TGI – Episode 513 “The Eskimo”

Mr. Feeny assigns Shawn the task of getting Super Bowl tickets, but Danielle, Rider and Will have a much more realistic goal: to recap another Season 5 episode!

We hear the story behind the meme-tastic “soup or bowl” scene and just how Danielle was flung off Ben’s back and right onto the kitchen floor.

The gang reveals a bit too much about their sleeping attire and we try to figure out the history of a certain hand motion that goes with “taco” on BMW.

You don’t want to be the last one on a freezing cold billboard, so come in where it’s warm - on a brand new Pod Meets World!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everyone, this episode of Boy Meets World is called
the Eskimo. We have talked about it briefly in a
previous podcast episode, but we are not gonna mention it
throughout the episode. But we are aware that the term
eskimo is a derogatory term seen by many as offensive.
So it was recorded during a different time and we're

(00:22):
not going to harp on it through the episode, but
we did just want to acknowledge that we know it
is not a term that would be used today.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
So I don't know if either of you are aware
of this, but I'm I'm married a woman named Susan,
beautiful woman, and we have a dog named Sammy. Nice
and yeah, you're going to meet her some day, both
the dog and my wife. You're gonna like them both.
And so we walk Sammy twice a day. I usually
walk her in the morning, Susan joins me. Sometimes. That

(01:09):
conversation when Susan Susan joins me in the morning is
usually normal husband wife stuff. What what are we eating
later in the day, what's your day look like? Normal
stuff like that. At night when we walk her after dinner,
we've started to throw questions out at each other that
spark entirely new conversations.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Wow, spicing it up, spicing it up, and.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Exactly this is after dinner. Let's talk about the dinner
we just midnight exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
So I have I have saved three of my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Questions that have sparked conversation that I would like to
throw out to the two of you. Oh, I love
this great so question. The first, Okay, you wake up
tomorrow morning and there's a billion dollars in your bank account.
What is the first billion dollar baller thing you do?

(02:05):
And it can't be like we pay off our mortgage,
we put a put aside college. What's a frivolous baller
thing you buy or do or change your life with
the money you find in your account tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
I mean, it can't just be like buying a second
home is.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
No, mean it can if you're like, we've always wanted
a home in London or something, so yeah, I mean
you could. You could definitely do something like that. Some
people it's the private jet, some people it's the boat. Like.
The reason I'm asking is because Sue and I had
exactly the same answer instantaneously.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Really hold on, let me se if I can guess
movie theater, buy your own movie theater.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
No, okay, your own buffet close? Are you serious? Private chef, private.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Private chef, twenty four hour private chef, like full time
private chef, every meal cater to perfectly cooked. Would be
our first billionaire ball.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
And you would never do a private jet because it
wouldn't be big enough to make you comfortable.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, even to me, that's they're kind of a waste
of money. The new the jets out there, like the
Delta United with the apartments on them. I get those nice.
I'd fly on those, So that's ours would be, would
be a private jef.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Wow, don't really my okay, Like my real answer is
just like acreage specific Northwest, like a bunch of acreage
as much as I could, just like Oregon. Yeah, oh yeah,
like land with water that is not going to burn
and be very valuable and you know, uh, fifty years

(03:36):
when no one can live in Los Angeles anymore.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
That's like the practical answer.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
But no, the the really ridiculous answer is I would
love to have brand new socks to wear every day,
Like if.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Every rest of your life, if I could just.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Open up a brand new pair of like clean, brand
new socks, and put them on every day because I've
had that thought.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
I'm like every I hate I don't know, I just
love the idea of like, oh, these are brand news socks.
That's my ridiculous answer.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
A private chef's a really good one. I did think jet.
I did think jet, but also I thought pretty high
up there with private jet or private chef was diamond grill.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Smiled. I had to look at a diamond grill. I
was so disappointed. Would suck?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I kind of want like the dentures version of a
diamond grill.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
What about like diamond shoes?

Speaker 5 (04:42):
What if you could get like like diamond and crustalis
or something like that, because then you can.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Take well, maybe I would just put one diamond in
each tooth.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
So my real ty just the diamond in. But with
diamonds oh.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Man, I find I find it so distracting.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Me too, But I get that nose rings.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I just then stare at your nostril the whole time
someone a nose rings.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
I'm usually pretty cool with.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
What about diamond things?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh my god, okay, vampire those are good though, Okay, okay, actually, wait, what.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Am I thinking?

Speaker 5 (05:17):
I mean a library? Obviously I want like you know,
the full on beauty.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
In the library with with with the one of the
ladders of course, just just just like a whole separate Okay,
so land somewhere in the Pacific Northwest that is just
a giant library. And then like a little cabin I
can live in, but then it's.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
A cabin next to giant library.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Get to my own perfect beautiful like research libraries.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Okay, all right. Question the second you come into a
room and the room is empty, there's two switches, it's
about time. Yeah, no, it gets worse. It gets so
much worse. There's two switches and you have to switch
one of them on. One of them fills the room

(06:04):
with spiders. The other one fills the rooms with snakes.
Oh which one do you do?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Super easy for me, snakes, super easy, don't even have
to think.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
But I do snakes too, Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Mean I don't love spiders at all, like I definitely,
but a whole room really tell.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Me this question? I feel I feel attacked. I feel attacked.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, I have my legs and grill, and anytime we
talk about anything, anytime there's spiders mentioned, I assume they're
all under whatever wherever my legs are that I can't see,
and now I'm scared to even be sitting in my house.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Which is there any sort of size parameters? Are we
talking spiders as big as a fist?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I'm not going to be like spiders?

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Or is it just a diversity of.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Can I can I take my headphones off while suck?

Speaker 5 (06:48):
I can't do the spiders have hair if they have hair,
but Danielle has taken off her headphones.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
By the way, is.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Now officially you let me know, you give me thumbs up,
you make them give you the things.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Up when we're done talking about the spiders.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
So really, what we're talking about here is Raiders of
the Lost Dark versus Temple of Doom.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Correct, because it was bugs exactly.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
And and I think it's because Danielle can't hear what
we're saying. So we're just talking like and the fangs
are coming in like this, and she has no idea
what we're talking, locking her eyes too. Okay, good, all right,
so we all.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Right, I don't know. I think I I think I
might actually go spiders.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay, all right, we're good, We're good, everybody's answered there,
we go, Okay, question the third and this one. We
loved this one, but this one is very It takes
some thought, excluding the day you were married or the
birth of your children, and knowing you can't change anything,

(07:47):
what is the one day in your life you'd like
to relive?

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh, can't change anything.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
I really did have the thought this summer that I
was living like the greatest day of my life.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I might have told you guys about it, or even
talked about on the podcast. I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
But like, we woke up next to the Salmon River.
We had you know, just sort of boon dock like
camp out, and woke up just you know, the three
of us in our van, woke up, made some food,
drove a couple of miles to the spot, the secret
spot that a friend of mine had shared with me
on Google Maps, and he was like, you should stop here.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
And this is an Idaho. He's like, you should stop here.
This is a great hot spring. And you know, Indy
was like, didn't want to have to hike, and we
were like, no, no, let's go. Let's go.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
And we hiked like two miles to just about like
a quarter mile of cascading waterfalls nestled in this beautiful
mountainous valley and the waterfalls were hot springs, so they
were like one hundred and five degrees and it was
just like one of the most gorgeous, like satisfying ends

(08:55):
to a hike.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
And then we like you know, had we had packed.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
A lunch and we ate lunch and hung out in
this pool and the view was incredible, and it was
just being with my family and and then you know,
going back to our van, hitting the road and doing
another day.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
But it was just like one of those like perfect days.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
And I was sitting there like when we got back
from the Hot Springs, I turned to Alex I was like,
I think this might be the happiest day of my life. Wow,
And just like so, you know, I'm so in love
with my wife, I'm so just proud of my son
and just having a great time. I was like, oh, so,
I don't know, Like, yeah, that's and that was only
you know, two months ago or whatever.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
That's a good one. It is a good one, Danielle.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
What do you got.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Nothing but jealousy for a day like that?

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, Yeah, sounds like a good day. I haven't had
one of those days in a while. Uh Man, I
don't know, that's really hard. I think I would. I
think it would probably be.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
I don't know. I'm just between.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
It is tough because obviously, now that I have kids,
all of my best days of like, I can't imagine
wanting to relive a day that didn't involve them. But also,
I think, knowing what I know now about and being
an adult, there are probably days that I had as
a kid that I would appreciate way more now to

(10:12):
relive now, because I would be like, Wow, you know
I wanted to be an adult so bad when I
was a kid.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Please, I just want to be an adult. I just
want to be an adult.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
And I do love being an adult. I do think
being an adult is better than being a kid. But
I so didn't appreciate being a kid that I feel
like maybe.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
I should have appreciated that more. So it's tough.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's I also don't think my best days of parenting
are behind me. I still feel like my best days
of parenting, at least my hope, if even in general
for my own life, I'm always like, listen, my best
days are still in front of me. So if I
think about days I've had with my kids thus far,
although some of them have been great. I think my
best ones are still ahead of me, so I don't
know that i'd want to relive any of the ones

(10:52):
I've had now. I think I would pick something for
my childhood. It would probably be something from the Boy
Meets World time. I would probably relive one of those,
you know, the final Tape night, or one of the
days that we got to go to Disneyland, you know,
like when they shut the park down and it was
a yeah, and I got to be with friends, and
you know, I would probably be one of those. I

(11:14):
don't know that I can think of a specific day,
but something like.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
That about you.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Mine is definitely I see that. Mine came right to
my head right away. It's, you know, other than the
day I got married, which again which is why you
exclude it, is the day I got Boy Me Twirl
is arguably the happiest day of my life. I was
with my dad. We were in Hollywood. You know, now
that you live here, it's like, oh, okay, you're in Hollywood
and you're by the the Groumand's Chinese Theater and you

(11:38):
see the handprints and it's kind of like it's old
hat now. But I'm sixteen. I just you know, pick
up a payphone and call my agent pack in New York,
thinking I had a terrible audition. He says, you got it,
and my dad and I are jumping up and down
in the street. I know the show has already been
picked up for thirteen episodes. It's not like we're shooting
a pilot. It was magic. It was magic. It's the
only way I can describe it. So that day, I think,

(12:00):
is the day that I would want to I mean,
there's a ton and unlike Danielle, all my best days
are behind me every day since Benett Tie for Downhill,
but this is that day. Awesome.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
So what's interesting to me is like, you know, I
kind of had those moments with previous jobs before pointings.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Work right, like where I got something I was like, yes,
this is the best job, and then of course the
project doesn't work out, doesn't get picked up, and so
I don't think of that.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
So it's interesting that your pick is still like a
resounding effect within your life.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah, you know, like definitely, Yeah, that's it. So those
are those are walking questions and as more build up,
I will continue to keep the good ones. Yeah, and
we will we will go from there. I promise no
more of the S word.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Danielle, Okay, thanks, I can't handle any of those. I
really have to check.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Out rhymes with riders.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
I won't.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
I won't.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
I won't do that anymore.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
I promise, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
I appreciate it. Welcome to Pod meets World. I'm Danielle Fischel,
I'm Spiderstrong.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
I will Fordell.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
So welcome to today's episode. We are recapping season five, episode thirteen,
the Eskimo. It originally aired January sixteenth, nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
We're in ninety eight, We're in the eights? Were in
the remember the eights?

Speaker 3 (13:28):
I kind of the synopsis.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Sean tries to win tickets to the Super Bowl while
Eric and Jack search for compatible soulmates. It was directed
by Lisa Gottlieb, her one and only episode of Boy
Meets World. She is best known as the director of
the nineteen eighty five comedy Just One of the Guys,
but also was involved in the casting of the classic.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Blues Brothers movie.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
This was her last credited job directing, but she went
into the world of teaching, film and TV. What Stops
at Columbia and the University of Miami, and it was
written by Jeff Manel. Do you want to talk about
our overall thoughts?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
First of all, I don't know how. I didn't know
at the time that she directed Just One of the Guys.
Just One of the Guys is one of the greatest
movies that does not hold up even slightly in the
world nowadays. But it was.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh god, Just one of the Guys is one of
those bad eighties high school movies. So what it is.
It's about a girl who's writing for her school paper,
and the school paper in the school that she's at
doesn't want to print any of her articles. So to
write a good article, she dresses like a boy and
goes to another high school chick like me, essentially with

(14:40):
way more misogyny, a nudity, and weirdness.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, I think it's most kind of known as for like,
the first place people of.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
That age saw boobs for the.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
First time, it was it was it's up there with
Revenge of the Nerds, where you look back and you're like, ooh,
this doesn't age well at all.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
But it's Just.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
One of the Guys, so that, Yeah, I'm surprised I
didn't get a chance talk with her about that. Well,
to answer your question, I did not like this episode.
Uh oh, I was not was not a fan.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Wasn't Lisa part of the Disney a fellowship?

Speaker 5 (15:12):
Yeah, it was a directing fellowship where they would bring
directors who hadn't done television along and they would shadow
for a couple episodes and then sometimes get an episode.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
So I remember her.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yeah, I think that's why she was around, because I
remember her being around before, and then.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
It kind of being a big deal that she was
doing an episode. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, I honestly did not even remember being I thought
I was not in this episode. When I remember the
people talking about the the Eskimo, you were like, I'm
not even in that one.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
I'm like, this is gonna be great.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I get to sit back and watch and I and
and I didn't hate it by any stretch. My favorite
to Panga so far. I thought you, Danielle were great.
I thought your physical comedy was really really good. They
gave you something to do, you were part of the crew.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Loved that.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I thought the Feenie storyline of what he was actually
trying to teach I found to be very muddled in
this episode. I didn't I didn't really get it. What
happens at the end wasn't the assignment. I don't I
don't get what Phoenie was trying to teach. I found
that to be very strange. And then the bat story
was kind of thrown in, so it was we've had

(16:20):
some bangers in a row, and it's very hot. When
I was watching this episode, I'm sure that didn't make
me feel good either. Thirty eight degrees here at the house.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
H'm murky.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, it wasn't it. I didn't hate it, but it
wasn't my favorite.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
This is this is one of those episodes that people
mentioned to me a lot and I don't really remember,
and I'm always kind of surprised that it's like a touchstone.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
Episode for yeah, some of our fans. And I remember thinking, like, oh, right,
there was that Eskimo episode.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
What was that about? Like what was going on? And
then I remembered, of course the Super or Bowl scene
because we just had so much fun doing that one. Yeah,
but like connecting it, like why were we trying to
get Super Bowl tan? You know?

Speaker 4 (16:57):
And so so it was I was excited.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
I did to rewatch it. I ended up watching it twice.
I find this to be a very strange episode. I
just think it's weird. And yeah, I mean we can
get into why hopefully while we're in it, But it
was it was really off putting to me the first
time I watched it through, and that's why I wanted
to watch it again. I liked it better the second time.
So this might be the first episode that I've watched

(17:20):
twice in a row for this podcast, and so it's
it's really interesting.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
It doesn't feel it feels unusual. It feels like a
distinct episode.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
And I think that for some of our fans it
might be their favorite or one of their best.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
But for me, I was just like, I don't I
don't know how I feel about this.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
I think my big headline that I finally settled on
is this felt like a Girl meets World episode. Ah interesting,
and maybe you know, we can talk about why, but
it felt like a Girl meets World episode to me.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Interested You're right.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
I didn't think about that, but you're right, it does
feel like a Girl meets World episode. I thought I
did not remember that Lisa had been part of the
Disney Fellowship program, but I thought there were some To me,
it was very obvious that it had been directed perhaps
by a first timer or someone who had never at
least never directed our show before.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Completely different camera style.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Completely different camera style, camera style usually when you've got
a show that's going, that's successful and doing well. One
of the greatest aspects of what we do, and I
hope that our listeners have felt it through this podcast,
is the collaborative nature of.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
What we do.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
It is a group of people who are great at
what they do, who love TV, who love the entertainment industry,
all coming together to support the same goal, which should
be putting out the best quality project you.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Can version story that you can't hYP and.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
This and in this episode, I thought, some of what
is taking me out of being able to pay attention
to the episode were some of the camera choices which
maybe just felt more film style and not multi camera style.
And I thought, I wonder why no one said, let's
let's do this, let's reblock, let's back up.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't know, but either some of the blocking was
really blocking.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
It was strange and it yeah, I I I do
remember filming and loving that kitchen scene, the super Bowl
scene so much fun.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
When you get to talk about chucked across the room.
I do.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I was rounded. I was like, is there some kind
of matt I don't see because she's getting just tossed.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, and it was. It was so much fun. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
So okay, well let's we'll we'll get into detail as
we go. Let's jump into our guest stars. We have
Tico Wells as a morning Zoo host DJ Johnny Latte.
He appeared in movies like Universal Soldier and The Relic,
and some classic TV shows like The Cosby Show two
two seven and The Drew Carey Show.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Versal Soldier That's where I knew him from.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh my Gosh, she dies horrible death and Universal Soldier.
That's a van dam movie. Okay, he gets he gets
held down to the chair and a needle is thrust
right through his face, back up through his head and
out comes out his cheek.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Ooh, that's a big needle.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, Dolph Lundgren does bad things to that guy.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
That's okay. From Okay, we have Mindy Spence's Jill.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
She was also seen in Step by Step, Seventh, Heaven,
That seventy Show, and King of Queen's and appears to
have left the business in two thousand and five.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
We also have.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Carolyn or Caroline Keenan as Carol. She was another nineties
TV regular with stops on Home Improvement, Step by Step,
and Friends, and was also seen in the Replacements and
most notably The Day After Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
She's great. She's done a ton of stuff. She's great.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
We have Greg Collins as Freezing Guy. Greg was an
All American football player at Notre Dame who went on
to play in the NFL for the forty nine Ers,
Bills and the Seahawks, only to become a prolific character
actor and stuntman. Listen to these nineties blockbusters. He appears
in The Rock, Armageddon, Independence Day, con Air, Godzilla, and

(21:10):
Enemy of the State. It reads like a list of
Danielle's favorite movie It is seriously, yes, was.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
He like an on camera actor or a stunt performer
in those movies?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Both?

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Both? Both both question yeah, I want to have had
many lines both Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, he's The second I saw him, I was like, oh,
this guy was in everything.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah, he looks so familiar.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
Besides, yeah, it's funny because I mean I obviously worked
with him in this scene.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
But yeah, I was also like, no, I know him
from somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Too.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
We have Glenn Chin as Eskimo, another character actor best
known for his work in fifty First Dates, Natural Born
Killers and as the sumo wrestler and Naked Gun thirty
three and a third. Glenn passed away in twenty eighteen
at the age of seventy, and then our beloved stand
in Matt Kirkwood returns to the show, this time as

(22:00):
Lunatic John do.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
You think it actually said in the scripture? And one Lunatic?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Then Max Miller as Bobby, So we jump into our recap.
In Phoenie's classroom, Phoene is passing out graded papers and
calls out Sean, he never turned his in. Corey pipes
up he can explain. Phoene stops him he was speaking
to mister Hunter. Corey continues, anyway, Sean and I think
so much alike that we decided to write one paper.
Phoene responds, then you wouldn't mind sharing your grade. Sean's

(22:31):
into it and enthusiastically asks what they got. Phoene says
it was a well thought out paper, so it deserves
a B. Sean nods, very fair. Phoene proceeds divided by
two and then he rips the paper in half. They
now both get a D.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
It is upset. It's yeah, funny.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Also, I did that math exactly the same way, and
I was like, I'm not sure how math with letters
really make sense, but but it does.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
It works.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
But well it does.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
You can translate GPA out of grade letters to pronounce
what four point is good. So there's a formula for
figuring this out.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Okay, Now, so we're back to Sean not wanting to
go to college.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
I'm so, I'm so my head was spinning.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
I'm like, where are we ex Seawan was going to
college and upset that Corey wasn't going to the same one.
I was just like, oh, we're just resetting, yeah, trying
to go went to college before and then was going
to study with Feenie.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
That was how Nity walked back into the classroom. So
it's again now the Sean going to college or not
going to college is just whatever they need for the
episode at the.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Time, right, which is only a I mean, it's season
five is just a little dizzy because season four had
Eric's wanted to get into college as a consistent arc,
you know, and and how he was trying to do
it changed week to week, but it went from the
beginning of the season not getting to college to the
end of the season getting into college. Like that was
such a whereas with this, yeah, there's there's just no trajectory.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
There's no clear trajector.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
It also eliminates stakes because you want to care or
root for something, and like, if we know there's a
goal in mind and there's that tension of but is
it going to happen, this is just like hmmm, yeah,
you'll see what we'll see what we need by the end.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
I also thought and again as the episode progressed and
I saw how sean heavy an episode this was. It
shows how well written Trina's character was and how important
Trina's character was, which I found myself missing Angela because
I was like, wait a minute, now we're talking about
something super important with Sean and she's nowhere to be found, right.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
No reference to him even having a girlfriend, no talking.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
And yeah, you'd want I want to see these important
life decisions now. Because the character is introduced so well
and because there's such chemistry, I now want her involved
in these stories.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
So I missed.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I missed seeing Angela. Frankly, I was like that's weird.
Little it's not even there, so yeah, it was weird.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Corey's upset, but Seawan is smiling. All right, still fair.
Corey won't take it, mister Feenie. It's the middle of
our senior year. Why are you being so tough on
us with these assignments. Phoene's also had enough. You're right,
let's forget about those d's. Make it to F's t
Panga gets involved, begging mister Feene not to fail them.
Phoene sighs ah. The Third Musketeer chimes in to Panga

(25:16):
insists and f follows you around for the rest of
your life. Corey's figured it out. We'll take your d's.
Our college applications are already in. Sean mutters, yeah, well
yours are. Corey is shocked, especially since he filled out
Shawn's applications for him. Sean rolls his eyes. Don't start.
What's the point People like me don't go to college.
So yeah, this is We've already had this conversation. Also,

(25:39):
you went to college and.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
You loved it college.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, so, Phoene explains, do your assignments, mister Hunter, and
you'll go to college. Well maybe, but Sean wonders how
he'll be able to afford it if he gets in.
There's so many things standing in the way. I did
appreciate this being a factor that could be in Shawn's mind.
I did appreciate, yes, the introduction to the idea that

(26:04):
it's not whether or not Sean just wants to or
has the drive, to the actual reality of how will
I even afford it? I would have to apply for
grants and then loans and jobs, two jobs and working
like that. I love bringing that in.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
Let's bring that them.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Oh good question.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
How Sean paying for that big, old, fancy apartment that
he's in that he's never never.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
There on the river with three bedrooms.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, but I guess is it is? It is the
idea that Jack's covering.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Might be helping a bit.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Maybe, Yeah, Jack's paying for the apartment, so Sean's.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Maybe the mob that he's.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Still He's still dropping off boxes down by the docks,
He's still working at Keller Mars. There's a lot going on.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
He's so busy, got that side gig as a surgeon.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Babies, so much going on.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
What do you guys think was the pitch for this?
A storyline? Like? What is the like what was the
germ of the idea? Like what in the writer's room?
What did they say? I The only thing I.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
Could think is like what if they have to stand
on a billboard? Like is did they start with that
or was it? Because it's it's a very bizarre set
of circumstances to get us to a place where you
do have some good scenes like this, the set piece
of the billboard is interesting and kind of funny and weird,
and then you have the great kitchen scene with the
super Bowl like getting the super Bowl tickets and Topanga

(27:33):
not being able to help. But I'm just wondering, like
what the genesis of this storyline is, because it's it's
it's really weird, right, why do you pitch it?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
How do you best in this episode?

Speaker 4 (27:42):
Yeah? What do you say?

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Like I don't know.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Feenie is really hard on them and they have to
defy their own characters, like you know, like what like oh,
Corey's gotta not help Sean and and Tipanga's gotta stay out,
you know, be quiet, and Sean's got to do something
impossible on his own. Like that is such an abstract
character based concept, and that's I think that's why it
reminded me of Girl Meets World because I feel like

(28:06):
Girl Meats World really lived in this zone of like
self awareness of characters kind of spinning their wheels about
their own characters, and like building a story out of
those characters wheel spinning.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
And that's what this episode is.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
And it's it's not the same thing as a propulsive
plot that reveals character.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
It's a plot built.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
Around characters and their flaws already and like then it
doesn't even change them.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
It's a very it's a weird storytelling mode. I just can't.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
The Super Bowl this year in nineteen ninety eight was
January twenty fifth, This air the sixteenth. I bet it
was literally the same way they plan around holidays. They
were like, let's see the Super super Bowl episode. Let's
do an episode to air the Supertowl, and they have
to get tickets and then it's like, well, what do
they each have to do?

Speaker 3 (28:51):
And then you know, eight.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Ninety eight, the bronc goes one.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Right, Oh my god, will God will?

Speaker 4 (28:58):
That would be crazy.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Let's see Bowl champ the Green Bay Packers versus the
Denver Broncos. The Broncos defeated the Packers thirty one to
twenty four?

Speaker 4 (29:09):
What was ninety nine? Who won? Ninety nine?

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Will?

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Who won in ninety n I don't remember ninety nine
because ninety seven ninety eight was when John Elway finally
won his two Super Bowls. That's why had those stick out.
This was after the Cowboys run in the early nineties
of what ninety three ninety four? So yeah, I don't
remember who won A nine nine. Actually it might have
been Green Bay. It might have won in ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
No, it was the Broncos against the Falcons, and the
Broncos won again.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
They so they won.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Ninety seven ninety eight that's what it was.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, ninety eight ninety nine.

Speaker 6 (29:38):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Wow, another new thing we learned about Bill?

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Bill? Who's Bill?

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Who's Bill?

Speaker 5 (29:44):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Bill, Nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's nice to meet you too.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
It was good call.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
I'm not good Billy All Billy. Oh, that was originally
supposed to be my name. Really, yeah, it's to be
or Billy.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
But my brother's favorite show was Lost in Space, so
they named me after Will Robinson Danger Will Robinson fro
Lost in Space. I was named after a television character.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Thought have you ever gone? By? William?

Speaker 2 (30:06):
When I do something wrong? Doesn't know that my older
my mom calls me William, and my older brother Gary
a lot of times.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Calls that's cute.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
So Sean goes on to question why they're doing all
these assignments in the first place. It's just busy work.
What could we possibly be left to learn? Phoene gives
him a death stare obviously disturbed by a comment like that.
And right here is where some of the stuff started,
where I was like, oh, new director. Here lots of
super close shots, close up and blocked, weird blocking, and we're.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
Stacked at but where she brought the camera into the
sephomore So we're inside the set doing these raking like
two shots with close ups. It's a lot of singles,
a lot closer. Everything is played as if it's a
single camera show.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yes, all right, but it also looks like when you've
got Danielle who's who's not the tallest person in the world,
and you've got it stacked. It looks like she's trying
to find her lens like I'm I'm leaning forward to
be on camera the whole time. It was very off putting.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
My feeling is that we did not do this in
front of a live audience.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
It feels it feels the lower energy and like a
little over rehearsed to me, and you know, there's there's
like a lack of an organic quality that usually follows
a lot of our show, or that accompanies a lot
of our show. And I couldn't help but think, oh,
it's because because she was really worried about camera and
like she was thinking about it more and again that
reminded me of Girl Meets World, because when directing Girl

(31:27):
Meets World, we did a lot of stuff to try
and get these kinds of shots, because this is a
more contemporary multi camera style, like you know nowadays they
try and get single like Disney Channel would always be
like I need to see both eyes of her character.
You don't let play things play in a wide you know,
to try and make it feel less like a play
less theatrical that's become the more contemporary style. It feels

(31:49):
weird and boy, like I miss the you know, the
sort of big wide shots where you see everybody's reaction
to each other.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
This is like I don't get to see Phoene's face until.

Speaker 5 (31:59):
It cuts to him, you know, when he and Danielle
are come and it's like right, you want to. I
like seeing people engaging with each other in the same shot.
That feels like more boys.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
World to me.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Mm hmm, yeah, I agree. Corey begins the damage control.
He just means, we've been here four years and there's
nothing really left that you can teach us. This does
not make Feenie any calmer. Sean is stunned. Whoa look
at Phoenie, Man, Pheenie, you okay? Phoene's stare never breaks.
Corey whispers, this is the moment we talked about. Sean nods, yeah,
he's definitely gonna blow. Phoenie commands the boys stand up

(32:29):
and asks the rest of the class to leave. Cory
and Sean know this is bad. Tapanga tries to talk
Feenie down. Can't you give them a makeup assignment instead
of failing them? Feenie adds you'd better stay too, you
little control freak, And I liked at least that finally
we're just calling to Panga out for here's her new character.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Control freak to Panga this.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I thought I got optimistic at this point because I
was like, ooh, angry Feenie. Something we haven't really seen
a whole lot of Yeah, dressing down the kids for
kind of being laxadaisical in class. And I was like, ooh, okay,
this could really go somewhere, and then it kind of didn't,
and I was like, right, oh okay.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Right to Panga gasps and steps back. Phoene addresses the
three of them. So, just because you sent in your
college applications and nothing that I teach you from now
on means anything to Panga nods. I was just having
this discussion with them the other day. An angry Phenie
interrupts her quiet. She whimpers, you yelled at me, But
I'm Topanga and this again, this is very interesting blocking.

(33:30):
I'm barely even in.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
The shot you can't see. It's like they you're on
stilt trying to look around.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
It was we I mean, it makes me always wonder
why this take, Like what are the other docks about?
Like if this is the one you're using, it was right?

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, So Phoene turns to Sean. I want this assignment
brought to my house by five pm this afternoon. Sean's
taken aback this afternoon today, that's impossible. Phoene walks towards
his chalkboard. Corey's worried. Shawn is still shocked that Phoene
asked him to do something completely impassive. He might as
well ask him to come up with tickets to the
super Bowl. Meanwhile, Phoenie has written impossible on the chalkboard.

(34:06):
He tells Sean his new assignment is to come up
with two tickets to the super Bowl by the end
of the week. Corey laughs, this is completely ridiculous. Phoene
cuts them off quiet. Corey frowns, You yelled at me,
but I'm Topanga.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
That was funny.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Tapanga asks mister Feenie why he's so upset, and Phoene
tells her she has an assignment as well, but out
of other people's lives for one week. Otherwise you get
an f t Penga gasps again, but I've never failed before.
Phoene tells her there's a first time for everything. Corey laughs.
That argument doesn't get you anywhere with her. Great joke

(34:40):
is a funny joke, gast joke of the show, of
the episode, of the episode.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
That's a funny joke.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
And you know what's funny is that I didn't remember
what the context of the joke was.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
I've seen that before.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Like I've seen that, I've seen that written, I've seen
people make like talk about that, and I have thought
I don't find it funny. It's annoying that he constantly
talking about how far he wants to get with the panga.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
It's just kind of annoying. I think it's kind of gross.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
And then the way.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
It was in the scene and the way I was like,
that's funny, that's a good joke.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
That's a good job.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yeah. I don't know, really this is better than the
Balkans or I think this is when soup, I mean
when he says okay, sup.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Okay, okay, soup is great too.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
I wish Ben it held for like another five seconds,
but it was such a great joke. And then even
the guy saying you've ruined billboards for me. I know
there's some witty stuff in this episode.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
There is, but that joke that to me is up
there with like the I get I get as sick
as you can get without.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
My favorite is that that Ben looks to me and
I just give him the space like yeah, I heard you,
like like he's somebody noticed, Like like it was almost
like did you get it?

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Do you get it?

Speaker 5 (35:51):
Do you get I'm talking about talking about I'm talking
about you know, and I just go, I gotcha, Like
it's We're all I had of you, dude, Like that
is that was funny?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
So funny.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Now, Phoene addresses Cory, since you feel so responsible for
your friends, I put their fate in your hands if
either of them fails, So do you. With that, he
storms out of the classroom, giving Sean a little shove
and leaving the three in shock. Sean sarcastically says, thanks
a lot to Panga, and that starts a little runner
through the rest of the show.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
I think it was this scene Phoene walks out of
a door that doesn't exist. He walked to the other side,
like the door is behind the students to the classroom
in this turn towards the turns towards the chalkboard, and
they added a door sound. We've never seen a door over.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
There, you I've got I did not know.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
I was like, what you couldn't have him crossing? It
was It's the weirdest thing. I was like, wait, what
And then they I could tell they had to add
a door sign because our door sound. And then what
I realized is like, right, they couldn't show they were
Actually it was a wing wall that she was shooting
up in. That's why we're getting all those close ups
that coverage, right. Honestly, think what happened is I think

(37:04):
that she, coming from film, like a film perspective, was
getting a lot more coverage than usual, and she was
trying to get and when they got in the editing room,
they were excited and they were like, look, we can
see their faces. Let's use these shots, when, of course,
sometimes it just is better just play the scene and
a wide and like I think this confrontation with Phoenie
and you like gasping, would have played better in a wide.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
But if you have this like cool looking shot that kind.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
Of feels a little more cinematic than normal episodes, I
could see our producers or our executives at the studio
or whatever being like.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Let's use that shot, you know.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
So I feel like she might have provided too good
of shots or too too you know, and in just
too many options, too much coverage, Yeah, too many options,
and then they use it and it kind of killed
the energy.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
That's that was my take. I don't know, but anyway,
I think what.

Speaker 5 (37:51):
Happened is she was in the set with the cameras
and Phoene's exit, then you couldn't actually show his exit
because there's no door there and he just walks off
the set.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
So they added this door sound.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
I want to hear the door sound?

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Wait, why couldn't so even if she had a camera
in the doorway. So that's obviously that's something you shoot
as a special that's something you shoot as a pickup.
You get the rest of the coverage you need, then
you drive the camera up and you shoot through the door.
Why couldn't they have gotten his exit before they brought
the camera into the doorframe.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Because there is no door. There is no door there.
That's a point. They're pretending that there's a door.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
So I think it's can't can't it go out the
other way?

Speaker 3 (38:27):
I don't know. I mean it's so it's interesting because
then he.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Would have crossed he would have crossed.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Through, he would have to pass you guys.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
Like all of our faces and between just realized like
it's better for if he abandons them by walking away,
you know. Obviously it was like composition based, right, like
the composition of the shot of a three or four
shot that he exits by you know they liked that better,
even though it made no directional logic with the actual.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Set, so they went with it because of the That's
what I mean. I think she was thinking more storyboards.
She was thinking more.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
Like, this is a cool shot to just walk off here,
and then there's no reason for him to walk that direction,
so then they just add a door sound to make
it clear that he's exiting.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Well Worth noting this episode would never be allowed in
twenty twenty four as the Super Bowl has since become
very litigious with media using their name in scripts or
for promotional use. So unless they are an official sponsor
or speaking about it for the news, you cannot say
super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Oh come on in your programming? Yes, can you say Horse?
Are you still allowed to say that? Because come on,
that's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh that's why you hear so much talk about the
Big Game for sweepstakes or on the radio, because the
NFL sees any attention to the name as a violation
of their trademark.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
All right, well, let's start a competition, a big yearly
event called Horse. I love to get everybody together and
we shovel Horse, and then we can sue everybody.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Who ever uses that word.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
The word and we'll make millions.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Yeah, we'll make millions, and all as a dirt pile
and some horses.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
I will send cease and desist to everybody who tries
to bring horse into their.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Speaking of cease and desists. A lot of lawyers do.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Argue that this is an overstep, saying they only have
this ability for stores having things like a Super Bowl sale.
The networks are just extra cautious.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
In twenty fourteen, Stephen Colbert was still on Comedy Central
and referred to it as the superb Owl.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Okay, that works.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
There you go, same smelling, just putting the emphosis in
a different place. So then we are in the guy's apartment.
Eric is on the porch drinking coffee and reading a book.
It's not the porch, it's the balcony. He's on the balcony,
which is.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Kind of a cool set. I know.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
I didn't think we ever went back out to the balcony. Yeah,
which we're going to start using that, but no, I
had again, didn't even think I was in this episode.
So I was like, oh, oh there I am, Well
there I am.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Why did this need to be oh, because you find
the girls, we find the girls. The idea is that
these the girls that you find the end of the
scene are the girls that you end up dating.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Yes, yeah, I think that's what they're going for.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Yeah, yeah, Ok.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
The coffee pot placement needing to be on the edge
on the balcony instead of from the table where you're sitting,
just so we can have a reason to get you.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
All of it is so it would have been great.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
If at the end of the scene you accidentally knocked
the coffee pop sorry.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Killed her.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
I want the one, get the other one? Yeah, no,
I mean there's so many Yeah, no, terrible, I mean,
and it is, it is. It just was very forced, like, oh,
the coffee is right over there.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Jack walks outside to join him. I didn't hear you
come home last night. Must have had a pretty good
time with your date Eric aka Sparkly Vampire Edward Cohen
thanks to some particularly bright lights. Did you not notice
how pale and sparkly you know? Oh, yes, you you

(41:59):
look like you've got you had a diamond facial you like, yes,
it was.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
You smell his hand through the screen to smell.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Him just maybe it was booty dust.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
It never nuts.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
It could be stripper booty dust. Maybe Eric was just
out there enjoying the night.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
It was it was I was like, wow, there's also
some new lighting. I'm not sure what's going on here,
so he casually responds, the evening began at seven. It
started with some intimate pre dinner conversation at a quaint,
little Mexican place. I happened to know, came back here,
and let's just say, my clothes were off within five minutes.
The inmates in the audience hoot and holler at this thought,

(42:41):
and then Jack corrects him while pouring from a coffee
pot that I mentioned precariously resting on the ledge.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
You opened your big mouth.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
She walked out, yate alone at Taco Bell, came home,
took off all your clothes, and were asleep by eight.
Eric responds, how'd you do? That's that's funny. It's funny.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
It is one of the callback to the ripping your
pants off because nobody is home. Yeah, bye bye pants.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
That's what he should have said, said, I'm home alone,
bye bye pants.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Not to get off on a tangent. And we can
make this just a yes or no naked sleeping yes
or no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
No, I used to, but not anymore.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Underwear but I no, yeah, no no no naked sleeping bad.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
Yeah, I would probably bring it back then we have,
Now that we've talked about it, I might go to
naked today.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
You know, what I noticed is that the first time
I slept naked in my dreams, I was naked. Yeah.
It was like which actually sounds kind of fun. All right,
I'm gonna go for it. Tonight's the night. Bye bye underwear.
All right. I love that.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
However you currently are whatever. Actually, okay, that's funny. Gosh, okay,
jack'size not as good.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
The guys are frustrated, but agree it's not them, it's
the women, all of them. Jack declares it's time to
be more choosy, find women who are more compatible. Eric agrees,
suggesting they embark on a mission to find their perfect companions,
their soulmates. Just then, Jack looks over the balcony and
notices some girls.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
What about them?

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Eric immediately starts yelling, hey, you too, No, not okay,
you too.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
You too?

Speaker 3 (44:27):
It was funny, that's all funny.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
I like I like this.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
I like this setup for a thing between Jack and Eric,
and I love the idea that then it's just two
randoms you pick, and I love it.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
This scene was funny.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
It was very funny.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Then we're in the Matthew's kitchen to Pengishon and Cory
are all stressed, gathered together and listening to the radio
as we've never done.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
It's like that portable TV. Yeah we had in the
kitchen counter.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
And I'm just like resting my arm on it.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Like here we are the three friends Hayking hanging out
from this radio.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Let's go radioing.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
I actually was reminded of season one, the betting episode
a couple of times, because we listen to the radio
and that on the kitchen counter, and then we're jumping
up and down grabbing the phone just like this. You're like, oh,
this is kind of a fun callback to that Corey
Shawn energy from season one.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
You're right, it is has just been the three of
you in the kitchen together since season one.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
No, no, I'm.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
Also I don't think the three of us were ever
just three of us in season one even.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Well, no, Panga puts the lipstick on her face, it's
the three of you.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
I walk in and then she walks out.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
But yeah, oh no, you're right, because I sit down
and goes go because we look like horses.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
So Sean has written down four can't miss ways on
how to get Super Bowl tickets. Corey asks for the
best one. Sean's best idea so far is I go
back in time to the first Super Bowl when tickets
weren't that hard to get.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
It's our time machine.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
It's our time machine.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
It brought Ben's response, I don't need to hear the
ready to hear the other three. That's great, a legitimate
laugh for me. I don't need to hear that.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
I don't even need to hear the other thing.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
It's interesting to me how much Corey oscillates between being
as dumb as Sean right, and the letting Sean know
that he's being dumb and like it's just basically whichever
one's funnier for the moment.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Yes, they will have Corey play right.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
To Bega breaks in with some common sense. If you're
gonna go back in time, you could do the original
assignment and we wouldn't be in this mess. She realizes
what she's doing, so she stops herself and sayings la
la la la. Corey reminds her that butting in, even
in musical form, is still butting in. Sean realizes that
was his next idea to ask t Banga they need
advice from her. She reminds Sean that if she gives

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them advice, she gets an F. Sean rolls his eyes.
You can get one stinking F in your life, Tapega argues, no,
she can't. She's worked very hard to be perfect up
till now. Seawn's disgusted. I am throwing up. I am
throwing up all over you, which I thought was funny. Then,
as if by magic, the radio DJ asks, are you
ready to win some Super Bowl tickets? To Pega's eyes widened.

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But the boys don't put two and two together? Or
they have become hard of hearing, or have they have
been given an unrealistic plot point.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
By the writers. I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
I don't know which one it is. Everyone's funniest and oblivious.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Sean asks, if I was a pair of Super Bowl tickets,
how would I find me? Corey admits it's an interesting question.
Sean another question, why would Phoene make up such an
impossible assignment? The NFL music plays behind them, but it
hasn't affected them at all. Tapega brings the boombox directly
to the kitchen table to get their attention. They have
the last Super Bowl tickets in the known universe, and

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there's only ten more chances to win, so call now
to Pega is trying so hard to get their attention,
but Corey shouts, will you turn down the radio? We're
trying to thank you to Pega runs across the kitchen,
running around the room, striking the Heisman pose. Corey yells
at her no jazz or size in the kitchen. The
DJ announces that he's down to the five final callers.
Topega now frantically holds two items she got in the kitchen,

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a bowl and a can of soup. Famous scene alert.
Corey tries to guess as to Panga plays a game
of charades, bowl and can.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
There's trouble in the Balkans. He puts a.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Piece of food in her mouth like she's lassy and asks,
is that what the radio said?

Speaker 4 (48:29):
Girl?

Speaker 1 (48:31):
She spits out the food and tries again. This time
he realizes the word is soup. He asks, soup or bowl?

Speaker 3 (48:38):
All right? Soup so funny? All right?

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Soup to Pega growls and jumps on his back, forcing
his head to the boom box. The DJ says there's
only one chance left to go to the super Bowl.
Corey and Sean jump up for joy, forcing Topanga to
fly backwards and land on the bums.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Yes, I around this like three times you flew off
his back. I mean that was a good hit, bigs.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
It was fun. I don't remember there be I don't
remember ever being hurt. Do you remember me ever being hurt?

Speaker 2 (49:12):
No?

Speaker 4 (49:12):
But do you remember doing this the scene?

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (49:16):
How do you you have positive memories of this scene?

Speaker 3 (49:20):
I don't have bad memories of the scene, right I should?

Speaker 4 (49:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (49:24):
I liked the scene watching it, but I got very
stressed out and I realized, like, oh right, this was
like a tough like this was like a lot.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Of over like redirecting being done. It was like it
was like.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
No, no, no, do it this way. Try, you know,
like now just jump on feet are the thing? Like
I just remember being like stressed out and like there
was Michael redirecting. There was a lot of like how
to make this funnier, how to make it bigger, you know,
and like watching I'm like, yeah, there's a lot of
funny beats in here, but I got stressed out watching it.

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I was like, am I stressed out right? And I
was like, oh right, because we were like beating this
to death try and you know, and it is.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
It's a very.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
Funny, funny written scene, but it, like the rest of
this episode, it.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Didn't feel light to me, like I wish it just
had like a lighter, more spontaneous touch to it.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
There.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Definitely think you're right that there was no audience and
it was missing that charge of energy from us.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
And I just feel like, you know, like Ben feeding
you the thing is like a really funny bit, but
it felt pre planned. It didn't feel like I'm watching
Corey make a decision grab a thing, like you could
have played that a little slower, but instead it feels like,
let me hit the beat that we're hitting and then
let me hit the beat where we do this and
let me you know. And I was like, yeah, listen
to each other a little bit more, guys, like, you know,

(50:41):
enjoy the scene.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
I could tell that. I don't know, I felt like
we were.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
Kind of stressed out and I got stressed out watching huh,
But still very funny scenes.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Yeah, it worth it.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
I guess probably still could have been funnier, maybe with
a little bit more maybe if it would have been
a little bit more relaxed, but also maybe because there
was no audience, our relax axed pace did actually hurt
the comedy. So I don't know, it's hard to it's
hard to tell. It's like there is such a fine
line between something seeming too well planned out and also

(51:14):
very specific beats being funnier than passive beats. So it's
exactly you know it is. It's a hard it's a
hard line to walk.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
I don't think it's anything anybody would really notice, but
I noticed that, Oh my gosh, I'm getting the same
feeling in my body watching I was like, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
So I would also say, Danielle, you're a very good
physical comedian. And I'm surprised after this they didn't do
more of this, yeah, because it was really funny. The
physicality was hysterical, and I was like, why didn't they
go into this more? Like why isn't a panga more
klutzy or we learned something about her where we get
more of this? Because you were really good at it,

(51:51):
It's like this didn't make any sense.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
I do just remember, and I know I've been asked before.
People have been like, when you did that?

Speaker 4 (51:58):
It was?

Speaker 3 (51:58):
Was that a stunt? Double? Did you have a pad?

Speaker 1 (52:01):
And I remember that No, I did not, And I
remember being excited by the fact that I got to
do that, like I got to actually do that stunt.
I don't necessarily remember feeling stressed about that aspect of it.
I'm sure we were overrehearsed, but I think I was
more just like, this is cool that I get to
and it's going to look good.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
And it did.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
It looked good. It looks real, And I remember telling
people like, no, I think I really just did that.
Then when I watched it, I was like, yes, of
course I remember this, Yes I really did it.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
But even the heisman stuff, even the smaller stuff, like
just the physicality was very funny. It's like, why don't
they write to this more?

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Yeah, that would have been fun. I do enjoy physical comedy. Okay,
so that would But that stunt would never happen today.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
You would never send an actor. Never.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
It would have a pad and you'd have to shoot
it differently, and it'd make it look like the actor
went flying and in some ways good, that's a good thing,
but it is someways funny to see in some ways bad.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
It sure was funny to see me do it.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Ye Corey is now shouting, they're giving away tickets to
the super Bowl. Sean adds, we almost missed it. Thanks
a lot to Panga, he says, looking at the radio,
pretending he's looking at Topanga.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Did you notice that?

Speaker 4 (53:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (53:09):
No, oh my gosh, I can't believe writer didn't notice it.
As a director, I am back by the stairs, and
you lean over the table as if where I am
is on the floor in front of the back door.

Speaker 4 (53:23):
See that's what I mean. It was coverage.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
We were getting ridge, so it was like, let's bring
the camera over here to get Seawn's shot right or
your eye lines over here. It wasn't within the same
scene right, which.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
We never did. It was just we're gonna, you know what,
forget the cameras are here. You guys do your play,
will do our thing. That's the way to do it.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Because they go from you going thanks a lot to
Panga to then me looking at you and it's like
there's no universe where we buy. He's looking at her.
It's it was so disorienting. It was very interesting.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
I love that you and I would have never noticed
any of the stuff. That not a thing. What do
I say?

Speaker 1 (54:00):
No, nope, never thought of it, never thought of it once.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
What do these directors even do?

Speaker 4 (54:06):
You don't need to to us.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
They just work with the actors.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
They just a good job.

Speaker 5 (54:10):
They tell us scene again from the top, ask us
what we feel exactly?

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Nope, yeah, I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Guys are good for anyway. Just let us do it.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
He runs to the phone and dials the radio station.
When someone picks up, Sean excitedly shouts to Corey, I'm
collar twenty.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
They jump up and down, and then Sean.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Pauses, fact, I did full facting. I did not wait
at all. It's like, literally.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Dial but is that or is that?

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Pace?

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Pace it up faster.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
I'm glad that you were able in the first call, though,
to win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Yeah, that was believable.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Uh huh, I loved it. You had me there, you
had me at hello Sean.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Sean pauses, I gotta do what and then there is
quite an abrupt jump to the outdoor scre billboard. It's
the w k Z n outdoor billboard. We see a
few people standing on the ledge of their sign that
reads radio because you only have to use one of
your senses.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
And now you know what this is from.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
No, Yeah, that's that's the that was the ABC yellow campaign.
Yeah is your friend? I mean they even with the
circle where it was, I mean that was the straighten
that year.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
Yeah, because that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Actually right now, do you think they did that as
a joke about ABC or do you think ABC was like,
this should be part of our campaign.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
I think our team did it as a joke. Let's
just make it look like the campaign that that ABC
is doing right now.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
So kind of a slight f you to the campaign there.
So that's what I'm like, this is awful. Are they
doing and then we're making fun of it? Or are
they doing it like this is fun and this is
kind of an homage to what ABC's doing.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
I don't I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
I mean, maybe sort of neutral.

Speaker 5 (56:07):
I think it's sort of like because the audience would
have also been able to recognize it, right because it
was literally what was being on couple on TV that
all the bumps and stuff would have that color scheme,
so I think they were like, let's just do it
in the same scheme as you know.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
I think it was just sort of are Okay.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
What was the set situation? I don't remember.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
This is why I.

Speaker 5 (56:29):
Think we didn't have an audience, because it had to
be an elevated set in order for there to be
that ladder to climb up and for this wide shot,
and there's several of these wide shots. I think it
was like to the left of the audience, we took
over that whole area, like when you're facing the audience
to their left.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
We just took over this whole air.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
I remember it being a very strange week because we
had to have this giant billboard and then we also
had to have the area where they were underneath the billboard,
and they were completely separate. So like where the people
are staying in the DJ and all that stuff is
going on is in a different see.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
Connected to this.

Speaker 5 (57:03):
This was just isolated green screen, so it had green
screen behind it, I think at least for this shot,
and then the rest of it was.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
Yeah, it was a very weird week. I mean I
remember it being very strange.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Right, Okay, So then we are down on the sidewalk
at the DJ's makeshift studio. Hey, hey, this is Johnny
Latte from one oh two point five Wazne.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Such a good jail, So good Johnny Latte, Morning Zoo.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
The camera zooms out to show Corey and topang Us
standing by the booth with a handful of other spectators,
all bundle up, bundled up in winter attire. Johnny Latte
informs us that at sixteen degrees right now, as an
aggressively shivering man is hauled away in a gurney, there
are only three freezing contestants left, and there's a small
group of well wishers cheering them on. Then one of

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the well wishers yells jump. Johnny also points out that's
the obligatory lunatic. Johnny Ltte will be back with our
thirty two of the Super Bowl madness. Right after a
message from the Bahamas and now the Bahamas ad starts
to play with a jingle, and the jingle is we
are warm and you are cold.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
We don't need a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
I at this point was so frustrated that we were
this far into the scene and I still had no
idea what what's going on? What's going on? What did
they have to do. What is sean?

Speaker 3 (58:21):
What's what's it's something outside?

Speaker 4 (58:24):
There's Oh, you're right, they know.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
They never explained what I thought the same thing. I
was like, sowa are they is it an outlast other people?

Speaker 3 (58:31):
Is that no idea?

Speaker 7 (58:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (58:33):
Oh wow. The DJ never explains, not at all.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
He just we're just here, here we are, it's cold,
we're outside, it's the morning zoo. And it's like he
talks a long time. I'm half a page in the
text that I'm typing on my computer, going when are
we going to hear?

Speaker 3 (58:48):
What? What's the what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (58:51):
It was so I was just the locations, the eye lines,
because the ladder is actually behind the onlookers. The reality
is the onlookers would be facing it. So when Matt
Kirkwood yells jump, he's looking I think it a direction of.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
He's looking at the DJ, look at the DJ, and.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
And it's a I was like, whoa, you know. So
when Corey like suddenly climbs up, I'm like, oh.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
That's it's just it's also you've got to, I imagine,
because he doesn't explain it. You've got to be up
there and outlast the other people, like it's basically a
throwback to the twenties flag sitting, flagpole sitting. You got
to be up there really cold, but other people are
allowed to come up and hand you hot chocolate.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
I know I had the same question. It is Corey
going to be a contestant, now just come up and
here's a blanket and hot chocolate.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Like, I don't think they'd allow that.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Okay, it was the whole thing was so thrown together,
this scene where it was like, what what's happening?

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Yeah, Sean kicks the speaker off the billboard ledge so
he doesn't hear any more of that song. Luckily, Corey
comes walking up the ladder, just missing the falling speaker
that would have ailed him, but.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Still singing we are warm and you are cold. Corey's
brought him some hot chocolate.

Speaker 5 (01:00:05):
I love that he's in the audience down there listening
to the radio when the DJ is live right in front.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
Of him, just so he could have this moment.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
None of By the way, it's not a ron is
supposed to be a Phoene lesson episode This isn't a rawn.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Don't know what it is? God, what's the last guy?

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Why couldn't he just have the song stuck in his head.
Why did he need to have headphones on? Why couldn't
he just be like us so catchy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Well, it's because everybody's not facing the DJ, so they're
not actually listening to what they're saying, So you need
to also have the headphone seeking here.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
Maybe that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Sewn is ecstatic and frantically pours from the thermos into
the cup, but catches a glance at his fellow contestant,
who is also dramatically freezing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Sean tells Corey, I can't do this, this isn't right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
He walks over to his opponent and takes a big
swig of hot chocolate right in front of his face.
He screams yeah and laughs, maniatically the man size.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
That's it. I don't even like football. I like billboards,
and you've ruined this for me.

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
That is, I mean, that line is so great landing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
I mean yeah, the billboards. I wanted to be close
to a billboard.

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
I mean god, that I mean to me, that is
like quintessential brilliant. Michael Jacobs like, here's the spot.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
For the joke, right, and the joke is, you know
the guy is going to cave in the face of
Sean's cruelty, and then you add this extra layer of
irony to I mean, just brilliant. I'm so funny football,
I'm just here for the billboard.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
So smart. It is so smart.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Corey is ecstatic.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
There's only one more guy Sean has to outlast to
win those tickets. Sean admits, I can't win this Cory.
Corey tries to encourage him. Of course he can win,
but Sean simply points to the other guy. It's a
man and a big winter coat, happily sitting on the
ledge of a billboard eating an ice cream cone. Corey
whispers the other guy's inn Eskimo. Sean nods he's from

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the Inuit tribe. He comes to Philadelphia with his family
every January for summer vacation. The man cheerfully sings, I
am warm and you are cold. Sean says, I really
thought I had a chance to go to the Super Bowl,
but I guess I never really did. There's always going
to be an Eskimo standing in my way, isn't there.
Corey says he'll help him down. As Sean figures out

(01:02:25):
this whole thing was impossible, Corey thinks Feoenie knew that.
And then we're in Phoenie's classroom. Phoene's at his desk,
and Corey and the gang barge in. All right, we
got this one figured out. Phoene asks, you got the
super Bowl tickets? Sean grins. This was never about the tickets.
Phoene raises an eyebrow. It wasn't. Corey's very proud of himself.
You don't think we know you. You don't think we

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know that when you're teaching us something, we should look
for the lesson behind the lesson. We figured this one
out all by ourselves. Tapanga ads and I didn't even
help them, mister Feenie. Sean explains, even though we thought
something was impossible, we still should have tried, because that's
all you want it to. Panga brags. You see how
I haven't given them any advice on what to say.
I don't fail, I don't. The three give each other

(01:03:07):
a big group hug as. Corey asks, aren't you proud
of us?

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Mister Feenie. Phoene is unmoved.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Where are the super Bowl tickets? The three of them
burst into laughter.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
Good joke, mister Feenie.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Topanga begins to speak, mister Feenie that, but Feeni interrupts her. No,
miss Lawrence, all you had to do was stay out
of it. Phoene asks them again, in a very serious tone,
where are the tickets? Sean tells him he really tried.
Corey adds, and we know that's what you wanted. Phoene
shakes his head. You have no idea what I want.
He stands up. Get the tickets or fail. Tapanga begins

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to say, mister Feenie, but he cuts her off again,
stay out of it or fail. Corey tries to reason
with him, and Peoene cuts him off as well. Help
them both or fail. He walks away without another word.
As the three of them stand there shocked, Sean states again,
thanks a lot to Panga.

Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
I think this might be the same with the door
way walk away walk. Oh yeah, this might because I
think that's a dramatic walkout. So the rest of the
episode felt very strange to me, And when I watch
it a second time, I kind of started to get
an idea.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
Why this is the end of.

Speaker 5 (01:04:12):
The episode, Like we do learn the lesson exactly right,
Like nothing changes, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
I don't it's all muddled. What is he trying to teach?
And they learned what he's trying to teach. They figured
it out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
And it's and it's just we haven't been suffered enough.
It's like Feeny just gets to.

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
Yell at us and then we learn the same lesson.
We just do it more like Sean just works.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
Harder and it's what we've done all the things exactly, still.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Doesn't do exactly. The assignment was not to go to
the super Bowl. It wasn't go to the super Bowl.
And that's what Sean did, is he ends up at
the super Bowl saying, look, nothing's impossible. Well, for all
we know, he snuck in and didn't The assignment was
to get super Bowl tickets, which he never did.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Yeah, I did sneak in.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
I just don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:04:56):
I just feel like this the more the more touching
scene and at the end, you know, with Corey and
Topanga and Feeni, they're all saying the same thing that
they say in this verbatim, like no one the lesson
doesn't change. And that's why it was like, wait, what
is this episode about?

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
And it seems like it's about.

Speaker 5 (01:05:14):
Phenie punishing us, like it seems like it's about FIENI
torturing us and like, I don't know it. It's it's
just not that like I just wanted the best lessons,
best feeni lessons are revelatory, right, It's like through the
experience you'll reveal something and like ah, and we've had
that up until now. But then the rest of the

(01:05:35):
episode it's just like authoritarian I told you you did it,
or you're not enough for it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
You know, it's a weird tone.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
It's like, oh, well, I do think I walked away
from the episode thinking I I kind of felt like
the lesson was, actually, your good attributes could actually could
you They could be taken to a fault. You know,
we've all heard the saying of like, oh she's kind
to a fault and you know it's because oh she's
so kind people and taking advantage of her she doesn't,

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you know, those kinds of things. And I do think
the idea that like Corey loves his friend so much
that at the beginning of the episode, what he was
doing to help him was trying to put his name
on a paper he didn't really write and give him
a good grade that he wouldn't have otherwise earned, and
that that is not actually that's enabling, that's not helping
your friend. And Topanga, who is a control freak and

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wants to see everybody succeed like I did walk away,
got them to thinking, yeah, and that for Sean, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
You know, don't give up like that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
Seawan is always so quick to say, my circumstances will
stop me, and so I shouldn't even bother because I have.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
An easy way out. But we've all learned all our lessons.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
My mind now that literally everything you've just described we've
already gone through and we still have what ten more
minutes of the episode, And I'm not sure why, except
to really drill this.

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
Point home felt plotting to me. Yeah, P L O
D D I NG like plotting, Like it was like
right next beat and.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
Just hit it harder and hit it harder, to the
point where the final moment where Feenie grabs your hands
like in this like really affect.

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
I was like, I know what, this isn't right. This
is not Feenie. Like Phoenie's the guy who won't say
I love you by the end of points.

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
He's the guy who would never he would walk away
from that scene and leave you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
Guys to be like a ha.

Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
So it's like it's like we had to. It's a
doubling down, Like the whole episode ends here and then
we just.

Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
Do it again.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Right, we're back at the guy's apartment, Jack sitting at
his laptop as Eric walks down the stairs. What are
you doing? They're gonna be here any minute. Jack says
he has a psych test on Monday. Eric's eyes, this

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is why you'll never end up with any woman worth having.
He slams Jack's laptop shut. We finally found two girls
that are different from any other girls we've dated before.
Jack asks how they're different, and Eric explains, because they're
coming back. They're coming back because there's compatibility. Now, we
haven't seen your first date with We didn't know there
was a first date, so now we're just told this

(01:08:18):
is a second date.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
Confused, it's like, oh, they those girls from the balcony, right,
we don't they haven't.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
So there were the girls from the balcony and you've
already had a date with them and it went well,
and now they're coming back.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Coming Did you see any food signs or did the
back change?

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
And there it's completely different there's a bar. Now's that island.
That bar island never existed a bar, and.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Then there's cabinets behind where there need to be food pictures.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
I know, they totally different.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
For the date scene, they needed two separate sitting areas,
and so they created this barstool citting.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
Area, which I think we're in now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
The rest of Yeah, but it's a different apartment.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Is amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Jack argues, I'm studying so I can get my soulmate
a nice life someday. Eric retorts, do like me, become
a secret agent. Once you're in the CIA, they take
care of you for life, or they kill you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
That's good advice, by the way, I know this is
classic Wilfredo, like figuring out some great business with your
shirt time, but you don't.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
Actually tie your shoes. It's it's great business.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
It's perfect because you have you know, like it's just
good acting to like give yourself something to do so
you're not just standing there and.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
You're doing it perfectly. But that you know. I watched
the episode twice.

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
The second time I was like, he just kind of
tugs on his laces that are already tied.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
I love it, but if.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
I had to do it over again. I would go
the extra beat with the joke and absolutely have Eric
and velcros shoes totally abbs like he doesn't know how
to tie is. She would never mention it, but Eric
always wears velcro shoes. I would go the extra mile
if I had to.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
Do it together.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
That's so funny. Right then the doorbell buzzes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Eric excitedly whispers soulmates, but Jack's still not convinced. What
are the chances we find two girls who are anything
like us? Eric providently asks back, what are the chances
we didn't? But you already know you guys have already
gone out on a date.

Speaker 4 (01:10:08):
With Well, that's what I understand. Like their team, that's
why they had What if we didn't? I don't understand
that line.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
It's a romp. No it didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
Again, this whole bet story seemed very and it's not
a bad beat story.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
I love The idea for the bet story is great.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
They they each date girls that are like the opposite
and they try to switch them classic sitcom three's company kinds.

Speaker 4 (01:10:30):
Doesn't it feel very obvious?

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Of course a little too much.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
I love the idea.

Speaker 5 (01:10:36):
I actually think both the actresses are great, Like, I
think it's a very but it felt, especially when it
gets to the slapping blocking like it just all felt
like so on the nose.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
I like the idea of the bet story. The execution
I did not think was great.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Eric opens the door and two pretty blonde girls walk in.
Eric smirks, boy, do we have an evening planned for you?
Jack joins in a wonderful little French restaurant with only
four tables, seven courses and we can linger for hours.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Jack has like the full date planned, but he was
also studying for his psych test.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
On Monday and had to be convinced to go in
on the date.

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
Eric Schut's a ROMP episode was written by Ai.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
AOL Messenger version.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Yeah you've got seen.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Eric shouts, hope you brought your fat pants ladies.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
Kind of a great line. I want to use that now.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Jack's date laughs a little too hard at that joke,
and then Eric's date announces I love French food, but
I can't stay too late because I have an exam
on Monday. But Jack's date has other plans. Hey give
me a couple of tacos and I'm a happy girl.
Jack is confused, but I got these reservations. Then the
girl points to her math and yells, tackle.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
People do this to me all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
But this was a this was a Corey thing did this.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
So it's the show referencing a different character characters in joke.
Maybe in the Boy Meets World universe there was taco
place where they did this as their commercial.

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
Like their low.

Speaker 5 (01:12:17):
Commercial was a guy tacoll so everybody sort of knows
it as like a band.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
That guy was named Michael Jacobs.

Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
Yes, give me live readings. No, no, it's wow taco.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
It's Miguel Jacob's taco house, Miguel.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
Let's make commercials.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Let's go into AI and have Miguel Taco commercials where
somebody points with their au taco Miguel's Tacas nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Exactly, Jacobs Jacobs, Miguel Jacob's Taco cos. No, we don't.

Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Oh my god, Jensen just wrote Jacob.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Miguel Jacob taco cassa. Yes, that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (01:13:14):
Okay, is it a taco pointing to his own like
a cartoon taco taco?

Speaker 7 (01:13:23):
A cartoon taco with his side pointing to his mouth
Miguel Yacosa.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Oh this is the best. Oh you have to chart
this pop up.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
Oh my gosh. Eric agrees, I love tacos. But then
his date reminds him about Jack's reservations. She and Jack
both say in unison, we can't just not show up. Man,
I was a good read by me.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Huh. Then Jack's date had my finger over the word.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Man it Man, what's that up in the road ahead?

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
What is this?

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
What is this thing called love?

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
I remember all of those.

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
We do that all the time because it's like the
ultimate bad actor thing to do.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
It's like to just completely misread a.

Speaker 5 (01:14:21):
Sentence, but like read it correctly. Just not talk about
human van.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Oh my gosh, I just had a full flashback.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Do you think you are? Were?

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
Anyway?

Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
Who do you think you are? Anyway?

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
We would do this all the time, all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:14:40):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
Indy had this exact thing happen in his class or
when he was doing the Little Mermaid play.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
One of the one of the actors.

Speaker 5 (01:14:48):
You know, seven years old or whatever, and I forget
what the line was. It was like, oh, some friend
you are or some friend you turned out to be
Sebastian is the line. Okay, she said some friend you
turned out to be Sebastian and he was like, what
is why was she saying it like that? And He's like,

(01:15:09):
I kept wanted to say somebody didn't want to tell
the other students, and then finding the teacher, like the
weeks of rids On. Finding the teacher was like, why
are you saying some friend you turned out to be Sebastian?

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
And so Andy just thought this was the funniest thing.

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
I was like, findy and so I told him all
of these ones where I was like, we have the
exact same things, so he knows.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
Them now too. We say them all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Oh god, I think he was anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
That is as you guys were doing that, I was
a teenager again. Oh man, my stomach truly, my stomach
hurt smif from laughing. Eric asks if everyone's ready, and
they head out into the hallway. While standing at the elevator,
Eric asks his date, Jill, if she has any brothers
or sisters.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Jill nods one sister.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
We were separated when my parents got divorced, but I
reconnected with her when I came to Penbrook. Pretty weird huh.
Jack and Eric stare at each other and disbelieve. Jack
asks his date Carol what she's studying. She responds, you
don't need to study for what I'm gonna do. Once
you're in the CIA, they take care of you for life.
Eric follows up or they Carol finishes his sentence, kill you,
kill you. The girls get into the elevator and Eric

(01:16:15):
quickly pulls Jack aside. I want Carol, Jack a grease.
Jill's perfect for me. Jack and Jill. Why didn't we
see it before? Eric shrieks Eric and Carol. The boys
wiggle their hands together as they let out happy shrieks
before joining their soulmates in the elevator.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
My stomach hurts, how do.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
You spell Miguel Jacobs? By the way, I'm already developed AI.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
I already got one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Guys, I'm currently working on the design.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
I got it. I already got one great one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Do you think it's why a cop? Or I think
it's And we assumed listener is gonna say, no, you
have to use a why all right?

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
I think you have to use a y right so
that you get the proper pronunciation.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
So, oh my god, I wrote everything to the designer,
and his own response back was what about feet? Does
he have feet? Oh? Does he have feet?

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Question?

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
You don't have feet. I'm want to eat the taco.

Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
Literally the first one that popped up. It's terrifying how
good it is. That's the first one that came up
on Ai.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
You guys, it's so good.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
It's pretty perfect. You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
This is better than what was in my mind. In
my mind, we were seeing the profile of the tao,
the side of the taco. But this is so much better. Yeah,
look at this big wide mouth. Oh my gosh, this
is perfect, and it says Miguel Jacob's Taco cossat. So

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then we are back on the WKZN billboard. It now
reads I'm going to the super Bowl thanks to WKZN,
with a picture of the Eskimo.

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
The restaurants should be sponsored by w KZEN. There should
be like, oh yeah, brought to you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
On the back Sean sitting on the ledge all alone.
Corey and Tapanga walk up and spot Sean. Topega says,
I told you he'd be here, and Corey argues, no,
you didn't. You were waiving a dollar and yawning at me.
Tapanga shouts, bill board, how much simpler, could it be?
They walk up the ladder, still arguing, and the start
of another handful of very crazy camera angles. Sean yells

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at them, Hey, Lucy, Ricky, I'm up here trying to think.

Speaker 4 (01:18:30):
You get your head stepped on. It was funny. I
love the panga dynamic in this.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
I love the idea that they're Lucy and Ricky. That's
that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Again, favorite topanga so far, arguably of the series. This
is my favorite tapanga, so at least of the modern tipanga.
Of the modern tapanga, this is my favorite version right here,
like you're part of the gang. They finally wrote something
for you, and it's like Topanga's here. So that was great.

Speaker 4 (01:18:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
They finally make it up to the ledge and Corey
asks what he's thinking about. Sean says, whenever I've wanted
anything in my life, there's always been an Eskimo standing
in my way. Corey turns to Tapanga for advice. She
starts playing charades, but Corey doesn't get it. She just
shouts metaphor. It's all very funny, and I don't know how.
I don't know how Tapega doesn't fail the assignment. I
guess we just choose not to share that I told

(01:19:17):
him stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Well, no one understands the assignment.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
Okay, that's that's true that way, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
Sean continues, Remember when you went to summer camp and
I couldn't afford to That was an eskimo. He grew
up in a trailer park. Everyone else had a house.
That's another eskimo. Sean explains, there's so many things standing
in my way, but he's had enough. He declares he's
going to the super Bowl. Corey reminds him he has
no tickets and no way of getting there. Sean says
it doesn't matter. People like him don't get anywhere because

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they don't believe they can get there. He's his own
worst eskimo. Corey tries reasoning with him, he doesn't need
to go anywhere. Sean knows I do have to go
somewhere because if I don't, I'll never go anywhere. He
tells Corey to be his best friend and get out
of his way. Corey obliges, and they all watch Sean leave. Now,
this is the lesson Sean didn't necessarily have when they

(01:20:04):
went back to the classroom. Before Sean came back going
you just wanted me to try. But that isn't true.
He wanted him to realize if you always see an
obstacle and decide, well, there's my obstacle, it's I'm not
ever going to push past it and I just turn
back and go, isn't that good enough?

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
No, that isn't ever going to be good enough in
your life.

Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
It's doubling down. Yeah you didn't you didn't run a marathon.
You just sprinted, but you just got to go.

Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
It's fine, It's just more of the same, right, It's
just like you have to go further.

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
You haven't been punished enough. You have both go.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
You haven't realized that you're you're the person who's stopping you,
not the actual obstacle. I think in the first when
you first went to the classroom, you were like, oh,
I worked my hardest until there was a true roadblock
that I couldn't imagine a way around.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
And then I said, well I did the best that
I could.

Speaker 1 (01:20:55):
But Feenie was saying, no, you have to go even
past that, and you have to realize that you're so
far the thing that stopped you every time, not about
the money, not about the and maybe that idea as
a big ole. You got to pull yourselfself up by
your bootstraps thing, you know, if you really want to
afford it, you work two jobs and you do it overnight.

(01:21:16):
Like There's maybe some of that in there, But ultimately
you did in this scene teach yourself something about your
past that you did not know in that previous scene
in the classroom.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
But he never got the tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
That we know of. That we know of.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
He may have done a grateful dead thing and waved
his finger up in the air outside of the super
Bowl asking for a miracle, and somebody said, hey, you
can have my extra ticket.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
We don't know. I do wish they explained that a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
I mean, I think Sean just broke into the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
I know, I think so too.

Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
Yeah, Sophie, he turned Sean into a criminal.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
Yes, then we're back in the guy's apartment. They are
in different outfits.

Speaker 4 (01:22:03):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
So this is the third date, Date three, third date.
The didn't see date one. We saw the beginning of
date two. This is now date three. This is sex
date right right, this is the time when it happens.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Eric makes his way over to Carol as Jack sits
next to Jill on the couch. Carol wins as Eric
stares into her soul. She wonders why he's so close
to her, and why is he even sitting next to
her in the first place. She thinks he's confused. Eric
grabs her hand and holds it to his chest. You
think I'm confused. Your name is Carol, you want to
work in espionage. You love tacos. You have no idea
what color amber is. Now, who's confused? She pulls her

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hand back. I am, and you're sitting even closer to
me now. Meanwhile, Jack is explaining to Jill, and are
we supposed to ad buy that they don't hear.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Each You can't hear anything. Well, they're almost six feet away.

Speaker 3 (01:22:48):
Okay, all right, got it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
Meanwhile Jack is explaining to Jill, your studies are important
to you. You appreciate French cuisine, and you want to read
the Sunday Times book review section in an unfurnished apartment
while you lie on the hardwood floor with your lover
massage in your bare feet. Jill shrugs, yeah. So we
cut back to Eric, whose legs are now propped onto
Carol's while he nuzzles his head into her shoulder. She's
had enough. Now you're way too close. You're hitting on me.

(01:23:12):
Eric softly asks, am I. Carol throws his legs off
of her. Yes, what is going on here? Eric stares
into her eyes. Don't you see we were meant for
each other. The reason I want someone like you is
because you're someone like me. She softly slaps him on
the head. She's here to see Jack. She thought he
and Eric were best friends. Eric nods best friends. We
support each other entirely. Then, and what can only be

(01:23:35):
described as an optical camera pan, Jack shouts to Jill.
Eric's a moron. I lay out his clothes in the morning.
You and I belong together. We're like peanut, butter and jelly.
We're like jelly and jelly. Carol makes her way over
to Jack. She's not comfortable here. Jill tells Eric she'd
like to leave. Eric is disgusted. I'm with Carol, how rude?

(01:24:00):
Great read?

Speaker 4 (01:24:01):
I wrote?

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Amazing read. Jack pleads to Jill. At least let me
walk you home. That way we can talk and you
can see how right we are for each other. Carol
just wants to know what's going on here. Eric asks,
we were just switching you around. What's the big deal?

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
The girls slap the boys across the face.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
In Udison, the roommates switch big Seinfeld thing.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
They just stole it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
Jack says they were just trying to form serious and
meaningful relationships. Eric adds, with a couple of hotties who
have the same interests we do. Don't you want that too?
He turns to Carol, I know you do. He turns
to Jill. You I don't know what you want, Carol
admits I. Carol admits we just went out with you

(01:24:46):
because we thought you were cute. Jill adds, besides, who
would want to be with someone exactly like ourselves? Nobody
makes a sandwich out of jelly and jelly. That would
be tedious and redundant. Jack looks at her lovingly. We
have the same volc tabulary. Eric turns to Carol. We
could look those words up together. But she doesn't want
to look those words up with him. She wants someone

(01:25:07):
who can tell her what they mean. Jill adds, I
spend all day with me. You seemed like fun, and
now we'll never know. With that, The girls leave now alone.
Eric declares, we learned an important lesson here today. Jack
looks like finding soulmates isn't going to be as easy
as we thought. Jack suggests, maybe the girls taught us
we were too aggressive and we just have to sit
back and let the universe bring our soulmates to us.

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Eric grins, you're a wise man, Jack Hunter. Then we
cut to the hallway outside the elevator. Jill and Carol
are not so patiently waiting, arms folded. Jill breaks the silence.
I guess they're actually not coming after us.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
Carol laughs. Those idiots, what they learned.

Speaker 4 (01:25:45):
The wrong lesson. They were supposed to go out and
chase them down, and the girls would have been fine,
and they would have been soulmates for her.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
But why would they have girls? Would they?

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Did it now be Eric and Carol and Jack and Jill?

Speaker 5 (01:25:57):
Or Yeah, they just gave that whole speech that that's
no they should be.

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
So that'll be the original.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
Yeah. Yeah, So you guys just learned the wrong lesson.
As the joke like, if you had listened to them, you.

Speaker 5 (01:26:09):
Would have learned the lesson, like we should try it,
make it make it work with the girl who's not
like me.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
Okay, I'll go after her and make it work.

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
But instead you guys were like, well, we don't need
soul mates, or let's wait and they'll come to us.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
Okay, okay, yeah, all right, but that's not that's not
what Eric or Jack wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
But we're boys, doesn't.

Speaker 6 (01:26:28):
Okay, doesn't matter what you want.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
And then we're back in Phoenie's classroom. Corey enters with Tapanga.
He's failed, mister Feoene. As we speak, our young Sean
is foolishly rolling westward towards San Diego and certain disappointment.
Phoene perks up, did he get the tickets? Corey explains no,
He said the tickets didn't matter. He said nothing mattered
and that he'd find a way in Phoenix smiles.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
That's what he said.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
Corey answers, Yeah, I was standing in front of him
and he asked me to move out of the way
so he could go. Phoene approaches Corey, clearly happy with
the way things turned out. Did you move out of
the way, mister Matthews. Corey nods, yeah, I mean I
really felt like I should. I know, the assignment was
to help him succeed, but he didn't need my help
on this one. Corey concludes he was going to do
this on his own no matter what. Guess I failed. Huh,

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Phoene smiles. On the contrary, you passed with flying colors,
and so does mister Hunter. Corey's demeanor changes, Of course
we did, and clearly you've wasted all your time. As
I continue to comprehend nothing, Phoene sits down next to him.
Sean isn't going to go to college and succeed because
you want him to. He has to want to and
believe that he can. The only way he can do

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that is on his own without your help. Corey wonders,
then why did you want me to help him? Phoeni explains,
you need to know you won't always be able to
to Panga smiles as she realizes, pretty soon we're all
going to have to do things on our own without
someone's help, right, mister. Phoenie to Penga continues, I think
I know why you've been so upset, and I think

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I know why you're going to keep giving us assignments
every day until our last day with you. Phoene warns
her she's butting in to Pega nods, Yeah, I am
so fail me. That's life, Pheenie reminds her you won't
be perfect anymore. To Penga shrugs, well, no one should
be perfect. You learn from failure, and I need to
know that, right, Phoenie's the one that's taken aback. Now,

(01:28:24):
you just yelled at me just so much.

Speaker 4 (01:28:27):
So much thematic time. I know, here's the theme of me.

Speaker 5 (01:28:30):
Here, here's the theme of your character, and here's the
way I feel about our themes, about the themes of
our character that you're talking the thematically about you. Oh
my god, they know which is it's just very heavy
handed and very sentimental.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
Yeah, you just yelled at me, But I'm mister Phoenie.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
To Penga smiles. One day you're going to have to
let us go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:52):
One day you won't be able to teach us anymore,
and you can't be sure if we're going to be
all right. Phoene pauses for a moment. Life is a
lot tougher than school, my DearS, Corey ads, but the
right thing to do is just step aside and let
us live it. We learned that because you taught it
to us. He grabs both of their hands and holds
them tight while they smile at him with admiration.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
And no Sean there for kind of this important I
mean moment and scene.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
Nope, a scene that's like about you going to college. Yeah,
all right, well then we're in the tag. We are
in Chubby's. A crowd is gathered around the TV as
Alan shoots ooh, what a game. Eric adds this is
the best super Bowl since Super Bowl XX. Tapang is confused.
She asks Amy, this makes them so happy. Morgan, who

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found herself in the episode, shakes her head in despair.

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
What else is on? Amy tells her like football, never
not a single one of them?

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Okay, wait a second super Bowl XX was super Bowl
twenty one by the Giants.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Oh my gosh, really I want to google.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Oh it was the Patriots that lost by that. Yeah, okay, gotcha.
This is refrigerator Perry one. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
Amy tells her that Fox is counterprogramming with America's worst
family atrocities. Alan butts in, you change that channel, You're
going to be on that program.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
Good shot at Fox. By the way, at the time,
that was just a straight up shot.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
Of yeah, you think the super Bowl this year and
that's maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
It was also in California, so it was probably a
big deal for Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
But Fox at the time was doing like Worst Bear
Attacks and all that. Remember the shows that were like
so these were great. That was a great just shot
at Fox at the time.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Yeah, Eric and Allan start to cheer loudly in bump chests.
The rest of Chubbies joins in. Once the celebration calms down,
Phoene stands up and excitedly shouts, look at that. Alan
is confused, Look at what the play's over? Phoene explains,
he's looking at the crowd. Look at the boy holding.

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
Up the sign.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
Corey notices it too, the one that says, hey, Phoenie,
nothing's impossible. He and Phoene look at each other, grinning
from ear to ear, and the audience sees none of it.
Where's that insert crowd?

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
All right, Well, we had a good run.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
There's got to be a dud occasionally. You can't have
a banger every week.

Speaker 4 (01:31:18):
I just don't know if this is a dud.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
I think it's just a strange one, you know. And
I actually think if this had come earlier in season five,
we would have been probably delighted. Like if this came
after the first couple episodes, we'd be like, oh cool.
But the last this coming in a round of like
great Angela episodes and like sort of a return to
the sense of boy meets world magic.

Speaker 4 (01:31:40):
This just felt this just felt.

Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
Off yea off, Yeah, but you got to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
We really did pick it apart.

Speaker 1 (01:31:46):
I feel like once, I feel like what I've realized
for a lot of our critiques on episodes is that
we feel like there could have been a simpler way
to get across the lesson, and this one feels like
they took an idea like I would have, and maybe
we would have been critical of it had it been

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more of a romp. But an episode about trying to
get tickets to the Super Bowl sounds fun but mixed
with a real convoluted Feeney lesson.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Yeah, new director, new direct ca.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
And a b story that maybe so Yeah, I think
I think maybe it needed a little bit of pairing down.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Yeah, maybe maybe it tried to do too much too many.

Speaker 1 (01:32:34):
Las tried, yes, lots of spinning plates.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
And I'd like to know where Sean is at this point.
I'd like to know where in his academic career he is,
because it's starting to change every week.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
Right, I thought you were going to say you wanted
him to drop a pin. You want to know what I.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
Always said, I know exactly where writers I have a
camera set up in his sear I know where.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
You have a Google You're following him, right, I do.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
I'm shutting it down tonight though, as he goes back
to naked sleeping.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
Right, you don't want to see that.

Speaker 5 (01:33:02):
We got into the car this weekend Alex and she
got an alert on her phone that was like you
were being followed by an air tag or there was
an air tag. We're like, what what did somebody? And
we're like sitting there going what is going on? And
then my son's friend from the back seat was like,
We're like, do you have an air taxit?

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
Yeah, my mom has an air tag on my backpack.

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
But isn't that interesting? It warns yeah, stock that you
were like, somebody's tracking you.

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
I know, I had no idea yea, But.

Speaker 5 (01:33:27):
Alex and I were like, what did somebody put one
in your car and took it? Took a little too
long for all of to pipe up in the backseat.

Speaker 4 (01:33:33):
We're like, well, yeah, that would have been good.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
That would have been Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
When you heard us freaking out about the air tag,
maybe maybe mention that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
That's a great name.

Speaker 3 (01:33:40):
Oli.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
I'm a big fan of the I always.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Join us for our next episode recap, which is season five,
episode fourteen.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
It's a big one heartbreak Corey.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
I saw this on the list intro to Lauren ski Lage.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
Huge episode Ski Lodge.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Already Ski Lodge, Ski Lodge. Well, Topang and Corey have
been have been happy for like four episodes now, so
it's time for him to get some strange We all
know that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Thank what's this question?

Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
I know, Yeah, it's already Ski Lodge episode. So that
originally aired February sixth, nineteen ninety eight. So I was
right when we talked about when this aired January sixteenth.
We was our last episode before the super Bowl on
January twenty fifth. We didn't have another episode air until
February sixth, so this was our super Bowl episode.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
Gotcha? All right?

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