August 16, 2022 • 39 mins
Honoring the life of the wonderful Denise Dowse forever known to us as Mrs. Teasley
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, So we were supposed to do another recap show,
but some very sad news came over the weekend. We
lost one of our our own, and this is never
easy to talk about. Mrs Teasley, the one and only
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Denise Dause passed away this Saturday. Yeah, and we were shocked.
I mean it so shocked. She was only sixty four
years old. Yeah, this came out of nowhere. I came.
I read that she was suffering battling meningitis right. It
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caused her body to shut down and go into a
coma and she never woke up from the coma. It's
unbelievable to me, and I can't imagine how devastated her
family is, her sister, everyone that knew her. I mean,
it was just shocking, shocking, it was. These kind of
deaths are the hardest. I think it was so hard
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to put up a post the other day and I
saw that from her account on Instagram she had posted
someone had posted back. And you have that moment where
you're like, I know it's they're gone, and I know
it's true, but I had that one moment where I
was like I almost felt like maybe she's still there,
and it was her sister Tracy taking over her account
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to stay to all of her friends and fans um
what had happened, and to kind of fill everyone in.
And it was just like you felt like that lost,
Like everybody. She was so loved, I mean everyone, yeah, everywhere.
She had so many fans, so many fans from so
many different shows. I mean, yes, Denise was best known,
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probably by a lot of people, for her role as
Mrs Teasley, uh Mrs t as we called her on
our show, but she was on so many other shows.
Oh my gosh, she'said like a hundred and twenty two
acting credits alone on her d m IMDb page, and
and she just finished her first full length directorial gig.
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She was in her prime. Yeah, and it's so hard
Like at the time, we were in high school and
she was the vice principal, So you think if someone
is so much older, I didn't realize she's just sixty four.
She's basically fifteen years old. Hello, that's great. God. I
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didn't realize she was our vice principal. I thought she
was always just the principle. Was there someone else that
was the principal? No, it seems like she was just
that was it? That was. It was Mrs T that
was in. How many episodes was she in? Because she
was episodes over all ten. Yeah, she was in the
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finale at the Web, at our wedding, at Donna and
David's wedding. It's teasily there. It's so interesting because when
I thought back, I'd forgotten she was in the wedding episode.
And in my mind, I was like, gosh, we were
so close with her, and she loved so much and
we loved her so much that she just kept back
pean back to visit set. That's what my memory was,
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and I was like, no, she kept being in episodes
along the ten seasons, even after we were in high
school anymore. Because there was just something about Denise that
was so like easy and like like she was like
your oldest friend, and she just would show up on
set and then she'd be in a scene and then
it would be like it was just so natural being
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around her and and working with her like so easy.
I could still remember her smile. She always me I
mean I remember, I mean, I think my first big
scheme with her was when Donna had a learning stability
and I was so nervous. I was like, oh, my gosh,
I have to do drama. I hadn't done much aside
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from being like the sidekick on the show. And she
was so easy to work with, it so encouraging, and
she knew I was super nervous, and that was the
day that was just like, oh my gosh, thank goodness,
that big scene was with her. Um. Yeah, she always
gave the best hugs set. Yeah, such a warm, kind woman.
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And I can imagine, you know, she just directed the
this movie um with a friend of mine, actually remember me,
the Mahalia Jackson Story, which looks like it's a really
good movie, and she I can imagine what it was
like to be directed by her and to be on
her set, because she just had that like warm and
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you know, engaging, inviting, inclusive energy about her. So it's
just a terrible loss for for a lot a lot
of people that worked with her knew her, loved her
and her family. And also just seeing the outpour of
actors who she had worked with coached at just over
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the years that just loved her so much, loved working
with her. Was really nice to see. I mean, because
she was really respected and prolific actress. You know. Part
of this industry. She for so many years was doing
her thing and and she never in the game. She
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loved it. I thought what Iron wrote was really beautiful
if you want me to read it, because he had
so many m Steve and Mrs Teasley had scenes with
her because she really you know, had to hand it
to him a lot, a lot. So he wrote, um,
so heartbroke, so heartbreaking to say Denise Dalles has passed away.
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Throughout all my years working on Beverly Hills nine O
two and O, my scenes with Denise will always be
remembered with the utmost in respect for her talent and
fondness for the loving soul she was. Some of my
heartiest off camera laughs were between she and I hammering
out the discipline her Mrs Teasley would dish out to
my Steve Sanders, my sincere condolences to her family and
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all others who she was dear too. God bless you Denise.
Pay forward that legacy, key A. I mean, he's such
a beautiful writer, but that really brings tears to my eyes.
It just sounds like she had such a presence on
your set. Yeah, and it would it would be accurate
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to think that he to say that he worked with
her probably the most, because Steve was always getting into
trouble at school. Yeah. It makes me laugh because I
can think about her scenes where she is just like
given him the what for? Yeah, and I just it
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just seems like these kinds of losses are so like unbelievable,
unimaginable and unacceptable in my brain, you know, like it's yeah, yeah,
because you are frozen in time with her from thirty
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years ago. I would love to go back and look
at some of the first script she was in and
see like she was it written in there or did
she bring that humor to it. We have a few
sort of iconic Mrs Teasley scenes that will play throughout
this episode today. So if you want to listen to
a couple right now, Yes, let's listen to What's our first?
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Is the first one from the first season. Yes, let's
listen to something from the first season right now. This
study is getting on my nerves. That fits in with
your personality profile. You avoid probing beneath the surface and
have a tendency to gloss things over with words thank you,
and you're more intuitive, open but impressionable. Two peas in
a pod right Okay, wow, so that was your first
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appearance and I know you went out. Yeah, so what
if we take a quick break and we're gonna come
back with um some fans like, we really just wanted
to make this a special, special moment to honor Denise
A k A. Mrs t m H. Hi Jessica, Hey,
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how are you guys? Hi? It's so nice of you
to join us, Thank you, thank you for asking. So
we we know that you have heard the news about
Denise and just kind of wanted to give us a
little insight. You are a big fan of hers, I
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am of the show, of all of it. Um uh
you know. I was googling, like youtubeing some different videos
of her last night and there was one um she
was flying to Hawaii to celebrate a birthday and was
just like telling her fans thank you for the birthday.
She just seemed like the kindest, sweetest person. And then
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I realized she she had made guest appearances on several
shows that I had liked, um Seinfeld Gilmore Girls, but
one of the favorites was obviously not I know two
I know, and one of my best memories of her
I think was of course the Donna Martin graduates, and
I remember when she came to tell Brandon or somebody,
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I think that the school board was you know, gonna,
i don't know, expel them or not let them graduate,
and she was like, protect your education, don't throw it away.
But I felt like, deep inside she was like stick
to your guns. You know. She always had a professional
attitude and did what was right. But I don't know,
I just always got the vibe as a teenager that like,
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deep down she was in support of the kids, or
she wanted to see him, you know, take a stand
for what was right. At least that was the that
was the feeling I got. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's
why we all felt so close to her too, because
she felt like one of us. Like she didn't feel
like an authoritarian figure. You know, she was more fun
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and supportive. Like you said, yeah, she seemed like that
kind of person that you could, you know, go and
sit down in the office and just tell your troubles too,
or your boy problems or you know whatever it was.
At least as a teenager watching the show, that's what
I felt like. It was like everybody wanted a vice
principal like her, and she was like that in real life. Yeah,
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that's awesome. It's so sad. It's she just seemed like
a very kind, genuine person. It was sad to hear
the news. Yeah, well, our hearts go out to her.
Thank you Jessica for your insight, and thank you guys
remembering her. Let me do this of course, talk to you.
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I think one of my um favorite like the ones
that comes to my mind right away is that is
the episode that was like around Christmas where we all
went on the school bus and um, Steve was like,
wasn't he suspended or he was in detention or something.
He wasn't supposed to show up, but then he did
and he dressed like Santa. If we just watched this
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on the on the pod, we went to Alvarado Street, yep,
and we were all chewing gum on the bus. Totaly
misses you too. Oh that was season three, episode sixteen.
It's a totally happening life. Perhaps your spaces on the
bus could have been filled from the long waiting list
of students who would have been happy to join us
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at the Alvarado Street School today. But at this point,
unless you have a note from your doctor saying that
you have pneumonia and I want to see that chest
x ray. I expect to see each and every one
of your smiling faces on that bus, and I mean immediately,
if not sooner. That was a good one. Oh my gosh.
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Now I just want to jump to like season ten,
the season finale, and see her again at the wedding. No,
don't do that yet. I want to see her at
the grat. I watched it on YouTube last night. I
couldn't help myself. It's so it's so cool, and I
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just remember thinking like, oh my gosh, I wonder when
that episode comes on and it's happening this season, like
are we gonna have Denissan? And then yeah, it's so crazy.
Why don't we uh go to another caller? I think
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we have another caller UM that will share their memories
with us too. Hi, Tracy, how are you great? How
are you ok? He was We're all meaning under better circumstances,
But thank you for doing listening remembering Denise and his tea.
So UM, we just wanted to ask you, UM, what
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your favorite memories of her? UM? You know, I loved
when she I loved her and Steve together, Iron's character
and her UM and how she would always call him Stephen. Um,
she'd always like Stephen. I forgot about that. I just
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loved um. You know. I was thinking about this last night,
and I was thinking how Nanotune always always so progressive,
and they had a female principle, like a woman of
color as a principle, and I just don't think that
that was common when you looked back at like Growing
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Pains and some of those other shows that were on.
And so I loved how her and Stephen Steve had
the dynamics between them of like this rich, privileged kid
and she could always just put him right, you know,
right in his corner. I always call her the vice principle.
Was she not? Was she the principal? I think she
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was the principal. I always thought she was the principal too.
I don't know why. It's always stuck with me that
she was vice principal. Mrs Teasley, Yeah, she was principal.
I think she was for sure. I do, yes. So
I'm so sorry. I I my deepest condolences for you guys,
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And I mean, um, it's just it's sad when you
know she was such an icon on that show, especially
at the beginning of um, the show, and I was
just I kind of in my head, I finally have
been catching up on the podcast and so I'm finally
ahead of like you guys a little bit. And so
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I just watched the graduation and she was on there
and the prom and all that stuff. So what a
fantastic lady though, Yeah, so she actually was the vice principal.
She was. Yes, that's just weird, but she was so
good that we just never showed the prince. Yeah, we
didn't need to, Like you're kidding, I don't ever remember
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the principal. You don't exactly. I mean, such a good point,
we didn't need one. I mean we have Mrs T.
And such a good point you made about her being,
you know, in that position on the show and being
a person of color and just like having that representation
at that time, and she was so such a strong, confident,
like capable lady that it just didn't it didn't even
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ever enter into anyone's mind that she would this woman
wouldn't be the principle of the vice principle. So because
she was always the one calling the shots, it seemed
like I wish he couldn't have the chance to ask her,
like I can't remember how she came into the show
or if it was like, hey, it's gonna be one
episode or like once in a while, and then just
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became such a force to be reckoned with such a
major character that she was so iconic that they just
I mean, she was an all ten seasons. I know,
we we graduated from high school and she wasn't still
in the show. Well, and you know what she remember
she was a different character with Brenda and Brandon with
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the Twins study. Wait, see that's what Tor was just
saying before we connected with you. She was like, wasn't
she on the show as somebody else? And we're like, no,
I don't think so, but you're right, he was during
the Twins study. And then she came back and suddenly
was vice principal. I will never doubt your memory again.
I'm sorry. I don't think you should ever doubt that reason.
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But I don't think I should ever doubt anyone's memory,
but especially hers. She has like an elephant's memory. Whatever
that is. That is so funny. Well, and then she
was on later episodes too. I think David gets in
a little trouble with like a high school girl something happens.
I don't remember, but she's on some of those episodes later. Yeah,
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well that's good we get to see her more. Yes,
I know. I mean technically they should have just switched
her over to California University and she should have just
come with us. Yea, why not. We could have been
the principle on that show whatever they call it. Yeah,
oh my gosh, Jracy, thank you so much for your
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help with us and talking about this awful subject but
having such a great memory and a and a love
for her. Yes, I really appreciate what you guys are
doing on the podcast. I um, I know, I grew
up with you guys and um, you know, listening to
you on the shows and watching you guys transform. I
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just really appreciate like everything that you're doing bringing it back.
I mean, it just really warms my heart to be
able to kind of have a little piece of thirty
years again. That's awesome. We do a really hard show
for us to do today, so thank you for bring
some smiles and laughs into it as well. Get that.
I appreciate it. Thank you so much for inviting me.
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Thank you. Hi, Hi, Hi Allison, Hi Sori, how are
you Hi? Jenny, Hi, Hi, thank you for joining us.
We are so excited that you're here with us. But
it's unfortunately we're talking about such a awful subject. But
what are your some of some of your fondest Mrs
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T moments or memories. Yeah, well, I was just watching
the one UM the other day, so I'm just now
on a binge wash. So I'm on season three and
in the opening, UM, there's Yeah, it's perfect. I know
it correlates with the podcast perfectly that I just discovered.
So now I'm obviously obsessed. UM, so I have lots
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of episodes to catch up on. But yeah, there was
the episode with um, We're in the inning, Steve is
having a recurring nightmare that he is Mrs Teasley is
saying you failed, you failed school, Steve, like you're gonna
be You're gonna have to repeat senior year and he
wakes up in a panic, and it's just so relatable.
So I was wondering if you guys had any stories
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like that, if you ever had nine O two and
no induced anxiety dreams where you woke up in the panic,
like showed up to set naked or something like that.
But I just remember that was a really good, um,
Mrs Teasley moment because we can all relate to that, right. Yeah.
I don't know if I ever had any Mrs t
uh premonitions or nightmares or whatever dreams, whatever you want
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to call them. I've certainly lived my life full of
two and related dreams in nightmares, those are deverely but
that's a good thing. Yeah, I definitely. I think I
would have like that when you would show up to
school and like you hadn't studied, but I would show
up to school but I didn't know my lines, but
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I was in the hallway, so it was at the
blend of school and real life acting. Yeah, totally, that
makes sense. Yeah, I think we've all had those dreams
where you show up and there's also a scene with
Gabrielle and she shows up and she has no clothes
remember me, and um, and I think just all of
that is so relatable. And then her just as a principal,
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as a teacher, I think one of my other questions
would be I was wondering who would be more most
like their character, because I feel like that character she
plays so well. I bet she's probably a lot like
that in real life, just like wants the best for
everyone in her life, do you know what I mean?
That was definitely one of her characteristics for sure. But
she was also a lot more spicy and fun and
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sassy than she could be as Mrs Teasley. She brought
a lot of Yeah like Mrs t remember she would
always dress really cool wid yeah yeah, like yeah, wait.
I would have a question about your set up there
looks like here professional podcaster Alison. What's happening? Yes, I
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have the Food Heels podcast, So this is my my studio.
This is where I record all my episodes as well,
so podcast hosts and major podcast listener. That's why I
was just so excited to discover your show. Awesome, I
like yourself. Yeah, it's really impressive. Horses on your Is
that a topper address? It's like it's a little address.
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We need to up our game tour this. I know
this background not so good. Your background not so good? Sorry,
but yeah, no we need yeah, well, we just have
more to prove when we don't have as much federation
already as you guys, so people like us, we just
have to up level from day one. We'll take some
lessons from you, for sure, And Tori, I have to
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tell you we have a mutual friend who asked me
to say hi, and that is plant powered chef Leslie Doer.
So Oh, I love her. I know she's she's yeah,
I want her food is amazing, it's the best. You
would love her well, Alison, thank you for joining us
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for our Mrs t Tribute episode. Absolutely thanks for having
Hopefully we'll chat again. Sure, good ladies, good luck my girls.
M H. Talk to me, Steve. You're in very serious
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trouble now. Either you tell me the name of your
accomplice or I'm going to be forced to recommend expulsion
rather than suspension. It could be the difference between graduating
on time. We're not graduating at all. It was it
was a solo operation. I did it all by myself.
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Then I'm sorry to say that as of today, you're
no longer a student. It was Beverly High. Did you, guys,
have a teacher in your own lives or a principle
just in honor of Mrs Teasley that stood out to
you that made like a real impact on on your lives?
Did you? I feel like it was more like my
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drama school teacher in high school, Like she was really awesome.
I believed in me. Other than that, I never had
a Mrs T. Like, there was never someone that was
like you got this side for you. No, the only
one I can't remember, which is weird that I can
even remember this because you're like kindergarten, But it was
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Mrs Bailey in Arcola, Illinois. She was my kindergarten teacher.
I think it was kindergarten. Like, I remember nothing, but
I can remember Mrs Bailey and I used to call
her Mrs Bailey Button. Oh my god. That significant then,
but just like that loving, nurturing kind and then my
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daughter's had, you know what, it reminds me of my
daughter's growing up. They went to a school which was
a really small school here in l A and they
had the most incredible principle, Margot. They called her by
her first name, and her name was Marco, and she
was Mrs T through and through, just completely different um
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and you always felt like she was you were under
her wing, you know somehow, Like I always just wanted
to be held like a baby by Margo. And it's
kind of that safe, secure feeling that you're talking about
with Mrs T. Yeah, you would have to assume that
the writers whoever created her in the beginning had a
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teacher or a principal like that, did hey or was
she just so great and brought that uniqueness to it
that they're like, oh wait, we gotta keep using her.
Look at the chemistry she asked with the kids look
at yeah, like I just That's why I was saying,
I wish we could go back and look at a
script and see if she created that character or if
they did. She's so important to the overall like um
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high school experience and had to have grown as they
saw her work. And I love that when people who
you ask that question, when people do have that experience
of a specific teacher or administrator from their their school
life that deeply, profoundly affects their life forever like that,
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You know. I love that they did bring that element
into the show because so many people can relate to that.
I personally can't. I can for my kids, but I
can't my own self. Amy, did you have somebody in
your life that was like that? Of course I had
three teachers for sure, and the principle in my elementary school,
but really to this day stand out like I think
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most people I know your experiences were different because Jenny
didn't really have a regular school experience, Tori, you did more.
But yeah, I think most people have a teacher that
stands out to them, and I think the teachers that
really encourage you to be you, almost in the way
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Mrs Teasley sort of did with Steve in a sense,
like she even though she had to like bust him
a lot, she really let him be him, which is
I think why that relationship is the most significant. That's
so that's kind of where I think on teachers, Like
the teacher that sort of embraces who you are and
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lets you know, like, no, you're you're good enough be you.
So that's sort of where I am with Mrs Teasley
that like she really loves Steve even for all his
ridiculous shenanigans. Yeah, that's a good point because I mean,
when you think about it, those are the people that
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really do impact your life the most. The people that
accept you for just the way you are and love
you anyway. I love you because of exactly who you are.
Those are the people that have such a profound effect. Yeah,
I don't always think the teacher's favorite is necessarily the
best student, right, You know, like the teacher embraces the
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kid that's doing their thing, or maybe the kid needs
to hear how great they are or needs that, and
maybe they they see that, you know, sort of insecurity
and their kid and a certain kid, and they work
harder to support them. That's so awesome. I feel like
Steve and since he went on to be friends throughout
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their lives, Oh for sure, right yeah, yeah, like she's
like the grandma to his kids. Like the mm hmmm,
I would think so, I think my question about it
all it's like horribly sad, of course, but it's also
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how significant the roles on this show are, Like the
thirty years later in every headline, it's nine O two
one oh, and almost anyone passed a teenager age immediately knows, oh,
that's Mrs Teasley, Oh my goodness, and and to and
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and especially to remember how much other work she had
done over the course of her career and too, and
and the coolest part about it get little goose bumps
is because we both know that it didn't matter to
her that she was proud and she loved being recognized
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as Mrs Teasley like she loved our fans as much
as we do. And I remember doing some sort of
an appearance or something with her where we were signing
autographs or something, and she was just so into it
and so, you know, just aware of how important our
fans are to us and to the show, and she
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just loved it. It's just me. Yeah, can sucks you guys,
losing people right like, especially so young like, and it
seems like we've lost a lot of people from from
our show. I mean that happens especially as you start
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to get older. But for a long time, I mean
we lost so many meet starting with your dad and
Paul Wagner, then Steve Wasserman and Jessica. I mean there
have been others, h but these ones that they're coming
to my mind right now, Jessica Klein, now Denise and
of course obviously Luke. It just doesn't mm hmmm, it
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doesn't makes sense in my brain. Yeah, but it's just
so it's it makes watching it so interesting because they're preserved,
you know, like even although Luke went on to do
so many things, he will always be Dylan and he
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will always be that age. Mm hmm. Yeah. It's nice
to have those shows to watch though. Are you guys
able to watch Luke, especially now fondly or is it
still painful like every episode you rewatch For me, it's
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very painful, but full of fundness too, like full of love,
And yeah, be happy seeing that episodes again for that reason.
I mean, obviously we love rewatching the episodes with the fans,
but being able to see him weekly now again, it's
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really special. Glad we have that. M Yeah, so glad
we have it. But also it's like it just makes
it further seems like it's not real, like he's still there,
like he's Denise is still right where, right there and
doing our thing like it just doesn't because it's so
cemented in our minds and so such a and it
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had such an impact on us and on the fans
of the show, like it does. I hear all over
the place it doesn't feel real. I can't, I don't.
I don't believe it. It doesn't feel real. And that's
sort of the same with Denise. Yeah, it felt like
you were about to say, Jenny, right where you left them,
And that makes me cry. It's like, yeah, they're right
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where you left, right where you love them. Yeah, but
I'm so sorry for your loss, you guys, I'm so sorry,
family and friends. It's just I mean, loss is really hard,
grief is hard. Like this is not a feel good episode,
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you guys that were putting together here, I'm sweating, like
it's not a not a good Monday more. I mean
it is. It's like you can't help but watch it differently,
like you will watch now, Mrs Teasley, because we have
so many iconic episodes coming up. I mean we're about
to hit going to Magic Mountain, the Prom, Donna Martin graduates,
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and graduation, so it will be something that you guys,
I'm sure think about and talk about as we go
into the next few weeks. Oh my god, I'm growing
over a person I don't know, and to think like someday, oh,
this is so hard. Someday none of us are going
to be here, you know, Oh my god. Stop. But
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like to really appreciate, like what we all have in
each other and like these relationships, because that's what life
is all about, is the people in your life and
and the effect that we have on one another. And
to to be able to sit and talk about someone
who had, you know, these people that had such an
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impact on our lives and that that they have forever
in our memories just as they were. It's a it's
just crazy like life. Yeah, yeah, I think it's so
important to remember to like how a little thing can
impact someone's life, and also that just having this show,
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the work you did, impacts people thirty years later. And
I think, like, look, I don't mean to be so
like preachy or blame. It's like, WHOA, you have to
remember that it's such an honor to have that position
in people's lives. And I like that it seems like
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everyone from the cast embraces it. No one is like,
I'm not nine o two one oh anymore. It's like
they embraced the fact that they changed my life other
people's lives with this show, and even if it was
just to escape for an hour from whatever you were doing.
I hope everyone feels that way. I know, Jen, and
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I definitely too. Yeah, grateful for it, be grateful to
made so many people happy through it and continue to.
But it's not like it's not like I walk around thinking, oh,
I've had such an impact on people, like I of
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the time forget that I was on the show and
that it had an impact on anyone. But and when
people do stop and and you know, say something or
put themselves out there and be you know and say,
oh my gosh, your show did this or whatever for me,
and I loved it, and I'm you just fan, Like
I'm so grateful for those people now because it reminds
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me of like what I was a part of and
what we were all a part of. And I think
we just learned to appreciate it more and more as
we get older, because i mean, like we talked about
all the time when we were in it, we didn't
understand the effect it was having the people at the
time because we were just doing it. Now, especially having
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families of our own and seeing the shows that are
meeting something to them there, you know, getting older, it's like, wow,
that's what people had with us, that they continue to
have that, And that's when it really is like it
is an honor, not orm as an honor to be
able to do this episode today for everyone to UM,
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so thank you for going on this little tribute journey
with us. UM. We love to hear your memories and
your favorite moments from the show with Mrs Teasley, so
let us know. Yeah, and UM, just love the people
around you and keep keep doing what you're doing everybody
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out there? Yeah, you know what makes me? It just
makes me think also like enjoy um all, it's gonna
make me cry. Enjoy that hour you spend. Don't feel
guilty in your life taking an hour to watch something
that you love on TV? Do you know what I mean?
Like and like embracing it or escaping from reality, Like
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that's what really makes me realize. It's like we should
not feel guilty about like just having that our two
or ten for some of us, where you just h
get completely immersed in a show that you just love
for whatever reason you love it. Yeah, And and then
for people in the industry to really remember like the
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impact that you have on people and like the importance
of what it what it is that we do. I'm
so often I'm like, who cares, I'm just an actress,
Like I'm just a pawn and somebody else's story that
they're telling. And but when you when when all of
the collaborators come together and make something that has an
impact on somebody out there, it's incredibly important. Who was
(37:36):
it that's I I'm assuming it's Henry Winkler because he's
so freaking awesome that it seems like he would have
said this, but it might have been somebody else who said,
I stop every time to take the picture. Because what
if it's the first person they ever asked? What if
that's their first experience and it's like, oh my god,
(37:58):
it's so so true. Yeah, that it's like that's their
like moment where they're like, oh my god, meeting somebody
or seeing somebody that they It's like when they say
never meet heroes, but not that we're anyone's heroes, but
it's true. What if that is that experience and we
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all have lives and stress and since you're having a
bad day, but yeah, just being able to take that
moment and remember what they've given to us for thirty
years and give them that two minutes so important. Well,
we're going to Magic Mountain next week, so that will
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be fun. Parts um, I've seen to remember you being
very excited to be at Magic Mountain. Well, at least Donna. Yeah,
it's one of them. That is one of the best
scenes time in the episode next week that I cannot wait.
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Oh my gosh, we will get into all things. She
came in through the bathroom window next week. Everybody, thank
you for joining us, for this episode, honoring Denise Douse
and forever in our hearts. Mrs T. Thank you guys,
we love you and we're so sorry for your loss.
Okay, So we were supposed to do another recap show,
but some very sad news came over the weekend. We
lost one of our our own, and this is never
easy to talk about. Mrs Teasley, the one and only
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Denise Dause passed away this Saturday. Yeah, and we were shocked.
I mean it so shocked. She was only sixty four
years old. Yeah, this came out of nowhere. I came.
I read that she was suffering battling meningitis right. It
(00:45):
caused her body to shut down and go into a
coma and she never woke up from the coma. It's
unbelievable to me, and I can't imagine how devastated her
family is, her sister, everyone that knew her. I mean,
it was just shocking, shocking, it was. These kind of
deaths are the hardest. I think it was so hard
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to put up a post the other day and I
saw that from her account on Instagram she had posted
someone had posted back. And you have that moment where
you're like, I know it's they're gone, and I know
it's true, but I had that one moment where I
was like I almost felt like maybe she's still there,
and it was her sister Tracy taking over her account
(01:29):
to stay to all of her friends and fans um
what had happened, and to kind of fill everyone in.
And it was just like you felt like that lost,
Like everybody. She was so loved, I mean everyone, yeah, everywhere.
She had so many fans, so many fans from so
many different shows. I mean, yes, Denise was best known,
(01:50):
probably by a lot of people, for her role as
Mrs Teasley, uh Mrs t as we called her on
our show, but she was on so many other shows.
Oh my gosh, she'said like a hundred and twenty two
acting credits alone on her d m IMDb page, and
and she just finished her first full length directorial gig.
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She was in her prime. Yeah, and it's so hard
Like at the time, we were in high school and
she was the vice principal, So you think if someone
is so much older, I didn't realize she's just sixty four.
She's basically fifteen years old. Hello, that's great. God. I
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didn't realize she was our vice principal. I thought she
was always just the principle. Was there someone else that
was the principal? No, it seems like she was just
that was it? That was. It was Mrs T that
was in. How many episodes was she in? Because she
was episodes over all ten. Yeah, she was in the
(03:02):
finale at the Web, at our wedding, at Donna and
David's wedding. It's teasily there. It's so interesting because when
I thought back, I'd forgotten she was in the wedding episode.
And in my mind, I was like, gosh, we were
so close with her, and she loved so much and
we loved her so much that she just kept back
pean back to visit set. That's what my memory was,
(03:24):
and I was like, no, she kept being in episodes
along the ten seasons, even after we were in high
school anymore. Because there was just something about Denise that
was so like easy and like like she was like
your oldest friend, and she just would show up on
set and then she'd be in a scene and then
it would be like it was just so natural being
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around her and and working with her like so easy.
I could still remember her smile. She always me I
mean I remember, I mean, I think my first big
scheme with her was when Donna had a learning stability
and I was so nervous. I was like, oh, my gosh,
I have to do drama. I hadn't done much aside
(04:06):
from being like the sidekick on the show. And she
was so easy to work with, it so encouraging, and
she knew I was super nervous, and that was the
day that was just like, oh my gosh, thank goodness,
that big scene was with her. Um. Yeah, she always
gave the best hugs set. Yeah, such a warm, kind woman.
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And I can imagine, you know, she just directed the
this movie um with a friend of mine, actually remember me,
the Mahalia Jackson Story, which looks like it's a really
good movie, and she I can imagine what it was
like to be directed by her and to be on
her set, because she just had that like warm and
(04:49):
you know, engaging, inviting, inclusive energy about her. So it's
just a terrible loss for for a lot a lot
of people that worked with her knew her, loved her
and her family. And also just seeing the outpour of
actors who she had worked with coached at just over
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the years that just loved her so much, loved working
with her. Was really nice to see. I mean, because
she was really respected and prolific actress. You know. Part
of this industry. She for so many years was doing
her thing and and she never in the game. She
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loved it. I thought what Iron wrote was really beautiful
if you want me to read it, because he had
so many m Steve and Mrs Teasley had scenes with
her because she really you know, had to hand it
to him a lot, a lot. So he wrote, um,
so heartbroke, so heartbreaking to say Denise Dalles has passed away.
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Throughout all my years working on Beverly Hills nine O
two and O, my scenes with Denise will always be
remembered with the utmost in respect for her talent and
fondness for the loving soul she was. Some of my
heartiest off camera laughs were between she and I hammering
out the discipline her Mrs Teasley would dish out to
my Steve Sanders, my sincere condolences to her family and
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all others who she was dear too. God bless you Denise.
Pay forward that legacy, key A. I mean, he's such
a beautiful writer, but that really brings tears to my eyes.
It just sounds like she had such a presence on
your set. Yeah, and it would it would be accurate
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to think that he to say that he worked with
her probably the most, because Steve was always getting into
trouble at school. Yeah. It makes me laugh because I
can think about her scenes where she is just like
given him the what for? Yeah, and I just it
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just seems like these kinds of losses are so like unbelievable,
unimaginable and unacceptable in my brain, you know, like it's yeah, yeah,
because you are frozen in time with her from thirty
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years ago. I would love to go back and look
at some of the first script she was in and
see like she was it written in there or did
she bring that humor to it. We have a few
sort of iconic Mrs Teasley scenes that will play throughout
this episode today. So if you want to listen to
a couple right now, Yes, let's listen to What's our first?
(07:41):
Is the first one from the first season. Yes, let's
listen to something from the first season right now. This
study is getting on my nerves. That fits in with
your personality profile. You avoid probing beneath the surface and
have a tendency to gloss things over with words thank you,
and you're more intuitive, open but impressionable. Two peas in
a pod right Okay, wow, so that was your first
(08:03):
appearance and I know you went out. Yeah, so what
if we take a quick break and we're gonna come
back with um some fans like, we really just wanted
to make this a special, special moment to honor Denise
A k A. Mrs t m H. Hi Jessica, Hey,
(08:35):
how are you guys? Hi? It's so nice of you
to join us, Thank you, thank you for asking. So
we we know that you have heard the news about
Denise and just kind of wanted to give us a
little insight. You are a big fan of hers, I
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am of the show, of all of it. Um uh
you know. I was googling, like youtubeing some different videos
of her last night and there was one um she
was flying to Hawaii to celebrate a birthday and was
just like telling her fans thank you for the birthday.
She just seemed like the kindest, sweetest person. And then
(09:19):
I realized she she had made guest appearances on several
shows that I had liked, um Seinfeld Gilmore Girls, but
one of the favorites was obviously not I know two
I know, and one of my best memories of her
I think was of course the Donna Martin graduates, and
I remember when she came to tell Brandon or somebody,
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I think that the school board was you know, gonna,
i don't know, expel them or not let them graduate,
and she was like, protect your education, don't throw it away.
But I felt like, deep inside she was like stick
to your guns. You know. She always had a professional
attitude and did what was right. But I don't know,
I just always got the vibe as a teenager that like,
(10:02):
deep down she was in support of the kids, or
she wanted to see him, you know, take a stand
for what was right. At least that was the that
was the feeling I got. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's
why we all felt so close to her too, because
she felt like one of us. Like she didn't feel
like an authoritarian figure. You know, she was more fun
(10:22):
and supportive. Like you said, yeah, she seemed like that
kind of person that you could, you know, go and
sit down in the office and just tell your troubles too,
or your boy problems or you know whatever it was.
At least as a teenager watching the show, that's what
I felt like. It was like everybody wanted a vice
principal like her, and she was like that in real life. Yeah,
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that's awesome. It's so sad. It's she just seemed like
a very kind, genuine person. It was sad to hear
the news. Yeah, well, our hearts go out to her.
Thank you Jessica for your insight, and thank you guys
remembering her. Let me do this of course, talk to you.
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I think one of my um favorite like the ones
that comes to my mind right away is that is
the episode that was like around Christmas where we all
went on the school bus and um, Steve was like,
wasn't he suspended or he was in detention or something.
He wasn't supposed to show up, but then he did
and he dressed like Santa. If we just watched this
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on the on the pod, we went to Alvarado Street, yep,
and we were all chewing gum on the bus. Totaly
misses you too. Oh that was season three, episode sixteen.
It's a totally happening life. Perhaps your spaces on the
bus could have been filled from the long waiting list
of students who would have been happy to join us
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at the Alvarado Street School today. But at this point,
unless you have a note from your doctor saying that
you have pneumonia and I want to see that chest
x ray. I expect to see each and every one
of your smiling faces on that bus, and I mean immediately,
if not sooner. That was a good one. Oh my gosh.
(12:08):
Now I just want to jump to like season ten,
the season finale, and see her again at the wedding. No,
don't do that yet. I want to see her at
the grat. I watched it on YouTube last night. I
couldn't help myself. It's so it's so cool, and I
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just remember thinking like, oh my gosh, I wonder when
that episode comes on and it's happening this season, like
are we gonna have Denissan? And then yeah, it's so crazy.
Why don't we uh go to another caller? I think
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we have another caller UM that will share their memories
with us too. Hi, Tracy, how are you great? How
are you ok? He was We're all meaning under better circumstances,
But thank you for doing listening remembering Denise and his tea.
So UM, we just wanted to ask you, UM, what
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your favorite memories of her? UM? You know, I loved
when she I loved her and Steve together, Iron's character
and her UM and how she would always call him Stephen. Um,
she'd always like Stephen. I forgot about that. I just
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loved um. You know. I was thinking about this last night,
and I was thinking how Nanotune always always so progressive,
and they had a female principle, like a woman of
color as a principle, and I just don't think that
that was common when you looked back at like Growing
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Pains and some of those other shows that were on.
And so I loved how her and Stephen Steve had
the dynamics between them of like this rich, privileged kid
and she could always just put him right, you know,
right in his corner. I always call her the vice principle.
Was she not? Was she the principal? I think she
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was the principal. I always thought she was the principal too.
I don't know why. It's always stuck with me that
she was vice principal. Mrs Teasley, Yeah, she was principal.
I think she was for sure. I do, yes. So
I'm so sorry. I I my deepest condolences for you guys,
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And I mean, um, it's just it's sad when you
know she was such an icon on that show, especially
at the beginning of um, the show, and I was
just I kind of in my head, I finally have
been catching up on the podcast and so I'm finally
ahead of like you guys a little bit. And so
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I just watched the graduation and she was on there
and the prom and all that stuff. So what a
fantastic lady though, Yeah, so she actually was the vice principal.
She was. Yes, that's just weird, but she was so
good that we just never showed the prince. Yeah, we
didn't need to, Like you're kidding, I don't ever remember
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the principal. You don't exactly. I mean, such a good point,
we didn't need one. I mean we have Mrs T.
And such a good point you made about her being,
you know, in that position on the show and being
a person of color and just like having that representation
at that time, and she was so such a strong, confident,
like capable lady that it just didn't it didn't even
(15:43):
ever enter into anyone's mind that she would this woman
wouldn't be the principle of the vice principle. So because
she was always the one calling the shots, it seemed
like I wish he couldn't have the chance to ask her,
like I can't remember how she came into the show
or if it was like, hey, it's gonna be one
episode or like once in a while, and then just
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became such a force to be reckoned with such a
major character that she was so iconic that they just
I mean, she was an all ten seasons. I know,
we we graduated from high school and she wasn't still
in the show. Well, and you know what she remember
she was a different character with Brenda and Brandon with
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the Twins study. Wait, see that's what Tor was just
saying before we connected with you. She was like, wasn't
she on the show as somebody else? And we're like, no,
I don't think so, but you're right, he was during
the Twins study. And then she came back and suddenly
was vice principal. I will never doubt your memory again.
I'm sorry. I don't think you should ever doubt that reason.
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But I don't think I should ever doubt anyone's memory,
but especially hers. She has like an elephant's memory. Whatever
that is. That is so funny. Well, and then she
was on later episodes too. I think David gets in
a little trouble with like a high school girl something happens.
I don't remember, but she's on some of those episodes later. Yeah,
(17:09):
well that's good we get to see her more. Yes,
I know. I mean technically they should have just switched
her over to California University and she should have just
come with us. Yea, why not. We could have been
the principle on that show whatever they call it. Yeah,
oh my gosh, Jracy, thank you so much for your
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help with us and talking about this awful subject but
having such a great memory and a and a love
for her. Yes, I really appreciate what you guys are
doing on the podcast. I um, I know, I grew
up with you guys and um, you know, listening to
you on the shows and watching you guys transform. I
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just really appreciate like everything that you're doing bringing it back.
I mean, it just really warms my heart to be
able to kind of have a little piece of thirty
years again. That's awesome. We do a really hard show
for us to do today, so thank you for bring
some smiles and laughs into it as well. Get that.
I appreciate it. Thank you so much for inviting me.
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Thank you. Hi, Hi, Hi Allison, Hi Sori, how are
you Hi? Jenny, Hi, Hi, thank you for joining us.
We are so excited that you're here with us. But
it's unfortunately we're talking about such a awful subject. But
what are your some of some of your fondest Mrs
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T moments or memories. Yeah, well, I was just watching
the one UM the other day, so I'm just now
on a binge wash. So I'm on season three and
in the opening, UM, there's Yeah, it's perfect. I know
it correlates with the podcast perfectly that I just discovered.
So now I'm obviously obsessed. UM, so I have lots
(18:54):
of episodes to catch up on. But yeah, there was
the episode with um, We're in the inning, Steve is
having a recurring nightmare that he is Mrs Teasley is
saying you failed, you failed school, Steve, like you're gonna
be You're gonna have to repeat senior year and he
wakes up in a panic, and it's just so relatable.
So I was wondering if you guys had any stories
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like that, if you ever had nine O two and
no induced anxiety dreams where you woke up in the panic,
like showed up to set naked or something like that.
But I just remember that was a really good, um,
Mrs Teasley moment because we can all relate to that, right. Yeah.
I don't know if I ever had any Mrs t
uh premonitions or nightmares or whatever dreams, whatever you want
(19:37):
to call them. I've certainly lived my life full of
two and related dreams in nightmares, those are deverely but
that's a good thing. Yeah, I definitely. I think I
would have like that when you would show up to
school and like you hadn't studied, but I would show
up to school but I didn't know my lines, but
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I was in the hallway, so it was at the
blend of school and real life acting. Yeah, totally, that
makes sense. Yeah, I think we've all had those dreams
where you show up and there's also a scene with
Gabrielle and she shows up and she has no clothes
remember me, and um, and I think just all of
that is so relatable. And then her just as a principal,
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as a teacher, I think one of my other questions
would be I was wondering who would be more most
like their character, because I feel like that character she
plays so well. I bet she's probably a lot like
that in real life, just like wants the best for
everyone in her life, do you know what I mean?
That was definitely one of her characteristics for sure. But
she was also a lot more spicy and fun and
(20:42):
sassy than she could be as Mrs Teasley. She brought
a lot of Yeah like Mrs t remember she would
always dress really cool wid yeah yeah, like yeah, wait.
I would have a question about your set up there
looks like here professional podcaster Alison. What's happening? Yes, I
(21:04):
have the Food Heels podcast, So this is my my studio.
This is where I record all my episodes as well,
so podcast hosts and major podcast listener. That's why I
was just so excited to discover your show. Awesome, I
like yourself. Yeah, it's really impressive. Horses on your Is
that a topper address? It's like it's a little address.
(21:25):
We need to up our game tour this. I know
this background not so good. Your background not so good? Sorry,
but yeah, no we need yeah, well, we just have
more to prove when we don't have as much federation
already as you guys, so people like us, we just
have to up level from day one. We'll take some
lessons from you, for sure, And Tori, I have to
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tell you we have a mutual friend who asked me
to say hi, and that is plant powered chef Leslie Doer.
So Oh, I love her. I know she's she's yeah,
I want her food is amazing, it's the best. You
would love her well, Alison, thank you for joining us
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for our Mrs t Tribute episode. Absolutely thanks for having
Hopefully we'll chat again. Sure, good ladies, good luck my girls.
M H. Talk to me, Steve. You're in very serious
(22:36):
trouble now. Either you tell me the name of your
accomplice or I'm going to be forced to recommend expulsion
rather than suspension. It could be the difference between graduating
on time. We're not graduating at all. It was it
was a solo operation. I did it all by myself.
(23:03):
Then I'm sorry to say that as of today, you're
no longer a student. It was Beverly High. Did you, guys,
have a teacher in your own lives or a principle
just in honor of Mrs Teasley that stood out to
you that made like a real impact on on your lives?
Did you? I feel like it was more like my
(23:26):
drama school teacher in high school, Like she was really awesome.
I believed in me. Other than that, I never had
a Mrs T. Like, there was never someone that was
like you got this side for you. No, the only
one I can't remember, which is weird that I can
even remember this because you're like kindergarten, But it was
(23:48):
Mrs Bailey in Arcola, Illinois. She was my kindergarten teacher.
I think it was kindergarten. Like, I remember nothing, but
I can remember Mrs Bailey and I used to call
her Mrs Bailey Button. Oh my god. That significant then,
but just like that loving, nurturing kind and then my
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daughter's had, you know what, it reminds me of my
daughter's growing up. They went to a school which was
a really small school here in l A and they
had the most incredible principle, Margot. They called her by
her first name, and her name was Marco, and she
was Mrs T through and through, just completely different um
(24:32):
and you always felt like she was you were under
her wing, you know somehow, Like I always just wanted
to be held like a baby by Margo. And it's
kind of that safe, secure feeling that you're talking about
with Mrs T. Yeah, you would have to assume that
the writers whoever created her in the beginning had a
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teacher or a principal like that, did hey or was
she just so great and brought that uniqueness to it
that they're like, oh wait, we gotta keep using her.
Look at the chemistry she asked with the kids look
at yeah, like I just That's why I was saying,
I wish we could go back and look at a
script and see if she created that character or if
they did. She's so important to the overall like um
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high school experience and had to have grown as they
saw her work. And I love that when people who
you ask that question, when people do have that experience
of a specific teacher or administrator from their their school
life that deeply, profoundly affects their life forever like that,
(25:41):
You know. I love that they did bring that element
into the show because so many people can relate to that.
I personally can't. I can for my kids, but I
can't my own self. Amy, did you have somebody in
your life that was like that? Of course I had
three teachers for sure, and the principle in my elementary school,
but really to this day stand out like I think
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most people I know your experiences were different because Jenny
didn't really have a regular school experience, Tori, you did more.
But yeah, I think most people have a teacher that
stands out to them, and I think the teachers that
really encourage you to be you, almost in the way
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Mrs Teasley sort of did with Steve in a sense,
like she even though she had to like bust him
a lot, she really let him be him, which is
I think why that relationship is the most significant. That's
so that's kind of where I think on teachers, Like
the teacher that sort of embraces who you are and
(26:49):
lets you know, like, no, you're you're good enough be you.
So that's sort of where I am with Mrs Teasley
that like she really loves Steve even for all his
ridiculous shenanigans. Yeah, that's a good point because I mean,
when you think about it, those are the people that
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really do impact your life the most. The people that
accept you for just the way you are and love
you anyway. I love you because of exactly who you are.
Those are the people that have such a profound effect. Yeah,
I don't always think the teacher's favorite is necessarily the
best student, right, You know, like the teacher embraces the
(27:31):
kid that's doing their thing, or maybe the kid needs
to hear how great they are or needs that, and
maybe they they see that, you know, sort of insecurity
and their kid and a certain kid, and they work
harder to support them. That's so awesome. I feel like
Steve and since he went on to be friends throughout
(27:52):
their lives, Oh for sure, right yeah, yeah, like she's
like the grandma to his kids. Like the mm hmmm,
I would think so, I think my question about it
all it's like horribly sad, of course, but it's also
(28:15):
how significant the roles on this show are, Like the
thirty years later in every headline, it's nine O two
one oh, and almost anyone passed a teenager age immediately knows, oh,
that's Mrs Teasley, Oh my goodness, and and to and
(28:37):
and especially to remember how much other work she had
done over the course of her career and too, and
and the coolest part about it get little goose bumps
is because we both know that it didn't matter to
her that she was proud and she loved being recognized
(28:58):
as Mrs Teasley like she loved our fans as much
as we do. And I remember doing some sort of
an appearance or something with her where we were signing
autographs or something, and she was just so into it
and so, you know, just aware of how important our
fans are to us and to the show, and she
(29:20):
just loved it. It's just me. Yeah, can sucks you guys,
losing people right like, especially so young like, and it
seems like we've lost a lot of people from from
our show. I mean that happens especially as you start
(29:41):
to get older. But for a long time, I mean
we lost so many meet starting with your dad and
Paul Wagner, then Steve Wasserman and Jessica. I mean there
have been others, h but these ones that they're coming
to my mind right now, Jessica Klein, now Denise and
of course obviously Luke. It just doesn't mm hmmm, it
(30:02):
doesn't makes sense in my brain. Yeah, but it's just
so it's it makes watching it so interesting because they're preserved,
you know, like even although Luke went on to do
so many things, he will always be Dylan and he
(30:25):
will always be that age. Mm hmm. Yeah. It's nice
to have those shows to watch though. Are you guys
able to watch Luke, especially now fondly or is it
still painful like every episode you rewatch For me, it's
(30:49):
very painful, but full of fundness too, like full of love,
And yeah, be happy seeing that episodes again for that reason.
I mean, obviously we love rewatching the episodes with the fans,
but being able to see him weekly now again, it's
(31:12):
really special. Glad we have that. M Yeah, so glad
we have it. But also it's like it just makes
it further seems like it's not real, like he's still there,
like he's Denise is still right where, right there and
doing our thing like it just doesn't because it's so
cemented in our minds and so such a and it
(31:36):
had such an impact on us and on the fans
of the show, like it does. I hear all over
the place it doesn't feel real. I can't, I don't.
I don't believe it. It doesn't feel real. And that's
sort of the same with Denise. Yeah, it felt like
you were about to say, Jenny, right where you left them,
And that makes me cry. It's like, yeah, they're right
(31:58):
where you left, right where you love them. Yeah, but
I'm so sorry for your loss, you guys, I'm so sorry,
family and friends. It's just I mean, loss is really hard,
grief is hard. Like this is not a feel good episode,
(32:18):
you guys that were putting together here, I'm sweating, like
it's not a not a good Monday more. I mean
it is. It's like you can't help but watch it differently,
like you will watch now, Mrs Teasley, because we have
so many iconic episodes coming up. I mean we're about
to hit going to Magic Mountain, the Prom, Donna Martin graduates,
(32:42):
and graduation, so it will be something that you guys,
I'm sure think about and talk about as we go
into the next few weeks. Oh my god, I'm growing
over a person I don't know, and to think like someday, oh,
this is so hard. Someday none of us are going
to be here, you know, Oh my god. Stop. But
(33:03):
like to really appreciate, like what we all have in
each other and like these relationships, because that's what life
is all about, is the people in your life and
and the effect that we have on one another. And
to to be able to sit and talk about someone
who had, you know, these people that had such an
(33:27):
impact on our lives and that that they have forever
in our memories just as they were. It's a it's
just crazy like life. Yeah, yeah, I think it's so
important to remember to like how a little thing can
impact someone's life, and also that just having this show,
(33:50):
the work you did, impacts people thirty years later. And
I think, like, look, I don't mean to be so
like preachy or blame. It's like, WHOA, you have to
remember that it's such an honor to have that position
in people's lives. And I like that it seems like
(34:13):
everyone from the cast embraces it. No one is like,
I'm not nine o two one oh anymore. It's like
they embraced the fact that they changed my life other
people's lives with this show, and even if it was
just to escape for an hour from whatever you were doing.
I hope everyone feels that way. I know, Jen, and
(34:34):
I definitely too. Yeah, grateful for it, be grateful to
made so many people happy through it and continue to.
But it's not like it's not like I walk around thinking, oh,
I've had such an impact on people, like I of
(34:55):
the time forget that I was on the show and
that it had an impact on anyone. But and when
people do stop and and you know, say something or
put themselves out there and be you know and say,
oh my gosh, your show did this or whatever for me,
and I loved it, and I'm you just fan, Like
I'm so grateful for those people now because it reminds
(35:18):
me of like what I was a part of and
what we were all a part of. And I think
we just learned to appreciate it more and more as
we get older, because i mean, like we talked about
all the time when we were in it, we didn't
understand the effect it was having the people at the
time because we were just doing it. Now, especially having
(35:41):
families of our own and seeing the shows that are
meeting something to them there, you know, getting older, it's like, wow,
that's what people had with us, that they continue to
have that, And that's when it really is like it
is an honor, not orm as an honor to be
able to do this episode today for everyone to UM,
(36:05):
so thank you for going on this little tribute journey
with us. UM. We love to hear your memories and
your favorite moments from the show with Mrs Teasley, so
let us know. Yeah, and UM, just love the people
around you and keep keep doing what you're doing everybody
(36:28):
out there? Yeah, you know what makes me? It just
makes me think also like enjoy um all, it's gonna
make me cry. Enjoy that hour you spend. Don't feel
guilty in your life taking an hour to watch something
that you love on TV? Do you know what I mean?
Like and like embracing it or escaping from reality, Like
(36:51):
that's what really makes me realize. It's like we should
not feel guilty about like just having that our two
or ten for some of us, where you just h
get completely immersed in a show that you just love
for whatever reason you love it. Yeah, And and then
for people in the industry to really remember like the
(37:12):
impact that you have on people and like the importance
of what it what it is that we do. I'm
so often I'm like, who cares, I'm just an actress,
Like I'm just a pawn and somebody else's story that
they're telling. And but when you when when all of
the collaborators come together and make something that has an
impact on somebody out there, it's incredibly important. Who was
(37:36):
it that's I I'm assuming it's Henry Winkler because he's
so freaking awesome that it seems like he would have
said this, but it might have been somebody else who said,
I stop every time to take the picture. Because what
if it's the first person they ever asked? What if
that's their first experience and it's like, oh my god,
(37:58):
it's so so true. Yeah, that it's like that's their
like moment where they're like, oh my god, meeting somebody
or seeing somebody that they It's like when they say
never meet heroes, but not that we're anyone's heroes, but
it's true. What if that is that experience and we
(38:21):
all have lives and stress and since you're having a
bad day, but yeah, just being able to take that
moment and remember what they've given to us for thirty
years and give them that two minutes so important. Well,
we're going to Magic Mountain next week, so that will
(38:45):
be fun. Parts um, I've seen to remember you being
very excited to be at Magic Mountain. Well, at least Donna. Yeah,
it's one of them. That is one of the best
scenes time in the episode next week that I cannot wait.
(39:09):
Oh my gosh, we will get into all things. She
came in through the bathroom window next week. Everybody, thank
you for joining us, for this episode, honoring Denise Douse
and forever in our hearts. Mrs T. Thank you guys,
we love you and we're so sorry for your loss.
Hosts And Creators
Tori Spelling
Jennie Garth
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