"Stephanie Gets Framed" Recap Season 4, Episode 16

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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Campaign phone calls for the Wisconsin race. Oh nice last
week this past week, and we're sitting in like a
room upstairs and making phone calls and there's it's like
a glass room, you know what I mean, It's like
somebody's like little loft area. So it sounds just bouncing
off and I'm like, my auditory processing ADHD is just

(00:42):
like that.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Sometimes when that happens, I just get louder. But I
don't realize that I'm getting louder.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh gosh, oh gosh.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
So I was loud, but this this older woman kept
turning me going could you keep it down?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Could you keep it down? No? No, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
But directly next to her, like touching show with her,
was this German woman who was lovely but really.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Loud setting next to her.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm at the other side of the room, and she's like,
can you keep it down?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And I'm just thinking, like, I think it's the lady
next to you. It's not mean you're getting the blame.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
For talking loud because she's talking loud, like, you know, anyway,
keep escalating it.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
She I Meanwhile, the older.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Lady's just like I hate this girl, you know, I'm
like the new one and it's just and I'm like,
I think it's the.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
German no, yeah, oh wow. And then and then I
let it annoy me. And then I let it annoy.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Me for like a good hour, and I'm apparently still
letting it annoy me.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's still I feel like you still need to unpack
this a little bit more before you lest.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's because I didn't, because I desperately wanted to be like, Oh,
you're not going to say anything to her, You're only
going to say and I was like, you took it
personally right, Well, it's just I was like.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
How are you not turning to her?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Because you know her, so you're not gonna say anything,
and uh, you know and you but I'm the new one,
so you're like, hey, you keep it down.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm like, why don't you?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's a pecking yeah right, definitely was, and I was
I was down low on the on the pecking order.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, you got to work your way up, Jody. Yeah yeah,
oh a few more times for sure. And that's fine,
and I will.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
But I I think it was more the part of
me that is that's like, this isn't fair, wait, that
wants to say something that I and so now I'm
just glad I'm getting it off my chest.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you got to you know, cleanse
yourself and get it off your chest.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I did.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I did, made a lot of good phone calls and
uh didn't even have to pay anybody a million dollars,
so and and and we won, so like that's a
plus not a million dollars. And the candidate that uh
I was triving, you know, making calls for one so nice.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's a win win right there. That's a good make
sure what you say, do you have a script you
follow or so? And if the person on the other
end is cranky, it doesn't want to listen to you,
like tell.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Me, you know what I will say.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I only got I was there for a little over
an hour making calls, and a lot of people like
you just won't like they won't answer, it'll go to
voicemail whatever. But a lot a lot of people answer
and are more than happy to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Really and yeah and.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, it was like I had a lot of really
actually amazing phone calls that kind of gave me hope
for the whole situation.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh yeah, uh of some you know people my parents' generation.
But but really.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
The answering the phone, it's our parents.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah yeah, and they want our chest and they want
a chat. So yeah, and I was more than happy
to do it. I was like, great, I'll talk to you.
But yeah, it was I only got one person that
was like, get me off those I was like, okay, okay,
and I get that, like I you.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Know, but most often people are actually excited.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
But yeah, there is a script where like you basically
use your phone and you you call into this thing
and it pops up with the person's name, and then
you sort of go through things and it helps you
keep track of like where you are and the you know,
like maybe wrong person, answer machine, okay, refuse, you know whatever,
and you like click on it and then it takes
you sort of to the next set things. Yeah, that's

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great and I love it and it you know, it
makes you feel like you're actually participating in doing something.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Sound absolutely absolutely, that's that's a feel good thing for everybody.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, so good for you. That's great. Yeah, how's you, Ben?
My week's been fine.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
My week's been The baby chicks they're the Eagles are
huge now they're like we're still on the bald els.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yes, they're still on it.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I forgot to put them on this morning. But yeah,
they're huge. They're getting their little pin feathers, which really
creep me out. I didn't realize that maybe I have
that disorder where you're creeped out by lot lots of
like little groupings of small holes and things. Wood are,
pin feathers, pin feathers are.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not as up to date
on my bald eagle lego as you forget. I get. Yeah,
when we were talking the giraffe, you were like, here's what,
by the way, what that means. It's a zoological term.
I was like, thank you very much, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
The pin feathers are it's their very first feathers. But
when they come out, it kind of looks like the
end of a shoelace with that little plastic thing. Yeah,
because it looks like little shoelaces coming out, and then
the feathers kind of come out of there.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
So when they.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because I mean, you got to think you couldn't really
stick a feather out.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Of this skate.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's got to be it has to like immert impact
and right, right. So, but because it's the beginning stage.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
They look like Edward Scissorhands with their with their wings right,
with all these pin feathers, but no actual feathers yet.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
It's just I feel like I'm gonna need to look
at this though, It's like I can't. I can't look at.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
It for very long, but I can't look away either.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's weird, man. I mean, it's.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Beautiful, it's nature, it's fascinating, but I can't look at
it for too long or I get really creeped out.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Huh, well, there goes your chance of ever adopting a
bald eagle.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
So well, anyways, there's your other animals. Now, what are
the names? What are the elementary school kids up in
Big Bear? They voted and so the names. The older
ones name is Sonny, okay, cute, and the younger one's
name is Gizmo.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
So it's sunny and Gizmo. Isn't that so cute?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I was gonna go Sonny and chair, but I feel
like that actually wouldn't be what elementary school kids would pick,
so they would have no idea of that reference, right, Yeah,
Sonny and Gizmo.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I like it, Gizmo so cute?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Ye are Sonny and Gizmo still like pecking at each other.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
It's calmed down. They've matured out of that phase. I
mean there's still a little bit of bonking, but it's well,
not nearly as dangerous as it was, okay go where
they were trying to kill each other to got it.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
They wanted all the food.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's survival of the fittest.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So right, I mean, those pin feathers aren't gonna emerge themselves,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
You gotta have nutrition. Yeah, and they could use that
as a weapon, like slappy.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
I'm gonna have to look at this now because it
sounds weirdly fascinating.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's one of those like zip popping videos where you're like, wait,
oh my god, I gotta watch. Yes, it's just like that.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
It's just like, ah, what, yeah, it's it creeps me out,
and I'm usually not creeped out by stuff like that.
So I'm creeped out that I'm creeped out.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
I'll sound layered and like something you need to work through.
We both need some therapies today. Meet for the statement
that's an understatement.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Let's just let's just have a therapy session.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
So random little factoids.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
So I love to do crossword puzzles on my on
my iPod nice and I was doing one today and
the clue was full House letter. Yeah, full House letters
what And I was like, what full House that letters?
And it was three letters and.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I was like, what does that mean? Letters? What do
you think it was? Let's f oh, San Francisco? Okay, okay.
So I was so.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Excited that, like it was a sort of a deep
cut clue too. It wasn't like, you know, it was
you had to really think about it and be like
house letters and you're like a.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Card hand, you know, like card game. But no, yeah,
and I was like, age, what is it? Yes, I
was like that's the there we go.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
The three letters kind of helps guess the clue because
you like airports are are always three letters?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Anyway, I just I was get very excited when there's
a reference to Full House or something on like Jeopardy
or in a crossword puzzle.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
It makes me feel so important.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
And right, well you made you feel like wow. For me,
I'm always like, oh my gosh. So the show was
big enough that like this is something that people would
be expected to know. Yeah, you know, general public, the
general public would be like, oh, that makes sense, and
you're like, that's wow. I don't know, it's just it's.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
That silly thing. And I've that I've always felt where
it's like wow, people people actually know this.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Like people people who don't who never even watched the.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Show still know of the show.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Of course, that's what's super impressive because we got our
diehard fans, We've got our fan Rito's. They they've been
with us for thirty eight.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh yeah, but you haven't not heard, yeah of Full
House if you've lived in the States or georg Japan
or Germany, Brazil, yeah, everywhere.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's what you should have done. Go up to that
German woman and be like, do you know who I am?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Do you know what show I was on?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
That's gonna make the that's gonna make it the temperature
in the room much better.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, we're gonna get along.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Now. I got one older woman yelling at me to
be quiet, and then I've just insulted the other one,
And yeah, no, I don't think that's not Maybe on
the last day of volunteering, I'd be like, all right,
here we go. Yeah, but not very unopular in your country, right, Yeah,
don't you know who I am. I'm related to David Hasselhoff.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh dear, okay, well, shall we get into this week's recap.
This is a big one, do a fun one. I'm
so excited for this one. Welcome back to how Rude
Tannerito's I'm Andrea Barber and I'm Jody Sweeten, and today
we're discussing season four, episode sixteen, Stephanie gets framed. It
originally aired January twenty fifth, nineteen ninety one, and it

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goes a little something like this. It's the crossover we've
all been or. Steve Arkle comes to town. He helps
Stephanie deal with her new glasses, but when she takes
all of Joey's funny glasses and disrupts the class, she
realizes she.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Took it too far. I don't think she did. I
think you didn't go far enough, right, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Look if it were me, which it usually actually was
like in a real classroom, Oh yeah, I was way bigger. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Just wait, I'm not done with my full stand up
routine yet. Teach you gotta like take a seat, you.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Know, and this see where it got be so hey,
you know, and.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
The b storyline is Jesse's having trouble deciding who's going
to be his best man, which that's such a trope,
Like that's such a trope.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Who's going to be my best man? It was just picking,
like you.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Know, well, But I feel like back then it was
like now people were like, oh, traditions, madriician whatever, like
I'm going to have three best man, I'm gonna my
best man's going to be my sister or what you know, whatever,
Like we're finally breaking it. But I feel like the
early nineties it was still like this is there's a
way that.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
You know, is still a very traditional wedding format.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
And to be fair, my mom, who used to be
a wedding planner, would probably not how it works.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
It's best man head husher.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Oh Janis knows, Janie, she was a wedding coordinator.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
She coordinated Bridget's wedding, Candice's sister. I didn't know that. Yeah,
my mom had a business as a wedding coordinator.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
I mean she was a thirstinator for a while. But yeah,
there is.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
No one more dedicated to uh details and putting on
an event than.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
My laurel arrangement.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Oh she is that's a perfect job for her son.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Will you ever get married again?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I will be calling Janice Sweeten get her out of
retirement right. This episode was directed by Joels Wick. It
was written by Doug McIntyre, who we interviewed several months ago.
And we have some great guest stars. We have none
other than Julia White as Steve Birkle, the legendary Steve
Rkle from Family Matters. Uh, this is a natural crossover

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because we had the same production company, the same studio,
Warner Brothers, Miller Boyet.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
They were g I F two, weren't they They were.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Tgif they filmed like one or two stages over from us.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
So yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, they were always like we hung out together.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, no, it was.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
This is a great a natural, natural crossover.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Juliel also voiced Sonic the Hedgehog in three cartoon series.
He also appeared in a crossover of Step by Step.
He played Erkele in a Step by Step one or two. Wow,
they were just traveled. He traveled.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, I don't know what. I don't know what city.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Step by Step takes place in, but yeah he got around. Huh,
because he's from Chicago. You went to San Francisco to
meet the Tanners and then wherever Step by Step crew lives,
you know. Next we have Tasha Scott as Julie. She
was in Troop Beverly Hills as Jasmine, also camp Cucamonga.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Uh in that movie so bad right in it? I
know I was slightly too young.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
I was. I was just a little too young for
the age group.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yep, yeah, yours younger is a little too much of
a gap that age.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
But it did look so fun.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
She had a recurring role on the Parenthood and she
played Dorothy in the national touring cast of The wiz Ooh.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
She had a very very clectic career.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Next, we finally have these uncredited people from last week.
We have Cynthia Steele and Mike A. Rowe who were
erroneously credited last week on Old Brown Eyes and.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
We couldn't find them. We're like, who are these people? Now?
Hold on? I have no I have a question though.
Is it is it Erronesley? Is that how you say
the word? Is that?

Speaker 4 (14:38):
What?

Speaker 3 (14:38):
I What did I say? Erroanessy erroneously? Erroneously?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, I don't know, I.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Don't it's erroneously because something is erroneous, which means irrelevant, erroneously.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
What did I say, Ernest, Ernest tomato tomato?

Speaker 2 (14:54):
It could be that's why I was asking.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
I was like, I've never and I trust you because
you are a word smith. And so I was like, wait,
maybe I've been saying I just it was a silly
thing that I just had to add.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Maybe I'm saying it wrong.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
I don't know, but this is this is basically it's
an error erroneously erroneously erroneously sounds like orogenously, and that
that's not what I'm trying to convey.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean, yeah, you don't want something to be erroneously erogenous,
because that's weird.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
You know. This is basically what you're saying is the two.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Uncredited people last week that we were like, oh, missus
Claire in the classmate, and then then now.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
This week they actually pop up. Okay, this week they
actually pop up.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
So last week, forget about them. They're not going to
just yeah they're not there.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Now they're here this week. Cynthia Steele plays the teacher
missus Claire. She appeared in Jag, Married with Children, Quantum Leap,
Murphy Brown, and Night Court.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
And then we have.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Micah Rowe as a little redheaded classmates. Oh yeah, he
appeared in Coach Beverly Hills nine O two, one oer
and Room for two.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh yeah, he was He was cute. I wish we
had him back, but no, if he's.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Back, he'll be uncredited anyways, right right, we start in
the bathroom. I think for the teaser, is this the
normal hallway bathroom because the sink looks like it's on
the other side of the door.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's got like, but we've remodeled.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Have we remodeled, Like is this Danny's bathroom?

Speaker 1 (16:24):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
I don't know why this now.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
This is supposed to be the hallway bathroom, but because
we've shown it in a couple episodes, uh, flooding and
all of that kind of stuff. And the sink was
up against the other wall. It was against the wall.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
When you lost Danny's wedding and rost Danny's ring and
the water coming out, the sink was up there.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, so they had to move it to the other Yeah. Interesting, Okay,
well that actually makes sense. They should have put a
throwaway line in there.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Because then I remodeled the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, we remodeled the bathroom after the girls lost the
wedding ring, because then I would have bothered me the
whole teaser. I couldn't stop thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I I can't believe I didn't even notice it.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Usually right, I was like, it's usually.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Your thing is you've noticed the one thing that's wrong,
and no idea you'll off today. A little tired braking
on me too, sister, me too. So Michelle's brushing her
teeth again.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
She's unsupervised.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
She's reciting up and down and up and down as
she moves the toothbrush accordingly. After about fifteen seconds of brushing,
she shouts, with a mouthful of bluetoothpaste, Daddy, I'm ready.
She takes a sip of water and Danny picks her up.
Annie leans her over the sink to spit out the water.
She looks at her dad in the mirror with a
big grin and says, thank you very much, and Danny

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nods in response.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Just doing my job.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
If you were doing your job, you would have been
in there with her the whole time she was.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
If you were doing your job, you just get the
kid a stepstool.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
She's old enough to brush her own teeth and she
needs a step stool.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
She really needs a stepstool like that. Nobody's got timed.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
But you know what, a kid on a stepsool is
not a very entertaining teaser.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, it's not true. It doesn't really do much.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah this and this was short and sweet and cute
and ye okay, that's.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
All we that's all we thought you were talking about. Michelle.
She is. She's short and sweet and cute.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
So it is a teaser. So I'm satisfied with this.
Now that you've explained the bathroom problem, I can let
this go.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
You met Michelle Lally in the hit Bravo show The Valley.
You met me literally during the most difficult chapter in
my life. Now it's time for you to meet the
real me, Michelle Sennie. Yes, I change my name, and
I want you to follow me on my journey to
the pursuit of sassiness. So much has happened to me before, during,
and after the show. Before you can really understand the

(18:54):
eight weeks that you saw on TV. I think you
have to know what was going on from the very beginning,
from being raised by two immigrant parents, paying my own
way through college and working at Hooters to starting my
own real estate empire, getting married, having a baby during COVID,
to that very same marriage falling apart on national TV,
to losing my mom, to eventually finding love again. There

(19:17):
is so much to unpack and share. I'm on the
pursuit of happiness and most importantly, I'm on the pursuit
of sassiness. Listen to Pursuit of Sasiness starting on March
seventeenth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
get your podcasts.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Next, in Michelle's room, Michelle is trying to play with
a yo yo, but once it unravels to the ground,
she can't.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Figure out how to get it back up.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
She tells the toy up you go, I'm waiting, and
when it doesn't move on its own, she tries various
moves to get it back up to no avail. Then
DJ walks in, wearing her signature mustard yellow the shirt
and matching socks.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Oh yeah, she scrunched. Were they scrunch socks too?

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yes, sucks too like little loafers. Yeah that was a look, man,
it was so nineties. DJ says, how you doing, and
Michelle frowns. This yo yo is broken. DJ gives her
some better news. Since I opened my own savings account,
I want you to have my old piggy bank. Michelle
beams thank you very much, but when the piggy bank

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is handed to her, she shakes it and realizes it's empty.
She questions, where's the money? DJ explains, you have to
earn it yourself. You can check the couch cushions or
find someone who's a soft touch, look real cute, and
say please feed my piggy. Michelle recites the plea back
to DJ, and she replies.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Boy, you picked that up real fast.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
DJ grabs a coin out of her pocket and places
a quarter in the piggy bank. Michelle happily shakes the
piggy bank and the coin rattles inside, and she declares, ooh,
I like that sound.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
You know she's there shadowing, say, Now I have Michelle
earning her own money like this, She's gonna be fully independent.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
At the time she's she's like, I don't need any
of you people, well, other than to spit into the sink,
because no one will buy me a step stool. Yeah,
as soon as she gets the height on her like,
she'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
She doesn't any of them yep mm.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
So next we are in the living room. Danny and
Joey are playing an intense game of chess, hardly saying
a word to each other in the process. Finally, Danny
makes a groundbreaking move, but Joey follows behind with an
even better one.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
That's when Steph walks through the door.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
And how cute are you in this red and black
sweater with the dog on it?

Speaker 2 (21:43):
The little Scotti do. Yeah, it was like a little
red dot.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah, yes, your little Scotti era is back.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
It's back. Yeah, horrible but still holding on strong. Still
was it a Scotty? I can't remember. I know it
was a red dog and like kind of like Scotti adjacent,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, since it was, it did give me. Yes, it
did remind me of your Scott Scotty era.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure I also had a matching uh.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Scrunchy that's mandatory. Yeah, absolutely so cute. Danny asks her
how school was, and she shrugs, just another day in
third grade. Then she hands a slip of paper from
her teacher to Danny. She tells him, you don't have
to read it, just sign it a few times. If
your my kids do that all the time.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
I would be thrilled if they brought it home, or
or if it made its way out of the black
pit that is the backpack.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
I'm woo in there and.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'll be like, dude, we gotta clean this out, and
we start. I'm like, there's permission slip so that you
know we're texted in a panic.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh, I don't have the permission. You had it the
whole time.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, you know, I'd be I'd love to just be
handed something to sign.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Your expectations are very low, very low, So Danny laughed,
but his face gets serious once he reads through the letter.
He tells his daughter it says here that you're having
trouble reading and you need to have your eyes examined.
Stephanie forces a laugh and asks, isn't that silly, and
Joey chimes in. If it's so silly, let's see you

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read that note. Steph does as she's told, but when
she reads it, she has to lean in very close
to see the words, which her teacher states in the note.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
So she's suddenly lost her eyesight.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yes overnight, Yes, overnight, right, because I'm like, she wasn't
holding the note weird When Rusty passed it around.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, it was just a few episodes ago.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
She read that, no problem. Yeah, this is.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
A this is a A couldn't be a possibly a
more serious disorder, but.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, this it came on suddenly. It's an acute stigmatism
or what you know, a.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Cute astigmatism, A cute astigmatism. It's like the erroneous erogenis.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, did I be funny?

Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm sorry that The best part this is when you laugh,
you go silent.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
So what do Yeah, and I just see you laughing,
but you're quietly laughing. Oh, I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
It's not quiet on my end. Maybe it's beuting on
my I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
I can hear myself yet.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Well that's good.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's a Pleasure's what counts. So Danny tells Steph they
need to get her eyes checked, but she protests, what
if they tell me I need glasses, I'm gonna look
like a geek. Danny offers her a sympathetic smile. You
are not going to look like a geek. But if
you don't take care of this now, your eyesight could
get worse seriously and quickly.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Like oh yeah. In twelve hours.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, Stephanie sighs and defeat. All those years eating carrots,
what a waste. Then Michelle walks into the room holding
her new piggy bank. She goes up to Joey and
innocently asks, please feed my piggy. Joey happily gives her
a few pennies in return, but Michelle isn't satisfied. She
tells him, my piggy is very hungry.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
You got any.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Quarters, Joey, Gritton's go talk to your dad. She walks
over to Danny and he pulls her in, showering her
with kisses instead of money. But she doesn't seem to mind.
She'll just go steal his walla later they won't notice,
Like right.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
There's nobody will know.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
They stayed in the room with her last time she
came into the living room, all the adults made excuses
to leave the room. So as we say, didn't like
high tail it out of the house.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
They were like, oh, avoid the toddler. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
So in the kitchen, Jesse and Becky are going over
the very last details of their wedding. Becky asks her
fiance the final question, should the waiters at the reception
wear white gloves and Jesse, who's.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Wearing multiple shades of denim. I didn't just he did
that last time too. He was very into the Canadian tuxedo, very.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's giving, like Britney spears justin timberlay.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
A full denim look. Yeah, yeah, it's amazing. It's such
a look. I love it.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
So Jesse thinks for a moment, and he asks who's
paying again. Becky responds, my parents, and Jesse has his answer,
go for the white gloves. Then he proudly states that
they're done. They've made every minuscule decision about this wedding
and it's finally over. Then he shall tell helllujah. But
Becky begs to differ. She reminds Jesse there is one

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more minuscule decision he's been putting off since the engagement.
Who's going to be his best man? Danny or Joey.
Jesse admits he has been avoiding this, but he promises
Becky that the next time they're all together, he'll pick
a best man and that'll be it. Becky nods great,
and then she shouts for Danny and Joey to come
into the kitchen. Jesse argues with her, are you crazy

(26:52):
embarrassing me like this, I don't know which one and
the two guys walk in and Jesse cuts himself off.
Danny asks what's going on. Becky defers to Jesse. He
nervously explains, now that we're all together, there's something important
I want to talk about. We're going with the white gloves.
They all nod with confusion, but Danny says, we're very
happy for the both of you, and Becky decides to

(27:15):
butt in. We plan the whole wedding except for one
little detail. She lets Jesse take the reins again, and
he nervously says, uh, I have to pick a best man.
The guys give him a big smile in response, and
Jesse gets flustered again. He tells Becky he can't do this.
He doesn't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but Danny assures
him it's no big deal. Joey agrees whatever they decide

(27:38):
is fine by them. They're all mature adults. Jesse works
up the courage and announces I picked Joey. Joey can't
contain his excitement. He pumps his fists and says, yes,
I get to be the best man. Danny glares at
him as he's celebrating, and.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Joey abruptly stops.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
He tries to play it cool and says to Jesse, Oh,
if that's what you want, it's.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Cool with me.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
This seems like the wrong choice. I mean, aside from yeah, he.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I was gonna say, I was like, the best man
has to do some things.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, you know, hold onto.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
The ring on the speech and you know there's stuff
we got it. And it feels like Jesse would think
that Joey couldn't handle those things.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, yeah, he already didn't get the ring engraved. He
lost it in the cookie jar or whatever last week.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah he's not. He's not the most responsible adult. And
they don't. They don't have as much history as Jesse
and Danny their ringers.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm like, you guys just met when like we all
moved in kind of Well no, no, because now remember
we go back to elementary school and.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
They that's true, they knew each other in elementary school.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
But the cannon of full house is ify at best
because I feel like they sort of met each other, well,
they knew.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Of each other, they were never close.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
It wasn't like Danny and Joey, who are best friends, right,
you know it was.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
I guesses younger than to Okay, anyway, sorry for the
side tangent, but.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
No, I agree.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
I agree, I I think this is a weird choice.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
He either needs to choose Danny or both of them,
but choosing just Joey that's.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
That's yeah, I should be off the table.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
So Danny gives Joey a handshake and congratulates him. He
plasters a fake smile onto his face as he walks away,
not making eye contact with.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Jesse or Becky.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Jesse approaches him and says, I'd like you to be
my head usher. Danny tries to pretend like he's excited
at this news, but it's not too convincing, so Becky
tries to add some encouragement. Well, if for any reason
Joey is unable to perform his duties as best man,
or he does anything to disgrace his position, the head
usher steps.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Up and assumes the crown.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Danny, disappointedly responds, if needed, I'm ready to serve. Jesse
pats him on the shoulder and thanks him for taking
this so well. Danny tries to make light of the situation. Hey,
I could still win the swimsuit competition, which is not
a funny joke.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
But okay, that's it's just it could we can't do
that because.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Also I was so distracted by their bad cardigans, like
Bob and Dave are wearing terrible cardigans.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Joey's shirt is.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
John doesn't even John has like a sweater vest. It's
like a it's like someone it's like a giant argyle
sock that someone turned into a vest.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, and with denim sleeves. Yeah, it's it's really just
it's all bad.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Wait, maybe he's not in that vest yet. Is he
in the vest?

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, it's just like an argyle vest. So maybe he's
got a denim.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Shirt under it. In the mill, he has like a
vest and a white T shirt.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
I think, oh, maybe that's the next scene. But he
was in that all denim looks, so maybe I'm thinking
of that den denim on denim on DENI denim. Later on,
in the living room, Danny is singing an extra sad
version of Tom Dooley. Yes, he's strummled his guitar. Jesse
appears on the stairs and watches his friend with worry.

(31:08):
He interrupts Danny's singing sash and asks, this happy little
hanging tune wouldn't have anything to do with me picking
Joey as my best man, would it.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Danny shakes his head.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Not at all.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
When you think about.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Best man or head usher, there's really not much of
a difference. The best man gets to stand next to
the groom, give him a ring, make the toast, basically
be the star of the wedding. The audience laughs, a
little skills, a little petty. Oh, Danny's so petty.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
He's any author and he's so petty. Yeah, Danny's pretty petty.
I'm kind of here for petty.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Danny like, I just like it, right, Look, I always
have all the time in the world to be petty.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, well it's giving like just hints of Bob too,
because he would get friend, Oh my god, never hear
the end of it.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Never never, Why don't you like me? Why? What's wrong? Right?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
What did I do? Like just for you? Forever?

Speaker 3 (32:04):
For years that would go on. He would let things go,
So Danny continues the comparison. The head usher gets to say,
I'm sorry. Those seats are for the family. Jesse asks,
he's trying to make him feel bad because it's working
Danny and says he'd never do that to him. Then
he does his own rendition of Sweet Chariot, where he
sings and then acts as head usher for the wedding.

(32:28):
Thank God, DJ and her friend Julie interrupt the scene
and come back through the doors. DJ tells her dad
they need help, and Julie explains, it's my cousin, Steve.
He's in town for the big science fair and he
won't quit bugging us. DJ explains Julie and I are
trying to write an article for the school paper, but
her cousin is kind of a She looks to Julie

(32:48):
for the right word, and Julie suggests pain in the butt.
Then there is a distinctive knock at the door and
Julie tells the family that that is Steve. DJ frantically
tells her dad you never saw us, and if he
asks where we are, we were never here and we're
never coming back. The girls quickly run away and Jesse
goes to open the door. He asks Danny how annoying

(33:12):
could one kid be? An? On cue?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Steve Verkle enters the house. He's donna perfect setup is
so great?

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Uh, Steve shouts honey, I'm home, and the audience goes wild.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Oh, I'm sure this was yeah, this was.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
This was the hyperle Verklemania. Like he had dolls, he
had books, he had like everything.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
This was.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
He was very big at the time.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
So finally the clapping subsides, and Steve introduces himself to Jesse.
Steve Verkle at your service. Jesse gives him an apprehensive
look before explaining DJ and Julie we're never here and
they're never coming back. But Steve is unfazed. That's okay,
I'll wait. He walks over to Danny and notices the guitar.
He excitedly asks, do you have a spare accordion?

Speaker 1 (34:04):
We can jam.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Danny jokes that his accordion is in the shop, and then.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
He tears have to have an accordion with all the
other crack that they just magically seem to have. Someone
somewhere there's you know what, there's an accordion in Joey's room.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I think, oh, I think I could be imagining it,
but well there should be if there's not. But yeah,
they have somewhere on a there's a there's an accordion.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
That Jesse routinely sets up the entire band in the
living room. There's like those with all of the tambourines
the drums, like, yeah, there's got to be an accordion
somewhere in that house.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, yeah, because obviously if you have a tambourine, you
have an accordion, Like you can't have one without the other.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
No, god, no, no, what would you do?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
So Danny introduces himself to Steve, shakes his hand, and
proceeds to introduce Jesse as well, and then he tells
Steve that Joey isn't there.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
He explains that Joey.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Is Jesse's best man and he's just the head usher.
Erkle notes, Geez, Danny, you sound a little bitter. May
I suggest that you just suck it up and get
on with your life. Jesse agrees with him.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, he's got a point. He's not wrong, right, No,
he's not. He's like, hey, how about you be an adult? Right?
If I mean, really, if we're going maturity wise, Jesse
should have picked Michelle to be his best man.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
I'm actually surprised that that wasn't a storyline, honestly, honestly, yes,
So Steve announces.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Boy, I'm hungry, got any cheese. He starts to walk
towards the kitchen, but Danny quickly stops him. He explains, Uh,
you can't go in there because we're out of cheese.
Arkle responds, no problem. Oh, I'll just pour a glass
of milk and wait for it to curdle. Jesse runs
after him and stands in front of the kitchen door
so he can't enter. He tries distract an Arkle. I

(35:49):
can't help, but notice that you walk like you still
have the hangar in your shirt, which is kind of
the perfect description about yeah, it's yeah with his yeah,
his his shoulders are up to his ears, and you
know it's a stiff little it's hysterical. This whole bit
is so hysterical.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Steve thanks him for the compliment, and then Jesse admits,
I'd like to help you because, quite frankly, you need help.
Jesse explains that he needs to let loose and be
cool when he walks. Erkle copies Jesse's movements and he
sure is given it his all. Then Jesse shows off
his cool strut and Erkle admits it's very inspiring. He

(36:30):
takes a crack at this strutting, and his moves are
even more awkward than before.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
I literally laughed out loud at this. This was hilarious.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
This is Julia White, and.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
You know what, I could not stop thinking this this
whole episode, but particularly in this scene.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
I was like, man, he just went for it. He committed.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
He's just committed to being as weird and as nerdy
and silly as possible. And his physical comedy was brilliant
and his timing was amazing. Yeah, And I was like,
I mean he was what ar how old.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Were you guys? Fourteen? Fourteen? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, this was just can you imagine me fifteen and acting.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Like well, I mean I don't know you to a
certain degree, I can relate to this, but yeah, like
just knows he's not self conscious at all.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
He just yeah, one hundred and ten percent, Yeah, gives it.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
It was all it was. This little strut was really funny.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Oh it was a little like like his fit embodies
this weird party.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Oh yeah, he really does. It's so perfect.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
So Jesse tells him, well, that's close enough, and Erkle
admits that was a walk on the wild side, and
then he decides to teach Jesse a thing or two,
suggesting that he try the strut with his elbows out,
as it's much better for circulation. Jesse tries the Erkle
walk and admits that the blood is flowing nicely, but
then he stops himself and shouts, what am I doing?

Speaker 2 (37:59):
And John and.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Julie recently recreated this bit on John thet Graham Yeah,
two weeks ago, but yeah they were. They were recreating
the Jesse streut, the cool shrut, and so it was
really really funny.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Got into it.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
So Steve pivots the conversation and suggests another way to
kill time telling their life stories.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
He'll go first.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Steve begins to tell them his birth story in a
great detail, and that's when Danny and Jesse realize they've
had enough. They grab Urkele by the shoulders and tell
him the girls are in the kitchen, and he happily
says good day, gentlemen and goes into the other room.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Can you imagine just walking into someone's house like that
and being like, by i'll see you later, like and
just heading into another room.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, it doesn't phaze us. You guys are like, this
sidekicks from this town. It's from Chicago.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Yeah, he's just making himself at home, you know. So
we hear Rkle call out to the girls and they
both in horror, but Danny and Jesse don't bother to intervene.
Then Joey and Steph walk through the door. Joey announces
guess who got some new glasses, and Stephanie adds guess
who never wants to wear them. Danny assures Stephanie she

(39:15):
probably looks cute in them, but she could not disagree more,
saying she actually looks like a dweb. Jesse tries to
make her feel better by pulling out his own pair
of readers and putting them on. He asks Steph if
he looks like a total dweb, and she admits, well,
not totally. Danny encourages her to put on her glasses
so they can see. She reluctantly puts on the circular

(39:38):
frames and keeps them on for one second before taking
them off again.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
What in the whares waldo were these glasses? This was
a terrible choice, did they?

Speaker 3 (39:47):
I mean, I guess they didn't have fashionable this was
you know, in the nineteen ninety one, but yeah, but
they didn't.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Those were Yeah, this is duck face bad. Yeah, like
not even Harry on the same glass.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yeah, I think they were. That's see. Yeah, thick, round
tortoise shell thing.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
I guess that's the thing though, right is you got
to make it obnoxious enough that Steph would be embarrassed
about it.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
But yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
If they were cute glasses, that wouldn't propel the storyline.
You know, the steaks wouldn't be as high, right, So yeah,
those were particularly I mean, you looked adorable in them,
but those they were bad glasses, savory they I look like,
where's Waldo?

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Where's he?

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Like?

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Give me a red and white striped shirt and hide
me in a crowd, you know, like that that's it.
And to be fair, around this time, I did love
Where's Waldo? So maybe that was my inspiration. Maybe I
was like, can we get the roundest glasses possible?

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Okay, yeah, there we go. It was inspired an inspired choice.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
So Stephanie quickly states, there you saw, and Danny insays
that she looked sharp. Jesse agrees, saying she looks very sophisticated,
and Joey reminds her that that's what he's been saying
since they left the eye do Steph runs up the
stairs and sighs, thanks, but I know you're just being
nice because you're my family. She walks away and the
crowd awes. The guys turned to each other and looked defeated,

(41:14):
and then Jesse can't help but wonder if he looks
like a dweeb in his glasses. Jolly and Danny shake
their heads and say no in unison, and Jesse sighs,
you're just being nice because.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
You're my family.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
A great scene. There was a lot packed into this scene.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
There was Jeffanie walks in with glasses, rkles here, there's
a strut competition, we got bobbling guitar. Yeah, there's packed
a lot happening, and like every cast member practically is
in this scene. It's yeah, there's a world DJ and

(41:52):
her friend running in. Yeah, because yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
It was a lot happening in this scene.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
The scene was like I'd say, like thirty five percent
of the entire show easily.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yes, poor Joel zick Zwick who had to direct this, right, Oh,
that must have been a hard scene to all we needed.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Next was the dog. Oh, yeah, where's the dog. We
haven't seen the dog in a while.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
He's with Michelle, he's clean, in the house. Yeah, yeah, yea,
they're fine. I mean they might be eating things that
they shouldn't be, but it's okay.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
They're brushing their teeth in the bathroom. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Well, she's standing on top of the dog since snowbody
her step stools, she has to actually crawl on top
of commet in order to get these things done because
no one's paying attention.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
She's very practical, you know, she's doing what she has
to to survive.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Yeah.

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Speaker 3 (43:15):
So up in the girls room, Stephanie walks in. I
love that you're wearing like your Sunday best to go
to the eye doctor. You're wearing like this pink floral dress.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
That's when she's like, I look like a total dweve.
I was like, oh, honey, it's not the glasses. Like
it took like a like a doily from my mother's house,
tucked it into my neck.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
It was giving lots of doily.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
It was didn't feel Steph like, no, it didn't. And
in the next scene or in the classroom scene, you're
still You're still dressed really nice. It's you need the
Scottie dogs. You need the Scotti dogs, the matching s
Frenchy like, yeah, that's the cool stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Look with this.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yeah, yeah, this was a little to Laura Ashley for me,
way too Laura Ashley for Stephanie Tanner.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
So Steph spots Comet sitting on DJ's bed.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Oh there's the dog there. She takes a seat next to.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Him and asks, what do you think of my new glasses?
I know you'll be honest. She puts them on and
smiles at him, but the dog immediately turns away from her,
and Stephanie looks disappointed.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
I knew it.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
I'm the biggest geek in third grade. She keeps her
glasses on and takes a look at herself in the mirror,
but her reflection is a distorted image of her, and
the frames on her glasses look much larger than they
actually are, which.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Is hard to do because they're giant to beget with giant.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Now, this was like literally objects in mirror are larger
than they appear.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Right, Yeah, yeah, they were great. They were plenty big. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
It was that the fish eye lens again, Like, how
did they do? Yeah, fish eye, which we saw I think.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
In so it makes like it just distorts everything from
like the center out. Oh oh yeah, okay, very cool.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Not nearly as scary as the last time they used it,
when everybody was like it was all of the adults,
you know, Michelle, that was horrifying.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
This was tame by comparison.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Stephanie gasp at the sight of herself and quickly takes
off the glasses. She sits back on the bed, overcome
with grief.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Overcome with grief. She's tragic. She's taking it heart. Yeah
she doesn't, you know, she's self conscious.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
I understand it. This is this is something the kids
go through. So there's a sad commercial break, and when
we come back, we're back in the girls room. It's
a little later on. Julie and DJ come running in
and frantically search the room. Julie declares, I think we
lost him. DJ begins to shut the door and Steve
appears from behind it, asking lost too. DJ matter of

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factly states, oh, just some pesky kid that keeps following
us around. Steve admits some people just don't know when
they're not wanted. This kid's confidence.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Hiding in someone's bedroom in a house that he doesn't
know the people. If it wasn't rkle, right, if it
wasn't hurting, well, you can put it to different music
again and it would be like just if you lip sync,
it'd be like, actually erkele attacks.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
The call is coming from inside the house, right, Yeah.
So Michelle enters the room, still holding her piggy bank.
She greets DJ and then Julie and then turns to
Steve and says, hi, kid, I don't know. DJ introduces
Steve to Michelle and he tells the youngster it's a
pleasure to meet you, Michelle, and she asks why do

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you talk like Mickey Mouse. Steve responds, that's because I'm
from Chicago. Michelle cheerfully asks want to feed my piggy,
and he happily reaches into his pocket and puts a
penny in the bank. Then he decides to lend her
some facts. Did you know that, with prevailing interest rates
that penny will be worth worth almost three cents at

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the turn of the century? Michelle nods yes, I did.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Of course she does. She she's been reading the Wall
Street Journal.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Yeah, She's like, dumg, I'm my knowledge, right, yeah, I
know knowledge interest rates.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Please.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Stephanie walks into the room and DJ introduces her to
Steve and he gives her a warm hello. Stephanie gives
him a faint smile. Nice to meet you, Steve. I
don't mean to be rude, but I don't really feel
like company right now.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
DJ asks if everything is okay, and Stuff tells her
she just feels like being alone.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Steve gathers up all of the girls and pushes them
out the door so they can give Stephanie some privacy.
He even jokes, let's make like Tom and cruise. But
after he pushes the last of the girls out, he
stays in the room with steph obviously not getting the hint.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Again he's just shut the door and locked himself in
the room.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
With right, Yeah, and that's what I'm saying like I
just if you look at it, you're like that's odd,
you know, like, yeah, rcle only Urkle could get Yeah,
it's obviously we're just being silly and it's harmless, but
it is.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I mean, you're like this kid just walked in to
these people's house.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yeah, around doors and like walking running a girl the
girls room. Yeah, it's I'd be a little more Yeah,
i'd be a little concerned. You girls are hiding from him,
Like what is this get up to?

Speaker 2 (48:33):
You know, let's start of a dateline episode. Yeah, exactly,
it is. That's what happens.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
So Steve walks back over to Stephanie and asks why
so melancholic? Maybe Steph looks at him in disbelief. I
can't tell you my problems. I don't even know you, yes, exactly,
like Stephanie's telling it like it is.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Yeah, I know you ro Why are you in my room?

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Like I said, I don't want company, and you kicked
my family out and now you're here.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
She's Stuff just tells it like it is, you know,
And I'm proud of Stuff for speaking up and stating
her needs like I used to meet alone. Like let's
celebrate this. Let's celebrate putting ourselves first and verbalizing what.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, he had that the other day. She got the
car and she was like, I just had a really
rough day, Like I just I don't want to talk.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
I was like, okay, that's great, you communicate it. Yeah, yeah,
there's no Yeah, you didn't just get in the car
and move bad mood.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
You're like, hey, I'm in a bad bit. I don't
feel like.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah, great, everyone's allowed to be in a bad mood
and have some alone time.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Right as long as none of Steve Verkle's in your house.
You know, he won't let that let that happen.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
So Steve decides that this is the perfect time to
tell her his whole life story, starting with the moment
he was born. Stephanie finally cuts him off, telling him fine,
she'll talk. She explains, I just got my first pair
of glasses. Steve excitedly replied, ah, well, welcome to the club.
You know, some people look far more attractive with glasses

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than without.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Take me for example.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
He stands up and removes his glasses, proudly stating, as
good as I look now, and then he puts his
glasses back on and boasts, See how much studlier I become.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
His face during this was hilarious. He's every little molecule of.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
His face right, looks very much like you, Kimmy, like
your your facial expressions and your body language and like everything.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Like you're just so in it. It's it's it just
takes over. It just takes over.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Yeah, you would say that to me. You're just like, oh,
there's the kid. You're doing the Kimmy, the Kimmy look,
you know what I Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
It's yeah, like a like a bird that's sort of
at attention. Yeah, yeah, totally so.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Steph sarcastically responds, truly amazing. But if I wear these
to school and she puts her new glasses on, all
the kids are going to tease me. Erkele lends his
two cents. Oh sure, in a class of thirty, you
may have fifteen or twenty misguided souls that say hey
four eyes or yo Coke bottles or heypasa window face.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
But that won't bother you, will it.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Stephanie takes off her glasses and wonders window face. Steve
carries along. The trick is to make them laugh with
you before they laugh at you, and he's talking very
close to you. I don't know if that's like a
character choice.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
I was like again, I was like, why is he
so close to me?

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Is is that a thing with Erkele that he doesn't understand,
like like body space and giving people like an appropriate
amount of personal body.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
I mean, yeah, I guess mea. It must be a
character trait or it was. It had to be a choice.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
It's like Julia's yeah, because he's always like he's annoying,
so therefore he's just in your space when you don't
want it to be.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
I guess yeah, no, it was. I was like, gotta
get very close, sit on the other listen at the table.
He sits on your bed. I know you. It's very funny. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
So Steve concludes his inspirational speech with always remember to
hold your head up high, or else those suckers will
slide off your nose. He points to his glasses and
laughs at his own funny comment, and Stuff simply nods
and gives him a fake smile in.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Return, And that's it. Can I leave my room now?
Can I go? Yes?

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Well then and then we don't see him again. This
is his only I thought he'd be in more of
the episode. But these are his only two scenes. He's
in two scenes.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
That's it. He doesn't come back.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Oh yeah, so I thought, oh, that's a that's a well.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Maybe because Family Matters.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Taped on Friday, I was gonna sit, they probably pre
tape his two scenes and that was.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'm thinking, and Julia had to
do Yeah, I had to do double time that week,
so yeah, put him in two scents.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
That's enough.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
You don't want too much rcle you know, that's well, Yeah,
a little bit goes a long way, absolutely.

Speaker 5 (53:13):
So.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Next in the kitchen, Danny is doing the dishes when
Jesse walks in. He's carrying a bucket of cleaning supplies
and suggests, why don't you and I spend some quality
time together. Huh, let's go out and clean some grout,
shall we. Danny gives him a half hearted smile. I
know you're just being nice to me because you didn't
make me your best man, and Jesse admits he's right.

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In fact, he doesn't even know what grout is. He
changes the topic and tells Danny this has been bugging
me all night. I think I made the wrong choice.
So he decides to call Joey upstairs, despite Danny's efforts
to stop him, because he wants to take care of
this right now. Once Joey is upstairs, Jesse breaks the news.
I'm sorry, but I think I may have made a

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mistake what I picked you for best man. Joey begins
to beg if I did anything to disgrace my position,
I'm sorry. Just please don't make me head usher. Jesse laughs,
before asking the guys to let him finish. He continues,
I don't think I should have picked just you. I mean,
I have two best friends, so I pick both of you.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Yet again, Jesse just takes a long time coming around
to a pretty simple idea.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
He eventually gets there, but gets there, and I mean,
I know that this is the best storyline, but they
didn't even show how he got. Like there wasn't a
scene or something where he comes to a realization or whatever,
like this just all happened off screen. He suddenly decided, Hey,
I'm gonna make them both my best you know, isn't
there usually Yeah, well, I.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Think he saw how pathetic Danny was being.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Oh yeah, that's the guilt, Tren. I can't live in
a house like this yeah, the Tom Dooley song. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
it's the swing loose.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Yeah. He was like, I can't, I can't maintain this.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
So Joey argues that he can't have two best man's.
Danny nods in a agreement. It's breaking tradition and it's
bad grammar. Jesse wonders when he's ever cared about breaking tradition.
He's the guy who didn't wear that cardboard hat at
graduation because he was afraid of ruining his cough.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
This is another having seen John's actual hair from his
high school like senior photo.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Oh, that actually almost tracks blacky hair.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Well yeah, but it's like feathered and a little red.
It's more like Loretta's.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Color and it's yeah, and it's like uh fa feathering. Yeah,
oh it was.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
It was.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
It was a picture. It was a thing.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
But this is another inconsistency because Jesse says in a
few seasons that he gets his g ed because he
never graduated from high school.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
In season Sexo, well that's why he didn't wear the
cardboard hat.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
At graduation, because he actually wasn't participating in graduation. So
I just I didn't even wear the hat because I
wasn't graduating that.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
But that's a whole other that doesn't apply.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
He just left that out. Okay, so we left that out.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
That's an erroneous fact.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
It was an erroneous fact. It was an erroneous facts, not.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
An androgynous fact or in what was I don't know anyways? Erogenous?
Did you say androgynous? And I don't know what I said?

Speaker 1 (56:24):
I can't You said erogenous, and now just said and androgynous.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
I never knew there were so many words that sounded.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Similar or erroneous. How do you say it for real?

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Erroneous? Erroneously? What did I say then? Or something?

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Er er?

Speaker 2 (56:49):
That's right? Got it? This is I need maybe I
need to go back to school. I get my ged
because I can't pronounce anything.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
So Joey grins and tells the guys that the two
best men thing is okay with him, If it's okay
with Danny. Danny shakes his head with relief. Anything's better
than being head usher. Jesse happily pulls them in and
thanks them, shouting my boys, my boys. Next we're in
the classroom, Stephanie's classroom.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Oh I love a good classroom scene.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
The teacher tells her students to take out their library
books for silent reading time. I loved silent reading time.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
Silent reading time was the best, like best whatever book
you had.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
And that was always like library I remember if you
got your work done, and I would usually get my
work done pretty bick, then you.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Can free read. And I was like, let me get
this work done so I can read.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Yeah. I was the kid that would get in trouble,
like reading at my desk while the teacher was doing
something and I'd.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Just be reading a book. She was like, what are
you doing. I was like, it's Matilda, It's really good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Oh yeah, no, man, free reading time was the best.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
This problem still is if I can sit and read
without anybody bothering me.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Heaven, that's a vacation right there.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
So Stephanie opens her book and starts to read without
her glasses, which means she has to hold the book
extremely close to her face. Her teacher notices and asks Stephanie.
This immediately gets Steph's attention, and she responds, yes, miss Claire.
Miss Claire tells her, your dad called this morning. He
told me he got you new reading glasses. Steph nods

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and tells a teacher that she has them in her bag.
Miss Claire suggests that since they're reading, maybe it'd be
a good time to try them on. Steph apprehensively responds,
maybe it would. Despite her teacher's best efforts, Stephanie still
doesn't put her glasses on, but then one of her
classmates chimes in, hey, you got glasses, let's see. In

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that moment, Steph remembers the distorted version of what she
looked like in the mirror with her glasses on, and
then she imagines Erkele and his advice we get this
special floating heads special effect, which was we must have
had extra money in the budget this week for.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
The special right.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Yeah, so Rkle is saying in the Floating Head the
trick is to make them laugh with you before they
laugh at you. Steph takes the words into consideration as
she puts her new glasses on. Then when she turns
around to show her classmates, there are slinky eyeballs attached
to them. The entire class laughs at the goofy site,

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and stuff plays along. My glasses fit great, but my
eyeballs are loose. Miss Clara is watching intently as Steph
stands up to address the entire class. She tells them,
I'm just kidding. Those weren't my real glasses. Then she
takes a pair of giant yellow glasses out of her
backpack and says these are the kids burst out laughing,
and stuff continues.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Oh no, my head shrunk, like you're legit doing.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
A set like you, yes, out of tight five you know,
just hold on, let me yet, sure, I'll get up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Okay, fine, I mean even the teacher's paying attention.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
She's like, I'll let you finish your your jokes here
and then we're gonna then we're gonna have a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
But yeah, oh yeah, you don't even need a microphone.
You're just like I just I got my backpack full
of tricks.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Yeah, hold on.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Yeah, she's she's a prop comment. She's basically the carrot
top of third grade.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
Yes, yes, and she's got a captive audience. These third
graders can't go anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
It's not right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Not only that, what third grader do you know doesn't
want to just sit and fool around? Yeah that's point.
Stephan knows our audience.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
She's like, here we go. This is Stuff's moment.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
I'm working on it all night. Yeah, yeah, it's really good.
I'm gonna start with the googly eyes. I'm gonna go
to the big sung.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
She's been thinking, she's had it all planned out.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
She has rehearsed this.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
I mean, like this is Joey plenty. She's been to
several night clubs. I hadn't seen him, so Philip Stiller
like Philip Still, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
She Steph is she She knows what she's doing. Steph's
gonna be just fine.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
So the class the class keeps laughing at Stephanie, and
Miss Claire approaches Stephanie again and asks to see her
at her desk and the whole class ooh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
I remember that. Do you remember that? Like somebody would
get in trouble in the classes?

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
It's the worst feeling too, if you're at the center
of it. He's like everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Yeah, but Steph is not done yet. She tells her classmates, I.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Didn't get her flash, I didn't get my light hold on.
Nobody told me right, Nobody told me I have to
wrap it up in sixty seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Yeah. No, she's not done, uh, she tells.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
She tells her classmates to behave themselves because she has
eyes in the back of her head, and she places
a pair of glasses on the back of her head
to prove it. Miss Claire is not amused. She signals
Steph over to her desk once again, and Stephanie hesitantly
walks over.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
I don't know, march so many times, usually because I
was making jokes a class. Well, I relate deeply to
Steph on this. Other than the wall of classes, I
didn't think it was that bad. I mean, was she
disrupting the class, sure, but it's free reading times. It
didn't seem like she was disrupting.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
I mean, it seemed like the teacher was letting her
have her moment at what are you doing? Right the
second she stood up, the teacher would have been like, hey,
step Steph, what do you stop?

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
And this is actually a very healthy way of dealing
with your insecurities about wearing glasses.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
You make jokes about it, this is well maybe that's
why she let her go. Maybe Ms Claire was like, look,
I get it, she's trying to whatever, but like, also,
don't do that, Miss Claire.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
You know, she she knows, she's she's she's been around
the block once or twice. Yes, we're in the living
room Michelle is searching through the couch cushions and exclaims,
all right and nicol. She sticks it right in her
piggy bank. When she goes back to searching, she announces,
all right, cheeto and she eats it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Oh, Michelle, it's just what happens when you leave a
child alone. They're eating couch cheetos.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
If this child has been reduced so like digging for
loose change.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Couch cheetos. She's like a ram Michelle. Yeah, but at
least she looks cute, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
She does her hair and her outfits always look great,
but they don't really pay much attention to her.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
To be seen, not to be heard, kind of right.
She has to feed herself, so she's looking for stale cheetahs.
She's like, I gotta yeah, I'm gonna try and buy
a couple of noodle at the gas stations.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Right, oh man.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
So just then she hears a familiar tune playing outside,
and she lights up ice cream Man, Ice cream Man.
She runs outside and yells to the truck, wait.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
For me, I have money now. She's running out into
the street. What a four year old. I was like, wait,
towards the door.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Yeah, there's stairs, there's traffic, like there's San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
There's a lot out there. This poor kid, I know.
And she's got it. Now she has to like earn
her own money to feed herself too.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Yeah, and again she's got She has some serious dietary issues.
Sugar bodice, sugar ice cream, cheetos. Yeah, it's gonna have
hyperion by the time she's in the middle school.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
She needs to find some other self soothing mechanisms because
the sugar binge is just right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
That can't be right. I mean she's gonna pick up
smoking pretty soon. Oh man.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
So Michelle runs over to her piggy bank and shakes
it furiously, saying, give me back my money, you pig.
And that's when DJ walks in. She asks Michelle, what
are you doing? And Michelle explains, I need ice cream
rip its head off?

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Do you wow?

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Violent? This is how she gets You're right, she's kind
of feral. Yeah, she did this. I will I will
cut a bitch, she will. She will.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
She will rescind her polite police badge to steal your
cupcake out the window.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
She is just like I will do anything.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Pressure fix.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
So DJ tells her little sister to get a grip.
The whole point of a piggybank is to save money
for something very important, and Michelle argues ice cream is
very important. Then the music outside disappears and DJ tells
Michelle that the ice cream Man is gone. Michelle winds,
is he really gone? And then she gives DJ a

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well practiced puppy dog face. DJ laughs and tells her
to put the lip away. She lets Michelle in on
a little secret. There's a box of fudge sickles hidden
in the back of the freezer. Michelle tells her it's
not the same, and then Joey runs in breathlessly.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Asking did I just hear the ice cream man?

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
DJ explains that she just he just missed him, but
she'll show him where the fudge sickles are hidden in
the freezer. Joey puts his hands on his hips and size.
It's not the same, Joey, Joey and Michelle. They're one
and the same.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
You know, Yeah, what was your favorite ice cream when
you got stuff from the ice cream mammis your favorite?

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Big Sticks?

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
I'm like a like a like a Sherbert. I'm a
Sherbert flavored type of person.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
So yeah, the big.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Sticks to this day, man, that brings me right back
to childhood for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
I like the I like the bomb pops. What are
the bomb pops?

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
They were like the ones that they were like the red, white,
and blue and you like they were like a weird
little shape or the like banana chocolate ones.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Oh yeah, yum.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
I like chocolate, traditional ice cream sandwich, just a regular You're.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
A pure You're a you're a traditionalist. You like the Yeah, yeah, no,
I want to go find ice cream pink panther one
with the gumball eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Oh yeah, do they still look like so hard and
you huh yeah? Or ice cream trust a thing? Or
did they do away with it?

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
I mean I don't, like they'll usually it'll be like
at a park or something, or there will be like
a lot of times, I mean up here, it'll be
there's just like the ice cream vendors in the park.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
So it's like, yeah, like uh like grout vendors and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Oh yes, okay, So they're not going through the neighbor
picking up kids.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Yeah yeah, I mean I hope not.

Speaker 3 (01:07:33):
But it's a lot safer to be in a public
location as opposed to like being the scary truck driver.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Dude, that's right, and that's all I mean. Also, maybe
in the suburbs they still do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
I don't know. It's a little too urban here where
I'm at. Trew Warrant the ice cream man.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
You know, well, I'm determined to find one. I'm gonna
go find me an ice cream fan.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Later, I feel like, I feel like Uber EAT's probably killed.
Uh the ice creaman's vibe, you know. Yeah, it's too bad.
Turn it okay? Well, anyways, I see, I'll let you know. Yeah,
call me. I will call you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Next, in the girls room, Joey walks in as Steph
is focused on her writing. He asks what she's working on,
and she explains it's just some homework. He picks up
one of the completed pieces of paper and reads, I
will not disrupt the class. I will not disrupt the class.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
How many times did I write that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Sense?

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
In my life? In real life, you had to write
it will not right?

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Well, it started fifty, and then for the second infraction,
then you got to go up to like one one
hundred or like one hundred and fifty. I was up
in like the two hundreds. I couldn't stop talking. Maybe
the German woman who thinks haven't changed. Yeah, it's always yeah,

(01:08:54):
I've always changed, couldn't change, couldn't stop talking.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Ye, there was always a joke to be made. There's
something funny to be said. I know you're the comic relief.
I know it's I appreciate that about you. Yeah, my
teachers didn't. But that's okay. That's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
So Joey says, did you by chance disrupt the class today?
And Steph sighs, Yeah, I snuck into your joke bag
and borrowed all your funny glasses. The teacher put them
in her desk, but you can have them back at
the end of the year. Joey points out, that's not
like you to act up in class. She explains that

(01:09:34):
she had to make them laugh with her before they
could laugh at her. Joey nods with understanding. Ah, I
get it, the class clown routine. I did that once,
except I was the chubby kid. They used to call
me Walrus, so I would go and he grabs two
pencils and sticks them into his mouth to mimic walrus
tusks while mimicking walrus noises.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
Which is a talent really that Dave has it really
is I'm having visions of breadsticks. Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
Had a certain wedding. Oh yeah, you could do this
at was it Bob's wedding or Chris Chris's wedding? Say
it was the same locations, same locate. Yeah, I'm sure
he does it at every wedding.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Where there's large small bread like skinny breadsticks available.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
Yeah, the skinny bread sticks.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
I mean it was you know, it was a nice
formal dinner and then there's David's breadsticks. Anyways, so Joey
tells Steph kids can be pretty cruel sometimes. What did
they say to you? And Steph tells them that one
kid said you got glasses?

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Let me see.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Yeah, I mean she really did kind of jump just
right into worst case scenario.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
She did. She wasn't gonna just let it leave anything
to chance. She jumped around right. Joey looks at her
with confusion.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
She emphasizes that he said it pretty loud, So Joey
clarifies none of the kids actually teased you. Stephanie argues
that they would have, so Joey has to remind her
anybody who would tease you is a jerk, because with
or without your glasses, you are the most beautiful third
grader I know. She gives him a genuine smile in response,

(01:11:12):
and Joey continues, I want you to take a good
look at yourself in the mirror with those glasses on,
and you'll see that you look just fine. Steph insists,
I already have. Trust me, it was not a pretty sight,
but Joey tells her you saw what you were afraid
of rather than what was really there. He forces her
to go over to the mirror and tell him what

(01:11:33):
she really sees. Steph reluctantly does so, but when she
sees her reflection with the glasses on, she smiles.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
She falls all ye, she found him. It is just
like hey, yeah, I hold him.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
She tells Joey, Hey, it's hey, it's me, and Joey
tells her, no, it's the new and improved you. Because
now you can read. She grant and thanks, I mean I.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Can see you know I could read already right right
right now, you can actually you can actually the words,
right yeah yeah, so she grins, Thanks, Joey, I feel better.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
She gives him a big hug and a kiss on
the cheek. Joey looks at her and says, I think
you look pretty mature, and Stuff is surprised. Really, do
you think I could pass for a fourth grader? Joey
suggests that she puts the stem of her glasses in
her mouth and think upper elementary school. Steph pries it
out and Joey tells her that's fifth grade stuff. Puts
the glasses back on. It strikes a pose. Joey tells

(01:12:36):
her that's high fashion model. She strikes another pose, and
Joey continues to flatter her, boosting her confidence tenfold.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
And that's our show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
I love the last little moment too with Dave and
I like you can see it's like a cute moment
and then he just like grabs me and gives me
a big kiss on the head.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
It was very do that chemistry was real. Yeah, yeah,
that was a sweet moment. Great episode. This, Yeah, this
was a This was a great episode.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
I didn't remember that Rkle and the glasses episode were
the same one. Oh that makes sense, because you know
that's kind of the whole thing that brings him.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Or whatever is the glasses conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
But yeah, well and that's what I that's why I
think this this was a really well done crossover episode
because it wasn't like you shoehorned in this popular character.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
There was actually a reason you just had him hiding
behind a door of the character's bedroom.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
Aside from terrifying the Tanner girls, he also provided some
advice to who better to provide you with advice about
glasses than Brkele, So it's true.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
It was great. They didn't overuse him.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
It was two scenes and he was damaged the house,
like it was perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
So funny. He was so so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
I just I, you know, because I didn't really watch shows, syncoms, whatever.
You know, you don't really like you've seen bits and
pieces obviously of things, but like I didn't watch the show,
so I forgot just how brilliant he was, Like really
really great character.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
It's just and in it, stuck with it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
Just I was really impressed because I genuinely laughed, like
I was really Like there were moments that just his
face or the way he did something really just struck
me as genuinely funny. Not like sitcom, but just something
that he really played with and did and and made merkle,
you know, and it was Yeah, it was really really great.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
So Julia is just a it's a it's a masterclass
in physical comedy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Surele is such an extreme character, like the wardrobe is
extreme and the voice is extreme, so it's easy for
those little nuances to get lost, like the facial movements,
but the micro movements. But he is a master from
head to toe, Like it's those little movements that make
such a difference, you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
Know, for a young person to really be a And also,
as you know, it's so hard to commit to something
stupid when you're that age.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Now you're like, oh please, I have no problem.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
But like at that age and Bridgie, that middle school
early high school age, like to commit to being outlandish and.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Ridiculous publicly, it takes a lot of courage. It's a
big ask. Yeah, it's a big ask for teenagers.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
And you just have to kind of disassociate and just say,
I'm not going to think about my friends making fun
of me. I'm not going to think about how weird
I look in I'm our audience of millions. You just
have to put your head down and do it. It's
like you're just you're in the scene. It's just you
and your scene partner.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
And That's the thing is I remember like acting coaches
and stuff always saying like, if you commit, the audience
will go with you. If they can tell that you're
only half committed or like you think it looks dumb,
they're not going to laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
They're going to be like, oh, they're going to feel
bad for you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Yeah right, you know if you if you just go
for it, then they're like, oh, okay, we're just laughing
at this.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
Yeah, that's the best advice.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
You cannot have something like Steve Rkle or gimme Gibbs
or give me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
No, you can't go for it because they're not self
conscious of themselves. No, have to just be be that person. Well,
this was a really fun show.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
It was cute. Uh, steph needs some.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Better taste and glasses, but they need to And I
get stuck with these too.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Oh yeah, these are the ones that I wear. Yeah,
I know that's terrible. Who somebody?

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
Yeah, I guess they just didn't have as many. There
weren't like, yeah, fashionable glasses back then. I guess kles
glasses weren't as offensive as Stephanie's classes.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Yours were just very it was the exclusive.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
Yeah, thick rimmed, that's what and uh round but that
and the Laura Ashley dress, you know really that was that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
Was a look. Yeah. Did you have any Everywharrey looks
or recognize anyone in the class?

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
I did so.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
In the classroom, I had uh several everywhere he looks.
Oh good.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Uh. Sitting directly behind me was Joel's Wick's daughter Hillary, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Then and then behind her and like over a row
so you could see him, was was Jamie Joels Wick's son.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Oh and Joel. I remember.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Joel would always joke he was like, oh yeah, I
mean this is what you do.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
You have kids and you put him on a kid scene.
You know, it's like that's just the perks, right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
And then Alison, who was Keith's daughter, Keith Richmond's daughter
was sitting like the row over and I believe one
of our makeup artists daughter was behind the red headed kid.
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
The classroom was full of quite a few, uh, quite
a few familiar faces. Oh that's so neat, and like
I was friends with.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
Them, Like they would come to my birthday parties. Like
I got to know the kids of everybody we worked
with too.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
It was you know, yeah, because they was like, you
didn't have a Kimmy Gibbler, I mean with j.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Until Gia and and uh and that whole thing. But no,
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
You needed people your own age on the set. And
so these were the only time.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
I was always so excited when you were like, Hi, yeah,
you know, talk to me, play with please? Yeah, oh
did you have any mine?

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Is just an observation.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
I noticed that rcle never uses his catchphrase in this
episode the.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Did I do that?

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
He never, He never used it, which spelt deliberate. I
don't know, because he's so there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Maybe maybe it's a it's a legal thing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
You can't cross pollinate your h your catchphrase catch I wonder.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
I wondered if it was deliberate like family matters are
like no, you can't use the catchphrase, or if they
just didn't find a reason.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
Well yeah, I also they didn't really find read. He
didn't do anything or not anything. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
Usually he like destroys the house and then it's like
I do that. So yeah there was he just locked
an eight year old in her room and held us.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Yeah, yeah, that was it, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
And he asked about cheese, which was also a very
racle thing to do, which, to be fair, I do
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
I love cheese. I walk into a friend's house, I'm likeyoh,
I'm hungry. You got some cheese?

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Yeah, it's worth waiting for the kurdl you know, the cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
I don't know about that. I mean it is, because
that's what cheese is, but not in person. I don't
need to look at it. You'd be waiting a long time,
I think, so. Yeah, I don't think that's exactly how
you make cheese. I think it needs a cave or
something like somewhere dark. I don't know, never made cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Okay, put it on your bucket list.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Oh boy, Well with that exciting information, everyone, thank you
so much for joining us again on a ridiculous and
fun episode of Howard Tanurito's.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
We love you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
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all the episodes. We just we really enjoyed doing this,
so it's so much fun when you guys love it. Anyway,
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Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
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Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
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Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
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Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
And uh and yeah, thanks guys for listening. So remember
the world is small, but the house is full of Waldo's.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
It's just stuffed with glasses and you can't and there's
so many Waldo's that you can't even find the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
Real waldough Ooh that's a challenge.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Yeah, they had those books. They have all Waldo's and
you have to wall to Waldo wall oh boy, and
without everybody next, good night, everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
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