December 16, 2024 • 36 mins
Glee travels back in time for an episode that was allegedly "too controversial" to air . . .
Kevin feels the episode should have stayed unaired, even though some of Jenna's scenes made him laugh out loud! Jenna shares her not-so-fond memories of this episode, including the dress that gave her scabs under her arms, Kevin's itchy fake mustache that made him lose it, the scene where Jenna clearly didn't know the dance moves, and the moment they felt they hit rock bottom!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin An iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to you, and that's what you really missed Podcasts
Season five, episode eight. Oh, the previously unaired Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Okay, maybe I should have stayed unhaired.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
That was their excuse. So last time it was gas
and this time it's it's literally it wasn't great, It
wasn't good enough to air, but we're gonna air it
anyway now. So just like prefacing basically in this metal
way of being like it was. It was crazy. I
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have a lot of memories from this.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You were all over this episode, Jenna.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I was. I don't think I realized how much I
was in this episode though.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You made me laugh out loud several times. I did
all by myself and that's great.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So this episode originally aired December fifth, twenty thirteen. The
number one song in the country was Royals by.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Lord, number one movie Hunger Games Catching Fire.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And in Glee News. On December third, Glee the Music
That Christmas Album, Volume four was released, featuring six bestive
tracks from episode eight of the season. So Wendy Stansler
was back directing.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And God bless her for this because I I this
episode is very vivid in my memory. I guess it
does make sense because I wasn't a lot of it
and having Wendy there made it better. I remember, I
loved Wendy. I loved working with her. I thought she
always did a really great job with what she had
to work with, and sometimes it was a little funky,
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as this episode is a little funky. Uh, I thought
she did a great job. So there's a lot of
songs to a lot of music and a lot quite
a few Well, no, that's not true Mary's Little Boy Child,
but was the one that I was just like, what's
the song? I never heard it before. I have zero
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recollection of recording a lot of these songs, but I
sang on a lot of these songs. Let's start with here,
Comatanta Claus performed by Kurt Rachel and Santana.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Rocking around the Christmas Tree by the New Directions and.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Will Mary's Little Boy Child, Marley, Tina and Unique.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
This is still the only version of the song I've
ever heard. The Chipmunk song Christmas Don't Be Late by
Kurt Rachel and Santana Love Child.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It was performed by the New directions with the Unique
and Marlee and Tina.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And Wayna Manger performed by Kurt Rachel Santana and the
New directions. So this is the first of two episodes
that takes place in the past, the other being two
thousand and nine, which is next season.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
This is the first Christmas episode where the title card
doesn't change.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Okay, They're feeling a little less inspired. This is the
first and only Christmas episode in which Kurt and Blaine
do not sing a duet.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, they were broken up in this time period. This
is the last holiday themed episode of the series.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
During the airing of this episode using the appshzam would
give you a free song whena Manger from the Christmas album.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
In the Australian airing of this episode, the part We're
Santwna tells a child that an iPad would be better
because he can't watch porn on a laptop that was
cut Puritans.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
In the opening, Sue Hangs is stalking loaded with coal
with the name Merit Weave were written on it, an
allusion to the fact that Weaver bat Jane Lynch for
a supporting actress and a comedy at the twenty thirteen
Emmy Awards. That's funny, It's very good.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This episode features the most songs performed in a full
single episode, with three rock around the Christmas Tree, the
Chipmunks song Don't Be Late and Away in a Manger.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Wow, that's surprising. This episode marks the last time Marley
sings in the series What I don't like that?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's weird. Even though this episode was totally unaired from
Christmas last season and takes place in Christmas twenty twelve,
several characters had their season five hairstyles, like Sam with
his long hair.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, that was my first thing. I'm like, uh, you
go wait a second. Yeah, yeah, it's only so much
you can do. No explanation about Britney's fins, sugars, or
Joe's absences are made in this episode.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Either The choir room was given to Suit for Cheerios
rehearsals after losing sectionals. However, the new directions are still
using it in this episode.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So that Santana's says that Brittany Dumpter when it actually
was Santana who broke up with her. Oh yeah, So
in this episode, Sue Sylvester introduces the episode as a
Christmas special that Fox did not allow to air from
last year. You know. This is TV's Jane Lynch speaking
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the members of New Directions auditioned for roles in McKinley's
living Nativity scene. Meanwhile, New York Rachel Curt and Santana
work as Santa Elves at the mall. So this episode
starts off like I said, as America's Jane Lynch introduces
the audience to the show and sets up this whole
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premise that Fox said this episode was too controversial to air.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I was down for that too, I will say though,
and I don't know if people agree with me or not,
but I sometimes have a hard time with holiday episodes
in general when they don't they're not moving the plot
forward because it just feels like a waste of time, agreed,
And this really feels like that because you're now going
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back a full year and like, obviously we didn't need
it for plot because we're a year on from then.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Filler episode is what we call this.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, and so I was just like, what's the point.
I know, but I don't know in theory though, like
Jane standing there talking to America as Jane trusted to
Sue being like, here's the deal, and here's this episode.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't ever feel like our Christmas, this episode has
ever really moved the plot. Correct me if I'm wrong,
somebo of me right in and tell me. But I
just don't feel like those are the ones that generally
are moving the plot in anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, they don't as much. They're more of a sort
of holiday. Yeah that's a special thing.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh yeah, My expectations for this block of episodes is
quite low. And also we're giving everybody grace because of
what happened that sad I did. It wasn't as wild.
I mean there were moments, for sure, it wasn't as
wild as I thought it would be. And there were funny,
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funny moments that really took me. So I was okay
with it. Could I have done about this episode? Sure?
But do I hate it?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah? It's it's my expectations were low. It's not as
bad as I thought it would be. I don't know.
When we started doing this podcast, a big part of
the conversation was about things that probably didn't age well, right, right,
And I feel like it actually hasn't been that bad,
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not as bad as I thought it would have been
at all. Like, it's sure there's a line every now
and then that was like what I felt like, there
was quite a bit in this episode fair enough the
first time, like a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And then my preface said like this, when we went
into shooting this episode, like you know, a lot of
the time, like the things that we were saying back
in two thousand and nine to fifteen, I don't think
we realized were like slightly offensive, but like weren't cancible
actions at the point at that point, like now going
or when we were going into shooting this episode, we
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knew that it was very offensive. Like I felt, I
was like, wow, this is an offensive episode, and I'm
most slightly concerned.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yes, that's correct, And I think that was they were
leaning into the premise of this was so bad that
we weren't going to air it, and so like you
can really go for it, and it's like not really right, right?
Is it funny? Though?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
So in New York, Santenna decides to visit and it
opens with Santana giving Kurt Christmas presents and Rachel comes
in and she says that she has a job for everybody,
and she knows that obviously this could kill their careers.
But she's actually done the research, and so they're all
going to be Christmas elves in the mall. Now, when
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I picture Christmas Elves in the mall, I could picture
a movie like Christmas Story or Elf. These Christmas Elves
in the mall. I don't know where their clothes went,
where did their costumes go? Just I really want to know.
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Not that they didn't look great, but I was like,
what are we doing for these children?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well, that's just the start.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Who were we dressing for?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Like also the idea of doing I don't know, the
stretch of Oh, it's a way for us to get
seen by all the people need to get seen by
working at this mall.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
In the middle of a bunch of moms and dads. Yeah, Glendale, right,
it was. It was a little kooki And then Santa
doesn't show up, so they have to sing, they have
to keep the the kids entertained, and so they do.
Hear comes Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, Santa Claus has it has a little drinking problem, right,
you know.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Which I feel like is a thing on like many
shows and movies. Yes it is, but it's a pretty
miserable job. It is a pretty miserable job. I'm not
gonna lie. We've taken them to meet Santa twice. Now.
First year she was way too young to even know
what was happening, so it was fine. It's a very
cute photo. Last year she cried like screen bloody murdering.
The photo is proof of that. Yeah, this year, I
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decided to skip it all together because I just don't
want to put people through that or myself. Yeah, it
is a pretty miserable, thankless job. Although some kids get
dry out of it, I guess.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, it just seems a little wild. But they are
very funny and they have a they do a great
musical number.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, it's a good musical number. I don't know that
it's kid appropriate completely either.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
None of what is happening at this mall is kid appropriate.
I think that's just the blanket over all of this
is that it's not mildly inappropriate for children. I also
don't know how Nya when she becomes missus Claus, I
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can't says those things to I don't know. I don't
really don't. I don't know, and it was hard to watch.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I don't even know how to talk about this whole
section because it felt so crazy to me, It.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Is crazy, and I think if you had asked anybody why,
it's like this is supposed to be explicit and supposed
to be unairable, but we're airing it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
But it's also like these are still the same characters.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Right, yeah, exactly, We're just not like.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And it felt like, I know Santana says some crazy shit,
but like, would she say that to that many children?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No? No, a full departure. Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Now the part I thought was funny.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh what was the funny part for you?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
This absurd? It almost felt like a fever dream. This
episode felt like a fever dream to me.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But when shirtless Santa Claus comes down and is clearly
up to no good, Cody yeah, and goes back to
their house, they're all partying, they're all getting drunk, Kurt
and Cody are hooking up, and then they wake up
and are robbed.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And kurtis tied up like a reindeer. Yeah I was.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I thought all of that was funny.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Until then, Oh okay, I see, because he's like, wait,
Santana and Rachel waking up on the bed with the
tinsel around their head. It was very funny.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, very good. Like I liked all the love stuff
except Kurt being tied up, Like I'm like, I think
that's a salt it is.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But also that they were robbed too, I didn't mind
that had a part of it. Yeah, I didn't mind
that part of it. I thought it was fine.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And like how that never happens that they're all after
like the same boy ish and like they have this
random stranger and they're partying, and it's like those things
actually do sort of happen, and we haven't seen that
on this show. And they're in New York. It's their
first Christmas there theoretically, and like, yeah, let's see them
be a little crazy, sure, sure, but like not around children.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
No. They also performed the Chipmunk song during that Oh
Lord little whole event, and it's like.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Just getting into the Chipmunk song with the helium what.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He pulls out that thing and I'm like, what is that? Also,
they that song is just God Plagues Me. It is
just one of those songs that my dad used to
have on the cassette tape with the Christmas you know,
the Christmas songs that you listen to during the season
and you'd always be like, just please fast forward to
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this song.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I love that song, to be honest. God, Kevin, I
know you don't like Christmas music in general.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It's a lie. I'm I have performed my ways like
I listen, like I don't mind indoor plants anymore. I
don't mind Christmas music. I'm a changed woman. I'm a
mother now, okay, the joy of Christmas is different for
me now.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Fair see it through a child's eyes.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, but the Chimunk song is just please. It's like
baby shark Please.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
But I was like, okay, I'll allow it because this
is crazy. This episode's crazy, and like we've done Turkey
Lurky in this loft, so you know, why not just
I know?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah? And also like the they did the Chimmunks, but
they used the original Chipmunks I think, and like they
pulled that because that wasn't really that was it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I No, I think it was how because you record
it regularly.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And then you found it like the original. That's why
I was like, wow, that's pretty good. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's because it like I remember, like, yeah, when when
the movies were being made and they're asking like how
they all did that? They were talking. What happens when
you do those like weird affects to your voice. It
takes out like the individual character, so it does end
up sounding robotic, and this very similar. They all sound
the same.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Got it? Okay, fair enough, that's New York. It's wildly inappropriate.
It's very strange. It's it's exactly what I They.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Were doing Bad Santa. They were like, yeah, kids, yeah,
they were fully doing Bad Santa.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Over it. McKinley. There's a whole other thing going on.
So uh. Tina is determined to for the Glee Club
to win the Christmas tree decorating contest this year, the
theme being green. Sue, of course, is the judge, which
makes it even harder. But Tina really wants to win this.
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She thinks it's going to get her all the things
that she wants in life.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
See, this is I don't want to keep talking about
this episode. It's okay, but like it felt like I
love a Tina outburst, right sure, but this sort of
felt like, oh, we're just gonna give Tina an outburst here,
and we're going to give her one there.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Like it didn't feel justified her, Like it felt like
a little worst. Yes, yeah, I can agree with.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You know, I love a Tina Olberst. No, I know,
granted these did make me laugh.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, it was just a little crazy though, a little
extra out of nowhere. Agreed, a little far fetched. I
even felt like when I was shooting this, I was like, Okay,
does she really care about this stuff now? But fine,
they're going to decorate the tree either before walking on
a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I love a little montage everybody decorating. We see like
Stoner Bread and his friends all have like a weed
leaf tree. We're doing a tree, very green, renewable, that's
sort of green, right, and Sue is assuming that, you know,
Glee Club's not going to win. Then there's some wild
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hilarity with Becky and Tina and Sam. It's crazy, and
then Sue actually is like very reasonable this episode, Like
what is she's speaking of? Reformed? She's reformed. She seems
very like she was used to be the grinch and
now she's sort of giving everybody a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
The mild, mild version of herself. Yes, correct, Becky is crazy, though.
The lines that she has given to say with the
missiletoe are insane. I remember shooting that being like, oh
my God like they are letting her say this, like.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
How is this going to be aired? Like? It felt like,
how is this.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Going to I want to lick those Asian tonsils. I'm
gonna make you French mean it because it's Christmas and
I'm loose.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I rewound it to heard that correctly?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Get in there.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know. Moving on, So Glee Club wins the
Christmas competition Christmas Tree decorating Combination. The other thing that's
going on is the McKinley High Non Denominational Christmas Club
are tasked with putting on a live outdoor manger scene okay,
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because the other one was defaced with swastikas and the like.
So Beaston already seemed to be casting the roles in
this as always along with Will towards the end.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And Kitty's not going to audition.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
No, because Kitty knows that that role needs to be
pure and she's not of the caliber of the.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Sort she wants to be. Though she wants it, she
secretly wants it.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Austin walked in right like during that scene with Kitty
like having this like emotional moment, and he's like, what
is happening is Turkey lurky about to be performed. He's like, no,
but I get it. The vibes.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, very similar, very similar.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So the audition that we do see is Mary's boy Child.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Loved Mary's boy Child.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I was actually okay. So we learned that so fast
that Brooke was actually in the front of the stage.
I don't know if you remember shooting this. It was
like at night and Brooke came in and had to
stand in the front of the stage agent do with
the choreo for us because we didn't know it at
all and we didn't have any time to learn it.
So I think we learned it on the fly. We
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also recorded this on the fly.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That makes sense. I giggled, and I don't need to
take offense to this.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I we looked insane.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I giggled at some of your dancing, but it was
your commitment. It was the look on your face. Yeah,
as you were like going squatting down with your shoulders
and elbows moving and just like this glaze over your face,
like yes, this is what I'm doing right now. Yeah,
very serious about it. And Jenna I had like a
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full laugh attack for like thirty seconds. Yeah, and also
just all that. There's like one shot from below and
you look up and you can see how all like
the strings of beads that are this beautiful set are
hung from the very top of the stage all around
this volume. And this is an audition. This is an audition, folks,
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and look at this set. The costumes cost the ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It was a funny one to shoot because I hated
this song so much, like I hated I shot, hate
everything in this episode. I was so angry in everything
in this episode. But yet like watching it, I'm like,
this is ridiculous and it's so funny to me, Like
I couldn't stop laughing during Mary's boy Child. EI there
and I was like, I love it how And I
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hated the number so much I didn't want to be there.
But I had fun doing it, Like I honestly had
fun doing it because the stakes were so low at
that point, right, like right, I didn't know it. I
didn't care.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Anything they were getting was a plus.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It was offensive. We knew this and Melissa and Alex
and I remember I remember us on stage acting like
you know, when Melissa gets a little crazy and she's like, oh,
like that's while we were like the energy the whole number,
and it worked, so yeah, I think it did for
what it was. I'm glad that it gave people some laughter.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I literally I was like, this could just be the
whole episode.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I was laying there like tears in my eyes.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I was like, please, I'm like, I don't want this
number to end. It was so satisfying to watch.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's ridiculous. So Marlee sees the cast list, everybody gets
cast in there in the living Manger and Kitty is
is there and Katy Marley is like, look, if you
really want this part, like we can talk to this sure,
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it's not that serious, like you should have it. And
you could tell that Kitty is wanting this part but
doesn't feel like she deserves it. And then Marlee kind
of relates it to everybody and the whole New Directions
has decided that they're going to stage this room for
for Kitty. Nobody can play this role except for her,
and we're gonna like do this very offensive number to
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offend her to then get her to play this just
decide on her own that she's going to play this role. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
See, I did not remember this plot point at all.
Oh at all. I thought this number was done in
earnest and so because I fully this is where checked.
I'm not proud if I behaved during this episode. This
was this was like my actual breaking point. And you know,
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apologies to anybody on set to Wendy in particular shooting
that Nativity scene, my mustache was like causing some sort
of like allergic reaction and I was itchy and upset
and it was late at night. It's not proud, but
I remember when that number came up, I was like,
what are we doing? But w Now it's like, oh,
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that's fine and context that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I will say this was the Saturday that that scene
was also a Saturday. It was a Saturday morning. I'll
never forget it. We're like, why are we here? Poor Wendy.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That's what it felt like, You're here to do this?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, that dress was so scratchy that we were in
that I had full scabs underneath my arms after it.
I have this photo from it. I can't post because
it's just not appropriate. But I just remember shooting this
number being like, wow, this is really we've really hit
our bottom, like birthing the baby, running around with the baby,
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and it was like you had to commit so hard
because it was so bad. That's what I felt like
in this number. I'm like, I have to commit to
this so hard because we know it's bad. It's supposed
to be bad. If I don't commit to this, it
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actually will make it worse.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But that's the thing. I don't think it's supposed to
be bad. It's supposed to be controversial controversial, but but
I mean, like bad is good when it's funny. But
I didn't think this was good. It's you know, it's
like I'll lose a friend, but I won't lose the joke.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And this just felt like being like controversial for controversial.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Sake, right, And it was to get Kittie to do
this part to it. It was like no, sure, yeah, no,
I I agree. I was. I watched this with my
hand in front of my mouth all the time. I
will say the song is.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Good, the number actually is a good time, and I
love watching the three of you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I mean it's just but yeah, it's not right.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
It's not right.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And then Kitty is like, Okay, we have to do
this to do this right. So I'm gonna play Virgin
Mary and we're like yay, and all's forgotten, right. I
was going on, that's it. No, it's literally it though,
and we're like, yay, it's actually crazy. So we do
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a living manger. Kitty comes out, but we've asked Becky,
who's kind of lost it as well, to be the baby. Jesus,
there is nothing more offensive than this manger.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
All of us are so wrong about doing this right.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
We didn't want to be there for multiple reasons, but
the most glaring one was like, I don't think this
is right. And then she comes out, Lauren Potter comes
out with that thing on, and we were like, we
really have to do this, We really have to do
this now, we really have to do this.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Poor Wendy. Poor Wendy, because you're at the Helm, You're
tasked with getting this job done, of making this work,
and then you have a bunch of assholes like us
who were like, you know, leg it, I don't want
to do it. Yeah, I will say good on you
and Melissa and Alex because you guys had some crazy
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shit to do and you sold it again.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Did it just have to commit?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I mean imagine what that was like though, because we
just did what the fox say, right, and then we're
doing living Nativity scene.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
No, I remember this feeling very chaotic, like.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I know to watch these things back to back too,
but doing it, watching it is only forty four minutes.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Doing it is ten days.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
This was yeah, Saturday, like a two and a half
week thing for us or a two week thing for
us oo.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And then and then Kitty coming out Virgin in the
house bitch is insane. And then they do Waye and
Wayne the Manger, and and then Santana, Hurt and Rachel
are singing like mannekins in a window.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I kind of liked that.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well, I will say thank God for Naya and that
one tiny verse she had because God Blast America. She
that was my favorite part of the whole episode. Was
nice singing that tiny verse in the window.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I loved the window set up. I was like, oh,
this pretty.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'm like, that's where you get seen, That's where you're
bringing the attention of the people that want to see you. Yeah,
it was a it's a it's a weird day people.
This episode is a weird recap. It's a weird episode.
The music itself. There were some moments, but all overall,
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I mean, this might be our lowest average of performances. Yeah,
this might be the one.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I think we're pretty good at be haters.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
No, no, no, no, no, that's okay. I think this one
like it literally is asking for it.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
You know, earned it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
It definitely earned the unaired portion of this title. Let's
grade them. Let's just grade them and get through this,
because I don't want to put these people through anything else.
If you watch this episode with us, thank you and
I'm sure sorry. Here comes stand the Claus B plus
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yeah plus rocking on the Christmas tree B be sure
Mary's Boy Child a fine for for comedic purposes.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We need like this, We needed this. It was a
reprieve from the rest of the chaos. It was beautiful,
beautiful gowns, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Robes, berets, Okay, letters type the Chipmunk song C. Yeah,
love Child? Well, now are we reading the number or
we're reading the song? Because love Child it's different. Like
if we're writing the song on its own, I'm giving
it an A for Alex. If we're giving we're doaving
(30:50):
love Child as a performance overall, I give it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
An F performance an F. I'll give it a C.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, I'll give it a D away in a manger
for nias verse alone, I'm giving it an A. Yeah, Okay,
I enjoyed that solid C minus right there, Kevin, I.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Mean the aches. Honestly, don't even know where to start
with these tarty takes for Auchiese and cringe moments because
whole episode there were so many lines.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And Santana as missus Claus probably was the worst of
it all. I don't even know, right, I think that's
up there with like yeah, Becky, oh yeah, maybe Baby
Jesus Kitty saying super racist and defensive things to unique Antina, right,
and then Santana saying all these insane things to children,
(31:45):
to like actual actual children, being like fat shaming, anti Semitic,
talking about porn, and then Kurt was sexually assaulted right that.
So okay, where do we go from there? Okay? Only
up best dance.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Moves, your guys, dance that you learned on the fly,
Oh Mary's boy Child, okay, Mary's boy Child, but especially
specifically Space. There was one times like you didn't move
enough and like Melissa goes too much, and then Alex
(32:29):
is in like getting in front of you, and oh god,
it was so good, but like the arms out and
bent you know and like, I just love it. It's so beautiful,
like you're hitting some poses.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Best song love Child, no way in a manger.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm going Mary's boy Child, No.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Fine, it's the safest bet performance by prop the Christmas Mouth.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
That was so sweet. I really liked that scene. By
the way, Jam, Yeah, I like that you and Sam
had this like thing figured out, like the actual answers
for susansane questions, and it was smart and thought through.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
We were prepared, We were prepared. I did enjoy that
Douglas fir uh best line, Oh God, I don't know. Honestly,
I like Jane's intro.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I did too, I'll give her that. I also liked
Blaine's like joy to then everyone's shut up, and I
agree with you. I think Becky's saying yes, I can't Shipper.
It was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, the fact that she just called him stripper, not
the whole line or anything like the Yeah, the nicknames
are funny. Performs MVP.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I don't know, Alex, give it to Alex, Alex saying down.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, exactly, great, we did it.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
God, thank god you. Honestly I can't and I know
some of you are going to say if you get it,
you get it, and if you don't, you don't. I honestly, no,
we get it. We get it, And I think that's
giving it too much credit.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, the exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Okay, So should we found on TikTok is a profound,
profound moment. I I I heart mk on TikTok says
I've been waiting to tell her, wanting to tell her,
and it's a video saying, is someone going to tell Rachel?
Is someone going to tell Rachel Barry that her dad
is the Wizard of Oz and that her birth mother
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is the Wicked Witch of the West. That's funny, very
appropriate with wicked. Dan loved that.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
That's very funny, very good. It's okay. Well, we got
through that one, Kevin, and I'm grateful that you guys
all stuck with us. If if you did, if not,
we get it. But you don't want to miss up. Next,
we have Jacob Artists and Becatobin, so the Fab four
is together and it's just going to be a good time, truly,
(35:28):
we haven't been together in a very long time. And
then we've got some really fun holiday episodes for you guys,
and then we come back with one of my favorites
of this season. Front of Me is Kevin. That includes
Whenever I Call You Friend, Brave, Don't rand on My Parade,
the Santana Version, and Kevin's one of Kevin's favorite numbers, Breakaway.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And according to Twitter, it's there was a poll. This
person made a poll of the best trio songs on Glee.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Breakaway is definitely up there.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Breakway is up there.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well, I have to agree. Thanks for joining.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Us and that's what you really missed or not. Thanks
for listening and follow us on Instagram at and That's
what you really miss pod. Make sure to write us
a review and leave us five stars. See you next time.
And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin An iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to you, and that's what you really missed Podcasts
Season five, episode eight. Oh, the previously unaired Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Okay, maybe I should have stayed unhaired.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
That was their excuse. So last time it was gas
and this time it's it's literally it wasn't great, It
wasn't good enough to air, but we're gonna air it
anyway now. So just like prefacing basically in this metal
way of being like it was. It was crazy. I
(00:46):
have a lot of memories from this.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You were all over this episode, Jenna.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I was. I don't think I realized how much I
was in this episode though.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You made me laugh out loud several times. I did
all by myself and that's great.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So this episode originally aired December fifth, twenty thirteen. The
number one song in the country was Royals by.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Lord, number one movie Hunger Games Catching Fire.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And in Glee News. On December third, Glee the Music
That Christmas Album, Volume four was released, featuring six bestive
tracks from episode eight of the season. So Wendy Stansler
was back directing.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And God bless her for this because I I this
episode is very vivid in my memory. I guess it
does make sense because I wasn't a lot of it
and having Wendy there made it better. I remember, I
loved Wendy. I loved working with her. I thought she
always did a really great job with what she had
to work with, and sometimes it was a little funky,
(01:51):
as this episode is a little funky. Uh, I thought
she did a great job. So there's a lot of
songs to a lot of music and a lot quite
a few Well, no, that's not true Mary's Little Boy Child,
but was the one that I was just like, what's
the song? I never heard it before. I have zero
(02:14):
recollection of recording a lot of these songs, but I
sang on a lot of these songs. Let's start with here,
Comatanta Claus performed by Kurt Rachel and Santana.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Rocking around the Christmas Tree by the New Directions and.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Will Mary's Little Boy Child, Marley, Tina and Unique.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
This is still the only version of the song I've
ever heard. The Chipmunk song Christmas Don't Be Late by
Kurt Rachel and Santana Love Child.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It was performed by the New directions with the Unique
and Marlee and Tina.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And Wayna Manger performed by Kurt Rachel Santana and the
New directions. So this is the first of two episodes
that takes place in the past, the other being two
thousand and nine, which is next season.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
This is the first Christmas episode where the title card
doesn't change.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Okay, They're feeling a little less inspired. This is the
first and only Christmas episode in which Kurt and Blaine
do not sing a duet.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, they were broken up in this time period. This
is the last holiday themed episode of the series.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
During the airing of this episode using the appshzam would
give you a free song whena Manger from the Christmas album.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
In the Australian airing of this episode, the part We're
Santwna tells a child that an iPad would be better
because he can't watch porn on a laptop that was
cut Puritans.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
In the opening, Sue Hangs is stalking loaded with coal
with the name Merit Weave were written on it, an
allusion to the fact that Weaver bat Jane Lynch for
a supporting actress and a comedy at the twenty thirteen
Emmy Awards. That's funny, It's very good.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This episode features the most songs performed in a full
single episode, with three rock around the Christmas Tree, the
Chipmunks song Don't Be Late and Away in a Manger.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Wow, that's surprising. This episode marks the last time Marley
sings in the series What I don't like that?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's weird. Even though this episode was totally unaired from
Christmas last season and takes place in Christmas twenty twelve,
several characters had their season five hairstyles, like Sam with
his long hair.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, that was my first thing. I'm like, uh, you
go wait a second. Yeah, yeah, it's only so much
you can do. No explanation about Britney's fins, sugars, or
Joe's absences are made in this episode.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Either The choir room was given to Suit for Cheerios
rehearsals after losing sectionals. However, the new directions are still
using it in this episode.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So that Santana's says that Brittany Dumpter when it actually
was Santana who broke up with her. Oh yeah, So
in this episode, Sue Sylvester introduces the episode as a
Christmas special that Fox did not allow to air from
last year. You know. This is TV's Jane Lynch speaking
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the members of New Directions auditioned for roles in McKinley's
living Nativity scene. Meanwhile, New York Rachel Curt and Santana
work as Santa Elves at the mall. So this episode
starts off like I said, as America's Jane Lynch introduces
the audience to the show and sets up this whole
(05:41):
premise that Fox said this episode was too controversial to air.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I was down for that too, I will say though,
and I don't know if people agree with me or not,
but I sometimes have a hard time with holiday episodes
in general when they don't they're not moving the plot
forward because it just feels like a waste of time, agreed,
And this really feels like that because you're now going
(06:10):
back a full year and like, obviously we didn't need
it for plot because we're a year on from then.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Filler episode is what we call this.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, and so I was just like, what's the point.
I know, but I don't know in theory though, like
Jane standing there talking to America as Jane trusted to
Sue being like, here's the deal, and here's this episode.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't ever feel like our Christmas, this episode has
ever really moved the plot. Correct me if I'm wrong,
somebo of me right in and tell me. But I
just don't feel like those are the ones that generally
are moving the plot in anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, they don't as much. They're more of a sort
of holiday. Yeah that's a special thing.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh yeah, My expectations for this block of episodes is
quite low. And also we're giving everybody grace because of
what happened that sad I did. It wasn't as wild.
I mean there were moments, for sure, it wasn't as
wild as I thought it would be. And there were funny,
(07:18):
funny moments that really took me. So I was okay
with it. Could I have done about this episode? Sure?
But do I hate it?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah? It's it's my expectations were low. It's not as
bad as I thought it would be. I don't know.
When we started doing this podcast, a big part of
the conversation was about things that probably didn't age well, right, right,
And I feel like it actually hasn't been that bad,
(07:50):
not as bad as I thought it would have been
at all. Like, it's sure there's a line every now
and then that was like what I felt like, there
was quite a bit in this episode fair enough the
first time, like a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And then my preface said like this, when we went
into shooting this episode, like you know, a lot of
the time, like the things that we were saying back
in two thousand and nine to fifteen, I don't think
we realized were like slightly offensive, but like weren't cancible
actions at the point at that point, like now going
or when we were going into shooting this episode, we
(08:25):
knew that it was very offensive. Like I felt, I
was like, wow, this is an offensive episode, and I'm
most slightly concerned.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yes, that's correct, And I think that was they were
leaning into the premise of this was so bad that
we weren't going to air it, and so like you
can really go for it, and it's like not really right, right?
Is it funny? Though?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
So in New York, Santenna decides to visit and it
opens with Santana giving Kurt Christmas presents and Rachel comes
in and she says that she has a job for everybody,
and she knows that obviously this could kill their careers.
But she's actually done the research, and so they're all
going to be Christmas elves in the mall. Now, when
(09:22):
I picture Christmas Elves in the mall, I could picture
a movie like Christmas Story or Elf. These Christmas Elves
in the mall. I don't know where their clothes went,
where did their costumes go? Just I really want to know.
(09:46):
Not that they didn't look great, but I was like,
what are we doing for these children?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well, that's just the start.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Who were we dressing for?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Like also the idea of doing I don't know, the
stretch of Oh, it's a way for us to get
seen by all the people need to get seen by
working at this mall.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
In the middle of a bunch of moms and dads. Yeah, Glendale, right,
it was. It was a little kooki And then Santa
doesn't show up, so they have to sing, they have
to keep the the kids entertained, and so they do.
Hear comes Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, Santa Claus has it has a little drinking problem, right,
you know.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Which I feel like is a thing on like many
shows and movies. Yes it is, but it's a pretty
miserable job. It is a pretty miserable job. I'm not
gonna lie. We've taken them to meet Santa twice. Now.
First year she was way too young to even know
what was happening, so it was fine. It's a very
cute photo. Last year she cried like screen bloody murdering.
The photo is proof of that. Yeah, this year, I
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decided to skip it all together because I just don't
want to put people through that or myself. Yeah, it
is a pretty miserable, thankless job. Although some kids get
dry out of it, I guess.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, it just seems a little wild. But they are
very funny and they have a they do a great
musical number.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, it's a good musical number. I don't know that
it's kid appropriate completely either.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
None of what is happening at this mall is kid appropriate.
I think that's just the blanket over all of this
is that it's not mildly inappropriate for children. I also
don't know how Nya when she becomes missus Claus, I
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can't says those things to I don't know. I don't
really don't. I don't know, and it was hard to watch.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I don't even know how to talk about this whole
section because it felt so crazy to me, It.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Is crazy, and I think if you had asked anybody why,
it's like this is supposed to be explicit and supposed
to be unairable, but we're airing it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
But it's also like these are still the same characters.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Right, yeah, exactly, We're just not like.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And it felt like, I know Santana says some crazy shit,
but like, would she say that to that many children?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No? No, a full departure. Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Now the part I thought was funny.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh what was the funny part for you?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
This absurd? It almost felt like a fever dream. This
episode felt like a fever dream to me.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But when shirtless Santa Claus comes down and is clearly
up to no good, Cody yeah, and goes back to
their house, they're all partying, they're all getting drunk, Kurt
and Cody are hooking up, and then they wake up
and are robbed.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And kurtis tied up like a reindeer. Yeah I was.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I thought all of that was funny.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Until then, Oh okay, I see, because he's like, wait,
Santana and Rachel waking up on the bed with the
tinsel around their head. It was very funny.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, very good. Like I liked all the love stuff
except Kurt being tied up, Like I'm like, I think
that's a salt it is.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But also that they were robbed too, I didn't mind
that had a part of it. Yeah, I didn't mind
that part of it. I thought it was fine.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And like how that never happens that they're all after
like the same boy ish and like they have this
random stranger and they're partying, and it's like those things
actually do sort of happen, and we haven't seen that
on this show. And they're in New York. It's their
first Christmas there theoretically, and like, yeah, let's see them
be a little crazy, sure, sure, but like not around children.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
No. They also performed the Chipmunk song during that Oh
Lord little whole event, and it's like.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Just getting into the Chipmunk song with the helium what.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He pulls out that thing and I'm like, what is that? Also,
they that song is just God Plagues Me. It is
just one of those songs that my dad used to
have on the cassette tape with the Christmas you know,
the Christmas songs that you listen to during the season
and you'd always be like, just please fast forward to
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this song.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I love that song, to be honest. God, Kevin, I
know you don't like Christmas music in general.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It's a lie. I'm I have performed my ways like
I listen, like I don't mind indoor plants anymore. I
don't mind Christmas music. I'm a changed woman. I'm a
mother now, okay, the joy of Christmas is different for
me now.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Fair see it through a child's eyes.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, but the Chimunk song is just please. It's like
baby shark Please.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
But I was like, okay, I'll allow it because this
is crazy. This episode's crazy, and like we've done Turkey
Lurky in this loft, so you know, why not just
I know?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah? And also like the they did the Chimmunks, but
they used the original Chipmunks I think, and like they
pulled that because that wasn't really that was it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I No, I think it was how because you record
it regularly.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And then you found it like the original. That's why
I was like, wow, that's pretty good. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's because it like I remember, like, yeah, when when
the movies were being made and they're asking like how
they all did that? They were talking. What happens when
you do those like weird affects to your voice. It
takes out like the individual character, so it does end
up sounding robotic, and this very similar. They all sound
the same.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Got it? Okay, fair enough, that's New York. It's wildly inappropriate.
It's very strange. It's it's exactly what I They.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Were doing Bad Santa. They were like, yeah, kids, yeah,
they were fully doing Bad Santa.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Over it. McKinley. There's a whole other thing going on.
So uh. Tina is determined to for the Glee Club
to win the Christmas tree decorating contest this year, the
theme being green. Sue, of course, is the judge, which
makes it even harder. But Tina really wants to win this.
(16:22):
She thinks it's going to get her all the things
that she wants in life.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
See, this is I don't want to keep talking about
this episode. It's okay, but like it felt like I
love a Tina outburst, right sure, but this sort of
felt like, oh, we're just gonna give Tina an outburst here,
and we're going to give her one there.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Like it didn't feel justified her, Like it felt like
a little worst. Yes, yeah, I can agree with.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You know, I love a Tina Olberst. No, I know,
granted these did make me laugh.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, it was just a little crazy though, a little
extra out of nowhere. Agreed, a little far fetched. I
even felt like when I was shooting this, I was like, Okay,
does she really care about this stuff now? But fine,
they're going to decorate the tree either before walking on
a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I love a little montage everybody decorating. We see like
Stoner Bread and his friends all have like a weed
leaf tree. We're doing a tree, very green, renewable, that's
sort of green, right, and Sue is assuming that, you know,
Glee Club's not going to win. Then there's some wild
(17:35):
hilarity with Becky and Tina and Sam. It's crazy, and
then Sue actually is like very reasonable this episode, Like
what is she's speaking of? Reformed? She's reformed. She seems
very like she was used to be the grinch and
now she's sort of giving everybody a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
The mild, mild version of herself. Yes, correct, Becky is crazy, though.
The lines that she has given to say with the
missiletoe are insane. I remember shooting that being like, oh
my God like they are letting her say this, like.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
How is this going to be aired? Like? It felt like,
how is this.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Going to I want to lick those Asian tonsils. I'm
gonna make you French mean it because it's Christmas and
I'm loose.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I rewound it to heard that correctly?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Get in there.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know. Moving on, So Glee Club wins the
Christmas competition Christmas Tree decorating Combination. The other thing that's
going on is the McKinley High Non Denominational Christmas Club
are tasked with putting on a live outdoor manger scene okay,
(18:57):
because the other one was defaced with swastikas and the like.
So Beaston already seemed to be casting the roles in
this as always along with Will towards the end.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And Kitty's not going to audition.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
No, because Kitty knows that that role needs to be
pure and she's not of the caliber of the.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Sort she wants to be. Though she wants it, she
secretly wants it.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Austin walked in right like during that scene with Kitty
like having this like emotional moment, and he's like, what
is happening is Turkey lurky about to be performed. He's like, no,
but I get it. The vibes.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, very similar, very similar.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So the audition that we do see is Mary's boy Child.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Loved Mary's boy Child.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I was actually okay. So we learned that so fast
that Brooke was actually in the front of the stage.
I don't know if you remember shooting this. It was
like at night and Brooke came in and had to
stand in the front of the stage agent do with
the choreo for us because we didn't know it at
all and we didn't have any time to learn it.
So I think we learned it on the fly. We
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also recorded this on the fly.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That makes sense. I giggled, and I don't need to
take offense to this.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I we looked insane.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I giggled at some of your dancing, but it was
your commitment. It was the look on your face. Yeah,
as you were like going squatting down with your shoulders
and elbows moving and just like this glaze over your face,
like yes, this is what I'm doing right now. Yeah,
very serious about it. And Jenna I had like a
(20:39):
full laugh attack for like thirty seconds. Yeah, and also
just all that. There's like one shot from below and
you look up and you can see how all like
the strings of beads that are this beautiful set are
hung from the very top of the stage all around
this volume. And this is an audition. This is an audition, folks,
(21:04):
and look at this set. The costumes cost the ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It was a funny one to shoot because I hated
this song so much, like I hated I shot, hate
everything in this episode. I was so angry in everything
in this episode. But yet like watching it, I'm like,
this is ridiculous and it's so funny to me, Like
I couldn't stop laughing during Mary's boy Child. EI there
and I was like, I love it how And I
(21:34):
hated the number so much I didn't want to be there.
But I had fun doing it, Like I honestly had
fun doing it because the stakes were so low at
that point, right, like right, I didn't know it. I
didn't care.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Anything they were getting was a plus.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It was offensive. We knew this and Melissa and Alex
and I remember I remember us on stage acting like
you know, when Melissa gets a little crazy and she's like, oh,
like that's while we were like the energy the whole number,
and it worked, so yeah, I think it did for
what it was. I'm glad that it gave people some laughter.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I literally I was like, this could just be the
whole episode.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I was laying there like tears in my eyes.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I was like, please, I'm like, I don't want this
number to end. It was so satisfying to watch.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's ridiculous. So Marlee sees the cast list, everybody gets
cast in there in the living Manger and Kitty is
is there and Katy Marley is like, look, if you
really want this part, like we can talk to this sure,
(22:46):
it's not that serious, like you should have it. And
you could tell that Kitty is wanting this part but
doesn't feel like she deserves it. And then Marlee kind
of relates it to everybody and the whole New Directions
has decided that they're going to stage this room for
for Kitty. Nobody can play this role except for her,
and we're gonna like do this very offensive number to
(23:12):
offend her to then get her to play this just
decide on her own that she's going to play this role. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
See, I did not remember this plot point at all.
Oh at all. I thought this number was done in
earnest and so because I fully this is where checked.
I'm not proud if I behaved during this episode. This
was this was like my actual breaking point. And you know,
(23:39):
apologies to anybody on set to Wendy in particular shooting
that Nativity scene, my mustache was like causing some sort
of like allergic reaction and I was itchy and upset
and it was late at night. It's not proud, but
I remember when that number came up, I was like,
what are we doing? But w Now it's like, oh,
(24:02):
that's fine and context that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I will say this was the Saturday that that scene
was also a Saturday. It was a Saturday morning. I'll
never forget it. We're like, why are we here? Poor Wendy.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That's what it felt like, You're here to do this?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, that dress was so scratchy that we were in
that I had full scabs underneath my arms after it.
I have this photo from it. I can't post because
it's just not appropriate. But I just remember shooting this
number being like, wow, this is really we've really hit
our bottom, like birthing the baby, running around with the baby,
(24:46):
and it was like you had to commit so hard
because it was so bad. That's what I felt like
in this number. I'm like, I have to commit to
this so hard because we know it's bad. It's supposed
to be bad. If I don't commit to this, it
(25:06):
actually will make it worse.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But that's the thing. I don't think it's supposed to
be bad. It's supposed to be controversial controversial, but but
I mean, like bad is good when it's funny. But
I didn't think this was good. It's you know, it's
like I'll lose a friend, but I won't lose the joke.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And this just felt like being like controversial for controversial.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Sake, right, And it was to get Kittie to do
this part to it. It was like no, sure, yeah, no,
I I agree. I was. I watched this with my
hand in front of my mouth all the time. I
will say the song is.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Good, the number actually is a good time, and I
love watching the three of you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I mean it's just but yeah, it's not right.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
It's not right.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And then Kitty is like, Okay, we have to do
this to do this right. So I'm gonna play Virgin
Mary and we're like yay, and all's forgotten, right. I
was going on, that's it. No, it's literally it though,
and we're like, yay, it's actually crazy. So we do
(26:33):
a living manger. Kitty comes out, but we've asked Becky,
who's kind of lost it as well, to be the baby. Jesus,
there is nothing more offensive than this manger.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
All of us are so wrong about doing this right.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
We didn't want to be there for multiple reasons, but
the most glaring one was like, I don't think this
is right. And then she comes out, Lauren Potter comes
out with that thing on, and we were like, we
really have to do this, We really have to do
this now, we really have to do this.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Poor Wendy. Poor Wendy, because you're at the Helm, You're
tasked with getting this job done, of making this work,
and then you have a bunch of assholes like us
who were like, you know, leg it, I don't want
to do it. Yeah, I will say good on you
and Melissa and Alex because you guys had some crazy
(27:43):
shit to do and you sold it again.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Did it just have to commit?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I mean imagine what that was like though, because we
just did what the fox say, right, and then we're
doing living Nativity scene.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
No, I remember this feeling very chaotic, like.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I know to watch these things back to back too,
but doing it, watching it is only forty four minutes.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Doing it is ten days.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
This was yeah, Saturday, like a two and a half
week thing for us or a two week thing for
us oo.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And then and then Kitty coming out Virgin in the
house bitch is insane. And then they do Waye and
Wayne the Manger, and and then Santana, Hurt and Rachel
are singing like mannekins in a window.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I kind of liked that.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well, I will say thank God for Naya and that
one tiny verse she had because God Blast America. She
that was my favorite part of the whole episode. Was
nice singing that tiny verse in the window.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I loved the window set up. I was like, oh,
this pretty.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'm like, that's where you get seen, That's where you're
bringing the attention of the people that want to see you. Yeah,
it was a it's a it's a weird day people.
This episode is a weird recap. It's a weird episode.
The music itself. There were some moments, but all overall,
(29:26):
I mean, this might be our lowest average of performances. Yeah,
this might be the one.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I think we're pretty good at be haters.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
No, no, no, no, no, that's okay. I think this one
like it literally is asking for it.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
You know, earned it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
It definitely earned the unaired portion of this title. Let's
grade them. Let's just grade them and get through this,
because I don't want to put these people through anything else.
If you watch this episode with us, thank you and
I'm sure sorry. Here comes stand the Claus B plus
(30:07):
yeah plus rocking on the Christmas tree B be sure
Mary's Boy Child a fine for for comedic purposes.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We need like this, We needed this. It was a
reprieve from the rest of the chaos. It was beautiful,
beautiful gowns, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Robes, berets, Okay, letters type the Chipmunk song C. Yeah,
love Child? Well, now are we reading the number or
we're reading the song? Because love Child it's different. Like
if we're writing the song on its own, I'm giving
it an A for Alex. If we're giving we're doaving
(30:50):
love Child as a performance overall, I give it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
An F performance an F. I'll give it a C.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, I'll give it a D away in a manger
for nias verse alone, I'm giving it an A. Yeah, Okay,
I enjoyed that solid C minus right there, Kevin, I.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Mean the aches. Honestly, don't even know where to start
with these tarty takes for Auchiese and cringe moments because
whole episode there were so many lines.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And Santana as missus Claus probably was the worst of
it all. I don't even know, right, I think that's
up there with like yeah, Becky, oh yeah, maybe Baby
Jesus Kitty saying super racist and defensive things to unique Antina, right,
and then Santana saying all these insane things to children,
(31:45):
to like actual actual children, being like fat shaming, anti Semitic,
talking about porn, and then Kurt was sexually assaulted right that.
So okay, where do we go from there? Okay? Only
up best dance.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Moves, your guys, dance that you learned on the fly,
Oh Mary's boy Child, okay, Mary's boy Child, but especially
specifically Space. There was one times like you didn't move
enough and like Melissa goes too much, and then Alex
(32:29):
is in like getting in front of you, and oh god,
it was so good, but like the arms out and
bent you know and like, I just love it. It's so beautiful,
like you're hitting some poses.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Best song love Child, no way in a manger.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm going Mary's boy Child, No.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Fine, it's the safest bet performance by prop the Christmas Mouth.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
That was so sweet. I really liked that scene. By
the way, Jam, Yeah, I like that you and Sam
had this like thing figured out, like the actual answers
for susansane questions, and it was smart and thought through.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
We were prepared, We were prepared. I did enjoy that
Douglas fir uh best line, Oh God, I don't know. Honestly,
I like Jane's intro.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I did too, I'll give her that. I also liked
Blaine's like joy to then everyone's shut up, and I
agree with you. I think Becky's saying yes, I can't Shipper.
It was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, the fact that she just called him stripper, not
the whole line or anything like the Yeah, the nicknames
are funny. Performs MVP.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I don't know, Alex, give it to Alex, Alex saying down.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, exactly, great, we did it.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
God, thank god you. Honestly I can't and I know
some of you are going to say if you get it,
you get it, and if you don't, you don't. I honestly, no,
we get it. We get it, And I think that's
giving it too much credit.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, the exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Okay, So should we found on TikTok is a profound,
profound moment. I I I heart mk on TikTok says
I've been waiting to tell her, wanting to tell her,
and it's a video saying, is someone going to tell Rachel?
Is someone going to tell Rachel Barry that her dad
is the Wizard of Oz and that her birth mother
(34:57):
is the Wicked Witch of the West. That's funny, very
appropriate with wicked. Dan loved that.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
That's very funny, very good. It's okay. Well, we got
through that one, Kevin, and I'm grateful that you guys
all stuck with us. If if you did, if not,
we get it. But you don't want to miss up. Next,
we have Jacob Artists and Becatobin, so the Fab four
is together and it's just going to be a good time, truly,
(35:28):
we haven't been together in a very long time. And
then we've got some really fun holiday episodes for you guys,
and then we come back with one of my favorites
of this season. Front of Me is Kevin. That includes
Whenever I Call You Friend, Brave, Don't rand on My Parade,
the Santana Version, and Kevin's one of Kevin's favorite numbers, Breakaway.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And according to Twitter, it's there was a poll. This
person made a poll of the best trio songs on Glee.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Breakaway is definitely up there.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Breakway is up there.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well, I have to agree. Thanks for joining.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
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