my favorite Corey by far, and we're seeing more
of him, which I love.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Agreed, yep.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
So our next episode will be season three episode seventeen,
The Pink Flamingo Kid, which originally aired February sixteenth, nineteen
ninety six. Thank you all for joining us for this
episode of Podmeets World. You can follow us on Instagram
pod Meets World Show. You can send us your emails
podmeets Worldshow at gmail dot com, and we.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Have merch Mister Strong do you have any idea how
fast you were merching?

Speaker 4 (53:20):
No? No, I do not Well, send us out.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
We love you all, pod dismissed. Podmeets World is nheart
podcast producer and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell and Ryder
Strong executive producers, Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in
charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor, Tara Sudbaksh producer,
Maddy Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World super fan Easton Allen.
Our theme song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon and

(53:47):
you can follow us on Instagram at Podmeets World Show
or email us at Podmeets Worldshow at gmail dot com