TGI – Episode 511 “A Very Topanga Christmas” - Pod Meets World

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
We went to Vegas and you in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Nope, I won, But I wanted you to talk about
that I did. I won't even talk about that because
it was not the highlight of the weekend. And you
know how much I like to gamble, wasn't.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
So what did you have at the buffet? Well, we
did go to the buffet.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Do you know me?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Very well? There you go. But I got to visit
the Sphere.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I have been following the Sphere for years as it
was being built.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
It was the first person to ever tell me about it.
I was like, what are you talking about? Oh, yeah,
it's going to be insane.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's going to be crazy.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
And and you know, Jensen went and saw Dead and Co.
At the end of May, and I am have never
been a grateful Dead fan.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I didn't. I don't know any of the Dead and
Co music.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
I truthfully have had many many an opportunity to go
and have always been like, no, it's not my thing.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
That was my whole high school, by the way, Yeah,
all my friends Fish and the Dead that's all they
ever listened to.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes, not my thing.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Even though also had probably never heard a song, just
knew somehow it wasn't my thing and would just.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
No thanks, no thanks. And then Dead and Co.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Was doing their last weekend at the Sphere and Jensen said, listen,
I know you think you're not a fan of the music.
I get it, fine, This is not just about being
a fan of the music. It is a full experience
and I think you would love it. And I said,
all right, I'm willing. I'm willing to give it a shot.

(01:55):
When I tell you, it is single handedly the most
incredible live show period I have ever seen Broadway plays, concerts,
circ desole anything. It is a one hundred percent head
to toe, full body experience that is amazing, and I

(02:22):
want to give the experience to as many people as possible.
Like if I just I'm like changed, I said, And
I didn't. And it's not even hyperbole. My wedding date,
the dates of my children, and the date I saw.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Dead and Co. Are all kind of in the stay.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
You're going to get a tattoo over those days.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm going to get a gum, I'm going to get
a bear tattoo. I'm going to get I'm like, I've.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Heard, Okay, so I've heard about the Sphere. I do
not do well in anything, even close to being motion simulatory,
Like I get very nauseous and can't do it. And
I've heard that the Sphere can really make you nauseous.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well did you experience any of that?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I did not, and I can also get a little
bit nauseous. I don't have it nearly as bad as
say Jensen does. Jensen does take drama meine, so he
takes too drama meine before the show starts, just to
in case.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
But also it's.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
No he takes some dramamine doesn't then get affected by it,
I will say, And I don't know about this for
other bands that are going to be at the Sphere
or other events that are going to be at the Sphere.
But John Mayer very specifically went and worked on the
Dead and Co.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Show.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
They have a simulator in Burbank, and he went regularly
and would wait and find the moments when people would
start getting sick, and then would work on it. He
spent a lot of time trying to make sure it
wouldn't do that for people, So it was very specifically
tailored to try and limit that from happening.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
It didn't happen to me at all.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I I literally, if we're so lucky that Dead and
Coe ever goes back to the Sphere, which I have
fingers crossed hope they do. I am like willing to
spend whatever I want to get a box.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I want to bring you guys.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I want to bring all my friends, Like it's the
kind of experience you I just want to I'm so
jealous of previous me who had never seen it, and
now I want to bring other people for the first
time and then just watch them experiencing it.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Here's here's a question. Have you since found yourself listening
to the music difference?

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Like, do you now want to freshman in high school?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I just found the Dead.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I like, I've yes, It's unbelievable. I'm like reading their history,
it's truly incredible, truly incredible. So it was a really, really,
really fun, absolutely life changing event, and I'm so happy
that I went.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
There was a moment early in the show. I won't
spoil it for if they come back to the Sphere,
but there's kind of this like aw firing moment where
it's kind of shocking visually and it's it's beautiful and
you know, you kind of go on this journey and
I'm thinking to myself Danielle is going to love this.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
Danielle's going to love this.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
And I'm just kind of immersed in the show, and
I decide I'm going to look over at Danielle.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
And I look over at Danielle and she's sobbing.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
So I was, I was crying.

Speaker 7 (05:19):
It was beautiful. She was sobbing. I was just like, man,
she gets it. She's fully in this. It was awesome.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, incredible.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Well, there's a reason why people have been spent their
entire lives following this band. So from the nineteen sixties,
I mean they've I had friends who their life was
following The Dead and then it translated into Fish back East,
and then they followed Fish, but this it was it's
a cult. We talked the other day on the pod,
like I was just listening to one where we talk
about subcultures.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, The Dead is a full subculture.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
They have a barter system, they have a parking system
where you're parking your cars they I mean, it's it's
a lifestyle. So yeah, it's so cool that you're experience
of that. Now, we got to do Pink Floyd.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I know, we got to go to Burning Man.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, we have to draw the line somewhere writer, Welcome
to pod Meets World.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm Writer Strong, and I'm Casey Jones.
I'm well for Dell.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Today we are recapping season five, episode eleven, A Very
Topanga Christmas. It originally aired December nineteenth, nineteen ninety seven.
The synopsis Topega spends Christmas at the Matthews home for
the first time, but when traditions clash, Corey starts to
have doubts about their future together. It was directed by
David Kendall and it was written by Andy Guerdatt, who

(06:41):
I think this is now his second script that we
have done. So what did you guys think?

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Hmm?

Speaker 4 (06:52):
I really didn't like the first half at all. Yeah,
just miserable, you know, like into the very you know,
I mean, look, Bill Daniels and a Christmas Carol just
make a perfect combination, that whole bit. I love that
when he shows up, Corey's like, you look like a doorman,

(07:12):
Like I just you know, it's like a Christmas Carol
episode is always fun. I always like time travel stuff,
and so I.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Got into that they got into that late in the
episode because that's what I mean.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, that's what saved it for me. I was like, okay,
because like up until then, it was a very run
of the mill nineties men women, you know, nagging woman
Trope and Cory. I just didn't like anybody. I was like,
I don't like that, and it didn't.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Feel true to the characters.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
It didn't feel true to Alan. I don't know, none
of it just it was like, what is happening? It
just feels like an idea for a show. And then
we shoe horned these characters into these tropes.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
And that didn't like.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
I was just like, the Pang is better than this,
Corey's better than that, everybody's I don't like, this is
not you know. And then my storyline is so slight
with Jack. But then, like like I said, at the end,
I was like, oh, you know, the ice skating thing
was great, and the time travel stuff was like fine,
it was fun.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I Uh, I liked it.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
I mean again, I liked Danielle that you and I
got to work together a little bit, which is something
that I enjoyed. I also think it's perfectly in keeping
with Alan, who Thanksgiving was very important and I think
he's one of those Christmas is very important They've set
him up as he's the holidays are very important to Alan,
and so I think it was actually kind of perfectly
in keeping with with Alan as a character.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well it's I guess it's the scene with Corey when
he's like, you.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Just got to deal with here's a model airplane.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
I was like, what, Like, this is the show where
we talk to each other and we you know, encounter
difficulty and we get through it.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
We don't just say we'd like to be mad, right,
but we did. I mean we did kind of come
off that yesterday. We came out not yesterday. I came
off with that with the last episode too, where it's
kind of like I want to I want to put
up the the satellite dish and you want me to
talk to you, and I mean it's again at the
The thing I'm starting to realize more and more, which
I'm trying to beat into my head is it's boy

(09:08):
meets World. It's supposed to be about everything from the
man and boys point of view. I mean, to the
point where we're adding another character and it's another dude.
You know, it's like that's what they were going for,
And I'm seeing that more and more so once I
kind of figured that out. Again, I just I thought
some of the comedy worked frankly, and it was kind

(09:31):
of a Christmas romp. Again, Am I going this is
the best episode you've ever had?

Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, certainly not, but I with you.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
I agree on hundred percent where it's like Bill Daniel
sitting down reading like I just want he could have
just sat there for twenty two minutes and read the
book and I would have that would have been my
favorite episode that I do.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, ever seen so I you know, I didn't hate it,
didn't love it. It was it was good, but it
wasn't great. That's yeah, that's kind of how I acted it.
I'm pretty much in enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I think mostly because even though I agree writer, it
does feel like they had a funny idea for an
episode and then had to figure out the ways that
the character they could shoehorn it in for the characters.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
But I also know coming from a family.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Who has a mom that loves Christmas traditions and having
been in enough relationships where then you know everybody's got
their own traditions and nobody wants to see their traditions
go to the wayside, And even from the standpoint of, like,
you know, I've been in situations on a holiday before

(10:35):
where it's like people are like, how much food could
we possibly have? But of course I have to make
stuffing for this person and I had to and they
even had to bring their own stuffing, and then they
like granberry sauce, but we don't need granberry sauce. It's
like you end up with and that can be frustrating
for people to feel like their holiday that they love
has been hijacked by other people's things.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's like, so I could relate to it.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
I understood the idea that Topanga would want to bring
in some of her own things and and could end
up feeling really pushy in the process.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
So I I enjoyed it. I mean it should have
been for me.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
It should have been more outlandish though, like the idea
that she wants cider. Okay, that's not a big deal,
cider that's not that's not a big problem. Where this
would have been a perfect opportunity to bring back some
of the original Topanga character where the things she does
at Christmas are truly outlandish, where it's kind of like
you thought, she's become a different to Panga but when

(11:43):
you cut to all of them into weird a weird
head dress where this is in like ceremonial garb, like
that could have been funny where you bring it back,
but hey, I want a real tree and I want cider.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay that those are not big asks, you.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Know, And I think that that part it's really when
Topanga is waking Corey up in the middle of the
night and it's just you know that from that scene
until the real Christmas Carol stuff, I was like, what
are we doing?

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Like what is this?

Speaker 4 (12:10):
You're like, it's just about again because she's not She's
waking him up at three am to just talk and
he's wanted to get laid and he you know, and
then he goes down and his dad is there, Oh,
she wanted to talk.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
And I was just like, oh, it's just, you know, it's.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Just leaning into those things that we're just so clearly
in a bubble, you know, and ideologically, and you're right,
it's it's it's part of the show is that it's
a boy's perspective, I guess, but I just kind of
was like, well, can we can do better? Can't we?

Speaker 5 (12:37):
I just felt sad too, because I knew the second
she knocked on the door. Corey wasn't getting any knew
that wasn't gonna happen. So it's like, yep, that's not And.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Then I turned to Soon and I said, we've been together.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
What known each other twenty five years, been together fifteen
whatever it is, You've never once woke me up a
three o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Never, never, never. Apparently it's a big parent, it's a
big thing.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Women.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Do do you wake up Jensen in the middle of
the night to talk to him? No?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
In the past has woken me up, and I have
turned to him with a demon eyes and been like,
do not wake me up.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
There's times where Sue and I will be traveling somewhere
where you know, we're on a different time and neither
of us are sleeping at four o'clock in the morning,
and that'll end up in a big conversation.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
But never like I'm going to wake you up to
talk to you. It's never happened. Does Alex wake you
up to talk to you the moment the night? I
don't know. See, that's yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
So this happened to one guy one time, and he
wrote a story about it.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Jensen didn't used to wake me up to talk. Jensen
would wake me up to let me know he had
a headache, and I would go, Okay, I can't do
anything about that.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Now you have a headache and I'm awake.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
And.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Now we're both upset. So this is fun.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
Listen my argument to this. My headaches were not normal.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Headaches were migrains, and I would.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
Vomit and all these things, and I used to Honestly,
there are points in these headaches I don't get him anymore,
which is a dream.

Speaker 7 (13:55):
But at one point I did think I was going
to die from them.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
And he would have to ask me, am I going
to die? And I would say no, I mean I
might kill you, but you weren't gunning until.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Five minutes ago. Now it's fifty to fifty.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
I mean, it's really.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
I'm glad you don't get him anymore, Jesuo.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
So now we can hop into our recap. We start
in the Matthews living room. It's a Christmas episode. In
what month do you think we shot these Christmas episodes?
Do you think it was October?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
November? End of September October?

Speaker 6 (14:28):
Right?

Speaker 5 (14:28):
We were we normally four ahead, three or four ahead yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Would say October November. It wouldn't be like July.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
It wasn't like a thing where we would be in
the middle of summer, so it would feel like it's
inching close to Christmas time. Alan and Eric are putting
up their aluminum Christmas tree.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
No have you guys?

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Have you anyone have an aluminum tree?

Speaker 4 (14:50):
And we weren't shown the Matthews Christmas christ before we did.
It's a normal Christmas.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yes, we had an aluminum tree growing up in the
boy's bedroom, like we had our own little fun tree
that my brothers and I could decorate.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
But no, a tree was a tree?

Speaker 7 (15:05):
A tree?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, yeah, I've never seen this.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Alan is struggling with a section but insists the tree
looks good as new, even after twenty years. I love
this tree. I like you, Eric, but I love this tree.
Corey comes storming down the stairs. I'm just asking you please,
Tapang is going to be staying here for Christmas overnight. Eric,
could we please not run naked down the hall singing
we wish you a merry Christmas. Eric is offended. I

(15:29):
only do it because people have come to expect it.
Alan asks if there's anything embarrassing he does that, Corey
would like to mention. Corey asks, at this stage of
your life, are you capable of change? Alan admits no,
so Corey caves, Okay.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
So just when you do it, say excuse me again
taking from our lives. I mean I run down the
hallway naked singing that all the time for Christmas, and
they're like, they just keep from us. Yeah, it is right.
I love it. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Corey pulls Eric I'll to the side and pulls a
little box out of his pocket. Eric gasps, oh, ring,
that is so sweet, but I can't accept this. We're family,
it'd be wrong. Corey reveals it's a promise ring for Tapanga.
It symbolizes that they'll be together forever. Eric smiles. That's
really precious. You guys must be the most precious couple
in the universe.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
You're freaks. Were promise rings a thing for you at all?

Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, that's my parents had a pro right, Well, my
parents had a promise ring, so it wasn't wasn't for me.
But I was aware of them because it's a very
famous story in our family that my parents had been dating,
I think for a couple of years. They met at fifteen,
started dating at fifteen. They had been together for a
couple of years. My mom's all of my mom's girlfriends

(16:45):
who were in long term relationships had started getting promise rings,
and so my mom wanted a promise ring. And she
was like, all right, you know, we have an anniversary
coming up. She was like dropping hints left and right.
She's like, I've made it very clear. I want a
promise ring, and for them, they're for their anniversary. My
dad presented my mom a very heavy box and she
took it and thought, oh my gosh, this is so cute.

(17:07):
He waited it so I wouldn't know that it's a ring,
and she opened it and it was a bowling ball.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, and my dad was so excited. But he was like,
cause we go bowling. It's a gift that keeps on giving.
You don't have to use the Laan balls. It's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
She was like, she's literally like trying to put her
hands in the holes, like is there a ring inside?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Is there a ring in the hole?

Speaker 2 (17:37):
So I knew promise rings, but they were not around
when we were kids. So this is this is a
little bit of like our writers.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Yeah, a promise ring and then at the generation before,
like my parents, I think it was pinning. Oh so
like you would pin, you'd take your high school pin
or something like that. And if you pin the girl
you're with or the guy gets pinned, you're like a
pinned couple. So I think that was like jacket right,
thinking the letterman Jaggiya.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
So then Amy walks through the door, followed by Tapanga.
Core Look what I brought you for Christmas?

Speaker 1 (18:06):
He greets his girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh look, miss Topanga head to Pega, hugs him and
thanks the Matthews for letting her spend Christmas with them.
My parents went on a cruise to Barbados, but I
told them, nope, I wanted to spend Christmas with Corey.
So this couple who went to Barbados, do we think
this is the Jedediah and Chloe.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
We yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
They seem they don't seem like a Christmas in Barbados couple.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
They do not. They do not at all.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
They seem like they the way they were set up,
they seem like we celebrate our every Christmas in a
soup kitchen.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
And we're there helping people all day long. Like that's
what it seems like they.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Are Yeah, the physical people that play them are going
to change.

Speaker 7 (18:41):
Several correct, Hi.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Is the question, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think we're already leaning into this new re written
version of Topanga.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah, because we'll also where's an pru, right? Couldn't you
just stay with her?

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Alan then and Dursey wants to celebrate Topega's first off
use Christmas with his special eggnog. Everyone excitedly grabs one.
Tapanga tastes it. It's great, But have you ever tried
hot mould cider? The guys look at her like she's crazy.
Eric sternly states, no, we're an og family. To Penga backtracks.
I would never want to interfere with tradition. It's just
that my family's always had cider. Corey says they can

(19:20):
have both, but Eric isn't buying it at the supermarket.
The Siders nowhere near the eggnog. You know why they
hate each other. Alan Hans's keys to Eric, go get
to Panga some cider. Eric asks gas money, and Alan
promptly says no go. Corey volunteers to go with Eric
and asks Topanga if there's anything else that will make
her Christmas more enjoyable to Penga smiles. No, and I'm

(19:42):
really sorry to put you guys out. It's just that
cider on Christmas is my family's one tradition. Well that
and we go to our favorite evergreen tree farm, but
everyone has one of Then she spots the silver Christmas tree.
What the heck is that Tapega's family gets their Christmas
on the Christmas tree on like Christmas Eve, they go
to the.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, because that's when all the best ones are still available.
Is the day before Christmas. Everyone knows. I start time figuring.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Out a little leftover.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, I had a hard time figuring out when was
it Christmas Eve? And when is it Christmas Eve Eve? Like,
I think this is Christmas Eve Eve.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
But this phrase that we used throughout the episode, Christmas
Eve day, I've never heard in my life.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Have you guys ever said that?

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Oh yeah, we say that, sure, it's Christmas Eve day,
it's Christmas Christmas Eve. Well, no, because the day is
Christmas Eve, but it's Christmas Eve Christmas evening short for evening,
but that Christmas Eve is the title of the day.
I was like, why would you ever say Christmas Eve day?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Christmas Eve day?

Speaker 4 (20:40):
You did. I turned to Alex, I was like, have
you ever said that? She's like, no, it's Christmas Eve.
I was like, okay, this is bizarre, but all right,
I stand corrected.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, well, because we would we would have to sometimes
split it up between families. Would be like, well, I'm
spending Christmas Eve Day here, and then I'll be spending
Christmas Eve there and Chris Christmas Morning.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Is another thing.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
I maybe, yeah, that like distinguishing when you're actually like
scheduling out, but when you're talking when you're on the day, you're.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Like, right, it's Christmas Eve.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yeah, you don't say it's Christmas eve Day.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
We have to do the things that we do for
Christmas Eve Day.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
I've never heard it in that conflict.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
You don't wake your kid up in the morning and
say it's Christmas Eve.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
More Christmas Eve Day. We know it's Christmas Eve morn
in the morning, Christmas. What are we doing for Christmas
Eve during the day. We're gonna do this tonight, We're
gonna do you say.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh goshive lunchtime.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
I also did think if Tapangas one tradition was the
mold cider, how hard is that to bring with you like, great,
just brings some cider with you and be like, hey, guys,
this is what our family does, and I wanted to
share it with you. You don't just walk into someone's
home and go so, where's my stuff?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (21:49):
I also you think he might have a she might
have a conversation with Corey beforehand, like I'm coming to
Christmas because you know people come to our house. We
know they're coming to our house. The first thing I
ask is like, is there anything you want me to
pay up?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Is there anything you want to grab or do any guy?

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah something?

Speaker 1 (22:04):
So yeah, well we like it. It should have just
been there already, I know, but we need car.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Even that could have been the source of the conflict,
like Corey, remember I told you I like cider. Yeah,
and he's like oh, and then it's like oh and
then Corey. Because as it is, Corey is sort of
like an innocent victim of Topanga's you know, insanity for
the whole first half of this episode, whereas if he
had been somewhat guilty of like messing something up, I
would have felt better about, like you got to make

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this up to Tapanga. Instead, it's like Tapega's just portrayed
as like Bossy and Ypega.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Had walked in with her own cider and was like celebrated.
You know, He's excited to give them the nog and
she's like, oh, but I do cider.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Let's all have cider.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
And they're like, we don't really want to have cider,
but she's pushing it on them.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yeah, it's because again they're still having their egg nog.
So what it should have been is let's get Corey
bring in the nog, and Corey brings insider.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Well, Topanga wan insider, so we only have.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, we already sacrifice art traditions.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
It's like you already have your egg nog houses messing
up your day at all a little more nuanced.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, then we get a slight optical flip and we
are now at the Evergreen Tree Farm. To Panga peaks
her head around a tree and presses her luck. As
long as we're in Vermont, could we stop and get

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some syrup, Alan sarcastically states we'd be nuts not to.
Topanga walks off, leaving the guys to get her selected tree.
Eric is fuming this is going to be the best
Christmas ever. Ask her if she still wants it on
the twenty fifth Corps.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
And then we're either you always asked us, Daniel, do
either of you remember this episode or shooting this at
all in any way shape, I remember one thing from
the episode, in one thing only really what that Ben
didn't know the Christmas Carol and he didn't know what
it was.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
All I remember is Ben being so stressed out about singing,
and he was so nervous and he was such a
big deal. And I thought it was like that he
sang the whole song and it was like this big
concert moment. So when it happened, I was like, that's it.
That's what he was nervous about. The whole week revolved
around anxiety over having to sing, and I thought that

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when he did it, it was like a huge accomplishment
and then the audience went crazy, and so in my
mind it was literally like, I thought, the same sings,
the door opens, and it's like this big moment. And
so when it happened into the you can barely hear him. Yeah,
I thought it was like Tapanga's showing up from I
think I confused him with the long walk to Pittsburgh,
but I thought it was like this big climactic return

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of Corey singing this beautiful song and as it was,
it's like you can barely hear him and he's on
the other side of the door, and then it's over.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
And then I was like, what that was it?

Speaker 4 (24:53):
And it's so funny that my memory is completely just
altered by the experience on the set, which was that
Ben was really genuinely freaked out and he went and
I remember Ben could sing like Ben would sing a lot.
He loved musicals, so I but he was nervous about,
you know, singing this song and having to sing can.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Sing with Betsy, and he was great, That's what I
remember that, Yeah, but he didn't know a.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Big deal about it, and it like clearly just you
know that his anxiety like spread to all of us
and it became like the thing that I remember about
this episode too.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yep, that's so funny.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Funny, I didn't remember any of that, So thank you
for sharing.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
And then we're back in the Matthews living room.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
The new evergreen tree is up and decorated to Panga
tells the boys, this is my first Christmas away from
my family, and I just really want to thank you
for making me feel a part of yours. Eric smirks,
you're welcome, honey, and Corey shoots him a look to Pang.
It continues, so what time on Christmas Eve do you
guys open your presence? Eric explains they do it on
Christmas morning to penga size Oh. Eric questions, oh, and

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he ended Upanga go back and forth with some more o's.
The rally is broken when Eric calls a conference with Corey,
moving him away from Tapanga. Eric blurts out, welcome to
the rest of your life. Corey thinks it's no big deal,
so she opens her presence on Christmas Eve. Eric assures
him it isn't about the presence or the real tree,
Corey confesses, so she makes purring noises. When we make out,
Eric is stunned. Corey realizes he's said too much.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Said too much by the way opening presents Christmas Eve.
So apparently Topanga's family is very German, because that's a
German thing. You open your presence the night before. Yeah,
I wonder if she's from a German family. Yeah, that's
Jenson's family did that as well. Christmas Eve gift opening
we did.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
We got to open one present on Christmas Eve. And
it was always pajamas, you know, And eventually we figured out, like,
we know what this is. It's going to be the
pajamas we wear tonight and tomorrow morning.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, that's nice.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
My brothers and I would exchange the day before, so
Christmas Eve Day with the sibling Christmas, we'd always exchange
with each other, and then the next day.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Was all the all the regular stuff.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Did you guys have any Christmas traditions like that, you
know or like, well.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
We still I think we talked about it.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
I still have one where every year to this day,
my father still gets all of us a matchbox car.
So every year I get a matchbox car, my brothers
get one, my nephews get one.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
We all still get a match Are they.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Ever like like referential to any Is it just like
a random car?

Speaker 5 (27:18):
Or oh no, they'll be the My dad will go
pick like for years I got the Batmobile because he
knew I was doing Batman or something with Justice League
and the kids if they were in the monster trucks.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
So yeah, he'd tried to pick.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Like my my brother loved the big seventies muscle cars,
so we always get him a seventy seventies muscle cars.
So we still to this day still get I get
a mailed out now when I'm not home for Christmas,
I get a mailed out.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
To writer, Your grandmother's chocolate is.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
Oh, yeah, Grandma's chocolate, And we made it last year.
We and my mom found the handwritten recipes.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
We made it last year, so we're gonna perfect it
this year.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Okay, yeah, So my Grandma's chocolate was a huge thing
in our house.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
It was amazing. It was amazing. Yeah, oh so good.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
And then I think I've talked about how we would
not have a Christmas tree. We would have red with
tree branches that were like thirty feet tall that we
wired together to make a Christmas tree. Of course, the
dining room my parents' house is this big, like octagonal
shaped window thing that my dad built, so it's very tall,
and the whole place would be the tree. And we

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had a platform with a train underneath it, so we
would always set up the train and like build a
little town, and then Santa would go on top of
the tree. We have this little stuffed Santa, the creepiest
stuffed Santa you've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Oh, we have some creepy stuff Santas too.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
And this this is like from the nineteen forties or
fifties with like I had to be the face, like
this plastic face. Yeah, he's since gone to rest rest
in peace. That that stuffed Santa. I got a top
piece Silo's dog and got it's gone.

Speaker 8 (28:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
I think Gordy finally tore that Santa up one year.
But the tradition was that I always put Santa on
the tree. So it was like once the tree was decorated,
the last thing we'd do is that me, as the youngest,
I would put Santa on the tree. Those are really
kind of only our heart and traditions, I think.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Do you know how Santa became red and white? No?
Do you know the story of this Coca Cola? Yeah,
Coca Coca Cola invented the modern day Santa Claus.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, we won't get into it.

Speaker 7 (29:11):
Look it up.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
It's great, right. Yeah. What about you, Danielle, Wait, do
you have any family traditions?

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (29:16):
At my grandpa, we spent Christmas Eve at my dad's parents' house,
and we also would open a gift and it was
the gift from Santa. Santa came to my grandparents' house.
We had I had like sixteen first cousins, and we'd
all be together on Christmas Eve and Santa and his
elve who is one of his sons, would come to
the house and we would sit on Santa's lap and

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actually make an appearance, like you would, actually wow, make
an appearance.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
And he was good.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
He knew all of our Namesta and I know he
is Santa and he's great, and he would always know
what we were up to and what we had done
that year, and so all of us would go up
there and have a full conversation.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
He'd say, so, how's it going. You're still working on
your TV show? Huh? And like, you know, to my
siblings or.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
My you're still sitting on this man's lap when you
were like fifteen and sixteen years old.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Oh yeah, in my twenties. Yeah, oh promise second child.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Oh yes, oh no, grandchildren are this year. Our children
also saw the Santa. Yes, okay, yes, yes. At a
certain point we did say I will just sit next
to you, Santa, I hope.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
So that's a conversation that eventually needs to be had.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, okay, but anyway, moving right along, Eric continues his rant.
Today she takes over Christmas tomorrow. It's the rest of
your life. Goodbye, Corey Matthews. Hello, whatever your teppanga name is?
Corey asks who cares when they open presents and his
topanga name is Captain take me shopping?

Speaker 5 (30:47):
What it's just that's that's a two am joke that
they never just that's a filler joke.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
They could not sign up. Kanda loves to shop. Apparently
he just takes it, which she doesn't.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
I'm so at the mall know, okay.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Eric explains that this is about the power struggle between
man and woman since the creation of man over three
hundred years ago. Tapega interrupts, wait till you guys see
what I have to put on top of that tree,
and she runs upstairs. Eric calls for another conference and
asks why he's letting Tapanga walk all over him. Corey
and says he isn't and he's going to prove it
by putting the family cardboard noodle star on top of
the tree instead of whatever Tapanga is bringing down. Just then,

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Tapanga's back now with an angel behind her back. She
kisses Corey and Eric purrs. Corey insists that Eric guessed
it was just a guess. Tapega shows the boys her
traditional angel for the top of the tree, and Corey stutters, Topanga,
I have something to say to you. She jumps in,
let me guess you love the angel and proceeds to
kiss his face. Corey is beensource old. I guess and

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agrees I love the angel. He turns to Eric. I
have failed. Eric decides to say something to Tapanga. So
about you spending Christmas with us the Matthews. I have
a problem, Topanga guesses if this is about the spending
limit on presence. I am sorry. I just saw something
that was so air and I had to get it.
Eric and Soorceld with money huts her.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I love you. Welcome to our family.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
This is the most we've worked together since like season one,
I know, absolutely, yeah by far.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Also, I'm now just realizing was Morgan in this episode?
Was she even there? I can't remember.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah, she's at the end, Yeah, she's.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
On the she's sleeping. Yeah, she's sleeping on the couch.
Literally couldn't remember. Okay, I know.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Then mister Feenie appears through the kitchen door. Greetings of
the season. It's Christmas Carol time. Ooh, Tapanga loves a
Christmas Carol. See now this is when I was confused.
Shouldn't he be reading the Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve?

Speaker 4 (32:41):
So this is the twenty third right now?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
I think it's the twenty third. Hmm yeah, okay, okay.
So he reads it really slowly and takes all night.
It takes all night? Can possibly happen? Oh? All the parts?

Speaker 2 (32:54):
So I know that's true. Tapega loves a Christmas Carol.
Corey explains every year, mister Feenie come over and reads
it to us. We never ask him to, he just does.
Phoenie shouts tradition. Topeka has an idea, you know what
might be fun. Phoene repeats tradition to Panga is unfazed.
What if instead of you just reading the story, we
all took parts and acted them out. A disturbed Phoene

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slams his bookshot. Phoene asks Corey, did someone have complaints
with how I read this last year? Because if I
was a little slow, I could always pick up the
pace to Panga butts In Morgan would have a blast
playing tiny kit.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Cutting meta joke, pick up the bass number one note
that we always got.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Keep moving, keep.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Moving, You're right I didn't even think of that, but absolutely.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
It's like the classic actor note that we would get
all the time. So the fact that he goes there is.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Perfect also just he saves every scene. He saves every
scene the second Bill comes on, I'm fine with whatever.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
Happens, yep.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
And it's amazing.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
It's such the power of an actor like of that caliber,
where the second he pops on, I'm like, okay, what
what do you Where do you want me to go?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
I'm good, yep. It is true.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Morgan would have a blast playing Tiny Tim. I'm going
to go tell her Astapanga runs off again. Phoene protests,
but I'm Tiny Tim and Scrooge and all of that
and all of them. Corey apologizes to Panga, likes things
done her own way.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
It's just what I did.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Get to see Patrick Stewart do his one man Christmas Carol. Oh.
I've heard about this legendary yeah, way back in like
the late eighties, early nineties, and I got to see
him in the mid nineties when my brother was like
a huge Treky fan and he was doing a tour
of the Christmas Carol and I went and saw it.
It was fantastic because you know, he's one of those
great actors. But he also, like Bill, just has the

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perfect voice to narrate and he does it. But he did,
he acted out every character on stage and he tells
the whole Christmas Carrol is wonderful, so good. I wonder
if he still does it anymore. You know, it was
one of those likes in his repertoire. Patrick Stewart would
do it every couple of years.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
So cool.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Anyway, it's not my whole life, it's just Christmas. And
every morning when she tells me what to wear, Phoeney
does admit nice shirt, Old Tapanga gone and just type
a control freak.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Topanga has entered the chat.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
Well, because when you're a girl, you can be any
kind of girl. When you're a woman, you're a specific
kind of woman on this show.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Right, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
We get a little Christmas jingle and transition to Eric,
Jack and Shawn's apartment. Jack and Sewn are setting up
a miniature aluminum Christmas tree. Is the aluminum tree the
National Tree of Philadelphia or see that makes more sense.
The guys having an aluminum tree. That's like my brothers
and I having a lumin tree. It's like that size.
It's easy. You stick the things in Christmas done that
made sense?

Speaker 5 (35:36):
The big full size like twelve foot aluminum tree.

Speaker 7 (35:39):
Who does that?

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Sean asks Jack how he usually celebrates the holiday, and
Jack says they used to go to Veldscer and ski
the French Alps. He asks what Sean usually does. Well,
those of us in the trailer park just like to
thank God for all that we have.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Jack shrugs. Great line. We pray on the plane, we
play on the plane. I like you didn't like you
didn't like this kind of small bet story.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
I like that they're trying to get you guys to
have something at least.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
No, I think I just think that I don't feel
great about the performance. It's fine, you know, it's just
like I said, it's a slight little but like in
this scene, you know, I just I just really I
I have really bad vocal energy. Like I've just clearly
thought that being natural and uh you know, naturalistic as

(36:31):
an actor meant that I swallowed so many of my words.
So like in this scene, I was like, writer, speak up,
like just say what you're saying, like, deliver the lines
and clearly I'm just like, I'm just like swallowing everything.
And I think it was because I thought I wanted
to like really feel it or really you know, act it,
and it's like, no, it's a sitcom, dude, just like
deliver the lines like make sure we can hear you.

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So that's all I could think of when I was
watching this scene, I was like, solo energy, like and
and and I just think that because of that, Matt
doesn't really have a lot of energy. We're like we're
not going at each other with enough clarity and specificity.
So it felt muddled here later, like when we, like
I said, when we have the like ice skating thing
at the end, it's like it picks up back, and
I just wanted to like up the energy.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
It just felt I think it.

Speaker 5 (37:15):
I think in this say in this case though, especially
for the first one, it worked because you both look
really uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, I think you're supposed to.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
It's like, I know, but there's there's discomfort that's funny,
and then there's this comfort that maybe is too real
or you know, a little too real. It was like, yeah,
don't just play like even at the end, I think
I'm not sure what the last line of the scene
is but it felt like whereas it could have been.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Like what do we do? I think it's like what
do we do now?

Speaker 4 (37:39):
And it's like we're and I was like, let's hold
that tension, like yeah, you know, and like it could
have been funnier. It's just like we needed we need
a little of that will for illness, you know, like
you know somebody who's just like, let's make this fun.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
I think I do think, knowing how chat was, I
think Sean could have been very into Christmas and there
was some weird trail trailer Christmas things that Sean could
be like, come on, don't you do this?

Speaker 1 (38:07):
And then when you.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Know, he's like, well we we went skiing in the Alps.
Sean would be like, oh, like I just.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
We're gonna be just like, thank god all we have.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
If there could have been some really fun chet Christmas
y thing, got to.

Speaker 8 (38:26):
Color, Yeah, that could have been funny. That would have
been funny.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
So then they focus back on the mini tree and
Sean says to brothers, nothing in common. Jack agrees, so
how should we celebrate Christmas? Sean tells them it doesn't
matter what they do, as long as they do it together.
Jack asks again, so what do we do?

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Seawn answers.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
When I was a kid, I always wondered what it'd
be like to celebrate Christmas with my brother. Now I'm
going to get that chance. This is going to be
the best Christmas ever. Jack smiles back, so what do
you want to do? And then we're at the Matthew's house.
We're in the hallway. To Panga, in her winter nightgown,
knocks on Corey's door. Corey opens it in a surprise
to see her. To Panga, you frisky little girl, come in,

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she says, She rings your with you. I know nothing
fancy about God, my God. Corey thinks a nice little
snuggle would help. Come on in to Pega reiterates that
she's not there to come in. So Corey asks, then,
why did you wake me up? She wants to know
what he was doing. Corey asks, at three o'clock in
the morning, I'm usually sleeping and dreaming, and in my

(39:43):
dream I said come in, and you did. To Panga wonders,
don't you ever wake up in the middle of the night,
Corey says not once. Ever, why she says, to think
about things like I know that Eric likes his eggnog,
and your father loves his aluminum tree. And I know
you understand that I have my traditions too, and you're
okay with that, aren't you. Corey nods, yeah, I mean,

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we all have our own traditions. In fact, one of
my favorites is sleeping when it's dark. Topega continues, because
we're not the same people, and sometimes the way that
I would do things is totally different than the way
that you would do things. Corey knows that Topek is
happy to hear this. It's good to know that for
the rest of our lives, you'll get up with me
at three o'clock in the morning to talk about things.
Corey smile fades quickly as to Panga kisses him and

(40:25):
says good night. Corey stands in the hallway. Now he's
wide awake. Then we're in the Matthews living room and
now wandering. Corey sees his dad sitting on the couch
and asks what he's doing up. Alan tells him he's
always awake at this time. Where's the midnight pie and
at least a shady melon something something?

Speaker 1 (40:43):
I mean, something something hamlet esque.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah, Alan explains, every night I just wish I could
make it to the morning without the.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Tap tap tap.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Alan, are you up? Alan responds, yes, Pumpkin and Amy
will say the dreaded words, let's talk. Amy will talk
until she falls asleep. Then Alan makes models. He shows
off his newest airplane to Corey zoom and asks Cory
why he's up. It's tapanga. She likes to get up at.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Three in the morning.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
She's been here for eight hours and I'm just now
finding out all these new things about her, Alan wonders,
And that's bad. Corey shakes his head.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
I mean I always thought we were so much alike,
and I thought that's why we get along so well.
Alan puts it together so right when you get to
the point where you think she's you, you realize she's her.
Corey asks what he should do. Alan pulls out a
model airplane kit. I've been saving one of these for
each of my sons. He hands it to Corey and whispers.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Enjoy, welcome to being a man.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Yes, is this also we're supposed to supposed to kind
of believe that this is every night? Because doesn't he say,
like until that time, what like the man hasn't slept
through the night because she wakes him up every single night.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
He said, just every night. I just hope I can
make it through the night, but it never happens.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
That's that's not a normal thing. That's she needs serious
series help, some real help. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Also, Corey hasn't realized that Tapanga is different from him
in all these years of them being together and all
the episodes we've done where he says, I was just
doing this because I thought it's what you wanted. There
have been so many times he's done the wrong thing
thinking it was what it was that she wanted, which
wouldn't have been what he wanted. So you know, this

(42:26):
scene does for me really stand out as being like
the poop the poopy scene in the show. Yeah, I
just this scene I think is kind of poopy, and
I know I don't love it.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Does Boy Meets World in all seven years ever pass
the Bechdel test? Do you guys know the Bechdel test.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Nice is a woman who doesn't have.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
So it's it's this very famous thing that Alison Bechdell,
who's the great graphic novelist and writer, came up with
in like the mid eighties, which is a test that
you can sort of put on to move. She she
brought it up to movies, but it's there's only three rules.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Are there?

Speaker 4 (43:05):
Is there more than one woman that has a name?

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Did do do women talk to each other alone in
a scene at any point? And three do they talk
about something other than a man? And I you know,
not a lot.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
The first two definitely the.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
World two women who talk to each other about something
other than a man.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Tey and Topanga are talking about Corey, Yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Are talking about Corey and Sean.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Amy and Topanga are talking about Corey or or Alan.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
I'm hoping maybe during the war, I mean in what capacity,
because they could be talking about other characters but not
talking about a man. If it's like the war episode
where they're like, we've got to get them back, they're
talking about male care aracters, but it's not like what
about your man?

Speaker 4 (44:01):
But well, the male characters are the whole focus then,
and that kid, like, the idea is that do they
talk about do they have an independent existence where they
talk about things other than the male characters on the
show right or on the in the movie. And the
reality is most of the times when shows were written
in the eighties, nineties.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Even up till today.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
They don't they just right.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
I mean again, it's a male point of view show.
So yeah, I'm curious.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
It's just something occurred to me watching this episode.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
I was like, oh, this is a Yeah, I don't
know in all seven years if that, and I don't
think it's happened yet. I don't think we've had any
two female characters with names talking about some other subject anything.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Yes, well, yes, yes it is if you count something
like Amy and Morgan having a conversation about a Barbie
doll and.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
With just the two of them.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, sure, he puts them on the micro he's in
the kitchen.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
They've had different conversations, you know, the two the to
Amy and Morgan talking about stealing the necklace from from
the girl. And then the other woman comes and shows up.
So it has happened, but it's slight.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
Oh yeah, no, that was actually a great when the
woman she had her So yeah, their.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Friend came and they Amy had the confidence.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
You're right, that was four women.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Okay, we passed the Bechdel test in season one barely.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
But yes, yes, So then we're in the Matthew's kitchen.
It's Christmas Eve, morning. Tapanga is making pancakes that are
shaped as Christmas trees. When Corey walks downstairs, she happily
greets him. Merry Christmas Eve, mornings leap ahead. Corey hesitantly
wishes her a good morning. Tapanga brings him a plate
she made her traditional Christmas Eve morning breakfast. Corey thanks her,

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then grabs the syrup to Pega yanks it back. No,
no syrup, which what why didn't she was someone who
asked for it?

Speaker 1 (45:49):
She wanted the syrup.

Speaker 5 (45:50):
Also missed a huge joke. He should have walked down
the stairs and handed her a model that was finished.
He should have handed her a plane Merry Christmas like
it would have just never mentioned, never mention.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Just like looking at a perfectly okay and then putting
it down. Miss a huge joke. But yeah, I thought
the same thing. It's like, you want to know you
asked for their pancakes exactly.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Corey reminds her they drove all the weight to Vermont
for it to Panka explains, these trees get snow. She
grabs the powdered sugar and begins to sprinkle it on
the pancakes while singing jingle bells like a psychopath. Corey
watches in horror. I'm not really that hungry. I think
I'm gonna take the garbage cans out front. To Panka
reminds him there's no collection on Christmas eve Day, Corey

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says he was just in a hang out there.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Why who says that.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Morning?

Speaker 5 (46:39):
I want a new merch shirt? Happy Christmas eve Day?
I want that shirt.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Corey says he was just gonna hang out there till
the fourth of January. To Panga mutters, somebody got up
on the wrong side of the bed. She hands him
a glass of orange juice to wake him up. Corey
takes a sip. Ah, this is an orange juice. To
Panka says, she squeezed in some grapefruit.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
Ok, back to the T shirt. The merch that we're
gonna make. Is it a model airplane?

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Is that the image?

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Or it's aluminum tree pancake with model airplanes hanging out?

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Merry Christmas eve Day, Merry Christmas eve Day?

Speaker 3 (47:13):
All right, it's get a design going.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Corey yells, why orange juice on its own is very delightful.
To Pega notices he's tense, and she suggests they go
for a walk on the way, by.

Speaker 5 (47:28):
The way, for the record, you're really playing it fast
and loose there, because if Corey was on any sort
of antidepressant and or cholesterol medication, you're not supposed to
have grape fruit of any kind. So I mean, you
could really Topanga could really have been messing with his
lippatour or crestore. Yeah, what happens grapefruit for certain medications.

(47:48):
Grapefruit enhances their like it pumps up their effectiveness. So
it's like you're taking a certain amount of like lipitur,
and you have grapefruit. It makes it even more potent.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
I think knew that her, her seventeen year old boyfriend,
wasn't on lippatour.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
If there's ever a seventeen year old who was on lippatour,
it was Corey Matthews.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Okay, she says that on the way, she'll show him
the root they'll take for caroling. Corey reminds her he
can't sing. I don't like to sing. I get embarrassed
when I sing. She shocked, it's just singing. Corey shakes
his head. It's not just singing. I like opening presents
on Christmas morning. I miss our aluminum tree. You're right.
We're two different people and we're not going to change that.

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He walks away, and she watches him leave with some
mule Tide sadness, and then we're in the guy's apartment.
Corey is confiding in Sean and Jack Boy, when you're
with someone for thirty two years, you think you know them,
funny Sean. Sean can't believe he walked out on her
on Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve Day knows.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
What.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
He encourages him to go back, but Corey refuses. Sean
tells Jack he doesn't realize how lucky he is to
have a girl like to Panga. Jack shug shrugs. I
don't really know her.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
I really know this is a great on her.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
I don't know so funny. I loved all this, Corey says.
I was going to give her this ring that meant
we were going to be together forever. But then I
started learning all these new things about her. What kind
of human being puts grapefruit juice and orange juice? I
just remembered now that I did remember a part of
this episode, and it was kissing Matt.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
But you don't kiss Matt. She could do hug.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
No, she kisses him too, did the hug first. I
was like, yeah, like, oh, I do remember that happy
kissing Matt, weren't you?

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Yeah, I think this is right around the time we
had started seeing each.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Other, which of course none of us knew about. Yeah,
we kept it very secret, but I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
Really I thought maybe that was why they wrote it
into the show that you married Jack, is because the
writers were picking up.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
On they may they may have picked up on it.
They may have picked up on it.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
I mean, I think I think David Combs knew, you know,
Wesley Staples knew they had that.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Couldn't keep a secret from them. They need everything about
my life. I was so oblivious to that stuff.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
I found out like a month ago, Like when you
told us on the show, I was like, wait, what.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Yeah, I know. We kept it. We kept it very tough. Yeah,
we kept it very quiet.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Corey says, I was going to give her this ring
that meant we were going to be together forever. But
then I started learning all these new things about her.
What kind of human being puts grapefruit juice and orange juice?
Sean responds, I am but a simple idiot. But the
one thing I do know is that you and Topanga
are just like grapefruit juice and orange juice. You shouldn't
be together, yet somehow you are.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
And you and there's a couple times where you and
Ben are right on the verge of laughter in this
episode really, yeah, absolutely, couple of times. Yeah, and then
turns it into laughing. And then when you're on your side,
you've got your smile going that you can tell you're
about to break And if you just stare at Ben,
Ben is like clearly just laughing.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Yes, this is also.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
The first time anyone has ever said anything other than
you and Topanga were meant for each other. Now, all
of a sudden, we're two people who aren't supposed to be.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
Together bar cross sers. Yeah, all of a sudden, Yeah,
it doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
Yes, whatever logic fits the scene.

Speaker 7 (51:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
And then Jack chimes in, you know, I'm sure I'll
get to know her, and if I don't, I don't, well,
Merry Christmas everyone, and that he turns and walks out
of the apartment.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
The best way to have a character leave be there
for no reason. You don't really know her. I'll get
to know her, I won't, all right, Christmas.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
I just love that he like keeps he's still on
it like well this walks.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Like, well, all right, Merry Christmas. Ever, it was great.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Corey stares at the ring. I thought to Pega and
I were exactly alike, but we're not. I guess it's
better I found this out now. Sean tells Corey that
he is nothing in common with his new brother Jack,
but they're spending this Christmas together trying to find one similarity.
Then Jack walks back in. He's followed by Tapanga. Some
girls here to see you. Cory takes a seat and
to Panga gestures for to give them some privacy. Tapanga

(51:55):
gently explains, I know you're upset with me. I'm sorry.
I love you, and if you never want to go
caroling with me, you don't have to. I'm sorry that
my family's traditions are different from your family's. I'll just
be waiting for you back at your house whenever you
want to come home. She opens the door to reveal
Jack standing their ear pressed against the door, and leaves.
Sean tells Corey to go after her. It's Christmas. Corey

(52:16):
is stressed, No, I need to think if Tapanga won't
let me fall asleep to Feenie reading a Christmas Carol.
I'm going to fall asleep watching it on TV. Sean's
heard enough, Okay, do whatever you want, but I'm going
ice skating. Jack stops him. You like ice skating. I
love ice skating. Sean gasps, you're kidding. They finally found
something in common. They feverishly shake hands while Corey watches on, depressed,

(52:39):
Sean grabbing the leather jacket to players, I love the
way that.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
We actually go to shake hands because it's like kind
of awkward. It's like, yeah, are we hugging Shad, and
it's like it feels so natural.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
We're like, yeah, I do have something.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
It was like, and then we're suddenly shaking hands, like ah, yeah,
I love this one.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
It's very cute. You grab the leather jacket, declaring they're
starting their own tradition. Every Christmas they'll go ice skating.
Jack adds, I especially like going ice skating in France.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Sean mutters, don't kill this, don't kill this.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Update on the food picture, Yep, yeah, it was a
hot dot.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Hot dog and mustard and pausing it and trying.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
To crass the seal.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yep, that's a hot dog now.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
So funny, and then we fade to later in the
guy's apartment, Cory is sleeping on the couch as a
Christmas carol plays on the TV. All of a sudden,
Foene appears. He's dressed in a top hat and a
long coat. I am the ghost of Christmas Future. Corey
points out, no, you're the doorman at the Plaza Hotel.
Ghost Feenie tells Corey that he is here to show
Corey what will become of him if he sticks to

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the path he's chosen. Corey quickly answers, I don't want
to play. Then Ghost Poenie snaps his fingers and they're
magically in the future. Still at the apartment, Eric walks
in the front door, dressed in a Santa hat, looking
very uncheery. Also, this is where I noticed the picture
of the hot dog with the muzard above the above
the sink. Corey is happy to see Eric. That means

(54:05):
everything's the same. Corey waves hey, bro, but the ghost
reminds Corey that no one can see or hear him.
Eric takes off his Santa hat and reveals a massive
comb over.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
It was so much fun to do.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
This actually led to us rider in our video was
because our makeup artist Fiona did this for me.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Yeah right, and it.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
Looked so good and so real, and then we did it.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
So when we did our mockumentary, like when the show
was ending, we said, oh, it's ten years in the future.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Where are they now?

Speaker 4 (54:35):
Boy Mets World, and Will and I are directing this
this documentary.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
We had you in a full comb over.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
So we did like four hours of makeup for our
little oh my God video and it looked so good.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
It did full combover. You had the giant the wig on,
and I had the home over.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
Dreads because you could see, like was so fun because
it looked so good and it was so fun and
you're like, yeah, let's do that.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
That is hilarious. It looked really good. So Corey laughs,
Look who lost his looks on? Cue Eric yells for Corey.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
I'm home.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
He's got his eggnog aluminum tree and he had his
pants let out. Corey wonders why he needed his pants
let out, and then grown up Corey appears, who looks shlumpy.
Corey stares in awe, oh I'm a big boy. Phoene explains,
once you look at once you took Topanga out of
your life. You took comfort and food, not just any food.

(55:30):
For some inexplicable reason, you only eat one thing Eric
Hans Christmas tree pancakes to future Corey and sprinkles powdered
sugar on top, just liked Panga did. Apparently, he eats
this for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and at three o'clock in
the morning, Corey is shocked by his future. He wants
to see how horrible and miserable to Panga ended up
without him. The ghost assures him he does not want

(55:53):
to see that, but Corey insists Ghost phoene show him.
Phoeney ghost raises his arms and transport them to another
house with a whimsical sound and effect to boot and
now we are in Topanga's future house. She looks the
exact same, and she's sitting in a beautiful home filled
with Christmas decorations, and Corey assumes she must be alone.
That's what happens when you have to have everything your way.

(56:14):
Then on cue Jack appears. Corey thinks it's some guy
delivering wood for the fireplace and she has no husband
to chop it for her, But then he realizes who
it is. Jack smiles at to Panga, I don't really
know you too well, but thanks for marrying me, for
marrying me, Corey scoffs, well, obviously it's a loveless marriage.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
And on Q, three kids excitedly run into the room
dressed in Christmas pet the camera.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
But it's cute, it's able.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
It looks like the von Trapp kids coming down.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
And I didn't know if that was an honest mistake
that he like or if it was something scripted.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Be in my I love it so, Corey whimpers, those
are supposed to be my kids. Tapega announces it's Christmas Eve,
time to open presents. Corey judges her, You see that
everything has to be her own way. Phoene points to
the tree. It's aluminum. Corey is confused to Pega would
never have an aluminum tree. How did Jack get her
to agree to that, Phoenie answers, Perhaps he never ran

(57:21):
out of the house like a coward. Perhaps he realized
the spirit of love brings compromise, that when two people
who grow together, they start their own traditions.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
Corey, I'm sorry because this to me, I loved the
twas an eight before or not twas a night before Christmas?
I love the entire Christmas Carol stuff that we're doing.
How do you leave Christmas past on the table?

Speaker 1 (57:43):
How do you not?

Speaker 5 (57:44):
How is the episode not going backwards and showing Corey
and to Panga as kids having something with Christmas and
then presently having something with Christmas and then future Christmas.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
How do you not do that for the episode?

Speaker 4 (57:55):
You don't have time, right, but I guess if you
set it up whole episode. She started with the with
Christmas Carol, the whole Christmas Carol, Yes, exactly, the cold
half of the cold Oh you do a longer cold open?

Speaker 5 (58:05):
Half of the cold open is setting up that they
have differences. He falls asleep that night, Phoene shows up
in his bed act when Sena, You're in like.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
How how do you not do that?

Speaker 5 (58:14):
With the second this started, I was like, oh my god,
we're like twenty book seventeen minutes into.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
The episode and now we're going to do Christmas Carol.
I mean it was ugh. I thought that was again.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
I didn't dislike it, but I thought we missed some
serious comedy there with.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Little Corey and Tapanga getting you know what kind of gift.

Speaker 5 (58:30):
This four year old Topanga five year old to Panga,
get Corey and what are their parents?

Speaker 3 (58:34):
There?

Speaker 8 (58:34):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Eggnog? I mean there's so much you could have done. Yeah,
so cute.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Corey asks, you know everything, don't you? He shakes his head. No,
mister Matthews, this is your dream. I'm merely in it.
Corey tries to plead with Tapanga. He's sorry, He'll do
Christmas her way. Phoene reminds him that Topanga can't hear him.
Corey leans down and tells her he loves her. Tapega
is reading a card and says, I love you too, Jack.
She stands up and gives her future husband and a

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kiss and a big hug. Corey is now outside watching
from the window. He stares at the couple in utter disbelief,
leaving his cold breath on the glass.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Ghost Feoeni ushers him away. They need to go.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
And now in current day, the Matthews kitchen to Panga
is sadly staring out the window watching the snowfall. Amy
breaks the silence. I really thought Corey would be back
by now. To Pega groans, this is all my fault.
Eric walks by with the cartoonish Hello Hello?

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Was that a reference? When you said that, I was like, oh, yeah,
that's that's a reference to something. Are you doing a
voice from something?

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (59:46):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (59:47):
It's probably something Jim Carrey. He also sounds something like
south Park, south Park A little bit.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Or thought it was.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
I thought it was a very specific way to say
and I can't remember just used.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
To do it.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
But when you said it, I was like, I remember
that hello, and I.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Remember from something. It's like Steve Martin or somebody. Is
it hello? Yeah, I can't remember. Somebody will write us
and let us know what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
But it's funny that you don't even remember.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
We don't.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
I don't remember who I stole that from, but I'm
sure it's from someone.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
To Penga continues, if I would have never come here,
Corey would have never run away. I've ruined your Christmas.
I just wanted so much to be a part of
your family. I never wanted to push Corey away. Amy
gives to Panga a kiss kiss on the cheek before
she leaves. Now alone to Pega sulks at the kitchen table.
Then we hear a voice softly singing the first noel
to Panga turns to see Corey standing at the door caroling.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
I know it was so quiet and quick. I mean,
it was just over and that writer. You're right. I
remember this being a.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Massive It may have been bigger in the beginning of
the week, and because Ben was stressed about it, it
may have become shorter and shorter.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Maybe it's just it grew huge in my mind where
oh my god, it was.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
I thought the audience went crazy. This foor open.

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
The whole family was there and Ben delivered Noel and
it was like, oh.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
Yeah, and we had to teach him the words. He'd
never heard the song, and it was like, come on,
you can do.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
And it was. It looms so large in my mind
that when it happened, I was like, really, that was it,
same exact thing, so me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
She opens the door, so happy to see him. He
wishes her a merry Christmas and hands her a tiny
ring box. Tapanga opens the gift in awe. It's a
promise ring. It means they're going to be together forever.
Tapanga asks if he really wants to be with her,
considering they're so different from each other. Corey says yes,
and he doesn't need a gift from Topanga this year,
she's already given him one. He thought he knew everything

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about her, but he's just starting to find out. They
both agree it's good that they're different, but then Tapanga
tells him to open his present. It's the exact same
ring box with the exact same bow, and it's also
a promise ring. Maybe they're the same in some ways
after all. And I really did like this episode for
Corey and to Panga minus the poopy scene. Minus the

(01:01:59):
poopy scene where you know, he's like, oh, she wakes
me up in the morning and to Penga's like, I'm
going to do this every night mine?

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
Is that? I like that?

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
There was we got to see them in a situation
where they're kind of playing house and they realize they
have some serious differences and ultimately that instead of letting
that drive them apart, they're going to embrace them.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
All of that in the abstract is the great.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
In the specifics, the specifics of what make Corey into
Panga to Panga different, it just falls back on, well,
she's a woman who's nagging and we're shopping, and you know,
I was like, why why couldn't it be like exactly
like we said to Penga's idiosyncrasies that are very much
rooted in who to Pega is. Yeah, it's not the

(01:02:47):
same thing that Amy has and that all women have, right,
it would have been so easy to just pivot it
to she wants very specific, weird traditions, and you know,
there are a few of them, but they're not rooted
in character. They're just right a litany of like she
has this tradition, this tradition, but it's like if it
was rooted in her essential to Penginness, Yeah, this whole

(01:03:07):
because yes, abstractly that's a great storyline, but yeah, it
just doesn't feel rooted in you know, our show.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
Yeah, it's also the second episode in a row where
it's Topanga going to Corey kind of like I was wrong.
It got stopped in the last episode because as she's
saying to Angela, maybe we're wrong and we've been doing
this wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
We're not thinking about their feelings. Then the girls come
in and it ruins it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
But this is the second time now where it's like, ooh,
I've come into his life and I need to go
to him and apologize. So there's also that kind of
it didn't necessarily bump me, but I was like, I
wonder how many times Tapanga's going to.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Alter his life and then go apologize for it like
it's it was strange.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. I like it more in the
abstract than in the very specifics. But I like that
the two of them realized they both handled things a
little incorrectly.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
I was maybe a little too pushy about my things.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
You reacted too harshly to me even having things, And ultimately,
is that going to let us stop us having a
future together?

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
And as a nice little button on it, Look, we
even got each other the same gift for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
It's just kind of cute.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
We'll compromise on the little things, but the big things
were on the same page.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
For Yeah, that's that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Or we'll find our own version of those big things.
And then we're in the tag in the Matthews living room,
everyone's gathered around the tree as Eric opens a gift. So,
now is this Christmas Eve?

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
No, this is Christmas Day, I'm assuming, but we're.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
In the same clothes, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
Okay, so he is going to open his gifts on
Christmas Eve, just maybe the ones from Topanga, but you're
in your family.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Is Christmas Eve Day not four days long? Do you
not do that?

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
Are you guys changed?

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Change and you want to change? Are you guys weird?
I mean, come on, it's Christmas eve Day one, Chris
Day two?

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
Actually?

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
Will could you tell that we were having so many
in jokes going on in this seed in the background?

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, Oh you open up a pair of
box officers.

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
All of us are like and we have we are
like saying things to each other that we can't hear,
but we are all completely out of character trying to
make each other laugh up there. I was like, this
is oh my god. I was like, I could just
see us during rehearsal. We must have said something ridiculous
about underwear or you, and we are all trying to
keep it together or trying to make each other laugh,

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and it's like we're just completely breaking character and like
doing a whole bit up there.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Trying to still make sense of what day it was.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
And I was like, maybe Eric is just opening to
Pega's gifts. Maybe everybody's going to open the gifts from
Topenga since that's her tradition. And then I was like,
but he's holding boxers, and I don't think Topanga bought
Eric boxing and it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Was so Eric.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
It's like, because you always wear these, you know how
We're always looking up and.

Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
Go there for the cost of the spending limit for
a pair of box bits underwear.

Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
Weird?

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Is that where.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
I don't know?

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
So everyone owes at his new pair of boxers.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
And that's where I was like, we are losing again,
and I think what happened if we probably got the
note be really happy, and so we decided to like
rub it in David Kendall's face and be like, oh,
I'll give you big because we watch we are way
too happy about those boxers. And you can see me
and Ben and matt just like like hamming it up.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Phoenie pipes Phoene pipes up.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
And now for my favorite part of the holidays, a
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Everyone takes their spots on
the couch to hear Phoene read the classic tale. Morgan
is sitting on Tapanga's lap while the rest of the
Matthews are all squished side by side. As Phoene starts,
Jack's already starting to slowly fall asleep and then we
jump forward in time. Now Phoenie is finishing the book.
The camera pans to reveal everyone is fast asleep on

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the couch. Jack and Sean are even passed out on
the floor. Feeney looks at the disinterested crowd and yells bah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Humbug, And that's our episode.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
So you can join us for our next episode recap,
which will be season five episode twelve, Raging Cory, which
originally aired Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
Nice steroid episode What gets really into Steroids for that
one episode? And you don't remember this, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
I do not.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
I have no idea what that is neither. All right, well,
very exciting. Thank you all for joining us for this
episode of Podmeets World. As always, you can follow us
on Instagram pod meets World Show.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
You can send us your emails pod meets World.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Show at gmail dot com and we have merch bah
merchbug podmeets Worldshow dot com will send us out.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
We love you all, pod dismissed.

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
Pod Meets World is nheart podcast produce and hosted by
Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell and right Or Strong. Executive producers Jensen
Karp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production Danielle Romo,
producer and editor, Tara Sudbachsch producer, Maddy Moore, engineer and
Boy Meets World super fan Easton Allen. Our theme song
is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon and you can follow
us on Instagram at Podmeets World Show or email us

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