May 18, 2023 • 50 mins
We're in the homestretch of Season 2 and it's time to introduce Griff to the cast - welcoming the great, and very cool, Adam Scott to Boy Meets World (hopefully with a hug). When Cory and Shawn find a way to cheat, their morality comes under fire, while Mr. Turner sheds the tie for a very tight tank top. The gang is impressed with how this episode appears to come together, even if Topanga once again...is not in the episode. And why are none of Rider's students going to hang with him after class? They're missing their very own podcast! Hide in the trash can, it's time for a new recap...
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
So my first professional acting job ever was in a
play called A Dolls House by.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Helmer.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Okay, and is this your first This is the only
time you did a play, right, I remember this Eventue
you were like, yeah, well the few actors I know
who didn't. You don't like theater. You don't really care
about doing theater.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
No, I like the cameras, So yeah, it was well
you ten, I was ten years old and I got
cat no Wie who wrote A dolls House. Ibsen excuse me,
so Ibsen writes it wrote a dolls House. And I
go and I get cast in this this part I have.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I get cast in.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The smallest role in the play where it's very first thing.
The lights come up and the door, you know, there's
a knock on the door, and Mary McDonald, who plays
my mom well at this time, played the you know missus.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Helmer opens the door.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Nora opens the door and this boy's walking behind her
with a Christmas tree and she goes, put it over there,
and the kid puts it down and she hands the
you know, some money and he reaches into his pocket
to get changed.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
She goes, no, no, no, that's fine. He goes, thanks.
That was my whole part in Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So I went and rehearsed, and then to like a
week and a half before the play started, they switched
me with the lead kid who played her son. So
I had to go back into rehearsals, and all of
a sudden, I had three full scenes on stage with
her Wow, and I was like the I played Evar Helmer,
the oldest child. But at ten, you know, we did
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eight shows a week, two on Wednesdays. You know, it's
a regular schedule. And we had to leave halfway through
the play. And about a month ago I realized I
still don't know how it ends.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I never read the whole thing other than my scenes.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I never saw the play because I wasn't allowed to
stay that late. So to this day, it's five is
the end of the play for me.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You didn't say why you had to leave halfway through.
You had to leave because you had to go home
to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, because ten years old, you know, it's like by
nine o'clock at night or whatever, the play goes to eleven.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
God, I say it's ibsen, so I imagine it ends
with a big laugh.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But this day I have and of course, as a kid,
I had no idea who I was working with. It
was Mary McDonald, David Strethern, Jerry Bamman. My gosh, Mark
Lamos came out of retirement to direct and to act
in it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It was like this whole thing, they're.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Still doing it. Will They're ring for you to come back.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No idea how this play ends.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I was in a movie. I was in Cabin Fever
and Jimmy de Bello, who is in that movie, never
read the script passed when his character died. Oh my god,
so what we at the Toronto Philip House.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He was like, Wow, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
A good movie. Your character far writer. You make it
all the way to the end. I'm like, yet, Jimmy,
did you read it?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He was like, no, there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How about you, Danielle, have you ever been in anything that,
to this day you have never seen?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You don't have never heard about it again after you
walked off.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
The secondary and I know a lot of things I
haven't seen. Oh yeah, no, I don't know about anything.
I don't know the ending too, But there are there
have been a few things I've refused to watch. Okay,
so yeah, but I love that you had to leave
to go home to go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, I had to go to school. I had to
go home.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I never, literally once never watched the end of the play. Yeah,
we used to be able to. I mean I would
stay for Le Miz.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The girls who played Epenine or Casette, Laris Olanik being
one of them, would leave before curtain call because the
place three hours long, and so they would often leave.
But I would. I would fall asleep on stage. There's
a section of there's a section of of Le miss
where Cavro it's drink with me and everybody. It's right
before the big battle, and everybody is supposed to, like,
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you know, be saying good night to each other, and
then we all go to sleep, and then uh Jean
Valjean sings bring Him Home. It's a beautiful song. And
I would just fall asleep.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
On stage and then fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah. I would be on stage under a blanket and
I would just actually fall asleep. But I don't know
if that's like a sign of just being a kid
and being tired. We're just like how relaxed I was.
I didn't care that I was on stage totally.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's another confession I should make writers. I've never seen
Le Mis.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I haven't d there.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's coming to town.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Guys, I'm gonna take I mean the movie everything I know.
He don't bother with them. Don't steal, don't steal. That's
the moral of the story. Right as you steal, you
go to prison.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, it's so funny because you know, a Phantom of
the Opera is closed on Broadway, So we were listening
to fan like reading all these articles about Phantom and
listening to the music and it's just not very good.
I loved the music growing up because it's you know,
if you were in the eighties and you were into musical,
but like that musical is not but lame. Is I
genuinely think is wonderful And I know I have like
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obviously a huge person.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Look connect musical people.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I think you got to give it a chance. It's
one of the best things ever can say.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's been to musicals.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I mean, kats was was one of the worst things
that I've ever experienced in my life.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And it's talking up to yousable. No, this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Andre Lloyd Weber is like the most famous sort of
you know guy from that era, and he's the worst.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Like I don't like any of his stuff really, But.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, have you heard the whole thing the Phantom of
the Opera where they do the songs from Phantom of
the Opera with songs that came before, and they're like
the same.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I guess there's something called school Days where it's.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Exactly school days, school days, man, and in it like
they're exactly Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So it's one of.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Those that's true of a lot of music, though I
don't I don't know if that really bothers me all
that much, because even if you can, you can google
John Williams score stuff, a lot of it is. Yeah. Well,
I loved Hamilton.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I loved Hamilton. I've seen that twice on stage. I
thought Hamilton was phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But you know why, because the whole thing is a musical.
That's the way singing the entire time talking and I
like that wald Wall music.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I agree, Man, I'm okaying. I'm the same way whenever
it's and it's so funny too. It's not it's not
a coincidence to me that a lot of the most
successful musicals are actually about that, that that break into
song are actually about show business, do you know what
I mean? Like there's a level of self consciousness of like,
here's a reason why we're singing because we're doing the show. Yeah,
It's like I think that's you because I'm the same way.
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It's like once you break the reality of like why
are these people talking? And then suddenly we're singing and
then there's music, whereas Ley Miss is just opera, it's
wall to.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wall music, and that's so much better. I agree.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And for the record, Natalie wood Uh in West Side
Story was like one of my first crushes of all time,
so that I used to watch that movie as a kid,
But it wasn't for the music.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It was like, why did they.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
All get together before the big gang fight and decide
to break into songs? Hey, here's what you're gonna do
instead of fighting. We're gonna do this dance and we're
gonna choreograph it for an hour.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Come on. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Well, welcome to Meets World.
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Go to Podmeets worldshow dot com now and join us
live and in person. Today we are recapping season two
episode twenty pop Quiz. It originally aired March tenth, nineteen
ninety five, and the synopsis is that Corey and Seawan
come across mister Turner's lesson plan when they deliver some
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homework to his apartment, but Corey quickly feels guilty for cheating.
Also Frankie and Joey the Ratt need a new leader.
It was directed by David Traynor. It was written by
This is a very weird credit. We've never seen this
on Boy Meets World, but it was written by Kevin Kelton,
who got a teleplay credit and a story credit, and
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Eric Brand and Robert Kurtz, who were only given story credit.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Wow, yeah, I saw that, so obviously somebody pitched them
the idea and pitched it to probably Kevin, who changed
the pitch and then went in and wrote the script
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's so interesting because I mean, usually that's what happened
in the writer's room anyway, you just didn't give credits
like this.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So the fact that they outside writer, I don't know
those two guys. Yeah, but this is just this is
so cool.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I mean, this clearly is an episode written very quickly
in response to Danny and not being on the show anymore,
because it's the next episode after he's called and address it.
So yeah, this one must have been like rewritten a lot,
and they interested.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Actually in a really clever, very funny way. I thought, yeah,
I thought so too, but very very strange.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
But I said that same thing.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I also, I know, Daniel, you're about to read this
and get into all this, but star studded episode packed
with guest stars this episode that are like oh wow,
oh wow, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So yes, we have Blake Soper as Joseph Joey the
rad Epstein, Ethan sipplea Is, Frankie Stachino, and now Adam
Scott's very first episode as Griffin, Griff Hawkins, Susan Knight
as Miss Gill, Lorie Fortier returns as Jasmine, and Eric
Balfour as Tommy and most people know he.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Was on show.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
By the way, I remember Eric, but I didn't know
we knew him. Yeah, we did, because we we did
the Trojan Trojan War together. And when I saw him again,
I was.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Like I always thought because of Trojan War, I didn't
realize I knew him because of this that he was
on the show. I didn't remember this episode at all.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
He used to be with So I used to double
date because he was dating daniel Harris. So he and
Danielle would be together and I would go out with
Jenna and he would go out with Danielle, and so
we would all go out and have dinner.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So yeah, that's also how I knew her.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Oh that's so funny. Well he Eric Balfour was also
also most recently on The Offer.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, very good actor, Eric.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Yes, so we.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Are we jump into our recap in the school hallway,
Corey and Sean writer.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
You're wearing great shirts.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh but the cameo pants is not a good look.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
No, but I love the two shirts you're wearing.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I love the yellow button down over that cool T
shirt you're wearing. Corey and Jean are playing football and
you're imitate You're pretending to be Steve Young. We had
a whole jokey episode about Steve Young becose there was
a rioter named Steve Ryder and Steve Young. Anyway, all right, okay,
ball sports, It's Ballston ball sport, right, I'm amazed I
(12:02):
could carry a football.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Corey throws the ball that hits Frankie. Corey panics and
both him and Sean run off. But then they noticed
that Frankie and Joey neither of them flinched when getting
hit by the ball, and they question why they're not
getting beat up. Frankie and Joey. Joey are actually intensely
reading a letter. So Corey and Sewan obviously go over
to antagonize their bullies, you know, like one does.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Like you do. Hey, Daniel LaRusso used to do it
to Johnny all the time. People.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
If you there's a whole big thing online about going
back and watching a karate kid. Actually, from the point
of Danny LaRusso is actually the bully, So that's that's
a big thing. Oh yeah, or pouring water on him
and doing all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Like, oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He antagonizes him at the Halloween off alone some at
some but at the beach he's just innocently trying to
juggle the soccer ball with a girl and Johnny really
you know, hey, I'm not saying one side rider or another,
but there's you know, there's there's ways to look and
they brought that into the whole new season and of
Cobra Kai. You hear somebody in the background go, I
heard you were the bully, Like it's really cool.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah, anyway, Frankie now with black hair, I wonder what.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Kahn was working on or what he was doing, why
his hair was.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I remember I remembered that they dyed his hair though,
but I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Well you think they did it on Boy Meets World
or they.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
As far as I know, we did it on Boy
Like he might have just wanted to too. I mean
that you never know. Sometimes it could be like can
I do this? And they go yeah, sure. But the
other thing I noticed, if we're talking about hair, everybody's
hair was super long to end of the season. I mean,
FORMI had big long hair, and Blake's hair was way longer,
Ethan's hair was way longer.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Everybody's hair had grown up.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, so Frankie with black hair says, the thrill is gone.
Joey says, they're reading a letter from Harley from reform
school and he's never coming home. He's in a juvenile
boot camp. Joey says he probably has a new gang there,
and since they're Lackey's, they have nothing to lacky onto.
Frankie picks Joey up and they decide to do the unthinkable.
They go to class, which apparently is where the boys
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bathroom iss.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Going to carry exactly, that's also been the girls bathroom
that's also been.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
In the office.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah yeah, So Corey throws the football again, but this
time mister Feeney intercepts it. Mister Feoenie hands Corey and
Sean their latest test scores and they stink. Sean got
a twelve and Corey got a sixteen. Peoene keeps asking
if Sean has ever opened a book, and Sean keeps
saying what, she doesn't tell me what a book is.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
This is riffing on the Wu joke from that other Exactly,
it's like the same joke, and it's not as good.
I like the WU joke. I thought that one.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I liked the wo joke a little more because WU
is something I.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Could see you and you can choose.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You be confused, right, this though, one of the things
that makes it funny. There's like a weird thing with
comedy where threes are obviously funny. You know, you do
something three times and that's the funniest, and then there's
like an awkward amount of times where you do it
where it's just like, now it's not funny because it's
an awkward amount of times, and then it becomes funny again,
and it's too many times.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
When that's what this one just drill.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
That's what this one is.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
This one is just unrelenting with the whats I was
just wondering.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Did anybody else think I get Sean getting a twelve
but Corey gets us sixteen?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Like I didn't think he was that bad as well.
That's that's my major criticism of this.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
This whole storyline is like it's I get dumb Sean,
Like I've comes with dumb Sean.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But dumb Corey. That yeah, weird.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Dynamically thought the two of us being equally dumb is
a little weird. I you know, I understand that it
just needed to happen for this storyline to make, you know,
to happen, but it doesn't work as well for me.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's like you got a sixty, like you, oh my dude,
you got a d or something.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I just feel like it was just like we needed,
you know, we have like the goofy character. We needed
kind of a straight man and like the fact that
we're both kind of the goofy characters. It was just
a little weird to me. It it didn't work, But
I wonder how often that happens, because you know, this
is the first time it's really been that clear that,
like Corey is just as bad as Sean at school.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Like score is the only thing that made me feel
like Corey is just a quote unquote dom as Sean
because he'll says sixteen. But otherwise I felt like distracted.
He wants to play basketball, he wants he wants to
do other things other than study, whereas you are, like,
I do you don't even know what.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
A book is.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I just felt like the bit in in Turner's in
Turner's apartment was just like the two of us like
being you know, bumbling idiots, and that two of us
like we're just wrecking balls throughout this entire episode of
like you just want to hang out, don't want a thirteen?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now you're supposed to be thirteen fourteen.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Thirteen year old boys are kind of like puppies with giants.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Exactly, kind of lumbering through places not knowing their bodies
yet that I got more than I was like, Wait,
Corey gets a sixteen.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I get him being a bad student, but that's
like that's bad bad, Yeah, that's bad, bad, good bad.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Sophene commands them to go home and open a book,
any book.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
What.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Mister Turner comes over to try to talk to the
boys in a way they'd understand, like their dogs. Nice boy.
Mister Feoenie gives up on them and walks off. Turner
says they have to turn in their book reports by
the end of class, but Sean is just mad Feoene
took their football. Corey says they didn't know about any
book report. Turner gives them a break to help them
get their grades up and says they can turn in
their paper by Sunday at five o'clock at his place.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
With a giant belt. He says, all this with a giant,
giant belt. I never noticed the belt, oh man, when
you were were It's like he just came from the rodeo.
He won, he got that steer down and got a
silver belt and came to school.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Sean says he has to tell mister Turner something. His
dog ate his homework, and Corey whispers, not yet yet.
So then we're in the Matthew's kitchen Morgan, who is
in a very cute little vintage out fit.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Relly's still here.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Season. Yeah, she must be here the whole second season
and just didn't come back for three.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
She is making a sandwich as a school assignment. She's
making wonderbread cheese whizz and Lucky Charms tries to help,
but Amy says she needs to make her own mistakes.
Alan says, nobody's going to want to eat that. But
he takes a bite and hmmm, it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Can we talk about Rusty's performance this moment he does.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
He's so good.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It's a look in his eyes when he takes that
first bite and it has this look in his eyes
where it's like, oh, the whole scene change is such
a good actor. He's so subtle and yet clear, do
you know what I mean? Like that's like such a
thing that that's such a difficult.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Thing to be.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Is like a lot of actors, in order to be
clear about their intentions and the way they're feeling, they
go over the top. They push it and yeah, they
rub their heads.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
We've all done it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Is just though I would have changed one thing.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So she's supposed to be and again it's it's such
a nitpicky, ridiculous thing, but it's the right side of
my head. So he comes down. She's making the sandwich
for herself for lunch. That's the I get the assignment.
You have to make yourself just to make her own.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
He grabs it to then take a bite, where it's like,
why would he be grabbing a sandwich that he already
says is going to sound disgusting that she's making for herself.
It should have been Morgan going, daddy, take a bite,
him going oh, no, yours, but no, no, no, take
a bite, and forcing him to take a bite, and
then going, wow, this is really good because it doesn't
make sense to me, was like, this is terrible. What
would you know it's great.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Even if it's just the assignment is to make your
family lunch. Are you making you a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So it's a nitpicky thing, but it would have been.
It would have taken one or two more lines, but
it would have made more sense to me. But again
totally nitpicking because Rusty's great, and I know it also
has to be a fast beat, so I get that,
but that's what I.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Would have done well.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Eric comes down and is familiar with Morgan's culinary skills
and asks if they've ever tried fruit loops on peta.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Morgan says that's tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Alan reveals that he won two tickets to Sliding Rapids
Mountain in a promotion from his store and is giving
them to Eric, and interesting that the manager is winning
contests and promotions at his own joble.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm also a play of the month again, congratulations to myself. Yes, exactly,
and I guess they are officially. Eric is officially no
longer hasn't worked now at the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I guess for quite a while.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I guess not. We barely even remember when you did that, exactly.
So Alan says he and Corey are going to have
a blast. But Eric says when he sees a water park,
it to a water park ticket. He imagines someone in
a skimpy wet bikini. Girls girls, Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Girls, girls, and Alan says a great line.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Well, that's entirely up to Corey, which I thought was fantastic,
very funny.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
So then we're in Corey and Eric's bedroom.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Corey asks Sean how other kids turn in their work
on time and get good grades. Sean says he has
a theory their ancestors were slackers and goof offs, and
now they are paying the price.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Corey likes this theory. Corey throws the ball and says
if he makes the basket, they will study. But he misses.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
The ball goes out the window and we hear mister
feeney yell, open up book from his back. When we
bring back the what exactly, which.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Is occasionally reminding us that Phoenie's still your neighbor.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Ye, Peoenie is still Corey's neighbor, I like, totally.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
So Corey says he wishes they could do a book
report without reading a book, and then he says they
can rent the movie and copy the junk on the
back of the box.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Sean says, you're a genius.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Why not rent the movie and watch the movie and then.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Write something on the movie, not just writing what's on
the back of the It's like almost cheating on cheating.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I know exactly, I know, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I think the whole thing was how quickly can we
get back to what we want to do, because even
watching the movie is something they don't want to do.
They want to they want to play basketball, or they
want to do whatever their thing is. But yes, at
least watch the movie and try to write a story.
Write your paper on that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Well, we're in the school hallway, Corey and Shaun c
Franky and Joey sitting in the hallway just staring off
into space. Depressed again. Corey taunts them with milk money,
but they still don't move. Sean tells Corey to stick
his whole head in Frankie's mouth, and Frankie responds with
come on, guys, what have we ever done to you?
Then says, oh, yeah, remembers what he's done to them
in the past when Blake gives him a little look.
(22:14):
So Sean and Corey leave, and Joey says they have
to face the facts. Harley isn't coming back and they
need a new leader. Frankie is very scared at the possibility,
but knows they do need someone, but who And then
at the perfect time, Eric comes out of the boy's
bathroom and he invites Jasmine to sliding rapids mountain. He's
very smooth.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, Eric is very smooth in this episode. The girls.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hi, Okay, So I'm coming up with a theory for myself. Okay,
And I could be wrong. I found myself to be
very stiff again in this episode.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I didn't I.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Didn't hate my performance, not by any stretch of the imagination.
But I found myself very stiff. And I'm starting to
notice a pattern. I love David Traynor, love David Traynor,
but I think he intimidated me. Because the episodes that
McCracken has directed, and there's only been one or two,
are I'm much looser in those episodes than I am
(23:09):
with the David Trainer. I think I'm trying to impress
David Trainer maybe, And so you felt more comfortable. Yeah,
So I'm very I feel like my performance is a
lot more stiff in his episodes than they are in
the other episodes.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And again, it's on me, it's not on him.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He was.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
We loved it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I can see that, and it's also it's also just
maybe because you started with David, you know, when you
first got the job, and so it was sort of
like in your mind like he was more of an authority,
whereas Jeff was probably around we were probably like, you know,
you probably knew him as a friend hanging out before
he directed us.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I think I think that's true, because again, David Trainer
as a director is a ten out of ten.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
He's a legend, an absolute.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Legend, and a great man and was so welcoming to us.
Maybe he just didn't like you in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's what I thought that, which obviously it wasn't the case,
but that's you know, that's where your head goes, is
It's like, but I I just wanted to impress him.
I thinking, I get very stiff, and I'm very aware
of my performance that I'm trying to block.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I thought you were really good in this episode.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
For I certainly didn't.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Hate it, but I'm definitely looser in episodes that that
Kraken directs.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, well, Eric's got the riz and the bullies are
impressed and start thinking. Corey walks up and asks Eric
to take him to the video store.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
After school.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Eric says it would be a shame if Alan and
Amy find out about how Corey rents movies for his
book reports, and he says they might find out unless
he gets Corey's water park at ticket. Corey hands over
the ticket. In the old Blackmail Trade, Joey and Frankie
watched the interaction between Eric and Corey, and an impressed
Frankie says, I'm Tingley.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
And then the reveal of mister Turner's apartment.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Apartment which became all of our apartments at one point.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Well, no, I was looking. It is different because we
had that apartment had the other had like the kitchen
off to the right, and then like a balcony, like
a loft air like a staircase.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Just you can see hints of this apartment, and they
just kind of retooled this apartment quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
This was truly strange for me because I did not
remember this set at all.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, obvious, yes, for all of most of the third season,
I think, But man, when I saw it, I was like,
I don't remember anything about this.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Did you remember Tony coming out in a very tight.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Oh, we pulled a picture, don't you worry? Wow, if
you're going to have a guy in that god of shape.
If you get the chance to throw him in a tank top,
throw them in a.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Tank top, throw a tank top. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
So we're in mister Turner's apartment.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Turner opens his door to see Corey and Sean made
it right on time, four fifty eight and they're out
of breath. Turner says he admires their dedication, considering he
told them the papers are due at five o'clock tomorrow,
and then Sean says, then we'll wait. Turner grabs their papers,
which is filled with what's exactly written on the back
of mice and men, and it's very obvious, very well acted.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Very well acted. This spoke to me because I assigned
my students to read scripts, and I can often tell
that they didn't read the script. They just watched the
movie read because I want them to read the script.
But then it'll be like in an amazing performance by
so so I'm like to read the script. So I
always have to reiterate, like no, no, no, when I tell
you to read the script, please read the actual script,
(26:28):
you know.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Yeah, does it take longer to read the script than
it does to watch the movie?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh? Yeah? To me, it'd be shorter, you think to me.
I mean, I'm the same.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm a fast reader, but a lot of people are
slower readers than they are watching a movie.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Can I ask you a question, Professor Strong, if you
assign somebody to read a script, can you just get
all those scripts online?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
You can find pretty much any script online. Yeah, okay, okay,
I mean I have I have a database like that.
I a friend of mine gave me a whole database
of script so I don't usually have to search. But
there have been times when I've had to search for scripts,
and you can. You have to. You have to be
careful because a lot of times there are scripts online
that are actually just transcripts and just somebody, you know,
a program where somebody actually typed out what was in.
(27:10):
So you want to actually find the draft of the
script that's dated and then you can tell was the
real thing.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
But you can find pretty much any script online.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah okay.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Well, Turner tells them to have a seat and grab
a soda while he finishes getting ready for a date.
And I don't understand why they stay at all. Why
are they staying.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Because they I don't know either.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I don't know he turned in the papers?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Why did they turn it in? And what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Why are you staying? Why are you and have a beverage?
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And they didn't even have a beverage, did they?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
They did not.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
But my point is, why is he even inviting them
to what's the what's what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
The book open?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Right?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I mean it's all part of his plan, of course,
but my point is, what are they even thinking they're
doing here? Like, why aren't they like, no, sir, we've
done our job, We've dropped off our papers. And it
wasn't even like listen, I'm going to grade these in
a minute, and so I want you to stay here
for your It was just like.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
They tried to They tried to sell it a little
bit with the oh my god, we're in a teacher's
apartment where yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
You're saying, I kind of bought that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I actually kind of like it's like being in the
t It's like the first time you ever walked into
the teacher's lounge, or it's like damn a sow the machine.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It's like that. Do you remember if you saw your
teacher at like the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It was like the weirdest experience when you're a kid smoking.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
It was like, oh man, You're like, can I have one?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, but it was great.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
So Cory is amazed.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
They're in a teacher's house, but Sean is confused because
he lives next door to mister Feeney, and Corey says
he's never been inside mister Feenie's house.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
For Halloween.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
He just drops the candy off at their door, which
we actually see seen. We have seen that he didn't
draw candy, We dropped rulers right, That's what was the
thing of rulers. Sean is going through Mister Turner CDs.
Corey tells him to put that down, but he drops
the CD in a fish tank. Corey tells Sean to
use his left hand to grab the CDs because Sean
believes that the fish and there may be piranhas.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Is that No? Is that a masturbation joke.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
It's just because he's right handed, So don't let the
attack you. Anybody would sacrifice their left hand if they're
right handed.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Gotcha, dirty mind?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Will Hey, you missed the boner joke in the other episode,
which was so clear, So now I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
For I'm the one who delivered it and had no
idea what exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
So, now sitting on the couch, Corey starts playing around
with a truck and knocks everything on the end table
over and then he finds Ms. Tompkins, the blonde social
studies teacher's number, as they are cleaning up. That's probably
his date tonight. They get grossed out of thinking about
what will happen on this date.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Can get gross out.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I think we're exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
He's like, whoa, they're gonna he's gonna get risy?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Is that a thing?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Because it sounds like busy and I've talking about him
having the h Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
So then Sean finds next week's lesson plan and they
both start looking through it. They see everything, but they
know it's top secret. They quickly put the plan back.
When mister Turner re enters to ask what to ask
what shirt the boys think looks good? Corey and Sean
say that the shirt he's wearing looks good, and then
he looks at them, looks down at his shirt and goes,
(30:26):
I should not listen to these guys, and he changes
his shirt. Then Corey and Sean rush out after seeing
that there will be a pop quiz on Tuesday. Sean
says his book is due and he has to rewind it.
And then Ben does his very cute cotton.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
A lie he does.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
He does that cute little laugh and he runs out,
and now outside Sean and Corey are excited they can
finally get a good grade.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Because they beat the system.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
You get exterior Turner's apartment too. I mean, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
What I kept thinking of when I saw that was
where's the elevator?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
I was picturing?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Do you remember the.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Elevator out there?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Absolutely? I love other There's always like a pipe in
the corner.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You guys, notice it's always to block the seam, so
it's such a sheet.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Yeah. Yeah. Well then we're in the school hallway.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Frankie and Joey are walking behind Eric, dressed like preppies
and they look exactly like Eric.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
This is hysterial. And I remember this putting on the sweater.
I'm like, why would I be putting this on?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And was like, oh, of course, because they have to
put it on like it's got a exactly like you
had to do extra preppy. And we were officially in
double collar territory. People, we are in two collar territory.
Do you have two collars?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, I have a like.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
A polo shirt with the collar and then a button
down over it. Yeah, double collar territory.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
And then I'm sure the sweater you have over your
shoulders probably also as a collar.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
It was going to be a three.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Dollar day, triple collar day exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
So they say they're Eric's new Lackeys, and they're calling
him re Go. The Lackeys explained they're like magic genies,
but on a smaller scale.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Eric says, know to their services.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
They're so fun to see them. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Eric then opens his locker to see a seventh grader
standing in there, given to him as a gift by
Frankie and Joey.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
He can do.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Whatever he wants with them. Eric excuses the kid and
says they need to find someone else their scum. Joey
says say it again and then slap it, and Eric
is falling right into perfect Lackey treatment. So we see
them miss the Harley kiner.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yes, and this is officially now Eric's locker. Wasn't that
also Sean's locker?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yes? No, Sean got I was in there with a
girl at one point, but I don't think.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
So it would have been Harley like it would have
been well.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Then you jump into that locker later.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
We were hiding in this locker for when the Sirraho
episode for when, Yeah, this is the lockers, just like
you need your locker, go to the locker.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I found this is.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
The beginning of a pattern in this episode. I found
the ending of this scene very weird. All the the
scenes are really from hearing out, Yes, from here on out.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I felt like every scene ended. I was like, wait, wait, what.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It's like not a sharp laugh or something just it
was a They did it in the Griff scene too,
with things that just ended.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It was like I made a note here, and then
I just kept making the note. I was like, what
is happening?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I thought the same thing.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I wonder how much of that is because this was
written very fast.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah you know what I mean, Like this whole episode
because of Danny not being there, because obviously this whole
storyline couldn't have predated Danny not coming back, right like,
so they had to bust this out at least a week.
Only had like a week to write this episode.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
It also shows you the gems I mean, you have
a week to write this, you have to come up
with an entirely new character, you don't know what's going on,
and you cast Adam Scott. It was gonna go on
to become one of the biggest stars. It's like it
happened that fast, right that. Now here's the Key's incredible.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
That's what we'll get to that he was. It's good,
we'll get to it. I mean, I did not remember
him being this good. I just didn't recur to me.
Was like, obviously I wasn't in scenes with him.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I remember, I remember on the the week we were
shooting it, I remember thinking, that is one of the
coolest intros for any character.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I've seen on TV ever until it was awesome. Anyway, well,
we're almost there. We are now in mister Turner's classroom.
Mister Turner walks in with a pop quiz and the
class groans. Corey, clearly knowing the quiz was coming, says,
(34:33):
that's totally unfair, and it caught us off guard. They
are really acting it up. Sean, still pretending this is
catching him off guard, says, go ahead, pop us even
those because and those who didn't study. I'll just have
to pay the price. Then he starts passing around number two.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Number two no, which is very.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Panga no no, topanga. Actually, you were not on this
show until season eight.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Apparently I did not remember that I wasn't on this
episode until we started the recap in the and I
was like, I don't think I'm in it, and then
I still wasn't sure if I was or was not,
so I'm not.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Then we're in mister Feeney's office.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Mister Feeney is reviewing Griff hawkins disciplinary report from his
last school, and he's a lot more quiet and polite
than he expected based on the disciplinary issues he's had
in the past, but he isn't going to let that
fool him. And then Miss Gil, his secretary, walks in
and says, Griffin Hawkins is here. It ends up that
the real Griffin Hawkins. Hello, Adam Scott.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Adam Scott so cool, a great.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Entry, and he thanks the other student for filling in,
and boy is it ever cool man.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
And I was sitting there, you just he walks in
and You're like, oh, this guy belongs here. Yeah, he's
so comfortable. Yep, he's so confident. And his first scene
is with Bill Daniels. I mean, what a way to
enter the show is you put him against the biggest
star of the show, like the most established actor who's
an intimidating and he nails it. He's so good right there,
(36:03):
completely awesome. He just arrives.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And one of the reasons I'm convinced, one of the
reasons that there were not huge laughs in this episode
are in this scene is because the audience was like, what.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
The hell's going on?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
What?
Speaker 5 (36:14):
I'm sure this was a pre tape.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Who just walked in? But I mean it was just
but he just he's great, owned yet amazing.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Griff tells mister Phoene he's not really a mourning person,
but he wanted to make a good impression. Miss Gil
flirts and giggles with the real Griff and asks if
she has to leave. Grif flirts back and says they'll
finish this up later. He calls her by by her
first name, I don't remember what it is. When asked
to take a seat, Griff sits in Phoene's chair. Poene,
who's peeved, asks him to take another seat. It's so
(36:45):
great to see him be so confident and so sure
of himself against Bill mean. He says, Griff is a
guest in his school and he will respect the rules.
Then he asks what his first class is. Griff says
it's English Lit. And he calls the other Griff Hawkins
back in to go to his class for him and
take good notes. Phoene says, oh good, that frees you
(37:05):
up for detention with me. And now we know and
then the just ends it.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
But by the way, we know everything we need to
know about this character, and we.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Know we can already see what's coming, right, we already.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
See it all happening. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
What a very well done way to introduce a character
like that. So then we're back in the school hallway,
Frankie and Joey praising the new ll Bean catalog or
matching Eric again and following him out of the bathroom.
Eric begs them to find someone else to follow. He's
going to count to three and when he turns around
he wants them gone. He counts and they it turns around,
(37:42):
but they're still there smiling and saying, Hey, like the Fonds.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
I really loved that.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Blake and Ethan felt like they had a real like
Lenny and Squiggy vibe.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
In this episode. I thought it was really it.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Was also you know, it's it's a not not a
terrible thing to say because it's what they had to do.
But they also kind of proved they could survive without
the Harvey character. They really they had a life after
total Danny unfortunately, which you know, Danny. One of the
things he said while we were at the live show
was that he felt that he abandoned them, which was
(38:17):
so sad and which of course they were like, you
didn't in any way, shape or form. But they still
had to, you know, find out what their characters were
going to be without that dynamic, and man, they found
it right away.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Ye, they really did.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
And now here comes Griff down the hall and the
girls are already all over him. Eric isn't impressed with
Griff at all, what's the big deal? But Frankie and
Joey are totally mesmerized. And then we're in Chubbys. Eric,
Frankie and Joey walk in and they see Griff. Joey
and Frankie are starstruck almost.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
To that's all I'm doing his hand rubby. Oh I'm
just sitting there like this. I'd like to say, well,
here we are you, So that's our go to.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Eric says they're perfect for each other, and he tells
them to go make their move. Then he shoves Frankie
and Joey right in front of Griff. Griff says, yeah,
I recognize you guys. You were the guys sucking quarters
out of the soda machine. Joey says, so he pats
Frankie on the belly and says, make him change for
a dollar burp.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Can we go back just very quickly to one of
my favorite beats because it was also a huge beat
during the run through, and then you heard the double
laugh at the show. It was one of the things
that was writers talking about, was the you'd hear the
audience laugh, but then you'd hear just our right. It
was the Joey hide me and he puts Blake in
front of him and so that was a big laugh.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
But then you just hear joe what are you kidding me?
And then our writers went because his read was so
but it was one of those things where the timing
of that joke necessitated saying it directly after Joey hide me,
so he couldn't pause on the laugh, which is what
you have to do.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
So his what are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Comes on or over the laugh of the audience, so
he the double laugh comes from our writers, our writers.
So you go back and you hear it. There's like
a laugh laugh, laugh, and then our writers laugh.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
But it was there waiting for it, for it.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
So he says it right over the audience laugh, what
are you kidne it? But oh god, it was so funny.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Well, Griff asks what he could do for them, and
Eric says, what can they do for you? Joey nervously
laughs and says, we're Lackey's. And it's crazy how with
all the confidence that Adam Scott has that when he
was here he told us he was nervous. I know,
you don't pick up on it at alling it.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I also forgot that it's essentially of the quote unquote
main cast. I was the first one to work with him, yea, exactly.
Totally forgot about that where there's a whole it was
an Eric, you know Eric storyline and Eric's storyline with him.
I totally forgot that. I thought it was, you know,
the the Joey and Frankie would hook up with them
and then it's insta going to be Corey and Sean
(41:01):
with Griff and it's like, no.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
It's Eric totally forgot so funny. And then another scene
that just kind of ends right there. It just ends
and we dissolve into the school hallway. Sean is excited
leaving the class. He got a ninety two on the quiz.
Corey got a ninety six, but he is not celebrating.
He feels like a cheater. He wishes he got an
f and his stomach starts to hurt. Sean tries to
talk him out of telling Turner, and Sean says this
(41:24):
is his only shot at a trade school. Corey's stomach
hurts even more. Then we're back.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Ben's good with the physical stuff.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
I know Ben Bell heard, ah, I know, it's really
it's really well done.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Then we're back in Chubby's.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Eric is trying to convince Griff to let Frankie and
Joey be his lackeys on an interim basis. Joey and
Frankie push their faces together in a very adorable way,
but He's not interested. And then Tommy, who's Eric Balfour,
comes up and grabs Eric by the collar and asks
if he's the Lady Killer and Eric says, I'd like
to think so, but he's actually looking for Griff, and
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Tommy says he's heard a lot of things about Griff
from his girlfriend Laurette and asks to talk outside. Frankie
and Joey step in to defend Griff. We'd love to
we'd love to go outside, Frankie says, maybe you've seen
my show, Meet the Fist. Frankie and Joey explained they're
now between him and any problem Griff might have. Tommy
starts to panic and he tells Griff to just have
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her home by ten. Eric tells Griff they're very handy,
and Griff agrees, saying it would save him talking his
way out of situations.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
There are so many great jokes in this back and forth,
and they're all coming from Adam. The must be tough
to not know somebody's name when it's not stitched on
your jacket. Jacket Tommy and him looking down at the
tom is just oh man, it's all just so great.
And you know he's instantly going to stand up to
anybody who comes next to him. Yeah, it's he establishes
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himself firmly in the cast and as this character in
a total of like fifteen lines.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
Absolutely unreal, and I love how obvious the differences are
between Danny's Harley and and Adams Griff. It's like, you
see different type of bully.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
And.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
He steps right up the minute Eric Balfour comes in,
He's toe to toe with them and and and saying
that's me. You know, he's ready to go, whereas Danny
we've seen him. He's like, have you have you seen
my guys?
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, it's also but Griff, he even says when he leaves,
he's like, this is going to save me from having
to talk myself out of a lot of problems. So
it's like, Griff, is that street smart kind of like
I'm gonna I'm going to smart value in circles, smart
Alec kind of.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Yes, it's it's great. Yeah, yeah, it's so very cool. Well,
Griff asks what else they can do, and Joey says
a lot, and then actually it's it's just different variations
of that. And then we are in mister Turner's classroom.
Corey and Sean walk in and mister Turner calls them
a team. Now at the top of the curve. Sean
tries to leave, but Corey mentions his stomach again. Corey
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admits they knew about the quiz in advance, and they
saw the lesson plan at his house. Turner asks if
it was the same lesson plan that he easily could
have covered but he didn't. Turner says that homework has
been the assignment for the last two weeks. He wants
them to get good grades by reading the lesson plan
is up on the board every single day. Corey asks,
so you want us to know the answers to study
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and he says yes. Sean, totally confused, realizes if you
get good grades, you actually learn something. And we see
dumb Sean at.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
His working through this, working through it.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
And mister Foene is standing at the door and admits
he's surprised by what he's hearing. Turner says they can
get a's anytime they want because his lesson plan is
always on the board. Corey and Shan say.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
WHOA, Yeah, this this did speak to me as a teacher.
It's so funny to me how often students have an
antagonistic relationship with right.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
They think you're going to trick them.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
Yes, it's like like I want them to All I
want is my students to to pass, right, that's all
I want to learn. You're a student, you often think
that they're trying to work against you, and you just
it's it's ridiculous, Like, no, they want you to do well.
Teachers want you. It's this there's a great little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
I remember being in college and going to ask my
teachers at like during their office hours when I was
having a problem studying for something, and how absolutely thrilled
they were to have somebody come in and to be like,
I'm sorry, I'm really working on this, but I don't
understand this thing that you and I'm trying to work
through it, and then being like, sit down.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
I have seventy students in my class right now. I've
had two of them come to office hours. Wow, over
the course.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Of fourteen weeks.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
It's my I'm like, come, I'm here, talk to me.
Tune in your papers ahead of time. I'll give you
notes then turn them back in. I'm you know. But
it's so funny. It's like, yeah, it's students just don't realize,
you know. And I actually had a friend say you
have to change it from office hours to student hours,
Like you have to change the title of it on
your syllables. So I did that, and I did get
a little bump. But no, like I said, like only
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two or three this entire semester, and I'm like, calm,
talk to me. It's something I didn't realize until my
last two years of college, and then I really took
advantage of it. I would just go hang out with
my professors like it's something.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
Yeah, so to just hang out with right or strong?
Speaker 4 (46:12):
What I said, How are none of your students even
just going just to hang out with riders strong?
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (46:18):
No, I'm cool, cool, hang out.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
We'll pack in lunch.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
It's an hour before my class on Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Yeah, right, now, Thursday is the trick, Like you guys
come and just we're going to come and hang out. Well,
we'll spend some time with you.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah, you're bust and busting. I'm gonna I'm gonna go
hang out with you. Don't don't even ask, well, don't.
I threw it in there just for you. Yeah, I
threw it in there for you. I'll send you a
TikTok on it later.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Okay, Oh great, so you're you're guaranteeing I'll never understand
what it is. Excellent we can drive by the way.
We don't need to be bust and busting.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Mister Feenie stops them to clarify, So you're going home
to open a book? And they say yes because Turner
is talking right to them, and then the boys leave,
Sewn apparently understands what a book is now, and so
Phoene then walks up to Turner and says, I believe
we said twenty dollars, and they exchange what appears to
be a bet they made about this whole situation.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
So I love it too.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Phoene hands over twenty bucks, and we are in the
tag in the school hallway, Griff is hanging with Frankie
and Joey, and Griff sees a girl he's supposed to
have never seen before, but she's a background actor in
every scene with him, someone he's talking to all the time,
really through me.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
He's like, WHOA, who's that?
Speaker 4 (47:38):
I'm like the same girl you were flirting with in
the other scenes.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Oh my god, maybe nine girls in school. It's about
the time.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Way Frankie and Joey quickly get up to get her
name for her, to get her for Griff, but Griff says,
if they're going to hang with him. They have to
be more chill. Corey and Sean see Joey and Frankie
sitting there and they start haunting them. But Joey and
Frankie have to get approval from Griff to mess with them.
Griff says, have at it, and then we see their
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little faces in the trash can, which I thought that
was a really cute.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Actually in the track, and don't remember how did we
fit in here? There was no memory of.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
This, and you were like, you just kneeled in the
in the thing because of the false back, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Ye, because in the wide shot we're clearly not in
the right the white shot, we're not in there, right, But.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Yeah, yeah, I just built a slightly bigger one with
a false back, and then you guys kneeled in the thing.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
But I was wondering, like, yeah, so we cut to
night time. Well you know what, it kind of looked
like the janitor bud from the Scream episode.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Well, this is just kind of dark, and it's just
kind of dark.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
And scary, and they try, I don't know, they did
kind of look like that. But we cut to night time.
Corey and Shawn are in the trash can. It appears
they've been in there all night. They wonder if the
coast is clear, and then a janitor walks up and
shakes his dirty mop into the can. After a short pause,
we hear chewing and Corey asks where Sean got the yum.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Not a jandler in the world. By the way, again,
nipicking is just going to take the dirty mop and
put it in the trash can. And then it was
very well, no, but.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Very odd if he's in a broom and a you know,
a yeah, not really sure what, but you know what,
it was a good episode. Didn't stop me from enjoying
the episode.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
It was a good episode.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
My big takeaway is Adam Scott was always going to
be one of the biggest stars in.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
The world man.
Speaker 5 (49:27):
And I'll say there was no there was no stopping that.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Different level, different level.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Well, that's the end of our episode. Thank you everyone
for joining us. Please join us for our next episode.
It is a classic season two episode twenty one, The
Thrilla in Philla, which originally aired May fifth, nineteen ninety five.
That's my birthday, yeay, and yeah, thank you guys for
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So my first professional acting job ever was in a
play called A Dolls House by.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Helmer.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Okay, and is this your first This is the only
time you did a play, right, I remember this Eventue
you were like, yeah, well the few actors I know
who didn't. You don't like theater. You don't really care
about doing theater.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
No, I like the cameras, So yeah, it was well
you ten, I was ten years old and I got
cat no Wie who wrote A dolls House. Ibsen excuse me,
so Ibsen writes it wrote a dolls House. And I
go and I get cast in this this part I have.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I get cast in.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The smallest role in the play where it's very first thing.
The lights come up and the door, you know, there's
a knock on the door, and Mary McDonald, who plays
my mom well at this time, played the you know missus.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Helmer opens the door.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Nora opens the door and this boy's walking behind her
with a Christmas tree and she goes, put it over there,
and the kid puts it down and she hands the
you know, some money and he reaches into his pocket
to get changed.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
She goes, no, no, no, that's fine. He goes, thanks.
That was my whole part in Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So I went and rehearsed, and then to like a
week and a half before the play started, they switched
me with the lead kid who played her son. So
I had to go back into rehearsals, and all of
a sudden, I had three full scenes on stage with
her Wow, and I was like the I played Evar Helmer,
the oldest child. But at ten, you know, we did
(01:51):
eight shows a week, two on Wednesdays. You know, it's
a regular schedule. And we had to leave halfway through
the play. And about a month ago I realized I
still don't know how it ends.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I never read the whole thing other than my scenes.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I never saw the play because I wasn't allowed to
stay that late. So to this day, it's five is
the end of the play for me.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You didn't say why you had to leave halfway through.
You had to leave because you had to go home
to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, because ten years old, you know, it's like by
nine o'clock at night or whatever, the play goes to eleven.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
God, I say it's ibsen, so I imagine it ends
with a big laugh.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But this day I have and of course, as a kid,
I had no idea who I was working with. It
was Mary McDonald, David Strethern, Jerry Bamman. My gosh, Mark
Lamos came out of retirement to direct and to act
in it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It was like this whole thing, they're.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Still doing it. Will They're ring for you to come back.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No idea how this play ends.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I was in a movie. I was in Cabin Fever
and Jimmy de Bello, who is in that movie, never
read the script passed when his character died. Oh my god,
so what we at the Toronto Philip House.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He was like, Wow, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
A good movie. Your character far writer. You make it
all the way to the end. I'm like, yet, Jimmy,
did you read it?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He was like, no, there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How about you, Danielle, have you ever been in anything that,
to this day you have never seen?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You don't have never heard about it again after you
walked off.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
The secondary and I know a lot of things I
haven't seen. Oh yeah, no, I don't know about anything.
I don't know the ending too, But there are there
have been a few things I've refused to watch. Okay,
so yeah, but I love that you had to leave
to go home to go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, I had to go to school. I had to
go home.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I never, literally once never watched the end of the play. Yeah,
we used to be able to. I mean I would
stay for Le Miz.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
The girls who played Epenine or Casette, Laris Olanik being
one of them, would leave before curtain call because the
place three hours long, and so they would often leave.
But I would. I would fall asleep on stage. There's
a section of there's a section of of Le miss
where Cavro it's drink with me and everybody. It's right
before the big battle, and everybody is supposed to, like,
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you know, be saying good night to each other, and
then we all go to sleep, and then uh Jean
Valjean sings bring Him Home. It's a beautiful song. And
I would just fall asleep.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
On stage and then fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah. I would be on stage under a blanket and
I would just actually fall asleep. But I don't know
if that's like a sign of just being a kid
and being tired. We're just like how relaxed I was.
I didn't care that I was on stage totally.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's another confession I should make writers. I've never seen
Le Mis.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I haven't d there.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's coming to town.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Guys, I'm gonna take I mean the movie everything I know.
He don't bother with them. Don't steal, don't steal. That's
the moral of the story. Right as you steal, you
go to prison.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, it's so funny because you know, a Phantom of
the Opera is closed on Broadway, So we were listening
to fan like reading all these articles about Phantom and
listening to the music and it's just not very good.
I loved the music growing up because it's you know,
if you were in the eighties and you were into musical,
but like that musical is not but lame. Is I
genuinely think is wonderful And I know I have like
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obviously a huge person.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Look connect musical people.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I think you got to give it a chance. It's
one of the best things ever can say.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's been to musicals.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I mean, kats was was one of the worst things
that I've ever experienced in my life.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And it's talking up to yousable. No, this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Andre Lloyd Weber is like the most famous sort of
you know guy from that era, and he's the worst.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Like I don't like any of his stuff really, But.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, have you heard the whole thing the Phantom of
the Opera where they do the songs from Phantom of
the Opera with songs that came before, and they're like
the same.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I guess there's something called school Days where it's.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Exactly school days, school days, man, and in it like
they're exactly Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So it's one of.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Those that's true of a lot of music, though I
don't I don't know if that really bothers me all
that much, because even if you can, you can google
John Williams score stuff, a lot of it is. Yeah. Well,
I loved Hamilton.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I loved Hamilton. I've seen that twice on stage. I
thought Hamilton was phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But you know why, because the whole thing is a musical.
That's the way singing the entire time talking and I
like that wald Wall music.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I agree, Man, I'm okaying. I'm the same way whenever
it's and it's so funny too. It's not it's not
a coincidence to me that a lot of the most
successful musicals are actually about that, that that break into
song are actually about show business, do you know what
I mean? Like there's a level of self consciousness of like,
here's a reason why we're singing because we're doing the show. Yeah,
It's like I think that's you because I'm the same way.
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It's like once you break the reality of like why
are these people talking? And then suddenly we're singing and
then there's music, whereas Ley Miss is just opera, it's
wall to.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wall music, and that's so much better. I agree.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And for the record, Natalie wood Uh in West Side
Story was like one of my first crushes of all time,
so that I used to watch that movie as a kid,
But it wasn't for the music.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It was like, why did they.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
All get together before the big gang fight and decide
to break into songs? Hey, here's what you're gonna do
instead of fighting. We're gonna do this dance and we're
gonna choreograph it for an hour.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Come on. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
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Go to Podmeets worldshow dot com now and join us
live and in person. Today we are recapping season two
episode twenty pop Quiz. It originally aired March tenth, nineteen
ninety five, and the synopsis is that Corey and Seawan
come across mister Turner's lesson plan when they deliver some
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homework to his apartment, but Corey quickly feels guilty for cheating.
Also Frankie and Joey the Ratt need a new leader.
It was directed by David Traynor. It was written by
This is a very weird credit. We've never seen this
on Boy Meets World, but it was written by Kevin Kelton,
who got a teleplay credit and a story credit, and
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Eric Brand and Robert Kurtz, who were only given story credit.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Wow, yeah, I saw that, so obviously somebody pitched them
the idea and pitched it to probably Kevin, who changed
the pitch and then went in and wrote the script
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's so interesting because I mean, usually that's what happened
in the writer's room anyway, you just didn't give credits
like this.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So the fact that they outside writer, I don't know
those two guys. Yeah, but this is just this is
so cool.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I mean, this clearly is an episode written very quickly
in response to Danny and not being on the show anymore,
because it's the next episode after he's called and address it.
So yeah, this one must have been like rewritten a lot,
and they interested.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Actually in a really clever, very funny way. I thought, yeah,
I thought so too, but very very strange.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
But I said that same thing.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I also, I know, Daniel, you're about to read this
and get into all this, but star studded episode packed
with guest stars this episode that are like oh wow,
oh wow, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So yes, we have Blake Soper as Joseph Joey the
rad Epstein, Ethan sipplea Is, Frankie Stachino, and now Adam
Scott's very first episode as Griffin, Griff Hawkins, Susan Knight
as Miss Gill, Lorie Fortier returns as Jasmine, and Eric
Balfour as Tommy and most people know he.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Was on show.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
By the way, I remember Eric, but I didn't know
we knew him. Yeah, we did, because we we did
the Trojan Trojan War together. And when I saw him again,
I was.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Like I always thought because of Trojan War, I didn't
realize I knew him because of this that he was
on the show. I didn't remember this episode at all.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
He used to be with So I used to double
date because he was dating daniel Harris. So he and
Danielle would be together and I would go out with
Jenna and he would go out with Danielle, and so
we would all go out and have dinner.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So yeah, that's also how I knew her.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Oh that's so funny. Well he Eric Balfour was also
also most recently on The Offer.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, very good actor, Eric.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Yes, so we.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Are we jump into our recap in the school hallway,
Corey and Sean writer.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
You're wearing great shirts.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh but the cameo pants is not a good look.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
No, but I love the two shirts you're wearing.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I love the yellow button down over that cool T
shirt you're wearing. Corey and Jean are playing football and
you're imitate You're pretending to be Steve Young. We had
a whole jokey episode about Steve Young becose there was
a rioter named Steve Ryder and Steve Young. Anyway, all right, okay,
ball sports, It's Ballston ball sport, right, I'm amazed I
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could carry a football.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Corey throws the ball that hits Frankie. Corey panics and
both him and Sean run off. But then they noticed
that Frankie and Joey neither of them flinched when getting
hit by the ball, and they question why they're not
getting beat up. Frankie and Joey. Joey are actually intensely
reading a letter. So Corey and Sewan obviously go over
to antagonize their bullies, you know, like one does.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Like you do. Hey, Daniel LaRusso used to do it
to Johnny all the time. People.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
If you there's a whole big thing online about going
back and watching a karate kid. Actually, from the point
of Danny LaRusso is actually the bully, So that's that's
a big thing. Oh yeah, or pouring water on him
and doing all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Like, oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He antagonizes him at the Halloween off alone some at
some but at the beach he's just innocently trying to
juggle the soccer ball with a girl and Johnny really
you know, hey, I'm not saying one side rider or another,
but there's you know, there's there's ways to look and
they brought that into the whole new season and of
Cobra Kai. You hear somebody in the background go, I
heard you were the bully, Like it's really cool.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah, anyway, Frankie now with black hair, I wonder what.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Kahn was working on or what he was doing, why
his hair was.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I remember I remembered that they dyed his hair though,
but I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Well you think they did it on Boy Meets World
or they.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
As far as I know, we did it on Boy
Like he might have just wanted to too. I mean
that you never know. Sometimes it could be like can
I do this? And they go yeah, sure. But the
other thing I noticed, if we're talking about hair, everybody's
hair was super long to end of the season. I mean,
FORMI had big long hair, and Blake's hair was way longer,
Ethan's hair was way longer.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Everybody's hair had grown up.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, so Frankie with black hair says, the thrill is gone.
Joey says, they're reading a letter from Harley from reform
school and he's never coming home. He's in a juvenile
boot camp. Joey says he probably has a new gang there,
and since they're Lackey's, they have nothing to lacky onto.
Frankie picks Joey up and they decide to do the unthinkable.
They go to class, which apparently is where the boys
(14:03):
bathroom iss.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Going to carry exactly, that's also been the girls bathroom
that's also been.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
In the office.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah yeah, So Corey throws the football again, but this
time mister Feeney intercepts it. Mister Feoenie hands Corey and
Sean their latest test scores and they stink. Sean got
a twelve and Corey got a sixteen. Peoene keeps asking
if Sean has ever opened a book, and Sean keeps
saying what, she doesn't tell me what a book is.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
This is riffing on the Wu joke from that other Exactly,
it's like the same joke, and it's not as good.
I like the WU joke. I thought that one.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I liked the wo joke a little more because WU
is something I.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Could see you and you can choose.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You be confused, right, this though, one of the things
that makes it funny. There's like a weird thing with
comedy where threes are obviously funny. You know, you do
something three times and that's the funniest, and then there's
like an awkward amount of times where you do it
where it's just like, now it's not funny because it's
an awkward amount of times, and then it becomes funny again,
and it's too many times.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
When that's what this one just drill.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
That's what this one is.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
This one is just unrelenting with the whats I was
just wondering.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Did anybody else think I get Sean getting a twelve
but Corey gets us sixteen?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Like I didn't think he was that bad as well.
That's that's my major criticism of this.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
This whole storyline is like it's I get dumb Sean,
Like I've comes with dumb Sean.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But dumb Corey. That yeah, weird.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Dynamically thought the two of us being equally dumb is
a little weird. I you know, I understand that it
just needed to happen for this storyline to make, you know,
to happen, but it doesn't work as well for me.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's like you got a sixty, like you, oh my dude,
you got a d or something.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I just feel like it was just like we needed,
you know, we have like the goofy character. We needed
kind of a straight man and like the fact that
we're both kind of the goofy characters. It was just
a little weird to me. It it didn't work, But
I wonder how often that happens, because you know, this
is the first time it's really been that clear that,
like Corey is just as bad as Sean at school.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Like score is the only thing that made me feel
like Corey is just a quote unquote dom as Sean
because he'll says sixteen. But otherwise I felt like distracted.
He wants to play basketball, he wants he wants to
do other things other than study, whereas you are, like,
I do you don't even know what.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
A book is.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I just felt like the bit in in Turner's in
Turner's apartment was just like the two of us like
being you know, bumbling idiots, and that two of us
like we're just wrecking balls throughout this entire episode of
like you just want to hang out, don't want a thirteen?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now you're supposed to be thirteen fourteen.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Thirteen year old boys are kind of like puppies with giants.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Exactly, kind of lumbering through places not knowing their bodies
yet that I got more than I was like, Wait,
Corey gets a sixteen.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I get him being a bad student, but that's
like that's bad bad, Yeah, that's bad, bad, good bad.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Sophene commands them to go home and open a book,
any book.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
What.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Mister Turner comes over to try to talk to the
boys in a way they'd understand, like their dogs. Nice boy.
Mister Feoenie gives up on them and walks off. Turner
says they have to turn in their book reports by
the end of class, but Sean is just mad Feoene
took their football. Corey says they didn't know about any
book report. Turner gives them a break to help them
get their grades up and says they can turn in
their paper by Sunday at five o'clock at his place.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
With a giant belt. He says, all this with a giant,
giant belt. I never noticed the belt, oh man, when
you were were It's like he just came from the rodeo.
He won, he got that steer down and got a
silver belt and came to school.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Sean says he has to tell mister Turner something. His
dog ate his homework, and Corey whispers, not yet yet.
So then we're in the Matthew's kitchen Morgan, who is
in a very cute little vintage out fit.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Relly's still here.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Season. Yeah, she must be here the whole second season
and just didn't come back for three.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
She is making a sandwich as a school assignment. She's
making wonderbread cheese whizz and Lucky Charms tries to help,
but Amy says she needs to make her own mistakes.
Alan says, nobody's going to want to eat that. But
he takes a bite and hmmm, it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Can we talk about Rusty's performance this moment he does.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
He's so good.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It's a look in his eyes when he takes that
first bite and it has this look in his eyes
where it's like, oh, the whole scene change is such
a good actor. He's so subtle and yet clear, do
you know what I mean? Like that's like such a
thing that that's such a difficult.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Thing to be.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Is like a lot of actors, in order to be
clear about their intentions and the way they're feeling, they
go over the top. They push it and yeah, they
rub their heads.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
We've all done it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Is just though I would have changed one thing.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So she's supposed to be and again it's it's such
a nitpicky, ridiculous thing, but it's the right side of
my head. So he comes down. She's making the sandwich
for herself for lunch. That's the I get the assignment.
You have to make yourself just to make her own.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
He grabs it to then take a bite, where it's like,
why would he be grabbing a sandwich that he already
says is going to sound disgusting that she's making for herself.
It should have been Morgan going, daddy, take a bite,
him going oh, no, yours, but no, no, no, take
a bite, and forcing him to take a bite, and
then going, wow, this is really good because it doesn't
make sense to me, was like, this is terrible. What
would you know it's great.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Even if it's just the assignment is to make your
family lunch. Are you making you a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So it's a nitpicky thing, but it would have been.
It would have taken one or two more lines, but
it would have made more sense to me. But again
totally nitpicking because Rusty's great, and I know it also
has to be a fast beat, so I get that,
but that's what I.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Would have done well.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Eric comes down and is familiar with Morgan's culinary skills
and asks if they've ever tried fruit loops on peta.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Morgan says that's tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Alan reveals that he won two tickets to Sliding Rapids
Mountain in a promotion from his store and is giving
them to Eric, and interesting that the manager is winning
contests and promotions at his own joble.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm also a play of the month again, congratulations to myself. Yes, exactly,
and I guess they are officially. Eric is officially no
longer hasn't worked now at the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I guess for quite a while.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I guess not. We barely even remember when you did that, exactly.
So Alan says he and Corey are going to have
a blast. But Eric says when he sees a water park,
it to a water park ticket. He imagines someone in
a skimpy wet bikini. Girls girls, Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Girls, girls, and Alan says a great line.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Well, that's entirely up to Corey, which I thought was fantastic,
very funny.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
So then we're in Corey and Eric's bedroom.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Corey asks Sean how other kids turn in their work
on time and get good grades. Sean says he has
a theory their ancestors were slackers and goof offs, and
now they are paying the price.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Corey likes this theory. Corey throws the ball and says
if he makes the basket, they will study. But he misses.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
The ball goes out the window and we hear mister
feeney yell, open up book from his back. When we
bring back the what exactly, which.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Is occasionally reminding us that Phoenie's still your neighbor.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Ye, Peoenie is still Corey's neighbor, I like, totally.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
So Corey says he wishes they could do a book
report without reading a book, and then he says they
can rent the movie and copy the junk on the
back of the box.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Sean says, you're a genius.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Why not rent the movie and watch the movie and then.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Write something on the movie, not just writing what's on
the back of the It's like almost cheating on cheating.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I know exactly, I know, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I think the whole thing was how quickly can we
get back to what we want to do, because even
watching the movie is something they don't want to do.
They want to they want to play basketball, or they
want to do whatever their thing is. But yes, at
least watch the movie and try to write a story.
Write your paper on that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Well, we're in the school hallway, Corey and Shaun c
Franky and Joey sitting in the hallway just staring off
into space. Depressed again. Corey taunts them with milk money,
but they still don't move. Sean tells Corey to stick
his whole head in Frankie's mouth, and Frankie responds with
come on, guys, what have we ever done to you?
Then says, oh, yeah, remembers what he's done to them
in the past when Blake gives him a little look.
(22:14):
So Sean and Corey leave, and Joey says they have
to face the facts. Harley isn't coming back and they
need a new leader. Frankie is very scared at the possibility,
but knows they do need someone, but who And then
at the perfect time, Eric comes out of the boy's
bathroom and he invites Jasmine to sliding rapids mountain. He's
very smooth.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, Eric is very smooth in this episode. The girls.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hi, Okay, So I'm coming up with a theory for myself. Okay,
And I could be wrong. I found myself to be
very stiff again in this episode.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I didn't I.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Didn't hate my performance, not by any stretch of the imagination.
But I found myself very stiff. And I'm starting to
notice a pattern. I love David Traynor, love David Traynor,
but I think he intimidated me. Because the episodes that
McCracken has directed, and there's only been one or two,
are I'm much looser in those episodes than I am
(23:09):
with the David Trainer. I think I'm trying to impress
David Trainer maybe, And so you felt more comfortable. Yeah,
So I'm very I feel like my performance is a
lot more stiff in his episodes than they are in
the other episodes.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And again, it's on me, it's not on him.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He was.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
We loved it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I can see that, and it's also it's also just
maybe because you started with David, you know, when you
first got the job, and so it was sort of
like in your mind like he was more of an authority,
whereas Jeff was probably around we were probably like, you know,
you probably knew him as a friend hanging out before
he directed us.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I think I think that's true, because again, David Trainer
as a director is a ten out of ten.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
He's a legend, an absolute.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Legend, and a great man and was so welcoming to us.
Maybe he just didn't like you in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's what I thought that, which obviously it wasn't the case,
but that's you know, that's where your head goes, is
It's like, but I I just wanted to impress him.
I thinking, I get very stiff, and I'm very aware
of my performance that I'm trying to block.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I thought you were really good in this episode.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
For I certainly didn't.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Hate it, but I'm definitely looser in episodes that that
Kraken directs.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, well, Eric's got the riz and the bullies are
impressed and start thinking. Corey walks up and asks Eric
to take him to the video store.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
After school.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Eric says it would be a shame if Alan and
Amy find out about how Corey rents movies for his
book reports, and he says they might find out unless
he gets Corey's water park at ticket. Corey hands over
the ticket. In the old Blackmail Trade, Joey and Frankie
watched the interaction between Eric and Corey, and an impressed
Frankie says, I'm Tingley.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
And then the reveal of mister Turner's apartment.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Apartment which became all of our apartments at one point.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Well, no, I was looking. It is different because we
had that apartment had the other had like the kitchen
off to the right, and then like a balcony, like
a loft air like a staircase.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Just you can see hints of this apartment, and they
just kind of retooled this apartment quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
This was truly strange for me because I did not
remember this set at all.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, obvious, yes, for all of most of the third season,
I think, But man, when I saw it, I was like,
I don't remember anything about this.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Did you remember Tony coming out in a very tight.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Oh, we pulled a picture, don't you worry? Wow, if
you're going to have a guy in that god of shape.
If you get the chance to throw him in a tank top,
throw them in a.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Tank top, throw a tank top. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
So we're in mister Turner's apartment.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Turner opens his door to see Corey and Sean made
it right on time, four fifty eight and they're out
of breath. Turner says he admires their dedication, considering he
told them the papers are due at five o'clock tomorrow,
and then Sean says, then we'll wait. Turner grabs their papers,
which is filled with what's exactly written on the back
of mice and men, and it's very obvious, very well acted.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Very well acted. This spoke to me because I assigned
my students to read scripts, and I can often tell
that they didn't read the script. They just watched the
movie read because I want them to read the script.
But then it'll be like in an amazing performance by
so so I'm like to read the script. So I
always have to reiterate, like no, no, no, when I tell
you to read the script, please read the actual script,
(26:28):
you know.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Yeah, does it take longer to read the script than
it does to watch the movie?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh? Yeah? To me, it'd be shorter, you think to me.
I mean, I'm the same.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm a fast reader, but a lot of people are
slower readers than they are watching a movie.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Can I ask you a question, Professor Strong, if you
assign somebody to read a script, can you just get
all those scripts online?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
You can find pretty much any script online. Yeah, okay, okay,
I mean I have I have a database like that.
I a friend of mine gave me a whole database
of script so I don't usually have to search. But
there have been times when I've had to search for scripts,
and you can. You have to. You have to be
careful because a lot of times there are scripts online
that are actually just transcripts and just somebody, you know,
a program where somebody actually typed out what was in.
(27:10):
So you want to actually find the draft of the
script that's dated and then you can tell was the
real thing.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
But you can find pretty much any script online.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah okay.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Well, Turner tells them to have a seat and grab
a soda while he finishes getting ready for a date.
And I don't understand why they stay at all. Why
are they staying.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Because they I don't know either.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I don't know he turned in the papers?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Why did they turn it in? And what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Why are you staying? Why are you and have a beverage?
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And they didn't even have a beverage, did they?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
They did not.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
But my point is, why is he even inviting them
to what's the what's what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
The book open?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Right?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I mean it's all part of his plan, of course,
but my point is, what are they even thinking they're
doing here? Like, why aren't they like, no, sir, we've
done our job, We've dropped off our papers. And it
wasn't even like listen, I'm going to grade these in
a minute, and so I want you to stay here
for your It was just like.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
They tried to They tried to sell it a little
bit with the oh my god, we're in a teacher's
apartment where yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
You're saying, I kind of bought that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I actually kind of like it's like being in the
t It's like the first time you ever walked into
the teacher's lounge, or it's like damn a sow the machine.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It's like that. Do you remember if you saw your
teacher at like the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It was like the weirdest experience when you're a kid smoking.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
It was like, oh man, You're like, can I have one?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, but it was great.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
So Cory is amazed.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
They're in a teacher's house, but Sean is confused because
he lives next door to mister Feeney, and Corey says
he's never been inside mister Feenie's house.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
For Halloween.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
He just drops the candy off at their door, which
we actually see seen. We have seen that he didn't
draw candy, We dropped rulers right, That's what was the
thing of rulers. Sean is going through Mister Turner CDs.
Corey tells him to put that down, but he drops
the CD in a fish tank. Corey tells Sean to
use his left hand to grab the CDs because Sean
believes that the fish and there may be piranhas.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Is that No? Is that a masturbation joke.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
It's just because he's right handed, So don't let the
attack you. Anybody would sacrifice their left hand if they're
right handed.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Gotcha, dirty mind?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Will Hey, you missed the boner joke in the other episode,
which was so clear, So now I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
For I'm the one who delivered it and had no
idea what exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
So, now sitting on the couch, Corey starts playing around
with a truck and knocks everything on the end table
over and then he finds Ms. Tompkins, the blonde social
studies teacher's number, as they are cleaning up. That's probably
his date tonight. They get grossed out of thinking about
what will happen on this date.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Can get gross out.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I think we're exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
He's like, whoa, they're gonna he's gonna get risy?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Is that a thing?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Because it sounds like busy and I've talking about him
having the h Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
So then Sean finds next week's lesson plan and they
both start looking through it. They see everything, but they
know it's top secret. They quickly put the plan back.
When mister Turner re enters to ask what to ask
what shirt the boys think looks good? Corey and Sean
say that the shirt he's wearing looks good, and then
he looks at them, looks down at his shirt and goes,
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I should not listen to these guys, and he changes
his shirt. Then Corey and Sean rush out after seeing
that there will be a pop quiz on Tuesday. Sean
says his book is due and he has to rewind it.
And then Ben does his very cute cotton.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
A lie he does.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
He does that cute little laugh and he runs out,
and now outside Sean and Corey are excited they can
finally get a good grade.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Because they beat the system.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
You get exterior Turner's apartment too. I mean, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
What I kept thinking of when I saw that was
where's the elevator?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
I was picturing?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Do you remember the.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Elevator out there?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Absolutely? I love other There's always like a pipe in
the corner.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You guys, notice it's always to block the seam, so
it's such a sheet.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Yeah. Yeah. Well then we're in the school hallway.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Frankie and Joey are walking behind Eric, dressed like preppies
and they look exactly like Eric.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
This is hysterial. And I remember this putting on the sweater.
I'm like, why would I be putting this on?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And was like, oh, of course, because they have to
put it on like it's got a exactly like you
had to do extra preppy. And we were officially in
double collar territory. People, we are in two collar territory.
Do you have two collars?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, I have a like.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
A polo shirt with the collar and then a button
down over it. Yeah, double collar territory.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
And then I'm sure the sweater you have over your
shoulders probably also as a collar.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
It was going to be a three.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Dollar day, triple collar day exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
So they say they're Eric's new Lackeys, and they're calling
him re Go. The Lackeys explained they're like magic genies,
but on a smaller scale.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Eric says, know to their services.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
They're so fun to see them. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Eric then opens his locker to see a seventh grader
standing in there, given to him as a gift by
Frankie and Joey.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
He can do.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Whatever he wants with them. Eric excuses the kid and
says they need to find someone else their scum. Joey
says say it again and then slap it, and Eric
is falling right into perfect Lackey treatment. So we see
them miss the Harley kiner.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yes, and this is officially now Eric's locker. Wasn't that
also Sean's locker?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yes? No, Sean got I was in there with a
girl at one point, but I don't think.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
So it would have been Harley like it would have
been well.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Then you jump into that locker later.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
We were hiding in this locker for when the Sirraho
episode for when, Yeah, this is the lockers, just like
you need your locker, go to the locker.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I found this is.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
The beginning of a pattern in this episode. I found
the ending of this scene very weird. All the the
scenes are really from hearing out, Yes, from here on out.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I felt like every scene ended. I was like, wait, wait, what.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It's like not a sharp laugh or something just it
was a They did it in the Griff scene too,
with things that just ended.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It was like I made a note here, and then
I just kept making the note. I was like, what
is happening?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I thought the same thing.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I wonder how much of that is because this was
written very fast.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah you know what I mean, Like this whole episode
because of Danny not being there, because obviously this whole
storyline couldn't have predated Danny not coming back, right like,
so they had to bust this out at least a week.
Only had like a week to write this episode.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
It also shows you the gems I mean, you have
a week to write this, you have to come up
with an entirely new character, you don't know what's going on,
and you cast Adam Scott. It was gonna go on
to become one of the biggest stars. It's like it
happened that fast, right that. Now here's the Key's incredible.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
That's what we'll get to that he was. It's good,
we'll get to it. I mean, I did not remember
him being this good. I just didn't recur to me.
Was like, obviously I wasn't in scenes with him.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I remember, I remember on the the week we were
shooting it, I remember thinking, that is one of the
coolest intros for any character.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I've seen on TV ever until it was awesome. Anyway, well,
we're almost there. We are now in mister Turner's classroom.
Mister Turner walks in with a pop quiz and the
class groans. Corey, clearly knowing the quiz was coming, says,
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that's totally unfair, and it caught us off guard. They
are really acting it up. Sean, still pretending this is
catching him off guard, says, go ahead, pop us even
those because and those who didn't study. I'll just have
to pay the price. Then he starts passing around number two.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Number two no, which is very.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Panga no no, topanga. Actually, you were not on this
show until season eight.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Apparently I did not remember that I wasn't on this
episode until we started the recap in the and I
was like, I don't think I'm in it, and then
I still wasn't sure if I was or was not,
so I'm not.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Then we're in mister Feeney's office.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Mister Feeney is reviewing Griff hawkins disciplinary report from his
last school, and he's a lot more quiet and polite
than he expected based on the disciplinary issues he's had
in the past, but he isn't going to let that
fool him. And then Miss Gil, his secretary, walks in
and says, Griffin Hawkins is here. It ends up that
the real Griffin Hawkins. Hello, Adam Scott.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Adam Scott so cool, a great.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Entry, and he thanks the other student for filling in,
and boy is it ever cool man.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
And I was sitting there, you just he walks in
and You're like, oh, this guy belongs here. Yeah, he's
so comfortable. Yep, he's so confident. And his first scene
is with Bill Daniels. I mean, what a way to
enter the show is you put him against the biggest
star of the show, like the most established actor who's
an intimidating and he nails it. He's so good right there,
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completely awesome. He just arrives.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And one of the reasons I'm convinced, one of the
reasons that there were not huge laughs in this episode
are in this scene is because the audience was like, what.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
The hell's going on?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
What?
Speaker 5 (36:14):
I'm sure this was a pre tape.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Who just walked in? But I mean it was just
but he just he's great, owned yet amazing.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Griff tells mister Phoene he's not really a mourning person,
but he wanted to make a good impression. Miss Gil
flirts and giggles with the real Griff and asks if
she has to leave. Grif flirts back and says they'll
finish this up later. He calls her by by her
first name, I don't remember what it is. When asked
to take a seat, Griff sits in Phoene's chair. Poene,
who's peeved, asks him to take another seat. It's so
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great to see him be so confident and so sure
of himself against Bill mean. He says, Griff is a
guest in his school and he will respect the rules.
Then he asks what his first class is. Griff says
it's English Lit. And he calls the other Griff Hawkins
back in to go to his class for him and
take good notes. Phoene says, oh good, that frees you
(37:05):
up for detention with me. And now we know and
then the just ends it.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
But by the way, we know everything we need to
know about this character, and we.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Know we can already see what's coming, right, we already.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
See it all happening. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
What a very well done way to introduce a character
like that. So then we're back in the school hallway,
Frankie and Joey praising the new ll Bean catalog or
matching Eric again and following him out of the bathroom.
Eric begs them to find someone else to follow. He's
going to count to three and when he turns around
he wants them gone. He counts and they it turns around,
(37:42):
but they're still there smiling and saying, Hey, like the Fonds.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
I really loved that.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Blake and Ethan felt like they had a real like
Lenny and Squiggy vibe.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
In this episode. I thought it was really it.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Was also you know, it's it's a not not a
terrible thing to say because it's what they had to do.
But they also kind of proved they could survive without
the Harvey character. They really they had a life after
total Danny unfortunately, which you know, Danny. One of the
things he said while we were at the live show
was that he felt that he abandoned them, which was
(38:17):
so sad and which of course they were like, you
didn't in any way, shape or form. But they still
had to, you know, find out what their characters were
going to be without that dynamic, and man, they found
it right away.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Ye, they really did.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
And now here comes Griff down the hall and the
girls are already all over him. Eric isn't impressed with
Griff at all, what's the big deal? But Frankie and
Joey are totally mesmerized. And then we're in Chubbys. Eric,
Frankie and Joey walk in and they see Griff. Joey
and Frankie are starstruck almost.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
To that's all I'm doing his hand rubby. Oh I'm
just sitting there like this. I'd like to say, well,
here we are you, So that's our go to.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Eric says they're perfect for each other, and he tells
them to go make their move. Then he shoves Frankie
and Joey right in front of Griff. Griff says, yeah,
I recognize you guys. You were the guys sucking quarters
out of the soda machine. Joey says, so he pats
Frankie on the belly and says, make him change for
a dollar burp.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Can we go back just very quickly to one of
my favorite beats because it was also a huge beat
during the run through, and then you heard the double
laugh at the show. It was one of the things
that was writers talking about, was the you'd hear the
audience laugh, but then you'd hear just our right. It
was the Joey hide me and he puts Blake in
front of him and so that was a big laugh.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
But then you just hear joe what are you kidding me?
And then our writers went because his read was so
but it was one of those things where the timing
of that joke necessitated saying it directly after Joey hide me,
so he couldn't pause on the laugh, which is what
you have to do.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
So his what are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Comes on or over the laugh of the audience, so
he the double laugh comes from our writers, our writers.
So you go back and you hear it. There's like
a laugh laugh, laugh, and then our writers laugh.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
But it was there waiting for it, for it.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
So he says it right over the audience laugh, what
are you kidne it? But oh god, it was so funny.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Well, Griff asks what he could do for them, and
Eric says, what can they do for you? Joey nervously
laughs and says, we're Lackey's. And it's crazy how with
all the confidence that Adam Scott has that when he
was here he told us he was nervous. I know,
you don't pick up on it at alling it.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I also forgot that it's essentially of the quote unquote
main cast. I was the first one to work with him, yea, exactly.
Totally forgot about that where there's a whole it was
an Eric, you know Eric storyline and Eric's storyline with him.
I totally forgot that. I thought it was, you know,
the the Joey and Frankie would hook up with them
and then it's insta going to be Corey and Sean
(41:01):
with Griff and it's like, no.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
It's Eric totally forgot so funny. And then another scene
that just kind of ends right there. It just ends
and we dissolve into the school hallway. Sean is excited
leaving the class. He got a ninety two on the quiz.
Corey got a ninety six, but he is not celebrating.
He feels like a cheater. He wishes he got an
f and his stomach starts to hurt. Sean tries to
talk him out of telling Turner, and Sean says this
(41:24):
is his only shot at a trade school. Corey's stomach
hurts even more. Then we're back.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Ben's good with the physical stuff.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
I know Ben Bell heard, ah, I know, it's really
it's really well done.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Then we're back in Chubby's.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Eric is trying to convince Griff to let Frankie and
Joey be his lackeys on an interim basis. Joey and
Frankie push their faces together in a very adorable way,
but He's not interested. And then Tommy, who's Eric Balfour,
comes up and grabs Eric by the collar and asks
if he's the Lady Killer and Eric says, I'd like
to think so, but he's actually looking for Griff, and
(42:01):
Tommy says he's heard a lot of things about Griff
from his girlfriend Laurette and asks to talk outside. Frankie
and Joey step in to defend Griff. We'd love to
we'd love to go outside, Frankie says, maybe you've seen
my show, Meet the Fist. Frankie and Joey explained they're
now between him and any problem Griff might have. Tommy
starts to panic and he tells Griff to just have
(42:22):
her home by ten. Eric tells Griff they're very handy,
and Griff agrees, saying it would save him talking his
way out of situations.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
There are so many great jokes in this back and forth,
and they're all coming from Adam. The must be tough
to not know somebody's name when it's not stitched on
your jacket. Jacket Tommy and him looking down at the
tom is just oh man, it's all just so great.
And you know he's instantly going to stand up to
anybody who comes next to him. Yeah, it's he establishes
(42:51):
himself firmly in the cast and as this character in
a total of like fifteen lines.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
Absolutely unreal, and I love how obvious the differences are
between Danny's Harley and and Adams Griff. It's like, you
see different type of bully.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
And.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
He steps right up the minute Eric Balfour comes in,
He's toe to toe with them and and and saying
that's me. You know, he's ready to go, whereas Danny
we've seen him. He's like, have you have you seen
my guys?
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, it's also but Griff, he even says when he leaves,
he's like, this is going to save me from having
to talk myself out of a lot of problems. So
it's like, Griff, is that street smart kind of like
I'm gonna I'm going to smart value in circles, smart
Alec kind of.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Yes, it's it's great. Yeah, yeah, it's so very cool. Well,
Griff asks what else they can do, and Joey says
a lot, and then actually it's it's just different variations
of that. And then we are in mister Turner's classroom.
Corey and Sean walk in and mister Turner calls them
a team. Now at the top of the curve. Sean
tries to leave, but Corey mentions his stomach again. Corey
(44:02):
admits they knew about the quiz in advance, and they
saw the lesson plan at his house. Turner asks if
it was the same lesson plan that he easily could
have covered but he didn't. Turner says that homework has
been the assignment for the last two weeks. He wants
them to get good grades by reading the lesson plan
is up on the board every single day. Corey asks,
so you want us to know the answers to study
(44:23):
and he says yes. Sean, totally confused, realizes if you
get good grades, you actually learn something. And we see
dumb Sean at.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
His working through this, working through it.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
And mister Foene is standing at the door and admits
he's surprised by what he's hearing. Turner says they can
get a's anytime they want because his lesson plan is
always on the board. Corey and Shan say.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
WHOA, Yeah, this this did speak to me as a teacher.
It's so funny to me how often students have an
antagonistic relationship with right.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
They think you're going to trick them.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
Yes, it's like like I want them to All I
want is my students to to pass, right, that's all
I want to learn. You're a student, you often think
that they're trying to work against you, and you just
it's it's ridiculous, Like, no, they want you to do well.
Teachers want you. It's this there's a great little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
I remember being in college and going to ask my
teachers at like during their office hours when I was
having a problem studying for something, and how absolutely thrilled
they were to have somebody come in and to be like,
I'm sorry, I'm really working on this, but I don't
understand this thing that you and I'm trying to work
through it, and then being like, sit down.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
I have seventy students in my class right now. I've
had two of them come to office hours. Wow, over
the course.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
Of fourteen weeks.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
It's my I'm like, come, I'm here, talk to me.
Tune in your papers ahead of time. I'll give you
notes then turn them back in. I'm you know. But
it's so funny. It's like, yeah, it's students just don't realize,
you know. And I actually had a friend say you
have to change it from office hours to student hours,
Like you have to change the title of it on
your syllables. So I did that, and I did get
a little bump. But no, like I said, like only
(45:58):
two or three this entire semester, and I'm like, calm,
talk to me. It's something I didn't realize until my
last two years of college, and then I really took
advantage of it. I would just go hang out with
my professors like it's something.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
Yeah, so to just hang out with right or strong?
Speaker 4 (46:12):
What I said, How are none of your students even
just going just to hang out with riders strong?
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (46:18):
No, I'm cool, cool, hang out.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
We'll pack in lunch.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
It's an hour before my class on Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Yeah, right, now, Thursday is the trick, Like you guys
come and just we're going to come and hang out. Well,
we'll spend some time with you.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah, you're bust and busting. I'm gonna I'm gonna go
hang out with you. Don't don't even ask, well, don't.
I threw it in there just for you. Yeah, I
threw it in there for you. I'll send you a
TikTok on it later.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Okay, Oh great, so you're you're guaranteeing I'll never understand
what it is. Excellent we can drive by the way.
We don't need to be bust and busting.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Mister Feenie stops them to clarify, So you're going home
to open a book? And they say yes because Turner
is talking right to them, and then the boys leave,
Sewn apparently understands what a book is now, and so
Phoene then walks up to Turner and says, I believe
we said twenty dollars, and they exchange what appears to
be a bet they made about this whole situation.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
So I love it too.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Phoene hands over twenty bucks, and we are in the
tag in the school hallway, Griff is hanging with Frankie
and Joey, and Griff sees a girl he's supposed to
have never seen before, but she's a background actor in
every scene with him, someone he's talking to all the time,
really through me.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
He's like, WHOA, who's that?
Speaker 4 (47:38):
I'm like the same girl you were flirting with in
the other scenes.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Oh my god, maybe nine girls in school. It's about
the time.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Way Frankie and Joey quickly get up to get her
name for her, to get her for Griff, but Griff says,
if they're going to hang with him. They have to
be more chill. Corey and Sean see Joey and Frankie
sitting there and they start haunting them. But Joey and
Frankie have to get approval from Griff to mess with them.
Griff says, have at it, and then we see their
(48:08):
little faces in the trash can, which I thought that
was a really cute.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Actually in the track, and don't remember how did we
fit in here? There was no memory of.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
This, and you were like, you just kneeled in the
in the thing because of the false back, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Ye, because in the wide shot we're clearly not in
the right the white shot, we're not in there, right, But.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Yeah, yeah, I just built a slightly bigger one with
a false back, and then you guys kneeled in the thing.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
But I was wondering, like, yeah, so we cut to
night time. Well you know what, it kind of looked
like the janitor bud from the Scream episode.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Well, this is just kind of dark, and it's just
kind of dark.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
And scary, and they try, I don't know, they did
kind of look like that. But we cut to night time.
Corey and Shawn are in the trash can. It appears
they've been in there all night. They wonder if the
coast is clear, and then a janitor walks up and
shakes his dirty mop into the can. After a short pause,
we hear chewing and Corey asks where Sean got the yum.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Not a jandler in the world. By the way, again,
nipicking is just going to take the dirty mop and
put it in the trash can. And then it was
very well, no, but.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Very odd if he's in a broom and a you know,
a yeah, not really sure what, but you know what,
it was a good episode. Didn't stop me from enjoying
the episode.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
It was a good episode.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
My big takeaway is Adam Scott was always going to
be one of the biggest stars in.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
The world man.
Speaker 5 (49:27):
And I'll say there was no there was no stopping that.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Different level, different level.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Well, that's the end of our episode. Thank you everyone
for joining us. Please join us for our next episode.
It is a classic season two episode twenty one, The
Thrilla in Philla, which originally aired May fifth, nineteen ninety five.
That's my birthday, yeay, and yeah, thank you guys for
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