October 1, 2024 • 59 mins
Hey, Loft Mates! This is the one where Elaine gets a proposal, Schmidt is forced to choose between the two loves of his life, Nick and Jess almost end things, and Winston pranks too hard. And guess what? We've got the new girl herself, Zooey Deschanel, here to help us break it down.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Listen. Hey babe, Yeah, babe. We got an exciting episode.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Today, very exciting episode today.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's very exciting. Do you want to talk about it?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I do want to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We have the one that only our beloved miss aditional
with us today to talk about Elaine's big day.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How are you, Zoe.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm great. I'm so happy to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So here's the thing, Zoe, we've.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Been looking You're both looking great. I just want to say, first.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Off, before we get started, have you have we have
we talked to you about the fact that we've been
trying to get Taylor Swift to make an appearance on
this uh on this podcast because of this episode.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
We oh, because she's busy.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think she's just like I've heard, she's got a
few things happening.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I think she's gone a little by But I.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Feel like if anybody could make it happen, you could
make it happen. I just feel like you have that
kind of pull in power.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh that's that's kind of you to think bad about me.
I really don't know, Like I feel like it's I
So here's my feeling about Taylor Swift, Like, I absolutely
freaking love her and I like never want to like
ask her for any favors because I just don't ever
want to be like yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Because she could go on it could be horrible time
for her, she.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Has a bad experience.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
What if she's like it was me at that bar
in New York.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, out of the bar.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I get it. No, no, no, I I actually know
I I yeah. Again, I'm the worst person asking people
for favors. So you know what, me too.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's a really interesting thing, isn't it such a funny thing,
A very strange thing. I'm always just like I don't
know if I can, but maybe I could find someone
who would feel comfortable because you feel like people.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Are I'm such a right exactly and everybody has like
I feel like I have like very few things that
would like break through that like like like the instinct
to protect any like not not that I'm I'm not
(02:37):
protecting anybody, but I'm just like I'm just like always
like I just feel bad. I just feel bad ever
asking anyone for anything. That's so weird. I will not
ask for In fact, this is funny because when I
was like a teenager, I stayed with my parents' friends
when they were out of town who had like a
kid my age, and I like my parents just like
(02:58):
forgot to give me lunch my need for like four
days or something, and I didn't ask for lunch money.
So I like went and the dad like gave me
some cookies and I just ate a cookie per day
for lunch to like because I didn't want I would
refuse to ask for money, and I didn't tell my
parents and needed money. I don't know why. That's how
(03:19):
resistant I am to ask red Wiring. It is is
like I will not make a terrible streak.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You make a terrible I'm doing it for free again.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Like don't yeah no, I would be yeah no, I'm not.
I'm not a busker by nature. But yeah, So you
got the tenth best thing after Taylor's WI for this episode, we.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Got the best thing. We've got the star of our show.
So we're so grateful to have you here. You want
to do a quick recap to do it?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Here, you do it. I love hearing you.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Let's go here we go, ladies and gentlemen. This is
the Mess Around with Hannah and Lamourn. Today we are
featuring the star of New Girl, Zooey Deschanel. And we're
off Elaine's big day. Elaine's big day, very very important episode.
It's CEC's big day. Actually, it is her wedding day,
(04:21):
but Schmidt is convinced that she doesn't want to go
through with it, so he recruits Winston to help him
sabotage the wedding. Now they take it way too far
and they release a wild badger that ends up wreaking
havoc on the reception. Meanwhile, Jess and Nick are struggling
to decide if they should call off their relationship. And
oh yeah, Chevrang, that's sneaky, little man. He might be
(04:43):
in love with someone other than Ceci. Here we go. Whoa, Okay,
let's jump right in. Let's jump right in. Jess is
the maid of honor in this episode and right away
in the beginning. I love this beginning opening scene because
it gives you a good glimpse of what the dynamic is,
(05:04):
especially now that your quote unquote father is here, Rob
Reiner is here.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, I thought it was really really funny to see
every like like Schmidt's telling Winston don't touch him, just
really wants this picture. Nick is being told to get
out of the picture completely.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, what do we remember get out of there.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I mean, here's the thing that's so funny is like
Rob Reiner's characters both to hate Bob.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It was like hate Nick.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
But Rob like loved, like love him, like I feel
like more than the I mean, he definitely like liked
us all for sure, but I think he liked Jake
the most. What do you guys think do you remember
that that he like really.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Likes I do remember that, I remember him. I feel
like he doesn't like me. I felt like he doesn't
like me.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Of course he.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So everyone everybody feels so loved, like yeah, he's so, yeah,
he's so.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You thought he didn't like you, Well, here's why, because
I did something stupid. It's it almost it's almost like
how when Max and Jake thought it would be a
good idea to ask Dennis Farina really stupid per questions
about being a detective, and now he treated them afterwards,
I decided to do a take in one of the
scenes where I where I called him a meathead. Now that's,
(06:26):
you know, throwback to all in the family. That's what
you know, that's what he was calling the show. He
looked at me and said, oh, do you think I've
never been called that before. He goes try again in
the scene. So it crushed me so much that I
was so awkward around him. And I don't know if
(06:47):
he felt that awkwardness. I mean, he was very nice
and kind afterwards, but deep down, I feel like he's
like this guy's a hack.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, I no, I can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I think he was like trying to like give it back,
you know what I mean, like trying to like like
they just love me, just let me, just let me.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Goshkay.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
So with this picture, apparently so I Zoe. I went
and found the table draft of this episode and then
the production draft of this episode, and as it was scripted,
it was supposed to end on like this super funny
picture of like Nick half.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Out of it, of like little like.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Schmid making a weird face, you having like a great smile,
and it was supposed to be this really weird thing.
And I feel like it was one of those things
with like alts and extra takes that we just kept
going on that it ended up just being like I'm
not doing and everybody walked away and it's just the
dad taking a picture of his like sweet.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Daughter, I think you're totally right. I think we tried
it that way and they might have taken a picture
of us like all kind of half that would like
the more than you were in there, don't you think
we probably tried I think we pretty much tried it
a few ways, and that that way that it ended
up what was kind of just.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, I definitely think it was funnier that the way
it ended up for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, it felt like a lot of amprov going back
and forth. And then I think they were just like
that just works. That feels real that they would just
be like, we're not doing it, We're out.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So we get to we get to the reception and
Whinsteon sees this badger Zoe. I'm not one hundred percent
sure if you remember this moment, but the badger uh
peede on uh me and also on my stand in
Brian Crump.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So like that's just like par for course if you
have to deal with an animal, right, because I just
feel like you don't like dealing with animals and it's
like a curse of being at worn because you don't
like it. And for some reason they're like, let's make
(09:06):
little more in the most like the character that deals
with animals, like the most of all the characters. I
love animals. I like never got to work with like
an animal. They do, and it's like, are you kidding me?
Like we would have loved to have those animals, but somehow,
just like they like basically never let me be in
(09:27):
the dance sequences.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
They could have given any way.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It's like the same thing. You couldn't give me the
cat Hannah, a cat Hannah anyway. Although I would have
said no to Badger.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, well he was very like Badger. Well, he was
in his cage. He was in his little crate, I
guess you would say, and that. And remember in that
episode where we're pushing him through the vents. At parts
of some of the time, it was a fake Badger
in there, you know what I mean. But when they
(10:01):
would show the actual crate, they would have, you know, Bucky,
the real bad the real Badger you're in there. And
I remember one time he just was like, I'm spraying
and multiple times he scummed me essentially. That's what he did.
Have to take a shower, no, But when I left,
When I left the set that day, a lot of
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other female Badgers were like running up. I was like
these badgers everything.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Like, I've never had so much badger game.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Wait.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We shot this episode like partially on the Fox spot
and then did was it partially? Was it? Was it
down like MacArthur Park area or was it like at
that hotel.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Next door studio?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
The hotel next door hotel next door that is now
like condemned not. I passed by it and it's like
totally closed down. It was like a height or a
Hilton or something. It's gone very convenient for shooting a Fox.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, here is that the same hotel from die Hard?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Because I was gonna say the die Hard thing too,
you and I at.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
This point it's on the same die The die Hard
building is down the street. But yeah, it is a
lot of that stuff was in die Hard because that
with that tower or something towers.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, well it's towers.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It's like towers or something like that.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And you can you would stare at it all the
time when we were going into like work and like
on our stage, and this episode feels like it's got
a lot of die Hard in it, Like it's exact
and like the it's not like the vibe of it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
But yeah, you're so right, crawling through like like vents.
Building vents is so dark, right, nothing like crawling through
building back.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Like like escape it you die hard.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You know, if anybody wants to call me for action film,
I can crawl through events. We've now seen that happen.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I actually think you'd be like a great action starte thank.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You, thank you, you really would. I've been telling you
this like.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
One of those like funny action movies.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Can you you can get this green lit? Zoe. You
just have to say okay to it?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Can I? Yes? Can I produce it?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I want I want in on this cash a little
more and you just do your like workouts, will workout.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Fitness instructor, gone rogue.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Let's write this.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
We're doing it right now. Canna, do you want to
be in will be the animal handler?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I feel like you have to be the buffalo.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yes, yes, you could wear one of those like cool
outfits that they were.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
At That's right, this is great.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I would look cute on you, like a jump as
long as.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I have to wear heels anymore. You guys, I'm in.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
No no no wonder Animal Trainers full.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Sari su Yeah. Really, I mean we're cruiting your next opportunity.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I mean, oh my god, I just want to produce.
I want to sit there and eat take out.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's why I want to be a producer. I don't
have to put makeup. Yeah yeah, Now let's jump back
into this. You uh had y'all dulled up. You're getting
ready to uh well see she's getting ready to get married,
and Jess obviously is in there kind of calming the
nerves a little bit. What do you remember? What do
(13:39):
you both remember about this particular moment? Was this on stage?
This particular part was this actually at that same building?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I don't know where it was shot, but I remember
again because I looked at the script and there's like
this whole thing where Zoe, you were the one that's
like wrapping the sorry, It's like around the rabbit. We
were one and it was like this thing and you
made like this sorry joke, but not sorry joke. It
was all scripted, which didn't make the show because I
(14:06):
think they had so much other stuff that they needed
to get to.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I mean, it was a packed episode.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So this whole bit, but we shot it. I do
remember shooting it. I remember that because they kept asking
me about well, like wrapping the sorry, and I've never
worn a sorry before really in my life, like maybe
a couple times, like in India at something and someone
else put me in it, but like I've never really
(14:32):
worn one. It looked it was I mean, it was great.
I just didn't have it was That was the one
interesting thing is like to feel like, Wow, there's this
big representation of this Indian wedding, and that's so cool
that I get to be part of this big moment
of representation. And I'm also like not the best person
for it, like the least about it.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
So but I remember that.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I remember you trying to wrap the sorry and the
jokes that were being made, and it was like actually
a really sweet, like jess CC moment, but it didn't
make the cut because of all the other things that had.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
There's a lot of cotton eye Joe.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Like we need to hear it three or four times.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
We have to. I just remember being on set and
I remember mag like seeing they're like, got night, Joe,
this is ridiculous. I was like, I can't believe we're
doing this.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I remember that scene. That moment was at the door
is at the doorway, when he's looking at you and
he's singing the song I watched. When I rewatched it
last night, I went I forgot about that moment. That
is such a ridiculous delivery moment.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I like live for that, Like I live for it.
But I was just like, this is crazy. I can't
believe we're making this.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Say about this.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
There's like a couple of moments where like Jess comes
out and like really gives it to Schmidt.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It was just like, no, oh, like, you are not
messing with this girl's wedding.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
This is not happening. Get over it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
This, Yeah, it's really and after like when he says like, oh,
with her eyes, she told me with her eyes, this
is done. And it's it's rare that it happens. But
it was a moment where I could see, like you,
Zoe like fully come through because you're like a solid girlfriend,
and I feel like you would go real big sister
on somebody in real life and be like, knock it off,
(16:26):
this is not a job.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
This is my friend's wedding and get it together.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I definitely would, Yeah, I definitely would. Also, like this
is like the beginning of some of the like the
redeeming they had to do later because he is dating
such a lovely Merritt Weaver's character, Elizabeth, and she's like
so lovely and they had some really I think season
(16:52):
three didn't they have to kind of like backtrack yeah
a bit with Schmidt because it was not cool what
he was doing no all.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
And they start this episode with such a sweet like
couple's moment where she's like, it's a three hour ceremony.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
You know how your bladder gets.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Weird, go pee and he like gives her a sweet
look like that's like real deep relationship stuff. When you
even like you know how you are, you can go
and he's like, thank you for knowing.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
How I am.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
They didn't even try to make her like hate no,
like you know, unlikable. She's pretty generally likable. No, they can't.
She's pretty likable. So problem.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, that was a nice thing I think about having
like a female creator of your show too, where she
was just like, this is a Schmidt problem. We're not
going to sit down offloaded to like CC or to Elizabeth.
We're just going to keep this heat on him and
he needs to sort it out, which is really nice
that by the end of the episode when we get there,
it's like you never see even one bad look between
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Cec and Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
They're just sort of like that just went through your
There's all sorts of.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Parties that happen on my screen and we're not sure why,
but sure.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
But here's the thing. It must be nice because I
don't think this is real life. Obviously it's a television show.
But it must be nice to be Schmid to go,
let me take my pick at which woman I want
to be with at this woman's wedding. I don't want
to be like you get this.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Choice breath at a wedding.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'll decide if I want to be with her or not.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of grateful that at the
end of the episode they never made it that he
like picks, because that would have been very gross. It
would have been a very weird, gross moment, like, yeah,
the redemption need to happen. And I think that's what
they kind of pushed over into the next season where
he had to do some earning.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Right, Yeah, he had to He had to do some earning,
which is cool. It's one of the things I like
about the show. You know, it's like, you know, years
past when we ended, like I look back, and I'm like, wow,
they did such The writers did such a good good
job of like creating these like fun characters that you
like to see in these kind of like fun episodic
(19:13):
kind of situations. It's very sickcommy, but there were really
serialized storylines where you were watching the characters have these
arcs over seasons, and I think, like that is something
special about the show. And I think and I think
I love it.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We all love it too. Here's the thing we're going.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I think I love you guys, I love you more.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
We're gonna go to commercial break, and when we come back,
we're going to talk about more about how much you
love us, and also about Schmidt and Winston coming together
to screw this wedding app prank style. We'll be right back,
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and we are back if you're just tuning in, uh
to this particular podcast. There is something that we do
on this show that Hannah has been dropping the ball
on for I don't know, since the beginning of this show.
Where's the Bear? And this woman can ever seem to
find the damn bear? And this is a total myth
(20:21):
and she likes to keep this train going, So we're
going to keep this train going, Hannah.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Where's the bear bit?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I'm gonna say season two, I may have forgotten about
it a lot, and it seems like the writers got
it did too, and props and everybody else, and I'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
And maybe it's not a real thing.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And there we go, there we go, there we go.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
The last time that I don't look for.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
This is all just a prank.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
On me for the past couple of years, because I'll
tell you what this episode.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
It was, and it was created like money.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, full disclosure. For the first time ever, I didn't
even look.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well and I got a surprise for you.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Did you see what you found?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
A badger is in the bear family?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Get out?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
But it could be true by the badger, tiny little bear.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It's a tiny little bear. So speaking of their speaking
of their pranks and animals, Chevrang gets on this, Chevrong
gets on this, this white horse. Is that a tradition?
Is that a thing in Indian weddings?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I literally just told you I'm not the most qualified
person to talk to about Indian Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Thing, Yeah for sure, Yeah, totally I know because I'm an.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Ectperson, because I've been to an Indian Indian wedding did
not see a white horse, And I just thought it
was funny that step one in their pranks was still
almost killed Chevron by letting off an airhorn by a
horse that was wild.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That was a wild prank to play to like startle
a huge animal like that.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Seemed like a little.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Crazy and just reacted appropriately.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And Hindu weddings, the groom often arrives at the wedding
venue on a white horse or in a white horse
drawn carriage as a part of the tradition called gouri.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So it's not like the like, it's not like the
bride getting to get arrive in a carriage. It's the groom.
I've heard of it before. I've just never seen it,
but yes, I do believe that happens.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Okay, well, well.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Don't try to spook horses, guys, because it's not a
nice thing to do when somebody's on the horse because
then the horse will go crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It was funny to watch like whoever was doing the stunt,
like just fully shrink in tower behind the head of
the horse. I did see that part where we just
see the feet sticking out.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That was good covering that.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
That was definitely not setia on the horse in no way,
shape or form.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, all right, let's jump back into it now. Schmid
says he will call off the Shenanigans, right, uh, But
then he instructs Winston to get crazy. He blows the
air horn, the horse rides off like a like a psychopath. Right,
And Nick is trying.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
To do the right thing because he cares about his relationship,
which is very sweet.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
He tries, he.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Tries, but but Jess doesn't believe him because Cotton Eye
Joe starts to play and.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
The prank is too good.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It actually has to me they made some sense out
of it.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
But this is one of the crazier storylines. Let's sake
macro crazy storyline.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Okay, don tape the soundboard. She's like that, it's an
intelligent move, and you're the smartest prankster there is. It
had to be you. Then that's how he kind of
gets done for one of the things.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I'm just wondering, like what did the like the writer
of Cotton Eye Joe like think of this. They're like,
I never thought my song would like inspire an entire
episode like twenty one minutes of television.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, and also Now people who are big fans of
the show, like, this is like a song they play
at their weddings. Now, Cotton Eye Joe gets played had
weddings now because of this episode?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Should I play it at my should be my wedding?
Should I walk on the aisle to kind of go?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And what's the what's the thing that.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
We should dance? Chicken dance chicken dancer? Bill Collins, Oh,
Grooby kind of love? Yeah? Yeah, the release slow version.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
New Girl in your Wedding?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
If that Frank gets always wedding lamar and you if
you bring a badger to my wedding, freak out.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Let's talk about it for a second. Let's talk about
it for a second.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You know there are what are you feeling?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Badger out of wedding? Not really a bad idea, right,
because it's a cool looking pe People can pet it,
people can walk, people take selfies with the badger.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The problem, I think the problem is when you decide
you want to I get you. I got your ten
right now, Ten reasons.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Why badger's cute?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Badger's cute. If a badger peas on you, then other
like lady badgers will come and like be attracted.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
To you, just like I kind of still stuck on
the fact that you shared earlier that the badger pete
on you you didn't take a shower, and then you
were like just like back at work.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
And then what you do is you multiply that, you know,
and then you got.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Ten okay for the badger at Zoe, maybe not a
badger at your wedding, Maybe not your badger at your wedding,
but in this particular case, you again, in typical New
Girl fashion, you know that these characters are idiots.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So Winston would do something like that, Yes, he would
go into the ducts and proceed to try to sabotage
this wedding, which is exactly what happened. Now. Nick tells
Winston that the plan cannot be that thing. You cannot
drop a badger on a priest, and you know, Schmidt
(26:28):
then goes back. He tells Jess that Nick wasn't in
on it, and that Nick was saying that just means
so much to me. YadA, YadA, YadA, And that causes
you know, a little bit of a romantic moment between
Nick and Jess again, right, like a little little uh,
let's forgive each other moment for this, Why would you
think this of me? Why do you think I'm a child?
(26:48):
Et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Dad said, so, yeah, there was like a really sweet
moment when you guys were kind of having that in
that two shot where you guys really head to head
and he's just like really pushing for the answer, and
then you know, like Jess is going through a bit
of distress. He's like trapped in a duck, there's a
badger on the loose, her best friend's trying to get married,
and this guy's like, let's have a real.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Which would stress me out, but it's just to sit there.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And be like, you know, like to have this big
relationship chat. Like in that moment, like I was just
like read the room, literally, buddy, and then for you
to you just answered honestly and like he couldn't handle
the honesty. It didn't mean that, you know, the character
didn't want to be with the other character.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You're just answering the question.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And I thought pretty gently then a very sensitive male
ego just was like, I guess we're not that that's
how you feel.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
We have to have some conflict in the middle of
the episode, you.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Know, yeah, sure, I just was like, Wow, it was
such like such a small thing. But then it makes
you think about, like so many relationships do end over
just like tiny, small.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Something really weird. It's so true. So I'm just remembering
now that the first episode of season three, I'm still
wearing this sorry and I'm in ba I mean, I
don't mean to skip ahead, but like I just had
this flashback that like they were like, so you have
to wear the sorry again, only turned it into like
(28:21):
beach where shredded it.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Basically you were in like this.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
It was shredded. Yeah, it was like a short skirt. Yeah,
shipwrack to get a tan and like like some like
beachy hair kind of.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, we shut it down in Marina del Rey. I
remember that little strip of beach that we shot it
in that beginning of season three, in the same out
of it where you guys kind of like.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The Jamaica in I think the place was gone.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I remember that location. We're like, we're back, and this
is where we're starting. We didn't start like in the loft.
It was like this really it was a really weird
feeling where this this season ended us and then yeah,
where we had to start. Yeah, do you remember getting
fitted for that. Sorry, did you have to go down
to our t show or did they bring it all
up to the.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
No, they brought it up to me, But I was
because I think I had it was like less involved
than your situation, which was quite involved because you're a ride.
But I was obsessed with the color of my sorry, Like,
I loved it. It was so pretty.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
It was I never get to wear those shows. I
never get to wear sorry on you never do, Like
y'all want to play with pets and stuff like that,
and they always put that on me. But when it
comes to sorry.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Sorry, Uh Well.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I think it's cool about this episode is that it
starts with one person with that Schmid obviously sees a
little bit of doubt in CC's i s, which sets
off a chain of events which activates Winston, which then
activates Nick, which then somehow ends up with Jess also
in the ducks. And it starts with one idea of
a person looking in someone's eyes, and it ends with
(30:05):
a collapse of the ceiling onto the top of the
all parties.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
All collapse of the entire like inner like ducting system
of a hotel.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yes, I also love that, like just like that female
approach of just like, you know what, I'm going up
to the ducks, like let me just it was just
like such like a full like I don't know, like
mom moment of like you know what, forget, I'll handle it.
I was gonna put everybody straight and figure this whole
thing out, which is why, like the the hard truth
of it, it's jets that falls down and like collapses.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Where the and another great moment from Monica Bronder my
son double yeap yes.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And what's cool about it is that it ends up. Yeah,
because because of this, I'm not if this didn't happen.
I'm not sure, you know, you know. Chivrang then steps
up and says, Okay, I'm feeling it either, because this
big collapse allows everyone to fully be themselves and just
be honest and go, hey, listen, maybe this wedding isn't
(31:08):
for us, and you know, you say I'm in love
with someone else and then he says, so am I
And I think had that roof night collapse, that wouldn't
have happened.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
I love that Taylor Swift was just there, she just.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
She was just in the area. She was doing a
meeting at five, you.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Know, she was just doing a meeting at five. So
you know what's funny is that, Uh A lot of
people have brought this up because you know, spoiler or
Taylor Swift runs off with Chebrene, and a bunch of
people have said, like, because Jess is a swiftye and
(31:48):
we've established we established that at least later in me
in the show. Also, I'm a swifty too, just so's
we all are. We're swifties. We're a swifty family. But
(32:08):
a lot of people brought up they were like, but wait,
it's like a lane different from Taylor Swift. Like how
is just like a fan of Taylor Swift, but like
a lane like is Taylor Swift? Like the is it
Taylor Swift? I was like, it's a really good point.
I think a leen is like that. There's like a
woman who's like a doppel ganger for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, it's like a long lost twin something.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
And I think that's a link. Yeah don't you think.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, that's the only explanation because otherwise the place would
have gone up.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
None of it works. But she's played by Taylor Swift
in this and what I in this?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You ever hear of the Mendela effect. It's when you
think something happened. The Mendela effect is when someone thinks
something happened, like a general the general consensus. You know
that the whole population thinks that there was this thing
that was on a cereal box, for example, But then
you look back, it was never the case. We just
for some reason had that idea in our mind.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Oh, like Kazam or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, like that, you know what I mean, Like yeah,
but it's like that wasn't a thing. Yes, I remember that, I.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Know it happened. I'm sure. I love this movie.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, and in this episode, No.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
There's no movie named Kazam.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Sorry, why do I think.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
We all know it happened? But it didn't.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So in this one, I had a full Mandela effect
moment when I was when I was rewatching it, Chevrange
picks up, you know, Taylor Swift and runs out of
the wedding with her. In my mind, it was the
other way around.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
It's because that take happened.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
That take.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I talked to Satia about this, So we had Setia
on a loft meeting and I asked him about it
and we talked about it. Because that take did happen
they did it, you know whatever, five six times this
way and then I think it's like a funny pitch.
They did it the other way around, where Taylor picked
Upsthia and ran out, and I think we all fell out.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Because it was very easy for her to do, and we.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
All Taylor is tall. She's she's like five ten or something,
and he's not super tall, right, and.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
So it was very easy and they thought it was
super funny and they fell out laughing, and I just
think it was one of those moments where everybody in.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
The room just like laughing.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Do you remember it, because it was so that's right, I.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Think all of us. But Sathia thought it happened like that.
Him and I were talking about it and he's like,
oh my god, when she like carried me out like
that was like the greatest moment.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
And when I rewatched it, I was like, oh my god,
it didn't make the cuts. It went with another dake.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
But it's I think we all remember it because it
did happen.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
But okay, you guys, do you know that I remember
like very well because she was on set very long
and she just basically like came in and did that
little scene. But I just wanted to share that. Like
she came in and was in the hair makeup trailer
and they had me. This is just classic because when
(35:18):
Prince was on, I was also like baby like not babysitting,
but they were like be like the host of the
sat and go or hostess of the sat and go
and like greet them. And everybody was like do that
with Prince, like go be the hostess and like sit
and you know, hang out with Prince. And so when
Taylor was there, everyone was like, Zoe, go sit in
the makeup trailer with her. And my makeup artist, Georgie
(35:38):
ended up. She was like, oh yeah, I'm totally cool
using Zoe's makeup artists. So Georgie did her makeup and
she was like, first of all, Taylor Swift like, if
anyone ever says anything mean about her, I'm so mad
because she is such a nice person. She is so cool.
(35:58):
I've never seen her be anything but like absolutely so
lovely and found earth. And she was like she really
liked my like the like lipstick that I wore, and
she it was like benettin you know Benette, It's just
like the most old fashioned lip tint that's been around
forever and we had that like Benettin and she you
(36:22):
go get them, you go, it would look good on you.
And we had one for her and I remember like
Georgie gave it to her and she was like, oh
my god, thank you. I was like, what if it's cool?
Like Taylor Swift was like excited to just get like
this little thing of benefit. Like she was unbelievably nice.
So like, let's set the record street that Taylor is
awesome and everything that you imagine her to be that
(36:46):
you hope she is she is.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You know, it's really funny.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I remember Georgie coming out and almost feeling like a little.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Like like shocked.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
She was like she I think there was like this
expect or, you know, just this thought that she was
probably gonna come with her entire own team, have a
whole set of like and a whole thing, and she didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
She came in.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
She's like I think she had maybe her hair dresser,
but she had like Georgie did her makeup or she
came with her hair done or something. But yeah, yeah,
she was had like I don't think she had even
like she might have had like one person with her,
but she was very very down to earth, no entourage,
like not very chill.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah, I remember that too. I remember just like the
chat around set being like, yeah, she's just like the
most easy, lovely human everything you wow her to be,
she is exactly that.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So true.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I remember that feeling too. And Seth they shared all
of his stories because they would because at that thing
when they run out down the aisle and you know,
the scenes carries on like you and I had that conversation,
which is sweet, and that happens, and so they had
to like be behind the door now and just like
wait until you know, Jake Kasen called cut, so he's
(37:58):
like he would just be back there, and he said
it was so sweet because she'd be like.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
That was really good. Did you like that?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I thought that was really funny.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
And he was just saying how like sweet it was
that they had just like this little like kind of
just like just actors bonding in a moment after a take,
waiting for the scene to be done, having a moment.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yeah, that's so sweet. I love hearing that.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah, I also forgot like how sweet that moment was
between our characters at the end, I forgot about that
whole little exchange, and it's such a sweet like jesse
CC moment, and there's so many moments and little like
looks in between, and it just made me realize how
much I missacting with you because it was like such
(38:39):
a sweet.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Misacting with you guys so much. I like have to say,
it's like one of those things. It's like you your
show ends and you're like, Okay, well, I guess it's
like another chapter like over. But it's like, you guys
are like my family, Like I got to act with
you every day, Like I love seeing you, I love
getting to work with you, and so it was like
(39:02):
that was like the saddest thing for me, I mean,
just not getting to be with like my buddies. I
saw you guys more than my family really, like you
really were like I mean, you still are family to me.
But like I consider like the core cast of New
Girls to be like one hundred percent my extended Max.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I really are Max. Max coming into this had done
a lot of you know, recurs, guest stars, you know,
a bunch of had done a bunch of televisions. Oh yeah,
and he told me, he goes in the final season,
he goes, it's not always going to be like this.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, he was like, this is a very different, very
special type of deal. It's not always like this. And
you go on and you do however many shows afterwards
and you look back and you go, damn, we got
it pretty good, didn't we.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah? Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah. But so let's close out this episode. There's two
things that are happening here. One, Schmidt has to u
between CC and Elizabeth. I thought that was we talked,
we touched on it a little bit before about how
ridiculous it is.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
But it gets a choice.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
He literally runs away, right he I think.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Though, but that's like as writers, they had no like again,
if he if he made a choice, I think that
it would not have been like I don't think the
fans would have responded well to it. I don't think
that like empowers the women in the scene. I think
that would have been weird. I will tell you what.
I remember that because they had me kind of just
doing like busy work, right when then I kind of
(40:37):
walk over and be like, yeah, she's right, Like, you
got to figure this out. You got to choose who
you want to be with. This isn't fair. But I'll
never forget doing this busy work, and there was a
bunch of background actors, all Indian, and I remember one.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Of them saying to me.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
They said to me, you know, this is so exciting
for us to have so many Indians, like, you know,
on a show like this. This feels so important. This
is so wonderful, you know, even though you're not Indian, Like,
it's okay, we accept you as one.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Of our own.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
And I was like, and it was one of those moments,
you know when you're so caught off guard. I just
said thank you, Like I didn't like even have the
words to be like I'm I'm like, I'm half felt
complicated in that moment. Well like they were literally they
were just like they're like rolling and this person like
says the thing, and I was just like, I.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Was so happy to be of service, you know, and
I was, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Then it was like shuffled and moved and then we
moved into like the stuff that I was doing with
like you know, Schmidt and Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
But I'll never forget that moment where I was like.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I know, I am it's this is an authentic casting moment.
I am mean, this is why this is an Indian
wedding because of the actress they cast in this role.
It wouldn't be this otherwise that would feel weird because
that moment always stuck with me, where they're just like,
we don't accept you as our own because this is
such a powerful moment for mainstream sitcom TV for Indians.
So thank you for just looking like you do.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
That's so funny. You're okay, very welcome.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
And in another cool moment, there's always this back and
forth between Nick and Jess, and I remember I had
this conversation with Hannah on a previous episode where I
was so confused. I was like, where are we in
the Nick and Jess saga? Because I was And then
(42:31):
again I had that moment rewatching it and I was like, oh,
wait a minute, Okay, I think I'm caught up to
where we are right now and the will they won't?
They are? They are?
Speaker 4 (42:39):
They not?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
But it was a cool moment. What do you remember
about that moment at the final the final little I
guess back and forth before you all drive off together.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah, that was so sweet. Your speech is so sweet
and heartfelt.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I am trying to think what I remember about it.
I do remember being like, wait, what we're doing what
I think, you know what, I think they had to
like it was kind of a strategic move because it's
like obviously that relationship was so important and they don't
(43:16):
want to like completely just like like there has to
be this like tension between Like there has to be
like problems because otherwise, like if it just like you
put them together too early and they're just happy, then
like you kind of you don't want to spend that
like tension too early. Like it's like it's only season two,
(43:38):
so I think that, but there has to be that
genuine stuff and really like truly like the Jess and Nick,
like Jess and Nick so genuinely do like love each other,
and like I also just like loved working with Jake,
Like I found like even though like he's so funny
and he can be so silly and all that stuff,
(43:59):
but like just he can he really it's it's it's
wonderful playing those like very sincere moments with him. So
like I really enjoyed like that that relationship was just
it was a gift. I think like that getting to
play the Nick and Jess storyline over that long was
(44:20):
so amazing, And I think this was like you know,
a great moment in that, in that relationship. And then
also just like the fact that like we kind of
it was a real kind of Cliffinger we don't know right,
like what are they gonna do?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, I mean I thought it was great, good.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
I was just gonna say, like I looked at that again.
I look back at those scripts, and there was a
whole scene where Nick runs into Rob Reiner on the
way out and they kind of like hash it out
and Nick shares like his like woll okay, I might
be all these things, but all these other great things too,
and he kind of gets lost in the sauce like
typical like Nick Miller style, and then Rob Riiner's character
(45:02):
goes like, I think what you're trying to say is
you're going after my daughter, Like you better go because
she's leaving. So there was that big thing. And then
I feel like in the table draft version there was
it was Nick that came out with the speech of
wanting to uncall it, and then you know, like you
say it too, and none of those things ended up
what we you know ended up, and we maybe they
(45:24):
shot that Rob Reiner thing because that was in the
production draft. But how they flipped it at the end,
and this is just.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I mean, you're a really incredible in that scene.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Because all that other stuff that they had done to
kind of lead up to the uncall it moment disappeared.
So you just had to in this like, you know,
cause they only had twenty one minutes in this very
short space, do that flip and just sell it with
like heart and emotion, and it was It's really beautiful
and really sweet, and you really, like you just said,
feels like, oh, this is like a real relationship. Now
(45:55):
they have like real bumps, they have their doubts, They're
still going to try to go for it because you
can see how much they wanted. But it was thank
you had to do a lot of work in a
very short of space, you know.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
You know, I I really appreciate that. And one thing
I do love about like our editors was that they
instead of like picking the like I do feel like
when push came to Shoven, we had like this short
time to fill, you know, a short time to like
tell the whole story that they they would always they
would choose the genuine moments, you know, rather than the like,
(46:29):
you know, exposition that wasn't important or you know, a
crazy silly moment or something that they would like go
for that heart, which is so nice. It's like always
kind of what made the you know, the show kind
of it's special blend of things.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Yeah, that's right, you just said it's that's so funny.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
I just got goosebumps you're talking about it, just because
it's they could have done that whole thing with Nick
and the dad and the whatever, and they're just giving
you to like, uncall it, uncall it and then they
kiss at the car. But instead they gave you that
little bit of extra room to like breathe and to
like to show your eyes and to have that moment
of connection of all the unsaid things and do that instead,
(47:08):
which is what I think was the magic of the show.
But having them have to be wise enough to make
those choices too, But that's only because they had to
choose from and that was you doing it. Thank you
so true.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
And on that note, we'll be right back, and we
are back now it is time for the mess around.
Mabe bebe yeah, bebe Yeah, you're screwing up. Youssed that
(47:48):
you know why?
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Because here's can I tell you where my brain went
is two things I thought that maybe it's important to
say to our listeners is one, this character of Elizabeth
is named after Elizabeth Meriweather. One too, Elaine's Big Day
is a big reference to the graduate and their big, big,
big wedding moment that obviously happens at the end of
the graduate And then Elizabeth Merriweather I read this interview,
(48:12):
was talking about how she just thought, instead of like
Schmidt having this big graduate moment of being like CC,
you're for me, of actually having like chavrange of somebody
going like here for me and like this like funny
moment to happen, that actually like kind of you know,
derails the wedding as opposed to having a big like
(48:33):
graduate moment. But they still kept the nod in there
with calling Taylor Swift's character Elaine.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
I never knew that. So we're gonna so for the
mess around, We're just gonna answer one of these questions. Okay,
And I think we may have talked about this before
at some point. Have either of you ever done a
prank that was too big or have had one done
on you? I know I have, I have.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Yeah, Okay, you've had one happened to you.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yeah, I've done one. I mean I participated in it.
I participated it.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Well, let's hear about it.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
I don't even know if I should. It's really like
like we're you know, where you do something you think
it's funny and then the person takes it way too seriously.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (49:31):
Yeah, no, just my friend was trying to scare his
other friend, like as a joke and like put like
some like little like hand drawn signs on his car,
like like pretending to be stocking or something, and we
were like, hah, we may be a little signed, but
(49:53):
they were like so I felt like so obviously like fake.
But the friend got like so upset that he like
put camera yeah, and then I was like, oh my gosh,
a board mission. This is not cool, Like he's scared.
But then he was like he didn't want to tell
(50:13):
his friend because he was worried he would be so
mad at what she.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
Probably did he ever find out or just thought the
stalker went away.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
I don't know, because I haven't seen these people in years.
This was a college age kind of deal. Yeah, that
wasn't back away. I was like, I was like, let's
put tic TACs on his car, like I don't know.
I was like, we were like, yeah, it was really bad,
like in that the person like got like actually nervous
(50:43):
about it. What we what should have happened was that
it should have been disclosed that there was like a
group of people playing a prank, but it wasn't as close.
But wasn't my friend, So like, you know, I participated,
but I feel bad about it. So sorry, God, your
conscience is just.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
This person now has a complex, this person now has
fifty security.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
Can you know this was so long ago? I bet
you know?
Speaker 1 (51:13):
What about Johannah?
Speaker 3 (51:15):
Oh my gosh, have I ever done a prank? I
honestly I or.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Had one done on you.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
I'm trying to think they never.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
I think Zoe and I are built a little bit
similarly in the sense that I immediately just have to confess
the thing, like I can't keep I can't have one
person not be in on on it. So I very
quickly got like excluded from like any like prank committees
because I just felt like too weird, too bad. I
(51:47):
don't like someone feeling left out of the thing. I
don't like like so I've only ever done like I
am like the queen of like fun surprises for people,
you know, Like.
Speaker 4 (51:58):
Oh, I like surprising surprises.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
Yeah, Like I can do those all day long, all
the lies and the layers of the things and showing
up and like, but that's all like happiness. But I've
never I get too I get too nervous that somebody's
gonna take it wrong, and then I'm like an apology mode.
Speaker 4 (52:15):
So I know, I felt really bad about that thing,
but it wasn't really my friend, so I couldn't apologize
to them. So actually can put me in a really
weird position where I was like, I'm never participating. I'm
never participating in a prank again.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Yeah, I get that feeling. I feel like somebody tried.
I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
I think I was young.
Speaker 3 (52:32):
Someone tried to wrote me into something and I just remember,
like this made me feel sick to my stomach.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
I feel like pranks just like never do a George
Clooney lead then, right, Because isn't he like crank Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Everybody, He's notorious for that, like really very very elaborate ones.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
Apparently elaborate crank he gave his friend Richard.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Apparently George found a piece of artwork in a like dump,
like like the trash bin or something and had it
like fixed up and framed and for Richard's like, they
gave it to him and told him it was this
really expensive like piece of art and he had it
hanging over his mantle in his house for years and
it wasn't I forget how long it was, but apparently
it was like over like a decade until he told
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him that it.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
Wasn't that a frank, No, You're just like, that's just
funking people. You're just fucking people for your amusement.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
Well, I had so recently, I I'm supposed to be
doing this show with Nick Cage called Spider Noir, and
my manager reached out and said, hey, so Nick wants
to have dinner with you. And I got so nervous
because I thought, well, I already have the job, but
is this one of those like tests. Because I heard
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he's a very like extravagant guy, and you know we
see him on camera he's so big and he makes big,
bold choices. I was like, oh my god, I got
to like really like focus up for this meeting. Now. Simultaneously,
I just got that Emmy nomination, like two days prior,
so I was super like, you know in press, you
know how it goes like you have to do all
these interviews and things like that.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
Oh, you're like super full of yourself.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
I was speaking in the third person. I was like,
lamurn's not going to meet with Nick right now?
Speaker 4 (54:13):
But then alternately like the royal Yeah you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Yes, But I was so nervous about meeting him, and
my anxiety levels for some reason just started like going
through the roof and I was freaking out about it.
Now day of I get a text from Eric Andre
and he says, hey, man, doors open at seven thirty.
You can get there around eight, And I went, what
are you talking about? And he says, my show. You
(54:38):
would agreed to do my show? And two months prior
I had said I would do his show, but no
one from his side confirmed that it was ever happening,
so it wasn't in my calendar or anything. But at
the same time as Nick's the dinner with Nick, I
was so like pissed at Eric and he was like, Bro,
you can't bail on me. If you don't show up
it's a live show, then there's no show. Have to
(55:00):
show up. It's a thousand people there. I was like,
oh my god. So my manager's like, don't worry about it.
We're gonna call Sony. We're gonna try to figure this out.
And she's panicking, and next thing you know, she's like,
don't worry about it. Nick said, it's okay. Nick said
he lives right down the street from the spot that
you that you're gonna have dinner, and Jo well, he goes, well,
she goes. He was like, just call him when you're
(55:21):
done with your set and then you and then he'll
meet up with you. And I was like, okay, thank god.
I go to Eric's show. Of course it's Eric Andre.
So it's a crazy, obscene, stupid show, really funny but stupid,
where he made me chug a beer, chug a red
Bull and eat ghost pepper hot sauce, which I didn't
think he was going to actually do that. I thought
it was like a fake thing. So I tasted a
(55:41):
good amount of it and my mouth was on fire,
and that he's got the whole crowd throwing stuff at me.
It was a shit show. I'm sweating, I'm like covered
in like hot sauce and my mouth is burning. I
rush over to the dinner with Nick. I get to
this restaurant and I'm like freaking out. I'm like, do
I smell bad? I'm sure I look like I look crazy.
I go and I say, I'm here to meet with
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uh Nick Cage and she goes, oh, right this way.
She takes me around the corner and there are eight
people sitting at a table, all wearing Nick Cage masks,
and they go surprise. And it was my friends and
my manager, all pretending to be Nick Cage that they
thought this was a great idea. So for like a week,
(56:24):
my anxiety was I was so pissed. I turned around
and walked off. I just turned around and left. God, yeah,
so that just happened to me.
Speaker 4 (56:34):
So wrong, that went wrong.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
WOULD like to celebrate you and your Emmy nomination. And
You're like, I now am indeed?
Speaker 4 (56:42):
Can I just tell you, Hannah and I would never
walk to you.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (56:46):
This is why I think.
Speaker 4 (56:48):
You never even occurred to me. Boy.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
I feel like I would.
Speaker 4 (56:53):
I'd be like that I talked to you, I'd.
Speaker 3 (56:55):
Be like, You're like, oh my god. I'm in this
huge conundrum with the Nick Cage meeting and meeting chill up, relaxed, So.
Speaker 4 (57:08):
I would have wanted to have saved you from that.
Eric Andre. Yeah, that was like, that was I'm sorry.
I love him like.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
That was not the day for me to do it.
Speaker 4 (57:19):
For your part, maybe.
Speaker 1 (57:21):
I think he read for for Winston. Yeah, for coach
ma Yeah.
Speaker 4 (57:24):
Yeah, yeah, I'm coach. Yeah he read for coach or
maybe Winston once Coach was off. I know he I
know he came in and I know I saw a
tape and I and I know he was good, but
he was he was not will More and Morris.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
So shout out to Eric Andre the World's Craziest man.
He's also nominated's sister and got my vote too. Yeah
for his for his show where is the Eric Andre Show?
And then one like variety talk show host or something.
Speaker 2 (58:00):
Also one of the loveliest humans in the world.
Speaker 4 (58:02):
He's he seems very nice. He was in Trolls three
with me. It was very nice.
Speaker 1 (58:09):
My daughter loves By the way, thank you all for
listening to another episode of The Mess Around. Thank you
to Zoey Deschouel for being here. Of course, make sure
you follow us on ig at the mess Around pod
sending all your emails all your questions, all your concerns. Uh,
Hannah will be checking them daily. Yes, I love you guys.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
Bye. That was the mess around. This has been an
iHeartMedia production. Our executive producer is Joel Monique. Our engineer
and editor is Mia Taylor. Additional production from Daniel Goodman,
Wendy Heisler, and Kyle Vron. Our theme song was written
and composed by Ronald Jukebox Jackson. So We're gonna catch
you next time.
Listen. Hey babe, Yeah, babe. We got an exciting episode.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Today, very exciting episode today.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's very exciting. Do you want to talk about it?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I do want to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We have the one that only our beloved miss aditional
with us today to talk about Elaine's big day.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How are you, Zoe.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm great. I'm so happy to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So here's the thing, Zoe, we've.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Been looking You're both looking great. I just want to say, first.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Off, before we get started, have you have we have
we talked to you about the fact that we've been
trying to get Taylor Swift to make an appearance on
this uh on this podcast because of this episode.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
We oh, because she's busy.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think she's just like I've heard, she's got a
few things happening.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I think she's gone a little by But I.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Feel like if anybody could make it happen, you could
make it happen. I just feel like you have that
kind of pull in power.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh that's that's kind of you to think bad about me.
I really don't know, Like I feel like it's I
So here's my feeling about Taylor Swift, Like, I absolutely
freaking love her and I like never want to like
ask her for any favors because I just don't ever
want to be like yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Because she could go on it could be horrible time
for her, she.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Has a bad experience.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
What if she's like it was me at that bar
in New York.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, out of the bar.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I get it. No, no, no, I I actually know
I I yeah. Again, I'm the worst person asking people
for favors. So you know what, me too.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's a really interesting thing, isn't it such a funny thing,
A very strange thing. I'm always just like I don't
know if I can, but maybe I could find someone
who would feel comfortable because you feel like people.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Are I'm such a right exactly and everybody has like
I feel like I have like very few things that
would like break through that like like like the instinct
to protect any like not not that I'm I'm not
(02:37):
protecting anybody, but I'm just like I'm just like always
like I just feel bad. I just feel bad ever
asking anyone for anything. That's so weird. I will not
ask for In fact, this is funny because when I
was like a teenager, I stayed with my parents' friends
when they were out of town who had like a
kid my age, and I like my parents just like
(02:58):
forgot to give me lunch my need for like four
days or something, and I didn't ask for lunch money.
So I like went and the dad like gave me
some cookies and I just ate a cookie per day
for lunch to like because I didn't want I would
refuse to ask for money, and I didn't tell my
parents and needed money. I don't know why. That's how
(03:19):
resistant I am to ask red Wiring. It is is
like I will not make a terrible streak.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You make a terrible I'm doing it for free again.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Like don't yeah no, I would be yeah no, I'm not.
I'm not a busker by nature. But yeah, So you
got the tenth best thing after Taylor's WI for this episode, we.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Got the best thing. We've got the star of our show.
So we're so grateful to have you here. You want
to do a quick recap to do it?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Here, you do it. I love hearing you.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Let's go here we go, ladies and gentlemen. This is
the Mess Around with Hannah and Lamourn. Today we are
featuring the star of New Girl, Zooey Deschanel. And we're
off Elaine's big day. Elaine's big day, very very important episode.
It's CEC's big day. Actually, it is her wedding day,
(04:21):
but Schmidt is convinced that she doesn't want to go
through with it, so he recruits Winston to help him
sabotage the wedding. Now they take it way too far
and they release a wild badger that ends up wreaking
havoc on the reception. Meanwhile, Jess and Nick are struggling
to decide if they should call off their relationship. And
oh yeah, Chevrang, that's sneaky, little man. He might be
(04:43):
in love with someone other than Ceci. Here we go. Whoa, Okay,
let's jump right in. Let's jump right in. Jess is
the maid of honor in this episode and right away
in the beginning. I love this beginning opening scene because
it gives you a good glimpse of what the dynamic is,
(05:04):
especially now that your quote unquote father is here, Rob
Reiner is here.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, I thought it was really really funny to see
every like like Schmidt's telling Winston don't touch him, just
really wants this picture. Nick is being told to get
out of the picture completely.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, what do we remember get out of there.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I mean, here's the thing that's so funny is like
Rob Reiner's characters both to hate Bob.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It was like hate Nick.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
But Rob like loved, like love him, like I feel
like more than the I mean, he definitely like liked
us all for sure, but I think he liked Jake
the most. What do you guys think do you remember
that that he like really.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Likes I do remember that, I remember him. I feel
like he doesn't like me. I felt like he doesn't
like me.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Of course he.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So everyone everybody feels so loved, like yeah, he's so, yeah,
he's so.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You thought he didn't like you, Well, here's why, because
I did something stupid. It's it almost it's almost like
how when Max and Jake thought it would be a
good idea to ask Dennis Farina really stupid per questions
about being a detective, and now he treated them afterwards,
I decided to do a take in one of the
scenes where I where I called him a meathead. Now that's,
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you know, throwback to all in the family. That's what
you know, that's what he was calling the show. He
looked at me and said, oh, do you think I've
never been called that before. He goes try again in
the scene. So it crushed me so much that I
was so awkward around him. And I don't know if
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he felt that awkwardness. I mean, he was very nice
and kind afterwards, but deep down, I feel like he's
like this guy's a hack.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, I no, I can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I think he was like trying to like give it back,
you know what I mean, like trying to like like
they just love me, just let me, just let me.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Goshkay.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
So with this picture, apparently so I Zoe. I went
and found the table draft of this episode and then
the production draft of this episode, and as it was scripted,
it was supposed to end on like this super funny
picture of like Nick half.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Out of it, of like little like.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Schmid making a weird face, you having like a great smile,
and it was supposed to be this really weird thing.
And I feel like it was one of those things
with like alts and extra takes that we just kept
going on that it ended up just being like I'm
not doing and everybody walked away and it's just the
dad taking a picture of his like sweet.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Daughter, I think you're totally right. I think we tried
it that way and they might have taken a picture
of us like all kind of half that would like
the more than you were in there, don't you think
we probably tried I think we pretty much tried it
a few ways, and that that way that it ended
up what was kind of just.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, I definitely think it was funnier that the way
it ended up for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, it felt like a lot of amprov going back
and forth. And then I think they were just like
that just works. That feels real that they would just
be like, we're not doing it, We're out.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So we get to we get to the reception and
Whinsteon sees this badger Zoe. I'm not one hundred percent
sure if you remember this moment, but the badger uh
peede on uh me and also on my stand in
Brian Crump.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So like that's just like par for course if you
have to deal with an animal, right, because I just
feel like you don't like dealing with animals and it's
like a curse of being at worn because you don't
like it. And for some reason they're like, let's make
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little more in the most like the character that deals
with animals, like the most of all the characters. I
love animals. I like never got to work with like
an animal. They do, and it's like, are you kidding me?
Like we would have loved to have those animals, but somehow,
just like they like basically never let me be in
(09:27):
the dance sequences.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
They could have given any way.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It's like the same thing. You couldn't give me the
cat Hannah, a cat Hannah anyway. Although I would have
said no to Badger.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, well he was very like Badger. Well, he was
in his cage. He was in his little crate, I
guess you would say, and that. And remember in that
episode where we're pushing him through the vents. At parts
of some of the time, it was a fake Badger
in there, you know what I mean. But when they
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would show the actual crate, they would have, you know, Bucky,
the real bad the real Badger you're in there. And
I remember one time he just was like, I'm spraying
and multiple times he scummed me essentially. That's what he did.
Have to take a shower, no, But when I left,
When I left the set that day, a lot of
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other female Badgers were like running up. I was like
these badgers everything.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Like, I've never had so much badger game.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Wait.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We shot this episode like partially on the Fox spot
and then did was it partially? Was it? Was it
down like MacArthur Park area or was it like at
that hotel.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Next door studio?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
The hotel next door hotel next door that is now
like condemned not. I passed by it and it's like
totally closed down. It was like a height or a
Hilton or something. It's gone very convenient for shooting a Fox.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, here is that the same hotel from die Hard?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Because I was gonna say the die Hard thing too,
you and I at.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
This point it's on the same die The die Hard
building is down the street. But yeah, it is a
lot of that stuff was in die Hard because that
with that tower or something towers.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, well it's towers.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It's like towers or something like that.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And you can you would stare at it all the
time when we were going into like work and like
on our stage, and this episode feels like it's got
a lot of die Hard in it, Like it's exact
and like the it's not like the vibe of it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
But yeah, you're so right, crawling through like like vents.
Building vents is so dark, right, nothing like crawling through
building back.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Like like escape it you die hard.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You know, if anybody wants to call me for action film,
I can crawl through events. We've now seen that happen.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I actually think you'd be like a great action starte thank.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You, thank you, you really would. I've been telling you
this like.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
One of those like funny action movies.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Can you you can get this green lit? Zoe. You
just have to say okay to it?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Can I? Yes? Can I produce it?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I want I want in on this cash a little
more and you just do your like workouts, will workout.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Fitness instructor, gone rogue.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Let's write this.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
We're doing it right now. Canna, do you want to
be in will be the animal handler?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I feel like you have to be the buffalo.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yes, yes, you could wear one of those like cool
outfits that they were.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
At That's right, this is great.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I would look cute on you, like a jump as
long as.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I have to wear heels anymore. You guys, I'm in.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
No no no wonder Animal Trainers full.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Sari su Yeah. Really, I mean we're cruiting your next opportunity.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I mean, oh my god, I just want to produce.
I want to sit there and eat take out.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's why I want to be a producer. I don't
have to put makeup. Yeah yeah, Now let's jump back
into this. You uh had y'all dulled up. You're getting
ready to uh well see she's getting ready to get married,
and Jess obviously is in there kind of calming the
nerves a little bit. What do you remember? What do
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you both remember about this particular moment? Was this on stage?
This particular part was this actually at that same building?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I don't know where it was shot, but I remember
again because I looked at the script and there's like
this whole thing where Zoe, you were the one that's
like wrapping the sorry, It's like around the rabbit. We
were one and it was like this thing and you
made like this sorry joke, but not sorry joke. It
was all scripted, which didn't make the show because I
(14:06):
think they had so much other stuff that they needed
to get to.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I mean, it was a packed episode.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So this whole bit, but we shot it. I do
remember shooting it. I remember that because they kept asking
me about well, like wrapping the sorry, and I've never
worn a sorry before really in my life, like maybe
a couple times, like in India at something and someone
else put me in it, but like I've never really
(14:32):
worn one. It looked it was I mean, it was great.
I just didn't have it was That was the one
interesting thing is like to feel like, Wow, there's this
big representation of this Indian wedding, and that's so cool
that I get to be part of this big moment
of representation. And I'm also like not the best person
for it, like the least about it.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
So but I remember that.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I remember you trying to wrap the sorry and the
jokes that were being made, and it was like actually
a really sweet, like jess CC moment, but it didn't
make the cut because of all the other things that had.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
There's a lot of cotton eye Joe.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Like we need to hear it three or four times.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
We have to. I just remember being on set and
I remember mag like seeing they're like, got night, Joe,
this is ridiculous. I was like, I can't believe we're
doing this.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I remember that scene. That moment was at the door
is at the doorway, when he's looking at you and
he's singing the song I watched. When I rewatched it
last night, I went I forgot about that moment. That
is such a ridiculous delivery moment.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I like live for that, Like I live for it.
But I was just like, this is crazy. I can't
believe we're making this.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Say about this.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
There's like a couple of moments where like Jess comes
out and like really gives it to Schmidt.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It was just like, no, oh, like, you are not
messing with this girl's wedding.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
This is not happening. Get over it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
This, Yeah, it's really and after like when he says like, oh,
with her eyes, she told me with her eyes, this
is done. And it's it's rare that it happens. But
it was a moment where I could see, like you,
Zoe like fully come through because you're like a solid girlfriend,
and I feel like you would go real big sister
on somebody in real life and be like, knock it off,
(16:26):
this is not a job.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
This is my friend's wedding and get it together.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I definitely would, Yeah, I definitely would. Also, like this
is like the beginning of some of the like the
redeeming they had to do later because he is dating
such a lovely Merritt Weaver's character, Elizabeth, and she's like
so lovely and they had some really I think season
(16:52):
three didn't they have to kind of like backtrack yeah
a bit with Schmidt because it was not cool what
he was doing no all.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
And they start this episode with such a sweet like
couple's moment where she's like, it's a three hour ceremony.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
You know how your bladder gets.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Weird, go pee and he like gives her a sweet
look like that's like real deep relationship stuff. When you
even like you know how you are, you can go
and he's like, thank you for knowing.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
How I am.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
They didn't even try to make her like hate no,
like you know, unlikable. She's pretty generally likable. No, they can't.
She's pretty likable. So problem.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, that was a nice thing I think about having
like a female creator of your show too, where she
was just like, this is a Schmidt problem. We're not
going to sit down offloaded to like CC or to Elizabeth.
We're just going to keep this heat on him and
he needs to sort it out, which is really nice
that by the end of the episode when we get there,
it's like you never see even one bad look between
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Cec and Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
They're just sort of like that just went through your
There's all sorts of.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Parties that happen on my screen and we're not sure why,
but sure.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
But here's the thing. It must be nice because I
don't think this is real life. Obviously it's a television show.
But it must be nice to be Schmid to go,
let me take my pick at which woman I want
to be with at this woman's wedding. I don't want
to be like you get this.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Choice breath at a wedding.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'll decide if I want to be with her or not.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of grateful that at the
end of the episode they never made it that he
like picks, because that would have been very gross. It
would have been a very weird, gross moment, like, yeah,
the redemption need to happen. And I think that's what
they kind of pushed over into the next season where
he had to do some earning.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Right, Yeah, he had to He had to do some earning,
which is cool. It's one of the things I like
about the show. You know, it's like, you know, years
past when we ended, like I look back, and I'm like, wow,
they did such The writers did such a good good
job of like creating these like fun characters that you
like to see in these kind of like fun episodic
(19:13):
kind of situations. It's very sickcommy, but there were really
serialized storylines where you were watching the characters have these
arcs over seasons, and I think, like that is something
special about the show. And I think and I think
I love it.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We all love it too. Here's the thing we're going.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I think I love you guys, I love you more.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
We're gonna go to commercial break, and when we come back,
we're going to talk about more about how much you
love us, and also about Schmidt and Winston coming together
to screw this wedding app prank style. We'll be right back,
(20:00):
and we are back if you're just tuning in, uh
to this particular podcast. There is something that we do
on this show that Hannah has been dropping the ball
on for I don't know, since the beginning of this show.
Where's the Bear? And this woman can ever seem to
find the damn bear? And this is a total myth
(20:21):
and she likes to keep this train going, So we're
going to keep this train going, Hannah.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Where's the bear bit?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I'm gonna say season two, I may have forgotten about
it a lot, and it seems like the writers got
it did too, and props and everybody else, and I'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
And maybe it's not a real thing.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And there we go, there we go, there we go.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
The last time that I don't look for.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
This is all just a prank.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
On me for the past couple of years, because I'll
tell you what this episode.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
It was, and it was created like money.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, full disclosure. For the first time ever, I didn't
even look.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well and I got a surprise for you.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Did you see what you found?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
A badger is in the bear family?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Get out?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
But it could be true by the badger, tiny little bear.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It's a tiny little bear. So speaking of their speaking
of their pranks and animals, Chevrang gets on this, Chevrong
gets on this, this white horse. Is that a tradition?
Is that a thing in Indian weddings?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I literally just told you I'm not the most qualified
person to talk to about Indian Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Thing, Yeah for sure, Yeah, totally I know because I'm an.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Ectperson, because I've been to an Indian Indian wedding did
not see a white horse, And I just thought it
was funny that step one in their pranks was still
almost killed Chevron by letting off an airhorn by a
horse that was wild.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That was a wild prank to play to like startle
a huge animal like that.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Seemed like a little.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Crazy and just reacted appropriately.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And Hindu weddings, the groom often arrives at the wedding
venue on a white horse or in a white horse
drawn carriage as a part of the tradition called gouri.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So it's not like the like, it's not like the
bride getting to get arrive in a carriage. It's the groom.
I've heard of it before. I've just never seen it,
but yes, I do believe that happens.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Okay, well, well.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Don't try to spook horses, guys, because it's not a
nice thing to do when somebody's on the horse because
then the horse will go crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It was funny to watch like whoever was doing the stunt,
like just fully shrink in tower behind the head of
the horse. I did see that part where we just
see the feet sticking out.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That was good covering that.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
That was definitely not setia on the horse in no way,
shape or form.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, all right, let's jump back into it now. Schmid
says he will call off the Shenanigans, right, uh, But
then he instructs Winston to get crazy. He blows the
air horn, the horse rides off like a like a psychopath. Right,
And Nick is trying.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
To do the right thing because he cares about his relationship,
which is very sweet.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
He tries, he.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Tries, but but Jess doesn't believe him because Cotton Eye
Joe starts to play and.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
The prank is too good.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It actually has to me they made some sense out
of it.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
But this is one of the crazier storylines. Let's sake
macro crazy storyline.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Okay, don tape the soundboard. She's like that, it's an
intelligent move, and you're the smartest prankster there is. It
had to be you. Then that's how he kind of
gets done for one of the things.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I'm just wondering, like what did the like the writer
of Cotton Eye Joe like think of this. They're like,
I never thought my song would like inspire an entire
episode like twenty one minutes of television.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, and also Now people who are big fans of
the show, like, this is like a song they play
at their weddings. Now, Cotton Eye Joe gets played had
weddings now because of this episode?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Should I play it at my should be my wedding?
Should I walk on the aisle to kind of go?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And what's the what's the thing that.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
We should dance? Chicken dance chicken dancer? Bill Collins, Oh,
Grooby kind of love? Yeah? Yeah, the release slow version.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
New Girl in your Wedding?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
If that Frank gets always wedding lamar and you if
you bring a badger to my wedding, freak out.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Let's talk about it for a second. Let's talk about
it for a second.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You know there are what are you feeling?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Badger out of wedding? Not really a bad idea, right,
because it's a cool looking pe People can pet it,
people can walk, people take selfies with the badger.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The problem, I think the problem is when you decide
you want to I get you. I got your ten
right now, Ten reasons.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Why badger's cute?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Badger's cute. If a badger peas on you, then other
like lady badgers will come and like be attracted.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
To you, just like I kind of still stuck on
the fact that you shared earlier that the badger pete
on you you didn't take a shower, and then you
were like just like back at work.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
And then what you do is you multiply that, you know,
and then you got.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Ten okay for the badger at Zoe, maybe not a
badger at your wedding, Maybe not your badger at your wedding,
but in this particular case, you again, in typical New
Girl fashion, you know that these characters are idiots.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So Winston would do something like that, Yes, he would
go into the ducts and proceed to try to sabotage
this wedding, which is exactly what happened. Now. Nick tells
Winston that the plan cannot be that thing. You cannot
drop a badger on a priest, and you know, Schmidt
(26:28):
then goes back. He tells Jess that Nick wasn't in
on it, and that Nick was saying that just means
so much to me. YadA, YadA, YadA, And that causes
you know, a little bit of a romantic moment between
Nick and Jess again, right, like a little little uh,
let's forgive each other moment for this, Why would you
think this of me? Why do you think I'm a child?
(26:48):
Et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Dad said, so, yeah, there was like a really sweet
moment when you guys were kind of having that in
that two shot where you guys really head to head
and he's just like really pushing for the answer, and
then you know, like Jess is going through a bit
of distress. He's like trapped in a duck, there's a
badger on the loose, her best friend's trying to get married,
and this guy's like, let's have a real.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Which would stress me out, but it's just to sit there.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And be like, you know, like to have this big
relationship chat. Like in that moment, like I was just
like read the room, literally, buddy, and then for you
to you just answered honestly and like he couldn't handle
the honesty. It didn't mean that, you know, the character
didn't want to be with the other character.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You're just answering the question.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And I thought pretty gently then a very sensitive male
ego just was like, I guess we're not that that's
how you feel.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
We have to have some conflict in the middle of
the episode, you.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Know, yeah, sure, I just was like, Wow, it was
such like such a small thing. But then it makes
you think about, like so many relationships do end over
just like tiny, small.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Something really weird. It's so true. So I'm just remembering
now that the first episode of season three, I'm still
wearing this sorry and I'm in ba I mean, I
don't mean to skip ahead, but like I just had
this flashback that like they were like, so you have
to wear the sorry again, only turned it into like
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beach where shredded it.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Basically you were in like this.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
It was shredded. Yeah, it was like a short skirt. Yeah,
shipwrack to get a tan and like like some like
beachy hair kind of.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, we shut it down in Marina del Rey. I
remember that little strip of beach that we shot it
in that beginning of season three, in the same out
of it where you guys kind of like.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The Jamaica in I think the place was gone.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I remember that location. We're like, we're back, and this
is where we're starting. We didn't start like in the loft.
It was like this really it was a really weird
feeling where this this season ended us and then yeah,
where we had to start. Yeah, do you remember getting
fitted for that. Sorry, did you have to go down
to our t show or did they bring it all
up to the.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
No, they brought it up to me, But I was
because I think I had it was like less involved
than your situation, which was quite involved because you're a ride.
But I was obsessed with the color of my sorry, Like,
I loved it. It was so pretty.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
It was I never get to wear those shows. I
never get to wear sorry on you never do, Like
y'all want to play with pets and stuff like that,
and they always put that on me. But when it
comes to sorry.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Sorry, Uh Well.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I think it's cool about this episode is that it
starts with one person with that Schmid obviously sees a
little bit of doubt in CC's i s, which sets
off a chain of events which activates Winston, which then
activates Nick, which then somehow ends up with Jess also
in the ducks. And it starts with one idea of
a person looking in someone's eyes, and it ends with
(30:05):
a collapse of the ceiling onto the top of the
all parties.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
All collapse of the entire like inner like ducting system
of a hotel.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yes, I also love that, like just like that female
approach of just like, you know what, I'm going up
to the ducks, like let me just it was just
like such like a full like I don't know, like
mom moment of like you know what, forget, I'll handle it.
I was gonna put everybody straight and figure this whole
thing out, which is why, like the the hard truth
of it, it's jets that falls down and like collapses.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Where the and another great moment from Monica Bronder my
son double yeap yes.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And what's cool about it is that it ends up. Yeah,
because because of this, I'm not if this didn't happen.
I'm not sure, you know, you know. Chivrang then steps
up and says, Okay, I'm feeling it either, because this
big collapse allows everyone to fully be themselves and just
be honest and go, hey, listen, maybe this wedding isn't
(31:08):
for us, and you know, you say I'm in love
with someone else and then he says, so am I
And I think had that roof night collapse, that wouldn't
have happened.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
I love that Taylor Swift was just there, she just.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
She was just in the area. She was doing a
meeting at five, you.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Know, she was just doing a meeting at five. So
you know what's funny is that, Uh A lot of
people have brought this up because you know, spoiler or
Taylor Swift runs off with Chebrene, and a bunch of
people have said, like, because Jess is a swiftye and
(31:48):
we've established we established that at least later in me
in the show. Also, I'm a swifty too, just so's
we all are. We're swifties. We're a swifty family. But
(32:08):
a lot of people brought up they were like, but wait,
it's like a lane different from Taylor Swift. Like how
is just like a fan of Taylor Swift, but like
a lane like is Taylor Swift? Like the is it
Taylor Swift? I was like, it's a really good point.
I think a leen is like that. There's like a
woman who's like a doppel ganger for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, it's like a long lost twin something.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
And I think that's a link. Yeah don't you think.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, that's the only explanation because otherwise the place would
have gone up.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
None of it works. But she's played by Taylor Swift
in this and what I in this?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You ever hear of the Mendela effect. It's when you
think something happened. The Mendela effect is when someone thinks
something happened, like a general the general consensus. You know
that the whole population thinks that there was this thing
that was on a cereal box, for example, But then
you look back, it was never the case. We just
for some reason had that idea in our mind.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Oh, like Kazam or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, like that, you know what I mean, Like yeah,
but it's like that wasn't a thing. Yes, I remember that, I.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Know it happened. I'm sure. I love this movie.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, and in this episode, No.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
There's no movie named Kazam.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Sorry, why do I think.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
We all know it happened? But it didn't.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So in this one, I had a full Mandela effect
moment when I was when I was rewatching it, Chevrange
picks up, you know, Taylor Swift and runs out of
the wedding with her. In my mind, it was the
other way around.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
It's because that take happened.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
That take.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I talked to Satia about this, So we had Setia
on a loft meeting and I asked him about it
and we talked about it. Because that take did happen
they did it, you know whatever, five six times this
way and then I think it's like a funny pitch.
They did it the other way around, where Taylor picked
Upsthia and ran out, and I think we all fell out.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Because it was very easy for her to do, and we.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
All Taylor is tall. She's she's like five ten or something,
and he's not super tall, right, and.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
So it was very easy and they thought it was
super funny and they fell out laughing, and I just
think it was one of those moments where everybody in.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
The room just like laughing.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Do you remember it, because it was so that's right, I.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Think all of us. But Sathia thought it happened like that.
Him and I were talking about it and he's like,
oh my god, when she like carried me out like
that was like the greatest moment.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
And when I rewatched it, I was like, oh my god,
it didn't make the cuts. It went with another dake.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
But it's I think we all remember it because it
did happen.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
But okay, you guys, do you know that I remember
like very well because she was on set very long
and she just basically like came in and did that
little scene. But I just wanted to share that. Like
she came in and was in the hair makeup trailer
and they had me. This is just classic because when
(35:18):
Prince was on, I was also like baby like not babysitting,
but they were like be like the host of the
sat and go or hostess of the sat and go
and like greet them. And everybody was like do that
with Prince, like go be the hostess and like sit
and you know, hang out with Prince. And so when
Taylor was there, everyone was like, Zoe, go sit in
the makeup trailer with her. And my makeup artist, Georgie
(35:38):
ended up. She was like, oh yeah, I'm totally cool
using Zoe's makeup artists. So Georgie did her makeup and
she was like, first of all, Taylor Swift like, if
anyone ever says anything mean about her, I'm so mad
because she is such a nice person. She is so cool.
(35:58):
I've never seen her be anything but like absolutely so
lovely and found earth. And she was like she really
liked my like the like lipstick that I wore, and
she it was like benettin you know Benette, It's just
like the most old fashioned lip tint that's been around
forever and we had that like Benettin and she you
(36:22):
go get them, you go, it would look good on you.
And we had one for her and I remember like
Georgie gave it to her and she was like, oh
my god, thank you. I was like, what if it's cool?
Like Taylor Swift was like excited to just get like
this little thing of benefit. Like she was unbelievably nice.
So like, let's set the record street that Taylor is
awesome and everything that you imagine her to be that
(36:46):
you hope she is she is.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You know, it's really funny.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I remember Georgie coming out and almost feeling like a little.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Like like shocked.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
She was like she I think there was like this
expect or, you know, just this thought that she was
probably gonna come with her entire own team, have a
whole set of like and a whole thing, and she didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
She came in.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
She's like I think she had maybe her hair dresser,
but she had like Georgie did her makeup or she
came with her hair done or something. But yeah, yeah,
she was had like I don't think she had even
like she might have had like one person with her,
but she was very very down to earth, no entourage,
like not very chill.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah, I remember that too. I remember just like the
chat around set being like, yeah, she's just like the
most easy, lovely human everything you wow her to be,
she is exactly that.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So true.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I remember that feeling too. And Seth they shared all
of his stories because they would because at that thing
when they run out down the aisle and you know,
the scenes carries on like you and I had that conversation,
which is sweet, and that happens, and so they had
to like be behind the door now and just like
wait until you know, Jake Kasen called cut, so he's
(37:58):
like he would just be back there, and he said
it was so sweet because she'd be like.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
That was really good. Did you like that?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I thought that was really funny.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
And he was just saying how like sweet it was
that they had just like this little like kind of
just like just actors bonding in a moment after a take,
waiting for the scene to be done, having a moment.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yeah, that's so sweet. I love hearing that.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah, I also forgot like how sweet that moment was
between our characters at the end, I forgot about that
whole little exchange, and it's such a sweet like jesse
CC moment, and there's so many moments and little like
looks in between, and it just made me realize how
much I missacting with you because it was like such
(38:39):
a sweet.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Misacting with you guys so much. I like have to say,
it's like one of those things. It's like you your
show ends and you're like, Okay, well, I guess it's
like another chapter like over. But it's like, you guys
are like my family, Like I got to act with
you every day, Like I love seeing you, I love
getting to work with you, and so it was like
(39:02):
that was like the saddest thing for me, I mean,
just not getting to be with like my buddies. I
saw you guys more than my family really, like you
really were like I mean, you still are family to me.
But like I consider like the core cast of New
Girls to be like one hundred percent my extended Max.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I really are Max. Max coming into this had done
a lot of you know, recurs, guest stars, you know,
a bunch of had done a bunch of televisions. Oh yeah,
and he told me, he goes in the final season,
he goes, it's not always going to be like this.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, he was like, this is a very different, very
special type of deal. It's not always like this. And
you go on and you do however many shows afterwards
and you look back and you go, damn, we got
it pretty good, didn't we.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah? Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah. But so let's close out this episode. There's two
things that are happening here. One, Schmidt has to u
between CC and Elizabeth. I thought that was we talked,
we touched on it a little bit before about how
ridiculous it is.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
But it gets a choice.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
He literally runs away, right he I think.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Though, but that's like as writers, they had no like again,
if he if he made a choice, I think that
it would not have been like I don't think the
fans would have responded well to it. I don't think
that like empowers the women in the scene. I think
that would have been weird. I will tell you what.
I remember that because they had me kind of just
doing like busy work, right when then I kind of
(40:37):
walk over and be like, yeah, she's right, Like, you
got to figure this out. You got to choose who
you want to be with. This isn't fair. But I'll
never forget doing this busy work, and there was a
bunch of background actors, all Indian, and I remember one.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Of them saying to me.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
They said to me, you know, this is so exciting
for us to have so many Indians, like, you know,
on a show like this. This feels so important. This
is so wonderful, you know, even though you're not Indian, Like,
it's okay, we accept you as one.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Of our own.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
And I was like, and it was one of those moments,
you know when you're so caught off guard. I just
said thank you, Like I didn't like even have the
words to be like I'm I'm like, I'm half felt
complicated in that moment. Well like they were literally they
were just like they're like rolling and this person like
says the thing, and I was just like, I.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Was so happy to be of service, you know, and
I was, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Then it was like shuffled and moved and then we
moved into like the stuff that I was doing with
like you know, Schmidt and Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
But I'll never forget that moment where I was like.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
I know, I am it's this is an authentic casting moment.
I am mean, this is why this is an Indian
wedding because of the actress they cast in this role.
It wouldn't be this otherwise that would feel weird because
that moment always stuck with me, where they're just like,
we don't accept you as our own because this is
such a powerful moment for mainstream sitcom TV for Indians.
So thank you for just looking like you do.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
That's so funny. You're okay, very welcome.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
And in another cool moment, there's always this back and
forth between Nick and Jess, and I remember I had
this conversation with Hannah on a previous episode where I
was so confused. I was like, where are we in
the Nick and Jess saga? Because I was And then
(42:31):
again I had that moment rewatching it and I was like, oh,
wait a minute, Okay, I think I'm caught up to
where we are right now and the will they won't?
They are? They are?
Speaker 4 (42:39):
They not?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
But it was a cool moment. What do you remember
about that moment at the final the final little I
guess back and forth before you all drive off together.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah, that was so sweet. Your speech is so sweet
and heartfelt.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I am trying to think what I remember about it.
I do remember being like, wait, what we're doing what
I think, you know what, I think they had to
like it was kind of a strategic move because it's
like obviously that relationship was so important and they don't
(43:16):
want to like completely just like like there has to
be this like tension between Like there has to be
like problems because otherwise, like if it just like you
put them together too early and they're just happy, then
like you kind of you don't want to spend that
like tension too early. Like it's like it's only season two,
(43:38):
so I think that, but there has to be that
genuine stuff and really like truly like the Jess and Nick,
like Jess and Nick so genuinely do like love each other,
and like I also just like loved working with Jake,
Like I found like even though like he's so funny
and he can be so silly and all that stuff,
(43:59):
but like just he can he really it's it's it's
wonderful playing those like very sincere moments with him. So
like I really enjoyed like that that relationship was just
it was a gift. I think like that getting to
play the Nick and Jess storyline over that long was
(44:20):
so amazing, And I think this was like you know,
a great moment in that, in that relationship. And then
also just like the fact that like we kind of
it was a real kind of Cliffinger we don't know right,
like what are they gonna do?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, I mean I thought it was great, good.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
I was just gonna say, like I looked at that again.
I look back at those scripts, and there was a
whole scene where Nick runs into Rob Reiner on the
way out and they kind of like hash it out
and Nick shares like his like woll okay, I might
be all these things, but all these other great things too,
and he kind of gets lost in the sauce like
typical like Nick Miller style, and then Rob Riiner's character
(45:02):
goes like, I think what you're trying to say is
you're going after my daughter, Like you better go because
she's leaving. So there was that big thing. And then
I feel like in the table draft version there was
it was Nick that came out with the speech of
wanting to uncall it, and then you know, like you
say it too, and none of those things ended up
what we you know ended up, and we maybe they
(45:24):
shot that Rob Reiner thing because that was in the
production draft. But how they flipped it at the end,
and this is just.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I mean, you're a really incredible in that scene.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Because all that other stuff that they had done to
kind of lead up to the uncall it moment disappeared.
So you just had to in this like, you know,
cause they only had twenty one minutes in this very
short space, do that flip and just sell it with
like heart and emotion, and it was It's really beautiful
and really sweet, and you really, like you just said,
feels like, oh, this is like a real relationship. Now
(45:55):
they have like real bumps, they have their doubts, They're
still going to try to go for it because you
can see how much they wanted. But it was thank
you had to do a lot of work in a
very short of space, you know.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
You know, I I really appreciate that. And one thing
I do love about like our editors was that they
instead of like picking the like I do feel like
when push came to Shoven, we had like this short
time to fill, you know, a short time to like
tell the whole story that they they would always they
would choose the genuine moments, you know, rather than the like,
(46:29):
you know, exposition that wasn't important or you know, a
crazy silly moment or something that they would like go
for that heart, which is so nice. It's like always
kind of what made the you know, the show kind
of it's special blend of things.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Yeah, that's right, you just said it's that's so funny.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
I just got goosebumps you're talking about it, just because
it's they could have done that whole thing with Nick
and the dad and the whatever, and they're just giving
you to like, uncall it, uncall it and then they
kiss at the car. But instead they gave you that
little bit of extra room to like breathe and to
like to show your eyes and to have that moment
of connection of all the unsaid things and do that instead,
(47:08):
which is what I think was the magic of the show.
But having them have to be wise enough to make
those choices too, But that's only because they had to
choose from and that was you doing it. Thank you
so true.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
And on that note, we'll be right back, and we
are back now it is time for the mess around.
Mabe bebe yeah, bebe Yeah, you're screwing up. Youssed that
(47:48):
you know why?
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Because here's can I tell you where my brain went
is two things I thought that maybe it's important to
say to our listeners is one, this character of Elizabeth
is named after Elizabeth Meriweather. One too, Elaine's Big Day
is a big reference to the graduate and their big, big,
big wedding moment that obviously happens at the end of
the graduate And then Elizabeth Merriweather I read this interview,
(48:12):
was talking about how she just thought, instead of like
Schmidt having this big graduate moment of being like CC,
you're for me, of actually having like chavrange of somebody
going like here for me and like this like funny
moment to happen, that actually like kind of you know,
derails the wedding as opposed to having a big like
(48:33):
graduate moment. But they still kept the nod in there
with calling Taylor Swift's character Elaine.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
I never knew that. So we're gonna so for the
mess around, We're just gonna answer one of these questions. Okay,
And I think we may have talked about this before
at some point. Have either of you ever done a
prank that was too big or have had one done
on you? I know I have, I have.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Yeah, Okay, you've had one happened to you.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yeah, I've done one. I mean I participated in it.
I participated it.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Well, let's hear about it.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
I don't even know if I should. It's really like
like we're you know, where you do something you think
it's funny and then the person takes it way too seriously.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (49:31):
Yeah, no, just my friend was trying to scare his
other friend, like as a joke and like put like
some like little like hand drawn signs on his car,
like like pretending to be stocking or something, and we
were like, hah, we may be a little signed, but
(49:53):
they were like so I felt like so obviously like fake.
But the friend got like so upset that he like
put camera yeah, and then I was like, oh my gosh,
a board mission. This is not cool, Like he's scared.
But then he was like he didn't want to tell
(50:13):
his friend because he was worried he would be so
mad at what she.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
Probably did he ever find out or just thought the
stalker went away.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
I don't know, because I haven't seen these people in years.
This was a college age kind of deal. Yeah, that
wasn't back away. I was like, I was like, let's
put tic TACs on his car, like I don't know.
I was like, we were like, yeah, it was really bad,
like in that the person like got like actually nervous
(50:43):
about it. What we what should have happened was that
it should have been disclosed that there was like a
group of people playing a prank, but it wasn't as close.
But wasn't my friend, So like, you know, I participated,
but I feel bad about it. So sorry, God, your
conscience is just.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
This person now has a complex, this person now has
fifty security.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
Can you know this was so long ago? I bet
you know?
Speaker 1 (51:13):
What about Johannah?
Speaker 3 (51:15):
Oh my gosh, have I ever done a prank? I
honestly I or.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Had one done on you.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
I'm trying to think they never.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
I think Zoe and I are built a little bit
similarly in the sense that I immediately just have to confess
the thing, like I can't keep I can't have one
person not be in on on it. So I very
quickly got like excluded from like any like prank committees
because I just felt like too weird, too bad. I
(51:47):
don't like someone feeling left out of the thing. I
don't like like so I've only ever done like I
am like the queen of like fun surprises for people,
you know, Like.
Speaker 4 (51:58):
Oh, I like surprising surprises.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
Yeah, Like I can do those all day long, all
the lies and the layers of the things and showing
up and like, but that's all like happiness. But I've
never I get too I get too nervous that somebody's
gonna take it wrong, and then I'm like an apology mode.
Speaker 4 (52:15):
So I know, I felt really bad about that thing,
but it wasn't really my friend, so I couldn't apologize
to them. So actually can put me in a really
weird position where I was like, I'm never participating. I'm
never participating in a prank again.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Yeah, I get that feeling. I feel like somebody tried.
I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
I think I was young.
Speaker 3 (52:32):
Someone tried to wrote me into something and I just remember,
like this made me feel sick to my stomach.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
I feel like pranks just like never do a George
Clooney lead then, right, Because isn't he like crank Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Everybody, He's notorious for that, like really very very elaborate ones.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
Apparently elaborate crank he gave his friend Richard.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Apparently George found a piece of artwork in a like dump,
like like the trash bin or something and had it
like fixed up and framed and for Richard's like, they
gave it to him and told him it was this
really expensive like piece of art and he had it
hanging over his mantle in his house for years and
it wasn't I forget how long it was, but apparently
it was like over like a decade until he told
(53:12):
him that it.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
Wasn't that a frank, No, You're just like, that's just
funking people. You're just fucking people for your amusement.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
Well, I had so recently, I I'm supposed to be
doing this show with Nick Cage called Spider Noir, and
my manager reached out and said, hey, so Nick wants
to have dinner with you. And I got so nervous
because I thought, well, I already have the job, but
is this one of those like tests. Because I heard
(53:43):
he's a very like extravagant guy, and you know we
see him on camera he's so big and he makes big,
bold choices. I was like, oh my god, I got
to like really like focus up for this meeting. Now. Simultaneously,
I just got that Emmy nomination, like two days prior,
so I was super like, you know in press, you
know how it goes like you have to do all
these interviews and things like that.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
Oh, you're like super full of yourself.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
I was speaking in the third person. I was like,
lamurn's not going to meet with Nick right now?
Speaker 4 (54:13):
But then alternately like the royal Yeah you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Yes, But I was so nervous about meeting him, and
my anxiety levels for some reason just started like going
through the roof and I was freaking out about it.
Now day of I get a text from Eric Andre
and he says, hey, man, doors open at seven thirty.
You can get there around eight, And I went, what
are you talking about? And he says, my show. You
(54:38):
would agreed to do my show? And two months prior
I had said I would do his show, but no
one from his side confirmed that it was ever happening,
so it wasn't in my calendar or anything. But at
the same time as Nick's the dinner with Nick, I
was so like pissed at Eric and he was like, Bro,
you can't bail on me. If you don't show up
it's a live show, then there's no show. Have to
(55:00):
show up. It's a thousand people there. I was like,
oh my god. So my manager's like, don't worry about it.
We're gonna call Sony. We're gonna try to figure this out.
And she's panicking, and next thing you know, she's like,
don't worry about it. Nick said, it's okay. Nick said
he lives right down the street from the spot that
you that you're gonna have dinner, and Jo well, he goes, well,
she goes. He was like, just call him when you're
(55:21):
done with your set and then you and then he'll
meet up with you. And I was like, okay, thank god.
I go to Eric's show. Of course it's Eric Andre.
So it's a crazy, obscene, stupid show, really funny but stupid,
where he made me chug a beer, chug a red
Bull and eat ghost pepper hot sauce, which I didn't
think he was going to actually do that. I thought
it was like a fake thing. So I tasted a
(55:41):
good amount of it and my mouth was on fire,
and that he's got the whole crowd throwing stuff at me.
It was a shit show. I'm sweating, I'm like covered
in like hot sauce and my mouth is burning. I
rush over to the dinner with Nick. I get to
this restaurant and I'm like freaking out. I'm like, do
I smell bad? I'm sure I look like I look crazy.
I go and I say, I'm here to meet with
(56:03):
uh Nick Cage and she goes, oh, right this way.
She takes me around the corner and there are eight
people sitting at a table, all wearing Nick Cage masks,
and they go surprise. And it was my friends and
my manager, all pretending to be Nick Cage that they
thought this was a great idea. So for like a week,
(56:24):
my anxiety was I was so pissed. I turned around
and walked off. I just turned around and left. God, yeah,
so that just happened to me.
Speaker 4 (56:34):
So wrong, that went wrong.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
WOULD like to celebrate you and your Emmy nomination. And
You're like, I now am indeed?
Speaker 4 (56:42):
Can I just tell you, Hannah and I would never
walk to you.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (56:46):
This is why I think.
Speaker 4 (56:48):
You never even occurred to me. Boy.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
I feel like I would.
Speaker 4 (56:53):
I'd be like that I talked to you, I'd.
Speaker 3 (56:55):
Be like, You're like, oh my god. I'm in this
huge conundrum with the Nick Cage meeting and meeting chill up, relaxed, So.
Speaker 4 (57:08):
I would have wanted to have saved you from that.
Eric Andre. Yeah, that was like, that was I'm sorry.
I love him like.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
That was not the day for me to do it.
Speaker 4 (57:19):
For your part, maybe.
Speaker 1 (57:21):
I think he read for for Winston. Yeah, for coach
ma Yeah.
Speaker 4 (57:24):
Yeah, yeah, I'm coach. Yeah he read for coach or
maybe Winston once Coach was off. I know he I
know he came in and I know I saw a
tape and I and I know he was good, but
he was he was not will More and Morris.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
So shout out to Eric Andre the World's Craziest man.
He's also nominated's sister and got my vote too. Yeah
for his for his show where is the Eric Andre Show?
And then one like variety talk show host or something.
Speaker 2 (58:00):
Also one of the loveliest humans in the world.
Speaker 4 (58:02):
He's he seems very nice. He was in Trolls three
with me. It was very nice.
Speaker 1 (58:09):
My daughter loves By the way, thank you all for
listening to another episode of The Mess Around. Thank you
to Zoey Deschouel for being here. Of course, make sure
you follow us on ig at the mess Around pod
sending all your emails all your questions, all your concerns. Uh,
Hannah will be checking them daily. Yes, I love you guys.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
Bye. That was the mess around. This has been an
iHeartMedia production. Our executive producer is Joel Monique. Our engineer
and editor is Mia Taylor. Additional production from Daniel Goodman,
Wendy Heisler, and Kyle Vron. Our theme song was written
and composed by Ronald Jukebox Jackson. So We're gonna catch
you next time.
Hosts And Creators
Lamorne Morris
Hannah Simone
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