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Speaker 1 (00:19):
I would like to let everyone know a very exciting announcement.
Christopher Kier's Christmas Corner is back. Swearing it was over,
he has decided to do it one last year. One
of the reasons he decided to do it is that
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so many people lost their Christmas decorations in the fires.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Is hoping that this gives people an opportunity to restock
some of their favorite things, to find new things, to
start new memories. So he wants to be helpful. And
he's got so much much great stuff. So you can
find him at three hundred East Colorado Boulevard in Unit
one one in Pasadena, California, nine one one zero one.
(01:11):
He is open eleven am to six pm and he
is closed on Mondays. So we need to find a
time to go again.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes, I never went.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I know you need that's right. You never even got
to go.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
We did a we did a kid's.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Trip, so we need to We need to do like
a little family situation.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
We got so many great things. Last time.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I bought a Christmas tree skirt. Writer and Alex also
bought a Christmas tree skirt, the most expensive Christmas skirt
and it I love the story. So I'm gonna let
Ryder tell the story.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
What is the Christmas skirt story? And why have you
never worn it? Rider?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
By the his tree? Where is it every year?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
By the way, not everything in the store is expensive.
There are some totally reasonably priced items, and then of
course for some of the more vintage and beautiful or
intricate things, there are some very expensive items as well.
But so writer, tell the story of what happened with
the expensive tree skirt.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Well, we liked a true skirt and we found like
this incredibly looking, decorated, gorgeous tree skirt. There was like
one of three that clearly were like handmade and some
you know whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's beautiful. And Alex looked at them.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
She was like, oh, it's fifty nine dollars, Like we
should like this, this is worth it. Let's say this
will be our family's tree skirt. And we get to
the counter. We had a couple other things. We also
found Golden Girl candles, so we got those, yeah, Golden
Girl votive candles. And then we were bringing it up,
or Chris is bringing it up and he goes he
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goes to Alex like, this is a really nice tree skirt.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You have really great taste. I'm like, oh, yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
He tells the story behind it, like, oh, I'm a
friend who in Germany blah blah blah, like rings it
up and it's five hundred and ninety some dollars missed
the and and I'm like, oh, that's how they get you.
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We just kept our mouth shut. We're just like, you
know what, this is going to be too awkward. I'm
just we're going to commit. We now have a family
heirloom Indy. It's in our world that Indy will get
this tree skirt. It's the most important expensive Christmas item
we own.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is it made from actual Santa.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
It's reindeer bells, It's oh my god.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We're dedicated now.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So every year we laugh.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We bring it out every year.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Makes you can't go to college, because.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You can't go to college, but but you have.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
A tree skirt. Alex Total she was so embarrassed. She
was like, I just read it wrong. But because she
had this whole conversation with Chris about how she had
great taste, She's like, well, yeah, you know, I just
think it's beautiful. So like for her to back out,
what had I don't want.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I don't want to say I don't want it. It's
not worth that much.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
With great taste comes great responsibility exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
She was like, I don't want to hurt his feelings. Wait,
it's all right, we just gotta pay it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm like, oh my god, six.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Hundred bucks better. Seriously, missus Claws should have sown that thing.
Oh man Ter that year, there were no presents under
the tree because that's all money.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You don't get anything, but you get to sit under
this tree skirt.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Chris does travel around the entire world.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He has collected these items from Germany, from the Netherlands,
from all over the place.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It's really unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And you two could find a six hundred dollars skirt
if you visit. No, of course, there are prices all
over the place, but really, you guys should go check
it out. Christopher Kire's Christmas Corner in Pasadena on Colorado
bo of Our eleven to six closed on Mondays.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fischel, I'm Rader Strong,
and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Our Spooky Hey Ride to Halloween continues acknowledging that here
on Pod Meets world.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
We may have over analyzed our.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Own quote unquote Halloween episode, and then there was Sean
in the same vein that historians have studied the Zapruder tape.
We've hit it from absolutely every single angle, so we pivoted.
We'll be analyzing other family sitcom Halloween episodes to either
be impressed or slowly realize why our own Scream episode
is held in such high regard. We've tackled Sabrina and
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family matters to varying results, and now we look to
another nineties favorite, the story of a Philadelphia teen who
was sent from the rough streets of Philadelphia to the
pash star lined avenues of bell Air, only to later
slap a man for humiliating his wife. That's right, we
are reviewing The Fresh Prince of bel Air and it's
season four Halloween episode Hex and the single guy.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Keep this episode out of your mouth. So I had
to be done, either.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Of you Fresh Prince fans. This is the first episode
you've seen.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So I thought this was my first episode.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Okay, then I was watching it and I was like,
I know some of these character names and I knew
their voices before they started talking, so I must have
watched at least one or two episodes in the past.
I think I'm pretty sure I watched the pilot when
it first came out, So yeah, I had absorbed it.
I knew, you know, like I knew characters, and so
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I was like, oh, yeah, so I must have. But
I don't remember consciously a single episode.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It can't be a.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Storyline I had seen the show.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
I know I specifically remember one episode because everyone was like,
this is the Will Smith episode that really showed how
well he could act. And there was an episode where
his dad comes back in town and he does this
great speech at the end where he just breaks down crying.
It was it was really powerful, and I think that's
the only other episode I've seen, but it was I
had distinctly remember that episode.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He was really good.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And were either of you ever Will Smith movie fans?
Do you have a favorite last movie?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I thought Will Smith at his height, to me, was
like the leading man in Hollywood. I know, I mean
his bad boy movies, especially the first one. I mean
Men in Black. I mean Black is so a couple
there right in a row where it was like, oh,
this guy's just a flat out movie star.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I mean it was it was great, So yeah, I
had Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I've never quite loved his like pivot to drama.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I always just thought, you know, is comedy well, and
it's like the understated charm comedy, like the kind of
like witty as sides and like that's just it's it's
a great vibe. So I do so I'm independence day
like all the original stuff. Yeah, but like I don't know, yeah,
you know, and now it's really all it's all kind
of hard to.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
See, you know what movie.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I don't think it's enough credit that I that I
enjoyed was Hitch.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Did either of you see Hitch?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Hitch was great rom com Kevin James was awesome.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
It's a little if you watch it again, it's a
little heavy handed with the speeches.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Oh yeah, I do know that.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I even remember that at the time, being like these
could have been these could have been touched up a
little bit. But I love the movie and I thought
I remember, I remember thinking he's just so charming and
funny and adorable in it.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So that was why.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Hancock's not bad either.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
It's it's not I never saw Handcock.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's a good concept.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
It's the one where it's essentially he's he's a superhero,
but he doesn't want to be, so he's just a drunk.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Oh and it's.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Him like flying around half drunk, and you know, trying
to save the whale that's on the beach and just
throwing it out and it knocks over a ship. It's like,
it's very funny, and it's him and Charlie's throne who
I can watch or do anything.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So yeah, well let's jump into our synopsis.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Hillary drags the family to a psychic and when Will
doesn't believe in their powers, he's cursed for his skepticism.
It was directed by Shelley Jensen. Shelley was a veteran
TV director, with his first credit being on Webster and
moving on to dozens of other shows, including Friends, Veronica's Closet,
and Hannah Montana. Shelley had a big run at Disney
in the twenty tens, directing a lot of episodes of
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Dog with a Blog in Austin and Alley, but appears
to have retired in twenty sixteen. It was written by
Barry Gerstein. Barry was a producer and a writer on
the show. He also wrote episodes of My Two Dads,
Doogie Howser and City Guys, and also David Pittlick. Pittlick
and Gerstein were writing partners, but he would later go
solo to focus on much younger programming, like thomasin Friends
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and Handy Manny was Handy Manny around when Indy was
a kid?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
No, kendy man.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Chris does not sound right for month vague second. Yeah
you know I got a handy Manny. Oh yeah, handy Manny.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
It doesn't just sound like a guy who drives around
the van, like, don't get in handy.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Don't get dude, he's really handsy Handy Manny. Yeah, there's something.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's a cartoon and he's out a handy man who
has to help people around the town.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Is the Thomas one? Is that the one about the Train?
Is that a spin off of the Train one?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yep, it's a it's a cartoon about Thomas and his
friend the trains and Trains A. Oh yeah, we watched
both of those when my kids are little.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Right, you're still laughing about how do you do that?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Like kids show? No, there's no way, some like fifty
percent of your audience's brain doesn't go there.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
But starring Will Smith as Will Smith.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The show was developed by the legendary Quincy Jones for
the star Will Smith aka Fresh Prince. This was his
first experience acting ever, and yet he would turn into
one of the biggest blockbuster actors in the history of movies,
Men in Black Independence Day, Bad Boys, and he'd star
in dramas like Ali, The Pursuit of Happiness and King Richard,
for which he won an Oscar. And he would also
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change that Award show Forever anyway. You know Will Smith,
He's Will Smith. And then there's James Avery as Philip Banks,
a very recognizable character that is most known for this show,
but had appeared in every TV show ever over the years.
He also appeared in movies like Fletch, Licensed to Drive
and The Brady Bunch Movie. But most interestingly, he was
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the voice of Shredder on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Avery
passed away in twenty thirteen at just sixty eight years old.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
He passed.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I didn't know that. How that sucks?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And then we have Daphne Reid as Vivian Banks. Reid
was in other TV shows as well, like Simon and
Simon and The Cosby Show, and she is still acting
most recently seen in bell Air, the weird drama reboot
of Fresh Prince of bel Air that I don't really
know anything about.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Do you guys know anything about it?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I remember hearing about it. Heard about it me too.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I think it started kind of as a joke, right,
like it was like somebody.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Thinks, So I think somebody like somebody did it as
like a sketch or skit, and and they were like, actually,
we could really do this.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
And Joe she was also the second aunt Viv too.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's correct, correct? And then Alfonso Romero is Carlton Banks.
Alfonso was a child dancer who began his career appearing
in the infamous Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial. He'd then play
Alfonso on the hit show Silver Spoons and eventually appear
as a contestant on a little show called Dancing with
the Stars, reinvigorating his career as a host now seen
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all the time on America's Funniest Home Videos and as
the eventual.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Host of Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Not familiar with it, never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I haven't heard of Dancing with the Stars, but I
have heard of a show called Podmeats Tworld. Well, it's
a very and they review it, so here it's number four.
And then we have Karen Parsons is Hillary Banks. This
was also parsons first real gig. She would go on
to star in movies like Class Act, Major Payne, and
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The Late. And then there's Tatiana Ali as Ashley Banks,
a nineties teen beat center who also had a pop
singing career off of this show and would appear in
movies like Glory Road and Jawbreaker and TV shows like
The Young and the Restless and most recently Abbot of Elementary.
And then there's Joseph Marcel as Jeffrey Butler. He has
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had a busy career both before and after Fresh Prince,
but listen, he's Jeffrey forever you know, but he's still working.
Recently on The Thursday Murder Club, also on the Bell
Air reboot, guest starring DJ Jazzy Jeff as the slacker Jazz,
a best friend to Will and arrival of Uncle Phil.
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This is Fresh Prince's real life rap group partner, one
of the best DJs in the history of the art form.
Acting was never something he went on to do. He
was too busy making music, but he is great in
this and little known fact. Yes, writer, go for it. It's
me Dad, right a mirror from Girl Meets World?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Is his son?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Is DJ Jazzy Jeff? Is he really considered one of
the best DJs ever?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't know the world enough.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, because he's definitely up their legendary status.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Really amazing and obviously extremely talented kids as well. And
then we have Glenn Shaddicks as Ralph Scorpius. Everyone will
recognize Glenn as although in Beetlejuice, an absolutely classic role.
He'd also voice the mayor in Nightmare Before Christmas and
play Senator Nato in the two thousand and one Planet
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of the Apes. He would tragically pass away from blunt
force trauma after accidentally falling and hitting his head while
in a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Wait what, who's already in a wheelchair?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
You're in a wheelchair? How do you fall?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
So?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Did like some wheelchair wiped out?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Whip over?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Oh my god. He was also demolition Man. Great guy.
I can't believe he's gone too. I fell out of
a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Jeez.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Jackie Roberts is the I in s Agent.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Roberts also appears on The Cosby Show, Party Five and
The Steve Harvey Show. If you are interested in watching
this episode along with us, you can check it out
on Hulu through Disney Plus.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Overall thoughts, I want to hear like, would you guys
think like because I felt like this spoke to a
lot of our Halloween Show discussions about.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
When something spooky has to happen. It's other you know, there's.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Like guests, big guest star. It like fit hit a
lot of the category. I was like, this is a
pretty solid but it also felt really short to make.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And then it just stopped.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
It just stopped.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I know there was it didn't go full circle at all.
But what I was wondering, does does fresh prints ever?
I mean, like, I'm assuming that's because it was a
Halloween episode. They just had a farm like one off, right,
because it was there was stuff off. It was like
a sole story just oh, you go here, you get hext? No,
I don't, Yes, you do, okay, and then wake up
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and then yeah, it was so weird.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I thought it was a very fun episode.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I My only complaint was that when it ended, I
was like, wait, I need to know the story. How
does it end? Up until that point, I was actually invested.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, yeah, I felt the same.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I thought something was going to come back and be like, oh,
this is the reason for.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
This, and Will Smith's obviously a star and he's like
Juliel and that he carried the whole thing, and yeah right.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But also my.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Other question happened when when Will walked.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
In and he was already he was the reason he
was HEXT was because he was skeptical, and.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Then he sees that this guy is just like a
normal guy.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
How come he didn't right away go oh my gosh,
this whole thing must have been fake, you.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Know what I mean? Like he instead he was like
the hex but then it was a dream. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
I also, I also this is where just picking a
d An episode in the middle of a series, where
it comes in and everyone's talking about some guy dying
in its tragic.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Miss I feel like we missed something, we miss something.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I thought they did a really good job though, of
somehow making that storyline funny. I agree, they really leaned
into yes, we're going to talk about this tragedy, but
we were not playing it as a tragedy. We're playing it,
which I thought was really good overall, even even though
I felt I feel like I would love to know
the resolution to the story.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I was wildly entertained.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I was too One thing I'm noticing though, and I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Is this just all sitcoms of this genre except ours
have really charactery characters? Yeah, dude, I mean, is it
because Boy Meets World? We never went that raffle we're
talking tho. It's character and everything.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
They're all so caricatures almost.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
I know.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I feel the same way, man.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I mean Sabrina less well, no, Sabrina too, Sabrina too. Yeah,
I mean the bully girl is a bullet.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Like.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Everybody's so ridiculously over the top of you, right man, cartoony.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I think this is partly why I've never gotten into sitcoms,
is because I think a lot of them all we're.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Like it depends on the sitcom. You watch friends and
you don't get you don't get, of course.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But it's this genre of if it's for but fresh Princes,
wasn't tgif so it wasn't for like twelve year olds, right,
I mean, is this their version of a teen sitcom?
And that's why everybody's so big in Caricatuy because it's
like it was cleve.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
But I also think that, like there's something about like
this opening scene in the kitchen that I really didn't
feel in Family Matters or Sabrina, which is a cast
listening to each other and coming together, like I love
that feeling.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Like it reminded me.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Like, oh right, this is what sitcoms can do is
take broad, big characters, squeeze them in a room together
and just have fun hanging out with them.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know, you're just like I know that guy, I.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Know her she relationships to each other, even without watching
a whole bunch of other episodes, you understand all the dynamics.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And I was like, that's comforting. This is fun, and
like I miss that on Family Matters.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I felt on Family Matters like Rkle was just the
center and all these other people are sort of like
like you were saying, Will just running around going, but
you're an idiot?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What where is this one?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
It's actually the opposite Rre Like Will is the outsider
and he's coming in as the sort of every man
going like you rich people are crazy, like that's his thing, like.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Everything you know.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And I was like, that's cooler. I think that's a
better way in because you just like Will better. You know,
you're just like on his side, everybody gets to be
crazy whereas family matters, everybody else is more normal and
Rkle's the crazy one. And I was like, I think
this is a better dynamic for me, Like this works better.
I much rather have broad crazy characters in the world's
insane and we're laughing at the ridge.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Every man representing us inside the house.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah, And I thought, you know, Will amazing. Obviously the
oldest daughter, she was phenomenal. Do you really think Will
is amazing? Because I was a little like, for this genre,
he's not.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The best character. I think he's got.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
He's set up to be the most likable fun You're
rooting for him everything he says.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
But I didn't think it was that anything special.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I was sort of like, I thought, thought he had
some funny he's being Will Smith. Yeah, I mean, he's
just Will Smith thing it up. Especially and this is
he's not even Will Smith and he's fresh printing it.
This was DJ Jazzy, Jeff Fresh Prince. It was like
a character he played that wasn't really Will Smith, but
the older sister.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I just thought. I was like, oh, I want to
see episodes where she's the lead.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I thought Alfonso was so funny.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I thought he was the sitcom pro. Though that you're
I'm watching him going dude like and and always have
to be the butt of the joke, do you know
what I mean? Like that can get exhausting on an actor,
and like he's clearly still having fun. He's still like, Hey,
I'm just happy to be here, and like, I like
this guy's Yeah, it's it's a much better show.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The cast is really it's really really enjoyable. Jumping into
our recap, we are in the Bank's house. Jeffrey is
carving a pumpkin to alert us all this is a
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Halloween episode Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Oh well.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
The rest of the family sits down for breakfast. Carlton
and Will enter dressed in their loud robes and pajamas,
while excitedly shouts Happy Halloween. Phil doesn't acknowledge them, instead
asking his wife about a two thousand dollars flower bill.
She casually explains that's for Trevor's perpetual care. Phil is shocked,
but Vivian reminds him he was Hilary's fiance there's some
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little background here. At the beginning of the season, Trevor,
a newscaster and Hilary's boyfriend, dies in a bungee jumping
accident while proposing to her on live TV.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh I wonder, I mean, they obviously didn't show that,
but I'm so curious how they did that off camera moment.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Like, do they show people watching it?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
How do you?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh God, I see that episode. Now, that's great.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
That how they would handle the death though, is just
with pure comedies. That's so really funny.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
He tosses the bill aside. They get you coming, they
get you going. Ashley chimes in, I can't believe it's
been two months since Trevor's accident. Vivian praises Hillary's recent
attitude about it, admitting she was so crushed. Carlton quips,
not anymore than Trevor. The audience lets out a roar
of laughter at his death. Philip boasts Hillary's just exhibiting
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that old Hanks resiliency. You ask me, I'd say she's
back to normal. Jeffrey pauses from his pumpkin to add
whatever that is. Then on cue, Hillary runs in with
an extra pep in her step. Guess who I'm going
out with to night, Phil wonders who, and she proudly
exclaims Trevor what. Everyone shares a wide eyed glance, and
then we cut to the show's iconic opening credits and rap.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You guys know the words to this song?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, I definitely have seen it before, like I but
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah yeah I could.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I could do this backwards, forwards, upside down in my sleep.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's just are you going to dance to this on
Dancing with the Stars?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I am. It's a legal requirement as a white girl.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yeah, you're gonna do like an acoustic, slowdown guitar version
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You're gonna do a contemporary dance.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeh in West Philadelphia and raised.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I mean this is an example of like an opening
credit sequence doing so much for a show, because I
feel like it's it's like people will remember this even
more than they'll remember any single episode they play. You know,
it's long, it tells a whole story, so you already
feel like you've watched a story. Yeah, it's really I'm
surprised more shows don't do this. Even by our second season,
we were we didn't have opening credits any change, and
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then there they are.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I know I was.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I watched this in a rush and refuse to skip it. Nope,
you gonna listen to the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No, listen to it.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Not gonna gonna watch it, just we're gonna be late.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
That's well, that is when this is when Sitcom used
to explain the entire show in the opening title sequence.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I mean to do stuff like this. It was like,
and he's a dad who's got two kids. One of
the kids has a limp. He's lamb dad. It's like,
oh god, okay, so it's.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Dad, super handy manny for me, man, I think limp dad.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Oh my gosh, as I thought the kid had a
lamb because he's the dad.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's about the dad raising the kids. Did you see
he just ends with like, my kid limps and he's
like that.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yeah, all right. We are still in the bank's kitchen.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Will quickly intercepts Hillary about you dating Trevor. How can
I put this gently? Well, I can't. He's dead. Carlton
jumps in. Hillary's been through a lot. I'm sure she
has a rational explanation for what she's saying.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Hillary grins.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Of course, there's a TV psychic who can channel Trevor's spirit.
Will looks at Carlton, who has to admit, Okay, I
owe you one. Hillary continues. His name is Scorpious, and
I've arranged for a seance. Phil takes the reins this time, Hillary,
you don't really believe in this seance mumbo jumbo, do you?
Hillary scoffs believe in it. I spent three hundred dollars
for it. Vivian is concerned and shocked. You spent three
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hundred dollars on a seance. Hillary clarifies, not on the seance.
For the seance, I needed an You.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Could have gotten half a true skirt for that much, like.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
One half of your tree.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Some money.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, it's the one thousand dollars Scorpius is charging. I
just put on Daddy's gold cart. The audience laughs, but
Hillary is thrilled. Now I can say goodbye to Trevor.
Will mutters to his nearby uncle. He ask me it'd
be cheaper just to dig him up. Hillary explains, I
need to bring at least four loved ones to create
enough psychic energy to reach Trevor. So what do you
guys say, Jeffrey pipes in. I say, thank god, I'm
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not a loved one. Hillary complains Trevor's bungee accident left
everything up in the air. Will starts to chime in
with a witty response about being left in the air,
but Phil stops him. Hillary insists I need closure. Vivian volunteers,
I for one, would be happy to go with you,
and I'm sure everyone else here would be too, wouldn't
we Will shouts clearly, lying, oh man, I would, but
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I've got to finish my costume.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Phil doesn't hesitate. I'll help you.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Then Carlton sprints after them. Me Too'lly is disappointed. I
can't believe you people. How could you do this to me?
She continues to lay it on thick the manner, starting
to feel guilty. I guess Hillary's well being just isn't
very important, Vivian says. I guess nobody cares for her
the way I do. She tears up and Will jumps up,
lip quivering. He promises, I'll go with you at vif
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i'll go to my party later. Okay, Phil sighs before
promising to attend to When they all look to Carlton
for an answer, he shouts, I'll cut into my trick
or treating time. The audience erupts and laughter as he
throws his arms in the air and gives in oh
all right, and he stomps away.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Okay, I just want to bracket this moment here, because
as I watch it, I was like, Okay, funny joke, definitely, yeah,
But the audience really responded to it and reason, and
then you see the bloopers and it's like, of course
we've had those moments too where you finally get through it. Yes,
And so everybody's already giggling the whole time and it's
all laughing and you finally say the line and it
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gets this huge laugh because it's like you also got
through it.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I felt that the moment is like that was a
big laughs that moment.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I thought maybe it was like a backstory thing that
I missed. Can he established something about him that I'm
not kiddying, But you're right.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It was.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
We all know that moment. It's like, it's like the giggles.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Unless you're on a set with a cast, you'll never
know what the giggles are like unless.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You yep, yep, Phil And will leave to give Hillary
the news. Vivian turns to Ashley with a smirk, Learn
from me, child, then she leaves. Later, in the living room,
Vivian and Phil are getting the Halloween goodies together when
the doorbell rings. Jeffrey walks into the room in a
giant lizard mask with pointy teeth and a huge mouth, exclaiming, the.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Little kiddies have arrived.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh how I adore dressing up for those adorable little
ghosts and goblins every year. He opens the door, and
before the kids can get out there trigger tree. Jeffrey
lets out a huge roar that scares them all away.
You forgot your candy, he maniacally laughs to himself as
he closes the door and then hands the candy basket
back to Vivian. Eventually, Vivian speaks up, it's Halloween, it's
supposed to be fun for the children. He waves her off.
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Oh tell it to Barney. Meanwhile, standing on a ladder
putting the last of the Halloween decorations up, Will silently
appears behind her in a vampire costume, complete with a
bright white set of fangs. He leans forward to Ashley
and growls in her ear, but the girl isn't phased.
She simply responds, I will unfazed. He loves this holiday, Halloween,
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the only night a year a black man can walk
around in this neighborhood with a mask on and not
get arrested.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Carlton comes running in wearing.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Overalls, a striped shirt, and his hair is spray painted yellow.
He brags to his mom, what a night I made
a killing twenty six milky ways and the Democrats say
there's a recession. Phil is confused by Carlton's costume. So
Carlton explains, my idol, mcaulay culkin. You know why he's
my idol? Will chimes in, why because you're the same height.
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Carlton shakes his head. No, because his movies have grossed
over half a billion dollars worldwide, not to mention he's
one heck of an actor.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
I thought we were gonna get a mccullay culkin.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I thought, Arrence.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, this felt very weird.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Yeah, I wonder if is it just kind of funny
that to be worshiping mcaulay culkin as a you know, as.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
An older teenager.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I don't know how old is he supposed to be, actually, Carleton, Yeah,
are they still in high school at.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
This point, I don't know college age right season four,
maybe they are still in high school.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Yeah, he's still in high school. I mean, I know,
I know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Hilary, the oldest daughter, is definitely she has a job,
like she's supposed to have a job. Actually, Tatiana Banks
is definitely in school. And I do think I think
Carlton is supposed to still be in high school.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Gosh, they don't feel that way to me. They feel
like college older.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Then Hillary walks down the stairs. Let's go everyone, I
don't want to keep Trevor waiting. Will asks Carlton what's
the rush. It's not like he's going anywhere, And then
we're in a creepy graveyard. Ashley and Phil lead the
family through an ominously smoky and spooky area. Phil complains,
I hate olag. Looking around, they wonder where Will went.
Then on cue, he pops up from behind a bush,
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screaming bloody murder, terrifying all his family members, especially Carlton,
who lets out a blood curdling scream. Will laughs, half
apologizing I'm sorry, I'm so stupid with that. They walked
towards a cobweb covered old house and Will gets ready
to knock on the door, but before you can start,
the door slowly creak soap in on its own.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Will grins. We got to get one of them in
the girl's locker room.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Hey you just went to nineties joke.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, ulous does not age well joke.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
They all walk into the ancient and cluttered home, with
Carlton admitting this place is really creepy. Hillary nods, I
know who would put a deco table on a persian rug.
I think they could have done more to make this creepier.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
This just looked like a This just just like a clutter.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
House, exactly the same thing. So like that's a cluttered house.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It's just a cluttered house. It should have I feel
like they could have done.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Somebody's point that they're coming from their bel air mansion.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
You know, well there was actually maybe it is just
creepy to.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Them exactly, it's like kind of just a house.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Yeah right, okay, but they're like, yeah, freaking out about
But I guess Will says it's creepy, right.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
So yeah, they all are supposed to think it's creepy.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So so, have either of you ever been to a seance?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I mean, I've had psychic getings before. I've never been
to like a you.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Know you're going there to like i've.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Had readings by mediums.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Yeah, I want to do they have they have a
seance a Houdini salance at the Magic Castle, like real
traditional because you know, when Houdini died, he told his
wife to always hold seances once a year on his
birthday so he could if there was an afterlife, he
would come back.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
He promised he would come back during a.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Sealance and has he no because his whole point was
that all psychics are cheats and mediums are liars. So
he was trying to prove that by saying, will have
you ever been to a psych I have.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I've never done a seance, but I've been to a psychic.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
And one of my favorite stories ever was I had
my big Halloween party. We hired a psychic and the
guy was giving readings in the other room and at
one point he.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Said, this is your house, right, I'd love to love
to give you a reading. You know you paid for
the whole night. I was like sure, and I went
and sat down.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Every single thing he said was wrong, I mean, like comically.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Where he's like, so, what's it like.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
You're having problems in your relationship, like no single as
can be. It was like that kind of thing. It's like, well,
you did recently.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Lose your sister, No, two brothers both five. Well, it
was like it was bad to buy the fifth question.
I was like, you know what, I'm gonna go back
and start drinking again. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I got my palm red at a Renaissance fair when
I was like, right, I guess it was probably first
season of Boy Meets World?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Was it an old palm reader.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
It was so funny because she described like she was
describing me based on you know, well, you're this type
of person and this is what you do in life,
and it was Shawn Hunter to a tea.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Oh my gosh, it was.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
And it's so funny because now I think about it,
I'm like, right, what she was doing was just reading
me as a person and like my vibe. And I
think like, I probably just gave off a vibe because
she was like, you're always in trouble. You never you know,
you're you're a really you're a troublemaker. You never will
to listen to authority, And I'm like, no, I freaking
love school I you know, love, my teachers have no
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idea what you're talking about. And it was like Jackets,
there was something about me I think that, you know,
like I always got cast as a brat from for
a Boy Meets World and then I think, you know,
right around the time Boy Meets World, I came off as.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Like this little mischievous, like troublemaker. It was my vibe.
She was she was cold reading me.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
You were also probably dressed like some kind of like
medieval vagrant or something like that. I don't know if
it was one of Robin Hood's right, you know, it's like,
you know, you seem like you're swashbuckling, Like, yeah, that's
interesting because I have a sword.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
So she he yells out for Scorpius, but he's nowhere
to be found. Then some nearby curtains open and Scorpius
appears in a billowing robe and a fortune teller hat.
He shouts, I am Scorpius the Magnificent and waves his
arms around to add gravitas. I see all, I know all.
But when he notices the family, he bluntly asks who
are you. Hillary starts to say they're the banks, but
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before she can finish Scorpius interrupts her, stop don't tell
me you're the bank's family. Hillary gasps wow, but her
family is visibly unimpressed with that. Scorpius tells him to
sit and motions to a nearby table, where the chairs
magically move away from the table. Hillary gushes, I love
when a man pulls my chair out. They all take
a seat, and Scorpius lights the candles on the table
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with a flick of his finger. They all gasp in
all but Phil is still skeptical. Scorpius announces make ready
to contact the spirits. Will jokes with his uncle seems
like somebody made contact with one too many spirits, and
motions that the psychic is drunk. Ashley asks Scorpius if
he believes he can actually read Trevor. He responds, if
he's up there, I'll find him. Well, asks, while you're
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up there, see if you can find Marvin Gay and
find out what was really going on, and he celebrates
his joke with Uncle Phil. Scorpius, unamused by the gag,
proceeds with the seance. He has everyone join hands and
then chants up to the spirit guides as.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
He calls out to them.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
The lights in the house flicker Will comments, seems like
some medium hasn't paid their electric bill. Scorpius's body begins
to flail as he declares, I'm getting a message from
the spirit they wish me to tell you, and then
his voice turns a little angry.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Shuts your bile.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Scorpius continues, I feel a presence in the room, a tall,
good looking man whose life revolves around the news. The
table begins to shake, and Hillary screams out.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
That's Trevor. I know his vibration.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
The audience roars at this joke. Is this a sex joke?
Speaker 5 (36:51):
It is?
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Yeah, that's fully a sex joke. But she sees the
table shaking and.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yeah, okay, it was absolutely a sex.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Joke on it. Hillary starts passionately speaking to her deceased
almost fiance, Trevor. I think about you constantly, Scorpius answers
in a low newscaster voice, and I about you. Hillary
yels out, I wish I could see you, and Scorpius agrees,
I wish I could see you too. Hillary gets serious.
There's something I've been wanting to ask you since the
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day you died. Do you know where I left my
Blackswade purse, which I thought was going to be part
of the story.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
There is no more story. There is no more story.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Non, none of.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
This ever, none of this ever plays, none of this
ever matters because I didn't think that's really smart, that
like if he does. I also thought maybe they were
going to leave some ambiguity about whether or not he
was actually yeah, and then no.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Scorpious admits, now, let me think.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
Oh, at this point, Will's had it, and he pulls
his hand away from the circle.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I could be sucking on some honey neckbone right now, honey,
because he's a vampire. Honeys like like he's calling her
a honey. Right, Okay, neckbone scor name for a sauce
and honey's neckbone.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Honey neckbone, Yeah, neckbone, you're right.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Scorpius stands up and dramatically wails the connection is fading,
his eyes widened as he shouts, I'm losing it. I'm
losing it. Will mimics the flailing oh like you ever
had it. Scorpius shouts into the void, come back. Hillary
begs Trevor don't go alas Scorpius lets out a big
oof and plops back into his chair. Trevor has left
the building. The lights turn back on the table stops shaking,
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and everyone looks disappointed, especially Hillary. I didn't get a
chance to say goodbye. Ashley asks if they can just
try again. He explains I couldn't possibly traverse the void again.
They all stand up to leave, but he quickly adds tonight,
that is, of course, there's always tomorrow. Carlton scoffs and
missaved by the bell. I don't think so. Scorpius runs
over to his big scheduling book. I could fit you
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in around seven, right between the exorcism and step Glass.
Hillary lights up, but Phil to Claire's I don't think so,
and I think i'd like my thousand.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Dollars back please.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Scorpius response, I'm terribly sorry, but the spirits don't give refunds.
He points to a wall and a scroll magically rolls
out that reads, no refunds will intervenes. Uh, scrupulous, I
think you should just give.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
My uncle his money back.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We all had a good laugh, but this whole thing
is bogus, and you, sir, are fake. Scorpius and narrows
his eyes and angrily explains, nobody calls me the F word.
He waves his arms and shouts gibberish towards Will, who
finishes his sentence with lyrics from Lady Marmalade g Chie
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
See. I thought i'd like it would have been stronger
if Will ruined the seance.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
He did.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
He broke his.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
Specifically, okay, but he's just sort of like I'm out
of I don't know, like I wanted him to like
actually ruin it in like as is this is all yeah,
just you know, or been because as it is, you're
still on Will's side. So when he gets text, we're like,
well that's unfair or whatever if he actually had really
hurt her feelings, I don't know, yeah or whatever. I'm
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just crazy.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
That's why I thought they were going to make it.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
I thought they were going to give it some ambiguity where,
you know, where did I leave my black suede purse
or something that then.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
He doesn't answer right, and you're.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Like, and she's like, it really is him if she
really believes it, and then you really ruins it.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
I thought it was actually going to be even more
convoluted than that. I thought the spirit of the dead
guy was going to take.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Over Will's body.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Oh and it was like for the rest of the episode,
He's like going in and out of newscaster guy and
he answer scaring him and things like that, Like that's
where I thought it was going.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
So it was strange.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
Yeah, big set piece though, big table shaking and lights.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Coming on and off and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
I mean, it was Halloween stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, fun rop fun.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Rob Scorpius growls, from this day forward, you will bring
evil to all those in your presence. You will end
up alone and forever hext. He explains to Will, I
placed a curse on you.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Will.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
I love that change, by the way, where he does
the holder.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
I placed a curse on It was a great transition.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I placed a curse on you.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Will weird it out, brushes him off, and then we're
back at the house. Actually is telling Jeffrey that the
whole thing gave her the creeps. She wonders, do you
really think a person can be cursed? He asks, how
do you think I ended up here? Which I thought
was a very funny joke. Will enters and announces that
he has a party to hit. If I hook up
with some babe tonight, I promised to practice safe hex ha.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Hillary isn't amused. This isn't funny. You ruined my seance.
Carlton reminds her forget the sealance, he may have ruined
our lives. Once this hex kicks in, Will response, there
is no such thing as a oh my god, Carlton,
what's that hideous thing growing out of your neck? Carlton
freaks out, where where as he frantically checks his neck,
Will laughs, Oh, never mind, it's just your head.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
It's such a sitcom joke. And that was the most
sick of all sitcom jokes in this one. Yeah, it
was just that joke right there. But I also loved
how none of them, especially as the show progressed, are
taking any of this seriously, I know, And it was great,
Like even like the lines they're throwing out, they're putting
little lilts to it. It was just like a tongue
in cheek kind of thing all the way around, which.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Was just it.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Yeah, you can tell me, seriously.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
It would not have been the same as what they
came up with, which wouldn't have landed.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Will then tries to reassure Hillary wherever Trevor is, he
loves you and he misses you. Carlton groans what about
the hecks? Will responds by calling him McCully, a reference
to his newly bleached blonde hair in his costume. Then
the phone rings and Phil answers it and we get
some facting. He shouts, what is this some kind of joke?
And he threatens to call his lawyer. He throws the
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phone on the counter and reveals the says he has
proof that I took bribes. I've been suspended from the bench.
My reputation is destroyed. I'm ruined.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Carlton places his hands onto his face and screams, perfectly
recreating Macaulay Culkin's home alone scene, and then we go
to a tense commercial break.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
We're back in the Banks's living room.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
A very depressed Phil is sitting on the couch and
his pajamas, staring at the floor. Will hesitantly enters, good morning.
Did you talk to your lawyer yet? Phil shakes his head.
I don't know why, but the DA has it in
for me. I could get ten years well, can't believe it.
Then Carlton comes walking in now with a rainbow hairdoo.
He tries to console his dad. I just want you
to know that, regardless of what happens. I'll always be
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at your side. Will and Phil exchange concerned looks, and
Will asks, what the hell happened to your hair? Carlton smirks, Oh, no,
you don't. I'm not falling for that again. As he
walks away, he passes a mirror and does a double
take what he looks like a snow cone. Then it clicks,
the hecks. Phil argues, that's not it. That gold stuff
you sprayed on your head must have done something to
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your hair. Just wash it out. Carlton insists I did
last night. Then from outside we hear Ashley screaming help, help.
We go to the backyard and she is getting pelted
with tennis balls, begging for someone to turn off the machine.
Phil quickly grabs her and brings her inside to safety. Meanwhile,
Will walks outside and starts gleefully hitting the balls with
a cooking pan. He complains, what do you mean that
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was in? And then in the kitchen, Jeffrey scrambles into
the room and shouts, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (44:35):
I heard? Screams.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Carlton explains Ashley was attacked by the tennis ball machine.
Jeffrey sighs with relief. Thank goodness for a moment there,
I thought you'd found those polaroids of me in a
two tu he sheepishly admits New Year's Eve. The fellow
gets crazy. Meanwhile, Ashley thinks she may have sprained her
ankle and the big tournament just tomorrow. She wonders why
the machine would go haywire like that. Carlton quickly comes
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up with an explanation. It's the U know what, He warns,
It's going to pick them off one by one until
they'll end up on unsolved mysteries. Will demands that he
shut up about the hecks. It's all just one big coincidence.
And then there's a loud knock at the door. It's
a sharply dressed woman and Jeffrey asks how he can
help her. She certainly asks, are you Jeffrey Butler. He grins, yes,
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I am, and you must be the woman of my dreams.
She smacks a pair of handcuffs on him, and he
rejoices you are. She introduces herself as Agent Wanda Davis
from the Immigration and Naturalization Office. She says, Jeffrey is
in this country illegally. Will begs his uncle for help,
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but the agent won't hear a word. She declares that
the butler is being deported. Carlton is sick. Oh God,
the Heck's has gone international. Phil promises Jeffrey that he'll
get him the best lawyer in town, but Jeffrey and says,
so I don't need a lawyer.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
What I need is a judge who can be bought
off like you.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
House his last party shot.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Phil loses it. I was framed. I tell you framed.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Carlton grabs Will. This is all your fault. Will insists
this has nothing to do with the Hecks, but Phil
doesn't know what to believe anymore. On cue, Vivian shrieks
from the other room, and then in the living room,
Vivian screaming at the top of her lungs, pointing to
Hillary kissing a man on the couch. Carlton shouts Jazz.
Vivian begs Phil to do something. Jazz smiles at his
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biggest detractor. Hey, dad, now that I'm gonna be in
the family, maybe we could talk about my trust fund.
Phil tells him to repeat his sentence. He's convinced he
didn't hear him right, but Hillary happily announces Jazz and
I are getting married, Phil responds over his dead body.
Hillary tries to stay positive. Doesn't anybody care what I think?
They all shout, no.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
So is Jazz is he established as like a yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (46:52):
But that's what's really interesting having never seen this though
you already know the relationship, Like I didn't need to
see anything else. I already know exactly how they feel
about him, The idea that he's probably been hitting on
her the entire time, that she's always turning him down
because he's awful for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Like we got it all just z.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
I think he's just like a lazy He's the lazy.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Friend, right, but you just you got it. You didn't
need to see it.
Speaker 6 (47:13):
It's like, Okay, they've obviously established his character as an idea.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
That they're together now is.
Speaker 6 (47:17):
As life shocking, as bad as him going to jail
for for you know, bribes, so really interesting.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Hillary smiles, Well, Jazz does, and that's why I've fallen
for him, She gushes, to think, all these years, I
never appreciated you.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Schnookum's. Jazz answers right back at you, Hillicums. They do
a signature high five and snap a trademark of him
and Will on the show. Ashley shakes her head and disgusted,
I'll be in the kitchen throwing up. Hillary exclaims we're
going to name our first son after you, Daddy. Phil
is petrified. Jazz tells her I thought we could get
started tonight. They both giggle while the family continues to
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stand there and shock Finally, Phil grabs Jazz by the
back of his shirt to throw him out of the house,
another staple of this come and then we cut to
the front door, where instead of Jazz in his usual
flying position, it's Phil getting kicked out, the opposite of
what we're used to. Yes, inside, Vivian grabs Will. This
is all your fault. You got us, Hext. I want
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you packed and out of here by tonight. Will tries
to convince her otherwise, this is me. You're a little Willie,
the adorable charismatics, sometimes troublesome, yet overall wonderful young man
you've grown to love. Will promises he'll go back to
Scorpius and get them all unhext. Carlton points Will toward
the door and begs him in a creepy voice, hurry, hurry, hurry.
Speaker 6 (48:36):
It was moments like that, and then the way Will
runs like the way he grabbed his jacket, and he
does this weird kind of like funny run out there.
Speaker 9 (48:42):
They're just playing with every moment. It was so much fun,
having so much fun for sure. Back at Scorpius's house,
which is now lacking the smoke and cobwebs, Will raises
his hand to knock on the front door, but this
time it doesn't open on its own. Finally, he just
presses the doorbell.
Speaker 6 (48:57):
Did anybody else think somebody else entirely was going to
answer the or I thought Scorpius, Yeah, going to be
like Scorpius wasn't there and has never been there, Like
That's how I.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Thought it was going to be a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Inside, Scorpius, now dressed in a sweater, vest and glasses,
is quietly reading a book. Even the house is rearranged
to look neat and nordily. He calls out, it's open, mother,
come on in. Will is unable to hide his surprise
at how clean and spacious the place now is. Scorpius
spots him and stands up in surprise.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Will reintroduces himself and asks Scorpius. The man explains that's
my last name. I'm Ralph Scorpius. What are you doing
in my house? Will laughs, it's me Remember the vampire.
Ralph's eyes widened in terror, and Will tries to jog
his memory. You remember the seance? The heck's the gitch gechi? Yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Ralph nervously backs away. Take anything you want,
just don't hurt me. Will insists he didn't come here
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for trouble. He just wanted to apologize. Will looks around.
What happened to this place? What happened to you? Ralph
reiterates anything you see here is yours and tries to
hand him a vase. Will respond, now with a quiver
in his voice. I don't know what's going on here.
I just came to ask you to break the hecks,
all right. Will shouts, I'm begging you, man, and he
starts to sob.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
Why are you playing with me? Ralph stays quiet, so
Will lays it all out. I'm losing my family. I
think I'm losing my mind. Why can't you just break
the hecks?
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Ralph inches near a telephone as Will screams break the hecks.
Ralph quickly shuffles out of the room. And Will stays hysterical,
pounding the couch pillows and crying. Bike fucks mallut and
then we fade into the poolhouse. We transitioned to Will
in bed, asleep in his PJS. He's pounding on his
pillow as he chants, break the hecks, man, break the hecks.
Carlton runs in with concern and shakes Will awake from
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the nightmare. Will awakens and is happy to see Carlton's hair.
Speaker 4 (50:41):
It's back to normal.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
Will touches it to confirm. Carlton gets defensive. Kind of
dream were you having?
Speaker 4 (50:46):
Mister? Will tries to explain that they were hexted and
the whole family was turning against him.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
He can't believe how real it was. Carlton a little
weirded out. I'm gonna go have some breakfast.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
Want to go?
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Will instantly cheers up. Breakfast with our family, right, Let's
get to our family. And then in the kitchen, Will
enters and wishes everyone a happy Halloween, and Phil asks
Vivian about those two thousand dollars flowers. Will starts to realize, uh,
this is the same day as his nightmare. Everything is
exactly the same. He slowly starts to back away as
Ashley brings up Trevor's accident.
Speaker 4 (51:16):
Will begs let's talk about something else here, all right,
but no one hears him.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Carlton even makes the same joke about Hillary being crushed,
but not more crush than Drever. Will tries his best
to alter this reality, bringing up the Lakers to change
the subject, but to no avail. The conversation is the
exact same, even to the point where Will recites Jeffrey's
line in unison with him. Will let's out a petrified scream.
Ben Hillary walks in and predictably asks the family to
guess who she's going out with tonight.
Speaker 4 (51:41):
Will dashes towards the door.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Let me out, let me out. Phil asks his daughter who,
and Will begs her. Ronnie, Bobby Ricky and Mike, mentioning
some members of New addition, for those of you who.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
Didn't, oh oh that was the thing.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Okay, yeah, and it's a line of a song too, Ronnie,
Bobby Ricky and Mike.
Speaker 4 (51:58):
If I like a girl, who cares who you like? Okay?
Speaker 1 (52:00):
Hillary, exclaims Trevor, and Will looks out the window and
endlessly shrieks. And then our tag we get a car.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
So wait, hold on, is the heck still going?
Speaker 4 (52:12):
We don't know.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
You get to relive your day.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Wouldn't that be a good day. It's like now because
now you can stop it.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
Right, he could just go to the psychic.
Speaker 6 (52:20):
And or not go to the psychic at all, be like,
I'm not going yeah, yeah, I don't know what the
I don't get what they were going for. I would
also love to see the script because I would love
to see how long they're supposed to hold on him,
saying take the hecks off, just get rid of the hacks,
because I know it probably should have been two or three,
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but they held on him four minutes.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
I feel like that's where the story just ends. We'll
just stop because there's no way to stop the hacks. No,
then there's just waking up from a dream. It was
all a dream, then another waking up from it.
Speaker 6 (52:54):
It's just like I thought Scorpius, the guy who was
playing Scorpius was going to walk out and then come
back dressed like score to release him.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
Something all stopped.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
This might make me sound really stupid. I'm just tired.
Just it just cut me some slack. I'm tired, I
thought while I was watching it.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
The Scorpius was supposed to still be a psychic medium
at night, just a fake one, and we were seeing
him in his day to day. But now when I'm
reading it back, I'm realizing he's he's he's actually saying,
that's my last name, what are you doing? And he's
he has this feeling of I'm not a I've never
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pretended to be a medium, like that whole experience never happened,
and he's actually afraid of will not like, oh I
have to turn, I must have given you, I must
have put a hex on you in my character, like
there's none of that.
Speaker 5 (53:46):
No, the point is that he's not like, he's not
somebody that they saw a spirit pretending to be him.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
But none of it matters.
Speaker 6 (53:57):
It's a robe and I suggest that it's a Twilight
Zone episode for Freshman.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
It is.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
It's just it's just like a wacky ye, you know.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
But then I kind of wish it went a little whackier, honestly,
like it.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
Just very abruptly ended.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
It was ending.
Speaker 5 (54:17):
I wonder if there was a real tag And then
when they just realized that they could put these bloopers
and they were like, forget it, let's and the tag
might have wrapped some of it up where he's like
being a dream over and over.
Speaker 7 (54:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Well, we get a Carlton blooper while our Alfonso cannot
get through the line it'll cut into my trigger training
without laughing. We get multiple takes of him trying. But
now everyone in the scene is breaking. And I absolutely
love those tags.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
I stand by them.
Speaker 4 (54:46):
I think they're genius.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
They make me laugh so much, and I wish more
shows did them more often. I think we should see
way more bloopers in TV. I just think it's so fun.
Speaker 6 (54:56):
There's apparently the what Lauren Michaels apparently hates when the
actors break right now, and that's the best part of
the show.
Speaker 2 (55:04):
It's like Carol Burnett watching them break. That's what you
want to see.
Speaker 6 (55:07):
You want to see them not being able to It's
what That's what people are watching when they're googling SNL clips,
they're googling that.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
People are losing it. That's the fun part. So yeah,
it's uh. I love these things. I agree with one
hundred percent. They're phenomenal.
Speaker 5 (55:20):
What can I just say is there isn't there like
a weird irony in the reality that Will Smith went
from being the everyman poking fun at these crazy rich
people to probably one.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
Of the wealthiest his life.
Speaker 5 (55:32):
His life makes no sense to the every man because
of this role and the subsequent career.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
He is on another polanet as far as his lifestyle.
Speaker 6 (55:41):
He can buy and sell the banks a thousand times over.
Speaker 5 (55:44):
Yes, and probably is very out of touch with the
every person's spirits since the age of sixteen or whenever
he started the show. I just think there's a there's
a there's a really intense irony there, and that we
still think of him. I think a lot of people
still look to him as like a sort of one
of the everyman rights as.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
Much as a banana ten dollars what is a plumber exactly?
Speaker 4 (56:08):
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I would like to let everyone know a very exciting announcement.
Christopher Kier's Christmas Corner is back. Swearing it was over,
he has decided to do it one last year. One
of the reasons he decided to do it is that
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so many people lost their Christmas decorations in the fires.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Is hoping that this gives people an opportunity to restock
some of their favorite things, to find new things, to
start new memories. So he wants to be helpful. And
he's got so much much great stuff. So you can
find him at three hundred East Colorado Boulevard in Unit
one one in Pasadena, California, nine one one zero one.
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He is open eleven am to six pm and he
is closed on Mondays. So we need to find a
time to go again.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes, I never went.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I know you need that's right. You never even got
to go.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
We did a we did a kid's.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Trip, so we need to We need to do like
a little family situation.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
We got so many great things. Last time.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I bought a Christmas tree skirt. Writer and Alex also
bought a Christmas tree skirt, the most expensive Christmas skirt
and it I love the story. So I'm gonna let
Ryder tell the story.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
What is the Christmas skirt story? And why have you
never worn it? Rider?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
By the his tree? Where is it every year?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
By the way, not everything in the store is expensive.
There are some totally reasonably priced items, and then of
course for some of the more vintage and beautiful or
intricate things, there are some very expensive items as well.
But so writer, tell the story of what happened with
the expensive tree skirt.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Well, we liked a true skirt and we found like
this incredibly looking, decorated, gorgeous tree skirt. There was like
one of three that clearly were like handmade and some
you know whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's beautiful. And Alex looked at them.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
She was like, oh, it's fifty nine dollars, Like we
should like this, this is worth it. Let's say this
will be our family's tree skirt. And we get to
the counter. We had a couple other things. We also
found Golden Girl candles, so we got those, yeah, Golden
Girl votive candles. And then we were bringing it up,
or Chris is bringing it up and he goes he
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goes to Alex like, this is a really nice tree skirt.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You have really great taste. I'm like, oh, yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
He tells the story behind it, like, oh, I'm a
friend who in Germany blah blah blah, like rings it
up and it's five hundred and ninety some dollars missed
the and and I'm like, oh, that's how they get you.
(03:10):
We just kept our mouth shut. We're just like, you
know what, this is going to be too awkward. I'm
just we're going to commit. We now have a family
heirloom Indy. It's in our world that Indy will get
this tree skirt. It's the most important expensive Christmas item
we own.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Is it made from actual Santa.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
It's reindeer bells, It's oh my god.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We're dedicated now.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So every year we laugh.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We bring it out every year.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Makes you can't go to college, because.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You can't go to college, but but you have.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
A tree skirt. Alex Total she was so embarrassed. She
was like, I just read it wrong. But because she
had this whole conversation with Chris about how she had
great taste, She's like, well, yeah, you know, I just
think it's beautiful. So like for her to back out,
what had I don't want.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I don't want to say I don't want it. It's
not worth that much.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
With great taste comes great responsibility exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
She was like, I don't want to hurt his feelings. Wait,
it's all right, we just gotta pay it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm like, oh my god, six.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Hundred bucks better. Seriously, missus Claws should have sown that thing.
Oh man Ter that year, there were no presents under
the tree because that's all money.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You don't get anything, but you get to sit under
this tree skirt.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Chris does travel around the entire world.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He has collected these items from Germany, from the Netherlands,
from all over the place.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It's really unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And you two could find a six hundred dollars skirt
if you visit. No, of course, there are prices all
over the place, but really, you guys should go check
it out. Christopher Kire's Christmas Corner in Pasadena on Colorado
bo of Our eleven to six closed on Mondays.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fischel, I'm Rader Strong,
and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Our Spooky Hey Ride to Halloween continues acknowledging that here
on Pod Meets world.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
We may have over analyzed our.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Own quote unquote Halloween episode, and then there was Sean
in the same vein that historians have studied the Zapruder tape.
We've hit it from absolutely every single angle, so we pivoted.
We'll be analyzing other family sitcom Halloween episodes to either
be impressed or slowly realize why our own Scream episode
is held in such high regard. We've tackled Sabrina and
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family matters to varying results, and now we look to
another nineties favorite, the story of a Philadelphia teen who
was sent from the rough streets of Philadelphia to the
pash star lined avenues of bell Air, only to later
slap a man for humiliating his wife. That's right, we
are reviewing The Fresh Prince of bel Air and it's
season four Halloween episode Hex and the single guy.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Keep this episode out of your mouth. So I had
to be done, either.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Of you Fresh Prince fans. This is the first episode
you've seen.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So I thought this was my first episode.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Okay, then I was watching it and I was like,
I know some of these character names and I knew
their voices before they started talking, so I must have
watched at least one or two episodes in the past.
I think I'm pretty sure I watched the pilot when
it first came out, So yeah, I had absorbed it.
I knew, you know, like I knew characters, and so
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I was like, oh, yeah, so I must have. But
I don't remember consciously a single episode.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It can't be a.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Storyline I had seen the show.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
I know I specifically remember one episode because everyone was like,
this is the Will Smith episode that really showed how
well he could act. And there was an episode where
his dad comes back in town and he does this
great speech at the end where he just breaks down crying.
It was it was really powerful, and I think that's
the only other episode I've seen, but it was I
had distinctly remember that episode.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He was really good.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And were either of you ever Will Smith movie fans?
Do you have a favorite last movie?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I thought Will Smith at his height, to me, was
like the leading man in Hollywood. I know, I mean
his bad boy movies, especially the first one. I mean
Men in Black. I mean Black is so a couple
there right in a row where it was like, oh,
this guy's just a flat out movie star.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I mean it was it was great, So yeah, I
had Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I've never quite loved his like pivot to drama.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I always just thought, you know, is comedy well, and
it's like the understated charm comedy, like the kind of
like witty as sides and like that's just it's it's
a great vibe. So I do so I'm independence day
like all the original stuff. Yeah, but like I don't know, yeah,
you know, and now it's really all it's all kind
of hard to.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
See, you know what movie.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I don't think it's enough credit that I that I
enjoyed was Hitch.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Did either of you see Hitch?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Hitch was great rom com Kevin James was awesome.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
It's a little if you watch it again, it's a
little heavy handed with the speeches.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Oh yeah, I do know that.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I even remember that at the time, being like these
could have been these could have been touched up a
little bit. But I love the movie and I thought
I remember, I remember thinking he's just so charming and
funny and adorable in it.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So that was why.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Hancock's not bad either.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
It's it's not I never saw Handcock.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's a good concept.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
It's the one where it's essentially he's he's a superhero,
but he doesn't want to be, so he's just a drunk.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Oh and it's.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Him like flying around half drunk, and you know, trying
to save the whale that's on the beach and just
throwing it out and it knocks over a ship. It's like,
it's very funny, and it's him and Charlie's throne who
I can watch or do anything.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So yeah, well let's jump into our synopsis.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Hillary drags the family to a psychic and when Will
doesn't believe in their powers, he's cursed for his skepticism.
It was directed by Shelley Jensen. Shelley was a veteran
TV director, with his first credit being on Webster and
moving on to dozens of other shows, including Friends, Veronica's Closet,
and Hannah Montana. Shelley had a big run at Disney
in the twenty tens, directing a lot of episodes of
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Dog with a Blog in Austin and Alley, but appears
to have retired in twenty sixteen. It was written by
Barry Gerstein. Barry was a producer and a writer on
the show. He also wrote episodes of My Two Dads,
Doogie Howser and City Guys, and also David Pittlick. Pittlick
and Gerstein were writing partners, but he would later go
solo to focus on much younger programming, like thomasin Friends
(09:37):
and Handy Manny was Handy Manny around when Indy was
a kid?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
No, kendy man.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Chris does not sound right for month vague second. Yeah
you know I got a handy Manny. Oh yeah, handy Manny.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
It doesn't just sound like a guy who drives around
the van, like, don't get in handy.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Don't get dude, he's really handsy Handy Manny. Yeah, there's something.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's a cartoon and he's out a handy man who
has to help people around the town.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Is the Thomas one? Is that the one about the Train?
Is that a spin off of the Train one?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yep, it's a it's a cartoon about Thomas and his
friend the trains and Trains A. Oh yeah, we watched
both of those when my kids are little.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Right, you're still laughing about how do you do that?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Like kids show? No, there's no way, some like fifty
percent of your audience's brain doesn't go there.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
But starring Will Smith as Will Smith.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The show was developed by the legendary Quincy Jones for
the star Will Smith aka Fresh Prince. This was his
first experience acting ever, and yet he would turn into
one of the biggest blockbuster actors in the history of movies,
Men in Black Independence Day, Bad Boys, and he'd star
in dramas like Ali, The Pursuit of Happiness and King Richard,
for which he won an Oscar. And he would also
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change that Award show Forever anyway. You know Will Smith,
He's Will Smith. And then there's James Avery as Philip Banks,
a very recognizable character that is most known for this show,
but had appeared in every TV show ever over the years.
He also appeared in movies like Fletch, Licensed to Drive
and The Brady Bunch Movie. But most interestingly, he was
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the voice of Shredder on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Avery
passed away in twenty thirteen at just sixty eight years old.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
He passed.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I didn't know that. How that sucks?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And then we have Daphne Reid as Vivian Banks. Reid
was in other TV shows as well, like Simon and
Simon and The Cosby Show, and she is still acting
most recently seen in bell Air, the weird drama reboot
of Fresh Prince of bel Air that I don't really
know anything about.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Do you guys know anything about it?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I remember hearing about it. Heard about it me too.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I think it started kind of as a joke, right,
like it was like somebody.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Thinks, So I think somebody like somebody did it as
like a sketch or skit, and and they were like, actually,
we could really do this.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
And Joe she was also the second aunt Viv too.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's correct, correct? And then Alfonso Romero is Carlton Banks.
Alfonso was a child dancer who began his career appearing
in the infamous Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial. He'd then play
Alfonso on the hit show Silver Spoons and eventually appear
as a contestant on a little show called Dancing with
the Stars, reinvigorating his career as a host now seen
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all the time on America's Funniest Home Videos and as
the eventual.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Host of Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Not familiar with it, never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I haven't heard of Dancing with the Stars, but I
have heard of a show called Podmeats Tworld. Well, it's
a very and they review it, so here it's number four.
And then we have Karen Parsons is Hillary Banks. This
was also parsons first real gig. She would go on
to star in movies like Class Act, Major Payne, and
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The Late. And then there's Tatiana Ali as Ashley Banks,
a nineties teen beat center who also had a pop
singing career off of this show and would appear in
movies like Glory Road and Jawbreaker and TV shows like
The Young and the Restless and most recently Abbot of Elementary.
And then there's Joseph Marcel as Jeffrey Butler. He has
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had a busy career both before and after Fresh Prince,
but listen, he's Jeffrey forever you know, but he's still working.
Recently on The Thursday Murder Club, also on the Bell
Air reboot, guest starring DJ Jazzy Jeff as the slacker Jazz,
a best friend to Will and arrival of Uncle Phil.
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This is Fresh Prince's real life rap group partner, one
of the best DJs in the history of the art form.
Acting was never something he went on to do. He
was too busy making music, but he is great in
this and little known fact. Yes, writer, go for it. It's
me Dad, right a mirror from Girl Meets World?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Is his son?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Is DJ Jazzy Jeff? Is he really considered one of
the best DJs ever?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't know the world enough.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, because he's definitely up their legendary status.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Really amazing and obviously extremely talented kids as well. And
then we have Glenn Shaddicks as Ralph Scorpius. Everyone will
recognize Glenn as although in Beetlejuice, an absolutely classic role.
He'd also voice the mayor in Nightmare Before Christmas and
play Senator Nato in the two thousand and one Planet
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of the Apes. He would tragically pass away from blunt
force trauma after accidentally falling and hitting his head while
in a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Wait what, who's already in a wheelchair?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
You're in a wheelchair? How do you fall?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
So?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Did like some wheelchair wiped out?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Whip over?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Oh my god. He was also demolition Man. Great guy.
I can't believe he's gone too. I fell out of
a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Jeez.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Jackie Roberts is the I in s Agent.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Roberts also appears on The Cosby Show, Party Five and
The Steve Harvey Show. If you are interested in watching
this episode along with us, you can check it out
on Hulu through Disney Plus.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Overall thoughts, I want to hear like, would you guys
think like because I felt like this spoke to a
lot of our Halloween Show discussions about.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
When something spooky has to happen. It's other you know, there's.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Like guests, big guest star. It like fit hit a
lot of the category. I was like, this is a
pretty solid but it also felt really short to make.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And then it just stopped.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
It just stopped.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I know there was it didn't go full circle at all.
But what I was wondering, does does fresh prints ever?
I mean, like, I'm assuming that's because it was a
Halloween episode. They just had a farm like one off, right,
because it was there was stuff off. It was like
a sole story just oh, you go here, you get hext? No,
I don't, Yes, you do, okay, and then wake up
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and then yeah, it was so weird.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I thought it was a very fun episode.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I My only complaint was that when it ended, I
was like, wait, I need to know the story. How
does it end? Up until that point, I was actually invested.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, yeah, I felt the same.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I thought something was going to come back and be like, oh,
this is the reason for.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
This, and Will Smith's obviously a star and he's like
Juliel and that he carried the whole thing, and yeah right.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But also my.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Other question happened when when Will walked.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
In and he was already he was the reason he
was HEXT was because he was skeptical, and.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Then he sees that this guy is just like a
normal guy.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
How come he didn't right away go oh my gosh,
this whole thing must have been fake, you.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Know what I mean? Like he instead he was like
the hex but then it was a dream. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
I also, I also this is where just picking a
d An episode in the middle of a series, where
it comes in and everyone's talking about some guy dying
in its tragic.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Miss I feel like we missed something, we miss something.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I thought they did a really good job though, of
somehow making that storyline funny. I agree, they really leaned
into yes, we're going to talk about this tragedy, but
we were not playing it as a tragedy. We're playing it,
which I thought was really good overall, even even though
I felt I feel like I would love to know
the resolution to the story.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I was wildly entertained.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I was too One thing I'm noticing though, and I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Is this just all sitcoms of this genre except ours
have really charactery characters? Yeah, dude, I mean, is it
because Boy Meets World? We never went that raffle we're
talking tho. It's character and everything.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
They're all so caricatures almost.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
I know.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I feel the same way, man.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
I mean Sabrina less well, no, Sabrina too, Sabrina too. Yeah,
I mean the bully girl is a bullet.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Like.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Everybody's so ridiculously over the top of you, right man, cartoony.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I think this is partly why I've never gotten into sitcoms,
is because I think a lot of them all we're.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Like it depends on the sitcom. You watch friends and
you don't get you don't get, of course.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But it's this genre of if it's for but fresh Princes,
wasn't tgif so it wasn't for like twelve year olds, right,
I mean, is this their version of a teen sitcom?
And that's why everybody's so big in Caricatuy because it's
like it was cleve.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
But I also think that, like there's something about like
this opening scene in the kitchen that I really didn't
feel in Family Matters or Sabrina, which is a cast
listening to each other and coming together, like I love
that feeling.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Like it reminded me.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Like, oh right, this is what sitcoms can do is
take broad, big characters, squeeze them in a room together
and just have fun hanging out with them.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know, you're just like I know that guy, I.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Know her she relationships to each other, even without watching
a whole bunch of other episodes, you understand all the dynamics.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And I was like, that's comforting. This is fun, and
like I miss that on Family Matters.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I felt on Family Matters like Rkle was just the
center and all these other people are sort of like
like you were saying, Will just running around going, but
you're an idiot?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What where is this one?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
It's actually the opposite Rre Like Will is the outsider
and he's coming in as the sort of every man
going like you rich people are crazy, like that's his thing, like.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Everything you know.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And I was like, that's cooler. I think that's a
better way in because you just like Will better. You know,
you're just like on his side, everybody gets to be
crazy whereas family matters, everybody else is more normal and
Rkle's the crazy one. And I was like, I think
this is a better dynamic for me, Like this works better.
I much rather have broad crazy characters in the world's
insane and we're laughing at the ridge.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Every man representing us inside the house.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah, And I thought, you know, Will amazing. Obviously the
oldest daughter, she was phenomenal. Do you really think Will
is amazing? Because I was a little like, for this genre,
he's not.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The best character. I think he's got.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
He's set up to be the most likable fun You're
rooting for him everything he says.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
But I didn't think it was that anything special.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I was sort of like, I thought, thought he had
some funny he's being Will Smith. Yeah, I mean, he's
just Will Smith thing it up. Especially and this is
he's not even Will Smith and he's fresh printing it.
This was DJ Jazzy, Jeff Fresh Prince. It was like
a character he played that wasn't really Will Smith, but
the older sister.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I just thought. I was like, oh, I want to
see episodes where she's the lead.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I thought Alfonso was so funny.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I thought he was the sitcom pro. Though that you're
I'm watching him going dude like and and always have
to be the butt of the joke, do you know
what I mean? Like that can get exhausting on an actor,
and like he's clearly still having fun. He's still like, Hey,
I'm just happy to be here, and like, I like
this guy's Yeah, it's it's a much better show.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The cast is really it's really really enjoyable. Jumping into
our recap, we are in the Bank's house. Jeffrey is
carving a pumpkin to alert us all this is a
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Halloween episode Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Oh well.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
The rest of the family sits down for breakfast. Carlton
and Will enter dressed in their loud robes and pajamas,
while excitedly shouts Happy Halloween. Phil doesn't acknowledge them, instead
asking his wife about a two thousand dollars flower bill.
She casually explains that's for Trevor's perpetual care. Phil is shocked,
but Vivian reminds him he was Hilary's fiance there's some
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little background here. At the beginning of the season, Trevor,
a newscaster and Hilary's boyfriend, dies in a bungee jumping
accident while proposing to her on live TV.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh I wonder, I mean, they obviously didn't show that,
but I'm so curious how they did that off camera moment.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Like, do they show people watching it?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
How do you?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh God, I see that episode. Now, that's great.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
That how they would handle the death though, is just
with pure comedies. That's so really funny.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
He tosses the bill aside. They get you coming, they
get you going. Ashley chimes in, I can't believe it's
been two months since Trevor's accident. Vivian praises Hillary's recent
attitude about it, admitting she was so crushed. Carlton quips,
not anymore than Trevor. The audience lets out a roar
of laughter at his death. Philip boasts Hillary's just exhibiting
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that old Hanks resiliency. You ask me, I'd say she's
back to normal. Jeffrey pauses from his pumpkin to add
whatever that is. Then on cue, Hillary runs in with
an extra pep in her step. Guess who I'm going
out with to night, Phil wonders who, and she proudly
exclaims Trevor what. Everyone shares a wide eyed glance, and
then we cut to the show's iconic opening credits and rap.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You guys know the words to this song?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, I definitely have seen it before, like I but
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah yeah I could.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I could do this backwards, forwards, upside down in my sleep.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's just are you going to dance to this on
Dancing with the Stars?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I am. It's a legal requirement as a white girl.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yeah, you're gonna do like an acoustic, slowdown guitar version
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You're gonna do a contemporary dance.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeh in West Philadelphia and raised.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I mean this is an example of like an opening
credit sequence doing so much for a show, because I
feel like it's it's like people will remember this even
more than they'll remember any single episode they play. You know,
it's long, it tells a whole story, so you already
feel like you've watched a story. Yeah, it's really I'm
surprised more shows don't do this. Even by our second season,
we were we didn't have opening credits any change, and
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then there they are.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I know I was.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I watched this in a rush and refuse to skip it. Nope,
you gonna listen to the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No, listen to it.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Not gonna gonna watch it, just we're gonna be late.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
That's well, that is when this is when Sitcom used
to explain the entire show in the opening title sequence.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I mean to do stuff like this. It was like,
and he's a dad who's got two kids. One of
the kids has a limp. He's lamb dad. It's like,
oh god, okay, so it's.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Dad, super handy manny for me, man, I think limp dad.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Oh my gosh, as I thought the kid had a
lamb because he's the dad.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's about the dad raising the kids. Did you see
he just ends with like, my kid limps and he's
like that.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yeah, all right. We are still in the bank's kitchen.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Will quickly intercepts Hillary about you dating Trevor. How can
I put this gently? Well, I can't. He's dead. Carlton
jumps in. Hillary's been through a lot. I'm sure she
has a rational explanation for what she's saying.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Hillary grins.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Of course, there's a TV psychic who can channel Trevor's spirit.
Will looks at Carlton, who has to admit, Okay, I
owe you one. Hillary continues. His name is Scorpious, and
I've arranged for a seance. Phil takes the reins this time, Hillary,
you don't really believe in this seance mumbo jumbo, do you?
Hillary scoffs believe in it. I spent three hundred dollars
for it. Vivian is concerned and shocked. You spent three
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hundred dollars on a seance. Hillary clarifies, not on the seance.
For the seance, I needed an You.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Could have gotten half a true skirt for that much, like.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
One half of your tree.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Some money.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, it's the one thousand dollars Scorpius is charging. I
just put on Daddy's gold cart. The audience laughs, but
Hillary is thrilled. Now I can say goodbye to Trevor.
Will mutters to his nearby uncle. He ask me it'd
be cheaper just to dig him up. Hillary explains, I
need to bring at least four loved ones to create
enough psychic energy to reach Trevor. So what do you
guys say, Jeffrey pipes in. I say, thank god, I'm
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not a loved one. Hillary complains Trevor's bungee accident left
everything up in the air. Will starts to chime in
with a witty response about being left in the air,
but Phil stops him. Hillary insists I need closure. Vivian volunteers,
I for one, would be happy to go with you,
and I'm sure everyone else here would be too, wouldn't
we Will shouts clearly, lying, oh man, I would, but
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I've got to finish my costume.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Phil doesn't hesitate. I'll help you.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Then Carlton sprints after them. Me Too'lly is disappointed. I
can't believe you people. How could you do this to me?
She continues to lay it on thick the manner, starting
to feel guilty. I guess Hillary's well being just isn't
very important, Vivian says. I guess nobody cares for her
the way I do. She tears up and Will jumps up,
lip quivering. He promises, I'll go with you at vif
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i'll go to my party later. Okay, Phil sighs before
promising to attend to When they all look to Carlton
for an answer, he shouts, I'll cut into my trick
or treating time. The audience erupts and laughter as he
throws his arms in the air and gives in oh
all right, and he stomps away.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Okay, I just want to bracket this moment here, because
as I watch it, I was like, Okay, funny joke, definitely, yeah,
But the audience really responded to it and reason, and
then you see the bloopers and it's like, of course
we've had those moments too where you finally get through it. Yes,
And so everybody's already giggling the whole time and it's
all laughing and you finally say the line and it
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gets this huge laugh because it's like you also got
through it.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I felt that the moment is like that was a
big laughs that moment.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I thought maybe it was like a backstory thing that
I missed. Can he established something about him that I'm
not kiddying, But you're right.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It was.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
We all know that moment. It's like, it's like the giggles.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Unless you're on a set with a cast, you'll never
know what the giggles are like unless.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You yep, yep, Phil And will leave to give Hillary
the news. Vivian turns to Ashley with a smirk, Learn
from me, child, then she leaves. Later, in the living room,
Vivian and Phil are getting the Halloween goodies together when
the doorbell rings. Jeffrey walks into the room in a
giant lizard mask with pointy teeth and a huge mouth, exclaiming, the.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Little kiddies have arrived.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh how I adore dressing up for those adorable little
ghosts and goblins every year. He opens the door, and
before the kids can get out there trigger tree. Jeffrey
lets out a huge roar that scares them all away.
You forgot your candy, he maniacally laughs to himself as
he closes the door and then hands the candy basket
back to Vivian. Eventually, Vivian speaks up, it's Halloween, it's
supposed to be fun for the children. He waves her off.
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Oh tell it to Barney. Meanwhile, standing on a ladder
putting the last of the Halloween decorations up, Will silently
appears behind her in a vampire costume, complete with a
bright white set of fangs. He leans forward to Ashley
and growls in her ear, but the girl isn't phased.
She simply responds, I will unfazed. He loves this holiday, Halloween,
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the only night a year a black man can walk
around in this neighborhood with a mask on and not
get arrested.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Carlton comes running in wearing.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Overalls, a striped shirt, and his hair is spray painted yellow.
He brags to his mom, what a night I made
a killing twenty six milky ways and the Democrats say
there's a recession. Phil is confused by Carlton's costume. So
Carlton explains, my idol, mcaulay culkin. You know why he's
my idol? Will chimes in, why because you're the same height.
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Carlton shakes his head. No, because his movies have grossed
over half a billion dollars worldwide, not to mention he's
one heck of an actor.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
I thought we were gonna get a mccullay culkin.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I thought, Arrence.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, this felt very weird.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Yeah, I wonder if is it just kind of funny
that to be worshiping mcaulay culkin as a you know, as.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
An older teenager.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I don't know how old is he supposed to be, actually, Carleton, Yeah,
are they still in high school at.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
This point, I don't know college age right season four,
maybe they are still in high school.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Yeah, he's still in high school. I mean, I know,
I know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Hilary, the oldest daughter, is definitely she has a job,
like she's supposed to have a job. Actually, Tatiana Banks
is definitely in school. And I do think I think
Carlton is supposed to still be in high school.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Gosh, they don't feel that way to me. They feel
like college older.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Then Hillary walks down the stairs. Let's go everyone, I
don't want to keep Trevor waiting. Will asks Carlton what's
the rush. It's not like he's going anywhere, And then
we're in a creepy graveyard. Ashley and Phil lead the
family through an ominously smoky and spooky area. Phil complains,
I hate olag. Looking around, they wonder where Will went.
Then on cue, he pops up from behind a bush,
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screaming bloody murder, terrifying all his family members, especially Carlton,
who lets out a blood curdling scream. Will laughs, half
apologizing I'm sorry, I'm so stupid with that. They walked
towards a cobweb covered old house and Will gets ready
to knock on the door, but before you can start,
the door slowly creak soap in on its own.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Will grins. We got to get one of them in
the girl's locker room.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Hey you just went to nineties joke.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, ulous does not age well joke.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
They all walk into the ancient and cluttered home, with
Carlton admitting this place is really creepy. Hillary nods, I
know who would put a deco table on a persian rug.
I think they could have done more to make this creepier.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
This just looked like a This just just like a clutter.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
House, exactly the same thing. So like that's a cluttered house.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It's just a cluttered house. It should have I feel
like they could have done.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Somebody's point that they're coming from their bel air mansion.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
You know, well there was actually maybe it is just
creepy to.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Them exactly, it's like kind of just a house.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Yeah right, okay, but they're like, yeah, freaking out about
But I guess Will says it's creepy, right.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
So yeah, they all are supposed to think it's creepy.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So so, have either of you ever been to a seance?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I mean, I've had psychic getings before. I've never been
to like a you.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Know you're going there to like i've.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Had readings by mediums.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Yeah, I want to do they have they have a
seance a Houdini salance at the Magic Castle, like real
traditional because you know, when Houdini died, he told his
wife to always hold seances once a year on his
birthday so he could if there was an afterlife, he
would come back.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
He promised he would come back during a.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Sealance and has he no because his whole point was
that all psychics are cheats and mediums are liars. So
he was trying to prove that by saying, will have
you ever been to a psych I have.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I've never done a seance, but I've been to a psychic.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
And one of my favorite stories ever was I had
my big Halloween party. We hired a psychic and the
guy was giving readings in the other room and at
one point he.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Said, this is your house, right, I'd love to love
to give you a reading. You know you paid for
the whole night. I was like sure, and I went
and sat down.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Every single thing he said was wrong, I mean, like comically.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Where he's like, so, what's it like.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
You're having problems in your relationship, like no single as
can be. It was like that kind of thing. It's like, well,
you did recently.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Lose your sister, No, two brothers both five. Well, it
was like it was bad to buy the fifth question.
I was like, you know what, I'm gonna go back
and start drinking again. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I got my palm red at a Renaissance fair when
I was like, right, I guess it was probably first
season of Boy Meets World?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Was it an old palm reader.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
It was so funny because she described like she was
describing me based on you know, well, you're this type
of person and this is what you do in life,
and it was Shawn Hunter to a tea.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Oh my gosh, it was.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
And it's so funny because now I think about it,
I'm like, right, what she was doing was just reading
me as a person and like my vibe. And I
think like, I probably just gave off a vibe because
she was like, you're always in trouble. You never you know,
you're you're a really you're a troublemaker. You never will
to listen to authority, And I'm like, no, I freaking
love school I you know, love, my teachers have no
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idea what you're talking about. And it was like Jackets,
there was something about me I think that, you know,
like I always got cast as a brat from for
a Boy Meets World and then I think, you know,
right around the time Boy Meets World, I came off as.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Like this little mischievous, like troublemaker. It was my vibe.
She was she was cold reading me.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
You were also probably dressed like some kind of like
medieval vagrant or something like that. I don't know if
it was one of Robin Hood's right, you know, it's like,
you know, you seem like you're swashbuckling, Like, yeah, that's
interesting because I have a sword.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
So she he yells out for Scorpius, but he's nowhere
to be found. Then some nearby curtains open and Scorpius
appears in a billowing robe and a fortune teller hat.
He shouts, I am Scorpius the Magnificent and waves his
arms around to add gravitas. I see all, I know all.
But when he notices the family, he bluntly asks who
are you. Hillary starts to say they're the banks, but
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before she can finish Scorpius interrupts her, stop don't tell
me you're the bank's family. Hillary gasps wow, but her
family is visibly unimpressed with that. Scorpius tells him to
sit and motions to a nearby table, where the chairs
magically move away from the table. Hillary gushes, I love
when a man pulls my chair out. They all take
a seat, and Scorpius lights the candles on the table
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with a flick of his finger. They all gasp in
all but Phil is still skeptical. Scorpius announces make ready
to contact the spirits. Will jokes with his uncle seems
like somebody made contact with one too many spirits, and
motions that the psychic is drunk. Ashley asks Scorpius if
he believes he can actually read Trevor. He responds, if
he's up there, I'll find him. Well, asks, while you're
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up there, see if you can find Marvin Gay and
find out what was really going on, and he celebrates
his joke with Uncle Phil. Scorpius, unamused by the gag,
proceeds with the seance. He has everyone join hands and
then chants up to the spirit guides as.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
He calls out to them.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
The lights in the house flicker Will comments, seems like
some medium hasn't paid their electric bill. Scorpius's body begins
to flail as he declares, I'm getting a message from
the spirit they wish me to tell you, and then
his voice turns a little angry.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Shuts your bile.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Scorpius continues, I feel a presence in the room, a tall,
good looking man whose life revolves around the news. The
table begins to shake, and Hillary screams out.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
That's Trevor. I know his vibration.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
The audience roars at this joke. Is this a sex joke?
Speaker 5 (36:51):
It is?
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Yeah, that's fully a sex joke. But she sees the
table shaking and.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yeah, okay, it was absolutely a sex.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Joke on it. Hillary starts passionately speaking to her deceased
almost fiance, Trevor. I think about you constantly, Scorpius answers
in a low newscaster voice, and I about you. Hillary
yels out, I wish I could see you, and Scorpius agrees,
I wish I could see you too. Hillary gets serious.
There's something I've been wanting to ask you since the
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day you died. Do you know where I left my
Blackswade purse, which I thought was going to be part
of the story.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
There is no more story. There is no more story.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Non, none of.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
This ever, none of this ever plays, none of this
ever matters because I didn't think that's really smart, that
like if he does. I also thought maybe they were
going to leave some ambiguity about whether or not he
was actually yeah, and then no.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Scorpious admits, now, let me think.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
Oh, at this point, Will's had it, and he pulls
his hand away from the circle.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I could be sucking on some honey neckbone right now, honey,
because he's a vampire. Honeys like like he's calling her
a honey. Right, Okay, neckbone scor name for a sauce
and honey's neckbone.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Honey neckbone, Yeah, neckbone, you're right.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Scorpius stands up and dramatically wails the connection is fading,
his eyes widened as he shouts, I'm losing it. I'm
losing it. Will mimics the flailing oh like you ever
had it. Scorpius shouts into the void, come back. Hillary
begs Trevor don't go alas Scorpius lets out a big
oof and plops back into his chair. Trevor has left
the building. The lights turn back on the table stops shaking,
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and everyone looks disappointed, especially Hillary. I didn't get a
chance to say goodbye. Ashley asks if they can just
try again. He explains I couldn't possibly traverse the void again.
They all stand up to leave, but he quickly adds tonight,
that is, of course, there's always tomorrow. Carlton scoffs and
missaved by the bell. I don't think so. Scorpius runs
over to his big scheduling book. I could fit you
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in around seven, right between the exorcism and step Glass.
Hillary lights up, but Phil to Claire's I don't think so,
and I think i'd like my thousand.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Dollars back please.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Scorpius response, I'm terribly sorry, but the spirits don't give refunds.
He points to a wall and a scroll magically rolls
out that reads, no refunds will intervenes. Uh, scrupulous, I
think you should just give.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
My uncle his money back.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We all had a good laugh, but this whole thing
is bogus, and you, sir, are fake. Scorpius and narrows
his eyes and angrily explains, nobody calls me the F word.
He waves his arms and shouts gibberish towards Will, who
finishes his sentence with lyrics from Lady Marmalade g Chie
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
See. I thought i'd like it would have been stronger
if Will ruined the seance.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
He did.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
He broke his.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
Specifically, okay, but he's just sort of like I'm out
of I don't know, like I wanted him to like
actually ruin it in like as is this is all yeah,
just you know, or been because as it is, you're
still on Will's side. So when he gets text, we're like,
well that's unfair or whatever if he actually had really
hurt her feelings, I don't know, yeah or whatever. I'm
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just crazy.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
That's why I thought they were going to make it.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
I thought they were going to give it some ambiguity where,
you know, where did I leave my black suede purse
or something that then.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
He doesn't answer right, and you're.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Like, and she's like, it really is him if she
really believes it, and then you really ruins it.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
I thought it was actually going to be even more
convoluted than that. I thought the spirit of the dead
guy was going to take.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Over Will's body.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Oh and it was like for the rest of the episode,
He's like going in and out of newscaster guy and
he answer scaring him and things like that, Like that's
where I thought it was going.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
So it was strange.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
Yeah, big set piece though, big table shaking and lights.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Coming on and off and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
I mean, it was Halloween stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, fun rop fun.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Rob Scorpius growls, from this day forward, you will bring
evil to all those in your presence. You will end
up alone and forever hext. He explains to Will, I
placed a curse on you.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Will.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
I love that change, by the way, where he does
the holder.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
I placed a curse on It was a great transition.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I placed a curse on you.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Will weird it out, brushes him off, and then we're
back at the house. Actually is telling Jeffrey that the
whole thing gave her the creeps. She wonders, do you
really think a person can be cursed? He asks, how
do you think I ended up here? Which I thought
was a very funny joke. Will enters and announces that
he has a party to hit. If I hook up
with some babe tonight, I promised to practice safe hex ha.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Hillary isn't amused. This isn't funny. You ruined my seance.
Carlton reminds her forget the sealance, he may have ruined
our lives. Once this hex kicks in, Will response, there
is no such thing as a oh my god, Carlton,
what's that hideous thing growing out of your neck? Carlton
freaks out, where where as he frantically checks his neck,
Will laughs, Oh, never mind, it's just your head.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
It's such a sitcom joke. And that was the most
sick of all sitcom jokes in this one. Yeah, it
was just that joke right there. But I also loved
how none of them, especially as the show progressed, are
taking any of this seriously, I know, And it was great,
Like even like the lines they're throwing out, they're putting
little lilts to it. It was just like a tongue
in cheek kind of thing all the way around, which.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Was just it.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Yeah, you can tell me, seriously.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
It would not have been the same as what they
came up with, which wouldn't have landed.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Will then tries to reassure Hillary wherever Trevor is, he
loves you and he misses you. Carlton groans what about
the hecks? Will responds by calling him McCully, a reference
to his newly bleached blonde hair in his costume. Then
the phone rings and Phil answers it and we get
some facting. He shouts, what is this some kind of joke?
And he threatens to call his lawyer. He throws the
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phone on the counter and reveals the says he has
proof that I took bribes. I've been suspended from the bench.
My reputation is destroyed. I'm ruined.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Carlton places his hands onto his face and screams, perfectly
recreating Macaulay Culkin's home alone scene, and then we go
to a tense commercial break.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
We're back in the Banks's living room.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
A very depressed Phil is sitting on the couch and
his pajamas, staring at the floor. Will hesitantly enters, good morning.
Did you talk to your lawyer yet? Phil shakes his head.
I don't know why, but the DA has it in
for me. I could get ten years well, can't believe it.
Then Carlton comes walking in now with a rainbow hairdoo.
He tries to console his dad. I just want you
to know that, regardless of what happens. I'll always be
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at your side. Will and Phil exchange concerned looks, and
Will asks, what the hell happened to your hair? Carlton smirks, Oh, no,
you don't. I'm not falling for that again. As he
walks away, he passes a mirror and does a double
take what he looks like a snow cone. Then it clicks,
the hecks. Phil argues, that's not it. That gold stuff
you sprayed on your head must have done something to
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your hair. Just wash it out. Carlton insists I did
last night. Then from outside we hear Ashley screaming help, help.
We go to the backyard and she is getting pelted
with tennis balls, begging for someone to turn off the machine.
Phil quickly grabs her and brings her inside to safety. Meanwhile,
Will walks outside and starts gleefully hitting the balls with
a cooking pan. He complains, what do you mean that
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was in? And then in the kitchen, Jeffrey scrambles into
the room and shouts, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (44:35):
I heard? Screams.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Carlton explains Ashley was attacked by the tennis ball machine.
Jeffrey sighs with relief. Thank goodness for a moment there,
I thought you'd found those polaroids of me in a
two tu he sheepishly admits New Year's Eve. The fellow
gets crazy. Meanwhile, Ashley thinks she may have sprained her
ankle and the big tournament just tomorrow. She wonders why
the machine would go haywire like that. Carlton quickly comes
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up with an explanation. It's the U know what, He warns,
It's going to pick them off one by one until
they'll end up on unsolved mysteries. Will demands that he
shut up about the hecks. It's all just one big coincidence.
And then there's a loud knock at the door. It's
a sharply dressed woman and Jeffrey asks how he can
help her. She certainly asks, are you Jeffrey Butler. He grins, yes,
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I am, and you must be the woman of my dreams.
She smacks a pair of handcuffs on him, and he
rejoices you are. She introduces herself as Agent Wanda Davis
from the Immigration and Naturalization Office. She says, Jeffrey is
in this country illegally. Will begs his uncle for help,
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but the agent won't hear a word. She declares that
the butler is being deported. Carlton is sick. Oh God,
the Heck's has gone international. Phil promises Jeffrey that he'll
get him the best lawyer in town, but Jeffrey and says,
so I don't need a lawyer.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
What I need is a judge who can be bought
off like you.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
House his last party shot.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Phil loses it. I was framed. I tell you framed.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Carlton grabs Will. This is all your fault. Will insists
this has nothing to do with the Hecks, but Phil
doesn't know what to believe anymore. On cue, Vivian shrieks
from the other room, and then in the living room,
Vivian screaming at the top of her lungs, pointing to
Hillary kissing a man on the couch. Carlton shouts Jazz.
Vivian begs Phil to do something. Jazz smiles at his
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biggest detractor. Hey, dad, now that I'm gonna be in
the family, maybe we could talk about my trust fund.
Phil tells him to repeat his sentence. He's convinced he
didn't hear him right, but Hillary happily announces Jazz and
I are getting married, Phil responds over his dead body.
Hillary tries to stay positive. Doesn't anybody care what I think?
They all shout, no.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
So is Jazz is he established as like a yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (46:52):
But that's what's really interesting having never seen this though
you already know the relationship, Like I didn't need to
see anything else. I already know exactly how they feel
about him, The idea that he's probably been hitting on
her the entire time, that she's always turning him down
because he's awful for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Like we got it all just z.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
I think he's just like a lazy He's the lazy.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Friend, right, but you just you got it. You didn't
need to see it.
Speaker 6 (47:13):
It's like, Okay, they've obviously established his character as an idea.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
That they're together now is.
Speaker 6 (47:17):
As life shocking, as bad as him going to jail
for for you know, bribes, so really interesting.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Hillary smiles, Well, Jazz does, and that's why I've fallen
for him, She gushes, to think, all these years, I
never appreciated you.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Schnookum's. Jazz answers right back at you, Hillicums. They do
a signature high five and snap a trademark of him
and Will on the show. Ashley shakes her head and disgusted,
I'll be in the kitchen throwing up. Hillary exclaims we're
going to name our first son after you, Daddy. Phil
is petrified. Jazz tells her I thought we could get
started tonight. They both giggle while the family continues to
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stand there and shock Finally, Phil grabs Jazz by the
back of his shirt to throw him out of the house,
another staple of this come and then we cut to
the front door, where instead of Jazz in his usual
flying position, it's Phil getting kicked out, the opposite of
what we're used to. Yes, inside, Vivian grabs Will. This
is all your fault. You got us, Hext. I want
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you packed and out of here by tonight. Will tries
to convince her otherwise, this is me. You're a little Willie,
the adorable charismatics, sometimes troublesome, yet overall wonderful young man
you've grown to love. Will promises he'll go back to
Scorpius and get them all unhext. Carlton points Will toward
the door and begs him in a creepy voice, hurry, hurry, hurry.
Speaker 6 (48:36):
It was moments like that, and then the way Will
runs like the way he grabbed his jacket, and he
does this weird kind of like funny run out there.
Speaker 9 (48:42):
They're just playing with every moment. It was so much fun,
having so much fun for sure. Back at Scorpius's house,
which is now lacking the smoke and cobwebs, Will raises
his hand to knock on the front door, but this
time it doesn't open on its own. Finally, he just
presses the doorbell.
Speaker 6 (48:57):
Did anybody else think somebody else entirely was going to
answer the or I thought Scorpius, Yeah, going to be
like Scorpius wasn't there and has never been there, Like
That's how I.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Thought it was going to be a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Inside, Scorpius, now dressed in a sweater, vest and glasses,
is quietly reading a book. Even the house is rearranged
to look neat and nordily. He calls out, it's open, mother,
come on in. Will is unable to hide his surprise
at how clean and spacious the place now is. Scorpius
spots him and stands up in surprise.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Will reintroduces himself and asks Scorpius. The man explains that's
my last name. I'm Ralph Scorpius. What are you doing
in my house? Will laughs, it's me Remember the vampire.
Ralph's eyes widened in terror, and Will tries to jog
his memory. You remember the seance? The heck's the gitch gechi? Yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Ralph nervously backs away. Take anything you want,
just don't hurt me. Will insists he didn't come here
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for trouble. He just wanted to apologize. Will looks around.
What happened to this place? What happened to you? Ralph
reiterates anything you see here is yours and tries to
hand him a vase. Will respond, now with a quiver
in his voice. I don't know what's going on here.
I just came to ask you to break the hecks,
all right. Will shouts, I'm begging you, man, and he
starts to sob.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
Why are you playing with me? Ralph stays quiet, so
Will lays it all out. I'm losing my family. I
think I'm losing my mind. Why can't you just break
the hecks?
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Ralph inches near a telephone as Will screams break the hecks.
Ralph quickly shuffles out of the room. And Will stays hysterical,
pounding the couch pillows and crying. Bike fucks mallut and
then we fade into the poolhouse. We transitioned to Will
in bed, asleep in his PJS. He's pounding on his
pillow as he chants, break the hecks, man, break the hecks.
Carlton runs in with concern and shakes Will awake from
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the nightmare. Will awakens and is happy to see Carlton's hair.
Speaker 4 (50:41):
It's back to normal.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
Will touches it to confirm. Carlton gets defensive. Kind of
dream were you having?
Speaker 4 (50:46):
Mister? Will tries to explain that they were hexted and
the whole family was turning against him.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
He can't believe how real it was. Carlton a little
weirded out. I'm gonna go have some breakfast.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
Want to go?
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Will instantly cheers up. Breakfast with our family, right, Let's
get to our family. And then in the kitchen, Will
enters and wishes everyone a happy Halloween, and Phil asks
Vivian about those two thousand dollars flowers. Will starts to realize, uh,
this is the same day as his nightmare. Everything is
exactly the same. He slowly starts to back away as
Ashley brings up Trevor's accident.
Speaker 4 (51:16):
Will begs let's talk about something else here, all right,
but no one hears him.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Carlton even makes the same joke about Hillary being crushed,
but not more crush than Drever. Will tries his best
to alter this reality, bringing up the Lakers to change
the subject, but to no avail. The conversation is the
exact same, even to the point where Will recites Jeffrey's
line in unison with him. Will let's out a petrified scream.
Ben Hillary walks in and predictably asks the family to
guess who she's going out with tonight.
Speaker 4 (51:41):
Will dashes towards the door.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Let me out, let me out. Phil asks his daughter who,
and Will begs her. Ronnie, Bobby Ricky and Mike, mentioning
some members of New addition, for those of you who.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
Didn't, oh oh that was the thing.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Okay, yeah, and it's a line of a song too, Ronnie,
Bobby Ricky and Mike.
Speaker 4 (51:58):
If I like a girl, who cares who you like? Okay?
Speaker 1 (52:00):
Hillary, exclaims Trevor, and Will looks out the window and
endlessly shrieks. And then our tag we get a car.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
So wait, hold on, is the heck still going?
Speaker 4 (52:12):
We don't know.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
You get to relive your day.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Wouldn't that be a good day. It's like now because
now you can stop it.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
Right, he could just go to the psychic.
Speaker 6 (52:20):
And or not go to the psychic at all, be like,
I'm not going yeah, yeah, I don't know what the
I don't get what they were going for. I would
also love to see the script because I would love
to see how long they're supposed to hold on him,
saying take the hecks off, just get rid of the hacks,
because I know it probably should have been two or three,
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but they held on him four minutes.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
I feel like that's where the story just ends. We'll
just stop because there's no way to stop the hacks. No,
then there's just waking up from a dream. It was
all a dream, then another waking up from it.
Speaker 6 (52:54):
It's just like I thought Scorpius, the guy who was
playing Scorpius was going to walk out and then come
back dressed like score to release him.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
Something all stopped.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
This might make me sound really stupid. I'm just tired.
Just it just cut me some slack. I'm tired, I
thought while I was watching it.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
The Scorpius was supposed to still be a psychic medium
at night, just a fake one, and we were seeing
him in his day to day. But now when I'm
reading it back, I'm realizing he's he's he's actually saying,
that's my last name, what are you doing? And he's
he has this feeling of I'm not a I've never
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pretended to be a medium, like that whole experience never happened,
and he's actually afraid of will not like, oh I
have to turn, I must have given you, I must
have put a hex on you in my character, like
there's none of that.
Speaker 5 (53:46):
No, the point is that he's not like, he's not
somebody that they saw a spirit pretending to be him.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
But none of it matters.
Speaker 6 (53:57):
It's a robe and I suggest that it's a Twilight
Zone episode for Freshman.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
It is.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
It's just it's just like a wacky ye, you know.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
But then I kind of wish it went a little whackier, honestly,
like it.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
Just very abruptly ended.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
It was ending.
Speaker 5 (54:17):
I wonder if there was a real tag And then
when they just realized that they could put these bloopers
and they were like, forget it, let's and the tag
might have wrapped some of it up where he's like
being a dream over and over.
Speaker 7 (54:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Well, we get a Carlton blooper while our Alfonso cannot
get through the line it'll cut into my trigger training
without laughing. We get multiple takes of him trying. But
now everyone in the scene is breaking. And I absolutely
love those tags.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
I stand by them.
Speaker 4 (54:46):
I think they're genius.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
They make me laugh so much, and I wish more
shows did them more often. I think we should see
way more bloopers in TV. I just think it's so fun.
Speaker 6 (54:56):
There's apparently the what Lauren Michaels apparently hates when the
actors break right now, and that's the best part of
the show.
Speaker 2 (55:04):
It's like Carol Burnett watching them break. That's what you
want to see.
Speaker 6 (55:07):
You want to see them not being able to It's
what That's what people are watching when they're googling SNL clips,
they're googling that.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
People are losing it. That's the fun part. So yeah,
it's uh. I love these things. I agree with one
hundred percent. They're phenomenal.
Speaker 5 (55:20):
What can I just say is there isn't there like
a weird irony in the reality that Will Smith went
from being the everyman poking fun at these crazy rich
people to probably one.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
Of the wealthiest his life.
Speaker 5 (55:32):
His life makes no sense to the every man because
of this role and the subsequent career.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
He is on another polanet as far as his lifestyle.
Speaker 6 (55:41):
He can buy and sell the banks a thousand times over.
Speaker 5 (55:44):
Yes, and probably is very out of touch with the
every person's spirits since the age of sixteen or whenever
he started the show. I just think there's a there's
a there's a really intense irony there, and that we
still think of him. I think a lot of people
still look to him as like a sort of one
of the everyman rights as.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
Much as a banana ten dollars what is a plumber exactly?
Speaker 4 (56:08):
Thank you all for joining us for this episode of
Pod Meets World.
Speaker 1 (56:11):
As always, you can follow us on Instagram pod Meets
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World Show at gmail dot com. And we've got March.
Speaker 8 (56:20):
His wife left him because he was a cad. His
son tries to run, but it's really really sad. One
legs longer and that's just mad. Let's all give it
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Speaker 1 (56:42):
I think we have a secret.
Speaker 6 (56:44):
There's four drafts since we've been working too nice.
Speaker 4 (56:49):
Well send us out.
Speaker 2 (56:51):
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Speaker 6 (56:56):
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Daniel Official, Wilfredell and Ryder Strong executive producers, Jensen Carp
and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo,
producer and editor, Tara sudbachsch producer, Maddy.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
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