TGI - Episode 221 “THE THRILLA’ IN PHILA’

It's time to recap one of the most memorable episodes of Boy Meets World, "The Thrilla' in Phila'" - a surreal romp that introduces Vader to canon and features a rather random Robert Goulet cameo. What do they remember from this wild day of filming and, more importantly, does Yasmie Bleeth remember anything? Learn how they rehearsed the wrestling scene, how the transition to Griff is progressing and what blood type is universal. Also, what Mandela Effect affected one of the past recaps?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
So we got a lot of emails and social media
comments about what appears to be a Mandela effect we
encountered on a recent episode recap.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Do you guys know where I'm going with this?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
I think I saw something about it?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, yeah, now, okay, Well, during our analysis of the
episode on the air, we talked about the Publisher's clearing
House sweepstakes of the eighties and nineties, where we seem
to remember that Ed McMahon would show up at people's
houses with a camera crew and a large check, which
is a stunt Robin Leech mimicked on our show. But
the truth is, though many, many, many, many many people

(00:52):
remember this being the case, Ed McMahon never actually did this.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
What Yes he did? No, actually, yes he did.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
He never worked for them at all, or he never
showed up houses with me.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
He never actually worked for Publishers clearing House, but he
was the spokesperson for American Family Publishers, which was a
rival company. But he maybe never appeared at anyone's home
with a large check that was the signature move of
the clearing house company he did not work for.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
So then who did that? Was there a famous spokesperson
for that company or was it.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
I mean, I think if he were famous, we would know,
But the answer is no, there was no.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Like, so, how does this work.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm fascinated by the psychology of this.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Why does a.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Whole collection of the Berenstein Bears. The Berenstein Bears is
a very very big.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
That was like the sort of most famous one that
started this whole thing. And well, obviously the Mendela effect.
It's name for the fact that everyone thought he had
already died. Yeah, it's It's just goes to show that
there's a popular cultural imagination that is more powerful than
all evidence to the contrary.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Reality or or the timeline is shifting, right, one of
the two.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
So anyway, that is just something that a lot of
people have in their brain and it is a mixed memory.
So that is a correction. Thank you everyone for letting
us know. We find it very fascinating.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Do you what do you think is there one about
Boomy's world? Like I think in a weird way, people
think MinC has lasted forever, right, I think Mincus was
on more episodes that seems to be like a Mendela.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
To Panga, being there from the beginning and being every
episode and super important. I would argue that's definitely one
of them, and.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's one's mostly intentional on our writer's part, right, like
rewriting the history dialog as.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
The show in a sandbox. You remember you were there.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
We tried to create the Mendela effect.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, I mean I think that's what it's essentially it was.
But yeah, I still think Ed McMahon work for the
publishers clearing you believe.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That, you still insist.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Also, we got a lot of emails about one specific
shot from the recent Wrong Side of the Tracks episode
that somehow, even perception boy missed, I missed.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I saw this one. I saw people talking about this.
I was like, how did I miss this?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Because did you go back and look?

Speaker 4 (03:10):
I did not, because then in my head I wasn't wrong. Okay,
but yes, I'm sure I was.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I was captivated by my skating at exactly fourteen forty nine,
during Eric's big ice skating scene.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
In the far right of the screen, you'll see someone
that barely.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Got into the shot on.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Accident, and it appears to be mister will Fredell his
body it is me, which hilarious mistake.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, I'm wearing one same color, but the sleeve is
black where his sleeves.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Are great because you were talking about how cold you were,
so you probably put on an extra layer when you
weren't on camera.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Maybe, yeah, because it looks like you have like gloves
on or something over your hand.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
That exactly. It could also have been blankets they were
passing out that red blanket. That might be me. It
certainly could be me, but it also could be somebody else.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
It could someone else.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
You're right, because the colors are different.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
So well, it just doesn't want to be held accountable
for it.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Kidding. Movie mistakes are like my favorite thing in the world,
so to actually be part of one would be amazing.
But you gotta be able to like seeing the hand
in Jurassic Park or are you know the cup in
Game of Thrones, like all that stuff was my favorite
thing in the world.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, I used to. There used to be books published
called film flubs. There were like these big flip books
that had pictures every single one of them. I was obsessed.
It's such a weird thing. I don't know. Indy loves
them too, he loves film mistakes.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
It's like it's yeah, exactly, you feel like you get
to be a part of it.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yes, and it's fun to point him out. I mean,
one of my favorite movies. I love the movie Master
and Commander, and there was a poster for Master and
Commander that I stared at one hundred times, a hundred,
a thousand times. I see this poster and then somebody's like,
you don't notice anything strange about the Master and Commander poster.
I'm like, what, it's the Master and Commander poster, Like
look at the boat, Like, okay, the ship looks amazing,
goes there's a powerboat sitting right in front of it,

(04:59):
Like there's in front of it in the poster. And
I was like, post and now it's all you can
see there, says mastering Commander. And there's there's a yellow
and white speed boat right in front of the and
you're like, oh my god. Yeah. So there's things you
don't brave, heart. You know, there's a plane flying over
one of the Scottish battles. So many editing man, so

(05:20):
he's got the sword and he's got he's got so that,
he's got so many. But it's such a good movie.
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
I just you just get caught up in it. It
doesn't matter nowadays, I feel like it just doesn't happen
that often because we can digitally fix everything. It's worth
it to just go back and change.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
We just have to trust that somebody notices it, because
like like Will looked at it a thousand times and
didn't see it.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
So it's like you figure, other people.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Remember with a gorilla in the basketball Gosh amazing watching
somebody play basketball, and that's just.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
They're like, you bet you didn't notice the gorilla we have,
so are we.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
We looked it up to see if it was one
of the originals. It turned out to not be. But
in our family basement lower level, my father refuses to
call it the basement in the lower levels, in the basement,
you know, in an abasement. I'm not even getting into
this one. This is a whole different show. My dad
is a lower level guy. That is not a basement.
It's a finished lower level. Okay, it's a basement, but

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there is a room exactly. It's like from the seventies.
We have an old school Little Mermaid poster where one
of the buildings clearly looks like a penis.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
And that was intentional. They haven't.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, the animator was yees so it's a I mean
it was. You walk by it and it's like, oh yeah,
it's you can really you can see it.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
You still have a little Mermaid poster in your lower
There's all these there's like little there's a it's a
weird hodgepodge, none of which I put up.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
There's some weird stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Was choosing these your parents?

Speaker 4 (06:43):
No idea must have been my folks. There's like a
little Mermaid poster and there's it's just bizarre.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
It is a weirdd lower level you have it is you.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Have no idea there. It is a Shmorgas board of
of things on which.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Sounds more like a basement to menard of posters.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Lower we should go to.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Stay with mister and missus Fredell and stay in the basement.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
They would love just don't fine, Yeah exactly, They'll keep
the lower level. Yeah, well special.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Thank you to Jerry and Jamie, the listeners who emailed
that picture of whoever it is off to the side
David Kendall.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, probably can.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Be so okay.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
We also got a bunch of emails about the episode
by hook or by crook, as we missed a very
strange continuity joke. Will is talking to his attractive tutor,
dealing with the idea that she is telling him to cheat,
and behind him is a sign that says sex ed.
I think we've seen the sex ed sign a few times.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Then in another take, a comma has been added between
the words sex and ed and a question mark is
placed after it.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Somebody wrote on it, that's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
We must have we must have had a background actor.
The grab a pen.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Oh my god, that is awesome.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
So it looks like someone is asking Ed a question.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
That's amazing, one of the best things I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
It cuts back and the additions are gone, so it's
like not there, then there, and then goes back and
it's not there anyone.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
If it was Dusty, what if it was we should ask?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Dusty told us his stories of getting in trouble when
he threw a football into somebody's skirt.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
It was writing like little jokes on pieces of paper
too notes in class and got in trouble. Question.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Great question. The background actors have often talked about how
they were very nervous being there. Do you think a
background actor did that, because that seems like something one
of our writers would have.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Done or Blake.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
It could have been Blake. See I see one of
the writers going in and doing something like that. It
could have been It's clever enough to be either Blaker
Blake or even because they would only they would have
the boss. Oh who did that? Please? I hope somebody's
listening right now, and we'll take credit for that.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
I know.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
It reminds me. Indy has like one of his favorite
shirts is like about the dangers of commas and it's
like a character with bears and it says like, let's
eat Bob and then.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Exactly so good, So thank you to Taylor who sent
that one in. And lastly, will you will be happy
to hear this, but your recent talk of feeling old
when you got an application from AARP in the mail.
The good news is a lot of listeners pointed out
that AARP actually doesn't have an age requirement. We heard

(09:39):
from a ton of people who joined in their twenties
and thirties for the discounts, so in reality, they do
not discriminate who knew.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Okay, that's awesome, that's great because it's it's so Susan
and I went to the movies yesterday, went to the
theater Susan.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
That's my wife, sus I know, I love it Susan.
We sometimes it's Sue, but I love when you say
Susan and I.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Susan and I decided to go to the movies yesterday
for the first time in a while since I was
off of Jerry duty whole a whole another story, and
both of us looked at each other halfway through the
trailers and were like, this is painfully loud. Really, Oh
she's the point? Oh dude, it was old painfully loud.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I know, I don't know, I mean like it really.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
I like things loud.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I go to the movie theater, frank it up, hurt.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
It was loud.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
I've definitely concerts. I don't like too loud because it
gets to a point in concert where I feel like
you lose nuance, you know music. But but movies, I
love loud.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
First time, I love it so loud, too loud. I
love it basy. I love when it rumbles, but when
the higher, when it gets to the point where I
literally have to cover my it's too loud. It was
too loud. So yeah, well he got me and cheaper
those count I'm gonna I'm absolutely gonna We're.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
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I'm right.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
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into our recap today. This is season two episode twenty one,
the Thrilla in Philla. It originally aired May fifth, nineteen

(12:36):
ninety five. That's my birthday, yew Worth noting Pop Quiz.
Season two episode twenty aired on March tenth. Big hiatus
late in the season, March tenth. The next episode didn't
air until May fifth.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
And we would have been done with filming. Yeah, there
must have been something going on the caused.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah. When did we used to end end of May
early April?

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Right?

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, the episodes you mean we used to wrap in March.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, we'd be doing we wrap in March, real.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Wrap in March because I'd go back to school from
March until June exactly.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, like I'm almost half of the school year. We
would be back okay, yeah, and then we'd start pretty
early too. We'd start in July, like the end.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Of Yeah, I think I remember remember July.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, maybe August.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
It was late, yeah, late July. We were usually like
episode one or two by my birthday, which is.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
So, I bet we had everything in the can and
they just took a pause for some programming break.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's interesting, or we wait the bubble.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
Well, I was thinking, what year? What year is it?
Ninety five? Usually when there's a break like that, there's
something like the Olympics, or they do something big where
the entire everything something. Yeah, what was it in ninety five?
Something was premptive? It could have been the or Daniel's right,
we were just like on the bubble.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
I'm sure somebody, I mean has an old TV guide somewhere, right,
Maybe I'm sure I have one. Will we're talking to
sure exactly shelf of TV guides from right?

Speaker 1 (14:06):
So Seinfeld, let's jump into our synopsis. Corey joins the
wrestling team to make a name for himself, but eventually
realizes that he doesn't have anything to prove, and Corey
Intopanga's interest in each other is revealed.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
For the first time. Or really is it first time.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Now we'll get into that.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
We will get into that because it is fun. This
was such a fun there was lump of an episode.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
It was so fun.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
It's deep, it has lots of incredible philosophical themes. It
really gets to the heart of the characters. I feel
like this is the start of the boy meets World
journey right here. Episode.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
It was really I thought it was very fun. Do
you like it?

Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, of course not.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
No, of course it was great.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
I feel I mean I I yeah, no, of course not.
But you know, whatever I I I you know, obviously
it's fun. I mean the point is to but no,
I feel like that. I feel like the jokes are getting,
uh like not only simpler, but also like tighter to
one another. So it's like everything sort of starts operating
in couplets. Does that make sense. It's like set up joke,

(15:19):
set up joke instead of like longer sort of more
and so it just you know, but yeah, it's it's
an episode. It's a ridiculous episode, So to judge it
is ridiculous, it's sort of like whatever, you know. But
what I like is that I clearly look so lost
throughout the entire episode.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
I really do. I don't disagree with that and.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Don't care and like I'm barely there, like especially cut
to my you cut there, like you see me watching
the wrestling, and you could just see me being like,
what has happening?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, you're like, I'm so checked out.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
So yeah, yeah, I loved it. I did.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
It was really fun ridiculousness. There's some absolute craziness that's like, yeah,
what are we doing here?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
But also, I mean, I'll.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Tell you, I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
What I really love is that Blake and Ethan are
Son and Adam, Like yeah, I mean, I it just
feels like a different show right like, and not just
in terms of tone and the jokes, but also so
many of the storylines get you know, are centered on
the other other characters, Like it's Adam, it's it's Griff's storyline,
it's the bullies. It doesn't you know, and even it's

(16:24):
like a Griff and Feene Storky line, and and and
Corey just doesn't feel like Corey to me. But I
guess that's the point, is that he's trying to be
somebody else. I don't know, it just felt off, but
you know, it's you can't judge this episode. This episode
is purely just for fun.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
I'm going to say something very controversial right now, Okay,
I'm going to say something very controversial, and I it
hit me during the episode. Not as actors, not as
people strictly, as as characters. I find Griff more interesting
than Harley. There's a bad there's a background to Griff.

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I want to go. I want to know so much
about this guy. Yeah, he's so cool and he's so
and there's times where it's like he's on Feene's level,
right and the two of them are talking. It's just
I'm sitting there watching, just going I find this character
incredibly interesting.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
It's a fantastic dynamic. And what's so interesting is that
you know they created him obviously out of desperation, which
similar to like the Nancy Carrigan factor is such a
like I feel like our writers were good under pressure,
you know, when they had to create a character and
and but what's interesting to me is that pressure was
that Ethan and Blake were so good that they had
to keep them on the show, like the Danny couldn't

(17:43):
continue to do the show, and then they had to
give them, you know, another bully at a leader and
as a result, found Adam, who's obviously incredible, wrote this
incredible character Griff, and then gave him like this entire episode,
you know, and it's just wonderful.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
It's it's just the whole thing because again love Danny,
and Danny killed it as Harley amazing and we would
we wanted to see him on the show forever, but
they had to pivot. And what a pivot?

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, well, you know, I think one of the things is,
like Harley the character had was it's a little like
when you hear us talk about how you're not ever
really supposed to play angry, Like angry is the easiest
thing to play. Harley's character, his default was physical threat.
I'm gonna I'm going to hurt you, And so the
answer to whatever the conflict always was was like because

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I'm going to plunch you in the face. Whereas like
with Griff, it's it's a whole. They're so layered. It's
like a wheeler and a dealer and and who are
my connections? And on power and a struggle and like
so there there were more interesting choices for that character
to make than there were for Harley the character to make.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
So I and everything we loved about t K, like
showing up with the stakes and doing all this stuff
they kind of gave to Griff. Yes, where it's all
that everybody, Yeah, picking up they just get my lobsters
and the massage. Yeah. I loved everything about it.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I know it is so great. So this episode was
directed by David Trainer, was written by Mark Bluman and
Howard Buskang, guest starring Blake Soaper as Joseph Joey the
Ratt epstein Ethan Sipple as Frankie Stacchino, Adam Scott as Griffin,
Griff Hawkins, Robert Goulay as Robert Gulay yas Mean Bleeth
as yas Mean Bleeth, Leon Vader White as Frankie Vader

(19:29):
Stacchino Senior. His first appearance on Our Show. Jared Murphy
played Matt Charles Carpenter as Savage, who was still working.
He was seen on The Goldbergs, n CIS, Criminal Minds,
and the movie Birds of Prey.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Cool interesting to name a character Savage, isn't I know?

Speaker 4 (19:46):
For I was like, is he says? He talking to Ben?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Like what was the wonder if that strikes anybody else
but us? Like in such a weird moment for me.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
It has to because for me, I did the same thing.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
I was like, did they just call him Savage and
they're like, oh, that's the guy's name that's behind Ben. Yeah, choice, Yeah.
And then Kelly Packard returns now as Candy. She was
one of the girls in the Towyard in season one
and is best known as Tiffany in California.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
So she only did the one episode in the tow Yard.
I thought she's done multiple.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
No, no, no.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
And then she was also one of the women in
the mall with the lobster suit with the lobster Yeah.
And this is the moment that Tony was talking about
on the live show. I'm hi, I'm Candy. Of course
you are. That's the moment.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, right, Oh that's so funny. All right, Well we
jump into our recap. We are in the school hallway
to Panga, who is back without.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Mache fanfair Dann.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Well, she's back.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
After the last time we saw her, she was confessing
that she likes Corey, so here she is seeing her
for the first time since then. She asks Corey and
Sean what their greatest accomplishment has been during their first
year at John Adams High and why And I guess
you know to Panga now works for the yearbook, and
I guess she's interviewing every student like this.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Well, there's only like three thousand in the school.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
I think the point is that she just wants to
have an excuse to talk to Corey. That's like the
next level reading. I also just like, I don't know,
I like Topanga being like smart.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
And I do too. Oh, I love it. I just
started thinking about the reality of this.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
It harkens back to the video, you know, when you
were interviewing h Yes, I don't know. It just makes
sense that you'd be interviewing people. It's nice.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
She's fully, fully gone from the Topango. We knew in
season one. It's complete. It's it's the transformation is basically completed.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
The yeah, you're right, especially with the insults.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
She ends up calling you guys pathetic, which like, wow,
it's so rude. So everything Corey thinks of. Sean says, Nope,
that wasn't us. Tapega calls them pathetic and then leaves yikes. Wowsers. Also,
Corey and Sean have done everything, oh many things. I

(22:02):
love that They're like, how are we going to make
a name of that.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
We didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
We didn't they go on a radio station, you know name.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
What is the joke here? I really don't get it.
Why am I saying not us? It wasn't us.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Remembering he's remembering things that you guys did together that
made you. But it's you're like, that wasn't us, that wasn't.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
The joke is basically that you guys are kind of
boring that there is nothing you did.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I thought maybe it was that we didn't want to
get caught for those things, or like I was cutting
them off because like no, no, no, no, we don't want
to bring that up.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Okay, no, we didn't do anything, do anything.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah, and we're and we're supposed to do like you
said exactly, but like you said, where the show isn't
being binged, we're supposed to forget that every week you're
the second.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Every week you guys have done something exactly. So anyway,
Corey says, she's right, we are pathetic. The year is
almost over and he hasn't made a name for himself.
He blames the jocks who are menacingly nearby in their
letterman jackets. They're holding up a nerd.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
I love that. There's just as he's said, I blame
the jocks. You just noticed fifty.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Jocks right there.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
The jocks walk over to Corey and Sean and they
pick Corey up, feeling how much he weighs. Actually, the
jocks walk over to Corey and Sean and they pick
Sean up and they say, nope, too heavy, so they
put you down. Then they pick up Corey to see
how much he weighs. They reveal he is the perfect
size for the Super Confetti weight division, and then they
congratulate him on joining the wrestling team. So this is
where we learned that one of the wrestlers is named Savage,

(23:30):
which was just weird.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
It's weird, by the way. We are also now for
this episode, and I believe the next one, but we'll
just talk about this episode.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
We are.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Everybody is in full hand rubbing mode. Oh, hand rubbing
has become the thing. Every person, I mean everybody is
now just hand rubbing.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Just it's the easy thing to do with your hands.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
So funny. I didn't even notice it, but who does it?
In this one, everybody started.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
With yeah, yeah, I you know, just thinking about it
right now. This is it's it's totally a result of
rehearsing with the scripts in our hands.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Oh, you're right, because all.

Speaker 6 (24:06):
Week with holding a script in one hand, and then
the minute you don't remember what I do with it
we go to tape night or when we're going we
have to let go of a script. And you know,
like when you rehearse your slay, you rehearse it without
your script, usually for like a week or two before
you actually put it up, so you figure out what
to do with your hands.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
But for us, we never knew what to do with
our hands. We didn't lose our scripts until sometimes the
moment before we started shooting, right, they'd be rewriting, they'd
be I mean, unless you were like you will, where
you rememorize on day one and could memorize it whatever.
Like for us, we'd be coming out of school, be
getting new pages, never having to read the scene and
rehearsing that moment and then you know, and so the
day of we'd be losing the scripts for the first time.

(24:42):
I never thought about that.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
But it's true. Your hands are occupied all the time,
and then all of a sudden they're not in front
of the audience. So yeah, that's an excorvation.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
So they give Corey a jacket, a wrestling uniform, and Candy,
who is a cute girl named Candy. She throws her
arm around Corey, forcing him to smile Ellen. He says sweet,
and then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Corey is on
Eric's back and choking him as they walk downstairs, and.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Will your little high pitched it's so to do a voice.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
It was fun.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
I got to do a voice so cute.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Alan and Amy ask why Corey is so wound up,
and Corey hands Alan a permission slip to join the
wrestling team, and Alan is thrilled, but Amy is worried
because wrestling is dangerous. Alan disagrees and says it's not ballet,
which would be dangerous. Eric says he don't get that joke.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Can I don't get that joke.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
That he was going to beat up?

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Oh? Is that what it is? I mean, is really
is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (25:37):
That's what?

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:39):
I think I just didn't.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
He beat up?

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Maybe okay, being raised around the ballet and going to
the ballet at the time, I just I honestly truly
didn't understand that Joe was like, I didn't get that.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think yeah, I was a if you like the ballet,
you're going to get beat up.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Eric says he knows these guys, they have pent up aggressions,
ready to take them out on Corey, and then says, here,
use my pen.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Used then I thought that was fun, the funber And
I loved my sweater. I'm throwing that out there. I
love that blue and white sweater. That was a great sweater.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
It's a great sweater.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
There's a lot of sweaters now that Eric is in
that I want back, right, you know, there's not a
lot of wardrobe, and none from the first season except
maybe the leather jacket that was given to Rider who
he then carelessly.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Lost lost but he was stolen out of his car.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
That's carelessly losing it, and then the but nothing else.
And but there's a few sweaters now where who you'd
bite those? Yeah, really would like And now that you
told me that Baggy's back, yeah, they'd be great.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
So then we're in the school cafeteria. The jocks, Candy
and Corey are sitting together and they all chug soda
in a toast to Corey, their newest member. Candy asks
what Corey is going to do with the can, and
he says he's going to recycle it.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Which I thought was very cute. Yes, oh, I'm going
to recycle it, of course.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
So I remember. I don't remember much of this episode.
I mean I remember the crazy wrestling scene obviously because
it was just so on that day, Like I remember
the chaos. I don't remember the storyline at all. I
didn't remember any lies, but I remembered these cans because
they had crushable canrushable can. They were so cool. We
had them on set and we all got to do it.
Like I remember, it was like the best because they

(27:15):
looked real, but you could crush them. You know, it's
like made out of some kind of plastic or fake
iluminum whatever. You could crush them. So I remember doing
this constantly and thinking it was the coolest thing. In fact,
I think they let me keep on. I don't have
it anymore, but I feel like I used to have
one of these crushable cans to be able to do that. Yeah,
there was so special made.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I mean once you used it, did you were you
able to pop it back out? And yeah it didn't
look but you could pop it back out.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
Yeah, and this was this joke was also recycled because
we do this later and I slammed the can against
my head and knocked myself unconscious. When you go to fight,
don't you remember you probably I don't remember. In the
in the scene where you and I fight in like
season seven, we do the again the wrestling scene. It
starts with you showing how tough you are by grabbing
a can and slept mashing it against your head.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think that's that's the episode when I have a
broken elbow. I broke my elbow in real life. I
think that sounds about right. And then I grab it
and I hit my and so it's literally the same
joke from this episode we do again.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Down the line.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
That's so funny.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I thought it was funny. I was like, I'm going
to recycle it. I was like, oh, like this joke.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh, and I don't remember what kind of can would
Ben have been using to smack into his head. It
must have been fake, right.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
What it is was because I used the same one.
It was like a foam kind of can that was rigid,
but it was soft, so it's like you could hit
it into your head and it wouldn't. It wasn't like
slamming and slamming the metal in the painful it does.
It's still hurt. It still hurt.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah, picture, I could picture that bottom.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
I know exactly what the bottom feels like, and I
was like, that still kind of hurts when you hit
it to your head.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
There was still do that a bunch of times.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Several Ouchie moments in this episode will get into it. Geez,
there was there was some there was some pain involved.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
I can't way you actually, you are the only one
who really gets to like wrestle.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Wrestle.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
It was fun, really cool. So Corey says he's going
to recycle the can. The other guys crushed theirs on
their foreheads. Corey tries to do it too, but fails
at crushing the can and excuses himself in pain and
says he's going to go.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
See the white lights.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
He walks over to Sean, who asks Corey why he's
doing this to himself, and he says, to put cool
stuff in the yearbook. And the jacket is a babe magnet.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
You also missed one of my favorite jokes. It's so stupid,
but it made me laugh. Where Ben is his pet
I'd like to solve the puzzle.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
I know, yeah, like to solve the puzzle.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like to solve the puzzle.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Candy comes over and crushes two cans on her forehead
at the same time, and Sean says, let's get out
of here before she reloads. And this is basically your
entire role in the in the show, writer is just
to be there, to look confused and to say, what
are you doing?

Speaker 2 (29:44):
And let's get out of here.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
You played Let's go over here.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Let's go over here.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
What's happening now? No, don't I encourage him something about
wrestling later, are fighting? I don't know? Yeah, No, I'm
just just I'm just there.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
You're there. This is kind of this episode.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
This is Writer's just here in this one. And you did.
You played confused beautifully.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, it was very good. And so then we're in
mister Feenie's class and mister Feoenie is teaching a lesson
on Richard Nixon in his trip to China, and then
a massus walks into class with a bed and Griff
lays down in the middle of the lesson, so funny,
great joke and explains he's getting a massage because Feenie
has been getting mad at him for cutting class, and
then Adam says, I've got a really bad not here,

(30:26):
and it's just the whole thing is funny. It's a
great visual gag. It's just a funny concept.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Notice Adam's wallet chain Nineties. I love the coolest wallet, Like,
do you remember wallet chains like everywhere?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Why?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, he's got a really cool, thick, heavy wallet chain.
And then I thought it was going to come back
later when he pulls up the keys, because he pulls
off gender Bud's keys, but it doesn't. It was just
like his wardrobe, you know, And I was like, wow,
I remember I used to have a chain, not for
my wallet but for my pager with a chain into
my mind.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
And that's so cool.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Nineties heart Throb the major on a chain shame dark, Yes,
so cool. So mister Phoene, fed up with Griff, pushes
the bed out into the hallway and says he is
sick of Griff's antics. Griff asks if mister Phoene's going
to crack his back, and Phoene says, don't tempt me.
And in this moment is when I realized, wait a minute,

(31:26):
Phoene's teaching in Turner's classroom.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yes, is he no?

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yes, yeah, he's the other way, it's nope, No, they
just changed the seats around. Yeah, he's teaching door that classroom.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Right, the doors to the right of the Yeah. Whereas
when we've seen Phoenix classroom before, the doors on the
other side. Yeah. And we saved ourselves a swing set.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Saved ourselves a swing set. But like, wow, you gont to.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Build a gymnasium this week, guys, I know.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
You're right, we did.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Do you remember where the gym was? It was in
the back where was a second row high on the
main stage.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, I do remember that. Yes, So.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Joey and Frankie bring lobsters in for Griff. Phoene sends
Griff to his office and Joey and Frankie try to
follow him, but Phoene stops them and asks if they
have their own lives. Frankie says no. Phoene asks what
would happen if Griff gets expelled, and Joey says that'll
never happen, and Griff says, it could happen.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
I love that. Just Griff, like, no, that could happen,
Like he's.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's the first thing I thought it was the way
he arrived here is because he had been expelled from
somewhere else. So Joey is really scared that he'd have
to find his own life, especially because he says all
the good lives are taken.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
And I was like, deep, man, I like it.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
And then Griff goes off to Phoene's office and Phoenie
goes back to his classroom, and this leaves Joey and Frank.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
So this is a moment like think about up the
dynamics of this scene. Who is from our regular cat Like,
there's no Corey, there's just a Phoeni, there's no show.
Here's just Phoene yes, and Phoene's dealing with students who
didn't exist last season. It's such a departure. Like this
whole episode just feels like it just feels like the
most second season of Boy Meets World ever, you know

(33:18):
what I mean? Like if you watch the first episode
of the second season and this episode, you would be like,
what is the show about?

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Right?

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well is happening? It has that same sort of manic
like energy and like, let's just write for these characters,
which is fine, It's just very one off.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
It's an outer body boy meets world. That's what it's
what it is.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, well, I think if you're looking for ways in
the school to create again steaks, if you look at
all of the episodes are about what steaks? Can our
lead characters be in that feel like elevated from stuff
we did in season one? Well, how do we get
them into those scenarios without it always being Sean blowing
up a mailbox or Sean doing something like that. You

(33:57):
you have these characters that are there to support the
main cast, but in order to get those steaks up,
we need to focus on them for a second. Now
we have a whole show, and now let's throw our
main characters into it and see how they get themselves out.
But when the setup is happening, it does feel like
what show is this?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Totally it's a completely different show.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
So, uh, Joey and Frankie are now alone asking what
to do next, and Frankie says he's going to get
some butter for these live lobsters.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
And they they kept trying to do. I said what
I said was second or third time? I said, giving
him a Yeah, I said what I said.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
They've got a catchphrase now, So now We're in Chubbys
and Topega goes up to Corey and Candy after he
didn't meet up with her in the calf.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Did you guys catch that?

Speaker 3 (34:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I was like, what, I rewound it three times? She
comes up, She goes, Corey, you're supposed to meet me
in the calf. For Corey, you didn't meet me in
the calf? And I was like, am I shortening cafeteria
to calf?

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Writer's going to hate this?

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Yes, cafe calf, the calf. Oh God, some EVO O
and your AVO and the calf.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Jensen Carp producer and husband of this podcast, just said,
we called it the calf in school. We did it,
and by we you mean you called it the calf
in school. I did not call it the calf.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
The calf, oh.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
He said. A lot of us, A lot of us
called it the calf.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Wow, how calf with a twisted lemon? Yeah? Yeah, l
a story, la story. Well, there was a restaurant in
the Seattle Airport called Delish Dish.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
It hurts my soul. I can't even gives five Michelin stars.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
I'm not eating your Delish Dish.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Okay, Well, Corey pulls out a sheet with everything she
needs to know about Corey the Corey Matthews. He says
he knows the nickname needs a little work. Tapenga reads
his note, which explains his greatest accomplishment was making the
wrestling team. His fondest memory was meeting Candy and Hish
twas raw and Corey explains it's raw like a tough guy,

(36:05):
and Candy says, good boy, like she's dealing with a
rabid dog, and ta Pega says.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Goodbye, Get more sassy, get more.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Sassy, sassy, and then she walks away, and she goes
over to the Chubby's bar counter where Sean is standing.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
And this scene. Do you remember this scene, Danielle? For
some reason this maybe I know we have talked to
each other a couple of times, but this was here.
I feel like this was a moment where we got
to work together that I remember doing. I don't know why. Yeah,
I was, I was. I was like, oh, this is
a nice moment. She's gonna grab my call, like I
knew what was going to happen. So for whatever reason, this, like.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Lodge, is a moment you remembered me as being a
part of the shower.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Did you get here, Danielle?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
That's great, Hey, Danielle, welcome.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Well, the only other time we talked to each other
was like that awkward to the finals episode where it
was just like you know, and then the beginning of
the season.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Film stripp day, oh dear.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Oh, film stripped day?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
How could you forget? Film stripped day? Oh dear?

Speaker 3 (37:10):
It's either that or summer was very good.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, my gosh.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
So Topanga asks Sean where she thinks Corey where he
thinks Corey will be in ten years, and Sean says,
you mean me right, and then Sean realizes whoa you
like Corey? Topanga denies thinking about Corey and liking him,
and she says, if you say that again, I will
kill you, even though Topanga has admitted at least twice

(37:40):
that she has feelings for Corey, but Sean Corey but
to Corey, to Corey.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
So like, why would I care that?

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Why?

Speaker 1 (37:48):
It just seems a little bit odd, right, I guess,
maybe don't make the deal.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
You're afraid that people will talk about it ors you know, Okay,
I don't know. But then like the don't take it away,
but they rewrite this the history so much where later
it was just it's one of those things where I
was kind of going, wait, so Corey didn't pursue her

(38:11):
at all in the beginning, and she's the one who
because later.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
It's like, we're supposed to be together. I've loved you
since birth, I'm sting you, And it was like, yikes.
And so it's just when I was watching this, I
assumed it was going to be like it was going
to grow organically, It's going to do it wasn't you know,
Corey's off with other women into Pega's like borderline jealous,
and then she yes, I like you, And I didn't
remember this stuff at all.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
I think maybe maybe the reason I like this is
that for the first time, Sean is involved right and
invested in Corey and to Panga, and I think that's
a nice dynamic, Like obviously that's becomes a huge dynamic.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Of the show.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
But this is probably the first time that Sean has
ever acknowledged that Corey likes to bank, right, that's never happened.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, it is definitely the first time
that you've realized, well, I guess in the first episode
and Corey's altern to friends, you think what she came
over with cookies because you're the one who sets that
whole thing up. She's got a crush on you, man,
and it makes him paranoid and you're like, oh, man,
she's gonna, she's gonna you know, right, that's when that's
when Tapeg has a crush on.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Eric, right, And so I'm Sean is goading Corey.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yes, Oh she likes you. She's got a major thing
for you.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Look, it says missus Matthews all over them, and so
you think about it then, But this is really the
first time you're in on it since it's been a
reality where it's been that Topega really does like Corey,
And I guess I like that Tapega has admitted it
to Corey like kind you know, in acute sye way
during ben Has Finals week, where that.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Sean doesn't run to Corey and say she likes he.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Actually keeps it as a Yeah, it's a little bit
like a thing between them, like they now have their
own friendship.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah, but there's also there's no way in hey, since
I'm now abbreviating everything, that there's that that Sean and
Corey did not talk about the fact that first they
kissed up against the lockers. Then they made out during
Who's Afraid of Corey World. Well, so at this point
he's got to know that his best friend has already
made out with this girl a couple times, So that

(40:13):
also didn't make It's not they wouldn't have the conversation,
how do you feel about her? Oh? Well, I kind
of like her. Yeah, you've obviously made out with her
a couple of times. I mean, it's like, we just.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
About how Corey feels about Topanga.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
This That's what I mean. It was the two of
them together.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
One has a crush on my friend.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
It's strange, it's it's very muddled in the beginning. I
don't think they knew what they were doing yet.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
I think what we're going to realize, especially as we
go into season three, is that what we're witnessing is
the slow serialization of boy Me's world. Right, Like, we
want a serialized show until probably third or fourth season,
and then I kind of become like, by the end
of season seven, we're a fully serialized show, right right,
you know, storylines that go back and howl, and that
was like a rare thing, and it's part of the

(40:54):
reason why Boym's World is so popular is that it
introduced serialization in a way like over time and became
increasingly more you know, soap operatic or however you want
to call it, where you have those storylines that continue
from episode to episode. And I think that that's what
we're watching, and it's it's probably clumsy at first, but
do you.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Remember do either of you remember the because I remember
the exact moment that Corey and Topanga become Corey and Tapanga.
Do either of you, off the top of your head,
remember you.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Already done it now?

Speaker 3 (41:23):
No no, no no.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
I mean when they're like now together as Corey and.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
To know no recollection.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
I remember the exact is it season three, season three,
and it's the Brittney Murphy episode, and it's Danielle going,
you little badger with that accent and grabbing Ben and
kissing him. That's when they become Corey and Topanga. Don't
know why it's in my head. Maybe it's because it's
Brittany bad Yeah, because she's always you know, Brittany's got
that kind of like, oh, you little badger. And so

(41:50):
Danielle does the same thing and puts the voice on
and Corey and to Panga kiss and.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
They're lighting together at the kidding of season three because
I feel like Britney's so the first couple.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Are almost there.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
We're almost there, So that's that's I distinctly remember that, yeah,
of Brittany.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Corey and the wrestling team are play fighting nearby, and
mister Turner tries to break it up and asks Corey
which one of these groo goons through the first punch,
and Corey says, discool this goon.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
I can tell Ben is having so much fun this episode,
Like he loves being able to do these like sounds
and like, I mean just like even jumping around with
these guys at this moment. I'm just looking at it. Coin.
That is Ben having so much fun.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
He's so much little Adam Sandler and this who he
loved at the time. It's that same kind of like
and like, oh, he's having so much fun.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Will you figure the character is neurotic and always feels like,
oh so how often does he ever get to play
and like really externalizing confidence and losing you know, his
bless as to who his character is. So it's it is,
It's super fun, Corey tells mister Turner. He's actually on

(42:57):
the team, and they were just horsing around because it's
what jocks do. Turner hopes he's not a rare blood type.
I thought this little runner of a joke was very
was very cute. Corey sidebars away from his teammates and
tells Turner he never has to fight. He's the only
one in his weight class. Then suddenly one of the
one of the jocks comes over and says Corey has
to fight. Corey tells Turner he is AB negative, and

(43:18):
Turner says a universal recipient that should come in handy.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
So wait, the joke is because AB negative is the
rarest blood type. The joke is you usually get oh positive, right,
So that's that's what he means by the universe. I'm
sorry I'm getting sciency on it, but because I can't never.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Remember things about blood type. But I think now, if
he's in a universal recipient, he can take any blood
because right.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Because well, I think he'd have to because a B
negative is the rarest blood type on the planet. So
I know this from Mash. They can never they never
have ABNG.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
I know you, I know you that negative can be
universal because if you have negative blood you can only
take negative, whereas I think if you're positive you can
take either.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
So right, yeah, so that's why I and either And
I'm I'm sure emails OH negative or OH positive is
universe is a universal don't donor correct? Right? But AB
negative is actually the rarest blood type you have, so
you can.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Take any type of blood, I don't think. I think
so it has to be the point of the joke, right, because.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
That's what if the joke works, and somebody will tell us,
we'll explain it to us if it does. But I'm
not sure it actually makes.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Sense nurses and doctors calling all nurses and doctors.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Exactly google it now.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
But I do think that the joke was he's the
least likely to be able to receive blood, and so
his whole point is he's saying he's a universal recipient,
but that's not true, and the joke is that should
come in handy like actually it's terrible news, which is
why I think you're saying the joke doesn't work.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
I just I might just not be understanding it is
possibly what it is. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Well, I think what we've definitely come to is that
blood type jokes are maybe not sophisticated, maybe not like
a like an A plus Home Runs.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
Though, like you said, I thought it was nice about
it was like as opposed to so many jokes in
this episode, like, well, at least I won't have to
fight next line. You gotta fight Matthews like this one
is carried. It takes a little delay. It's not a couplet.
It's like extended over time, which I appreciate.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
But yeah, so less than four percent of the US
population has has AB positive blood. AB positive blood type
is known as the universal recipient because AB positive patients
can receive blood cells from all types of blood.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay, a negative, right, So what is AB negative?

Speaker 3 (45:32):
What would think there's such a thing as a negative?
There is, of course, yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
Because one of the lines are mash. If I go
hand out abn negg to one of ours, yeah, I
could do the whole thing. So, yes, it's it's it's
very rare.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
All right, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Maybe, Okay, we'll have to figure it out. Send all
your emails to Daniel Fischer personally.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Oh oh.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Negative blood is considered the universal blood donor type because
it is compatible with A, A, B, B, and O.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Positive bloody positive.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
So am I I'm positive?

Speaker 2 (46:04):
I'm all positive negatives? Well anyway, blood type jokes, blood
type jokes.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Please, if you're a nurse and you know or a
doctor and you know the answer to this, please let
us know, because because now we know AB positive is
the universal.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
The universe, which is why I didn't get the jokes.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
I thought I got it, and I did like it.
I laughed at it, but then when you look it up,
I don't get it. You know what, you don't dig
too deep, guys, too deep. Just take the laugh and
move on. We laughed it was funny. That means I
like it. Jock says he needs to earn the jacket,
and someone else signed up in Corey's weight class, just Josh.

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Frankie walks up, terrifying Corey, but Griff appears and says, no,
it's not Frankie. Who joined the wrestling team. Joey the
Rat reveals himself as the new team member and says,
I'm gonna call and try and you stink ahead, And
then he says, nice jacket, and he giggles and he
makes cute little rat faces and a rat night, and

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now we know why they call him the rat.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
How how like, was it as bizarre to you guys
that they are the same size, Like.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Yeah, it was, I know when because I was like, oh,
of course.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
And then it was like Ben and Blake are the
exact same size, and I just I don't know what.
Maybe it's just because Blake is older. But I also
think the way that we've blocked him, he's always upstage,
like he's always on the upper level or I don't know,
something about the blocking has just always made him seem
bigger than Ben.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
But I also think Ben has grown significantly over the
course of season two, and so we're now at the
end of season two and Ben has probably grown two
to three inches and now he's.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
To be wrestling one eight Yeah, they're both supposed to
be one hundred and eight pounds. That's me.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Yeah, And I didn't realize, I mean until you see
him in that wrestling outfit. I was like, oh my gosh,
for whatever, he was nineteen twenty yeah, but like thin
and like small small, But all before this episode had
never occurred to me.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
And you would think, you you would think it would
register how small he is because he's constantly next next
to Ethan, But it doesn't it's still shot. You get
him and you're like, oh, yeah, hear.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
The same baggy clothes. You know they've done so many
baggy clothes. You just assume everybody's a little you know, older, bigger. Yeah, yeah,
it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Well, then we're in the school.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Jim Corey is impressively jumping rope trying to train Sean
enters in the famous Atlas shirts, and he says, hey,
that's impressive. Corey reveals the jump rope is split into
great joke, great joke, crap, really great. Sean asks if
Corey knows what he's doing taking on Joey, and Corey
says yes, because he's not taking me seriously, I bet

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he's not even training. And just then Joey and Frankie
walk in. You here to watch the enemy train, Joey asks,
forcing Corey to ask why he's wrong about everything in life,
which I thought this was also a very funny like
Corey setup for basically the rest of Boy Meets World,
which is just like, no matter what I think I'm
gonna be wrong, Corey is wrong about everything.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Joey starts to get mad at Corey, saying this is
a closed door session. Maybe he'll just take out his
elfin duckface. Right now, I cannot get enough Blake.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
I want He's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
I want so much Blake.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
We missed.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
I feel like I missed all of this when the
show was on and when we're actually working together, because
they were so.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Good, so great.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Frankie pulls him away to calm him down, and he
starts to teach Joey a lesson, and then lesson one
is balanced, and they do the karate kid crane post
at each other trying to stay upright. And then a
wrestling tactic he learned in Japan last summer, which is
basically uh sumer wrestling. Yeah, which is a nice little
foreshadowing for Vader coming up later, you know, because you

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kind of think.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Wait a minute, what were you doing in Japan? But
it all makes sense later.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Joey runs at Frankie twice and both times he just
bounces off of him falls to the ground. Just as
Corey says, there's a little voice in his heads that
says he can beat Joey. Joey runs at Frankie full
speed and successfully drop kicks him onto the floor.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Cory says, there at the moment. I mean, there's been
a lot of Blake appreciation. But he is so good
at these stunts. He's great. Like they're doing these stunts,
two of them. You like. His hits hidiot hide and
then slamming onto the ground are so good. And then
he jumps up in the air with he.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
Doesn't double kick, yes, full on double flying kick. It's great.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
You can't ask actors to do this all the time,
like now. A lot of actors can't, especially comedic actors
wouldn't be able to just but he does.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
He's so good, great, he's so great.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
I wonder if I would have liked to have asked
him if he remembers, like if he remembers doing those
and like what it was like working with the stunts, because.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Because I didn't remember this episode exists.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
I didn't either.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Yeah, I know. So Corey then says there's another voice
now that says ow ow ow, And then we're in
the Matthew's kitchen. Corey walks downstairs and Alan is so
happy to see his son Corey. The Cory Amy asks
if Alan is really going to let Corey go through
with this, and Corey says, mom, I'm not a little
boy anymore Amy and grees and says, if you really
want to walk out that door and wrestle, I'm okay

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with it. She's just gonna go upstairs and look at
her baby book and cry, and then she leaves the room,
and Corey and Alan look at each other and say.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
Chicks, chicks, chicks, there's a nineties joke for you, chick chicks.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Alan made Corey a protein shake and says he used
to drink it when he boxed in the Navy. It
has twelve eggs, wheat grass, soy goat's milk, and a
little bit of tabasco. And then Eric runs down toward
the door, but Alan says he needs to eat something,
so Eric turns around and chugs the protein shake. Eric
runs out yelling make way, and we hear mister feenie Yale, not.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
On may azaleas man.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Do you remember a couple of things. First of all,
I think that the drink could have been grosser, like
total description of the drink. It was a little like
I actually went back because when you gave your reaction,
which is great, I was like, what was so gross
about this? And actually it kind of sounds true. It
would have been better if it was like I don't
know what, like pancake batter and bananas and I.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
Just some weirdness of it and its just a tabasco
juice shots and duck fat like something like that.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Over the top thing.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
I mean, I do think the idea of raw eggs
and wheat grass.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Sounds kind of normal nowadays. Pretty lot of people.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Yeah yeah, well yeah people take wheat grass shots. But
the idea of like an egg yolk with wheat grass,
I mean, I I do think they could have. It
could have helped for there to be one one super
level thing. Yeah, super gross thing.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
I also love the land.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
We don't really know where you're going, right, why or
why you're in a hurry. This is just for this joke, right.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
Absolutely, And it's also the joke doesn't land because when
I run out yelling make way crickets, there was nothing.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
I'll tell you why the joke. The joke is that
he's going to throw up.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
I'm gonna pick it up.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
But what what doesn't work is that make way also
seems like because you're in a hurry. Right When I
it was only after not on my azaleas that I
went oh, because what I first happened is you ran
over his azaleas. And then I was like, oh wait, no,
he's throwing up in his azaleas. And that's what make
way was about.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
So yeah, it.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Just didn't work.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Do you exactly remember the line the azalea's line though,
because Ben used to say this for years. No, this
was one of our go to line, not on my azarias. Man,
doesn't that sound for me? Yeah? I was all the
time like Mizaris. The second I heard it, I was like,
oh I remember this, and it was a little camera line,

(54:05):
but this was one that got repeated by us a lot,
or at least funny.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
You're right, though, the shake should have been grosser, and
what would have been funny to get the same joke
of the throwing up would have been running downstairs. I'm
in a rush, I'm in a rush, chugging the shake,
which is now twice as nasty, and then running back upstairs. Yes,
like that would have been funny, and they wouldn't get
Phoenees you miss you'd miss Phoene's, but.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Change the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
You're just walking out, you see the shake, Oh thanks Dad,
you made me breakfast down it and then walk out
and then even if they kept it all the same makeway,
not on my azalias, then we would have understood that
the makeway wasn't about you running, it was about vomit anyway.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Listen, get it, blood jokes, vomit jokes. Check. Check we
should them.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Both check we hit him both in this lie getting there.
I still like the episode.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Okay, I love it.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
So we're in the school gym. Corey and Joey are
ready to face off in their wrestling match. Sean tells
him that Joey trained with Frankie in Unmovable Object. His
advice would be move, and this turns out to be
incredible advice. The match begins and Joey sprints at Corey,
but he moves out of the way. Then Joey asks
Frankie if moving is allowed in the rules, but as

(55:13):
he walks back to the mat, Corey pulls Joey to
the ground by the wrist in the back of his
leg and.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
He pins him.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Corey wins the match just like that, and with actual wrestler,
like Corey can wrestle.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
I know it wasn't a random thing. It was like
he first went for the ankle, he went for the
takedown the ankle and the wrist gets him down, instantly
goes for the pin.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
And gets side control. Yes, it's like he knew what
he was doing.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
I was like, Oh, they made Corey like this should
have been a storyline where Cory can wrestle.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Corey stands up and he wins the jacket and then
he says, Yep, he beat him by the rules, fair
and square. Joey wants a rematch, unfair and unsquare. After hours,
Mano al Ratto so cute. Corey says he won. He
doesn't have to prove anything. Joey says, Corey is proving
himself to be yellow and he probably bleeds lemonade. And

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then he's held back by Frankie calling Corey yellow.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
And then we transition kind of awkwardly.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
I'm going to say it's a little bit of an
awkward transition into a montage. And I felt like there
is something in this montage that feels like even Blake
wasn't committed. There's something that feels a little like off.
No one likes this great joke.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
Yeah, it's just a taj Now we're gonna, we're gonna,
we're gonna, right.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
It's not a montage rights just a just a taj,
just a little taj where Joey continues to say yellow
everywhere Corey goes it's Chevvy's calling him on the school's payphone,
hiding in his locker, hiding in a trash can.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
Can we talk very briefly? Sorry to once again be
the voice of the guy who's pointing out stuff that
makes no sense whatsoever? Because I really again loved this episode.
How do you accept a click.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Call on a payphone?

Speaker 2 (56:50):
I don't know. I thought that too.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
I also thought the timing was just a little bit off,
which is probably why the hole taj doesn't work. I
feel like the timing for all of it, dare I say?
I feel like it was poorly directed mustage Like.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Yeah, it feels it was often weird.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Blake didn't commit It seemed like because it wasn't he didn't.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
No one liked that the timing was weird.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Like the way Corry and Candy are standing at Chubby's counter,
it feels like maybe they could have sold the bit
of like where is he? Like they were waiting, and
even the way he popped up didn't feel like enough
of a surprise.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Then the way the payphone.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
He walks out of the bathroom and the payphone is
already ringing, whereas I think it could have been if
he walked out and the payphone wasn't ringing, and as
he passed it it started to ring and he turned
around startled. Even that would have helped it a little bit,
even with the joke of the collecting accepting a collect
call on the payphone didn't work. And then the way
Ben was blocked opening up the locker, how he was
doing it like this specifically for blocking purposes as opposed

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to like he really was going.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
To get into the locker.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Everything felt like it was we all knew exactly what
was going to happen. I just feel like it wasn't
a great montage. It could have been better, and I
think it could have been funnier.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
There's something about the word yellow that doesn't It doesn't
it doesn't land as an insult, like there's better word,
I don't, you know.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Like coward.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
You know, I don't know there's something that would have
landed harder, something about the word yellow, and it doesn't.
You know, you should have called him a dip our favorite,
like you just said anything that sort of landed a
little hard something about yellow, and I mean, like, I
don't know, calling somebody, Yeah, calling somebody a coward feels

(58:30):
better and stronger, something like yellow.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
They wanted to go. It's weird. They wanted to go cowboy,
but they didn't go full cowboy because cowboy wasn't yellow.
It was yellow. You're yellow, So if you.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Said it, yes, And by the way, that's funny with
Joey's little accent that he if they had given him yellow, yellow,
yellow yellow, I think I think we can all agree
that this there's something about this time, yeah, could have
been a little tighter, a little funnier, a little something.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Okay. So then we're in the school hallway.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Corey finally tells Joey to just leave him alone, and
then he says if he wants Joey to leave him alone,
he should just pound the creep, and Candy asks, are
you a jock or not? And Corey says, okay, if
you want me, you got me, and then he says,
Joey says midnight at the abandoned warehouse on seventh, Corey says, no,
four pm. Phoenie's backyard. Joey says, no. Eight o'clock at

(59:25):
the abandoned shipyard by the pier. Cory says, no, dinner
time my kitchen. Joey says, is it abandoned?

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Which such a funny run. Corey keeps trying to bring
it closer to his house.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Earlier, earlier, that's like all of us when trying to
make dinner plans about five pm my house exactly. Oh
my gosh, so funny.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Just then Griff walks up and says they will fight
on neutral territory the school gym tomorrow night. When Corey
says he doesn't have keys, Griff holds them up and says,
neither does Janitor Bud. And we get a little Janitor
Bud call back, and Griff ties this all together perfectly.
Then we're in the locker room. Corey asks Sean why
he agreed to fight Joey. He tells Sean, if Joey

(01:00:19):
wants the stupid jacket, then he can have it. He's
just going to back out of the fight. And he
says as he walks into the gym, it's not like
it's the entire school in front of the entire school,
because it's so blatant.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Episode, Is that way it's like literally the setup, and
then the next line is because.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
That's him just going, come on, I'm wrong about everything.
I mean, it's just the great setup.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
It's a little like an optical flip.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
I was waiting for that. I was waiting.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
It's a bit of an optical flip without the actual
optical flip.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
But that is what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Corey and Sean walk into the gym and we see
the entire school is waiting to watch the fight. See
the wrong about everything, Corey complains. Corey is about to bail,
but Griff stops him. Griff says a lot of favors
were called in so Corey can't back out, and then
Robert Goolay comes out and sings the national anthem. Corey
tries to leave again, but he's grabbed by Griff, and

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then Corey and Joey get into the boxing ring and
are introduced by Robert Goolay. Robert Gulay then announces some
VIPs who are attending, including Bay watches yaz mean belief.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
You both you both saw her, right, you both saw
her on.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
I definitely saw her.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
She was there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Okay, so she was and okay, just making sure now
do you either one of you guys remember Robert Goolay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
I just remember. I just remember the chaos of this
day vague. This was so hectic and there was so
much going on and no, I felt like completely out
of control because we had so many guest stars, so
many bah and they just kept coming and it just
kept I think it kept changing throughout the week too,
Like I feel like Yasmine Bleef might have been added
the day of, and like it kept I just remember this,

(01:01:56):
don't you will like it was complete.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
I remember it being crazy, But to me, I was
so focused on actually getting to wrestle Vader that that
was kind of all that was in my head.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
That was part of the chaos too, is that there
was physical comedy, so everybody had, like you know, there
were stunts involved and things that had to be done,
and it was just I remember being super overwhelmed.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
But Daniel, do you remember Robert Gulay?

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
It wasn't in the scene.

Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Oh, I didn't know if you remembered a story though
you made it set up, like do you remember Robert Gulay?

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
No, I wasn't in the scene, Which is another one
of those weird things where it's like they paid me
for the episode. Tapanga is completely obsessed with Corey and
what's going to go on with Corey's life, and yet
she doesn't go to shes not there, you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
Know, were you that? Were you not there at all?
You weren't there even as an extra in the background.
You weren't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Like, no, I'm not in the scene, not that I noticed.
So I don't. And I don't have any memory of
any of this, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
And Vader, but no, Topanga, No, I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
Remember any of this either. And there was little moments
of like I'm sitting next to Yasmin Bleeth and I
go sitting next to her and we have like this
little side I looked to each I don't remember any
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Well, neither did she.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Yeah, I know, but I know I was on Boy
Met World?

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Right, Okay, I have proved. Where have you heard that?
She said? She did?

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
She forget where it was. It was some interview where
then somebody was hit me up. This is a while
ago where it was like, you know, he has me.
Bieth claimed she was never on Boy Met World. It's like, well,
but she was, because he just.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Literally doesn't be the name of the show, Like that's possible.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
So she was there for probably like three hours.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
It was the thing with the wrestling.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
She might be like, oh, yeah, she was there for
three hours one day, you know, at the height of
her career. So yeah, who knows.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
But so she comes in, she's wearing an evening gown,
blowing kisses to the crowd, and then she spots and
glares at Griff and asks him how on earth she
got her to do this? Then he grabs her and
kisses her. She is clearly in sore souls.

Speaker 4 (01:03:47):
By the kid in high school. Yeah's point that out
in sourcl by the seventeen year old in high school, right,
I'm seeing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Watch So she is a working adult.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Yeah, okay, Well she giggles because she's unsource old, and
then Sean nearby yells help, I'm drowning, and Yasmine turns
and says what which I thought was actually a very
funny read, and Sean admits it was worth a shot.

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
And then you're really playing your strength here, though, Rider,
because you were a huge in real life memory, sir,
you really followed the story and this was really.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
Saying this joke obviously, just see it in my face.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
You could see the commitment. Yeah, I'm drowning.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
You did not seem to commit to a lot in
this episode. If there were, there's moments in the background
where you are just kind of sitting there and it's
clearly you going, what is happening right now? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
What am I doing? Why am I on the show?

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Ye? Yes, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
I kind of love so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Robert Gouley then announces Frankie's dad, eleven time heavyweight world
champion Vader, who comes in so fairal he looks like
he's gonna attack an audience member.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
He's hitting the blue was great.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
I mean, is this the way that he spoke like
all the time when.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
He was a character. Yes, as a heel so good,
But I.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Just forgot how good like he was great, just so
much energy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
And let me tell you that as a director now
on children's programming, if I were directing a show and
we had in the script all week at wrestler and
he comes out, and I would be thinking, Okay, I
wonder how we're gonna what are we gonna get here?
And then Vader came out like this, I would be like,
this is this is this?

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
This slam dunk, this saves the opposite him, and you
have a laugh you have, she asked Bill Daniels, standing
opposite this guy making those faces and being this energetic.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Yes, you haven't, by.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
The way, any character, even Corey when he comes up
and he's like and he goes, I'm sorry, sorry, I
didn't get your name.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
I didn't get your name.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
It doesn't matter what you put up against Vader. He's unbelievable,
I mean true.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
Also shows how committed and good professional wrestlers are. I know,
really good professional wrestlers. They can turn it on and
they are going to be like that until the last
fan leaves the room, and it is awesome. And it
just shows you said action and he was there and.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
Also doing incredible stunt work.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
The athleticism in there as well, but the acting gets
overlooked that they are in character the whole time and
are awesome. Yeah, really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
So I'd just like to make a note Vader in
real life was a three time world heavyweight champion, but
he did lose an eye once in a match, So
I'm not going to make a big deal about it.
If we want to say he was eleven time, I'm
gonna go with that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
Time doesn't matter, And then put it back in himself
and finished the match. He would tell the best story,
nicest guy you could ever meet, would tell the best
stories of stories. Man that that man was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
So Vader enters the ring and he says, thank you, Bob, and.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
It's so funny. I I almost peed my pants on me.
I rewound it. He comes in, he goes, thank you, Bob,
thank you very much, and it's so great, and Robert
Goulay like has a smile on his face and as
he turns away, I'm swear Robert Goulay was trying not
to break. It's just beautiful. It's I love every single

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thing about the way this scene is.

Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
Sorry, Danielle, I'm gonna need you to record my outgoing
message in that voice. You've reached Will Like, I'm gonna
need you to do that. Thank you, Bob, thank you
very much.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Hello, you've reached will Fordel Sorry, I'm not here to
check your call right now, but leave a message. I'll
call you back if you're a lucky Okay, I need.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
Vader then walks over to Corey and says, if Joey
don't get the job done, Vader will because I am
fear stick around and find out who the real man is.
Corey says, I'm sorry, sir, I didn't get your name.
Then Vader starts barking at him and Corey runs away
in fear, and his.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Bark is so great.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
I'm telling you, I love every single thing about the
way this scene goes on too. Robert Gulay tells the
competitors to come out fighting, and then Griff tells Robert
to give his best to Vera, which is actually Robert
Gulay's real life wife's name. So I just love the
little inside joke that he knows his whole family they're
obviously close. Give my best to Vera or Vera. So funny.

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Then Eric runs in and says he didn't know Corey
was fighting. He bought a ticket in the parking lot.
Someone was selling a ticket. That says, see an idiot
get pounded. And he's happy though, because he's sitting next
to the girl from Baywatch. And that's when we see
you guys have your little aside there. Corey tries to
get out before the match starts, but then Sean accidentally
rings the bell to start the match. Couldn't happen without you,

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writer Joey is running after Corey, but Corey keeps dodging him.
Then Corey in the corner gives him a big boot,
and seeing a window of opportunity, Corey body slams Joey
and then gives him a frog splash off the top rope.
It somehow becomes a tag match, and a stunned Joey
tags in Frankie exactly the confate. Eric tries, I love

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that this is obviously also just the mix of high
school wrestling and professional wrestling. It hasn't those two things
are they don't have a lot in common.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
But it's not just become this excuse to do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
A professional's great So Eric runs off the road. Eric
tries to get Corey out of the ring, but right
as he does, Eric gets pulled into the ring by Frankie.
Eric runs off the ropes and bounces off of Frankie,
but then he eye gouges and head butts him. You
did a move or two really great moves? Did Vader
teach you the moves he did?

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
And not only that, but he gave me as he
grabs me by the throat and lifts me above his head.
We worked on that and he came up to me,
and after he said, I've got to tell you, you're
better at that than some of the professionals that I
work with. And it was the coolest thing in the world.
He's probably just being nice, but it was the coolest
thing in the world to hear that from him. Yeah,
it was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
That's so nice.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
So just as things are starting to look good, Vader says, son,
you're taking too long.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
Tag me in.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
So Frankie, you just want to do it every time.
I want to do it all the time. So he
tags his dad Vader into the ring to go against Eric. Vader,
who is huge, chokes Eric and then picks him up
way over his head and about to do a body slam.
Corey tries to help but runs into Vator and bounces

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right off of him. And then mister Feenie comes into
the gym and tells Vader to put the Matthews boy down.
Then Phoenie does a little sleeve roll up where he
pops his arms out and he regally jumps over the
top rope into the ring.

Speaker 4 (01:11:19):
I remember this, j Oh absolutely because it was when
I saw Bill do it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
It was like what because he was sixty five, But
I remember the discussion of like how to get him
in the ring and how to make this beat work,
and I think Bill just did it, Like I think,
so it was like a how do we make Phoenie,
you know? And he just nailed that landing and it
was so funny.

Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
This is so cool a man who would wake up
every morning and swim like five, six or seven miles
something like that every single time. So he was always
keeping himself in shape. And I do you remember that?
I think you're right right. I think he just did it.
And we were all like what.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Yeah, it was cool, so funny. So mister Turner runs
over to Corey who's still on the floor, to sidebarb
because he said Corey, he thought Corey said he wasn't
going to have to actually fight. But Corey says, by
now he should know Corey is wrong about everything. Phoene
argues with Vader to put Eric down, but Vader says
he's not one of his students anymore. Phoene says he
was scarier when he had acne, and I thought about writer.

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
And Lader go ye Ackney joke, same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
So he says his face was scarier when he had acne,
and his bully tactics didn't work back in school, and
they're not going to work now. Phoene calls Vader Leslie
to force him to put Eric down, and Vader says,
next time it's a Texas death match and the loser
leaves town.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
This hurt? Did it? This hurt?

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
So you couldn't they cut away? But what he does
is he's holding me up. Yeah, and then he literally
throws me up and catches me on his shoulder. And
I kept hitting the same spot on my stomach every time,
and by the fourth or fifth take, that was painful.
I bet where it was just because he was I mean,
he was this man was I was probably I mean

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I was thin, but I was probably still at least
one hundred and fifty hundred fifty five pounds and he
was tossing me around like I was nothing. And he
literally threw me up and spun me to catch me
on his on his shoulder, and I just kept slamming
on the safe right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
He does not have soft shoulders.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
He was always he's like a brick and he was
always wet. Well, yeah, because he was oiled up. He
was oiled up, and he had bad shoulders. So before
every take. He'd have those big exercise bands and he'd
sit there and he'd stretch the exercise bands over, so
he was oiled and sweaty and huge, and he just

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tossing me around like a like a rag doll.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Yeah. Do you remember he always he smelled like that powder?
That is it gold bond powder?

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
Did he smell like gold bonds.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
It's like I for the rest of my life, whenever
I smell gold bond powder, think Evader, because he just
a day, every day smelled like that stuff. Yeah, it's
so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Well, Phoene says yeah, yeah, yeah, and then tells Turner
this is why he avoids reunions. And then we're in
the school hallway. Corey asks Sean if he had a
shot if he stayed in the ring, and Sean says yeah,
and he also had a shot at dating yasmine bleeth.
Corey believes the sarcastic comment, and Sean says, you break
my heart sometimes. Matthews Corey gives his letterman jacket back,

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quitting the team, and somewhat impressed by Corey, the jock says,
you're okay Matthews, Camby leaves and when Corey asks where
she's going. She says she goes wherever the jacket goes
to Panga in the outfit, I am wearing in my
Funko Pop for those of you who bring me my
Funko Pop to sign. This is the moment. This is
the out that they picked. This green skirt, a white

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T shirt, the dNaM vest and the belt.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
Wow do you ever wear Do you think you wear
it again?

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Or I don't think I ever wear it again?

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
No, I wonder funny why they would pick that one.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Well do you? I mean you guys wouldn't know. I
guess because you're probably not tagged in them. But this
line that Tapanga says about the yearbook quote is a
very famous Corey and Tapega mem afied thing, Like this
is the moment A lot of times when people go
back to like Corey and Tapanga style this little quote.

Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
This is a lot of people's actual yearbook quote.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
Yeah, it's also the quote A lot of people ask
me to write on things. When they want me to
autograph something, they'll ask me to sign sign this quote.
So Tapega comes over to ask Corey more questions for
the yearbook and Sean Lee's and coughs, saying you like him,
and Tapega says, shut up, and to Pega explains that
she needs a quote for his picture unless he still
wants RR And Corey asks Tapanga what she put down

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as her quote, and she says, I do my thing
and you do your thing. You are you and I
am I and in the end, if we end up together,
it is beautiful. And Corey says, just put the same
thing for me, and then they smile at each other. Now,
someone emailed me about this very famous Topanga line, Jessica M.

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Thank you for the email. Do you know what a
gestalt prayer is?

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Guys?

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
No, I do not.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
So this quote that's in the show is actually directly
taken from a gestal Prayer, which is a fifty six
word statement by Fritz Pearls summarizing his new method of
psychotherapy called Gestalt Therapy.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
I was wondering that's what it's from.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
So it is, Yeah, it's this, and part of it
it literally is I think it's it's I think it
says it goes, I do my.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Thing and you do your thing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
You are not on this planet to meet my expectations
and and I am not on this planet to meet
your expectations. You are you and I am I, and
then and if somewhere we end up meeting in time,
it'll be beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
But it's literally just taken like a verbatim from a
gestal prayer.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
I did not know that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
I did not either. I've gone my entire life thinking
that was an original original words.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
So it's interesting. I didn't remember from this episode. When
I heard it, it sounded familiar, but I probably sounded familiar
to me from the episode. I don't know right right,
but like, yeah, that's interesting, interesting anyway, I just thought
that was a little bit of fascinating, little fascinating tidbit.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
So then we're in mister Phoene's classroom. Joey, Frankie, Griff,
and Corey are all in detention. Phoene says he's giddy
about the stunt Griff pulled because he'll be in detention
every day for the next four years. Phoene goes to leave,
and Corey says, you can't leave me alone with these guys.
He's not one of them. The walls are closing in,
and then Phoene, unaffected, says pity and leaves now alone.
Griff says it's going to be okay because obviously he's

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never done attention with Griff.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
And then Robert Goolay comes in and starts singing. The
four punished new friends dance and smile their way through.

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
First there's actually the voiceover ladies and gentlemen, Robert the
voiceover guy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
It's so great, so good. Yeah, it's like they travel
with all that stuff. And that is the end of
our episode. Thank you guys for joining us. As always,
our next episode that we recap will be season two
episode twenty two, Career Day, which originally aired May twelfth,
nineteen ninety five. As always, you can follow us on

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