May 7, 2026 • 54 mins
Our recap of a controversial Season 7 episode continues, as they remember some happy memories amongst the trauma.
How can you be mad when you have scenes with Will?
Plus, they to figure out if ANYONE likes having their stomach touched, and we witness one big step for man, and a giant leap for Matt Lawrence, with what is now deemed their favorite moment in series history. It’s the end of the recap you’ve been waiting for - on Pod Meets World!
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to part two of She's Having My Baby Back Ribs.
We had so much fun talking in the last episode
that we spoke for almost an hour before we even
started the recap, so please enjoy the recap. We're then
at Corey and Tapega's apartment to Pang is examining herself
in the mirror and nervously asks aloud, do you think
I'm attractive? Corey looks at her and grins, of course
(00:41):
I do. Come over here, I'll prove it. As she
walks over, we can see that her pants are unzipped
and there's not that much fat to be found. Nope,
she asks another question, You love me no matter what.
Corey apprehensively asks, yeah, what's going on. She tries to
zip up her jeans and explains nothing's going on, but
when the zipper won't work, she runs away. Corey yells out,
(01:02):
I know what it is. You haven't had your morning
stack of waffles slathered in butter and swimming in syrup.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
She runs back out, still in her unzipped pants and
says she's not very hungry this morning. Then she flops
onto their bed and continues trying to zip up the pants.
Corey starts pacing, trying to make sense of this. You
don't want sex, You're not hungry to Panga, you're starting
to scare me quick on our feet. She makes up
an excuse, I'm feeling a little bit nauseous this morning.
Then she screams, why can't I zip up these pants?
(01:30):
Corey stares at her in confusion, because they're mine. She
turns to look at the label and says, oh, no,
I've got to go and walks out.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
What if you think of your performance in this scene?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I felt like you were uncomfortable, like you are not happy,
and I because you just have unbuttoned pants, like I
don't know, No, I.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Was really you know what this is?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This is the scene of the entire episode that I
remember more than anything, because it's the only one I
can really remember being super honest with myself. Like we'll
mentioned the conversation you have with yourself when someone's just
called you into an office and told you it's obvious
you've gained weight, And then you go, man, am I
really is it really that noticeable? Is this really that
(02:10):
big of a deal? And then you go, yeah, I
mean I guess it is. I did when I started
the show at twelve, I did weigh you know, ninety
four pounds, and now now I'm nineteen and I weigh
you know, one p fifteen or whatever it is, and
so I have put on that weight and it is
my responsibility and as an actor, my body is part
of my instrument and I'm supposed to and everyone out
(02:31):
look at everyone else, and you do all that, and
then you also go and it is I'm sure being
that I think it's a funny episode. Now, I'm sure
there was a part of me that understood why parts
of it were funny then too, so I'm like, and
it is funny, so why am I taking it so personally?
This is the scene that bothered me the most. And
(02:51):
it's really because I remember thinking, I remember doing the
wardrobe fitting for these genes and they were a size
either twenty six or twenty seven, which is a two
or a four. I'm pretty sure they were a four,
So they were either a number four or they were
(03:12):
a twenty seven, which is the equivalent of like a
size four. I knew no matter how I feel about
my own body, because I was definitely like, I'm huge,
I'm fat, I'm disgusting, I knew that factually, a size
four is something most American women would think of as
(03:38):
being borderline emaciated, right right, And yet we're gonna do
an entire episode around the fact that this size four
woman has to be this concerned about her weight and
her body.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And that made me angry.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It was like in that scene, this scene in particular,
I was aware what are we saying to women?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And I felt it the most in this scene.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah, I can feel it. It was like I was
just watching you, going, she is not happy.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
In the other scenes, like especially the second half, we're
doing the jokes with the DVD and stuff, I could
tell you're actually having fun, like this is fun, those
are fun lines, and you were engaged.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But this scene, I was like, oh, she is miserable.
Yea yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
It also started. It started when you and I were
pulled into the office.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
We both to protect ourselves, instantly went the laughing fun route.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Yeah, oh my god, this is gonna be okay.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, this is going to be so great because the
alternative would have been misery.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yeah, And so it's like, let's find the jokes.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Let's fine that we're gonna hit these jokes because it's yeah,
again's all we had?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, Corey watches on with a frown. She took my
pants and then later in their bedroom, Corey's in bed
with his arms crossed and Sean is next to him.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Both are under the covers.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Sean is eating a big pile of waffles and doesn't
understand these are fabulous. They're so light, so fluffy. Corey
is annoyed. You don't have to tell me that what
the heck's going on? Sean lists off to panga symptoms, tired,
no appetite, cranky, nauseous. She couldn't fit into Corey's pants.
Corey angrily ads.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And stole them.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Sean pieces everything together and calmly asks Corey, how would
you feel if these two big waffles got all slathered
in butter and made of little.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The weirdest metaphor? I was like, what good analogy?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Slathered waffles?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Tired?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I don't undertan they were already slathered in butter, so
I don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It wasn't just what.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
If these two big waffles that are slathered in butter
are got together and made because why do Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
It was, yeah, it's just to get to the U.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
One second joke like he's not getting it, he's not taught.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It, even though you've only taken.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
One by Giant Waffles, and he's like, you want more,
I'll redish the first.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I probably couldn't eat because I was out. This was
a reshoot.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, did you have mono?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I had mono and the flu at the same time.
My god, So I was I ever did in my life.
I was at my apartment, like shivering and throwing up.
My my uvula swelled up so that I couldn't breathe,
like you know, it was like hanging and blocking my
throat so I could.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I know, Man, it was so bad.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Like when I went to the doctors, they called in
other doctors to show them how swollen my utula.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Was, Like, look at this freak show. They called it
the doc doctor.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Never believe that doctor Milton was I've never seen this before.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yes, it was awful.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And so my girlfriend was our pa at the time, Brooke,
who I ended up dating for seven years, and.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
This was like early on in our relationship.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
We had just started dating and she took care of
me and like, yeah, she was just at my apartment.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Whenever she ironically lose a whole bunch of weight right before.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Did you lose ten pounds for two weeks?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I think happened to be that's why I have a goatee.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And I lost all this week because we had had
a hiatus, and then I was just like literally sitting
in bed like shivering and.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Not fair all the week, or I have gotten.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Exactly by the way. I've heard from a number of
people that you have a huge.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Huge, big, big energy.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
A big swinging comes in with.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Corey gives him a look, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You want seconds hold on Sean's shouts Nick to Panga's pregnant,
and Corey is is shock, and then there's a ten
sad break. We're back in Corey into Panga's room. Corey
doesn't understand how Topanga can be pregnant, so Sean breaks
it down when a man loves a woman. Corey cuts
him off. No, I know about that. We were very careful.
Sean asks, did you use the yes? Was she on
(08:16):
the ah? Huh did you try the everything? Corey frowns,
I'm not even sure we had sex. She starts to panic,
and Sean tries to calm him down. First, you're gonna
talk to her tell her everything's gonna be okay. Corey
isn't sold. Everything's not gonna be okay. I can't be
a father. I got a paper due on Friday, which
is so funny.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Who line, The whole thing was so funny.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm not sure we even had sex.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I mean, this whole is great, really good, and I
love that they're giving They're giving this both sides of
the experience. No surprise really that the man gets a
full fledged experience of a friend being like, just you
make sure she's gonna be okay, and the guy being.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Like, but but it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm not happy right now, which is, by the way,
the same thing Alan got to go through a full
I think I may be too old.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
But in all fairness, they did have the women instantly
breaking the secrecy pact and telling them.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
So there is that.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Now Sean does it first. Actually he's right, Sean tells
Angela first.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Well we don't actually see that though, Yeah he does.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I begin the rumor mill m because Cory, do we
see him say Topang is pregnant?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You say, I lean in, I'm like to tell you,
and then it comes to her an expert.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So it's me that I think it's it's Sean that
breaks the right.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
But again, telling your partner is different than just going
and telling all your friends.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Maybe yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I already resent this child for ruining my life, and
that's going to mean therapy for everybody, And well, mister,
I just can't afford that. Sean admits he could be wrong.
Maybe she's not pregnant, and the small sliver of doubt
has Corey smiling.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
She's not. Oh, what a load off mine.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Sean instructs him to talk to his wife and find
out what's really going on. Corey nods in agreement and
then tells Sean to give him his pants.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I guess he has one pair of pants.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And then we're in the student union to Pang and
Eric walk through the building and Eric keeps getting distracted
by every person who passes by with food, like he's
in some sort of trance. Tapanga reminds him that they've
only been on this diet for twelve hours, so he
needs to toughen up.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Eric is confused. Is that huge?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
To Banga, she insists, it's not that hard, but it's
end sidetracked by the smell of a Danish.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I always had fun working with you, Daniel, we very
rarely got to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We got to do it, but we always did have
a lot of fun together.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We were have a.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Good episode coming up where you and I spent a
lot of time together. Yes, this one was fun too,
even just the little scenes were great.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I know, I like, I do enjoy it. I think
the common denominators that everybody has fun working with you,
because every time anybody gets to work with you, I'm like,
that's a good pairing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It's like, well there's a common denominator here, you and
your genius.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Eric grabs her, I can't do this, okay. Women reject
me based on who I am, not what I look like.
She tells him it's not all about him. She wants
to be as slender and beautiful as the day Corey
met her. Eric reminds her you were two years old.
She screams back, I'm telling you, there's Danish in this room.
She spots the Danish and bolts for it, but Eric
(11:22):
holds her back, instructing her to go to her happy place.
She thanks him and starts to calm down. Then Corey
walks in undetected and notices their odd behavior. Eric tells Tapanga.
The only way they're going to do this is if
they get through it together. To Penga size, you are
the only one who understands what a problem this is. Meanwhile,
Corey hears everything they're saying. Eric rubs Tapanga's belly.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
No one would do this.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Everybody does this episode more. When people touch your stomach,
it's so it ranks up there.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
With just random making out to me, I know where
it's like, it's so uncomfortable just watching random people come
over and put their hands on your stomach.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's like, oh, I know, God, just so uncomfortable. You
know what's funny? I never put it together. I hate
people touching my stomach.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Hate it. Even people. I'm very close to my husband.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
If Jensen puts his arm around my waist and I
feel like it's resting anywhere near my stomach, doesn't matter
how thin I am, I am like, get your hand
off my stomach. I wonder if it goes back to
this episode.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I think that's for a lot of women too, because
it's I wouldn't go and just like rest my hands
on Sue's stomach, Like.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I don't like when we would touch my stomach either.
I know either like Indy does it like and I'm like, dude, don't.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Don't.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
He means it affectionately.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
He'll be like, right, patting my stomach or whatever, and
I'm like, Nope, yeah, yes, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So weird interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
In a few months, I'm sure everything's going to be
back to normal. And now Corey is horrified as to
pang the leaves. Eric attempts to sit back down on
the couch, but he has to unbutton his pants once again.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Of course, lots of pants jokes.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Muh huhm.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Corey makes a bee line for his brother. What's going on?
Eric aks aloof, Hey, core.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You smell like chicken.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
These are really good.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Corey scals don't change the subject. I know Tapanga confided
in you. He lunges at Eric and picks him up.
What did she tell you? Eric gets ficy. She told
me it's all your fault. Your waffles and Butter did
this to her. Corey doesn't get it. Why would she
confide in you instead of her own husband. Eric explains
she knew how you'd react. I just realized that you
saying the waffles and Butter did this to her is
(13:33):
also one of the reasons why Sean says, these two
waffles get together because Corey further thinks yeah, furthers and
I didn't realize that.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
But again, it's characters referencing things that you know what
I mean, like yeah, so hold on, I have a
question because you guys keep talking about how funny all
these jokes are, like you know.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
So is there a like how do you feel? Do
you feel like this episode could exist?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
It's just you could have been treated and like talk
too differently in order to go into it. Or should
an episode like this just not exist because it puts
the actors through too much.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I think for both Will and I one of the
parts of the problem is that the episode was you
used to be hot and you are no longer hot,
which is what I was saying about. Now if I
if I got it sent a part and it was like,
she's a frumpy mid fifties saggy jowled.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And you get to make yourself that for the party, and.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I get to go, got it?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
This is what they're looking for. I want to be
that yes, because I love this part. I'm I'm going
to participate in it. I'm going to lean into it.
I'm not gonna wear makeup. I am gonna put on
something that's unflattering, and I'm going to him, I'm.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Going you've got offered that part. You had months to
get ready. You might gain weight for I would wait
for it.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I would I would embody it, I would think case.
It was written in this case because and because the
conversation in the office was it's very obvious that you
guys have put on so much weight.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
We have to acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
At this point, it's getting weird for us to not
acknowledge that you're basically unrecognizable and.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We are still one.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
For Will, who's battling anxiety and on new medication and
trying to hide that from everybody, is like, oh my gosh,
so he's having to process that. I am still I'm
a new adult. I am eighteen years old, fresh out
(15:44):
of living out of my parents' house, aware that I've
put on weight, but also like kind of that's what's
supposed to happen when you're no longer a fourteen year
old girl and now you're an eighteen year old person,
but like also uncomfortable with the way that I look
and looking at a people around me and going how
come they get to eat pizza and they still look
like that, And when I eat pizza, I don't look
(16:06):
like that. So I think it was about the change
and the fact that we we didn't. I had no warning.
I had no warning it was coming.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
No did that meeting.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I knew the war. The warning was the meeting, But like,
but we didn't. I was blindsided by the meeting.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah, do you think that maybe if it had been
less like I'm wondering if there's a version where they say,
we're going to write a series of overweight fat jokes
that are way over the top and don't reflect what
you actually look like, So like if it had been
couched as like we're going to make a whole episode
about it because it's funny, and this whole fantasy thing
is funny, but it actually, you're beautiful, it isn't you know,
(16:46):
you haven't gained that much weight.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It's not that big of adea.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
We just go about to Panga. I know she gets
that in the episode.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Eric.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
They never they just you're big fat, You're a fatty fat.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
By that was it.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It was.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
There's no end to the story for him.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm saying, even off camera, I'm wondering if oft you know,
I'm trying to think, is there like because like an
intimacy coordinator is a position for somebody to just make
everybody comfortable with kind of what has to happen in
order to have like love stories and movies, which we
all agree are like sometimes good to have a movie
and to have a story, but also uncomfortable for actors
to have to do. So you insert somebody who can
(17:21):
be that person. And I'm just wondering if there's an
equivalent conversation that could have been had around like we
know that this is a sensitive issue and it's not
a reflection of like your actual body or you know whatever,
if they could.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Have Remember do you remember was it in front of
everybody or was it just Michael and somebody in a room.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I didn't even remember that there was anybody else in
the room. I thought it was just the two of
us and Michael.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
It was Michael, it was I think I want to
say it was Michael and Bob.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, that would make sense, right.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
But it wasn't like it wasn't like we were standing
in front of everybody, so at least there was that.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
I mean, it wasn't well it.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is sad, yes, although it also added to the feeling
of like I've just been called to the principles off here.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Oh god, I didn't know what the what the hell
it was like where it was like what it and
you and I together where it's like what I know,
could we have done?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
And if you.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Guys, but I mean if you yeah, I think it's
it was actually very strategic because I think the pressure
was on you guys. It was like you weren't going
to stand up to him because you were surprised, and
so then it was too late because then he was
able to say to everybody I checked with them, They're fine,
We're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah exactly. And it's like, what did he actually check
with you?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Or do you just inform you privately in a context
that make you very uncomfortable so that you couldn't stand
on that.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
But I remember I remember, like on the way up there,
one of the things I distinctly remember is going like
do they know that I'm on medication? Right? Do they
know I'm smoking a lot of weed right now? Because
I'm at this point just self medicating. So I'm going
through all these things in my head like but at
the same time, I'm also kind of to the few
stage a Boy meets World where it's like, we've got
like four episodes left, I know, so what are you
(18:58):
gonna do? You're gonna fire me? Go ahead, like what
what's happening right now? Or did Danielle say that I
did something inappropriate and we're being called in the office
or something your mind goes through and again dealing with anxiety.
Now you're spiraling because it's like, what the hell is
going on?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
But the whole approach in the meeting was like, you
guys are cool with this, right because it's funny, and we.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Just even you guys are cool about it? Was literally
it is you know, obviously.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Everyone knows you've both put on a lot of weight
to it, and it's we have to comment on it.
It's just gotten to a point where we obviously we
have to comment on it. So I just wanted to
let you guys know we're going to write an episode
about your weight gain.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And that was it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So I don't even think to to Patty and Laura's credit.
Having we talked about having you know, maybe then when
they went back and they were like, great, we ran
it by uh Will and Danielle, and they're totally fine.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
With us doing an episode about how fat they are.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
That the women in the room were like, can can
it be that you know, actually Tepanga isn't fat and
that there are curves?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And I think honestly.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
They the same way men, the feelings of men. You know,
if you look back on jokes about like, you know, uh,
teachers coming on to their students yea, and the way
it was like, well, men, that's totally fine. All men
would like that, Oh, a hot teacher coming on to
their teenage student.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
No guy would complain about that.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
That was a pervasive thought, the idea that Will could
have been self conscious or had bad feelings about being
told that he was fat.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
They didn't even care. It was just he's fine. It's
a joke through the whole episode.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It doesn't have to have anything redeeming, doesn't have to
have an arc. It's fine and.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Part of will anything, That's what we'll do it, will
do anything. Don't worry about whatever you throw at him.
He's fine, and TOLDE he's fine with it.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That's it was like.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
But again, you know, I also was hiding so much
from everybody at this point that it was just one
more brick on the on my shoulders, like, oh great,
And I'm also everybody also knows that I'm obviously this
thing that I thought maybe didn't anybody nobody really noticed?
Of course everybody did, so Yeah, it was it was
a rough It was a rough one.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah got the lefts though.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You sure did. Eric explains she knew how you'd react than.
Corey wonders, you mean like this? And he screams to
the sky my life is over. He looks at Eric
(21:38):
and calmly asks ken like that. Eric explains, that's why
she came to me. People like us have similar appetites.
That's how we get into situations like this. Corey surprised
to hear he's been in the situation before, and Eric
shrugs on and off since high school. Cory's obviously concerned.
Do mom and dad know? Eric nods, Dad things, it's
actually kind of funny. Corey is offended. There is nothing
(22:00):
thing funny about this. Every day she gets bigger, my
life gets a little more complicated. Also, I considering later,
Alan has the worst line in Boy Meets World History
about a woman. The fact that they use him here
to say that he actually thinks it's kind of funny
for his son, yeah, but dislikes it so much. For
(22:23):
his wife, who is in every in every place, no
matter where you are in the world. A thin woman,
ye yes, is pretty wild.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
They threw him under the bus quite a bit in
the last couple of seasons quite some of the lines
they gave him, some of the story lines they gave him,
some of the stuff they gave Rusty. It was kind
of like, ooh, they really changed Alan.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Eric shouts, your life is that all you can think about?
What about Tapanga? What she's supposed to do? Her body's
out of control, she has nowhere to turn. Corey's on
the verge of a panic attack, but Eric continues, if
you can't be supportive, then the best thing you can
do is just stay away from her. Just la Corey's hands.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
In a way. I'm like why because all this was
so fun.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Just absurd.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I like where it gets I just the build I
was like, what were just yell? Ye.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Corey's hands start flailing as he screams, I.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Don't know what I should do, and then they run
away from each other, with Corey darting outside.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Sean and Angela just happened to be sitting there, and Corey.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Confesses to him, you were right, it's true, and then
he sprints away. Angel asks Sean with a hint of laughter,
what is true? Sean says, okay, I'm going to tell you,
but you cannot tell anyone. That's what makes it different, well,
is that, first of all, he doesn't just bring it
up out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You did keep the secret.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
It's Corey comes out and says you were right, it's true,
which then makes her go, what's that about? And then
you decide to share it with your partner, but tell
her please don't tell anyone, and then one second later
goes and tell everybody else.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
We get an optical flip and we're an Angela and I.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Just want to say, that is clearly my real book
that I am reading.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Oh really, I have no idea. I don't know, but
I know that's how I read. I fold paperbacks like that.
It was either something I was reading for college or
that I was reading on my own. Probably it was
probably a college book because's but it's clearly the way
I'm I'm holding I'm like, oh, that's my real book,
Like I am genuinely reading that in the middle.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Of shooting in front of an audience, and you're like.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I'm reading The best part is that you're like, I
can't believe these apps keep taking real parts of me.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I'm going to use my real book in this.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
My real book.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I want to walk on the set and I was like,
they were like, do you have a textbook.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I was like, I'll just read my I'm just.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Gonna read my book.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Oh God.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Angela's whispering in Rachel's ear telling her the news. Rachel
gasps to Bank is pregnant, and Angela insists, you did
not hear it from me. Rachel responds, so that's why
they got married. Now we're in the guy's apartment. We
flipped to Rachel telling Jack to Bank is having twins.
He can't believe it. Then and the student union, Jack
is telling a random man a billionaire is paying Corey
into Banga fifty thousand dollars the baby. The guy is shocked, Wow,
(25:02):
who were Corey into?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh my god? Also, how long have they been married?
Do we know?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Because he had to get married because you were pregnant,
wouldn't you already be like seven months pregnant.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yes, it's been a while. Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Corey walks in, obviously rattled. Amy, Allen,
and mister Feenie are all sitting at the table, very concerned.
Corey admits he has something very important to tell them.
That Alan breaks the news they already know. Amy reveals
that mister Feenie told them. Corey asks how Feenie knows,
and he reveals, my wife was at the grocery store,
so he is still married.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
She is alive, good.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
And she was getting solid for one for one.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, she say, he does say she heard it from
the produce lady. Corey growls, I'm gonna kill that Sean.
Amy tells him they have some serious reservations about this,
and Alan asks, do you realize how hard it'll be
to raise a fourteen year old Chinese boy in a
college dorm. Apparently completely different rumor has gotten to them.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yes, speak Mandarin, such a good run.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
O God, it's great, me too.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Corey stammers, I don't know what you've heard, but we
are not adopting any Chinese boy. Amy and Alan let
out huge size of relief, and Alan even brags I
told you we had more sense. But then, when Corey
drops the bomb to Panga's pregnant, Amy and Alan are
in disbelief, and Phoene decides, I better go straighten out
the produce.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Lady.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Alan tells Phoene to wait because he may need someone
to stop him from killing his son. Phoene tells him
it's a family matter they should discuss amongst themselves. Amy
calls him a coward, and Feenie agrees, damn straight, then
hurries off. Now alone, Corey tells his parents, before you
tear my head off with your whole responsibility speech, I
just want to let you know that Topanga and I
did everything a responsible couple should do. Alan argues that
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responsible couples don't have babies. Amy tells her husband to
let Corey fit, but Alan isn't interested in what he
has to say. No, remember how difficult it was when
you had Eric, Amy corrects him, when we had Eric,
Alan scoffs. Whatever, we had no money and you never
got your figure back.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
What what? What?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
It's truly awful, Like ye, No, we had no money
and we could have said anything.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, but by the way, because he could have kept
it still kind of gross and been like and we
never got our sex life back.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Right, yeah, something he could have kept and anything.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, but you never got your figure back.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
So it implies that she is now disfigured, correct, Yeah,
from having a child.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
No, he's twenty three years ye yeah yeah, but it's
just also so blied by that's his actual body, which
is so beautiful and thin and like, yeah, yeah, this
was an entire episode about how Danielle is fat, which
she's not.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
So none of this means.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
It's like our show has body dysmorphia.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, yes, his body.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yes, Michael Jacobs had body dys morphia for all of us, Yes, exactly.
He was concerned about us as if we were parts
of his body that he was just working.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So funny, like we talked about how gorgeous Ben's body was.
It was never ignowledged that the writer left Boy Meets
World feeling hideous while he was literally on the bedroom
of every teen girl.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Will was told he was fat in a whale.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And had to unbutton two pants, two buttons on his
pants and he's nowhere near there.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I'm fat, just like she never got her figure back, right.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So while Maitland gets do you understand.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That is tall and gorgeous, and Jack is tall and
gorgeous and short and gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
So the new people that were brought on for the
rest two season, since we're the acceptable, good looking people
who were cast for their looks and those are we
let them all.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
We let the show down. Yep, this is so disturbed
you guys, you realize what we just like, that's it.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We all felt bad about ourselves by the end of
the show, and the new people were cast for their
looks and were told that they were good in the show.
In the text of the show. It's literally encoded into
the writing of the show. It's not just backstage we're
not talking, it's like literally on screen that they are
the beautiful ones and we are not.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, and an original cast is we've let ourselves go
and let the show down.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Well, I need to take a break to speak to
a doctor.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wow. The inmates ooh, as Amy and Corey's eyes widen.
Alan realizes his observation was not appreciated. I think, Alan
simps to his wife.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
We never actually apologize. No, Orse says it's totally not true.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
No, Like, you definitely got your body back. I don't
know what I was thinking, like anything.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
No, no, no, he just makes the duke.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It's not even a joke, it's his truth. Yeah, he
has felt that after having that first kid, she never
looked the way she could.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Only stay the way she looked when she was twenty one.
I love it.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
It would have been great had she said that, like
something like that, like yeah, because you have the same.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Body you did when you were a twenty Well she.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Does say, take a look at.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Your Yeah, it's still It's just doesn't the whole.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
It's like, why put that in there?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I know.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, but Amy ratefully dismisses him. You are so done talking.
Then she pushes him away. Amy turns her attention to Corey.
How are you into Pega going to deal with this?
Corey stammers, I don't know. She hasn't even told me yet.
On Q, Eric storms in and accuses his mom, you
didn't breastfeed me. Then he turns to Alan, you didn't either.
Eric paces the room, huffing and puffing. Breastfed kids are skinny,
(30:58):
Formula fed kids are fat. First I blamed it on myself.
I thought maybe glands, and then I thought maybe metabolism.
But then I thought to myself, I'm no racist. So
it all comes back to you guys, very such weird thing.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Just saying words now at this point, but this is
weird because this has become kind of a joke that
kids are saying, like Indy's friends are saying they like there,
and I'm I'm trying to tell him to not do
this anymore because he thinks it's really funny. For whenever
anybody criticizes him that they go, that's so racist, right,
(31:34):
and they make and the joke is, of course that
has nothing to do with race.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Course, that's like the complaint.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
And I finally had to say to him because I
kept I went on a field trip for three days
with his fifth grade class, and I spent a lot
of time with him, and they were all doing this,
and then I like finally got alone, you know, and
we kept saying like me and the other chaperones were like,
that's not funny, guys, Like that's like the way we
put it is like people actually experience racism.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
So you need to like not you can't make a
joke out of it.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I finally got through to Indy on the way to school,
like after this field trip.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I was like, because he did it again.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I'm like, look, I know you think that's funny, and
there is something funny there, like there is the idea
of like take it, but you understand that racism exists
for people and when they if those people hear you
making light of racism, correct, you're actually making fun of
them who have experienced actual racism.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
And then he was like, what do you mean. I'm like,
they you know, I finally I think got through it.
And he's like, oh, okay, so I haven't heard him
do it for like the last week. But then turn
this episode on and oh my god, do.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Not show it to No, I won't see going back
to ninety nine The Fat Guy, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh my gosh, Alan isn't having it. Listen, Porky, we're
in the middle of a serious discussion here.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Didn't want to laugh, but I know I did.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Too, and especially after Eric has already said that his
dad thinks it's funny. Yeah, Corey reveals he has a
huge problem and no idea how to handle it. But
Eric isn't fazed. You listen to me, you skinny little breastfeeder.
I've had it up to here with you, and then
he hears the ice cream truck music and screams like
a maniac.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Mister softy, way up.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
He runs out of the door, pushing Corey and Amy
out of the way. Alan siys, may I say something now?
Amy responds, if it's constructive and tonight, take a look
at your own butt. Alan begins. First of all, I'm
sorry I overreacted. Your mother and I have been through
the same thing, and I was as scared as you are,
but we had each other and we got through it together.
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Amy smiles. Your father let me know that there was
nothing more important than being there for me, and I've
always loved him for that, even though I'm like, oh now,
he's just let you know that there's really, ultimately nothing
more important than keeping your figure, which you didn't do well.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
He loves her. He's not attracted to her, but he
loves her.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
He tolerates her.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, figure, he stay, yeah, Kickert exactly.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
This is just the hand I was dealt there.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
You go, stuck with this horrible woman is like eight pounds.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Corey wonders, do you really think I can handle this?
Alan explains, No one said it's going to be easy,
but you can do it, and he's not alone. They'll
be there for him. Amy squeals, Corey, you're having a baby.
There's no greater gift. Alan agrees being a father is
the most rewarding thing in my life. Corey gives them
a soft smile. Well, I'm going to be a father.
You know, I was so freaked out about this whole
(34:37):
thing that I didn't really think it could be okay.
He asks his parents what he should do now, and
Amy points out the obvious, Go talk to the person
you love. Corey knuds that would be Sean. Quick we're
at the guy's apartment. Sure enough, Corey does go straight
to Sean, revealing I'm going to do the right thing.
Sewan assumes you're going to tell Tapega that you know
(34:58):
about the baby and you can't wait to be a father.
Corey Bluntley explains, see, that's why you'll never amount to
anything you think too small.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
It's too late to just tell her. I've got to
do something big.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I'm gonna show her how happy I am by throwing
her the biggest surprise, unplanned baby shower anyone's ever seen.
Sean immediately makes up an excuse to avoid this impending disaster. Uh,
I'm gonna be in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
So fun I so good.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
And then we're in the student union.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
To Pega and Angela are walking inside when Angela gushes,
you look great. To Pega thanks her, but Angela doesn't
stop there, positively glowing. To Penga laughs, that's so funny.
Rachel said the exact same thing to me this morning.
As a matter of fact, everybody's been treating me like
some kind of queen. Angela glances at her stomach and says,
we're all very happy for you. To Penga shocked. You
(35:49):
can tell just by looking at me. Angela odds mm hmm.
Then she whispers, I know it's supposed to be a secret,
but can I just feel it? She places a hand
onto Panga's stomach, and though Tonga's obviously a little taken aback,
she doesn't stop her. In fact, she moves Angela's hands
over a bit. You can really feel it in my hips.
Angela starts giggling and to Pega exclaims, this is great.
(36:12):
I've only been dieting for three days and you guys
can already notice a difference. Angela gasps, you can't be
on a diet when you're pregnant. To Penga gasps when
I'm what, Angela still isn't getting it. I know about
the baby, and to Pega clarifies I'm not pregnant. Angela
is in shock, and Tapega just walks right into the
student union with this new revelation. Rather than stop her,
(36:33):
Angela just watches Topanga stroll on in and mutters, oh, no, hey, why.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Does Tapanga walk into this union, Like, wouldn't she want
to finish this conversation where her friend just revealed.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Maybe she's going to look for Corey to tell Cory,
or why does she think I'm pregnant?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Okay, yeah, because she knows Corey's in there.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Probably Yeah, she's on her way to go see Cory, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah. As soon as Tapanga walks into the room, everyone shouts.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Surprise, did you guys hit in the audio issue here? No,
it's really weird.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
It's like one of the few times I've ever heard
like they actively had to suppress.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
The volume of everybody cheering.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
I'm not sure what happened, but yeah, And Danielle says
her lying like, oh my gosh, and you can't hear it.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
You just mouthed it and you actually are saying the
volume is going back.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
So I think what happened is they blew out the
mics when they cheered, Like the booms were too close
to the crowd, so they had to like basically turn
down the sound. It's a weird moment because you never,
you know, usually just don't have sound issues. Sound is like,
you know, one of those things you have to get.
But yeah, for whatever reason, they went with a take
where the sound was bad or repeat the mics as it
sounds really weird.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Okay, I did not notice that. That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Pink and blue balloons decorate the space and everyone is there.
Corey walks up to give her a kiss. Tapanga, I
love you. I'm going to be a father. Tapega tries
to get a word in but no one lets her.
Alan yells out and I'm going to be a grandfather,
and Amy squeezes her cheeks.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You look so lovely.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Phoene hands her a bouquet of flowers. If you miss
a day of glasses now and then it'll be our secret.
Tega looks like a little happy about that. Sean then
hands here a bag This is from me and Angela
for the baby. You're going to make such a beautiful mother.
Tapega pulls out a little onesie and everyone googles at it,
including Topanga. She holds up the onesie and declares, the
baby will love this.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Great.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
You were great in the scene, by this was fun.
This is great all the way around.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Angela tries to snap her out of it, but to
Pega tells her to chill. Jack approaches with a gift too.
I know you're going to spend a lot of time
at home after that little baby comes along. So Rachel
jumps in Jack and I got you the state of
the art DVD player.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
With no cord, no box or no remote, no choice, stolen.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
Kind of kind of gift?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Is this what bumped me? Was to Penga say, I've
always wanted one.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
I was like, but DVD players have only been around
for like a year at this point, to always wanted.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I've always wanted one for a year.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
You also noticed how Matt first hands it to you backwards,
then spins it around so the camera could see it, like,
and this beautiful new why not?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Why not just in a box? It's this DVD on
the front and like a picture of it. Why, I
don't know. Why not a box?
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Nope, nope, you can't, can't turn it on, can't plug it.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
You know what's funny is that actually the most state
of the art thing would have been a ti VO, right,
But we were probably wanting to promote.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
TVO because it's like, you want to know exactly, But
actually I think that's.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
What they would have given it because that was what
people were freaking out about in two thousand.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
It's like you could have a TVO.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Yeah, that we're the DVD player, the DVD players, out
of the box, DVD player.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Then Morgan arrives with an older woman in a wheelchair.
Nana Baboo has been forgot.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
She sisted there's a sister who's watching the baby.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Nope, nope, what baby? The baby in Topanga's belly. Nana
Booboo has been clinging to life, waiting for a great
grandchild to spoil. Corey reveals with this, it's an oversized
check for seventy five thousand dollars. Everyone is shocked, and
Topanga exclaims we can buy a house. Cory boasts for
us and the baby. Japega Fi processes, what's happening in nods.
(40:01):
Oh yeah, the baby. Alan whispers to Nana boo boo,
we had four kids. You never gave us jack. She
simply responds, I never liked you. Angela starts guilt tripping Topanga,
asking if there's something she wants to say in to
Pega nods yes, I do. Thank you, Thank you everyone,
This outpouring of love means more to me than you'll
(40:24):
ever know. Then they all give her a rowdy round
of applause. Corey encourages them to eat up. So Sean
takes a seat next to Angela and asks, isn't she beautiful?
Angela scoffs, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Liar.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Next to them, Corey's head is on Topanga's stomach and
he's talking in a baby voice.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Hello baby, Hello, this is your daddy. Then he sticks
his face directly into her stomach. I love you, I
love you.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
He looks up at to Panga and adds, and I
love you. Angela snatches Topanga away. Did you hear that?
He says he loves you. Tapega holds up the DVD player.
This thing has five channels of sound. Bunfelo points out,
but you're not pregnant. To Pega and says, I'll get
pregnant get out.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Kind of makes sense. Actually.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
She bumps into Corey, who explains, when I first found
out you were pregnant, I panicked a little. I mean,
the whole idea is just so overwhelming. But then I
realized how much we love each other and how much
this baby is going to enrich our lives. To Penga
knows she's in over her head. Oh boy, and Corey continues,
O or girl, as long as it's healthy. We made
a baby together. We took a little bit of me
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and a little bit of you, and we made a baby,
and it's going to be someone that we're going to
take care of the rest of our lives. At this point,
Pega's on the verge of tears. She looks at the
DVD player and whispers bye.
Speaker 8 (41:47):
Such afore handing it over to Angela, who's been patiently
waiting for the truth to be revealed to Pega finally
admits to Corey about this whole pregnancy thing.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
See, I'm kinda not, he asks, this scene is.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Really funny, and I do I love the Tapanga like
just gets launched into the situation and loves it.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
But wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Have been better if in some ways this connected to
like the weight loss or like, yes, like what she
wanted in the beginning, Like because it has no no connection,
Like so if I don't know, I guess, I guess
they're trying to do it like when happened when I'm
saying she's beautiful, like that you're finally being appreciated or
like cherished, and that that's what you really wanted by
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losing the weight, or that's what you weren't feeling in
the beginning. I don't know I did, but like you
wanted physical objects and money, which is hysterical and all,
like oh, I'm going to have the house and all
this stuff is great, but it doesn't connect to where
you started the episode. Like as a character, you started
the episode feeling bad.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
That is almost a separate thing. This is the resolution
of the mistaken truths and shock, and in the meantime
I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Gosh, we're gonna get all this cool stuff. And then
the ending.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
For this and that's that ties up that storyline. The
storyline about my body is like, well, but Eric said
I was fat, and then he's like, why didn't mean it?
And Angela goes, and we weren't talking about you being skinny,
but that's because I would.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Kill for your curves.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Then, so that's the Then the resolution of it is like,
you don't have to be like us. You're beautiful the
way you are, even though you're not like us, which
is thin, I guess. And you're not either, and.
Speaker 6 (43:31):
There's no there's no resolution. You're just a fatty fat
I guess.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
This joke you know, of Penga just being given all
these gifts and like running with the pregnancy thing is funny.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I wish it was more connected to her.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
Character where you're like, oh, this is so to Panga
that her dreams are coming true right now, not just
dreams are coming true because you get a DVD player.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
You know. It's it's generic.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
It's like generic situation, whereas if it had been specific
to oh my god her, you know, because I never
believe that you're gonna lie or keep any of this,
which I guess I need to, but anyway, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I just was like, why is this connected to who
she is?
Speaker 1 (44:06):
I know I did think like how does it? But
I think it's really just I get swept up the
same way I also, by the way to Penga does
suddenly care a lot about money and material things. When
they bought the house, it was a big deal. Remember
what the house she wanted, she wanted to nook and
and then also the wedding.
Speaker 6 (44:23):
It was gross and wedding, the wedding she.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Wanted, the big, fancy wedding.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Corey asks what she means, and she repeats herself She's
not pregnant. Corey is shocked, but she promises there's no
baby in there and apologizes for saying there was. Then
she asks everyone to gather around because she has something
to say.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
This is the golden moment.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Where made me let me too, where Matt made me
laugh so high. She says, I'm not pregnant.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
You're not in their Corey.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Really sorry.
Speaker 10 (45:06):
Everyone, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's because he has to walk
like ten feet together.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Supposed to turn his back. His back is to me.
He has to spin her up. Yeah, and get to
this mark.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
So Jerry said, and then Matt, you come down here,
and he was like why, and they're like, well, we
just need everybody, and he was like fine.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
I'll do it, and then does it this and this is.
Speaker 6 (45:31):
The big middle finger to everybody, it's great.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
You know what happened is he probably there was probably
a real back and forth where they that's where he
wanted them to go. Walk you walk up here behind
the couch. And then when when she says, everyone, you
get to this mark, and Matt probably said, I'm really
far away. I'm not sure I can get I'm not
sure I can get to this mark. And Jerry was like, yeah,
you could probably do it. You just got to do it.
(45:56):
You gotta be faster. And then they did it a
few times. Matt probably wasn't making it because to walk
normally and not do what he did, he doesn't probably
make it.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
And they kept saying.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Faster, Matt, faster, Matt, faster, Mat, And this is Matt
going all right, watch this, Oh got it?
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
It might be my favorite moment in all seven.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, like he would care more than anyone else what
I'm about exactly.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
We have to send it to him and get his response.
Did record, like why if he remembers it at all?
Speaker 5 (46:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah to Pega says, I don't know how this whole
rumor got started, but I am not having a baby.
Sean starts to sneak off, but Corey instantly calls him out.
Sean was the one that Sean throws it right back
at him. You were the one who said she couldn't
fit into her pants. To Pang, it explains, because I'm fat.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
That's why I went on a diet. Eric and I
went on a diet.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Eric is sitting at a nearby table scarfing down deviled eggs.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I love devil eggs.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Delicious.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
Oh man, they're so good.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
I'm not fat. I'm pregnant. Hanabu Bu takes a devil
egg for herself. Yeah, I'm pregnant too. To Panga continues,
I started to feel bad about myself, so I decided
to lose a little weight. I mean, it's embarrassing to
not be the tall one, or the skinny one, or
the one with eight percent body fat. Jack correctsor that's six,
(47:20):
Tapanga continues. The funny thing is that when all of
you guys started treating me differently, I thought it was
because I was skinnier. When I found out it was
because you thought I was pregnant. I didn't want to
let that good feeling.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Go, right, So there it is. That is the connection.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
That is the connection.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
It's being called chlowing.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
And yeah, also, I'm just realizing I say it's embarrassing
to not be tall, or to be skinny, it is,
or to not be.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
The one with eight percent body fat it is.
Speaker 6 (47:47):
It's to mean horribly embarrassing. I'm embarrassed all the time.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Corey is shocked. Why in the world would you want
to go on a diet? Rachel adds, you're gorgeous, but
Tapanga looks to Eric for confirmation. Tell them I'm fat.
Eric responds, You're not fat, You're hot. I just told
you you were fat, so you'd give me your pizza.
Then he turns around to a random dude and blurts out, hey, fatty,
give me your pizza.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Give it. Then he takes it to penga size.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Okay, so maybe I'm not fat, but I'm never gonna
look like you, Angela. Angela argues, and I'm never gonna
look like you. I'd kill for those curves. Rachel adds,
and I'm self conscious about my height. It says five
to two on my driver's license. Angela admits she hates
her feet. Sean nods she has bunions. Angela has offended
Sean and he shrugs. What I'm not perfect, Jack smirks,
(48:35):
I am Sean reveals I almost have no butt. Phoene
sarcastically notes, thank you, mister Hunter, before explaining, Unfortunately we
live in a society.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
I love that he's here all of a sudden, did
he's turn?
Speaker 3 (48:48):
He gave you flowers earlier?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
But yeah, I know, I'm just saying that, like, of
course you're this whole this episode, and now it's going
to be a Phoenie ascessant. Unfortunately, we live in a
society where they tell us we have to look a
certain way, so we're all under pressure to live up
to unrealistic expectations.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
Jack's eyes, all right, I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 3 (49:10):
All Right, all right, I'm not not really one.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
But it's like, oh, man, you know why I go
to the gym. It's because in high school I used
to have this little nickname for me. It was jumbo Jack.
Everyone bursts into laughter, including Eric.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Now with half of the stolen pizza slice in his mouth,
he mocks him while almost choking. Jumbo Jack, you were fat,
Jack nods. I just wanted people to like me, Eric,
mouth still full of chicken wing.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
They thought.
Speaker 6 (49:40):
Food into my mouth.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Eric, mouth still full of pizza, says, I like you
jumbo Jack. Corey grabs to pang his hand and has
her sit on his lap. Look, you are the most
stunningly beautiful woman I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
That's why I married you.
Speaker 6 (49:57):
Like that's you won't lose your figure after Also.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
Why Alan married Amy. Then she got dumpy. She smiles
really He nods, yeah. I love everything about you and
that's never gonna change. They kiss as soft music plays
in the background. Then Nana Boobo wheels up and squeezes
to Pega's cheek. No baby, darling, Tapega admits no, so
Nana Booboo demands then give me back the check. They
(50:24):
look at her in disbelief, but Eric uses this as
an opportunity. He whispers in Nana's ear, I have a baby.
Speaker 6 (50:30):
How's aden? You can see everybody break in the back?
Do you see Bill? And oh?
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Yeah, go back?
Speaker 6 (50:34):
Bill and Rusty just lose.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
It in the back.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah, I have a baby. And then we're incroring.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
In Tepenga's apartment, Corey is lying in bed well to Pega,
stares lovingly at the baby onesie they were gifted. She
holds it up. How cute is this? He insists, You'll
never be able to fit into that. She lovingly slaps
him with it. Are you disappointed about the baby? He
admits a little. Once I got past the overwhelming desire
to jump off a bridge, I was kind of looking
forward to it, you know. She agrees, and Corey tells
(51:01):
her it's gonna be great though, someday me and you
walking arm in arm pushing our baby through the park.
She promises him you are going to be a great father.
Then she gives him a kiss and he smirks, you
want to go for the DVD player? She smiles, not yet,
and he agrees. She reveals that doesn't mean we can't
keep practicing, and he smiles.
Speaker 3 (51:21):
Right, they're gonna have sex.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
Oh God, is nah, We're.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
Gonna have sex. I still know I've ever got that.
Corey and I peng are gonna have sex. Let's talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
They quickly get up and throw the covers over themselves.
She notes, I love your little love handles. What he
does not have? He's stunned. What and then she just giggles, that.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
Could be your pet name for his penis.
Speaker 5 (51:56):
Handles love handles, My little love handle little love handles.
Speaker 4 (52:02):
Just handle singular, it makes sense. Handle really changes the moon.
Speaker 6 (52:14):
It doesn't change everything, doesn't it because of the sex
you're talking right, because they're having sex under the covers.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
That's what's happy. They're gonna get naked.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
And then there's no tag, so just they at all
for a while.
Speaker 6 (52:32):
So yeah, at least Eric story, I'm happy they have
ready wrapped up the.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Yeah, so you just am fat.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
He ate more pizza, and ate.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
More pizza, shoving more food, like yourself on fire to
keep everybody else warm.
Speaker 6 (52:49):
That's how it works.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
It was the very like most disappointing part of this
episode for me.
Speaker 5 (52:54):
It's just it would have been nice to give Eric
something just being the fat joke, because.
Speaker 6 (52:59):
Being the fact joke is fine if at the end
it leads to something. But it didn't. It didn't know,
He's just.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Yeah, it comes full circle for Topanga.
Speaker 6 (53:07):
For sure, in kind of a nice way too.
Speaker 5 (53:10):
Yeah, and it was a it was overall a good
funny episode.
Speaker 6 (53:14):
It just they really left Eric Kanyon.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Yeah, you weren't really your feelings at all. We're not
We're just not considered period. Well, I hope you get
into trauma therapy. We should do, we should.
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Do, we should do group group trauma.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
What do you think this is?
Speaker 6 (53:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Exactly, group trauma therapy. So true, a combination of celebrations
and trauma therapy. To join us for our next episode recap,
which is season seven, episode eighteen, How Corey and Tapanga.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Got their groove back? We need our groove back already?
Speaker 5 (53:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
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Speaker 6 (54:05):
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Speaker 5 (54:05):
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Welcome to part two of She's Having My Baby Back Ribs.
We had so much fun talking in the last episode
that we spoke for almost an hour before we even
started the recap, so please enjoy the recap. We're then
at Corey and Tapega's apartment to Pang is examining herself
in the mirror and nervously asks aloud, do you think
I'm attractive? Corey looks at her and grins, of course
(00:41):
I do. Come over here, I'll prove it. As she
walks over, we can see that her pants are unzipped
and there's not that much fat to be found. Nope,
she asks another question, You love me no matter what.
Corey apprehensively asks, yeah, what's going on. She tries to
zip up her jeans and explains nothing's going on, but
when the zipper won't work, she runs away. Corey yells out,
(01:02):
I know what it is. You haven't had your morning
stack of waffles slathered in butter and swimming in syrup.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
She runs back out, still in her unzipped pants and
says she's not very hungry this morning. Then she flops
onto their bed and continues trying to zip up the pants.
Corey starts pacing, trying to make sense of this. You
don't want sex, You're not hungry to Panga, you're starting
to scare me quick on our feet. She makes up
an excuse, I'm feeling a little bit nauseous this morning.
Then she screams, why can't I zip up these pants?
(01:30):
Corey stares at her in confusion, because they're mine. She
turns to look at the label and says, oh, no,
I've got to go and walks out.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
What if you think of your performance in this scene?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I felt like you were uncomfortable, like you are not happy,
and I because you just have unbuttoned pants, like I
don't know, No, I.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Was really you know what this is?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
This is the scene of the entire episode that I
remember more than anything, because it's the only one I
can really remember being super honest with myself. Like we'll
mentioned the conversation you have with yourself when someone's just
called you into an office and told you it's obvious
you've gained weight, And then you go, man, am I
really is it really that noticeable? Is this really that
(02:10):
big of a deal? And then you go, yeah, I
mean I guess it is. I did when I started
the show at twelve, I did weigh you know, ninety
four pounds, and now now I'm nineteen and I weigh
you know, one p fifteen or whatever it is, and
so I have put on that weight and it is
my responsibility and as an actor, my body is part
of my instrument and I'm supposed to and everyone out
(02:31):
look at everyone else, and you do all that, and
then you also go and it is I'm sure being
that I think it's a funny episode. Now, I'm sure
there was a part of me that understood why parts
of it were funny then too, so I'm like, and
it is funny, so why am I taking it so personally?
This is the scene that bothered me the most. And
(02:51):
it's really because I remember thinking, I remember doing the
wardrobe fitting for these genes and they were a size
either twenty six or twenty seven, which is a two
or a four. I'm pretty sure they were a four,
So they were either a number four or they were
(03:12):
a twenty seven, which is the equivalent of like a
size four. I knew no matter how I feel about
my own body, because I was definitely like, I'm huge,
I'm fat, I'm disgusting, I knew that factually, a size
four is something most American women would think of as
(03:38):
being borderline emaciated, right right, And yet we're gonna do
an entire episode around the fact that this size four
woman has to be this concerned about her weight and
her body.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And that made me angry.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It was like in that scene, this scene in particular,
I was aware what are we saying to women?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And I felt it the most in this scene.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah, I can feel it. It was like I was
just watching you, going, she is not happy.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
In the other scenes, like especially the second half, we're
doing the jokes with the DVD and stuff, I could
tell you're actually having fun, like this is fun, those
are fun lines, and you were engaged.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But this scene, I was like, oh, she is miserable.
Yea yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
It also started. It started when you and I were
pulled into the office.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
We both to protect ourselves, instantly went the laughing fun route.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Yeah, oh my god, this is gonna be okay.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, this is going to be so great because the
alternative would have been misery.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yeah, And so it's like, let's find the jokes.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Let's fine that we're gonna hit these jokes because it's yeah,
again's all we had?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, Corey watches on with a frown. She took my
pants and then later in their bedroom, Corey's in bed
with his arms crossed and Sean is next to him.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Both are under the covers.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Sean is eating a big pile of waffles and doesn't
understand these are fabulous. They're so light, so fluffy. Corey
is annoyed. You don't have to tell me that what
the heck's going on? Sean lists off to panga symptoms, tired,
no appetite, cranky, nauseous. She couldn't fit into Corey's pants.
Corey angrily ads.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And stole them.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Sean pieces everything together and calmly asks Corey, how would
you feel if these two big waffles got all slathered
in butter and made of little.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The weirdest metaphor? I was like, what good analogy?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Slathered waffles?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Tired?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I don't undertan they were already slathered in butter, so
I don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It wasn't just what.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
If these two big waffles that are slathered in butter
are got together and made because why do Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
It was, yeah, it's just to get to the U.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
One second joke like he's not getting it, he's not taught.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It, even though you've only taken.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
One by Giant Waffles, and he's like, you want more,
I'll redish the first.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I probably couldn't eat because I was out. This was
a reshoot.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, did you have mono?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I had mono and the flu at the same time.
My god, So I was I ever did in my life.
I was at my apartment, like shivering and throwing up.
My my uvula swelled up so that I couldn't breathe,
like you know, it was like hanging and blocking my
throat so I could.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I know, Man, it was so bad.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Like when I went to the doctors, they called in
other doctors to show them how swollen my utula.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Was, Like, look at this freak show. They called it
the doc doctor.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Never believe that doctor Milton was I've never seen this before.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yes, it was awful.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And so my girlfriend was our pa at the time, Brooke,
who I ended up dating for seven years, and.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
This was like early on in our relationship.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
We had just started dating and she took care of
me and like, yeah, she was just at my apartment.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Whenever she ironically lose a whole bunch of weight right before.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Did you lose ten pounds for two weeks?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I think happened to be that's why I have a goatee.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And I lost all this week because we had had
a hiatus, and then I was just like literally sitting
in bed like shivering and.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Not fair all the week, or I have gotten.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Exactly by the way. I've heard from a number of
people that you have a huge.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Huge, big, big energy.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
A big swinging comes in with.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Corey gives him a look, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You want seconds hold on Sean's shouts Nick to Panga's pregnant,
and Corey is is shock, and then there's a ten
sad break. We're back in Corey into Panga's room. Corey
doesn't understand how Topanga can be pregnant, so Sean breaks
it down when a man loves a woman. Corey cuts
him off. No, I know about that. We were very careful.
Sean asks, did you use the yes? Was she on
(08:16):
the ah? Huh did you try the everything? Corey frowns,
I'm not even sure we had sex. She starts to panic,
and Sean tries to calm him down. First, you're gonna
talk to her tell her everything's gonna be okay. Corey
isn't sold. Everything's not gonna be okay. I can't be
a father. I got a paper due on Friday, which
is so funny.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Who line, The whole thing was so funny.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm not sure we even had sex.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I mean, this whole is great, really good, and I
love that they're giving They're giving this both sides of
the experience. No surprise really that the man gets a
full fledged experience of a friend being like, just you
make sure she's gonna be okay, and the guy being.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Like, but but it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm not happy right now, which is, by the way,
the same thing Alan got to go through a full
I think I may be too old.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
But in all fairness, they did have the women instantly
breaking the secrecy pact and telling them.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
So there is that.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Now Sean does it first. Actually he's right, Sean tells
Angela first.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Well we don't actually see that though, Yeah he does.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I begin the rumor mill m because Cory, do we
see him say Topang is pregnant?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You say, I lean in, I'm like to tell you,
and then it comes to her an expert.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So it's me that I think it's it's Sean that
breaks the right.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
But again, telling your partner is different than just going
and telling all your friends.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Maybe yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I already resent this child for ruining my life, and
that's going to mean therapy for everybody, And well, mister,
I just can't afford that. Sean admits he could be wrong.
Maybe she's not pregnant, and the small sliver of doubt
has Corey smiling.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
She's not. Oh, what a load off mine.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Sean instructs him to talk to his wife and find
out what's really going on. Corey nods in agreement and
then tells Sean to give him his pants.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I guess he has one pair of pants.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And then we're in the student union to Pang and
Eric walk through the building and Eric keeps getting distracted
by every person who passes by with food, like he's
in some sort of trance. Tapanga reminds him that they've
only been on this diet for twelve hours, so he
needs to toughen up.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Eric is confused. Is that huge?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
To Banga, she insists, it's not that hard, but it's
end sidetracked by the smell of a Danish.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I always had fun working with you, Daniel, we very
rarely got to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We got to do it, but we always did have
a lot of fun together.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We were have a.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Good episode coming up where you and I spent a
lot of time together. Yes, this one was fun too,
even just the little scenes were great.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I know, I like, I do enjoy it. I think
the common denominators that everybody has fun working with you,
because every time anybody gets to work with you, I'm like,
that's a good pairing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It's like, well there's a common denominator here, you and
your genius.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Eric grabs her, I can't do this, okay. Women reject
me based on who I am, not what I look like.
She tells him it's not all about him. She wants
to be as slender and beautiful as the day Corey
met her. Eric reminds her you were two years old.
She screams back, I'm telling you, there's Danish in this room.
She spots the Danish and bolts for it, but Eric
(11:22):
holds her back, instructing her to go to her happy place.
She thanks him and starts to calm down. Then Corey
walks in undetected and notices their odd behavior. Eric tells Tapanga.
The only way they're going to do this is if
they get through it together. To Penga size, you are
the only one who understands what a problem this is. Meanwhile,
Corey hears everything they're saying. Eric rubs Tapanga's belly.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
No one would do this.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Everybody does this episode more. When people touch your stomach,
it's so it ranks up there.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
With just random making out to me, I know where
it's like, it's so uncomfortable just watching random people come
over and put their hands on your stomach.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's like, oh, I know, God, just so uncomfortable. You
know what's funny? I never put it together. I hate
people touching my stomach.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Hate it. Even people. I'm very close to my husband.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
If Jensen puts his arm around my waist and I
feel like it's resting anywhere near my stomach, doesn't matter
how thin I am, I am like, get your hand
off my stomach. I wonder if it goes back to
this episode.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I think that's for a lot of women too, because
it's I wouldn't go and just like rest my hands
on Sue's stomach, Like.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I don't like when we would touch my stomach either.
I know either like Indy does it like and I'm like, dude, don't.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Don't.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
He means it affectionately.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
He'll be like, right, patting my stomach or whatever, and
I'm like, Nope, yeah, yes, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So weird interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
In a few months, I'm sure everything's going to be
back to normal. And now Corey is horrified as to
pang the leaves. Eric attempts to sit back down on
the couch, but he has to unbutton his pants once again.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Of course, lots of pants jokes.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Muh huhm.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Corey makes a bee line for his brother. What's going on?
Eric aks aloof, Hey, core.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You smell like chicken.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
These are really good.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Corey scals don't change the subject. I know Tapanga confided
in you. He lunges at Eric and picks him up.
What did she tell you? Eric gets ficy. She told
me it's all your fault. Your waffles and Butter did
this to her. Corey doesn't get it. Why would she
confide in you instead of her own husband. Eric explains
she knew how you'd react. I just realized that you
saying the waffles and Butter did this to her is
(13:33):
also one of the reasons why Sean says, these two
waffles get together because Corey further thinks yeah, furthers and
I didn't realize that.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
But again, it's characters referencing things that you know what
I mean, like yeah, so hold on, I have a
question because you guys keep talking about how funny all
these jokes are, like you know.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
So is there a like how do you feel? Do
you feel like this episode could exist?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
It's just you could have been treated and like talk
too differently in order to go into it. Or should
an episode like this just not exist because it puts
the actors through too much.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I think for both Will and I one of the
parts of the problem is that the episode was you
used to be hot and you are no longer hot,
which is what I was saying about. Now if I
if I got it sent a part and it was like,
she's a frumpy mid fifties saggy jowled.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And you get to make yourself that for the party, and.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I get to go, got it?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
This is what they're looking for. I want to be
that yes, because I love this part. I'm I'm going
to participate in it. I'm going to lean into it.
I'm not gonna wear makeup. I am gonna put on
something that's unflattering, and I'm going to him, I'm.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Going you've got offered that part. You had months to
get ready. You might gain weight for I would wait
for it.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I would I would embody it, I would think case.
It was written in this case because and because the
conversation in the office was it's very obvious that you
guys have put on so much weight.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
We have to acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
At this point, it's getting weird for us to not
acknowledge that you're basically unrecognizable and.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We are still one.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
For Will, who's battling anxiety and on new medication and
trying to hide that from everybody, is like, oh my gosh,
so he's having to process that. I am still I'm
a new adult. I am eighteen years old, fresh out
(15:44):
of living out of my parents' house, aware that I've
put on weight, but also like kind of that's what's
supposed to happen when you're no longer a fourteen year
old girl and now you're an eighteen year old person,
but like also uncomfortable with the way that I look
and looking at a people around me and going how
come they get to eat pizza and they still look
like that, And when I eat pizza, I don't look
(16:06):
like that. So I think it was about the change
and the fact that we we didn't. I had no warning.
I had no warning it was coming.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
No did that meeting.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I knew the war. The warning was the meeting, But like,
but we didn't. I was blindsided by the meeting.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah, do you think that maybe if it had been
less like I'm wondering if there's a version where they say,
we're going to write a series of overweight fat jokes
that are way over the top and don't reflect what
you actually look like, So like if it had been
couched as like we're going to make a whole episode
about it because it's funny, and this whole fantasy thing
is funny, but it actually, you're beautiful, it isn't you know,
(16:46):
you haven't gained that much weight.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It's not that big of adea.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
We just go about to Panga. I know she gets
that in the episode.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Eric.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
They never they just you're big fat, You're a fatty fat.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
By that was it.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It was.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
There's no end to the story for him.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm saying, even off camera, I'm wondering if oft you know,
I'm trying to think, is there like because like an
intimacy coordinator is a position for somebody to just make
everybody comfortable with kind of what has to happen in
order to have like love stories and movies, which we
all agree are like sometimes good to have a movie
and to have a story, but also uncomfortable for actors
to have to do. So you insert somebody who can
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be that person. And I'm just wondering if there's an
equivalent conversation that could have been had around like we
know that this is a sensitive issue and it's not
a reflection of like your actual body or you know whatever,
if they could.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Have Remember do you remember was it in front of
everybody or was it just Michael and somebody in a room.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I didn't even remember that there was anybody else in
the room. I thought it was just the two of
us and Michael.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
It was Michael, it was I think I want to
say it was Michael and Bob.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, that would make sense, right.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
But it wasn't like it wasn't like we were standing
in front of everybody, so at least there was that.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
I mean, it wasn't well it.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is sad, yes, although it also added to the feeling
of like I've just been called to the principles off here.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Oh god, I didn't know what the what the hell
it was like where it was like what it and
you and I together where it's like what I know,
could we have done?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
And if you.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Guys, but I mean if you yeah, I think it's
it was actually very strategic because I think the pressure
was on you guys. It was like you weren't going
to stand up to him because you were surprised, and
so then it was too late because then he was
able to say to everybody I checked with them, They're fine,
We're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah exactly. And it's like, what did he actually check
with you?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Or do you just inform you privately in a context
that make you very uncomfortable so that you couldn't stand
on that.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
But I remember I remember, like on the way up there,
one of the things I distinctly remember is going like
do they know that I'm on medication? Right? Do they
know I'm smoking a lot of weed right now? Because
I'm at this point just self medicating. So I'm going
through all these things in my head like but at
the same time, I'm also kind of to the few
stage a Boy meets World where it's like, we've got
like four episodes left, I know, so what are you
(18:58):
gonna do? You're gonna fire me? Go ahead, like what
what's happening right now? Or did Danielle say that I
did something inappropriate and we're being called in the office
or something your mind goes through and again dealing with anxiety.
Now you're spiraling because it's like, what the hell is
going on?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
But the whole approach in the meeting was like, you
guys are cool with this, right because it's funny, and we.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Just even you guys are cool about it? Was literally
it is you know, obviously.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Everyone knows you've both put on a lot of weight
to it, and it's we have to comment on it.
It's just gotten to a point where we obviously we
have to comment on it. So I just wanted to
let you guys know we're going to write an episode
about your weight gain.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And that was it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So I don't even think to to Patty and Laura's credit.
Having we talked about having you know, maybe then when
they went back and they were like, great, we ran
it by uh Will and Danielle, and they're totally fine.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
With us doing an episode about how fat they are.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
That the women in the room were like, can can
it be that you know, actually Tepanga isn't fat and
that there are curves?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And I think honestly.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
They the same way men, the feelings of men. You know,
if you look back on jokes about like, you know, uh,
teachers coming on to their students yea, and the way
it was like, well, men, that's totally fine. All men
would like that, Oh, a hot teacher coming on to
their teenage student.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
No guy would complain about that.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
That was a pervasive thought, the idea that Will could
have been self conscious or had bad feelings about being
told that he was fat.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
They didn't even care. It was just he's fine. It's
a joke through the whole episode.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It doesn't have to have anything redeeming, doesn't have to
have an arc. It's fine and.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Part of will anything, That's what we'll do it, will
do anything. Don't worry about whatever you throw at him.
He's fine, and TOLDE he's fine with it.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That's it was like.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
But again, you know, I also was hiding so much
from everybody at this point that it was just one
more brick on the on my shoulders, like, oh great,
And I'm also everybody also knows that I'm obviously this
thing that I thought maybe didn't anybody nobody really noticed?
Of course everybody did, so Yeah, it was it was
a rough It was a rough one.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah got the lefts though.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You sure did. Eric explains she knew how you'd react than.
Corey wonders, you mean like this? And he screams to
the sky my life is over. He looks at Eric
(21:38):
and calmly asks ken like that. Eric explains, that's why
she came to me. People like us have similar appetites.
That's how we get into situations like this. Corey surprised
to hear he's been in the situation before, and Eric
shrugs on and off since high school. Cory's obviously concerned.
Do mom and dad know? Eric nods, Dad things, it's
actually kind of funny. Corey is offended. There is nothing
(22:00):
thing funny about this. Every day she gets bigger, my
life gets a little more complicated. Also, I considering later,
Alan has the worst line in Boy Meets World History
about a woman. The fact that they use him here
to say that he actually thinks it's kind of funny
for his son, yeah, but dislikes it so much. For
(22:23):
his wife, who is in every in every place, no
matter where you are in the world. A thin woman,
ye yes, is pretty wild.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
They threw him under the bus quite a bit in
the last couple of seasons quite some of the lines
they gave him, some of the story lines they gave him,
some of the stuff they gave Rusty. It was kind
of like, ooh, they really changed Alan.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Eric shouts, your life is that all you can think about?
What about Tapanga? What she's supposed to do? Her body's
out of control, she has nowhere to turn. Corey's on
the verge of a panic attack, but Eric continues, if
you can't be supportive, then the best thing you can
do is just stay away from her. Just la Corey's hands.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
In a way. I'm like why because all this was
so fun.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Just absurd.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I like where it gets I just the build I
was like, what were just yell? Ye.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Corey's hands start flailing as he screams, I.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Don't know what I should do, and then they run
away from each other, with Corey darting outside.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Sean and Angela just happened to be sitting there, and Corey.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Confesses to him, you were right, it's true, and then
he sprints away. Angel asks Sean with a hint of laughter,
what is true? Sean says, okay, I'm going to tell you,
but you cannot tell anyone. That's what makes it different, well,
is that, first of all, he doesn't just bring it
up out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You did keep the secret.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
It's Corey comes out and says you were right, it's true,
which then makes her go, what's that about? And then
you decide to share it with your partner, but tell
her please don't tell anyone, and then one second later
goes and tell everybody else.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
We get an optical flip and we're an Angela and I.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Just want to say, that is clearly my real book
that I am reading.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Oh really, I have no idea. I don't know, but
I know that's how I read. I fold paperbacks like that.
It was either something I was reading for college or
that I was reading on my own. Probably it was
probably a college book because's but it's clearly the way
I'm I'm holding I'm like, oh, that's my real book,
Like I am genuinely reading that in the middle.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Of shooting in front of an audience, and you're like.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I'm reading The best part is that you're like, I
can't believe these apps keep taking real parts of me.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I'm going to use my real book in this.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
My real book.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I want to walk on the set and I was like,
they were like, do you have a textbook.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I was like, I'll just read my I'm just.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Gonna read my book.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Oh God.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Angela's whispering in Rachel's ear telling her the news. Rachel
gasps to Bank is pregnant, and Angela insists, you did
not hear it from me. Rachel responds, so that's why
they got married. Now we're in the guy's apartment. We
flipped to Rachel telling Jack to Bank is having twins.
He can't believe it. Then and the student union, Jack
is telling a random man a billionaire is paying Corey
into Banga fifty thousand dollars the baby. The guy is shocked, Wow,
(25:02):
who were Corey into?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh my god? Also, how long have they been married?
Do we know?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Because he had to get married because you were pregnant,
wouldn't you already be like seven months pregnant.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yes, it's been a while. Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Corey walks in, obviously rattled. Amy, Allen,
and mister Feenie are all sitting at the table, very concerned.
Corey admits he has something very important to tell them.
That Alan breaks the news they already know. Amy reveals
that mister Feenie told them. Corey asks how Feenie knows,
and he reveals, my wife was at the grocery store,
so he is still married.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
She is alive, good.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
And she was getting solid for one for one.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, she say, he does say she heard it from
the produce lady. Corey growls, I'm gonna kill that Sean.
Amy tells him they have some serious reservations about this,
and Alan asks, do you realize how hard it'll be
to raise a fourteen year old Chinese boy in a
college dorm. Apparently completely different rumor has gotten to them.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yes, speak Mandarin, such a good run.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
O God, it's great, me too.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Corey stammers, I don't know what you've heard, but we
are not adopting any Chinese boy. Amy and Alan let
out huge size of relief, and Alan even brags I
told you we had more sense. But then, when Corey
drops the bomb to Panga's pregnant, Amy and Alan are
in disbelief, and Phoene decides, I better go straighten out
the produce.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Lady.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Alan tells Phoene to wait because he may need someone
to stop him from killing his son. Phoene tells him
it's a family matter they should discuss amongst themselves. Amy
calls him a coward, and Feenie agrees, damn straight, then
hurries off. Now alone, Corey tells his parents, before you
tear my head off with your whole responsibility speech, I
just want to let you know that Topanga and I
did everything a responsible couple should do. Alan argues that
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responsible couples don't have babies. Amy tells her husband to
let Corey fit, but Alan isn't interested in what he
has to say. No, remember how difficult it was when
you had Eric, Amy corrects him, when we had Eric,
Alan scoffs. Whatever, we had no money and you never
got your figure back.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
What what? What?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
It's truly awful, Like ye, No, we had no money
and we could have said anything.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, but by the way, because he could have kept
it still kind of gross and been like and we
never got our sex life back.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Right, yeah, something he could have kept and anything.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, but you never got your figure back.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
So it implies that she is now disfigured, correct, Yeah,
from having a child.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
No, he's twenty three years ye yeah yeah, but it's
just also so blied by that's his actual body, which
is so beautiful and thin and like, yeah, yeah, this
was an entire episode about how Danielle is fat, which
she's not.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
So none of this means.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
It's like our show has body dysmorphia.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, yes, his body.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yes, Michael Jacobs had body dys morphia for all of us, Yes, exactly.
He was concerned about us as if we were parts
of his body that he was just working.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So funny, like we talked about how gorgeous Ben's body was.
It was never ignowledged that the writer left Boy Meets
World feeling hideous while he was literally on the bedroom
of every teen girl.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Will was told he was fat in a whale.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And had to unbutton two pants, two buttons on his
pants and he's nowhere near there.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I'm fat, just like she never got her figure back, right.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So while Maitland gets do you understand.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That is tall and gorgeous, and Jack is tall and
gorgeous and short and gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
So the new people that were brought on for the
rest two season, since we're the acceptable, good looking people
who were cast for their looks and those are we
let them all.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
We let the show down. Yep, this is so disturbed
you guys, you realize what we just like, that's it.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We all felt bad about ourselves by the end of
the show, and the new people were cast for their
looks and were told that they were good in the show.
In the text of the show. It's literally encoded into
the writing of the show. It's not just backstage we're
not talking, it's like literally on screen that they are
the beautiful ones and we are not.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, and an original cast is we've let ourselves go
and let the show down.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Well, I need to take a break to speak to
a doctor.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wow. The inmates ooh, as Amy and Corey's eyes widen.
Alan realizes his observation was not appreciated. I think, Alan
simps to his wife.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
We never actually apologize. No, Orse says it's totally not true.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
No, Like, you definitely got your body back. I don't
know what I was thinking, like anything.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
No, no, no, he just makes the duke.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It's not even a joke, it's his truth. Yeah, he
has felt that after having that first kid, she never
looked the way she could.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Only stay the way she looked when she was twenty one.
I love it.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
It would have been great had she said that, like
something like that, like yeah, because you have the same.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Body you did when you were a twenty Well she.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Does say, take a look at.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Your Yeah, it's still It's just doesn't the whole.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
It's like, why put that in there?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I know.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, but Amy ratefully dismisses him. You are so done talking.
Then she pushes him away. Amy turns her attention to Corey.
How are you into Pega going to deal with this?
Corey stammers, I don't know. She hasn't even told me yet.
On Q, Eric storms in and accuses his mom, you
didn't breastfeed me. Then he turns to Alan, you didn't either.
Eric paces the room, huffing and puffing. Breastfed kids are skinny,
(30:58):
Formula fed kids are fat. First I blamed it on myself.
I thought maybe glands, and then I thought maybe metabolism.
But then I thought to myself, I'm no racist. So
it all comes back to you guys, very such weird thing.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Just saying words now at this point, but this is
weird because this has become kind of a joke that
kids are saying, like Indy's friends are saying they like there,
and I'm I'm trying to tell him to not do
this anymore because he thinks it's really funny. For whenever
anybody criticizes him that they go, that's so racist, right,
(31:34):
and they make and the joke is, of course that
has nothing to do with race.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Course, that's like the complaint.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
And I finally had to say to him because I
kept I went on a field trip for three days
with his fifth grade class, and I spent a lot
of time with him, and they were all doing this,
and then I like finally got alone, you know, and
we kept saying like me and the other chaperones were like,
that's not funny, guys, Like that's like the way we
put it is like people actually experience racism.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
So you need to like not you can't make a
joke out of it.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I finally got through to Indy on the way to school,
like after this field trip.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I was like, because he did it again.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I'm like, look, I know you think that's funny, and
there is something funny there, like there is the idea
of like take it, but you understand that racism exists
for people and when they if those people hear you
making light of racism, correct, you're actually making fun of
them who have experienced actual racism.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
And then he was like, what do you mean. I'm like,
they you know, I finally I think got through it.
And he's like, oh, okay, so I haven't heard him
do it for like the last week. But then turn
this episode on and oh my god, do.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Not show it to No, I won't see going back
to ninety nine The Fat Guy, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh my gosh, Alan isn't having it. Listen, Porky, we're
in the middle of a serious discussion here.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Didn't want to laugh, but I know I did.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Too, and especially after Eric has already said that his
dad thinks it's funny. Yeah, Corey reveals he has a
huge problem and no idea how to handle it. But
Eric isn't fazed. You listen to me, you skinny little breastfeeder.
I've had it up to here with you, and then
he hears the ice cream truck music and screams like
a maniac.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Mister softy, way up.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
He runs out of the door, pushing Corey and Amy
out of the way. Alan siys, may I say something now?
Amy responds, if it's constructive and tonight, take a look
at your own butt. Alan begins. First of all, I'm
sorry I overreacted. Your mother and I have been through
the same thing, and I was as scared as you are,
but we had each other and we got through it together.
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Amy smiles. Your father let me know that there was
nothing more important than being there for me, and I've
always loved him for that, even though I'm like, oh now,
he's just let you know that there's really, ultimately nothing
more important than keeping your figure, which you didn't do well.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
He loves her. He's not attracted to her, but he
loves her.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
He tolerates her.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, figure, he stay, yeah, Kickert exactly.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
This is just the hand I was dealt there.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
You go, stuck with this horrible woman is like eight pounds.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Corey wonders, do you really think I can handle this?
Alan explains, No one said it's going to be easy,
but you can do it, and he's not alone. They'll
be there for him. Amy squeals, Corey, you're having a baby.
There's no greater gift. Alan agrees being a father is
the most rewarding thing in my life. Corey gives them
a soft smile. Well, I'm going to be a father.
You know, I was so freaked out about this whole
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thing that I didn't really think it could be okay.
He asks his parents what he should do now, and
Amy points out the obvious, Go talk to the person
you love. Corey knuds that would be Sean. Quick we're
at the guy's apartment. Sure enough, Corey does go straight
to Sean, revealing I'm going to do the right thing.
Sewan assumes you're going to tell Tapega that you know
(34:58):
about the baby and you can't wait to be a father.
Corey Bluntley explains, see, that's why you'll never amount to
anything you think too small.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
It's too late to just tell her. I've got to
do something big.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I'm gonna show her how happy I am by throwing
her the biggest surprise, unplanned baby shower anyone's ever seen.
Sean immediately makes up an excuse to avoid this impending disaster. Uh,
I'm gonna be in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
So fun I so good.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
And then we're in the student union.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
To Pega and Angela are walking inside when Angela gushes,
you look great. To Pega thanks her, but Angela doesn't
stop there, positively glowing. To Penga laughs, that's so funny.
Rachel said the exact same thing to me this morning.
As a matter of fact, everybody's been treating me like
some kind of queen. Angela glances at her stomach and says,
we're all very happy for you. To Penga shocked. You
(35:49):
can tell just by looking at me. Angela odds mm hmm.
Then she whispers, I know it's supposed to be a secret,
but can I just feel it? She places a hand
onto Panga's stomach, and though Tonga's obviously a little taken aback,
she doesn't stop her. In fact, she moves Angela's hands
over a bit. You can really feel it in my hips.
Angela starts giggling and to Pega exclaims, this is great.
(36:12):
I've only been dieting for three days and you guys
can already notice a difference. Angela gasps, you can't be
on a diet when you're pregnant. To Penga gasps when
I'm what, Angela still isn't getting it. I know about
the baby, and to Pega clarifies I'm not pregnant. Angela
is in shock, and Tapega just walks right into the
student union with this new revelation. Rather than stop her,
(36:33):
Angela just watches Topanga stroll on in and mutters, oh, no, hey, why.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Does Tapanga walk into this union, Like, wouldn't she want
to finish this conversation where her friend just revealed.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Maybe she's going to look for Corey to tell Cory,
or why does she think I'm pregnant?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Okay, yeah, because she knows Corey's in there.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Probably Yeah, she's on her way to go see Cory, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah. As soon as Tapanga walks into the room, everyone shouts.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Surprise, did you guys hit in the audio issue here? No,
it's really weird.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
It's like one of the few times I've ever heard
like they actively had to suppress.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
The volume of everybody cheering.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
I'm not sure what happened, but yeah, And Danielle says
her lying like, oh my gosh, and you can't hear it.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
You just mouthed it and you actually are saying the
volume is going back.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
So I think what happened is they blew out the
mics when they cheered, Like the booms were too close
to the crowd, so they had to like basically turn
down the sound. It's a weird moment because you never,
you know, usually just don't have sound issues. Sound is like,
you know, one of those things you have to get.
But yeah, for whatever reason, they went with a take
where the sound was bad or repeat the mics as it
sounds really weird.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Okay, I did not notice that. That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Pink and blue balloons decorate the space and everyone is there.
Corey walks up to give her a kiss. Tapanga, I
love you. I'm going to be a father. Tapega tries
to get a word in but no one lets her.
Alan yells out and I'm going to be a grandfather,
and Amy squeezes her cheeks.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You look so lovely.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Phoene hands her a bouquet of flowers. If you miss
a day of glasses now and then it'll be our secret.
Tega looks like a little happy about that. Sean then
hands here a bag This is from me and Angela
for the baby. You're going to make such a beautiful mother.
Tapega pulls out a little onesie and everyone googles at it,
including Topanga. She holds up the onesie and declares, the
baby will love this.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Great.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
You were great in the scene, by this was fun.
This is great all the way around.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Angela tries to snap her out of it, but to
Pega tells her to chill. Jack approaches with a gift too.
I know you're going to spend a lot of time
at home after that little baby comes along. So Rachel
jumps in Jack and I got you the state of
the art DVD player.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
With no cord, no box or no remote, no choice, stolen.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
Kind of kind of gift?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Is this what bumped me? Was to Penga say, I've
always wanted one.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
I was like, but DVD players have only been around
for like a year at this point, to always wanted.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I've always wanted one for a year.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
You also noticed how Matt first hands it to you backwards,
then spins it around so the camera could see it, like,
and this beautiful new why not?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Why not just in a box? It's this DVD on
the front and like a picture of it. Why, I
don't know. Why not a box?
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Nope, nope, you can't, can't turn it on, can't plug it.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
You know what's funny is that actually the most state
of the art thing would have been a ti VO, right,
But we were probably wanting to promote.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
TVO because it's like, you want to know exactly, But
actually I think that's.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
What they would have given it because that was what
people were freaking out about in two thousand.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
It's like you could have a TVO.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Yeah, that we're the DVD player, the DVD players, out
of the box, DVD player.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Then Morgan arrives with an older woman in a wheelchair.
Nana Baboo has been forgot.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
She sisted there's a sister who's watching the baby.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Nope, nope, what baby? The baby in Topanga's belly. Nana
Booboo has been clinging to life, waiting for a great
grandchild to spoil. Corey reveals with this, it's an oversized
check for seventy five thousand dollars. Everyone is shocked, and
Topanga exclaims we can buy a house. Cory boasts for
us and the baby. Japega Fi processes, what's happening in nods.
(40:01):
Oh yeah, the baby. Alan whispers to Nana boo boo,
we had four kids. You never gave us jack. She
simply responds, I never liked you. Angela starts guilt tripping Topanga,
asking if there's something she wants to say in to
Pega nods yes, I do. Thank you, Thank you everyone,
This outpouring of love means more to me than you'll
(40:24):
ever know. Then they all give her a rowdy round
of applause. Corey encourages them to eat up. So Sean
takes a seat next to Angela and asks, isn't she beautiful?
Angela scoffs, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Liar.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Next to them, Corey's head is on Topanga's stomach and
he's talking in a baby voice.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Hello baby, Hello, this is your daddy. Then he sticks
his face directly into her stomach. I love you, I
love you.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
He looks up at to Panga and adds, and I
love you. Angela snatches Topanga away. Did you hear that?
He says he loves you. Tapega holds up the DVD player.
This thing has five channels of sound. Bunfelo points out,
but you're not pregnant. To Pega and says, I'll get
pregnant get out.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Kind of makes sense. Actually.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
She bumps into Corey, who explains, when I first found
out you were pregnant, I panicked a little. I mean,
the whole idea is just so overwhelming. But then I
realized how much we love each other and how much
this baby is going to enrich our lives. To Penga
knows she's in over her head. Oh boy, and Corey continues,
O or girl, as long as it's healthy. We made
a baby together. We took a little bit of me
(41:35):
and a little bit of you, and we made a baby,
and it's going to be someone that we're going to
take care of the rest of our lives. At this point,
Pega's on the verge of tears. She looks at the
DVD player and whispers bye.
Speaker 8 (41:47):
Such afore handing it over to Angela, who's been patiently
waiting for the truth to be revealed to Pega finally
admits to Corey about this whole pregnancy thing.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
See, I'm kinda not, he asks, this scene is.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Really funny, and I do I love the Tapanga like
just gets launched into the situation and loves it.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
But wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Have been better if in some ways this connected to
like the weight loss or like, yes, like what she
wanted in the beginning, Like because it has no no connection,
Like so if I don't know, I guess, I guess
they're trying to do it like when happened when I'm
saying she's beautiful, like that you're finally being appreciated or
like cherished, and that that's what you really wanted by
(42:33):
losing the weight, or that's what you weren't feeling in
the beginning. I don't know I did, but like you
wanted physical objects and money, which is hysterical and all,
like oh, I'm going to have the house and all
this stuff is great, but it doesn't connect to where
you started the episode. Like as a character, you started
the episode feeling bad.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
That is almost a separate thing. This is the resolution
of the mistaken truths and shock, and in the meantime
I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Gosh, we're gonna get all this cool stuff. And then
the ending.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
For this and that's that ties up that storyline. The
storyline about my body is like, well, but Eric said
I was fat, and then he's like, why didn't mean it?
And Angela goes, and we weren't talking about you being skinny,
but that's because I would.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Kill for your curves.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Then, so that's the Then the resolution of it is like,
you don't have to be like us. You're beautiful the
way you are, even though you're not like us, which
is thin, I guess. And you're not either, and.
Speaker 6 (43:31):
There's no there's no resolution. You're just a fatty fat
I guess.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
This joke you know, of Penga just being given all
these gifts and like running with the pregnancy thing is funny.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I wish it was more connected to her.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
Character where you're like, oh, this is so to Panga
that her dreams are coming true right now, not just
dreams are coming true because you get a DVD player.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
You know. It's it's generic.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
It's like generic situation, whereas if it had been specific
to oh my god her, you know, because I never
believe that you're gonna lie or keep any of this,
which I guess I need to, but anyway, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I just was like, why is this connected to who
she is?
Speaker 1 (44:06):
I know I did think like how does it? But
I think it's really just I get swept up the
same way I also, by the way to Penga does
suddenly care a lot about money and material things. When
they bought the house, it was a big deal. Remember
what the house she wanted, she wanted to nook and
and then also the wedding.
Speaker 6 (44:23):
It was gross and wedding, the wedding she.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Wanted, the big, fancy wedding.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Corey asks what she means, and she repeats herself She's
not pregnant. Corey is shocked, but she promises there's no
baby in there and apologizes for saying there was. Then
she asks everyone to gather around because she has something
to say.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
This is the golden moment.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Where made me let me too, where Matt made me
laugh so high. She says, I'm not pregnant.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
You're not in their Corey.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Really sorry.
Speaker 10 (45:06):
Everyone, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's because he has to walk
like ten feet together.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Supposed to turn his back. His back is to me.
He has to spin her up. Yeah, and get to
this mark.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
So Jerry said, and then Matt, you come down here,
and he was like why, and they're like, well, we
just need everybody, and he was like fine.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
I'll do it, and then does it this and this is.
Speaker 6 (45:31):
The big middle finger to everybody, it's great.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
You know what happened is he probably there was probably
a real back and forth where they that's where he
wanted them to go. Walk you walk up here behind
the couch. And then when when she says, everyone, you
get to this mark, and Matt probably said, I'm really
far away. I'm not sure I can get I'm not
sure I can get to this mark. And Jerry was like, yeah,
you could probably do it. You just got to do it.
(45:56):
You gotta be faster. And then they did it a
few times. Matt probably wasn't making it because to walk
normally and not do what he did, he doesn't probably
make it.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
And they kept saying.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Faster, Matt, faster, Matt, faster, Mat, And this is Matt
going all right, watch this, Oh got it?
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
It might be my favorite moment in all seven.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, like he would care more than anyone else what
I'm about exactly.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
We have to send it to him and get his response.
Did record, like why if he remembers it at all?
Speaker 5 (46:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah to Pega says, I don't know how this whole
rumor got started, but I am not having a baby.
Sean starts to sneak off, but Corey instantly calls him out.
Sean was the one that Sean throws it right back
at him. You were the one who said she couldn't
fit into her pants. To Pang, it explains, because I'm fat.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
That's why I went on a diet. Eric and I
went on a diet.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Eric is sitting at a nearby table scarfing down deviled eggs.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I love devil eggs.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Delicious.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
Oh man, they're so good.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
I'm not fat. I'm pregnant. Hanabu Bu takes a devil
egg for herself. Yeah, I'm pregnant too. To Panga continues,
I started to feel bad about myself, so I decided
to lose a little weight. I mean, it's embarrassing to
not be the tall one, or the skinny one, or
the one with eight percent body fat. Jack correctsor that's six,
(47:20):
Tapanga continues. The funny thing is that when all of
you guys started treating me differently, I thought it was
because I was skinnier. When I found out it was
because you thought I was pregnant. I didn't want to
let that good feeling.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Go, right, So there it is. That is the connection.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
That is the connection.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
It's being called chlowing.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
And yeah, also, I'm just realizing I say it's embarrassing
to not be tall, or to be skinny, it is,
or to not be.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
The one with eight percent body fat it is.
Speaker 6 (47:47):
It's to mean horribly embarrassing. I'm embarrassed all the time.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Corey is shocked. Why in the world would you want
to go on a diet? Rachel adds, you're gorgeous, but
Tapanga looks to Eric for confirmation. Tell them I'm fat.
Eric responds, You're not fat, You're hot. I just told
you you were fat, so you'd give me your pizza.
Then he turns around to a random dude and blurts out, hey, fatty,
give me your pizza.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Give it. Then he takes it to penga size.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Okay, so maybe I'm not fat, but I'm never gonna
look like you, Angela. Angela argues, and I'm never gonna
look like you. I'd kill for those curves. Rachel adds,
and I'm self conscious about my height. It says five
to two on my driver's license. Angela admits she hates
her feet. Sean nods she has bunions. Angela has offended
Sean and he shrugs. What I'm not perfect, Jack smirks,
(48:35):
I am Sean reveals I almost have no butt. Phoene
sarcastically notes, thank you, mister Hunter, before explaining, Unfortunately we
live in a society.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
I love that he's here all of a sudden, did
he's turn?
Speaker 3 (48:48):
He gave you flowers earlier?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
But yeah, I know, I'm just saying that, like, of
course you're this whole this episode, and now it's going
to be a Phoenie ascessant. Unfortunately, we live in a
society where they tell us we have to look a
certain way, so we're all under pressure to live up
to unrealistic expectations.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
Jack's eyes, all right, I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 3 (49:10):
All Right, all right, I'm not not really one.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
But it's like, oh, man, you know why I go
to the gym. It's because in high school I used
to have this little nickname for me. It was jumbo Jack.
Everyone bursts into laughter, including Eric.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Now with half of the stolen pizza slice in his mouth,
he mocks him while almost choking. Jumbo Jack, you were fat,
Jack nods. I just wanted people to like me, Eric,
mouth still full of chicken wing.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
They thought.
Speaker 6 (49:40):
Food into my mouth.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Eric, mouth still full of pizza, says, I like you
jumbo Jack. Corey grabs to pang his hand and has
her sit on his lap. Look, you are the most
stunningly beautiful woman I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
That's why I married you.
Speaker 6 (49:57):
Like that's you won't lose your figure after Also.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
Why Alan married Amy. Then she got dumpy. She smiles
really He nods, yeah. I love everything about you and
that's never gonna change. They kiss as soft music plays
in the background. Then Nana Boobo wheels up and squeezes
to Pega's cheek. No baby, darling, Tapega admits no, so
Nana Booboo demands then give me back the check. They
(50:24):
look at her in disbelief, but Eric uses this as
an opportunity. He whispers in Nana's ear, I have a baby.
Speaker 6 (50:30):
How's aden? You can see everybody break in the back?
Do you see Bill? And oh?
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Yeah, go back?
Speaker 6 (50:34):
Bill and Rusty just lose.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
It in the back.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah, I have a baby. And then we're incroring.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
In Tepenga's apartment, Corey is lying in bed well to Pega,
stares lovingly at the baby onesie they were gifted. She
holds it up. How cute is this? He insists, You'll
never be able to fit into that. She lovingly slaps
him with it. Are you disappointed about the baby? He
admits a little. Once I got past the overwhelming desire
to jump off a bridge, I was kind of looking
forward to it, you know. She agrees, and Corey tells
(51:01):
her it's gonna be great though, someday me and you
walking arm in arm pushing our baby through the park.
She promises him you are going to be a great father.
Then she gives him a kiss and he smirks, you
want to go for the DVD player? She smiles, not yet,
and he agrees. She reveals that doesn't mean we can't
keep practicing, and he smiles.
Speaker 3 (51:21):
Right, they're gonna have sex.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
Oh God, is nah, We're.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
Gonna have sex. I still know I've ever got that.
Corey and I peng are gonna have sex. Let's talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
They quickly get up and throw the covers over themselves.
She notes, I love your little love handles. What he
does not have? He's stunned. What and then she just giggles, that.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
Could be your pet name for his penis.
Speaker 5 (51:56):
Handles love handles, My little love handle little love handles.
Speaker 4 (52:02):
Just handle singular, it makes sense. Handle really changes the moon.
Speaker 6 (52:14):
It doesn't change everything, doesn't it because of the sex
you're talking right, because they're having sex under the covers.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
That's what's happy. They're gonna get naked.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
And then there's no tag, so just they at all
for a while.
Speaker 6 (52:32):
So yeah, at least Eric story, I'm happy they have
ready wrapped up the.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Yeah, so you just am fat.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
He ate more pizza, and ate.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
More pizza, shoving more food, like yourself on fire to
keep everybody else warm.
Speaker 6 (52:49):
That's how it works.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
It was the very like most disappointing part of this
episode for me.
Speaker 5 (52:54):
It's just it would have been nice to give Eric
something just being the fat joke, because.
Speaker 6 (52:59):
Being the fact joke is fine if at the end
it leads to something. But it didn't. It didn't know,
He's just.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Yeah, it comes full circle for Topanga.
Speaker 6 (53:07):
For sure, in kind of a nice way too.
Speaker 5 (53:10):
Yeah, and it was a it was overall a good
funny episode.
Speaker 6 (53:14):
It just they really left Eric Kanyon.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Yeah, you weren't really your feelings at all. We're not
We're just not considered period. Well, I hope you get
into trauma therapy. We should do, we should.
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Do, we should do group group trauma.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
What do you think this is?
Speaker 6 (53:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Exactly, group trauma therapy. So true, a combination of celebrations
and trauma therapy. To join us for our next episode recap,
which is season seven, episode eighteen, How Corey and Tapanga.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Got their groove back? We need our groove back already?
Speaker 5 (53:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
It aired March seventeenth, two thousand. Thank you all for
joining us for this episode of Pod Meets World. As always,
you can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show.
You can send us your emails Podmeets World Show at
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Speaker 6 (54:05):
Danielle.
Speaker 5 (54:05):
I think I speak for the world when I say
you're not fat, You're hot. Mr.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Podmeetsworldshow dot com writer, send us out.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
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