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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, Welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
You, and that's what you really missed the Rocky High Likely.
I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin. Did you like that, Kevin?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That was really beautiful?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
On theme, I decided I'm going to start using my
singing muscles again.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You know you don't have to on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Very good, very very good.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, whatever, Okay, So this is our first tribute to
a musical episode.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Is it a musical?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Rocky horror?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It's a movie?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah? Is it not? Is that a debate? Is that
like as a hot dog a sandwich?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Is that No? No, not as deep as that. But
I do think I don't know they're singing in it.
It's a musical, is it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
If there was singing, there are performances. It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Czy Jones and six in the six a musical TV show?
Or is it a TV show with music? I haven't
seen it. I can't coll Okay, whatever, don't fight, We're
so spicy. Okay. Anyway, Yes, this is the first tribute
to a musical. As Kevin McHale said.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was also our Halloween episode that originally aired on
October twenty sixth, twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
The number one song was like a G six, so
we have moved on from Bruno Mars classic song. The
number one movie was Paranormal Activity. I don't watch scary movies.
Neither did Kevin. No, absolutely not. But did you see
this one? No?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
This was the sequel. I saw the first one because
Leah forced me to watch it, and that was enough.
That's all I needed.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
To see, right, thousand percent. Don't need to see it,
don't need to see it, So Glee News This the Week.
On October twenty eighth, Leah and Matt Morrison performed the
Rocky Horror thirty fifth anniversary tribute show at the Wiltern
in La Lee's Janet and Matt was Brad, which is
(02:20):
kind of weird because mister she is our teacher, but
not really weird. And Barry Boswick and Tim Curry were
there amazing raising money for the Paint Eternal Summer Camp
for children who are terminally ill or chronically ill. So
that's awesome that they did that. I didn't. I don't
think I remember that. I don't remember that at all. Cool,
(02:42):
cool memory. Maybe they didn't tell us about it, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So this episode we had a new director and this
was his first episode with this.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now a friend, a wonderful friend.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Adam.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, Adam Shankman, who directed a million other movies that
you love, made a wedding planner. Sorry, yeah, the wedding
planner A Walk to Remember. I mean, that was the
one that locked me in. I was like, and he
always makes a cameo in all of his stuff. Does
you notice him?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, he's in a Walk to Remember. I can't remember
where he was, definitely in wedding planner, I just don't
remember where. And then I think he tried to get
himself engly and I don't remember if he actually got
himself in, but he always tries.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And he most recently directed Disenchanted.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I mean a million things. He produced the new hocus
Pocus revival reboot, whatever you want to call it, Kevin.
We also went to a couple of folloween parties. We
sure did. There was Aaron Krueger mkesh's our key makeup
(03:59):
friend who throws like the most epic holloween parties. We
went to her party. What do we dress up that as? That?
That year?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Was that? The year that we did it?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Wasts No, I wasn't in rugrats. Oh what you resist?
Then this was the gingerbread man.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
This was the cheap one.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, so I I actually pulled this together thanks to
the props department at Glee. I got a stethoscope and
a name tag. And I was Christina Yang from Grey's Anatomy.
Thank you props. And Kevin was the Walmart gingerbread Man,
(04:40):
not the buttons. Naya was the girl in the box.
In the box, she looked fabulous. Yea. At some point
it ended up that you were in the box and
she was wearing the gingerbread. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And I and I switching outfits.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Always always, always, always. And then Telly was Ursula and
he spent a lot of time on his.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Costume in your bathroom, didn't because I remember to our
house to get ready, right? Did this help him get ready?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah? We did his makeup. Nia and I each took
one eye and we just puffed like all this crazy face.
But he took a lot of time in creating his
costume in weeks before. So Aaron helped him airbrush the
tentacles and put the little suctions on the tentacles. He
stuffed the tentacles anyway, we could go on about this party,
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but it was. It was one for the books. Nia
and I also went to Diana's Halloween party like two
nights before that. Oh, we're tootored and booted. Did I
go to that one? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
What was the one that she had at like her
Alice in Wonderland house and Grant and I a dress
as the same like sad clown. That was my birthday.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Party, wasn't it? Oh no, no, no, that was the
one me and Diana threw together. So Diane and I
threw a Halloween party. Everybody always remembers it Diana's because
it was her house. But we threw that together.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh really, mm hmmm, because you're already gone, Grant came over,
We got ready together, made up a costume right before.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's right with your little tear jobs. Yes, yes, Diana
loved the party. But she threw a Halloween party and
I and I last minute, we're like, we're gonna go,
and she didn't have any furniture in the house yet,
so that's right. We were just dancing away. It was
really fun. Lots of Halloween stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So much fun Halloween stuff. This episode also has some
great cameos from actual Rocky Horror people. Barry Bosswic and
meat Loaf are both in this episode. Recording Nick Sylvester
John Stamos is back and just crushing it and singing
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his face off.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Obviously, and all the songs are I'm thinking, like the
God that's not like all Rocky hartr. And then there's
one song like like Brittany, Like Brittany with at the
end of Rocky Heart. There's only exception. Again, we had
science fiction double feature. There's a light damn it, Janet,
(07:19):
what happened to Saturday Night? Sweet Transpatite to touch Me
time Warp? What a lineup?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, I have such distinct memories of some of these. Yes,
it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What a fun episode. It was also so hard this episode.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, I feel like that's that's what this is gonna be.
So there's not a lot of story, right, not a
lot of huge changes, but here we go. So okay,
Will learns that Emma loves Rocky Horror Picture Show and
has been going to it with Carl, and he gets
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seethingly jealous. So he decides to make this week's Glee assignment.
I'm doing the Rocky Horror Picture show as they're musical,
and he goes to cast it, and then Finn gets
a little worried about his image. Will gets in trouble
with Carl and Sue is obviously trying to bring down
the Glee Club again.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Always okay, Rocky horror casting that. Yeah, So Frankenforter was
Mike Chang. He was no longer allowed to play it
because his parents didn't know, and so Mercedes takes that
one on. We've got Janet who Rachel plays Brad is
(08:42):
Finn or Finn is Brad, Kurt is riff Raff, which
is so good. I remember Chris really loving Rocky Heart right, Yes,
he's very excited to play Rifraf. Quentin Santana, we're double
casteris Magenta. Tina and Brittany were double casters Columbia, Sam
and Will were both Rocky and Carl and Mike rore Eddie.
(09:02):
And then we've got the usher at Trixie with Santana
and the Transylvanians were Mercedes, Tina, Quinn and Artie. So
we were playing a lot of characters because there's only
so many test members. So I know that Staymos had
mentioned that he was supposed to play Frankfurter at one point,
and it kind of got cabashed early on, and so
(09:25):
I asked Ian what he remembered from that time, and
he wrote me a voice note, but it didn't work,
so he texted it to me. So I'm just gonna
read what he said, or part of what he said.
He said, Oh my god, I think this is the
first time I've ever done a voice text because I'm
one million years old. I don't remember what happened, but
(09:51):
my voice is really foggy. I sound like a sexy lady.
I might be conflating with plot of the show. My
gut when you first asked that question was like, I
think it was a note from the studio or the network,
like we can't have a grown up man cavorting in,
like I don't know with television teenagers, So which is
(10:16):
what we thought, right, And then he said that it
was other than that, It was a really fun episode
but hard to write because there were changes like that,
and he was like, oh, wait, we're not doing that now,
and then so trying to figure out who was cast
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as what was really weird. So that's basically what he said.
That was like being in Ian's brain for one second.
So what I took from that was it sounded like
a studio network note that like it couldn't be a
grown man playing a part, which is why Eddie. He
became Eddie. Then Harry became Eddie and it didn't work
(10:59):
out at all. So before we did this, I had
never seen Rocky Horror. And you sat me down at
our house and we watched it together. We did yeah,
and I was like what. And I was like, you
don't get this unless there's a performances. That's right. I
have to see it until two thousand and five four,
(11:22):
so I was only a little bit behind you or
ahead of you. My college had the orientation week. One
of the nights or the first night was you go
to see Rocky Horror performed such a musical theater school,
so we want it like midnight we watched.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay, I gotta say, Adam Shankman crushed this episode. I mean,
and I noticed something this time that I've I haven't
noticed before that Maybe I just didn't I wasn't paying attention.
But everything Adam Shankman directs makes you feel good. I
don't know if I don't know how you know we
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have the same writers doing everything the same directors coming
in and out, and maybe it's just this episode is that,
and we'll see when we get to other Shankman episodes,
but okay, let's clock it. I feel I felt like
I was wrapped in a warm blanket, like it was
just like a really pleasant episode, as crazy as rocky
horror is, right, it just felt nice and warm, and.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That is interesting. Well, he also felt made us feel
that way. Yes, behind me.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He changed things up. So we had Eric Stultz the
week before, who obviously had his you know, rules and
things that he liked. Shankman, who comes from his choreographer
originally comes from the music world. He was in the
recording studio with us, which never happened, that's right. That
was the first time a director had been the recording
studio with us since Ryan during the pilot So Funny
(12:58):
or the first Showman. So he really knew exactly who
was going to be singing what at what time and
every single shot to plan all these things out. And
it was very nerve wracking because you know, he's a
big deal and I met him in this recording studio,
I was like, oh God, and I really had anything
like to the left so that's all I had to say.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Well, and him and Zach also worked together a lot
back in the movie and yeah, so that was nice.
Like Zach was like, oh yeah right, he was like,
you know, oh yeah, Shankan's coming. Like at that point,
anybody's actually yeah, great and this is my friend. I've
worked with this person. You're like, great, come on in,
join join the party. So Shankman became one of our
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favorites and just like a really good friends human and yeah,
a really good friend. And he worked with Naya on
uh step up. Also postally, I think most of this
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episode plot wise, I mean I think I know it
revolves mainly around the production of the musical because we've
never done a tribute to a musical. We've never done
a musical in school at all. So it was I
was like, oh, well, the school does musicals now, so
(14:35):
do we do that again? Do we ever do it again?
I don't think so. I don't think we'll have to
discover the mule. Well, no, that's wrong, because Sandy Ryerson did.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wed a story.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
We did West I started and then we did care
About last year. We did Greece too. Yeah we suck
Okay anyway, so.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
The musical is making everybody feel some type of way,
that one of them being Will, you know, getting jealous
because he sees Carl is making Jama Emma feel better
because they're going to these rocky horror screenings, which is
a real thing. You go at midnight and people scream
and participate in dress up. She left the crust on
(15:15):
her sandwich at lunch and again is using the glee
club for personal gain, which has happened, and somehow ropes
Carl and Emma into being a part of the actual
show and helping cast it and do the costumes. It's
a weird, weird thing, weird dynamic, and Carl ends up
(15:41):
getting pissed at Will. We'll get to that. But this
episode starts with Naya's lips singing and it is so good.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
She's so good at stuff like this. Yeah, it's like
also to her teeth look great, I mean, her lips
look great, and her tea looked great. It was a
great shot. I remember them doing this and she stayed
after at the end of the day and she had
like a black around her lips and it was just
(16:17):
it's i mean, always so good.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It was so much fun to get to see everybody
play this too was as amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We we just got to like take it to the
endth degree, right, Everything was like heightened even more than
it's already normally heightened on our show, and so that
was fun. And so this episode plays the first half
plays in a flashback of what happens. So we open
with Carl kind of coming in interrupting the dress rehearsal
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because Will broke their pact of trying to say, staying
away from Emma and not messing with their relationship.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Do you remember filming this.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Briefly? This is vaguely.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't know why. My strongest memory of anything with
this episode is this scene, really because we were back
behind those like wooden cutouts of bushes and trees and
things what felt like for eternity that's right, for so long,
and I remember it was early days of working with Adams,
(17:28):
so we didn't really know how he worked yet. And
when they're shooting wide onto the stage, you know, the
cameras are far away from us, and so we didn't
know what was going on, and we just kept doing
the same things over and over and over, like peeking
out of the bushes, and then we were like all
taking pictures of each other. And I remember the picture taking.
(17:48):
I definitely remember that I have some of those photos too,
And like the stage was filled with all that fog
and people were like, it's making me sick, and I
just felt like we were back there for an entire day.
And it seems like such a quick scene, an easy scene, right,
and we were miserable.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, there are also like a couple of parts to it, right.
You have like them in the back of the you
had chords entrance in sam in the gold, you know,
bikini shorts or whatever you call them, And he still
has those, you know. He always tells me that when
I see him, and he.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Keeps threatening us to put them back on.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's right, put them back on, Cordy, put them back on. Okay.
So yes, I do remembe that now. And I remember
Shank fin like hanging out with us a lot during
the day. Oh, he's really on stage with us. He's
very involved in it. Okay. So so then we rewind
to a week ago. We flashed back where we learned
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that Will is talking to Emma, and he learns that
Emma has been doing all these crazy things, like you said,
and you know, really taking herself out of her comfort
zone and going to the rocker horror shows. And that's
where Will gets his idea to do it as a
school musical with his own agenda, and obviously the glee club.
(19:06):
We are very surprised to hear that we are doing
rocky horror, but like, sure, you know, it's like watching
Going Home and watching MTP. You're like, yeah, I get
to do something fun and racy and out of my
age range or acceptable age range. So we get into
the casting obviously, Rin Rin, Oh that's new is Rachel
(19:32):
and Finn are Brad and Janet.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I loved getting to watch them do damn it Jennet.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Oh my god, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's very much. You know two episodes ago where they
were sabotaging themselves doing that terrible number and it felt
like that sort of camp and it was.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And then and then Quinn, Mercedes and Kurt also playing
in the background of playing such weird things, and I
remember laughing at this, like watching them shoot this and
being like this is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
They were doing so much, so much fun. Yes, I
remember Diana and Chris particularly really thriving this episode.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's right, that's what this is very much in their wheel. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
There are a couple of little talented, talented weirdos and
this is perfect for them.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So we get to see that that number, which is
really fun. And then where are we now? We we
finished the casting, right, Mike volunteers. He's feeling very confident,
so he's going to play Frank and Furter for now,
and then we double cast all the girls, which happens,
and then we watched Damna, Jennet Mercedes. Wait, is this
(20:48):
where Mercedes steps up? Also? Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Oh yeah, let's just talk about that because I mean
it goes a couple of ways. Carl is going to
play Frankenfurter. Well, let's talk about KRL coming in for
because that's what happens first. So Carl threatens, you know,
everyone with a good time, and Emma puts him up
(21:11):
to singing opportunity in the classroom with everyone, which you
know Stamos talked about being nervous doing, and you watch
it and he's just so effortlessly.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Cool and good.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, does this incredible number? And then we was like, well,
I cut that character from the script, so.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Will really has it owl for Carl?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Now I mean, who wouldn't be jealous of Stamos.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, but it didn't seem that way. Like two episodes ago,
he's like cool, but now he's.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Like he's coming for it exactly. And Sue happens to
be there and it's like, no, this is great because
we can still have this character. And Mercedes steps up
and it's like I would like to play lead and
I think I could kill doing sweet transvestite, which she does.
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I mean, she loved doing this. It was so so good.
One of the best versions. Like when we've taken a
song and done our own version. I think this is
one of the best adaptations.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Also, watching Heather and Nya behind her the remember we're
doing so hard and we were watching it and we
got to like kind of hang out there and like
you're in your chair, I'm in the I'm in the
back chair. We're just we're just audience members at this point. Also,
I'd like to point out Mercedes getting an elevator in
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this production. Where did this set come from? And who
funded it? Because this pretty budget. No, like clubs budgets
are getting cut because there's a new football coach, and
yet we had a gigantic set with an elevator that
never gets seen by an audience because the show gets canned.
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And like, when did to get built? When did he
get built? I want to know, we're all stagecraft. When
did they build this?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The timeline was very fuzzy in this episode.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's like I dream of Genie NEETs Glee.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, but that set was incredible, amazing, and it was
just killed.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I mean there was the other scene that happens on
that set where we're doing the bread, you know, that
sort of thing. That's when I looked over at you
and it was you and somebody else.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Like, we're over this. We got to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Because you guys were in the most uncomfortable costumes and wigs.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It was Heather. It was me and Heather. I to
that outfit that I had, the sequin outfit that Heather
and I were double cast as Columbia the tap dancer. Yeah.
I felt like a clown, like a like a like
a Korean grandma clap. You were not down, not happy.
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I don't like wigs. Number one, I don't like to
wear wigs, nake the head of g I don't I
don't like things on me. I don't like a lot
of costumes. The makeup was very out not my favorite,
and I remember Heather and I both being very uncomfortable.
And during the time warp when we were doing the
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time warp, we were there untill like one am, and
I remember it took a really long time. It looked unreal.
I watched it and I was like, Wow, this is awesome,
and everybody was giving one hundred and ten percent even
though we were talking.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
It's you. Also, I think there's there is a difference,
like when Paris directs people that come from music that
do musical numbers fair, Yes, there's a difference. Yes, like
it was flawless. It was so some of the intricacies
of some of these musical numbers were That was also
where I inappropriately read the room and it was like, guys,
but you know, when I look at us, it's like,
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growing up, we would use our imagine and play dress
up and now we're doing that, we're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
For it, and everybody like shut up, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Like shut up, nobody cares wrong time.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh god.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I literally was like I just want everyone to eat rainbows,
and you know did not.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Sorry, that's so funny. No, it's great though easy for
me to say. I had very little to do in
this episode. Well so did I, but the outfits were
just the next level uncomfortable. It's just the sequence were
like scratching. I do just never forget it. I'll never
do it again. That was funny though, because time Warp
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was really really hard.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But it was so much fun to actually shoot though,
Like the couple of minutes we were actually filming it
at a time.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
But we're having a blast. We all looked insane, our
best truly. Will called Emma into the room to talk
about the show and they he decides that he's going
to play Rocky because he thinks it's inappropriate for Sam.
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Sam was feeling self conscious and obviously he has his own,
you know, motivations behind playing something in the show while cross.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
A side note that poor Chord trying to get in
those shorts and was actually eating what he said he
was eating in the.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Episode, which was so stressed, so stressed, probably eating less
than that to be honest. Yeah, I'm sorry, keep going.
He looked great though, but they do touch a touch,
touch me, which again another Brittany Santana moment of just
pure joy. I was I was reeling.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I love this. We found out that this is Jamie's
audition song when she came on, and she sounds so good. Also,
Matt was ripped.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I think, okay, this is my memory of the eyes
in this episode, and we can talk about the storyline
along with it. These guys were all in the same
diet for Rocky Horror. Yeah, they were all working real hard,
and I think I might be wrong. Bradshawchuk was training
that at the time. We're giving him like a regiment
(27:18):
to follow to get ready for this. I remember Corey
being stressed about this, Yeah, because Corey didn't naturally have
to get undressed like Matt did or even Mark at
that time record you know, this was Quart's big debut,
and I remember all of them like stressing hard this episode,
And honestly, I was like, you know what, get it
(27:38):
because the girls have to worry about this all the
time the story much Mimi, I realized it. I really
liked that scene, to be honest, I was like, you
know what, let's let's reverse let's turn the tables on
you guys for one second, which was great, But because.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I remember everyone was obsessed with I think Ryan told
us about like when Mario Lopez was on Niptock and
he had this like sweet potato yes, diet that he
would do to like dehydrate himself or something. And so
then that got passed along to Cord and Matt.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And you eat a lot of sweet potatoes for like
a couple of days and you don't have any water.
It's insane. And then I think the night before you
drink water and your skin sticks to the bone is
kind of like what might understand to the muscle. Oh yeah,
sorry to the muscle to the bone, and it makes
(28:32):
you look real spelt. So I think these guys did
the sweet potato and Di had a couple of times
in the series throughout the series.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Oh absolutely, And it's just it's not a healthy, healthy
thing too.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
We don't support that behavior.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I don't. Also in this episode, we're talking about that scene,
particularly when the girls call out the guys for this
double standard, and Santana says earlier today already asked if
he can make a gigantic almond when I'm done with
ostrich eggs, I'm smuggling in.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
My bra and you have your little mustache and disguise
on them already continuously is wrong, is misogynistic, and sexist
and terrible to women. But they also just throw that
at you. Yeah, they just like somebody to blame, and
then already blames it on internet porn. He altered the
(29:25):
female brain chemistry and made them more like men. There's
more concerned with men's bodies. Stupid, He is stupid, stupid person.
(29:47):
Should we talk about Sue because that's the only thing
that's happening.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yes, So Sue's of course doing one of her incredible
Sue's corners, and we have meat Loaf and Barry Bosswick
who are representing like the network and come in there
and Fox News her and they're like, we want you
to do this undercover story. Let we've heard they're doing
(30:11):
rocky horror. Let them do it, and you're gonna win
a local Emmy. And so Sue then agrees and places
herself in the center of this to the point where
she's in that scene with us that do you remember
filming that scene of all of us doing the janet.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Whatever it is?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It's funny and the scene is edited crazily because I
mean that's how we actually shot it, though, and it
was really hard to get the rhythm of that. Yes,
And we had these scripts and I think, if I
remember correctly, they weren't exactly how we were doing it
in the scene, but they were the scripts from the
(30:54):
scene within the show.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Horror.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
But because all of us are saying the same thing,
but the order changed and Sue had a different line
every time, it took us a hot minute to get it.
And I remember people getting frustrated because we were not totally
nailing it. Ever, I think editing.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Helped us.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Everywhere. I think we're all just getting a little frustrated.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yes, I checked out of that because I wasn't in it. Yeah, fair,
you just check out. Honestly. It was funny to watch, though.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
This whole thing comes like tumbling down because Becky goes
into Shoe's office for candy for Halloween and he's having
me and she's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Come with me.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Because Rocky Horror an abomination. That's what Coach Shoe says,
and then shows him the pre recorded outing of you know,
the investigation that Sue was doing on the Glee Club
and their show, and so will and I have to say,
she made some points I don't necessarily agree with, but
(32:07):
like it was the most reasonable Sue's corner type thing
she had ever done.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah, it was. I guess it was the most focused.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes, focused is the word. And she sits Will down
and she's like, I say anything wrong, And I feel
like that was one of the self rent, self referential
things that Ian talks about, because and I was like, well, no,
I didn't really disagree with it, and you're right, I'm
gonna pull it. And then she gets mad because she
can't want to local Emmy if they don't do the show.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I need Miami, Yeah, which she felt like everyone was.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Everyone was, Yeah, she got a couple. Everyone was getting
to like have a great time and like do really
fun things this episode.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yes, definitely. Yeah, it was different and fun and it
shook things up a little bit, I think. And obviously
having those cameos was really funny. They did a great,
really great job. Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
It felt really special that we got to have Barry Bostwick.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
And I know I didn't get to meet them, though,
did you?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I I don't know, to be.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Honest, I don't know. My dad met Meat Loaf once.
Love Meat. I was at Silver Cup Studios in New
York and we were I was doing a commercial and
he was doing message and doing something outside at Silver
Cup as well, and my dad was outside and meatlof
came out. He's like, hey, getting a cool also.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Like I just incorporating them in that way too was
so sweet?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh you have when those things happened. Yeah, I think
Ryan did that a lot. Honestly, is giving the option
for if it felt right for the show to bring
in people to obviously like have let's have some more
meta meta meta meta?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Were you hoping that we would do any other type
of like any musicals that we did not do, or
like what would you have wanted us to have done?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
You know? I think there was talk, which was weird,
of doing Spring Awakening the musical. Do you remember that?
Oh that would have been extra meta? And I don't
know if it was real, but I know that it
would have been super meta for you know, for me
and Leah. And I was like almost too because she
(34:25):
would have played herself, which is like kind of weird.
I don't think you were, Yeah, but I thought that
would have been fun. And then another show did do it,
another TV show.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
There was a show that came out, was it Rise?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Is that what it was called?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Years later?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah? Rise did that's right, which makes sense. Its young
young show. Yeah, no. I you know, the focus wasn't
really on the school musicals, so I don't really feel
like I I thought about it all that all that much.
To be honest. West Side Story that was really fun
and I'm glad I had like a bigger part in it.
I also had a bigger part in Greece, which was weird.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I don't think I was really in either of those.
I don't really remember them.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You directed Greece, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I think, yeah, like I was not in all those scenes.
So yeah, I mean that's sort of it. That is
sort of the episode. It's it's very much built.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Around the tribute to Rocky Horror, so I mean, in theory,
it's another tribute episode.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And it really got to show off everyone. It showed
off Yeah Stamos is singing abilities, it showed off Chord's body,
It showed off all of your guys's bodies. Like those
outfits were insane. They work pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
M hm. I remember being like, oh wow, these are yeah,
but Columbia outphit was not my favorite, but the other
ones I was like I could be this in this
for a long time. The Black outfit, I was like, yeah,
put me in this of it forever. It was actually
easier than some of Tina's actual clothes. So should we
(35:59):
do some tarty tape, Let's do it? Okay, cringe moment Artie,
Artie for sure saying those terrible things. And I would
also say when Mike says why he can't do it,
he says his parents want him playing a tranny. Right,
that doesn't work. No, that's going to be a no
(36:22):
for me. Dog.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And also you know Artie's casual misogyny. So there's all
that worst dance move.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
I mean, there's so many good dance moves. To be honest,
there's a lot of good dances. That's not a lot
of good ones. Yeah, I think the time word was
one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I think we should change this permanently to best dance
move because that's what we end up doing a lot
of the time. Let's do it, so this is going
to be best dance move from hearing out best dance move? Wow,
I mean, I mean Sweet Transvestite was pretty great.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
That's true. I just don't know that it was like, Yes,
I guess the dancing was really cute in that as well,
but I think I liked all the background, like sor
thing moments and all the rocky numbers fair enough. Best song, well,
I think sweet transvestite, yea sweet transvestite my performance by
a prop.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
That stage, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I gotta say Kurt's Duster riff Raft's Duster is one.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Of my fairt Yeah, that's a great.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Call and best line.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Oh, I mean, as much as I hate it, I
think Santana's Oh there's also a wlanky, like a really
properly place.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
With them. Well, I think overall, Santana going after Carl
is one of my favorite things. And Mercedes being like stop, yeah,
very good, so funny. All right, what's happened on on
the talk?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
So on TikTok, we're going to highlight one of the
best Glee fans around. I have met her, we're Internet friends.
So Rose Danielle on TikTok. Apologies if I'm butchering your
last name. But Rose is an very incredibly talented musician, is.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Just the best.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
And she posted on a TikTok of us meeting we
met in Liverpool last year and she sang to me
and she made this and collected this incredible book. She's
you know, the number one Kevin McHale stands, so I gotta,
(38:49):
you know, shut her out.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
She said in this in the description the caption of
this TikTok. One month ago, I was living the best
weekend of my life. Thank you, mister Kevin McHale for
making the sixth year. It's even better than what I
imagined all these years. That's meeting your hero, Kevin and
not to support. That's very special. I'm just saying, helt
me on a good day.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Now, Rose is awesome. Go follow her.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
She's incredible. It's so sweet.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, you know, best fans, best fans keep tagging us
and these incredible videos. Jenna, what are we doing next week?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Never been cared.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I'm excited to watch this because I don't really think
I remember.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
It's a lot of girl stuff, A lot of girl stuff,
that's why. Okay, but it's also Brad Beeker's first episode.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Exciting. We're on my business director kick.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I know all of our faves are coming in now,
coming in hot. Okay. Well, thanks for listening and join
us next week.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
That's what you really missed. 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
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And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast, Welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
You, and that's what you really missed the Rocky High Likely.
I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin. Did you like that, Kevin?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That was really beautiful?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
On theme, I decided I'm going to start using my
singing muscles again.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You know you don't have to on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Very good, very very good.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, whatever, Okay, So this is our first tribute to
a musical episode.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Is it a musical?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Rocky horror?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It's a movie?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah? Is it not? Is that a debate? Is that
like as a hot dog a sandwich?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Is that No? No, not as deep as that. But
I do think I don't know they're singing in it.
It's a musical, is it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
If there was singing, there are performances. It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Czy Jones and six in the six a musical TV show?
Or is it a TV show with music? I haven't
seen it. I can't coll Okay, whatever, don't fight, We're
so spicy. Okay. Anyway, Yes, this is the first tribute
to a musical. As Kevin McHale said.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was also our Halloween episode that originally aired on
October twenty sixth, twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
The number one song was like a G six, so
we have moved on from Bruno Mars classic song. The
number one movie was Paranormal Activity. I don't watch scary movies.
Neither did Kevin. No, absolutely not. But did you see
this one? No?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
This was the sequel. I saw the first one because
Leah forced me to watch it, and that was enough.
That's all I needed.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
To see, right, thousand percent. Don't need to see it,
don't need to see it, So Glee News This the Week.
On October twenty eighth, Leah and Matt Morrison performed the
Rocky Horror thirty fifth anniversary tribute show at the Wiltern
in La Lee's Janet and Matt was Brad, which is
(02:20):
kind of weird because mister she is our teacher, but
not really weird. And Barry Boswick and Tim Curry were
there amazing raising money for the Paint Eternal Summer Camp
for children who are terminally ill or chronically ill. So
that's awesome that they did that. I didn't. I don't
think I remember that. I don't remember that at all. Cool,
(02:42):
cool memory. Maybe they didn't tell us about it, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So this episode we had a new director and this
was his first episode with this.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now a friend, a wonderful friend.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Adam.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, Adam Shankman, who directed a million other movies that
you love, made a wedding planner. Sorry, yeah, the wedding
planner A Walk to Remember. I mean, that was the
one that locked me in. I was like, and he
always makes a cameo in all of his stuff. Does
you notice him?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, he's in a Walk to Remember. I can't remember
where he was, definitely in wedding planner, I just don't
remember where. And then I think he tried to get
himself engly and I don't remember if he actually got
himself in, but he always tries.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And he most recently directed Disenchanted.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I mean a million things. He produced the new hocus
Pocus revival reboot, whatever you want to call it, Kevin.
We also went to a couple of folloween parties. We
sure did. There was Aaron Krueger mkesh's our key makeup
(03:59):
friend who throws like the most epic holloween parties. We
went to her party. What do we dress up that as? That?
That year?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Was that? The year that we did it?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Wasts No, I wasn't in rugrats. Oh what you resist?
Then this was the gingerbread man.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
This was the cheap one.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, so I I actually pulled this together thanks to
the props department at Glee. I got a stethoscope and
a name tag. And I was Christina Yang from Grey's Anatomy.
Thank you props. And Kevin was the Walmart gingerbread Man,
(04:40):
not the buttons. Naya was the girl in the box.
In the box, she looked fabulous. Yea. At some point
it ended up that you were in the box and
she was wearing the gingerbread. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And I and I switching outfits.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Always always, always, always. And then Telly was Ursula and
he spent a lot of time on his.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Costume in your bathroom, didn't because I remember to our
house to get ready, right? Did this help him get ready?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah? We did his makeup. Nia and I each took
one eye and we just puffed like all this crazy face.
But he took a lot of time in creating his
costume in weeks before. So Aaron helped him airbrush the
tentacles and put the little suctions on the tentacles. He
stuffed the tentacles anyway, we could go on about this party,
(05:32):
but it was. It was one for the books. Nia
and I also went to Diana's Halloween party like two
nights before that. Oh, we're tootored and booted. Did I
go to that one? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
What was the one that she had at like her
Alice in Wonderland house and Grant and I a dress
as the same like sad clown. That was my birthday.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Party, wasn't it? Oh no, no, no, that was the
one me and Diana threw together. So Diane and I
threw a Halloween party. Everybody always remembers it Diana's because
it was her house. But we threw that together.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh really, mm hmmm, because you're already gone, Grant came over,
We got ready together, made up a costume right before.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's right with your little tear jobs. Yes, yes, Diana
loved the party. But she threw a Halloween party and
I and I last minute, we're like, we're gonna go,
and she didn't have any furniture in the house yet,
so that's right. We were just dancing away. It was
really fun. Lots of Halloween stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So much fun Halloween stuff. This episode also has some
great cameos from actual Rocky Horror people. Barry Bosswic and
meat Loaf are both in this episode. Recording Nick Sylvester
John Stamos is back and just crushing it and singing
(06:53):
his face off.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Obviously, and all the songs are I'm thinking, like the
God that's not like all Rocky hartr. And then there's
one song like like Brittany, Like Brittany with at the
end of Rocky Heart. There's only exception. Again, we had
science fiction double feature. There's a light damn it, Janet,
(07:19):
what happened to Saturday Night? Sweet Transpatite to touch Me
time Warp? What a lineup?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, I have such distinct memories of some of these. Yes,
it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What a fun episode. It was also so hard this episode.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, I feel like that's that's what this is gonna be.
So there's not a lot of story, right, not a
lot of huge changes, but here we go. So okay,
Will learns that Emma loves Rocky Horror Picture Show and
has been going to it with Carl, and he gets
(07:57):
seethingly jealous. So he decides to make this week's Glee assignment.
I'm doing the Rocky Horror Picture show as they're musical,
and he goes to cast it, and then Finn gets
a little worried about his image. Will gets in trouble
with Carl and Sue is obviously trying to bring down
the Glee Club again.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Always okay, Rocky horror casting that. Yeah, So Frankenforter was
Mike Chang. He was no longer allowed to play it
because his parents didn't know, and so Mercedes takes that
one on. We've got Janet who Rachel plays Brad is
(08:42):
Finn or Finn is Brad, Kurt is riff Raff, which
is so good. I remember Chris really loving Rocky Heart right, Yes,
he's very excited to play Rifraf. Quentin Santana, we're double
casteris Magenta. Tina and Brittany were double casters Columbia, Sam
and Will were both Rocky and Carl and Mike rore Eddie.
(09:02):
And then we've got the usher at Trixie with Santana
and the Transylvanians were Mercedes, Tina, Quinn and Artie. So
we were playing a lot of characters because there's only
so many test members. So I know that Staymos had
mentioned that he was supposed to play Frankfurter at one point,
and it kind of got cabashed early on, and so
(09:25):
I asked Ian what he remembered from that time, and
he wrote me a voice note, but it didn't work,
so he texted it to me. So I'm just gonna
read what he said, or part of what he said.
He said, Oh my god, I think this is the
first time I've ever done a voice text because I'm
one million years old. I don't remember what happened, but
(09:51):
my voice is really foggy. I sound like a sexy lady.
I might be conflating with plot of the show. My
gut when you first asked that question was like, I
think it was a note from the studio or the network,
like we can't have a grown up man cavorting in,
like I don't know with television teenagers, So which is
(10:16):
what we thought, right, And then he said that it
was other than that, It was a really fun episode
but hard to write because there were changes like that,
and he was like, oh, wait, we're not doing that now,
and then so trying to figure out who was cast
(10:37):
as what was really weird. So that's basically what he said.
That was like being in Ian's brain for one second.
So what I took from that was it sounded like
a studio network note that like it couldn't be a
grown man playing a part, which is why Eddie. He
became Eddie. Then Harry became Eddie and it didn't work
(10:59):
out at all. So before we did this, I had
never seen Rocky Horror. And you sat me down at
our house and we watched it together. We did yeah,
and I was like what. And I was like, you
don't get this unless there's a performances. That's right. I
have to see it until two thousand and five four,
(11:22):
so I was only a little bit behind you or
ahead of you. My college had the orientation week. One
of the nights or the first night was you go
to see Rocky Horror performed such a musical theater school,
so we want it like midnight we watched.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay, I gotta say, Adam Shankman crushed this episode. I mean,
and I noticed something this time that I've I haven't
noticed before that Maybe I just didn't I wasn't paying attention.
But everything Adam Shankman directs makes you feel good. I
don't know if I don't know how you know we
(12:04):
have the same writers doing everything the same directors coming
in and out, and maybe it's just this episode is that,
and we'll see when we get to other Shankman episodes,
but okay, let's clock it. I feel I felt like
I was wrapped in a warm blanket, like it was
just like a really pleasant episode, as crazy as rocky
horror is, right, it just felt nice and warm, and.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That is interesting. Well, he also felt made us feel
that way. Yes, behind me.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He changed things up. So we had Eric Stultz the
week before, who obviously had his you know, rules and
things that he liked. Shankman, who comes from his choreographer
originally comes from the music world. He was in the
recording studio with us, which never happened, that's right. That
was the first time a director had been the recording
studio with us since Ryan during the pilot So Funny
(12:58):
or the first Showman. So he really knew exactly who
was going to be singing what at what time and
every single shot to plan all these things out. And
it was very nerve wracking because you know, he's a
big deal and I met him in this recording studio,
I was like, oh God, and I really had anything
like to the left so that's all I had to say.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Well, and him and Zach also worked together a lot
back in the movie and yeah, so that was nice.
Like Zach was like, oh yeah right, he was like,
you know, oh yeah, Shankan's coming. Like at that point,
anybody's actually yeah, great and this is my friend. I've
worked with this person. You're like, great, come on in,
join join the party. So Shankman became one of our
(13:45):
favorites and just like a really good friends human and yeah,
a really good friend. And he worked with Naya on
uh step up. Also postally, I think most of this
(14:11):
episode plot wise, I mean I think I know it
revolves mainly around the production of the musical because we've
never done a tribute to a musical. We've never done
a musical in school at all. So it was I
was like, oh, well, the school does musicals now, so
(14:35):
do we do that again? Do we ever do it again?
I don't think so. I don't think we'll have to
discover the mule. Well, no, that's wrong, because Sandy Ryerson did.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wed a story.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
We did West I started and then we did care
About last year. We did Greece too. Yeah we suck
Okay anyway, so.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
The musical is making everybody feel some type of way,
that one of them being Will, you know, getting jealous
because he sees Carl is making Jama Emma feel better
because they're going to these rocky horror screenings, which is
a real thing. You go at midnight and people scream
and participate in dress up. She left the crust on
(15:15):
her sandwich at lunch and again is using the glee
club for personal gain, which has happened, and somehow ropes
Carl and Emma into being a part of the actual
show and helping cast it and do the costumes. It's
a weird, weird thing, weird dynamic, and Carl ends up
(15:41):
getting pissed at Will. We'll get to that. But this
episode starts with Naya's lips singing and it is so good.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
She's so good at stuff like this. Yeah, it's like
also to her teeth look great, I mean, her lips
look great, and her tea looked great. It was a
great shot. I remember them doing this and she stayed
after at the end of the day and she had
like a black around her lips and it was just
(16:17):
it's i mean, always so good.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It was so much fun to get to see everybody
play this too was as amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We we just got to like take it to the
endth degree, right, Everything was like heightened even more than
it's already normally heightened on our show, and so that
was fun. And so this episode plays the first half
plays in a flashback of what happens. So we open
with Carl kind of coming in interrupting the dress rehearsal
(16:48):
because Will broke their pact of trying to say, staying
away from Emma and not messing with their relationship.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Do you remember filming this.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Briefly? This is vaguely.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't know why. My strongest memory of anything with
this episode is this scene, really because we were back
behind those like wooden cutouts of bushes and trees and
things what felt like for eternity that's right, for so long,
and I remember it was early days of working with Adams,
(17:28):
so we didn't really know how he worked yet. And
when they're shooting wide onto the stage, you know, the
cameras are far away from us, and so we didn't
know what was going on, and we just kept doing
the same things over and over and over, like peeking
out of the bushes, and then we were like all
taking pictures of each other. And I remember the picture taking.
(17:48):
I definitely remember that I have some of those photos too,
And like the stage was filled with all that fog
and people were like, it's making me sick, and I
just felt like we were back there for an entire day.
And it seems like such a quick scene, an easy scene, right,
and we were miserable.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, there are also like a couple of parts to it, right.
You have like them in the back of the you
had chords entrance in sam in the gold, you know,
bikini shorts or whatever you call them, And he still
has those, you know. He always tells me that when
I see him, and he.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Keeps threatening us to put them back on.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's right, put them back on, Cordy, put them back on. Okay.
So yes, I do remembe that now. And I remember
Shank fin like hanging out with us a lot during
the day. Oh, he's really on stage with us. He's
very involved in it. Okay. So so then we rewind
to a week ago. We flashed back where we learned
(18:46):
that Will is talking to Emma, and he learns that
Emma has been doing all these crazy things, like you said,
and you know, really taking herself out of her comfort
zone and going to the rocker horror shows. And that's
where Will gets his idea to do it as a
school musical with his own agenda, and obviously the glee club.
(19:06):
We are very surprised to hear that we are doing
rocky horror, but like, sure, you know, it's like watching
Going Home and watching MTP. You're like, yeah, I get
to do something fun and racy and out of my
age range or acceptable age range. So we get into
the casting obviously, Rin Rin, Oh that's new is Rachel
(19:32):
and Finn are Brad and Janet.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I loved getting to watch them do damn it Jennet.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Oh my god, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's very much. You know two episodes ago where they
were sabotaging themselves doing that terrible number and it felt
like that sort of camp and it was.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And then and then Quinn, Mercedes and Kurt also playing
in the background of playing such weird things, and I
remember laughing at this, like watching them shoot this and
being like this is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
They were doing so much, so much fun. Yes, I
remember Diana and Chris particularly really thriving this episode.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's right, that's what this is very much in their wheel. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
There are a couple of little talented, talented weirdos and
this is perfect for them.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So we get to see that that number, which is
really fun. And then where are we now? We we
finished the casting, right, Mike volunteers. He's feeling very confident,
so he's going to play Frank and Furter for now,
and then we double cast all the girls, which happens,
and then we watched Damna, Jennet Mercedes. Wait, is this
(20:48):
where Mercedes steps up? Also? Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Oh yeah, let's just talk about that because I mean
it goes a couple of ways. Carl is going to
play Frankenfurter. Well, let's talk about KRL coming in for
because that's what happens first. So Carl threatens, you know,
everyone with a good time, and Emma puts him up
(21:11):
to singing opportunity in the classroom with everyone, which you
know Stamos talked about being nervous doing, and you watch
it and he's just so effortlessly.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Cool and good.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, does this incredible number? And then we was like, well,
I cut that character from the script, so.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Will really has it owl for Carl?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Now I mean, who wouldn't be jealous of Stamos.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, but it didn't seem that way. Like two episodes ago,
he's like cool, but now he's.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Like he's coming for it exactly. And Sue happens to
be there and it's like, no, this is great because
we can still have this character. And Mercedes steps up
and it's like I would like to play lead and
I think I could kill doing sweet transvestite, which she does.
(22:03):
I mean, she loved doing this. It was so so good.
One of the best versions. Like when we've taken a
song and done our own version. I think this is
one of the best adaptations.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Also, watching Heather and Nya behind her the remember we're
doing so hard and we were watching it and we
got to like kind of hang out there and like
you're in your chair, I'm in the I'm in the
back chair. We're just we're just audience members at this point. Also,
I'd like to point out Mercedes getting an elevator in
(22:39):
this production. Where did this set come from? And who
funded it? Because this pretty budget. No, like clubs budgets
are getting cut because there's a new football coach, and
yet we had a gigantic set with an elevator that
never gets seen by an audience because the show gets canned.
(22:59):
And like, when did to get built? When did he
get built? I want to know, we're all stagecraft. When
did they build this?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The timeline was very fuzzy in this episode.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's like I dream of Genie NEETs Glee.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, but that set was incredible, amazing, and it was
just killed.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I mean there was the other scene that happens on
that set where we're doing the bread, you know, that
sort of thing. That's when I looked over at you
and it was you and somebody else.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Like, we're over this. We got to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Because you guys were in the most uncomfortable costumes and wigs.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It was Heather. It was me and Heather. I to
that outfit that I had, the sequin outfit that Heather
and I were double cast as Columbia the tap dancer. Yeah.
I felt like a clown, like a like a like
a Korean grandma clap. You were not down, not happy.
(24:03):
I don't like wigs. Number one, I don't like to
wear wigs, nake the head of g I don't I
don't like things on me. I don't like a lot
of costumes. The makeup was very out not my favorite,
and I remember Heather and I both being very uncomfortable.
And during the time warp when we were doing the
(24:23):
time warp, we were there untill like one am, and
I remember it took a really long time. It looked unreal.
I watched it and I was like, Wow, this is awesome,
and everybody was giving one hundred and ten percent even
though we were talking.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
It's you. Also, I think there's there is a difference,
like when Paris directs people that come from music that
do musical numbers fair, Yes, there's a difference. Yes, like
it was flawless. It was so some of the intricacies
of some of these musical numbers were That was also
where I inappropriately read the room and it was like, guys,
but you know, when I look at us, it's like,
(24:58):
growing up, we would use our imagine and play dress
up and now we're doing that, we're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
For it, and everybody like shut up, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Like shut up, nobody cares wrong time.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh god.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I literally was like I just want everyone to eat rainbows,
and you know did not.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Sorry, that's so funny. No, it's great though easy for
me to say. I had very little to do in
this episode. Well so did I, but the outfits were
just the next level uncomfortable. It's just the sequence were
like scratching. I do just never forget it. I'll never
do it again. That was funny though, because time Warp
(25:40):
was really really hard.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But it was so much fun to actually shoot though,
Like the couple of minutes we were actually filming it
at a time.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
But we're having a blast. We all looked insane, our
best truly. Will called Emma into the room to talk
about the show and they he decides that he's going
to play Rocky because he thinks it's inappropriate for Sam.
(26:10):
Sam was feeling self conscious and obviously he has his own,
you know, motivations behind playing something in the show while cross.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
A side note that poor Chord trying to get in
those shorts and was actually eating what he said he
was eating in the.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Episode, which was so stressed, so stressed, probably eating less
than that to be honest. Yeah, I'm sorry, keep going.
He looked great though, but they do touch a touch,
touch me, which again another Brittany Santana moment of just
pure joy. I was I was reeling.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I love this. We found out that this is Jamie's
audition song when she came on, and she sounds so good. Also,
Matt was ripped.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I think, okay, this is my memory of the eyes
in this episode, and we can talk about the storyline
along with it. These guys were all in the same
diet for Rocky Horror. Yeah, they were all working real hard,
and I think I might be wrong. Bradshawchuk was training
that at the time. We're giving him like a regiment
(27:18):
to follow to get ready for this. I remember Corey
being stressed about this, Yeah, because Corey didn't naturally have
to get undressed like Matt did or even Mark at
that time record you know, this was Quart's big debut,
and I remember all of them like stressing hard this episode,
And honestly, I was like, you know what, get it
(27:38):
because the girls have to worry about this all the
time the story much Mimi, I realized it. I really
liked that scene, to be honest, I was like, you
know what, let's let's reverse let's turn the tables on
you guys for one second, which was great, But because.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I remember everyone was obsessed with I think Ryan told
us about like when Mario Lopez was on Niptock and
he had this like sweet potato yes, diet that he
would do to like dehydrate himself or something. And so
then that got passed along to Cord and Matt.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And you eat a lot of sweet potatoes for like
a couple of days and you don't have any water.
It's insane. And then I think the night before you
drink water and your skin sticks to the bone is
kind of like what might understand to the muscle. Oh yeah,
sorry to the muscle to the bone, and it makes
(28:32):
you look real spelt. So I think these guys did
the sweet potato and Di had a couple of times
in the series throughout the series.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Oh absolutely, And it's just it's not a healthy, healthy
thing too.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
We don't support that behavior.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I don't. Also in this episode, we're talking about that scene,
particularly when the girls call out the guys for this
double standard, and Santana says earlier today already asked if
he can make a gigantic almond when I'm done with
ostrich eggs, I'm smuggling in.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
My bra and you have your little mustache and disguise
on them already continuously is wrong, is misogynistic, and sexist
and terrible to women. But they also just throw that
at you. Yeah, they just like somebody to blame, and
then already blames it on internet porn. He altered the
(29:25):
female brain chemistry and made them more like men. There's
more concerned with men's bodies. Stupid, He is stupid, stupid person.
(29:47):
Should we talk about Sue because that's the only thing
that's happening.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yes, So Sue's of course doing one of her incredible
Sue's corners, and we have meat Loaf and Barry Bosswick
who are representing like the network and come in there
and Fox News her and they're like, we want you
to do this undercover story. Let we've heard they're doing
(30:11):
rocky horror. Let them do it, and you're gonna win
a local Emmy. And so Sue then agrees and places
herself in the center of this to the point where
she's in that scene with us that do you remember
filming that scene of all of us doing the janet.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Whatever it is?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It's funny and the scene is edited crazily because I
mean that's how we actually shot it, though, and it
was really hard to get the rhythm of that. Yes,
And we had these scripts and I think, if I
remember correctly, they weren't exactly how we were doing it
in the scene, but they were the scripts from the
(30:54):
scene within the show.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Horror.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
But because all of us are saying the same thing,
but the order changed and Sue had a different line
every time, it took us a hot minute to get it.
And I remember people getting frustrated because we were not totally
nailing it. Ever, I think editing.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Helped us.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Everywhere. I think we're all just getting a little frustrated.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yes, I checked out of that because I wasn't in it. Yeah, fair,
you just check out. Honestly. It was funny to watch, though.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
This whole thing comes like tumbling down because Becky goes
into Shoe's office for candy for Halloween and he's having
me and she's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Come with me.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Because Rocky Horror an abomination. That's what Coach Shoe says,
and then shows him the pre recorded outing of you know,
the investigation that Sue was doing on the Glee Club
and their show, and so will and I have to say,
she made some points I don't necessarily agree with, but
(32:07):
like it was the most reasonable Sue's corner type thing
she had ever done.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah, it was. I guess it was the most focused.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes, focused is the word. And she sits Will down
and she's like, I say anything wrong, And I feel
like that was one of the self rent, self referential
things that Ian talks about, because and I was like, well, no,
I didn't really disagree with it, and you're right, I'm
gonna pull it. And then she gets mad because she
can't want to local Emmy if they don't do the show.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I need Miami, Yeah, which she felt like everyone was.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Everyone was, Yeah, she got a couple. Everyone was getting
to like have a great time and like do really
fun things this episode.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yes, definitely. Yeah, it was different and fun and it
shook things up a little bit, I think. And obviously
having those cameos was really funny. They did a great,
really great job. Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
It felt really special that we got to have Barry Bostwick.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
And I know I didn't get to meet them, though,
did you?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I I don't know, to be.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Honest, I don't know. My dad met Meat Loaf once.
Love Meat. I was at Silver Cup Studios in New
York and we were I was doing a commercial and
he was doing message and doing something outside at Silver
Cup as well, and my dad was outside and meatlof
came out. He's like, hey, getting a cool also.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Like I just incorporating them in that way too was
so sweet?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh you have when those things happened. Yeah, I think
Ryan did that a lot. Honestly, is giving the option
for if it felt right for the show to bring
in people to obviously like have let's have some more
meta meta meta meta?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Were you hoping that we would do any other type
of like any musicals that we did not do, or
like what would you have wanted us to have done?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
You know? I think there was talk, which was weird,
of doing Spring Awakening the musical. Do you remember that?
Oh that would have been extra meta? And I don't
know if it was real, but I know that it
would have been super meta for you know, for me
and Leah. And I was like almost too because she
(34:25):
would have played herself, which is like kind of weird.
I don't think you were, Yeah, but I thought that
would have been fun. And then another show did do it,
another TV show.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
There was a show that came out, was it Rise?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Is that what it was called?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Years later?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah? Rise did that's right, which makes sense. Its young
young show. Yeah, no. I you know, the focus wasn't
really on the school musicals, so I don't really feel
like I I thought about it all that all that much.
To be honest. West Side Story that was really fun
and I'm glad I had like a bigger part in it.
I also had a bigger part in Greece, which was weird.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I don't think I was really in either of those.
I don't really remember them.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You directed Greece, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I think, yeah, like I was not in all those scenes.
So yeah, I mean that's sort of it. That is
sort of the episode. It's it's very much built.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Around the tribute to Rocky Horror, so I mean, in theory,
it's another tribute episode.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And it really got to show off everyone. It showed
off Yeah Stamos is singing abilities, it showed off Chord's body,
It showed off all of your guys's bodies. Like those
outfits were insane. They work pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
M hm. I remember being like, oh wow, these are yeah,
but Columbia outphit was not my favorite, but the other
ones I was like I could be this in this
for a long time. The Black outfit, I was like, yeah,
put me in this of it forever. It was actually
easier than some of Tina's actual clothes. So should we
(35:59):
do some tarty tape, Let's do it? Okay, cringe moment Artie,
Artie for sure saying those terrible things. And I would
also say when Mike says why he can't do it,
he says his parents want him playing a tranny. Right,
that doesn't work. No, that's going to be a no
(36:22):
for me. Dog.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And also you know Artie's casual misogyny. So there's all
that worst dance move.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
I mean, there's so many good dance moves. To be honest,
there's a lot of good dances. That's not a lot
of good ones. Yeah, I think the time word was
one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I think we should change this permanently to best dance
move because that's what we end up doing a lot
of the time. Let's do it, so this is going
to be best dance move from hearing out best dance move? Wow,
I mean, I mean Sweet Transvestite was pretty great.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
That's true. I just don't know that it was like, Yes,
I guess the dancing was really cute in that as well,
but I think I liked all the background, like sor
thing moments and all the rocky numbers fair enough. Best song, well,
I think sweet transvestite, yea sweet transvestite my performance by
a prop.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
That stage, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I gotta say Kurt's Duster riff Raft's Duster is one.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Of my fairt Yeah, that's a great.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Call and best line.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Oh, I mean, as much as I hate it, I
think Santana's Oh there's also a wlanky, like a really
properly place.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
With them. Well, I think overall, Santana going after Carl
is one of my favorite things. And Mercedes being like stop, yeah,
very good, so funny. All right, what's happened on on
the talk?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
So on TikTok, we're going to highlight one of the
best Glee fans around. I have met her, we're Internet friends.
So Rose Danielle on TikTok. Apologies if I'm butchering your
last name. But Rose is an very incredibly talented musician, is.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Just the best.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
And she posted on a TikTok of us meeting we
met in Liverpool last year and she sang to me
and she made this and collected this incredible book. She's
you know, the number one Kevin McHale stands, so I gotta,
(38:49):
you know, shut her out.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
She said in this in the description the caption of
this TikTok. One month ago, I was living the best
weekend of my life. Thank you, mister Kevin McHale for
making the sixth year. It's even better than what I
imagined all these years. That's meeting your hero, Kevin and
not to support. That's very special. I'm just saying, helt
me on a good day.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Now, Rose is awesome. Go follow her.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
She's incredible. It's so sweet.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, you know, best fans, best fans keep tagging us
and these incredible videos. Jenna, what are we doing next week?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Never been cared.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I'm excited to watch this because I don't really think
I remember.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
It's a lot of girl stuff, A lot of girl stuff,
that's why. Okay, but it's also Brad Beeker's first episode.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Exciting. We're on my business director kick.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I know all of our faves are coming in now,
coming in hot. Okay. Well, thanks for listening and join
us next week.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
That's what you really missed. Thanks for listening and follow
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Jenna Ushkowitz
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