TGI – Episode 402 “Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow”

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We’re taking a ride through new and improved sets, outstanding guest stars and a script that makes the hosts say something they’ve never said before. And what does Indy Strong have to say about the Good Looking Guy?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
So yesterday I am sitting down and my phone beats
and it says Bank of America did you authorize fifty
four dollars to door Dash? And I said, why no,
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, so I called the bank and they said you
should go on your app and check out how many
door dashes you've ordered in the last hour. And so
I go on and there are seventeen door Dash orders.
You're so hungry from a hundred and five dollars at McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I was like, okay, So in my.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Car, my car, was there any party that was like
did I?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
So it was like it was like twelve or fourteen
hundred dollars in an hour today?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Do you think it was one person or you just
got hacked? In like fourteen people were shit, that's my guess.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Is I got hacked.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
So obviously I was like, this is not me and
we have to go back and find the first one
where it's like, no, wait, that was my first one.
But in like an hour, someone had taken my card
information and put fourteen hundred dollars on door dash.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Okay, question was it all going to the same address.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, apparently it wasn't going to the same place, and
a bunch of them like this. Yere's the thing that
was weird, Like eleven of the charges were for exactly
the same amount of money fifty four dollars and thirty
eight cents or.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Right, so this is the second time in my life
either somebody stolen my stuff or I got full on
identity scam.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Does that happen either?

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Hear me out they're ordering food. I feel like you
should let them do it. I feel I feel like someone.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Want their food.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I want to take the food.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Out of the someone is is robin hooding you?

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I yes, but you would lose so fourteen hundred dollars
in an hour.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Think about if you I can see Dan yell be like,
well they must need it, and they put you two days.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Later a different I'm saying, if it was going to
one house, I would say, you know what, there's no
way you could eat that much food. It's not possible.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's got to be a scam. Though.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
If that many of them for are for exactly the
same amount of money, it's not like some Robin Hood
guy was like, I'm sending fifty I.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Think they figured out what triggers the amount and they go.
Anything under sixty bucks goes by unscathed.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well yeah, and if this is a robin Hood situation,
call me the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm going to burn down their entire villa. So no
problem with that. Don't take my stuff. I don't take
my it's taking your stuff. It's just taking your money.
That's my stuff. And buy food food, Well, I don't care,
don't care my money. Have you has that ever happened
to you?

Speaker 6 (03:06):
Have you?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Have you guys ever had your identity stolen or any
money taken from like.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Oh I okay, yeah, I just last year had a
batch of checks stolen from the mailbox and dollars taken
out over over the course of a few weeks. Wrote checks.
They didn't even try. There was one check that was
for like thirty seven hundred dollars they wrote, and in

(03:31):
the memo they wrote refrigerator repair. Oh, I'm sorry, you
repaired a refrigerator for thirty seven hundred dollars. You could
go buy a you could buy a regular refrigerator and
fill it with gold for thirty seven hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Maybe that's what they were doing. They was robin Hood,
and they were.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Filled they were trying to keep the food the family.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
You should have cared, I was, I should have left that.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, it was really you know what was really annoying
about it is that the minute they flagged it as
fraud and contacted me and were like, whoa, hey, I
think this is fraud, it was like, yes, that obviously
all of these very much are some of the not
signed by me at all. None of the signatures matched.
Even the handwriting was all different, so it looked like
multiple people writing checks to different things. So I immediately

(04:21):
closed the account and opened a new account. And yet
the bank, which shall remain nameless, continued to cash checks
from the new account using the old checks from the
old checking account. So even after it was like oh wow, well,

(04:44):
thank goodness we got a hold of it. Now another
like seventy five hundred dollars left the new account, it
was like, how is this happening? And they were like, oh, sorry,
it's because there's a thirty day period where anything you
have technically the two accounts are kind of linked for
thirty days in case there's something outstanding that you have.
It's like, stop doing that, stop it, just stop it.
I'd rather one of my checks bounce then for anyway.

(05:08):
So yeah, writer, you've got to have been robbed. I
mean that's how they get.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
You riter, how they get your writer.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
I the only I mean, yes, like little credit card
things and stuff here and there. But actually, do you
guys remember when like I lost one of my best
friends when we were doing Boy because he stole money
from me.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh, I don't remember, got that story, but.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yes, yeah, I was, like I guess, so it was
probably to probably write about season four, like write about
where we're recapping.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
But yeah, I had I like one of my closest friends.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
I had like two friends, one of them I still have, Nathan,
and then my other best friend I'm not going to
name him, but we were like inseparable. We were like
the Three Musketeers from maybe thirteen on thirteen until like
this time at seventeen. And yeah, like he he had
this this summer. I guess it was over the summer
or whatever. He just got he started going to raves

(05:59):
and getting into like drugs and experimentation and like, which
a lot of people were, but like I wasn't, and
my buddy Nathan wasn't. We were kind of like separating
from him in some ways, but he suddenly like was
buying everything, like buying stuff for people all the time,
and like he would show up and like and we'd
be like, what's going on, you know, And it was
just kind of like this weird time and and but

(06:19):
we were still seeing each other.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
And then like.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
At some point we decided I hadn't seen him for
a little while, and we decided to throw a party
at my house because my parents were in Hawaii. And
not that we were throwing a party without my parents
and all this, it was just that we had the
whole house to ourselves.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
My parents would always let us like have people over.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
So we so this friend and I and Nathan were like, well,
let's let's let's have a night to get back together
because we hadn't seen each other for a while. We're
like yes, And we threw this giant party and and
like all all of our friends from basketball came and
like we got to see everybody and like, so it
was just a great time. And then the next morning
I wake up and it's me and him and Nathan,
and Nathan has to go home, so we say goodbye.

(06:56):
So it's just him and me at the house. We're
cleaning up and talking about the night before where my
dad calls from Hawaii and he's.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Like, hey, have you know do you still have your
ATM card?

Speaker 3 (07:06):
And I'm like, god, yeah, I did lose my ATM
card like a couple of month, like a month and
a half ago or two months ago. And he's like, Okay,
well I got called from the bank. Somebody's been taking
your money out, uh and using your code for the
last like month and a half two months and taking
you know, I think it was like fifteen hundred dollars
over the course. And I was like, oh, oh my god.
And he's like yeah, but you know, he's like, here's

(07:28):
what they said. They said that people usually end up
admitting it because you had to have given the code
to somebody. So they're gonna say you have to you know. Uh,
they're gonna find the cameras. They're gonna have cameras at
these ATMs, so tell people start saying telling your friends
now that like they're gonna get a camera. Smart I know.
And I'm like okay, and he's like, you know, he's
like he's like, I don't know who you know, He's like,

(07:49):
and I'm like, well, I could you know and I'm short.
I started thinking about who this could be, and I
hang up the phone and I turned to my buddy
and I'm like, oh my god, could it be so INSTI?
And we're like going through the list together and he's like, yeah,
I don't know. And I'm like, yeah, dude, like it's
got be And I like nail it down to like
a couple somewhat shady people, because you know, when you're
a teenager, you hand your credit card?

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Are your ATM card? Be like you two go twenty books?
And at least I did.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
And I was a kid.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah, And so he's like and I'm like okay.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
And then and then I'm like on the phone with Nathan,
who had gone home, and he's like, well, you.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Know who has had your credit you're ATM. And I'm
like what. He's like, so and so.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
And I look out the window at so and so
who's at the house with me, and he's sitting there
smoking a cigarette. He had like quit smoking. I see
that he's like sitting outside my house, like smoking.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Nervous and counting money.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
And I'm like, oh no, oh god. And Nathan's like, yeah, dude,
he he I saw him. He had it like a
couple of weeks ago, and I asked him about it
and he was like and said, I hang up the phone,
walk outside, and my buddy's like, can I just can
you hold my hand? And I'm like okay, And he's like,
I feel so bad and I'm so sorry, and you know,
and he just tells me the truth that he's been

(08:53):
stealing money from me for like the last two months.
And it was awful, I mean, and I was like,
what do I do? Man, Like yeah, you know, and
like I know, I know, the worst part about it
is like that, I know, I know why he thought
it would be okay, because you know, I was one
of these kids who like had money and like had
money to a degree that and I was generous with it.

(09:15):
And he knew that I didn't really care about money.
He knew that ultimately, if he needed money, I would
always get but he stole it from me.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
You know.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
And so then we went into this weird period for
several months where I didn't know how to, Like, I
didn't want to cut him out of my life because
I loved him and he loved you know. We was
like I want to be a friend, but of course
my parents were like, he's we have to tell his parents,
and he didn't want them to tell his parents. He
was like, oh, I'll just pay you back over time.
And so my parents were like, writer, do you want
to work this out with him alone? And I was like, yeah,

(09:44):
let us work it out. He'll just pay me slowly
over you know. And then after like a couple like
after doing that for like a week, my dad was like, no, Like,
if I was this kid's parent, I would need to know,
like he still lives with his parents. So my dad
called his dad, and then his dad, who was this
hardcore like kind of like more authoritarian, he like worked
for the boy Scouts and like he like came down
hard on his son. It was like, oh, and I

(10:05):
felt bad, but also, you know, you stole money from
me for Yeah, it was awful, and it was just
it was the dissolution of the friendship, you know, but
it was like a slow dissolution.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
It was just so painful.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Because I wanted to be able to say I can
forgive you.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
I understand you just got caught up in this period
and thought that you could get away with it or
pay me back or I don't know what, but that Ultimately,
the trust was just.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Ruptured and it was like we could never get this back.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
So it was pretty devastating.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, it was like the one of the worst like losses.
And you know, we've seen each other over the years
and it's like fine, and obviously I wanted. Like in retrospect,
I can pretty much chalk it up to like teenage stuff, you.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Know, like me and teenagers. It's just on a scale
that's so much higher.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Than like, you know, it's not like he stole even
like five bucks from me or whatever. It's right, and
the fact that he did it repeatedly that was like
one of the hardest parts is like, over like a
month and a half, two months, you're going and consciously
taking out one hundred dollars taking another two hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's like that's sneaky that it's this is hard to forgive,
you know. Guys.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Still, I still have faith that Will can work it
out with his thief and they could be best friends. Yeah,
we already know he likes to work for McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
You guys have a bird wor's thing.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
I know McDonald's well enough to note it doesn't taste
the same if it's delivered to your house.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
You're right, you gotta go get it there to Shae,
to Shay, thank you. Welcome to Pod Meets World.

Speaker 7 (11:23):
I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm rather er Strong, and I'm Wilfordell.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
Welcome to this season four. Recap of episode to Hair Today,
Goon Tomorrow. It originally aired September twenty seventh, nineteen ninety six.
The synopsis to Panga takes drastic measures to prove to
Corey that looks aren't important, but when Topega gets a
stunning makeover, Corey starts to feel even more self conscious.

(11:59):
It was direct by Jeff McCracken, written by Susan Estelle Jansen.
Before I jump into guest stars, do you guys want
to say overall thoughts? I? How did you feel watching
the episode?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
What?

Speaker 4 (12:10):
What were you thinking?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Uh? I think it's a perfect episode.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's perfect, kind of a literal scene by scene perfect episode.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
It's a perfect epode.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
I mean only I did think well, I did think
the A story could have been like I wasn't laughing
all that much during the A story.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
But it doesn't matter. Like it's like like there have
been funnier episodes of Boy.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Met world for sure. Sure, real story. One of the
funniest ever.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
The funniest things I've ever seen. One of the funniest
things is hysterical. But the A story wasn't like super funny,
but I don't care.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Because telling so fun great.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh my god, it was just like yeah, perfect at
least for me. We're two for two for season four.
Season four is starting gangbusters, gangbusters.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
This episode was just wonderful, and it's like it's like
all the things that you want, like Turner's back, Turner
has a literary involvement, like literally everything I would have
asked for, Dan Topanga and Sean having a moment that
it's built on their relationship and Corey coming from a
place of insecurity and like like just perfectly positioned as

(13:14):
like this, you know, scared kid, like learning.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
About kid and also finding spaces to to to comfort
other people who are also going through things like there
for Tapanga, but also like every not a single shot
wasted in this episode. I also will say, I cannot
believe I did not remember that good looking detective you're

(13:38):
cutting your episode same episode, because I remember every single
moment of your be storyline will every single of it,
and I remember it being my favorite Eric thing that
had ever happened, and so obviously you would think that
I would go, well, of course, he's got this great
storyline and it's the same week I get my big
haircutting storyline. But no, I also so remember all of

(14:00):
the details about dating the Towny and yet didn't remember
that the Towny episode is the same episode as Good
Looking Detective.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
You just hit everything I said to to the point
where when I turned it on last night, I'm watching
it with Sue and I came up with the bathrobe
in the cocopas I'm like, oh, this is the same episode.
How was this the same episode? Idea? No, idea, Yes,
it was.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Literally perfect television.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
It is. I agree. It was an incredible This might
be my favorite overall episode of the entirety.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
This might be my number one favorite episode of the
series too.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Even the guest The guest cast was great, like everybody,
all the guest stars were amazing, too.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Perfect.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
If you were to say, like, what is the like?

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Because because because I do think that, like all as
much as I've loved other episodes in some ways more
they're not as balanced, but this one balances the drama
on the comedy so perfectly.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
That scene with the.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Towny is just like the tawny girl day, like is
just wonderful because it's like completely not played for comedy.
It's just played for like life lesson and not in
the like dramatic.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
Like Moby, like tell you how you feel, no shame,
just like, oh, it's so good.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
It's all so good.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
And then yeah, I didn't even think about it until
just hearing you say that now, Danielle. Like the fact
that the good looking guy is thematically linked to your
storyline too, and like about good look, it's.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
So good, it's so incredible. It feels truly, it feels
like this episode could be its own class in sitcom writing,
like you every the scenes were the right amount of time,
like they were, they were a good length. I loved
every single thing about writer Susan Estelle Jansen.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Oh wow, Okay, it's so good. I don't normally say
this about us either, but we're all great in this.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
We are phenomenal. Truly, every single person brought their a
game this week. Ben is in a plus form, writers
in a plus form, like you mentioned, Will the guest
cast is incredible, Will you are this is the best
I've ever seen you.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
I don't disagree. This is we don't disagree, hands down
and oh.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Then the guest casts with the guy who plays the
haircut dude walk in do one like over the top
kind of bit.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
But I loved it.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
And huge, huge stand up comedian, good friend Jerry Seinfeld.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Everybody nailed it. This was such a good.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Tony makes it through that scene where he has and
not laughing, and I think he must have I kind
of had memories of.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Time.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Okay, I'm so excited. I always worry if we like
all love an episode so much, it's gonna be boring.
But I am bubbling at the seams with how much
I want to talk about this episode. It's so good.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
So let me jump into the guest start.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Anthony Tyler Quinn aka Tony Quinn our mister Turner. He
returns after missing the season premiere. He's, of course, Jonathan Turner.
Stand up comedian dom Irera is Did I Say Myrara
appears as Busco, also known for roles on Seinfeld, The
King of Queens and the cult cartoon, Doctor Katz professional Therapist,
and Dana Dowry as Tammy, who you might recognize from

(17:05):
the early two thousands show Providence.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Also at the time Jason Marsden's live in girlfriend. She
and Jason lived together.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
That's why I remembered her so well.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
She was she and Jason were together for a while.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
She should have been in everything was great, so good.
Gosh her line delivery of you have your parents helping you?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Oh yeah, oh wow.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
And then will Esties returns to Boy Meets World. This
time is Dylan, who was different than Alex, who he
played in season two's Career Day.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Twins Twins, Oh, it's a phoebe Ursula thing from.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
Friends Hillary Hillary talk was absolutely you just never see
them because they're on different levels of the tower and.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
They never talk about it.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Correct, right, So I figured it out.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
We jump into the episode with our new convertible credits opening,
and this is where I noticed, because it's this episode,
the season premiere opening was a spoiler for my haircut.
Mm hmm, because my hair is cut. I didn't think
of it when we saw season one, but here we are,
so the start.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
I could not get over the fact that you and
Ben are sitting on the back of a convertible.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Wal trame, Okay, that's the first time.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
We talked about it last time, but this time it
drove me crazy. I was like, but they're like seriously
driving down the road like this for the whole time.
It never star stops. It's never like we're doing this
for a moment and then we're gonna get down.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
You at one are sitting on the side door.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
Like, why.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Just put us in the car.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's not a parade. We're on a highway.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I also think Ben is wearing the equivalent of a
short sleeved shirt, and yet I have three layers on,
including a winter jacket.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Nobody knew what was happening.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
No, no one had any idea what was happening. But
oh my gosh. Okay, so that opening is a little
it's a killer. Let's say that it's a killer the worst.
So to jump into our recap, Corey and Eric. We
see the bedroom. Eric is sleep talking in Spanish, waking
Corey up. The alarm clock quickly follows, and Corey tells
Eric he was doing it again. Eric asks what the

(19:24):
Jenny McCarthy dreamer, the Spanish baseball announcing Corey responds, a
base bowl. Eric tells him that's good because Jenny's starting
to get needy. Eric says, once you hit a certain age,
you're afraid to go to sleep at night, and Corey
tells him, once you hit a certain age, you're afraid
to wake up in the morning. And then we are
in the boy's bathroom.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
I remember this.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I remember shooting this where they just put the camera
in front of us, justin dead on, and they're like.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Because it's like the least flattering when the cameras that
close to you with a slightly wide angle, it makes
your face all distorted. It's so like and everybody just look,
and I love it.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's played perfectly.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
So I also would give my right arm to have
that same sleep outfit Eric's wearing. He worried a bunch
of times with the twenty three.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah the match, Yeah, I'll take that.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
I also love even the continuity thread of the fact
that you're in those same pajamas the whole episode. It's
never even like you change your pajamas to separate days.
You just are living in your filth. And I love it.
I just love it, wallowing, wallowing in it. So Corey
brushes his teeth for approximately point two seconds, and Eric

(20:29):
walks in, telling him, you're avoiding the mirror again. Sooner
or later, you're gonna have to look at yourself. Corey
turns to the mirror in size. Oh man, it's me.
Eric assures him that every teenager goes through this gawky
awkward hate what they look like face. Corey questions, well
what about you, and Eric tells him, yeah, you think
that baby at Corey aka Ben, in my opinion, is

(20:54):
actually having not at all a gauky awkward Do you need.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Jud No, no, But that's a knowing.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
I'm not saying we shouldn't do it. I'm not saying
we shouldn't do the episode, but I would just like
to comment. I think Ben looks phenomenal. His hair is great,
it's a little longer than usual. I also think maybe
there's some blonde highlights had given it a little bit
of high right.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
When Ben's hair is a little long, it's too short,
it's just kind of boring.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
But what has a little bit of.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Expers and it's a little longer. I love it. And
his skin is nice and clear. So anyway, Ben.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's actually a good point though, because a lot of kids,
even when they look fine, think they look awful.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Exactly. That's the point.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
But you get used to your little kid face and
you're not You're not into your adult face yet, you know,
so whatever that is, it just feels awkward for everybody.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
It's absolutely totally. They did also play up a little
bit of his his I think they dressed him a
little awkwardly in this episode.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Because they had him like tuck in his pants.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
He looked like he looked like he was trying to
sell me a cell phone.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
You did exactly with the coral shirt on, like hey,
can I help you.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
I think the direction was probably.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Just make him dress like a like a grown man,
like you know he does. He's not dressing hip at all,
He's dressing.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
Like exact exactly right exactly. Make him look a little
like a mid midlife guy who yeah, right, Which I think.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Is the cheat that they do with you too, Like
they use the clothes to tell the story, because just
to let the hair tell the story, it's not no,
it was.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
A hair, and you clearly had a at some kind
of bank or something.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
When you're wearing prison. I was like, wears, No, that
wouldn't be good. Yeah, they're they're going to come to
the show anyway.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
That is one of the like the only like real
criticism I would have with this episode is like the
haircut itself, like you should have gone extreme, Like the
whole point should have been that you made yourself actually unattractive,
which if never happens.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
You have a note for Michael Jacobs. Because my hair
was still longer than I wanted it. It was still
at least four inches longer than I was hoping to go. Uh,
and so you know that.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Was I think what they were going for, and they
tried to get it on the shot when you walked away?
Is the ugly quote unquote is the chunky everywhere it
looks fine?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
You could just look, oh yeah, well that's easily fixed.
You just go somewhere, I'll do it, like give me
the scissors.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
It is, well, it's it's essentially it's taking somebody who's
insanely good looking and going like your.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Hair doesn't match. Now now you're ugly, Like she had
gone like this like a fool, jagged like a cross
her chin.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Then you'd be, how are we gonna fix this?

Speaker 3 (23:38):
And then it comes out into like a cool stylized
ammetrical hair.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
That's what I said, is your lob? Is this peak? Danielle?
You said, you'd know when.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
You saw we're entering it. We're it's definitely post haircut.
Uh and and so maybe it's gonna be maybe the
start of season five where my haircut's really settled and
I come back with a tan.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, we're gonna be entered.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I'll tell I'll tell you, I'll know, I'll know exactly
what it is. Yeah, I'll know. So Eric says, for
the next few years he's going to be growing into
his new look and everyone will understand that. Then right
on cue, Morgan shoves a mister Potato head doll right
next to Corey and mimics him. Hi, I'm Corey, and
for the next three years, I'm going to look like
a potato. Corey says. The child speaks the truth. Morgan
parades around as Corey announces, I Corey Matthews am a

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po tato.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Notice she's also you only catch a glimpse of it,
but still in the same footy pajamas.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Is she she is?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
You' young?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Okay, I mean at least I think at least they're
at least they're they're consistent, sticking with it. Yeah, consistent,
thank you? Okay, And then we're in the school hallway,
big scene alert. I forgot it happened so early on
I really did. I was like, we're already here.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Act one scene A. I know, it's ooh.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
I couldn't wait, couldn't wait even one second longer.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
So it's good because it means that, like.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
The whole episode, we get to deal lest.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
You get to analyze and to go. It's not you know,
it's it's not like leading up to that event. Correct,
it's not not the climate out.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, it's the event.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yes, I love it. So the camera pans past student
fixing their hair and doing their makeup in the locker mirrors.
This is some evolved background actor business, you know. And
can we talk just for a second about how weird
it is to shoot stuff where you're looking at yourself
in the mirror on camera.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
It's bizarre, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
It's bizarre because you're not You actually can't see yourself.
You can only maybe see one one portion of you.
But in order for the camera to see you, the
locker has to be exactly like taped to a position
you can't move, and the way you have to stand
is in a place where you actually can't really see yourself.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
In the mirror.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
So what you see them doing is them just pretending
they can see themselves in the mirror. So I always
think about that and then to have some background actors
do it, that's some evolved background actor business. So hm,
Corey's doing the same in the mirror, but his mirror
is just a picture of mister potato Head, which is
a cute joke. He grabs a wooden pipe just like
mister potato Head.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
And like, I'm gonna sell it, and potato, here's the pipe.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Phoene walks by and grabs the pipe out of Corey's mouth,
forcing Corey to say, now I got no pipe. And
Sean's staring at himself in the mirror and Corey tells him, yes, fine,
you're perfect. Now can we get out of the hallway
where everyone can see me? Sean tells Cory, I just
need to get a little more hair in my eyes.
Then Corey ruffles up Shan's hair and Sean looks in
the mirror and says, huh, also good. Corey's upset that
Shawn's hair always looks good, and he tries to make

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his own hair move in the same way. Sean stops him,
saying stop, he'll cut his fingers. Corey agrees he's overreacting,
but he says, between Shan and Eric, he feels like
he's surrounded by people with perfect hair. Tapanga on Cue
walks up with a very large art bag of sorts,
which is perfect direction because if you think about what's

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coming up, if I had a regular backpack on, where
would the scissors be? How would I have to swing
the backpack around? What would I have to unzip to
get them? It would take up so much time and
a lot going on. So Jeff McCracken, being the genius
he is, said to our prop master David Glazer, being
the genius he is, let's give her an art back.

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She's carrying something to go to her next class, which
must be art, which.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Is said, by the way, right when you arrive, there's
a background actor behind you who just stares right at
the camera, just right, like right in between you, just
right at the camera, and then walks off like oh
my mom.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
So Corey points to Topanga and adds, no need to
explain this relationship is there. Corey tells Topanga he's feeling
a little insecure today, but he's sure it'll pass right
as he says this. Dylan will Estis, with his perfect
hair and his poka shells, comes walking up to Tapanga
and asks if she wants to go out this weekend.
Tapanga tells him, of course not, I'm going out with
Corey Pokashelle. Dylan surprised and tells her you're still with him?

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I figured you would have dumped him over the summer.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
What.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
I just love this whole seat.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's so good, the best, just talking about him like
he's not sting.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
This is this is what I love.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Is like Corey trying to be confident, like he's like,
I'm just having a bad day. I'm just a but
he's not putting it out on anybody else. And then
the situation comes in that just rubs his face in it,
and then he can be as upset as he wants
because he's reacting to something actually happening. That's like what
we lacked in that, you know, I feel like in
previous episodes like, Okay, now I'm totally on board with Corey.

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See this happens, Oh the poor guy.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
You're with him?

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yes, if he overreacts, you can know that's okay. It's
okay to overreact. We all overreact sometimes and you're figuring
the world out. So but you're right. It's when he
when he starts off by being like I'm not feeling great,
like an honest and then also a scenario gets right

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in front of him that blows up in his face. Okay,
I can do anything after this.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
And when he's this Corey exactly, that's exactly what was
gonna say. When he's this Cory even later where he's
like the universe were supposed to be together, it doesn't
come off as creepy and weird. It comes off as
hopeful and like goofy, and so you're fine with it.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
So this Corey more of this to three more.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Yep so uh. Tepega asks him to leave, but on
his way out, he says, well, if you do decide
to dump him, here's my card. Corey reads Dylan's card
out loud locker number one sixty eight. Sean shrugs, and
Corey gives us an undercover huh did you hear it?

Speaker 1 (29:16):
It's und I do it this episode and then.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
It's like we're sending coded.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Messages to each other.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
I saw it was like, oh, we just did the hunt,
and we glad we all saw it, because sometimes only
one of us notices it and we're like, oh, I
should go back and watch it. But seriously, this felt
like us time traveling where I really felt like I
was like, oh, we are.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Like we like clearly decided to try and insert hum
as possible, and we all.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Noticed them now and the writers didn't.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
And that was part of the joke, was we were
slipping them in as reaction beats, just because we thought
it was just so funny. And if they let us,
if they didn't notice, we were getting away with something
that was just a message to each other. We've smuggled
in little messages. It's yeah, it's like writing strawfty bright
on my folder.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
It feels so good.

Speaker 9 (30:10):
It's it.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
That's exactly right. Corey gives us that undercover huh, before
admitting that's a nice locker. Topanga assures Corey that it
was just some guy asking her out and it isn't
a big deal. Corey explains it's not a big deal

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to her because she's the ASKI and why are you
always the ASKI? Because you are gorgeous. Topega thanks him
and tells him to give her some credit. Boys usually
date girls based on how they look, but Corey dates
her because of who she is inside. Corey looks at
Sean and they both start to laugh. Tapega continues, the
only reason you think I'm good looking is because you
care about me. Sean starts to laugh at this again,

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but Corey doesn't follow. He scolds Sean, that was one
laugh too many.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
I feel like I could have done another one right,
Like there needs to be three. There needs to be three.
Do you think there's probably whole episode?

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Maybe, but that's my only My only note for the
whole episode is you know, if you had done two three,
you could then say three, there's one too many.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
I know. I feel like they're we must have and
then they were just like, let's say yeah to the joke. Yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, there must have been one beat too long, and
they were like, we can just cut that. So Tapega
assures him that no matter what she looked like, Corey
would still think she's pretty. Corey continues being insecure, saying
he has a nose that takes up half his face
and hair like a brillo. Pad Tapanga tells him she
loves his face and she loves his hair, but most
of all she loves him because of who he is.

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So Tapanga finishes her sweet speech saying, I hope you
love me because of who I am and not because
of my face and hair. Corey stares at her blankly
and says, if I looked in the mirror and saw
what you see, I'd feel real good about myself too.
Topanga asks, Oh, you think that's it? You think what
gives me all my confidence is my face and hair?
Corey adds, and the fact that they're perfect. Yeah, I
think that puts a little spring in your step. Topanga

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then pulls a pair of scissors out of her bag
with record speed because great directing by Jeff Kraken, I've
got the art bag, and right in front of Corey,
she chops her hair off.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
She cuts her hair bit, she cuts her hair a
little bit.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
She cuts five inches off. Yes, uh yeah, So the
studio audience is like stunned silence, hands him the pieces
she cut, asking if she's any different now. Corey's in shock,
and so is Sean in the background, and so is America.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
America shocked shocked.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Tapega continues cutting her hair as Corey says she's somewhat
less predictable, but he'd still love her no matter what
she looked like. Topega says, she glad, She's glad he
learned something. She starts to walk off with her unevenly
cut hair, and then stops in her tracks as she
walks past Sean's locker and his mirror. In disbelief, Sean
predicts she's gonna scream now. Topanga proceeds to let out

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a giant scream as she's holding her uneven strands of hair.
Just there we go.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
You're awesome.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Wed one about this at a at a live show,
and you told me you thought you cut off a foot.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
We did. By the time it was by the time
he had done.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
The hair, when you were actually cutting it, you'd cut
a foot off.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Oh no, by the time we were done, like where
my hair ended up and where it had been, it
was over. It was twelve inches.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
But no, no, I just watching it as a guy.
It made me feel good thinking that you thought that
was a foot.

Speaker 9 (33:16):
That's no, my gosh, You're like, wow, right, maybe I've
got something there.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
All right, we're in this school hallway. Topega is still
staring at Sean's locker mirror, reassuring herself that it's just
a little hair, it has nothing to do with who
she is. Corey is still holding her chopped off hair.
To Pega continues, I'm still to Panga, Lawrence, and nobody
who cares about me will even notice, right. Phoene walks
up and greets Corey and Sean, and to Pega turns around.
Phoene says, ooh, what the heck happened to you? To
Pega worriedly tells him, I've cut my hair. In an

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attempt to show Corey that physical appearance is secondary to
inner beauty. Phoene sees Corey's handful of locks and tells Topanga, well,
in that case, miss Laura, I applaud your attempt at
teaching a very valuable lesson during these extremely vulnerable teenage years.
To paying a scream cries do you think I'm ugly?
And she runs away. The boys all stare in disbelief,
and Sean announces, nice.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Going, Phoenie. I love that nice going, Phoenie.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
It's so cute. Did I ever tell you, guys the
story of the conversation I had with my mom that's
very similar to this? You think I'm ugly? I was
in high school and I only wanted to wear tennis
shoes with my dresses. And my mom is of the
camp that like tennis shoes don't go with dresses, you
wear sandals or heels or something. They just she didn't

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like that look. And I really I don't remember where
I was going, but I was getting ready for something,
probably some sort of date. And I came downstairs in
a sun dress, like a long sun dress and tennis shoes,
and I said, what do you think about this outfit?
And she said, I don't think the shoes with that
dress are flattering. And I literally burst into tears and yelled,
you think I'm fat and ran upstairs and she was like, what, wait,

(35:05):
what I what is going on? Anyway, It's literally the
first thing I thought of, because I remember it so vividly,
And it's another one of those very relatable teenage moments
where you also.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
A very relatable adult marriage moment. Yeah, that's a very
relatable moments between two people.

Speaker 9 (35:24):
I was.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
I was very emotional as a teen girl. Uh So,
then we're in the girl's bathroom another new set alert
Tapega is staring at herself again now in the bathroom mirror.
Trying to figure out what to do with her hair.
She's next to two fellow students, one of whom is
Jessica Bibbo, who we spoke to during our Background Actors episode.
If you guys remember, she's next to another background actress, Wendy,

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and those two have kept in touch since the day
they met on set during this taping.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
That's so cool, isn't that amazing?

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I have a question for the two of you as directors,
because you know kind of more of the behind the
scenes stuff than I do. A set like this, Do
you have any idea what it costs to build a
set like this?

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Is it? Is it ten thousand dollars to build a
set like this? Is a one hundred thousand dollars to
build it?

Speaker 3 (36:09):
It's more of a producer question I have, no, I
don't really know. It's expensive. It's expensive because you have
to pay unions. I mean, the crews are really expensive
because they build it within a night. Basically, yeah, they
build it within a night, which means they put it up,
paint it, you know, so like you have to pay
somebody to design it, and then then you have to
pay like a crew to construct it, and then you.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Have to pay a crew to set, decade, set decorate it.
So that's like three distinct like crews at least to
just even get it work and then do it so fast.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
I mean, it's crazy night later.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
That sink is practical. That water works, so they have
to get water. They have to.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
It's probably closer to the one hundred thousand dollars than
it is the ten thousand dollars on.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
A union job like this.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
On a union job like this, yeah, because you're paying
everybody union wages and it's like you're paying overtime if
they have to do it, like yeah, it's it's a lot. Yeah,
but I think you know, if you were doing it
on like a low budget Indy whatever, you could get
this done for ten grand to throw this up, because
the materials themselves are actually pretty cheap.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
It's like exactly she plywood and pain.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
It's a fake like brick. All the stuff is fake.
All I guess the toilets would be real and the
sink would be real. I know, yeah, but you know,
I'm just curious.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
So anyway, Corey barges in, still holding Topanga's hair, which
he's using to cover his eyes. Man coming in I'm
not looking. I'm just here on business. He opens his
eyes and tells the girls they probably want to scream
and scatter now that he's in there, because he's a boy.
The girls look at him without a care in the
world and just go back to fixing themselves in the mirrors.
Corey looks around and asks why they have a couch,
and Tapega tells him sometimes they need to lie down.

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Corey says that that's where boys are different. They're in
there out they don't like to linger. The two other
girls walk out and to Panga admits that she would
like to be alone. Cory sits down on the couch
and tells her he'll be alone with her. You don't
have any problems. Look at yourself in the mirror. You're
still beautiful. Tapega walks over and we get some shaky
camera work is the Stapanga walks over, Yeah, there was

(38:04):
a there was a little camera bobble. Yeah, it must
have been an uneven floor there.

Speaker 8 (38:08):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Corey tells her she was right, it doesn't matter what
she looks like, it only matters who she is, and
Tapega reveals, that's my problem. That was only because I
was comfortable with my appearance all this time, but now
I'm not How shallow can I be? Corey assures her
she's not shallow. She's the deepest, most thoughtful, profound person
he's ever known. Tapega asks how her hair looks, and
Corey tells her that's not one of your strong points anymore.

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Very funny joke.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
I mean, the supportive he's like, he's the great Corey, right.
But it's also just great writing, right because now these
two characters have entered the upside down right like he started.
They started where she was supporting him for being insecure,
and then through the course of the events of this
episode already they've completely reversed roles and now Corey has
to be supporting her. That is just perfect writing.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
And I believe it.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Like how they've they've clearly stated everybody's like been able
to go and it's been fun along the way.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
It's just absolutely perfect writer.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
And the idea that they're doing it in a bathroom,
like it in a bathroom, it's just it's so awesome.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
It's everything about it is perfect.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Yeah, And I believe that Corey when he tells her
the very same lesson lesson she was just trying to
teach him in the scene before that he believes it.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
He does believe it, and he does can't even apply
to himself yet, you know, they're still a journey to
be had. But he's just trying to make her feel
better and being honest with.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Her totally, and she's being able to internalize it for himself.
But recognizing you are right though, because here you are
in the same situation and I think you're crazy because
I love you and your beautiful no matter what.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
But that's the joy of him never also looking in
the mirror or having the mirror in his lockers. He
won't see himself right throughout the entire episode, which is
so cool. So even when he's when he's reversed the thing,
it was just it was also good.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's also good.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Tapega grabs her strand of hair from Corey and looks
at it disappointedly. Corey asks how long it took her
to grow her hair that long. Topanga tells him six
or seven years, and Corey excitedly tells her that's perfect.
Corey explains that in six to seven years her hair
will grow back and he'll be out of his goosey goosey,

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trying to make.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
It kind of cool like.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Goosey, Goosey goose.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Man.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
And he tells Tapanga this is going to make them
even closer as a couple because now they are in
perfect sink to. Pega smiles and kisses Corey, telling him
that's why she loves him. After school, she'll go to
the beauty parlor and she's going to get her hair
even out to Pega leaves the girl's bathroom and Corey
stays behind. Sean immediately walks out of a stall and
asks how the conversation went. Corey tells him everything's gonna

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be fine. To Panga is going to go to a
beauty parlor after this, and Sean gives him his own
little undercover huh huh huh, and then says, so, what
do you want to do now? That's where he almost
broke almost.

Speaker 5 (41:00):
So what do you want to do now?

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Corey asks if he wants to sit on the couch
to it. Sean says yes. They PLoP down on the
couch and sit in the girl's bathroom alone, and then
we're in the Matthews House. Another iconic scene. Alert Eric
is on the couch in a robe drinking milk straight
from the carton and squirting chocolate sauce directly into his mouth.
He shakes his head vigorously to mix in time to.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Wait for the bee story to start too. By the way,
I know, it's but it's worked. It totally works.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's so.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
It's Actually I was just realizing, Oh, we haven't developed
Eric storyline.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
It hasn't even started.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Just jumping into it now.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
So Amy and Morgan walk in, and Amy tells Eric
it's four o'clock. He's been sitting in the exact same
spot when she left this morning. Apparently Eric was supposed
to be looking for a job. He tells her he's
been watching crime shows on TV all day, and these
crime shows have been solved by old guys, fat guys,
and guys with wrinkled raincoats. It occurs to Eric that
what this world's needs, what this world needs is Eric Matthews,

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good looking detective. He says it in a deep movie
announcer voice. Worriedly announces I'm gonna do so much homework
as she runs up the stairs. So really cute that
this is the perfect way for Morgan to not be mean. Really,
I mean it's a little mean, but it's perfect. She's like,
my brother didn't get into college and now he sits
around and watches TV all day. I'm gonna do so,

(42:15):
I'm gonna do all my homework.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Great little one.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
She's a little one liner machine. She runs, says the
line takes it runs right.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Eric continues telling Amy he's already thought of a theme song.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
He sings, will breaks out all the cute girl shout
get the good looking guy.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
I have to say. People ask me to sing that
at every convention. Really, Oh god, I hear it all
the time. So good. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Producer Tara said, I still knew every word to this song,
and so did I. Ah so uh. He finishes with
a hair toss and a smile at Amy, saying book
him good looking.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Do you remember the origin of this song? Did they
let you do?

Speaker 9 (42:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (42:57):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
This was they wrote all this, They wrote Eric's But
did you come up with the melody?

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Did you just spontaneous at the table's singing? No?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
I think what happened was because they in the tag.
Then Ray Colecord obviously did a version of the song.
So I guess is they played some version of it
for me to give me the kind of the cadence
of the song, and then yeah, because no, this was
all them. I'd love to say that I ad lived
any of this, but no, this was all It was great.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
So funny. So Amy is unamused. I'm scared for you. You've
got to get out of this house. Eric asks to
do what. Let's say I find one of these so
called jobs with a high school diploma. The best I
can ask for his minimum wage and what they take
out for taxes. I can do better solving crimes. He
starts singing his theme song again, but Amy lunges at him,

(43:44):
covering his mouth. She pleads, you can't just mope around
the house. Why don't you go out on a date.
Eric tells her all the girls he used to date
have gone off to college. Amy argues there must be
plenty of nice girls right here in town. Eric asks, townys.
You want me to date a towny?

Speaker 6 (43:58):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (43:58):
I could see them now, sitting on their couch in
their ratty bathroom, watching daytime TV and eating bond bonds.
Amy looks him up and down, and Eric confidently explains
these are cocoa puffs and checked great joke.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Indy watched this episode with me and like, these are
cocoa puffs. He lost it, lost it.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
It's so funny.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
It's so funny.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
I also, I have never wanted cocoa puffs, so more good.
Didn't it look delicious?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
I'm doing the spoon acting because.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Cereal just stabbing it repeatedly with this stirring.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
You were stirring it, you were getting the cocoa puffs
in there. But I also thought, man, that's the way
to do it, to eat your cereal also out of
an extra large bowl. Everything about what you were doing it. No,
I just use a regular.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
I've had forever. Salad that is like this big.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
It's green. I think it's based on the show. But
it's this big and it holds up.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
A box rite a box of Are you serious? No,
it's been a while. It's not my popcorn bowl. But
back in the day, I remember when Love and I
were dating, we would like sit in the morning with
this thing and we'd share a box of cereal while
watching cartoons. It was the greatest great ever. Yeah, I
still have.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
I'm going to actually have to go buy some cocoa
buffs because it really made me want them. They're not
as good as a Kebler sand They're handy, but there
you know what, I'm going to drive my Hyundai to
get some Keebler.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Sandy's some Keeler Sandy and great in that bowl are Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
So then we are in the three Cellini Brothers hair salon,
another new Settler, another.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Set John and a lot of news.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
And think about the first episode of the season. We
were driving. We did the yogurt cup.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Wee we had money, Clen.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
We knew we were picked up at the end of
season three and they gave us.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Some doughn absolutely.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
So Sean and Corey are waiting for Tapanga, and Sean's
getting antsy because she's been in there a long time.
Cory asks, what are you getting so crazy about? She's
just getting a haircut again. I love it, Corey, the
optimist things are fine, settling you down, Sean says, we've
known Tapanga her whole life. She doesn't wear makeup. She's
never been to a beauty parlor. She's completely natural. And
to that, I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen,

(46:20):
I was not completely natural.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
No makeup.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
We had an entire care and makeup team dedicated to and.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Wardrobe correct since the age of twelve.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
I've had that team of people, the natural, unnatural beauty
of two hours a day in a chair, hair all.
That's exactly hours and hours of maintenance. Also hours and
hours of my life wasted, spend spent thinking about every
single morsel of food I put into my mouth, being paranoid.

(46:54):
I was going to look heavy on camera, so I
would just like to say, I call just okay. So
Corey questions, so what's the big deal? Sean explains, she
was beautiful without anybody's help. Now she's got professional help.
She's going to be mega beautiful. We're not even going
to be able to look at her directly without burning
our retinas. And I remember that line, and it's so funny.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
It's all so good.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
It's so good. Corey argues, this isn't Beverly Hills. It's
a neighborhood beauty salon next to Old Lady Schneider's donut shop.
They don't exactly do miracles here. The camera cuts to
a beautiful woman getting out of a salon share and
Sean gasps Old Lady Schneider.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Trying hard not to lose it. We are trying so hard.
Not to eat it.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
I don't know what was going on, but there was
some in joke between the two of us. I don't
know what it was.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
We thought that was the funniest thing of it. The
funniest thing is legitimately funny. It's such a good joke.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
But I could just tell that Ben and I can't
look at each other and this moment, like we're trying
to avoid eye contact because if we clearly are going
to make each other lose it.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
Oh my god. So I do remember all of the
scenes with Dom. He is so funny and was so
funny all week, and I think we generally in every
scene that took place in this beauty parlor, couldn't keep
it together. I just we were just having fun the
whole time, Like it was just such a fun, great,

(48:17):
absolutely great. I cackled at that old Lady Schneider joke. Sean,
Oh gosh, Sean breaks it to him. The first thing
she's gonna do is dump you. Then she's going to
start hanging out with other unbelievably good looking people. Cory
asks how he knows that, and Sean says, it's what
we do. Hit after hit after hit, after perfect joke
after perfect joke, Cory says, this is all wrong. If

(48:38):
anyone knows hair, it's me. When I get a haircut,
it looks terrible for like the first six weeks, then
all of a sudden, it looks terrific for a day,
and then it's time for another haircut. It's what I
like to call the haircut cycle.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Of Shake, one of the greatest little monologues, like just
word for word, so funny, and Ben's delivery, I'm just.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Like, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Yes, all of us, hit after hit after hit after
hit of just I can't catch my breath.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
It's almost every scene you could quote almost every line. Yeah,
you know what I mean, Like, almost every scene is
an iconic line from Boyby's World. Like then the next
beat when I'm like, I live in a trailer park
and my hair does this notable Sean lines ever.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Yeah, and you know you know what I think. One
of the things is that makes boy Meets World so
amazing is that in the seven seasons of the show,
we probably have so we did a total of one
hundred and fifty eight episodes. Well, those of you who
were on the show, you did one hundred total of
one hundred and fifty eight episodes for people like me
who were barely on the show. We did something more
like one hundred or something. But there are probably really

(49:40):
conservative estimate forty episodes that are like this one that
are so memorable, so iconic, so incredible, so perfect from
beginning to end. Maybe not quite as balanced, but there's
so many amazing ones. And then there's probably another sixty
or seventy that are just bees, which is still great,

(50:02):
still pretty emnent. Yeah, maybe it's thirty that are like
I could have done without that one when you're looking
at that ratio, No wonder the ones that aren't as
good people go, Yeah, maybe I skip that one. But overall, boy,
do I ever love this show? When you have what
we're already starting with with season four, Oh that's all?
You find a better show out there that's also.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Par for the course for any long lasting television show. Yeah,
there's not a single television show in history that every
episode was awesome.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Just doesn't it be? It doesn't exist. And just to
demand of the speed at which you have to write
and the last episodes, I mean, you're doing twenty twenty
one twenty two episodes of season sometimes twenty four, twenty four,
it's just such a crazy schedule.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
So yeah, I mean the idea, it's more like it's
more like like, you know, to do a sports ball metaphor.
Oh wait, it's more like baseball. You know baseball, you
know in baseball. It's it's not about like it's going
to Yes, I wanted you to keep that you want
to make money metaphor, because right, it's more like you
you do like small moves. It's not like every time

(51:08):
you have to it's like you have to be more
consistent over.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
You're going to Bill James with it?

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Interesting, sure, sure, yeah he knows that.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Bill James is the guy who wrote the book that
Moneyball was based on. Ye, Like it's where it's the
money the book creating.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Yeah, I've always seen the moving all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yeah okay, yeah, but yes, you're right, it's like, you know,
let's you know, we can spend the money in a
better way to make the team more profitable essentially.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
So Sean asks, and that's what you think is going
to happen to Tapanga. Yes I do, Corey says, because
the universe knows we're supposed to be together. So the
universe has seen fit to put to Panga in that
chair and make her hideous so we can get through
our teenage years awkward hand in awkward hand.

Speaker 5 (51:47):
Classics Boy meets World.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Universe yep, like confusion with the fact that we're on
a TV show thing, which we've talked a lot about,
But this is like maybe one of the first like
really clearly stated like and what we're supposed to out
of this, right?

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Oh yeah, but I was okay with.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
This one, yeah, because its Girl Meets World was all this.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Literally every week of Girl Meets World would say something
about the universe.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Means that we're supposed to be doing this.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
Or you know, it's basically a code for God.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Like always it's always like God means we're gonna you know.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
It's really it's interesting that this is like one of
the first times I think Corey's actually said universe.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Girl Meets World used that all the time.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Yes, yes, So Sean asks, you know, she's coming out
great looking, don't you. Corey grabs Sean and hugs him
as he groans yes, yes, and then we see Tapanga
new Crop topped slowly walking out of the hairdresser's room
as the audience whoosh, And this is here possibly the
most used jiff of topanga. Just you know that topanga

(52:50):
walking out, just me walking out?

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Is you also had.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
The look you were like trying to be shy and coquettish,
but you knew you look good.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
You could tell you Oh.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
Yeah, I mean well, it's the whole point of the scene. Also,
when my dad watch this episode, my dad went, where
did you learn to walk like that? So Sean stares
at the panga and disbelief. As Corey turns around to
look at her, he angrily cries, this universe blows. So,
I mean, there we are another another perfect, hilarious classic scene.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
The biggest stretch is just that you haven't changed all them, right,
Like the fact that they have to like tie your
shirt to make you like show off belly and be
a little sexier.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Hair alone is like is it no?

Speaker 4 (53:33):
It also is that he has done her makeup and
painted her nails. It's a it's a transformation of other things,
not just the hairca.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
You were you were hard to make over.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
You were already you know, in this league of beautiful
woman or girl that then you can't write And I
just think, yeah, they could have well they didn't down.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
They didn't play it down enough like they did in
the nineties movies where it's like, you know, she I
need to glass for all these things where it's glass
and a ponytail and.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
She can't be pretty. She has a ponytail, like you know,
like that.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Well, that's the thing is to Pango already has transitioned
from like the sort of lacey dresses, like the hair
from the first season, like in a way is written
to this. Yes, yes, but especially after like we went
to Florida where you were in a different outfit, showing
belly and looking all so like this look is already
kind of happened over time, so in a weird way,

(54:26):
they probably could have set it up better by just
having you dress more like first season to Panga, those
first couple of scenes exactly change your clothes completely.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
I don't know, it's well, like you're going to class.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Even that one scene she had been wearing smocks like
paint and like she maybe does have her hairs all
messed up.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
I mean, like, I think then we would have criticized it.
I think we would have criticized it. We would have
been like, oh well, like but I do think and
I think what happened was I didn't ask to cut
my hair until this summer, but my look had arted
to change in season three. So the problem was they
had already adjusted, They had already started trying to age

(55:05):
me up and change me a little bit in season
three before I was like, please, please, please let me
cut my hair, because you're right. Had we known this
was coming all along, they would have been like, let's
keep her young, innocent, all natural to Panga until she
cuts her hair, and then we have a massive change
wardrobe style, you know, big change for her. But we

(55:26):
didn't know that was going to happen.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
But I actually have fourteen here, fourteen.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
Fifteen is this Let's see what when did this air?
This air in ninety six.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
So I was fifteen ninety fifteen.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
This is ninety six, Season four, episode three, Fall ninety six,
I was fifteen.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
Weirdly, I felt like.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
I looked younger in this episode than two in earlier episode.
That wasn't the same thing.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
If you had played me this episode out of order,
I would have been like, oh, this is ninety five
into ninety six, this is season three. Basically, because by
the end of season three, I felt like I was like, ah,
I'm looking like a real teenager.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
But now I guess it's just the haircut.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
I probably grown my head out over the summer and
then they cut it and I just end up kind
of looking more like little boys.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
I think there was also something psychological though about going
back to being sidekick Sean, like there was no depression
in this.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
You know, there's no angs. You were like funny, bubbly
sidekickshew in this.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
I don't know, though, that scene with Sepanga is pretty
that scene a solid and Sean is I just love
Sean is a character of this episode because it's like
he's still like confident and like kind of dumb Sean
in some ways, but but it's not, and it's it's
just so good.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
It's it's also so it's like a little bit like
bad advice, even though it's it's kind of what happens.
It's it's bad advice, but also based in like, oh gosh,
this is bad news for you a very honest friend. Okay.

(56:54):
Then we're in the hair salon to Panga asks the boys, well,
isn't somebody going to say anything? Sean tries to control himself,
whispering she's my best friend's girl. She's my best friend's girl.
And then he breaks and yells out, oh what the
heck marry me. I live in a trailer park and
I have no education, but my hair does this, and
he repeatedly runs his fingers through his middle part. Gosh,
it's funny, it's jolly funny, so funny. The audience screams.

(57:17):
Corey tries to interject. Sean tells him to shut up. Man,
I'm going for it, going for it. Great for Corey
grabs a spray bottle and sprays Sean with the water
right in the face. Sean pats Corey on the back, Thanks,
I'm back, and then he signals call me when Corey.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Turns away, because he's like the predictable joke. But then
you add two extra beats to it, you know what
I mean, Like splash in the water.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Okay, now it's funny and on back and then the
little oh my god.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
It's so great.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
Corey asks to Panga, I want the name of the
guy who did this to you. Tapanga says, you don't
like it. Corey says, it's not that I don't like it,
it's just that I'm in love with this girl who
was never interested in what she looked like before. And
now I see makeup and polish on your nails and toes.
And he pauses to tell Sean stop looking at her toes,
and Sean says, but they sparkle, they sparkle.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
So lost it so funny.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
Topanga says her stylist's name is mister Cellini, but she
assures him it's just a haircut, it's just some makeup.
It's not gonna change me. She looks at her watch
and then tells the boys she has to go. Cory
asks where she's going, and Tapega turns around to tell
him famous line alert this outfit with this hair Hello,
bye bye. I am so at the mall.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
This whole episode is just chock full of the most
another quote quote quote quote, It's good.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
Yeah. Topanga leaves, and Corey says this just isn't like Tapanga.
Obviously she's under the influence of the so called mister Cellini.
Sean agrees and tells them they should go find him.
Cory smiles and asks, you are my friend, aren't you,
and Sean responds, of course, I am, Cory asks, and
that little thing with Tapanga. Sean admits, I think the
three of us can be very happy together.

Speaker 8 (58:51):
Hey, Sean inventin off. Come on, I was wha, I
know a progressive joke.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
I love it. The boys walk over to the hairdressers
and Corey asks which one of you guys worked onto Panga.
Lawrence and Italian man steps up and says, ah, that
would be me, Bosco Cellini. Corey toughens up. All right, Bosco,
I want to know where you come off taking a
natural beauty like Topanga and painting her face and nails
and messing with her beautiful hair. Bosco points to Sean,
calling him friend to the little whining boy, and asks

(59:24):
if Corey just said messing, and then he says, for
your Inframazzione, it is very rare that on a Tuesday,
our slow day, that Venus de Milo herself would sit
in my chair and say to me, make with me
what you wish Bosco. Bosco says he's a European man,
secure enough in his own masculinity to admit that he wept.
He cried like a little baby, cries. Sean tells him
we're in the middle of Philadelphia here, so let's just

(59:44):
drop this phony accent, Bosco asks squoozy Sean yells talking English,
Bosco ditches the Italian accent for a thick Brooklyn one.
This is how it went down. Chicky comes in, plops
down half a SnO right, I do a little snippy,
but it works.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
You gotta do it great.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
Corey agrees she is beautiful and admits that Bosco did
a very nice job. Bosco pats him on the shoulder.
Don't mention it, and that is the start of a
fantastic drive by appearance by Dom Irrera. Just unbelievable. And
then we are in Chubbys. Eric is on a date,
explaining to the new love interest that he's at a
crossroad in his life because he didn't get into college

(01:00:23):
like the rest of his friends. What friends exactly, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Neither is Eric.

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
He tells her he's going to be stuck here for
a while, and she assures him it's not so bad.
You get used to it. Eric admits he's okay with it.
He tells her, I actually thought there was a career
out there for me as a weatherman. I even interned
at Channel five.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
I loved he brought it back like it was a
thing for him, and it mattered and matter yea, and
that was great.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
She's surprised, and he continues, I guess they thought I
was too young and didn't have enough life experience, which
is crazy. I'm eighteen, I've lived, you know. The girl
agrees she's eighteen and feels like she has some life experiences. Well.
She tells him she has a two year old to
take care of. He's a big handful, and in between
putting him in daycare and working double shifts at the
dairy queen, I actually wouldn't mind a little less life experience.

(01:01:10):
Eric responds, can't your parents help you? The girl's surprised
and her read.

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

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
You have your parents helping you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Got your mom and dad helping you. It's so good.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Yeah, he reveals, Yeah, you know, just financially, such a
funny joke.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Just financially.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
It's like, Joe, we've watched them support you in every
possible way, or as if just financially is not that big.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
That's my thing, is like just financially, He's like.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Every yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
She smiles and tells him he's very lucky. He thanks
her and admits he's luckier than he thought, and that
is a perfect scene.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Perfect scene didn't need to be any longer either. It
was exactly what you needed, right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
Exactly what you needed, a full life lesson. And the
way you look at her and smile and there's no
absolutely no sense of like, oh, this girl's not for me. Now,
you just have such a beautiful moment of connection with
her and you smile at her in the most lovely way.
It's just fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
It was very nice.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
So then we're in john Ata talking.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
About a difference from the end or last episode where
the tawny girl was just a punchline, do you know
what I mean, and like totally not like this is
this is such a better way to do it, and
it's no less funny, Like this storyline is so even
funny funny, but everything that happened in the last episode.
But you know, and she's a fully development she is
in this case. She is kind of archetypal, right she

(01:02:40):
word that dairy queen has a kid. But it's not
played for a joke, it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
Played for the stereotype. It's just great. It's perfect. Yeah. Yeah,
she was so good too.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Just just incredible real. So mister Turner walks into his
classroom and has to announce to a few boys to
take their seats. He wonders, what is so interesting that
you all have to crowd around here. He stops when
he sees Tepega. Oh boy, look at you. She smiles
and says, yeah, I got a haircut. Do you like it?
Corey cuts off the conversation, telling Turner to focus. Some
people are here to learn. Turner starts his lesson about
John Merrick, who is immortalized in the play The Elephant Man.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Okay, so.

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
Just let's talk about it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Well, but for me, just this was literature coming back
into boy before, which immediately I was like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Yay, I missed this.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
I what and it worked?

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
Indy is sitting there and he's like, what is this true?
There's there was a person.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Named the Elephant Man.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
And I'm like, so there we are the whole having
to pause so I could explain to him, and now
he wants to read the play, he wants to see
the movie. I was like, it was like, oh, the
educational moment is happening, and he was like laughs at
like when when Tony does the whole and then he
has his head back, and Indy.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
Was like, is that true.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
It was like he was like he was laughing at it,
but then he wanted to know more about this real
person and I was like, yeah, it is this.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
A real story and it's a great play, and oh.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
My god, he just couldn't. But it was like, ah,
boy meets the world doing its job.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
He's doing me a favor, and just show him a
picture of the hideous Bradley Cooper. He's clear the hideous
Bradley Cooper who played him into the play. Just to
show him what an ugly, horrible beast the Elephant Man was.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Now, this was his line that Tony.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
We would say to Tony all the time, all really
we would go to him and go and ladies until
he eventually died.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Like the way he said it, he could see Tony.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
Absolutely kills me. It just kills me. So Turner says,
even though he was tragically disfigured, he still won the
hearts of London society with his wonderful inner spirit. Corey
turns to Sean, I come from a great looking family
and I'm just going through my awkward teenage face. But
that doesn't mean I can't win the hearts of high
school society with my wonderful inner spirit, and Turner continues,

(01:04:49):
what's interesting about John Merrick is that it came from
a wonderful looking family, yet was so hideous himself. He
was forced to wear a burlap sack over his head
and perform as a side show freak and chilled a day.
His oversized head rolled back and he done.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
It is one of the greatest speeches in all of
boy be world history because Tony is nailing it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
But it's like funny, and.

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
It is written so perfectly. It is delivered with such
like perfect inflection. It's just unbelievably funny.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
Yeah. Now, what job interview did to Panga have after
this class?

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
She's going to sell a brick split level?

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Because I thought maybe a bank? I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
It's interesting that they went this direction, right, because now
the other thing that you could have gone was more
like sexy, I guess, and they clearly decided that that
wasn't That doesn't make sense for domesticated is the way, Yes,
but it's weird because it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
I also look like I could sell you a cell phone?

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Yes, yeah, well they also fancy they they.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
And it's so it's I'm sorry, I'm bracketing this by
saying it's creepy in my opinion to talk about a
fifteen year old like this. But they went like, when
she's just sitting there at the at the desk, they
went kind of upscale, more sophisticated, but when she walks
into the bathroom, your skirt is real short.

Speaker 4 (01:06:13):
Well, my favorite memory that I told Jensen last night
while we were watching this is when we did the commentary,
which I don't really remember any of the thoughts that
we shared about this episode when we did the commentary,
but this was one of them.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
We do the commentary for this episode, we.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
Did, and one of my favorite things is that Will
said that's not a skirt, that's a large belt. Thought
was absolutely hilarious. He was like, as you're as as
a person who feels very much like your older brother,
that skirt is offensive to me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
It's not.

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
It's not a skirt, it's a very large belt.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Wow, it's so funny. When you mentioned to Danielle to
the commentary.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Not since we did it, No, I I don't I
remember did it. I remember from when we did it
that was with like Michael.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
And Matt Lawrence and Ben and like everybody like because
there was I'm trying to remember because we've done two
commentary sessions and I don't remember one of our first ones.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Yeah, okay, that's funny. It does. It's real short.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Yeah, it's a real short skirt. It's really short, and
that is why I think they balanced it with more
with an oversized kind of long sleeve thing. But they
did go they did go really short. Yeah. Uh, I
do love a short skirt. Not gonna lie. So Corey asks,

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and when did he grow out of this death? Just
then Phoenie walks in, apologizing for the interruption. Phoene reminds
the class that Friday is picture day, so dress nicely
and try to look your best. Corey imagines the yearbook
and we enter a daydream where Tapanga and Sean look great.
This is again very iconic from the show. The inscriptions
under our photos say Queen of the Hotties and there's

(01:07:54):
enough for everybody. So good. We then see Corey's picture
and he is wearing a burlapsed sack over his head
with a quote that reads I'm a human being also brilliant.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
It's so good, So good.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
Cory snaps out of the fantasy and says he just
wants to die, and he leans back on Sean's desk.
He continues, please don't lift my oversized head. It truly
is perfect scene after perfect scene after scene.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
That's it's the best episode we've ever done. I'm sorry,
I'll say it. It's, I agree, the best episode we've
ever done.

Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
It's so agreed.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
And then then we're back in the hair salon. Corey
runs in and begs mister Cellini for his help. Chelini,
talking in his Italian accent, tells him, see, Chellini is
here to help, but when he sees Corey, he drops
the Italian accent. Oh it's you, the little whiny kid.
Corey tells him he wants Chillini the artist. He wants
him to help, just like he did with Tepanga. Chillini
tells him forget it, he doesn't take walk ins. Corey
pulls out some cash and says, I'm walking in with

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seventy five bucks. Chillini quickly adjusts back to his Italian
accent and announces to the salon ntione cappuccino for the
whiny kid. And then you're at the Matthew's house. Eric's
sitting on the couch in his same ratty bathrobe, eating
those same coco puffs and those same filthy pajamas, sadly
singing his made up theme song to his made up
crime show. Alan walks in, confused, what the heck are

(01:09:13):
you doing? Eric responds, this is who I am now, Daddy.
I'm a towney. I'm worse than a towny because I
rely on my parents for economic support. I didn't buy
this cereal. You bought my cereal. You bought my clothes,
you bought this cereal. You bought the milk, which was
white when it started. But it's chocolate now because it's
cocoa puffs. And I've been sitting here for nine hours.

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Perfect will, It's perfect, every moment of it. Alan grabs
him off the couch and slaps a newspaper on his chest.
Get off your butt, get a job right now. He
pushes Eric out the door, who's still in his robe
and his pajamas, and Eric lovingly says, thank you, daddy, Thank.

Speaker 6 (01:09:48):
You, daddy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
This is the one my father, This is the see
my father talked about on the podcast where it was
It started with Alan saying, get off your ass and
get a job, and then we did the next take
and it was it finally be came to get off
your button, get a job, because he's started ass once
and it was Michael's like, no, we can't, can't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
So yeah we did, I think one take that way
and then it changed to that but yes.

Speaker 4 (01:10:09):
So funny.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Also love how Eric had. It wasn't both the parents
hounding him. It was like the mom for Amy came
in first and tried to do it her way. Alan
came in second as the dad lifted him up, like
go get a job, like you get the two of
them together.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
It's different strategies too, like there's a progression. So she
didn't say just get a job. She also said maybe
try to do it with somebody.

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
It's like there's other options.

Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
So right, so yeah, she's thinking about getting him out
of the funk he's in. Kind of what else could
you do? You're in a depression, Maybe you need some
friends kind of a thing. And he's like, no, job,
a job, get a job. Then we're back in the
girl's bathroom to Pega struts into the bathroom to fix
herself in the mirror and a stall door swings open.
It's Sean announcing to Tapanga. So here's how I see it.

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She cuts him off. You guys really can't make it
a habit to be in here. Seawan disregards her comment.
I grew up with the two people, and I guess
they're my two best friends in the world. And I
was so happy to.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Hear shut down.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
Isn't that sweet?

Speaker 8 (01:11:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
Happy together?

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
I see.

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
I'm more interested in that personally.

Speaker 4 (01:11:19):
I do. Really, it was really special for me as
Topanga to hear because I still call it petty, but
I'm still was hanging on to a little bit of
the episode from the Little Cory where Topanga was really
inappropriately going after Sean's choices and getting in his business,
where Sean was like, she's not my friend, she's your girlfriend.

(01:11:40):
There was a part of me that was like, Sean
somewhere believes that that, like, if it weren't for Corey,
I would not be friends with this person. So to
hear this come out of his mouth, I feel like
now I'm fully back on board for the rest of
their future as friends. To believe these three are close,
not just because of their individual relationships to each other,

(01:12:01):
this this that adding that moment in did so much
for me as watching the show just really great.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
And then also just story wise, like that that that
Sean has taken Corey's anxieties and fears and insecurities and
is doing something right. I'm making a choice. I'm actively
going to Tapanga on Corey's behalf. And then this conversation
is so well written because I'm not telling you you
did anything wrong. I'm saying it's I'm just letting you

(01:12:28):
know how it's affecting Corey and how I see it,
and like you got to do what you got to do,
and it's so it's just so well written and it's
so nice because it's like Sean is doing the right thing,
but he's not making Tapanga feel bad.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
You know, He's not like guilt com. He's not actually Corey.

Speaker 4 (01:12:43):
It's like, I disagree with you. I don't think The
thing I love about it is I don't think he's
going to Tapanga. He never even mentions Corey. He doesn't
mention how this affects Corey at all. He goes to
Topanga and says, what happened to your confidence? You always
had confidence in your self, and now you are wrapped
up in this outward appearance stuff and who are you? Where?

(01:13:06):
Where have you gone? My friend? I'm worried about you.
You don't even make it about Corey. You don't say listen,
could you go back to don't evolve? When you evolve?
It bums? It bums my friend out. You actually come
to me as a friend of Tapega to say you
have lost your way, my friend, And I'm more to start.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
With you, don't I start with like, my I got
my one friend going through shaky time right now or
something like that, like he's sure.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
But that's that's his shaky time on his own journey,
not now like your journey's adding to his journey. It's
more about I see both my friends going through their
own shaky journeys, and my job is to help get
you through both of your shaky journeys exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
And also great these you see the joy and the
difference when something is written when a character doesn't make
it about themselves. Yeah, so Sean wasn't in that conversation
at all, had nothing to do with him whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
It makes a big difference.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
I love that so great, So Sean tells him, as
I understand it, one of them who in my opinion
is a good looking guy is going through a shaky
time right now. To Pega gets worried and asks where
Corey is. He tells her that's not as important as
where you are.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Topega.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
And all the time that I've known you, I can't
remember you ever looking in the mirror. You had this
confidence in yourself, and I really liked that about you.
Tapega defensively says, everyone in high school has a mirror
in their locker and only cares about how they look.
Sean responds, but up until a couple of days ago,
you never did. Your world got completely rocked when you
hacked your hair and saw her that for two seconds,
that you could actually look a little less than perfect.

(01:14:34):
This realization hits Topanga and she asks, this isn't me,
is it? Sean? He tells her, it's not the Tapanga
I know, but obviously we're all at that age where
we're going through changes. Tapega turns on the sink and
sticks her head under the faucet, making her entire head wet.
She flips it and hits Sean in the face, and
they both smile and laugh at each other, and we
continue the strake of perfect scene after perfect scene after scene,

(01:14:55):
and then we're back in the hair salon. Tapega runs in,
hair drenched and begs CHELINI nh to touch Corey. Chiellini says
it's too late. He's finito. He announces, this is my
best work ever. Everything I have done up until now
was Drek. This is my masterpiece. He turns the chair
to reveal Corey, who looks exactly the same.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
Indy screaming out, he looks exactly the same. Just loved it.
I was like, yeah, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
The MOOI He's like, look at him, but it's Ben's face.
That's so yes. Ben's like happy muppet face.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Smile. That is just so perfect, because if you just
turned around and try to look sexier, you're just out
of it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:31):
Yeah, it's the perfect like do you like me now
and not?

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
It's so good.

Speaker 4 (01:15:36):
Oh my god, it's just perfect, lawless.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
Oh to Panga size he's beautiful. Chillini responds, of course,
I have had to call upon all my skills and powers.
Cory asks if he really looks okay? To Pega smiles
and holds out her arm, saying I think I'm falling
in love all over again. Orient to Panga are about
to kiss when Chelini notices to Panga, you you wet wodent?
What have you done to my work? Once again as
a European, I weep without embarrassment, where he asks, what

(01:16:03):
are you talking about? She looks beautiful, just like she
always was. Tapega tells him you towo Corey, just like
you always were. They kiss in the crowd hoots and
hollers and it's just glorious, so good, and then the
tag possibly our most memorable tag to this point.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
In the Matthew's house, Eric walks in, now wearing a tux,
announcing to his parents, I did what you said. I
got a job. Amy says they're proud of him, and
Alan asks what kind of job. Eric grabs the remote
and tells him check it out. He turns on the
TV and his crime show theme song is playing, as
well as a full intro to a show called Good
Looking Guy that's starring Eric Matthews. The intro features him

(01:16:42):
with a really bad green screen and a terrible fake gun.
He's running faster than a sports car, swimming with a
humongous shark, surfing with a gun in his hand and
pretending to ride a camel across Egypt. Before the intro ends,
we hear Amy's voice asking Eric, and he stops the charade, asking.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Mommy, Mommy.

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
We flip to see Eric asleep on the couch. Amy
and Ellen are trying to wake him up. Eric pops up, Daddy,
I was fighting crime, Alan Sternsley tells Cernaly tells him
to put down the coco puffs and get a job.
Eric obliges and mutters, send me out in my bathrobe.
What kind of job could I possibly get in a bathrobe?
He opens the door in Ads at Night.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
Michael added that the second take He's like, just stay
at night.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
At the end he was like, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Oh funny.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
It was a real gun, was it? It was a
real gun with a real silencer. Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
So after weturn this episode off, it was it was
INDI's bedtime, which took about thirty minutes longer than normal,
and I was able to record some moments from it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Can we can we play that file please?

Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
In the Ocean.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Show?

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
Yet the toy nowhere get out a freeway too?

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
When did he hearreshed it? He had the gun everywhere,
but he's like remember and then and then the freeway,
he was moving, everything was moving anything. People came like

(01:18:20):
Wally surfing. There's just a bunch of kids, next group, and.

Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
He just NonStop stop.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
That was when I was able to like pull out
my phone and record because he just he was dying
and he was singing the song.

Speaker 4 (01:18:39):
He was like, it looks so fake. I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Just by far the most successful moment a boy meets
as far as India is concerned.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
Yes, just age groups were addressed in this episode.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
Oh, he loved it so much and I just I
love hearing that well A plus plus plus possibly the
number one for all three of us.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Couldn't love it more. Our next episode recap will be
season four, episode three, I Ain't going to Spray let
Us Know More, which originally aired October October fourth, nineteen.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
Eighty I think I remember exactly this one wilderness store,
the Wilderness.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
I think this is the Wilderness store.

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
I think, so, yep, does it happen in the same
episode that, like he stops working at the at the
grocery store and then in the same episode has a
wilderness store. I don't, I don't know, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:19:35):
I feel like they could have. I don't know, but
I feel like that's something they would have wanted to
spread out at least over two episodes. I'm quitting my
job a big A big dad quit his job episode
and then a big I bought a Wilderness Store episode
but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
Producer says yes, yes in one episode.

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
Wow, it's all happening. Guys, it's all happening.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
I'm a I remember we had so much fun in
that Wilderness Store set, so I can't wait to see it. Yeah.
So I don't know if I ever set for and
that set.

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
I know it really.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Oh that's so funny.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
I can't wait to see it. Maybe I'll see it
and then I'll remember it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Ye.

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