January 9, 2023 • 41 mins
Kevin and Jenna recap the Mash-Up episode including the truth behind the slushies and why things suddenly got very real. Plus a ‘Friends’ comparison, a piece of Glee history and find out what a music superstar said to a cast member after seeing them perform their song.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And That's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
and I Heart Radio Podcast. Welcome back for another episode.
I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and this is and That's what
you really missed, where we recap Glee, rewatch Glee and
talk about it and things. And today we are recapping
mash Up episode eight, season one, where there aren't actually
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any mashups. So that's there's a theme though. Yes, there's
a theme of mashing up without actually music, mashing, unlikely
characters mashing, yes, unlikely songs that are supposed to be
mashed up but are not being mashed. Yes, And narratively
we are mashing. We're straight up mashing um. This episode
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aired on October two thousand and nine. We sort of
had our first like magazine cover. It was Matt and
Corey and Leah on the cover of Entertey Weekly. Enter
Tune Weekly was very nice to us along the journey
of Glee was becoming very famous. We had a cover
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and Kevin. This week in Glean News, John Graff was
announced that he was going to come on and do
a couple of episodes. That's right, Good Old Sweet Sweet Um.
The number one movie in America at this time was
Paranormal Activity. And do you remember some time later after
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this movie was out of the theaters. I did not
watch horror movies at all at this time. I hated there,
and Leah forced me to watch it. She had a
movie right at her house. Did I watch it with
you guys? Don't you might not have gone. I may
have actually opted out because I don't watch. Yeah, and
I was like fine, She's like, if I have a
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movie night, you're coming and you're gonna watch panor Normal
Activity because it's so good. I was like, okay, fine,
and so we went over and I watched it. I
think Chris is there, and yeah, it was terrifying, but
I did it. Remember you could have been there. And
I don't like scary movies. Do you still not like
scaring movies? Or you watch them now? I watched him
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now because um, Austin has trained me how to appreciate
them because he loves them. Got it? So now I
enjoyed that. I can appreciate that, all right. This episode
was directed by returning director Aldie Keene. It was written
by Ian Brennan. And we have some weird songs. Yeah,
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that don't in fact mash up dynamic list um, and
we've got Boston Moog got Thuang song and of course
Sweet Caroline, which do you remember what happened? The day
after this one aired, Neil Diamond tweeted Mark, Oh, yeah,
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this was like the first time we had like a
direct line. Um. And then an artist reached out after
their song was covered and like said, what great job,
and it was great to see my song and bloody
bolah that's right. We were all shocked. Yeah, we hadn't
had any direct response from any of the artists yet,
so that was great. It was our first and we
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get to see Jama sing this episode. Isn't it such
a pretty voice? Um? So there's really three big things
going on this episode. There's Emma and Ken preparing for
the wedding. Then there's um the football team is really
revolting against the gleanness of it all and Kin's part
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and that, and then there's Rachel and Puck, which is
is I feel like it's how I feel about that
is how I felt about Joey and Rachel dating and friends.
It feels weird. Anyway, Let's let's let's go back and
start with I never thought about it like that very good, Kevin. Okay,
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let's start to think, well, Rachel, her name was inspired
by friends, wasn't it? Was it not? I believe it was?
Was it? I think? So? Yes? So? Um, I guess
I could ask I could ask Ryan. Maybe I send
a text. So Emma and Ken are planning to have
a wedding, very wedding and why where nobody can attend basically,
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and then they after they're very very private event, they're
going to have a first dance and they share this
with Will that they can't They each want a very
unique and different song and they can't quite figure it out.
So they're thinking about, Yeah, Emma wants I could have
danced all night and a classic, and Ken Tanaka wants
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the song which is also a classic. Jenna, don't you
dare try to say otherwise? Will says, Okay, let's let's
do this. I can teach you. I can get these
songs together. I want to be my wedding gift to
you guys, a nice person, being a nice person. Emma
shows up to dance rehearsal um and princess dies wedding dress,
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which it is a it is it is very similar.
I will say, Um, go and look at Princess Di's
wedding dress. Jamie is so little. Yes, this dress swallows
her up a hole. And I think the idea is
that it's supposed to be not not the dress. So
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but but Mr Shoe does dance lessons with her and
we get into the our favorite number of the Thong song,
and I feel like, so this episode is a lot
of cringe e Shoe and I feel like this is
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AKA Fella's Part two because there's a lot of adults
and it um and it just a lot of this
makes me uncomfortable little cringe e because it's also happening
in a school where she a teacher, is dancing around
a counselor and who's in a wedding dress and one
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of the classrooms at the school and they're dancing too. Yes,
but it's a weird I feel like there are many
boundaries that are being crossed well and then I mean
where this gets into the different part of the storyline.
But um, Mr Shoe doing bust to Move, which happens
early in the episode. Mr Shoe unbuttoned stead his shirt
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during class, he dances around, he touches students faces. Um,
he's singing a weird song and it's a weird number. Yeah,
and the so sorry. So getting back to Thong song,
we're continuing the cringe and they trip, and the trips
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and falls on top of Will. They have a moment
where they're on top of each other on the floor
in the classroom and Can, of course happens to be
outside peering through the window at that exact moment. Do
you think the Hunger Games when they fall they took
that from Will and Emma? Definitely, Yeah, Yeah, that definitely
is a direct correlation. Fully believe that. Yeah. And um,
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I will say Kevin, this this was I think last
week or maybe we didn't talk about it, but there's
a website that has the Weirdest performances Glee's Weirdest Performances. Um.
And also there's another article it's like Glee's Weirdest Performances
and this made it on. Thong Song made it on
because it is it's very strange, but here we are,
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And I wonder if the writers thought like it'd be
funny to see them do this. Yeah, I also love
that Thong song was used. Yeah, and that's just the weirdest,
wildly popular song in our Day, Yeah, because it was
great remember making the video. I watched it for that. Okay,
that's what I learned about shooting Day for Night. Anyway,
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the educational series, and then they go to a bridle
shop where they then they realized that maybe she needs
a smaller dress, right, a more fitted dress. So Emma
is at the bridle shop and she's trying on a
new dress that's going to be easier to dance in,
and Will's like, oh, that, do you want to practice?
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So he puts her in. Um. He puts on an
instrumental version of I Could Have Danced All night, and
we see Emma Pillsbury's first musical number, Jama May's first
number is very exciting. Um. And and then after the dance,
Will tells Emma that Ken is making the guys choose
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between glee and the football. Um. Brings us to Slushy Gate.
So let's let's backtrack. Yes, So what's what's also happening
in this episode is everybody is getting slushy, but like
the jobs are getting slushy, the popular girls are getting slushy.
Everyone who's in Glee club that is part of the
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popular crowd is getting slushy. Um. This is where we
see Kurowski and his emio. Um. We talked about this
the ship we found on TikTok where where Kross he
says he was on the hockey team lies. Um. Yeah,
and there's all this rebellion amongst all the jocks, the
dudes being the dudes, and all these gay jokes and
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YadA YadA YadA. Um. It's also where we do all
these tracking shots of the big slushy cups going down
and Amber yelling out my weave slide of the bumble bees. Yes. Um,
I think that was improv. I know, and I originally
thought it was written. I'm like, I don't know about that,
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but Amber, Amber, Yes, Amber improv. That made it up,
So I feel better about that. And then, um, I
don't know if you guys noticed, but this is the
start of the fake slushy and the very short lived
fake slushies at that. Um. It was made of silicone
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and some color food coloring and whatnot. And I believe
they used it because it was faster to reset, Is
that right? Yeah? And also it's just it's faster to reset,
easier clean up. You didn't have to reset the people.
But it was also not as good. It was not
as good the actual like when you get slushy. The
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shot wasn't like I was good because it never stuck
on your face like like a real flash she did.
We have to go back and talk about Bust to
Move for a second. Besides it being like super cringe
and shoe touching everybody's face and I'm buttoning a shirt
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and doing and wrapping and doing breakdancing. I remember for us,
um we had a great time because we didn't have
to do anything. I remember the rehearsal where everybody was like, yeah,
we're just going to sort of dance around and vibe
sort of like um ride with me, like the Nelly song.
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We're just having fun. It was sort of the same thing.
But Matt had to do so much this episode. I
mean so much between the thongs song, Bust Move, Jane's number,
it was he was I could have danced all night.
I do remember him kind of being exhausted. It was
really really crazy. And then I was there playing the
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bass like an idiot, pretending I had lessons to learn
how to fake play these instruments. I never actually learned that. Yeah,
so I did that in the in the trailer you remember.
I remember you going and being like I had to
go rehearst the basis. Yeah, I had a teacher who
taught me how to do these things. Wow, well, at
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least you weren't like breaking breaking. I also feel like,
I know, like, looking back now, it's sort of all
this is sort of cringe the Shoe doing all this,
But at the time, I don't think we necessarily realize
that it was cringe. No, not at all. And here's
the thing. I think it was also because the way
we saw Matt was different than the way that people
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saw Mr Shoe to the kids, correct now is our friend, Like,
of course I saw him grab Diana's face because like
that's what we did. We were all pretty much the
same age. So it's a little weird because I think
people now are when I'm watching it now and like, oh,
I'm watching it as Mr Shoe and the kids not
in us, and it was definitely, um not, that's not appropriate,
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even more so now so. I but I do remember
this episode being very free and easy for us. Yeah,
we didn't do much, which we got to hang out.
Um so after us to move, Finn and Quinn go
get advice from Emma on how to be visit Emma
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to asker for us and how to be cool, and
Emma tells me to wear sunglasses because she's obviously distracted
by Will passing by um, and so Finn and Quinn,
especially Quinn's they were shears sunglasses the rest of the episode.
And then Finn and Quinn get slushy by the football
team and your favorite quote which one bros before high hoss.
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Did you also notice how the football player is falling
because of the slushy as the scene was ending, Um No,
I definitely did not like he slipped on the slushy. Ye,
just just a little weirdness going out at the end
of the scene. Yes, Um. So there's a fight at
football practice because Ken Tanaka is now very upset in
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Mr Shoe and is getting revenge basically and putting extra
glue rehearsals during extra football rehearsal during you rehearse football
half time is intermission right exactly, So I can to
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get revenge about seeing you know, Will and Emma laying
on the ground together. He decides to throw a Thursday
one pm um football rehearsal, Um, and so then the
people who are in glee club and also in football
have to make the ultimate decision about where they're going
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to be because it's a mandatory practice. He's pissed. And
this is the scene that I thought I remembered shooting.
Remember last week we talked about or not last week,
but Invitamin D when Sue we did that choir room
scene when Sue becomes um CO captain. Right, Yeah, this
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felt very similar to me. And maybe it was because
Led directed, uh, both of them, but I was like, oh,
this is the scene that I remember so vividly of
us like waiting for the people to come in. Yeah. Same,
And I feel like we're constantly just like waiting in
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the choir room. Recently, um So, Mike and Matt and
shockingly Puck show up, Book shows up because of Rachel,
because of Rachel, but Finn doesn't show up. So Finn
stays at the football practice, and we're all kind of bewildered,
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like why already definitely pissed, already's pissed, already think works
thin And then we're waiting and Finn doesn't come back,
like a weird slip up of editing here. It's like
after the after they come in, they'll all turn to
look at the door. After the camera cuts to the door,
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then back to the glee club the same clip. It's
the same clip of us really yeah, m hmm, I
believe it was. I think so, I don't know. Maybe
people can message us because it looks it looks funny
and we just mark that because we'll address something similar
to that later as well. So this next the next
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part where finn Um has to go and slushy Kurt
right because the football team will, you know, have his hoss.
If not, he doesn't do it. Um and Kurt and
his ring jacket, his wonderful mark, Jacob's range acid Um
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and He's like, look, I'll do it. I know you
have to do it. Just do it, and feels like
I don't really want to you. So Kurt's like, let
me just do it for you. Then let me make
your job really hazy. And Kurt does it to himself
and Chris does it to himself, and I remember being
at that um watching Chris do that and doing my
damnedest not to laugh, and all of us not, and
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I think he was like, please don't laugh, because I can't.
We can't mess this up. Once you slushy yourself that's it, right, Um,
But I remember him slushy himself and it went behind
him all the way up onto the light. Right, it
went like up and behind him and then rocked down
and got Leah, that's right, and then we all had
to run into the girl's room. But I remember that
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it seemed very vividly in my mind, especially because of
Chris's beautiful raincoat. Also, how amazing is Chris that you're
doing the scene that's absolutely insane that after he slashes
himself switches it, he's like almost on the ridge of tears.
That's a that's a Golden Globe winner. Yeah, you're right,
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and that's a Golden Globe winner. And so here's brings
us back to basically, when Shoe tells Emma that Ken
is doing this, you know, after they do, I could
have danced all night. Um you see her being like huh,
she had no idea And so then um, now cut
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back to here. Finn is now telling coach Tanaka that
he doesn't want to have to choose, and clearly there's
been some of you know, some behind the scenes talking
between some characters, and he's like, okay, because Will has
also apologized to Ken in this time, where Will is like,
you're right, you know, I didn't necessarily encourage it, but
I didn't stop it, and so yeah, and so all
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these things have lined up where Ken then hansels Thursday
practices or Senna says Thursday rehearsals, so then everybody can
participate in both exactly. And Finn returns to the glee
club and brings everyone slushies. Do you remember the film?
I remember filming this. This is really fun. This was
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at the end of the night. It was I think
it was a Friday, and Finn in this scene brings
slushies to the glee club to make up for not
showing up. And um and did or did Mr shubring
slushy Finn and then Mr Shoes like, okay, well, unfortunately
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weren't able to find a song too, um mash up,
leaving us with no mashup. Um and wet. Sweet Quinn
has been exiled from the Cheerios. She's been kicked off
because she's pregnant. She's prego and um, we'll get to
that part of why she was kicked off the Cheerios,
but she Um, we see her in regular clothes. We
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start to see Diana in her regular clothes. And I
have to say, Quinn's clothes just subtly mirror Diana um wardrobe.
She's just a little bit they would shop at the
same places. Um. So we get to start to see
Quinn and regular clothes and cherio fits. And then I
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also love that Corey's like drinking the slushy during this scene. Yeah,
but yeah, I remember we had I think it was
late Friday night. We had basically one chance to do this, yes, yes,
And the camera was covered in like plastics so that
it wouldn't get dirty because there were so many of
us throwing slashy. There was the floor when you watched.
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When you watch the the slushy hit like the camera.
We do it to the camera. There's like a piece
of plastic in front of the cameras see it like war.
It just happens. So it's fast, it's hard to it's
hard to tell. Very good catch. Um. And I remember
mapp being like very nervous. Yes, that getting slushy. So yeah,
the Glee club kids they learned, they learned that Mr.
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She has never been slushy before. And so it is
a twelve slushy facial, which is the most amount of Slushies,
that anybody has been slushy yet a date to date
which will change sure well, Ken, I was also like
during this time when you say the character hasn't been
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slushy and noverybody's realizing it in real life. I was
also we were also sort of like, neither have we.
That's we tried not to anybody. We didn't. We were
trying to hide it from brad Ian and Ryan that
I don't think they were keeping track yet, but no,
we got we're getting close. I think it happened soon
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for me. I think I get I get slushy pretty soon.
Somebody ratted me out, and that's how it happened me.
You really got the the super Bowl of Slushies. Um,
I did, literally. So the Glee Club was supposed to find,
you know, something to mash up and like you said, well,
well it's like, you know, nobody found them. But it's
okay because we still learned the lesson. And then Will
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has also told Emma that he can't mash up. I
could have danced all night and thong so long. They
just don't go together right, So the mashups aren't working out,
but they're teaching us valuable lessons. They know they're not
necessarily supposed to be. Yes, they're they're great songs on
their own. They're not necessarily complimentary of one another, which
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might be a metaphor. It was a metaphor, and I
was wondering. I was honestly like, are they talking about
Emma and Ken? Are we talking about Emma and Will?
Because when she's saying like we don't necessarily match, I
was like, Oh, she's talking about Ken. And then when
Will said it, I was like, oh, no, it's about
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him and how they're not supposed to be together. Well,
it's both. I think you're from her perspective, it's one
thing from his, it's another. Oh, very good. Everybody is
looking at the thing from their own point of Beu Jenna.
It's about that's how life is. It's your own movie,
and everyone else is just a supporting character. You know.
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There was an article that called the Will Emma and
Can love triangle the Bermuda love triangle, which is great.
That's funny. Imagine Howard Bamboo can Can playing a Kentanaka.
What a different, like a totally different vibe would have given.
They're so good. So the reason why let's go backwards.
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So the reason why Quinn got kicked out of the
Cheerios was because Sue is on a tirade. Um. Earlier
in the episode, Rod Remington hits on Sue, she gets excited,
They go on a date, they play battleship. She says,
you've sunk my battleship hard, and he invites her to
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go swinging, which I was like, when Rod's like, I
like to swing, I was like, it's Sue gonna get
confused and like, end of it a swingers party. She
seemed down for it either way. No, totally um, but
it was an actual swinging event. So that's where we
see Matt Mr. Shoe and Sue getting along, which is
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also very weird. Um, but love watching them do their
little number. It's always fun to see Jane get to
do stuff, and I like seeing Sue sort of vulnerable,
excited for the prospect of love just for a moment,
just for a second. I almost got too uncomfortable. We
saw her too vulnerable for a second. I was like, no, no,
this is not the Sue that I like to see.
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But of course Jane is like the polar opposite. So um.
So they teach each other, you know, their their will
is teaching Sue the dance to sing Sing, which is
such a great little number. And then and also a
side note, Zach Woodley was also being put through the
ringer during this episode. I remember as well because while yes,
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while having to teach Mad and Jane these numbers, he
also had to choreograph them. Yeah, and then when we're
shooting them, he has to be on set while we're
doing it when he should also be like coming up
with and teaching other people other things. This is where Brooke,
also assistant choreographer, who was also amazing um came in
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handy because they would tag team really well because they
had such a shorthand. So anyway, um Rod, Sue gets
is ready for her date. She shows up Rod, is she,
I guess cheating on her although he, according to him
they weren't exclusive. Was making out with Andrea the other
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um an newscaster news anchor. And and then that's it,
that's the that's the vulnerable side of student. Yeah. And
then Sue goes back to her ways of I want
the set list because you know she's gonna be up
to know good with it and demanding things. But it's
good to see her return to her evil self. I
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missed it. I did miss it as well, and also like,
is there anything that's you that Jane Lynch can't do. No,
I've been watching um The Marvelous Mrs Masil for the
first time. I know, I'm very late to it. Yeah,
you texted me last night because some of our glee
dancers are in it the new season. I haven't seen. No,
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I'm just in the past week I've watched two and
a half seasons and seeing Jane on it. If you
haven't watched The Marvelous Mrs Mazel on Amazon, you should
go watch it. Jane has an incredible role on a
really fun role. But you know, every now and then
I'm like, there's some Sue, there's that sneaking through and
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it's great. She's just so good. She's so so good.
So this this Puck and Rachel storyline really makes me uncomfortable.
I don't like it. Puck is getting into his you
know his he wants it it. A Jewish girl is
getting in touch with Jewish roots. I do. I will
say that his like little montage monologue with his the
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dream where she comes through the window is pretty funny. Good.
It's very funny. I think they're very funny together. Yeah, totally.
It's just that Puck and Rachel and Rachel make me uncomfortable.
I get nervous and I feel not warming and gooey inside. Now,
did you like Rachel and Joey on Friends? I didn't
hate it. It didn't make me uncomfortable. I didn't want
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them to end up together. But I didn't write a
storyline because they're so good. I mean, the actors and
the characters are so charming and so good together. Like,
I don't think we had enough time with Rachel and
and Finn or any of that to really fall, like
so deeply in love with them for them to be
together yet, Like it's so early on that we're already
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mixing and matching, and it just it felt a little soon,
I think, yeah, yeah, but uh, Puck after his I
mean number one, this is like the beginning of Puckleberry,
which I think is all these nicknames coming up. Um,
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then we get to Puck actually helping Rachel perform to
rehearse in her room. Also, I forgot that we did
what a girl wants that had to be live, right,
I forgot that too. Um. But then they make out.
They're making out, He's like, can we take a break,
and then it's weird. Um, and then Rachel sees Finn. Yeah,
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she's dreaming a fin everybody everybody is cheating mentally Rachel
things that she she says to he can't, she can't
be with him unless he's a leading man in like
man enough to sing a solo. So here we go.
What does he do? Sweet Caroline, Ladies and Gentlemen, which
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Neil Diamond loved and and this number was definitely a
fan favorite for a long time. Um. We did it
on tour and I enjoyed doing this number because fun
fact we would do when when somebody had a solo
and they were backup vocals as there usually were that
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we were no longer recording ourselves, we'd have to learn
them on the day we were daring him in the
morning and we would we'd have to learn them, and
we'd have to make sure they look right, and if not,
Tim Davis would come and have our throats and um
in the nicest way possible. And So to do a
number that you knew so well, you're like, oh, I
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got this, I actually recorded this. This is great, This
is really fun. So it was a fun number two
shoot and it was again easy. Do you remember recording
the backgrounds to this? Oh? Did we record the background?
Is you? Me and Amber? I believe we still were
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recording back That's why I liked it so much. Yeah,
because we knew it it was. I remember we had
to like space around to make it sound like there
are more people and like some of us are standing
on a chair. We recorded, Yes, were you not there? No?
I was there doing your royalties? Say are you getting
paid for this box? Still? Yes? Then yes, so it
was you, me and Amber. Oops, well I just contradicted myself.
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Thanks Kevin for that. That the reason why you did
know it was because we actually all right, well that's sweet, Caroline.
It's it goes down in England history. But um pocket slushy,
And then the whole football thing happens where he's supposed
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to choose and gets in a fight and gets hit
in the face by such by Kurowski um and like
Rachel helps him clean up and blah blah blah. Then
all that stuff sort of happens where he chooses glee
club over football, and then there's that very nice like
scene on the bleachers between which we never see, by
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the way, like scenes on the bleachers anymore, which I
really appreciate. Yeah, the scene was really nice. It was.
And they're both sort of, you know, opening up about
how they're sort of like settling for not settling for
each other, but they both want different things. He clearly wants,
Quinn she wants and they're both sort of like the
second Prize the runners up for one another. And then
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looks back to his normal self of like, no, we're
not going to be friends. That it's just not what
it is, and and they says they never were friends exactly,
burn burn, and and that's that's the episode. That's it.
We have these unlikely mashups, these mashups that never happened,
and unlikely hearings, mashing songs that do not go together. Um,
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it was. It's not my favorite episode, no, And I
don't remember it all that much because I think we
weren't in a ton of it, so it's not in
my memory. And I also I don't love it. Gold
Star for Matt for working and also like what a yeah,
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what a talent, what a talent. I also we'll talk
about my favorite line in a second, but yeah, I
do remember, I know what you're saying. Great, Okay, Tarty
takes Tarty Ta Tarty takes cringe moment. I mean the
(33:00):
episode is the cringe episode for sure. But like Thong song,
bust a move, shoe on, buttoning a shirt for the students,
it's yeah, yeah, okay. To say much more, where Ken
says to Finn, you have an itch down there or
something that's also a little weird um teacher's dance move,
(33:24):
I think that has gotta go. It's just weird. It's
just weird. Okay, we'll go with you. Song. What was
your favorite dance? Oh well, yeah, because there are a
lot of dance members, I think sing Things has to
be the best. It was really good. I like watching
them together, polished and good and yeah, it was really
fun to watch. And I remember Jean having like just
(33:45):
a blast doing it, just so she was always such
like such a team player. The best song, I mean,
I think in terms of like Glee history, Sweet Caroline,
Sweet Caroline. Yeah, and just because like also Neil Diamond,
you know, and also me you and Amber that's right
(34:07):
that you don't remember looks best performance by a prop
Kevin Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and also I think in
terms of the score, the flight of the bumblebee as
this is happening is absolutely brilliant. Yes, that was really good.
(34:27):
I wonder how much they had to pay for that.
Oh my gosh, right, really good, really really good. Um,
and that's not the last time we'll see that either.
At the p O B of the right, I don't
I doubt it. No, I think Paris Barclay does it
sound all right? And then things that age well or
didn't age well. Um, there's a line that Finn says.
(34:53):
He says, I don't think anyone decision makes your life
unless you accidentally invent some kind of zombie virus or something.
Oh oh yeah, that didn't Okay, well here we are. Yeah,
that's very good. There's a lot of great lines in
this though. There's a lot of great lines, but I
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think I think what it always ends up being for
us is Sue. Yes, and it is when Sue has
finally lost her love and she gets mad, the best thing.
One of my favorite lines ever, it's one of my
frt lines ever in the show. Okay, do you want
(35:37):
to say? Do you want to? Do you want to
read it? She says, I'll need the set list for sectionals,
after all, I want them on my desk, warm from
a laminator at five pm. If it is one minute late,
I will go to the animal shelter and get you
a kittie cat. I will let you fall in love
with that kitty cat. Then on some dark, cold night,
I will still wait into your home and punch you
in the face. And and then he even better the
(36:00):
robuttal when when Mr Sho says didn't work out with
Rod and I was like, it's really good, really good.
Both the deliveries are really really good. Um. And then
the other great line from the episode. I love the
fact that Emma does not want anybody to see her
(36:22):
get married to Kent Kanaka, and so she says, um
Ken convinced me we need to at least be in
the same room when America is certified. So I also
wanted to because they're like a little fun fact about
this episode because there were so many slushies that there was.
I think we did Oprah, you see um our props guy,
(36:42):
Paul Paul props um did we had that stunt man,
the stunt guy looking thing like fake. It's like the
body you using the karate yes, that thing I clearly
work out, um, and we'd use it to people who
are before you would sushy someone, you would use that
the dummy to slushy. Yes. So if you go look
(37:05):
up started behind the scenes on like the Oprah appearance
we did, you can see the whole process behind making
the slushy happened. So we didn't have to do a
billion takes each time Jenna ship we found on TikTok.
There's quite a reference. UM. I would first like to
start out with a shout out to the one only
(37:26):
christ and Chenowith who made a Glee TikTok what um
where it says April Roads to the students at McKinley
and she's singing popular what like in the mirror popular Popular? Yes? Stop.
It was really cute and it was really really great, um.
So many fans sent it to us. By the way,
(37:47):
I love that you guys are tagging me and tagging
the show and these things. We watch all of them
and we're going to talk about all of them. It's
absolutely wonderful now and particular um, the TikTok's that have
to do with this episode. Um. There are two things.
(38:08):
One is someone found a mistake, UM, which I think
sort of mirrors an editing thing that I mentioned earlier
during Sweet Caroline, when we are clapping at the end
of the performance. Um Fu foo po on TikTok shoutout
is the one who uploaded this. It's the same shot twice,
(38:35):
so they cut to us. We're all clapping, clapping, clapping
is going They cut back to market, cut back to us,
and then that clip starts over again because you notice
Amber turns her head to look and then you turn
your head to look and it's the same thing both times. Um.
So that's fun. They couldn't get enough footage of us clapping.
(38:57):
We must have been so bad that they had to
use the same clip twice. That's funny. That's really good. Now.
Other TikTok user crebub I don't know if that's a
Kirby Um. They made this incredible, incredible TikTok of. It's
(39:19):
a shot of Riverdale. The cast of Riverdale during an episode,
like horrified, very disturbed, watching something on a laptop, and
then it cuts the laptop and it's bust move the
Glee performance. It's Mr shoe breakdancing on the floor and
they're like upset and crying and very disturbed and it's
(39:40):
absolutely incredible, and can you send me that one? Yeah,
it's really funny. Um, it's very good, really good. Okay, okay, um,
but thank you so so much for sending these things in.
And also, like Kirby, thank you for making that. It's incredible.
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I love to see the thought in the creativity. And
also people just noticing things. Now, our next episode is Wheels.
So challenge, if you choose to accept it, is go
find some things you noticed on Wheels that might be
on TikTok. You know, I don't know. Let's see what's
out there, but keep tagging us. This is great. I
love this Glee talk is weird watching it? Yeah, that's
(40:30):
really really great. Um, that's our show, you guys. That's it.
We will have a lot to recap next week for Wheels,
a lot, yes, a lot of memories. Um might as
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And That's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
and I Heart Radio Podcast. Welcome back for another episode.
I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and this is and That's what
you really missed, where we recap Glee, rewatch Glee and
talk about it and things. And today we are recapping
mash Up episode eight, season one, where there aren't actually
(00:26):
any mashups. So that's there's a theme though. Yes, there's
a theme of mashing up without actually music, mashing, unlikely
characters mashing, yes, unlikely songs that are supposed to be
mashed up but are not being mashed. Yes, And narratively
we are mashing. We're straight up mashing um. This episode
(00:49):
aired on October two thousand and nine. We sort of
had our first like magazine cover. It was Matt and
Corey and Leah on the cover of Entertey Weekly. Enter
Tune Weekly was very nice to us along the journey
of Glee was becoming very famous. We had a cover
(01:09):
and Kevin. This week in Glean News, John Graff was
announced that he was going to come on and do
a couple of episodes. That's right, Good Old Sweet Sweet Um.
The number one movie in America at this time was
Paranormal Activity. And do you remember some time later after
(01:32):
this movie was out of the theaters. I did not
watch horror movies at all at this time. I hated there,
and Leah forced me to watch it. She had a
movie right at her house. Did I watch it with
you guys? Don't you might not have gone. I may
have actually opted out because I don't watch. Yeah, and
I was like fine, She's like, if I have a
(01:52):
movie night, you're coming and you're gonna watch panor Normal
Activity because it's so good. I was like, okay, fine,
and so we went over and I watched it. I
think Chris is there, and yeah, it was terrifying, but
I did it. Remember you could have been there. And
I don't like scary movies. Do you still not like
scaring movies? Or you watch them now? I watched him
(02:12):
now because um, Austin has trained me how to appreciate
them because he loves them. Got it? So now I
enjoyed that. I can appreciate that, all right. This episode
was directed by returning director Aldie Keene. It was written
by Ian Brennan. And we have some weird songs. Yeah,
(02:33):
that don't in fact mash up dynamic list um, and
we've got Boston Moog got Thuang song and of course
Sweet Caroline, which do you remember what happened? The day
after this one aired, Neil Diamond tweeted Mark, Oh, yeah,
(02:54):
this was like the first time we had like a
direct line. Um. And then an artist reached out after
their song was covered and like said, what great job,
and it was great to see my song and bloody
bolah that's right. We were all shocked. Yeah, we hadn't
had any direct response from any of the artists yet,
so that was great. It was our first and we
(03:15):
get to see Jama sing this episode. Isn't it such
a pretty voice? Um? So there's really three big things
going on this episode. There's Emma and Ken preparing for
the wedding. Then there's um the football team is really
revolting against the gleanness of it all and Kin's part
(03:37):
and that, and then there's Rachel and Puck, which is
is I feel like it's how I feel about that
is how I felt about Joey and Rachel dating and friends.
It feels weird. Anyway, Let's let's let's go back and
start with I never thought about it like that very good, Kevin. Okay,
(03:59):
let's start to think, well, Rachel, her name was inspired
by friends, wasn't it? Was it not? I believe it was?
Was it? I think? So? Yes? So? Um, I guess
I could ask I could ask Ryan. Maybe I send
a text. So Emma and Ken are planning to have
a wedding, very wedding and why where nobody can attend basically,
(04:22):
and then they after they're very very private event, they're
going to have a first dance and they share this
with Will that they can't They each want a very
unique and different song and they can't quite figure it out.
So they're thinking about, Yeah, Emma wants I could have
danced all night and a classic, and Ken Tanaka wants
(04:44):
the song which is also a classic. Jenna, don't you
dare try to say otherwise? Will says, Okay, let's let's
do this. I can teach you. I can get these
songs together. I want to be my wedding gift to
you guys, a nice person, being a nice person. Emma
shows up to dance rehearsal um and princess dies wedding dress,
(05:11):
which it is a it is it is very similar.
I will say, Um, go and look at Princess Di's
wedding dress. Jamie is so little. Yes, this dress swallows
her up a hole. And I think the idea is
that it's supposed to be not not the dress. So
(05:35):
but but Mr Shoe does dance lessons with her and
we get into the our favorite number of the Thong song,
and I feel like, so this episode is a lot
of cringe e Shoe and I feel like this is
(05:55):
AKA Fella's Part two because there's a lot of adults
and it um and it just a lot of this
makes me uncomfortable little cringe e because it's also happening
in a school where she a teacher, is dancing around
a counselor and who's in a wedding dress and one
(06:19):
of the classrooms at the school and they're dancing too. Yes,
but it's a weird I feel like there are many
boundaries that are being crossed well and then I mean
where this gets into the different part of the storyline.
But um, Mr Shoe doing bust to Move, which happens
early in the episode. Mr Shoe unbuttoned stead his shirt
(06:44):
during class, he dances around, he touches students faces. Um,
he's singing a weird song and it's a weird number. Yeah,
and the so sorry. So getting back to Thong song,
we're continuing the cringe and they trip, and the trips
(07:08):
and falls on top of Will. They have a moment
where they're on top of each other on the floor
in the classroom and Can, of course happens to be
outside peering through the window at that exact moment. Do
you think the Hunger Games when they fall they took
that from Will and Emma? Definitely, Yeah, Yeah, that definitely
is a direct correlation. Fully believe that. Yeah. And um,
(07:30):
I will say Kevin, this this was I think last
week or maybe we didn't talk about it, but there's
a website that has the Weirdest performances Glee's Weirdest Performances. Um.
And also there's another article it's like Glee's Weirdest Performances
and this made it on. Thong Song made it on
because it is it's very strange, but here we are,
(07:53):
And I wonder if the writers thought like it'd be
funny to see them do this. Yeah, I also love
that Thong song was used. Yeah, and that's just the weirdest,
wildly popular song in our Day, Yeah, because it was
great remember making the video. I watched it for that. Okay,
that's what I learned about shooting Day for Night. Anyway,
(08:16):
the educational series, and then they go to a bridle
shop where they then they realized that maybe she needs
a smaller dress, right, a more fitted dress. So Emma
is at the bridle shop and she's trying on a
new dress that's going to be easier to dance in,
and Will's like, oh, that, do you want to practice?
(08:36):
So he puts her in. Um. He puts on an
instrumental version of I Could Have Danced All night, and
we see Emma Pillsbury's first musical number, Jama May's first
number is very exciting. Um. And and then after the dance,
Will tells Emma that Ken is making the guys choose
(08:58):
between glee and the football. Um. Brings us to Slushy Gate.
So let's let's backtrack. Yes, So what's what's also happening
in this episode is everybody is getting slushy, but like
the jobs are getting slushy, the popular girls are getting slushy.
Everyone who's in Glee club that is part of the
(09:19):
popular crowd is getting slushy. Um. This is where we
see Kurowski and his emio. Um. We talked about this
the ship we found on TikTok where where Kross he
says he was on the hockey team lies. Um. Yeah,
and there's all this rebellion amongst all the jocks, the
dudes being the dudes, and all these gay jokes and
(09:42):
YadA YadA YadA. Um. It's also where we do all
these tracking shots of the big slushy cups going down
and Amber yelling out my weave slide of the bumble bees. Yes. Um,
I think that was improv. I know, and I originally
thought it was written. I'm like, I don't know about that,
(10:04):
but Amber, Amber, Yes, Amber improv. That made it up,
So I feel better about that. And then, um, I
don't know if you guys noticed, but this is the
start of the fake slushy and the very short lived
fake slushies at that. Um. It was made of silicone
(10:25):
and some color food coloring and whatnot. And I believe
they used it because it was faster to reset, Is
that right? Yeah? And also it's just it's faster to reset,
easier clean up. You didn't have to reset the people.
But it was also not as good. It was not
as good the actual like when you get slushy. The
(10:48):
shot wasn't like I was good because it never stuck
on your face like like a real flash she did.
We have to go back and talk about Bust to
Move for a second. Besides it being like super cringe
and shoe touching everybody's face and I'm buttoning a shirt
(11:12):
and doing and wrapping and doing breakdancing. I remember for us,
um we had a great time because we didn't have
to do anything. I remember the rehearsal where everybody was like, yeah,
we're just going to sort of dance around and vibe
sort of like um ride with me, like the Nelly song.
(11:33):
We're just having fun. It was sort of the same thing.
But Matt had to do so much this episode. I
mean so much between the thongs song, Bust Move, Jane's number,
it was he was I could have danced all night.
I do remember him kind of being exhausted. It was
really really crazy. And then I was there playing the
(11:56):
bass like an idiot, pretending I had lessons to learn
how to fake play these instruments. I never actually learned that. Yeah,
so I did that in the in the trailer you remember.
I remember you going and being like I had to
go rehearst the basis. Yeah, I had a teacher who
taught me how to do these things. Wow, well, at
(12:16):
least you weren't like breaking breaking. I also feel like,
I know, like, looking back now, it's sort of all
this is sort of cringe the Shoe doing all this,
But at the time, I don't think we necessarily realize
that it was cringe. No, not at all. And here's
the thing. I think it was also because the way
we saw Matt was different than the way that people
(12:37):
saw Mr Shoe to the kids, correct now is our friend, Like,
of course I saw him grab Diana's face because like
that's what we did. We were all pretty much the
same age. So it's a little weird because I think
people now are when I'm watching it now and like, oh,
I'm watching it as Mr Shoe and the kids not
in us, and it was definitely, um not, that's not appropriate,
(12:59):
even more so now so. I but I do remember
this episode being very free and easy for us. Yeah,
we didn't do much, which we got to hang out.
Um so after us to move, Finn and Quinn go
get advice from Emma on how to be visit Emma
(13:20):
to asker for us and how to be cool, and
Emma tells me to wear sunglasses because she's obviously distracted
by Will passing by um, and so Finn and Quinn,
especially Quinn's they were shears sunglasses the rest of the episode.
And then Finn and Quinn get slushy by the football
team and your favorite quote which one bros before high hoss.
(13:47):
Did you also notice how the football player is falling
because of the slushy as the scene was ending, Um No,
I definitely did not like he slipped on the slushy. Ye,
just just a little weirdness going out at the end
of the scene. Yes, Um. So there's a fight at
football practice because Ken Tanaka is now very upset in
(14:09):
Mr Shoe and is getting revenge basically and putting extra
glue rehearsals during extra football rehearsal during you rehearse football
half time is intermission right exactly, So I can to
(14:32):
get revenge about seeing you know, Will and Emma laying
on the ground together. He decides to throw a Thursday
one pm um football rehearsal, Um, and so then the
people who are in glee club and also in football
have to make the ultimate decision about where they're going
(14:52):
to be because it's a mandatory practice. He's pissed. And
this is the scene that I thought I remembered shooting.
Remember last week we talked about or not last week,
but Invitamin D when Sue we did that choir room
scene when Sue becomes um CO captain. Right, Yeah, this
(15:15):
felt very similar to me. And maybe it was because
Led directed, uh, both of them, but I was like, oh,
this is the scene that I remember so vividly of
us like waiting for the people to come in. Yeah. Same,
And I feel like we're constantly just like waiting in
(15:36):
the choir room. Recently, um So, Mike and Matt and
shockingly Puck show up, Book shows up because of Rachel,
because of Rachel, but Finn doesn't show up. So Finn
stays at the football practice, and we're all kind of bewildered,
(15:58):
like why already definitely pissed, already's pissed, already think works
thin And then we're waiting and Finn doesn't come back,
like a weird slip up of editing here. It's like
after the after they come in, they'll all turn to
look at the door. After the camera cuts to the door,
(16:18):
then back to the glee club the same clip. It's
the same clip of us really yeah, m hmm, I
believe it was. I think so, I don't know. Maybe
people can message us because it looks it looks funny
and we just mark that because we'll address something similar
to that later as well. So this next the next
(16:40):
part where finn Um has to go and slushy Kurt
right because the football team will, you know, have his hoss.
If not, he doesn't do it. Um and Kurt and
his ring jacket, his wonderful mark, Jacob's range acid Um
(17:03):
and He's like, look, I'll do it. I know you
have to do it. Just do it, and feels like
I don't really want to you. So Kurt's like, let
me just do it for you. Then let me make
your job really hazy. And Kurt does it to himself
and Chris does it to himself, and I remember being
at that um watching Chris do that and doing my
damnedest not to laugh, and all of us not, and
(17:25):
I think he was like, please don't laugh, because I can't.
We can't mess this up. Once you slushy yourself that's it, right, Um,
But I remember him slushy himself and it went behind
him all the way up onto the light. Right, it
went like up and behind him and then rocked down
and got Leah, that's right, and then we all had
to run into the girl's room. But I remember that
(17:48):
it seemed very vividly in my mind, especially because of
Chris's beautiful raincoat. Also, how amazing is Chris that you're
doing the scene that's absolutely insane that after he slashes
himself switches it, he's like almost on the ridge of tears.
That's a that's a Golden Globe winner. Yeah, you're right,
(18:09):
and that's a Golden Globe winner. And so here's brings
us back to basically, when Shoe tells Emma that Ken
is doing this, you know, after they do, I could
have danced all night. Um you see her being like huh,
she had no idea And so then um, now cut
(18:33):
back to here. Finn is now telling coach Tanaka that
he doesn't want to have to choose, and clearly there's
been some of you know, some behind the scenes talking
between some characters, and he's like, okay, because Will has
also apologized to Ken in this time, where Will is like,
you're right, you know, I didn't necessarily encourage it, but
I didn't stop it, and so yeah, and so all
(18:57):
these things have lined up where Ken then hansels Thursday
practices or Senna says Thursday rehearsals, so then everybody can
participate in both exactly. And Finn returns to the glee
club and brings everyone slushies. Do you remember the film?
I remember filming this. This is really fun. This was
(19:21):
at the end of the night. It was I think
it was a Friday, and Finn in this scene brings
slushies to the glee club to make up for not
showing up. And um and did or did Mr shubring
slushy Finn and then Mr Shoes like, okay, well, unfortunately
(19:43):
weren't able to find a song too, um mash up,
leaving us with no mashup. Um and wet. Sweet Quinn
has been exiled from the Cheerios. She's been kicked off
because she's pregnant. She's prego and um, we'll get to
that part of why she was kicked off the Cheerios,
but she Um, we see her in regular clothes. We
(20:05):
start to see Diana in her regular clothes. And I
have to say, Quinn's clothes just subtly mirror Diana um wardrobe.
She's just a little bit they would shop at the
same places. Um. So we get to start to see
Quinn and regular clothes and cherio fits. And then I
(20:28):
also love that Corey's like drinking the slushy during this scene. Yeah,
but yeah, I remember we had I think it was
late Friday night. We had basically one chance to do this, yes, yes,
And the camera was covered in like plastics so that
it wouldn't get dirty because there were so many of
us throwing slashy. There was the floor when you watched.
(20:51):
When you watch the the slushy hit like the camera.
We do it to the camera. There's like a piece
of plastic in front of the cameras see it like war.
It just happens. So it's fast, it's hard to it's
hard to tell. Very good catch. Um. And I remember
mapp being like very nervous. Yes, that getting slushy. So yeah,
the Glee club kids they learned, they learned that Mr.
(21:13):
She has never been slushy before. And so it is
a twelve slushy facial, which is the most amount of Slushies,
that anybody has been slushy yet a date to date
which will change sure well, Ken, I was also like
during this time when you say the character hasn't been
(21:35):
slushy and noverybody's realizing it in real life. I was
also we were also sort of like, neither have we.
That's we tried not to anybody. We didn't. We were
trying to hide it from brad Ian and Ryan that
I don't think they were keeping track yet, but no,
we got we're getting close. I think it happened soon
(21:55):
for me. I think I get I get slushy pretty soon.
Somebody ratted me out, and that's how it happened me.
You really got the the super Bowl of Slushies. Um,
I did, literally. So the Glee Club was supposed to find,
you know, something to mash up and like you said, well,
well it's like, you know, nobody found them. But it's
okay because we still learned the lesson. And then Will
(22:18):
has also told Emma that he can't mash up. I
could have danced all night and thong so long. They
just don't go together right, So the mashups aren't working out,
but they're teaching us valuable lessons. They know they're not
necessarily supposed to be. Yes, they're they're great songs on
their own. They're not necessarily complimentary of one another, which
(22:39):
might be a metaphor. It was a metaphor, and I
was wondering. I was honestly like, are they talking about
Emma and Ken? Are we talking about Emma and Will?
Because when she's saying like we don't necessarily match, I
was like, Oh, she's talking about Ken. And then when
Will said it, I was like, oh, no, it's about
(22:59):
him and how they're not supposed to be together. Well,
it's both. I think you're from her perspective, it's one
thing from his, it's another. Oh, very good. Everybody is
looking at the thing from their own point of Beu Jenna.
It's about that's how life is. It's your own movie,
and everyone else is just a supporting character. You know.
(23:20):
There was an article that called the Will Emma and
Can love triangle the Bermuda love triangle, which is great.
That's funny. Imagine Howard Bamboo can Can playing a Kentanaka.
What a different, like a totally different vibe would have given.
They're so good. So the reason why let's go backwards.
(23:43):
So the reason why Quinn got kicked out of the
Cheerios was because Sue is on a tirade. Um. Earlier
in the episode, Rod Remington hits on Sue, she gets excited,
They go on a date, they play battleship. She says,
you've sunk my battleship hard, and he invites her to
(24:08):
go swinging, which I was like, when Rod's like, I
like to swing, I was like, it's Sue gonna get
confused and like, end of it a swingers party. She
seemed down for it either way. No, totally um, but
it was an actual swinging event. So that's where we
see Matt Mr. Shoe and Sue getting along, which is
(24:28):
also very weird. Um, but love watching them do their
little number. It's always fun to see Jane get to
do stuff, and I like seeing Sue sort of vulnerable,
excited for the prospect of love just for a moment,
just for a second. I almost got too uncomfortable. We
saw her too vulnerable for a second. I was like, no, no,
this is not the Sue that I like to see.
(24:50):
But of course Jane is like the polar opposite. So um.
So they teach each other, you know, their their will
is teaching Sue the dance to sing Sing, which is
such a great little number. And then and also a
side note, Zach Woodley was also being put through the
ringer during this episode. I remember as well because while yes,
(25:12):
while having to teach Mad and Jane these numbers, he
also had to choreograph them. Yeah, and then when we're
shooting them, he has to be on set while we're
doing it when he should also be like coming up
with and teaching other people other things. This is where Brooke,
also assistant choreographer, who was also amazing um came in
(25:36):
handy because they would tag team really well because they
had such a shorthand. So anyway, um Rod, Sue gets
is ready for her date. She shows up Rod, is she,
I guess cheating on her although he, according to him
they weren't exclusive. Was making out with Andrea the other
(25:59):
um an newscaster news anchor. And and then that's it,
that's the that's the vulnerable side of student. Yeah. And
then Sue goes back to her ways of I want
the set list because you know she's gonna be up
to know good with it and demanding things. But it's
good to see her return to her evil self. I
(26:20):
missed it. I did miss it as well, and also like,
is there anything that's you that Jane Lynch can't do. No,
I've been watching um The Marvelous Mrs Masil for the
first time. I know, I'm very late to it. Yeah,
you texted me last night because some of our glee
dancers are in it the new season. I haven't seen. No,
(26:43):
I'm just in the past week I've watched two and
a half seasons and seeing Jane on it. If you
haven't watched The Marvelous Mrs Mazel on Amazon, you should
go watch it. Jane has an incredible role on a
really fun role. But you know, every now and then
I'm like, there's some Sue, there's that sneaking through and
(27:04):
it's great. She's just so good. She's so so good.
So this this Puck and Rachel storyline really makes me uncomfortable.
I don't like it. Puck is getting into his you
know his he wants it it. A Jewish girl is
getting in touch with Jewish roots. I do. I will
say that his like little montage monologue with his the
(27:25):
dream where she comes through the window is pretty funny. Good.
It's very funny. I think they're very funny together. Yeah, totally.
It's just that Puck and Rachel and Rachel make me uncomfortable.
I get nervous and I feel not warming and gooey inside. Now,
did you like Rachel and Joey on Friends? I didn't
hate it. It didn't make me uncomfortable. I didn't want
(27:47):
them to end up together. But I didn't write a
storyline because they're so good. I mean, the actors and
the characters are so charming and so good together. Like,
I don't think we had enough time with Rachel and
and Finn or any of that to really fall, like
so deeply in love with them for them to be
together yet, Like it's so early on that we're already
(28:08):
mixing and matching, and it just it felt a little soon,
I think, yeah, yeah, but uh, Puck after his I
mean number one, this is like the beginning of Puckleberry,
which I think is all these nicknames coming up. Um,
(28:28):
then we get to Puck actually helping Rachel perform to
rehearse in her room. Also, I forgot that we did
what a girl wants that had to be live, right,
I forgot that too. Um. But then they make out.
They're making out, He's like, can we take a break,
and then it's weird. Um, and then Rachel sees Finn. Yeah,
(28:51):
she's dreaming a fin everybody everybody is cheating mentally Rachel
things that she she says to he can't, she can't
be with him unless he's a leading man in like
man enough to sing a solo. So here we go.
What does he do? Sweet Caroline, Ladies and Gentlemen, which
(29:11):
Neil Diamond loved and and this number was definitely a
fan favorite for a long time. Um. We did it
on tour and I enjoyed doing this number because fun
fact we would do when when somebody had a solo
and they were backup vocals as there usually were that
(29:32):
we were no longer recording ourselves, we'd have to learn
them on the day we were daring him in the
morning and we would we'd have to learn them, and
we'd have to make sure they look right, and if not,
Tim Davis would come and have our throats and um
in the nicest way possible. And So to do a
number that you knew so well, you're like, oh, I
(29:53):
got this, I actually recorded this. This is great, This
is really fun. So it was a fun number two
shoot and it was again easy. Do you remember recording
the backgrounds to this? Oh? Did we record the background?
Is you? Me and Amber? I believe we still were
(30:15):
recording back That's why I liked it so much. Yeah,
because we knew it it was. I remember we had
to like space around to make it sound like there
are more people and like some of us are standing
on a chair. We recorded, Yes, were you not there? No?
I was there doing your royalties? Say are you getting
paid for this box? Still? Yes? Then yes, so it
was you, me and Amber. Oops, well I just contradicted myself.
(30:41):
Thanks Kevin for that. That the reason why you did
know it was because we actually all right, well that's sweet, Caroline.
It's it goes down in England history. But um pocket slushy,
And then the whole football thing happens where he's supposed
(31:02):
to choose and gets in a fight and gets hit
in the face by such by Kurowski um and like
Rachel helps him clean up and blah blah blah. Then
all that stuff sort of happens where he chooses glee
club over football, and then there's that very nice like
scene on the bleachers between which we never see, by
(31:23):
the way, like scenes on the bleachers anymore, which I
really appreciate. Yeah, the scene was really nice. It was.
And they're both sort of, you know, opening up about
how they're sort of like settling for not settling for
each other, but they both want different things. He clearly wants,
Quinn she wants and they're both sort of like the
second Prize the runners up for one another. And then
(31:46):
looks back to his normal self of like, no, we're
not going to be friends. That it's just not what
it is, and and they says they never were friends exactly,
burn burn, and and that's that's the episode. That's it.
We have these unlikely mashups, these mashups that never happened,
and unlikely hearings, mashing songs that do not go together. Um,
(32:13):
it was. It's not my favorite episode, no, And I
don't remember it all that much because I think we
weren't in a ton of it, so it's not in
my memory. And I also I don't love it. Gold
Star for Matt for working and also like what a yeah,
(32:36):
what a talent, what a talent. I also we'll talk
about my favorite line in a second, but yeah, I
do remember, I know what you're saying. Great, Okay, Tarty
takes Tarty Ta Tarty takes cringe moment. I mean the
(33:00):
episode is the cringe episode for sure. But like Thong song,
bust a move, shoe on, buttoning a shirt for the students,
it's yeah, yeah, okay. To say much more, where Ken
says to Finn, you have an itch down there or
something that's also a little weird um teacher's dance move,
(33:24):
I think that has gotta go. It's just weird. It's
just weird. Okay, we'll go with you. Song. What was
your favorite dance? Oh well, yeah, because there are a
lot of dance members, I think sing Things has to
be the best. It was really good. I like watching
them together, polished and good and yeah, it was really
fun to watch. And I remember Jean having like just
(33:45):
a blast doing it, just so she was always such
like such a team player. The best song, I mean,
I think in terms of like Glee history, Sweet Caroline,
Sweet Caroline. Yeah, and just because like also Neil Diamond,
you know, and also me you and Amber that's right
(34:07):
that you don't remember looks best performance by a prop
Kevin Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and also I think in
terms of the score, the flight of the bumblebee as
this is happening is absolutely brilliant. Yes, that was really good.
(34:27):
I wonder how much they had to pay for that.
Oh my gosh, right, really good, really really good. Um,
and that's not the last time we'll see that either.
At the p O B of the right, I don't
I doubt it. No, I think Paris Barclay does it
sound all right? And then things that age well or
didn't age well. Um, there's a line that Finn says.
(34:53):
He says, I don't think anyone decision makes your life
unless you accidentally invent some kind of zombie virus or something.
Oh oh yeah, that didn't Okay, well here we are. Yeah,
that's very good. There's a lot of great lines in
this though. There's a lot of great lines, but I
(35:15):
think I think what it always ends up being for
us is Sue. Yes, and it is when Sue has
finally lost her love and she gets mad, the best thing.
One of my favorite lines ever, it's one of my
frt lines ever in the show. Okay, do you want
(35:37):
to say? Do you want to? Do you want to
read it? She says, I'll need the set list for sectionals,
after all, I want them on my desk, warm from
a laminator at five pm. If it is one minute late,
I will go to the animal shelter and get you
a kittie cat. I will let you fall in love
with that kitty cat. Then on some dark, cold night,
I will still wait into your home and punch you
in the face. And and then he even better the
(36:00):
robuttal when when Mr Sho says didn't work out with
Rod and I was like, it's really good, really good.
Both the deliveries are really really good. Um. And then
the other great line from the episode. I love the
fact that Emma does not want anybody to see her
(36:22):
get married to Kent Kanaka, and so she says, um
Ken convinced me we need to at least be in
the same room when America is certified. So I also
wanted to because they're like a little fun fact about
this episode because there were so many slushies that there was.
I think we did Oprah, you see um our props guy,
(36:42):
Paul Paul props um did we had that stunt man,
the stunt guy looking thing like fake. It's like the
body you using the karate yes, that thing I clearly
work out, um, and we'd use it to people who
are before you would sushy someone, you would use that
the dummy to slushy. Yes. So if you go look
(37:05):
up started behind the scenes on like the Oprah appearance
we did, you can see the whole process behind making
the slushy happened. So we didn't have to do a
billion takes each time Jenna ship we found on TikTok.
There's quite a reference. UM. I would first like to
start out with a shout out to the one only
(37:26):
christ and Chenowith who made a Glee TikTok what um
where it says April Roads to the students at McKinley
and she's singing popular what like in the mirror popular Popular? Yes? Stop.
It was really cute and it was really really great, um.
So many fans sent it to us. By the way,
(37:47):
I love that you guys are tagging me and tagging
the show and these things. We watch all of them
and we're going to talk about all of them. It's
absolutely wonderful now and particular um, the TikTok's that have
to do with this episode. Um. There are two things.
(38:08):
One is someone found a mistake, UM, which I think
sort of mirrors an editing thing that I mentioned earlier
during Sweet Caroline, when we are clapping at the end
of the performance. Um Fu foo po on TikTok shoutout
is the one who uploaded this. It's the same shot twice,
(38:35):
so they cut to us. We're all clapping, clapping, clapping
is going They cut back to market, cut back to us,
and then that clip starts over again because you notice
Amber turns her head to look and then you turn
your head to look and it's the same thing both times. Um.
So that's fun. They couldn't get enough footage of us clapping.
(38:57):
We must have been so bad that they had to
use the same clip twice. That's funny. That's really good. Now.
Other TikTok user crebub I don't know if that's a
Kirby Um. They made this incredible, incredible TikTok of. It's
(39:19):
a shot of Riverdale. The cast of Riverdale during an episode,
like horrified, very disturbed, watching something on a laptop, and
then it cuts the laptop and it's bust move the
Glee performance. It's Mr shoe breakdancing on the floor and
they're like upset and crying and very disturbed and it's
(39:40):
absolutely incredible, and can you send me that one? Yeah,
it's really funny. Um, it's very good, really good. Okay, okay, um,
but thank you so so much for sending these things in.
And also, like Kirby, thank you for making that. It's incredible.
(40:03):
I love to see the thought in the creativity. And
also people just noticing things. Now, our next episode is Wheels.
So challenge, if you choose to accept it, is go
find some things you noticed on Wheels that might be
on TikTok. You know, I don't know. Let's see what's
out there, but keep tagging us. This is great. I
love this Glee talk is weird watching it? Yeah, that's
(40:30):
really really great. Um, that's our show, you guys. That's it.
We will have a lot to recap next week for Wheels,
a lot, yes, a lot of memories. Um might as
well be a three part episode. I'm kidding. Maybe. Uh. Well,
thanks for thanks for joining us, thanks for listening to mash.
(40:51):
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I love that I keep doing it because you just
(41:13):
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