The Pod Meets World Draft: Season 4

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Speaker 1: Happy twenty twenty five everybody Nike's can you believe it?

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Speaker 2: Where ten years passed?

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Speaker 1: The very very very distant future that was twenty fifteen and back to the future.

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Speaker 3: What wait is that when.

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Speaker 4: He went to they went to twenty twenteen.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't twenty fifteen? He goes to twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 3: I want the clothes that I can just push a button and they fit on me. Yeah, I know how, he like. That's what you would pull. You have the chance of having a outerboard, but that's what your hoverboard is extremely dangerous. That scares the crap out of it.

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Speaker 4: You the one ruler blading tree climber.

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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say from the trampoline Redwood.

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Speaker 3: Man, I'm a big one wheeler too, but I broke my rib on my one wheel like, so yeah, man, I would be terrified of a hoverboard. There's nothing under you.

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Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah, I'd like that thing that he has where when you're calling somebody in the future and back of the future, you just see a screen and you can actually see their faces.

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Speaker 4: It's like you're not on a phone.

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Speaker 5: But oh right, oh wow, wait a minute, wait zoom yeah's. They were still firing them by facts in fifteen, right.

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Speaker 1: The Fox was so revolutionary we couldn't imagine anything beyond it.

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Speaker 4: I'm telling you.

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Speaker 5: They had some of it right on, and some of it it was like, oh, you're far behind there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So do you guys have New Year's resolutions? I think we've talked about this before that I like to separate my They're not resolutions.

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Speaker 2: They're just like goals.

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Speaker 1: I do a private, a personal, and a professional goals for the year, and I usually pick like a top three, like what are my top three personal goals? And what are my top three professional? And honestly, I haven't really thought about it. It snuck up on me and it's twenty twenty y, you think, so, I haven't thought about it too much.

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Speaker 3: But what about last year's did you achieve your goals? Oh?

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Speaker 1: You know what they were? I also haven't looked back. I saved them in a note and then you write about to seek, but you know what I will. I will tell you one of them was too direct for network TV, okay, and I did yeah score, So that may have been the year before, though, now that I think about it, I did it that year too, but I'm trying. Yeah, maybe maybe I'm misremembering, but yeah, I uh okay, So what do you guys do you guys do in New Year's resolutions?

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Speaker 3: I mean they're all they're so generic. It's good, healthier, right, uh, you know, it's like all kind of basic stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to think if I have any specific. It's like I almost don't want to give myself too specific because then if I fail at that thing, I'm like.

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Speaker 2: Oh you know, yeah, yeah, no, I know, I agree.

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Speaker 3: I think I end up being very generic, Like I just want to, you know, take more time with my family, or accomplish something that professionally makes me feel good, not just makes me money or gets another job, you know, but like actually that's something that I'm really proud of. But that's also generic. I don't know, I don't have any.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do like finding something kind of specific, like if one of your goals is to get healthier, maybe finding a pretty manageable step goal, you know, like Will's step goal he does like eighteen thousand steps a day or twenty seven thousand that's a day from twenty seven twenty.

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Speaker 4: Six thousand yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Like that's just come on, now, we're we're humans. It's so good.

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Speaker 1: But like if you were to set something like even the idea of doing, I'm going to do ten thousand steps a day. If you if you aren't in the habit of knowing that you very easily reach ten thousand steps a day, you're probably going to fail pretty early on because that's like a hard thing to commit to every single day out of nowhere. But like if you were to say I normally get thirty five hundred or five thousand steps today, I'm going to try to just do I'm.

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Speaker 2: Going to get a minimum of seven thousand steps a day.

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Speaker 1: Then if you realized that kind of the last minute you were running low and you needed to hit it, you could still do it.

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Speaker 2: So maybe we just need to be like a little specific.

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Speaker 5: Well, we've also they've also shown that actually the number you just throw it to Yelle, it's something like health wise, there's a massive change if you can just do seven thousand stuffs yes see, not ten thousand, it's seven thousand.

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Speaker 4: So if you can do that's very important.

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Speaker 1: And of course in the back of your mind thinking boy, I'd love to get a lot of days where I hit ten thousand. But if you know, like I'm not going to fail as long as I get seven, that feels maybe more manageable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. My two are pretty basic and they're enjoyable.

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Speaker 5: I want to spend more time with Ryder's family and I want to direct network TV. So if I can do those things I've scored in twenty twenty five, come as far.

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Speaker 4: As I look at it, listen together for ho no minor, I have two very specific ones.

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Speaker 5: It's I've won the same every year, and I've hit it once and never again. But this year I've already started. I'm going to be in the best shape of my life this year. I'm going to have a day on a beach with my shirt off where I'm even attracted to myself.

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Speaker 2: What to happen? That's your goal, okay at one.

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Speaker 5: Point, and then professionally, my goal is it looks like we really have a shot to shoot the movie with Melissa john Hart in twenty twenty five, So it looks like back to One is actually going to happen. Not good as I say that, and so starring in my first feature film in seventeen years eighteen, Wow, it will be my will be my goal for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: That's great, all right, you got a professional one.

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Speaker 1: You did exactly what I asked, a great professional goal, and you've got a personal goal of being half naked and turned on, so oh my.

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Speaker 4: God, which is amazing.

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Speaker 3: Does anybody else have to be on the beach or can you just I don't.

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Speaker 4: Even care if the beach exists.

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Speaker 5: I just I told Sue it could be a beach background these guys with abs and stuff like that. And I told too, I see, just be prepared if I ever have a body like that. I'm not wearing a shirt anywhere. I was like, so, I will be grocery shopping, I'll be at the mall, all this stuff. I will I'll have on pants because come on, but I will not wear a shirt anywhere we go. And She's like, if that's what you got to do, that's what you got to do. So I'm just I'm preparing her. Never had that day in my life, and if I do, you guys are going to.

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Speaker 2: See to aist colony or just turn where.

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Speaker 4: I am into a nudist colony. That's how I love.

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, you're right. Church is going to change their rules for you.

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Speaker 4: Well, helly, yes, it's show.

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Speaker 3: We're going to show up to record one day and will it's just going to be topless.

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Speaker 4: God, I hope, so, I hope.

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Speaker 5: So I promise you if I do, if I fled into that shape, I will do an episode without my shirt on because I won't be wearing one at all ever.

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Speaker 3: So you love it?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well.

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Speaker 5: What's your professional one? I mean, you hit that goal of network TV last year? So what I mean being a regular.

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Speaker 4: Director on a network, like the only director on a network that come with that?

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Speaker 2: You don't really do those anymore? They I don't really do.

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Speaker 4: You don't have a David Trainer anymore.

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Speaker 3: No in house director usually right, like somebody who does most of them? Uh, not really really.

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Speaker 2: I think what I would say is that this year I want to direct a pilot. There you go, nice, that's one. That's my professional goal.

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Speaker 5: Are getting into a shirtless guy in great in great shape all the way around.

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Speaker 2: I usually ask for that on every production, So.

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Speaker 4: You won't be in the show. You just have to stand next to me.

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Speaker 3: You just have to.

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Speaker 2: Follow me around.

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Speaker 1: I just like to be surrounded by very attractive shirtless men. It helps me work helps me focus.

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Speaker 3: So that's my.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, directing a pilot, and then personal goal i'd really love to take. I've been saying this now for a while. I think this was a goal last year that Jensen and I did not achieve. I'd like for Jensen and I to take even a short childless vacation nice, even if it's just four days. Doesn't feel like that should be that hard. But when we have years where we're doing a lot of traveling for work, I feel guilty traveling again, and this time without them. So this next year, I'm thinking there should be less travel for me for work, and maybe I could squeeze in. Maybe we could squeeze in like a three or four day vacation somewhere, just the two of us. So that's gonna be my person.

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Speaker 3: You can do it. You can do writer.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel any more inspired to say something more specific now?

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Speaker 3: I think you know. Yeah, I was thinking I've been writing for so long now and it's not gotten into the world because screenwriting is thankless in that way. You write stuff, you get jobs, nothing actually gets made. I really really want to write something that I can put into the world this year, actually publish something or produce something that you know, I'm just sick of writing in a vacuum.

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Speaker 2: It's really exhausting.

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Speaker 3: It's been like twelve years now of like doing it professionally and all, you know, it's so much of my time teaching it, talking about it, and it's like, wait a minute, like I haven't, like somebody listening to this right now, has that actually read anything that I've written. That's crazy to me, Like I consider such as a writer first and foremost. Yeah, so like I need to change that. So whatever, I'll probably you know, at the very least published some short stories or poems or something thing out there. But i'd love to you know, actually get a novel done and out or you know, something that I can write that I can just put out there. Yeah that's a great goal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. While so yeah, okay, personal, you spend more time.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, but I mean I put the personal that is personal and professional for me, like they're they're folded into one. I'm pretty yeah, I mean, like you know, I do. I always want to spend more time with my family, you know, because it's going fast into ten that's amazing. Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean I have like eight years, eight official more years of like, you know, him being my kid in my.

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Speaker 2: Hor r under your roof.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, definitely definitely spend as much time as I can with him and relaxing time. You know. Yeah, we're always like traveling or doing things and it would be nice to just like chill. Yeah. Nice.

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Speaker 1: We hope your personal and professional goals all come true this year. If you don't have any, start being specific, start thinking about him. Thank you all for joining us. It's Pod Meets World twenty twenty five. Woo, Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm.

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Speaker 4: Rather strong, and I'm Wilfredell.

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Speaker 1: Now that we have entered our gap year, taking a small break from recaps before entering our pen ultimate sixth season, we wanted to reach back and record some of the episodes we weren't able to complete in the past, whether it was a scheduling conflict or the actor strike, or really just the plain old excuse of we forgot, and today's episode falls into the latter category. When we finished season four back in June, we had planned it out so we'd start the next string of episodes after the fourth of July. A little post fireworks treat. But while making sure that happened, we just completely missed doing a season four episode draft and you let us.

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Speaker 2: Know through emails. Oh, yes, you did. We can always count on you.

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Speaker 1: This is where the three of us sit down and pick our favorite episodes from a season in a snake draft, and the listeners vote on who has general managed the most impressive team. We are asked to not only make the selections, but argue for our picks and hopefully bully the audience into agreeing with us. Though now in our rearview, season four appears to either be our universally selected best of Boy Meets World or at least second best, so this will be a heavily competitive draft, to say the least. For those keeping score at home. We have done numerous drafts in the run of the podcast, and Writer and I have cleaned house, even now officially announcing Writer as the winner of the most recent Pod Meets World Film festival.

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Speaker 3: Really, oh but.

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Speaker 1: The boys recorded without me, but it was the closest Will has come to winnings.

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Speaker 3: So great.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there's a trophy with his name on it somewhere in the near future.

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Speaker 2: Participation Trophy, and so now we will each select four different episodes from season four in an order selected by draft order generator dot com. And if you get first in round one, your third and round two, then first and round three, and last in round four. Second pick is steadier than Writer's workload from.

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Speaker 1: The Mafia, So our draft order is Will Rider and then Danielle.

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Speaker 2: Oh Bill, you finally, you finally won.

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Speaker 5: But it doesn't matter. I'm still going to lose everything, so it doesn't matter either way. I've already lost this first pick. It doesn't matter. It's just going to make it be like everyone's like, how did he lose when he got first pick?

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Speaker 3: Take Turkey Day? Turkey Day, that's your first pack? How did you know? How did you know?

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Speaker 5: I'm actually skipping ahead to season five and taking Starry Night.

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Speaker 4: You're number one, number one show all the time. Are we just jumping right in?

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Speaker 3: And I want to hear it? I can't. Yeah, you get Oh my.

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Speaker 5: Gosh, this is actually I argue this is actually the toughest pick of the entire draft. Yes, because there season four was banger after banger, and I feel like every one of us for our first pick is going to get what somebody else would have picked for their first pick.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so, I think I know what all. I think I know what you thought. I know I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 5: I don't know because there I mean, Chick Like Me awesome episode, Shallow Boy awesome.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's banger after banger after banger.

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Speaker 5: But I think with my first pick, and I was really going back and forth about this because.

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Speaker 4: There's so many good episodes in season four.

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Speaker 5: But I think I'm going to go with an episode that I think the A story was incredible, the B story was incredible and iconic, and so I am picking for my very first episode, hair Today, Goon Tomorrow. If you didn't take it as as my first episode, it is. It's not only Danielle cutting her hair to pangas fullyolved.

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Speaker 4: In episode.

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Speaker 3: Taken it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's also good looking guy, which is I mean, we forgot that the B story was good looking guy. So uh that is my first pick is hair Today, Goon Tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: And I will be saying soon how did I lose when my first pick was hair Today, Gooon Tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Thank you very wow? Wow?

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Speaker 2: Can't believe?

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, yes, yes, that was my number one of the scene.

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Speaker 4: You're a number one writer. I'd be surprised.

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Speaker 3: Uh it would have been if I Yeah, I mean I would have. I would have nabbed it because you know, to get to get ahead of Danielle get it. Because I definitely knew it was her number one. I was pretty sure you would pick something else. Actually, but I'm glad you got it. I'm just gonna lock up chick like me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew that.

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Speaker 3: I think it's still uh, it's it's one of the funniest episodes, but that also very thematically relevant. Still, it's like held up over time and you know, I just it's just so fun. It's just so funn all around. It's one of it's one of our most memorable episodes of Point Meets World ever. And literally last night I made some comment about dressing like a woman or something in Indie didn't know that I'd ever done this episode. I was like, you haven't seen this. He's like no, and so he's like, I want to see I want to see it. I pulled up the scene where Ben comes out in his outfit and then you know, cuts to the optical flip to me coming around the corner, and he was like, that is crazy. He was so entertaining. He's like, it's weird, but that's crazy, and I was like, yeah, it wasn't that fun. So yeah, it's just you know, it's one of those once you see it, no one ever forgets this episode, and it's really it's just well done.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my Hosary is bunching Mysery bunching.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, Okay, that's a really good pick. And I did, I did. I did not think Will was going to pick hair today goon tomorrow. I did think you were going to take chick like me. So I actually thought I had a pretty good chance at hair today goon tomorrow, which so I'm bummed that I don't.

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Speaker 2: But I'm really in.

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Speaker 1: A tough situation now with although I get two back to back picks now because the way yeah, so that's the way it goes. So now it goes, Will got hair today, goon tomorrow, writer got chick like me? Now I have two picks, which at least makes this a little bit easier because I was looking at some of my you know, I like to think strategy wise, am I wandering to an audience? When like, what does the audience love?

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Speaker 4: Tell me? How to do that? Teach me how to do that. I want to pander.

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Speaker 3: You're going to get pity votes now.

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Speaker 4: To take them.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm a little bit I'm a little bit torn. There is a part of me that wants to take cult fiction. Wow right off the bat.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Really yeah, I have it numbered pretty high.

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Speaker 1: I went through and I kind of numbered and organized the season, and I have Cult Fiction numbered pretty high.

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Speaker 3: I did not expect that interesting.

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Speaker 2: But you know, there's also.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this is so hard because I'm also thinking of an affair to forget mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: And I love that episode. I think it's and then.

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Speaker 1: Oh, okay, my first pick is actually going to be shallow Boy.

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Speaker 2: I am taking shallow Boy off the table.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna win this because I got shallow Boy.

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Speaker 4: I don't know which one you want.

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Speaker 3: To next, because you get two and the thing you get, so now you get to pick one of the other ones you mentioned, and I.

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Speaker 1: Know, and they're both so good. I think I'm gonna take an affair to forget.

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Speaker 3: That episode forget.

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Speaker 4: I mean you just that was a possible number one for me.

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Speaker 2: It's so exactly, so good, just so good.

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Speaker 5: To the point where last night I was zipping through the episodes again, and I couldn't zip through this one.

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Speaker 4: I watched basically the entire episode.

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Speaker 5: Again, it's so good and Fair to Forget Fair to Forget You and Ben are so funny in this also just.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it locked up an entire storyline, do you know what I mean? Like, and we never quite got it as good again, yes, but they tried, you know, I mean even even if you think about the season five, you know that one of the early episode where we're like screaming at each other and it's what is it? What actually happened? Oh, I'm going to a different college or something. Yeah, it's like it's just like it's trying to achieve the magic. It doesn't quite get there. And then you know, when they even they brought Christana looking Back for an episode, it didn't quite work. You but you could tell that this just this episode, it's such hour.

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Speaker 1: It was so lightning in a bottle and it was perfectly captured on this day and it was obviously so good. They wanted to try to capture it multiple times and it just never hit a writer.

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Speaker 2: You get the next pick?

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Speaker 3: Oh man, Okay, Well, I feel like all of our top choices are mostly Wow. I mean, those are the obvious ones, so I'm gonna do one that. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it because I didn't have positive memories about it, But in retrospect, just all all around a fantastic fun episode. B and B's oh.

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Speaker 2: So good.

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Speaker 3: It's a it's a romp uh and I love it. And you know, looking back on season four, this is like one of those episodes that it's it's just indelible, So I know, I love it. We get to see the inside of Phoenie's house. Yeah, I mean, the only thing I would say is I don't love the Tapanga storyline. Remember she kind of like it's just a one off joke and then shows up in a French made outfit. But but it's also like the ultimate uh Cory Sean Shenanigans, which I just love and that's such a such a an important part of the show. So yes, yeah, between Chicklike Me and B and B's B and B, I feel like I've covered I've covered the Corey shwanness of Yeah, Boy Meets World, which I'm glad to have on my team.

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Speaker 4: I love that it's a good team. It's a good team to have.

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Speaker 1: I was very high up and very high up on my list again too. And when I was going through it, I was thinking, do I think anybody loves it quite as much as I do? I was trying to figure out how safe I thought it was. Apparently not safe enough. All right, Well guess what you get? Two back to back picks.

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Speaker 5: Oh snap, So I am taking it off the list. Talk about what people love seminal episode of our show. Whether we liked it, whether we didn't, it definitely had an indelible effect on all of us and on the series and on our fans.

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Speaker 4: I am taking cult fiction, cultchoh off of the board.

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Speaker 5: Uh some drama, I've got some drop, We got some mister mac up.

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Speaker 3: In the place.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is this is how you pander because.

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Speaker 3: Also it's a great Eric bit like run. Eric's often forgotten, overshadowed by my moaning and tears.

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Speaker 5: And it's also, uh, mister Turner's final episode. I mean, there are so many import we have to say goodbye to Tony here, so this is uh yeah, this is an important one.

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Speaker 4: So I'm taking cult fiction off the board.

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Speaker 5: Now my third don't do it. This is tough for me. Don't do it, don't do it, don't well, don't take it. So so loving to know, which was because I there's so many still kind of bangers for different reasons left on the board. Part balance you do, part of me wants to go something where I think it was an underrated episode that we all kind of forgot about, was something like Uncle Daddy, which which was a really good episode where it kind of set up Eric and Tommy which is coming later. They saw Eric and a little kid and we're like, oh, this could be so something like that's interesting.

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Speaker 4: Long walks to Pittsburgh are still on the table.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we've got some things in this app in this season that are crazy. But and I think you're both going to be happy with this pick because I'm guessing neither one of you were going to take this.

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Speaker 3: And don't do it.

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Speaker 4: It's not going to beat your thing.

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Speaker 3: I have one very clear one for me, so.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure this is not going to be what I think. I know the clear one is for you, and I don't think it's this one that I'm taking. This was important because it really started the Eric storyline for me in a very certain way, and it started the whole season and that's why I'm actually taking You Can Go Home Again.

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Speaker 1: That was pretty high up for me. That was pretty high up for me. Yes, that's more of.

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Speaker 4: A personal thing for me than anything else, I think.

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Speaker 3: Because that's an episode that takes place completely outside of the normous outside.

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Speaker 4: And just the brothers and then the dad comes.

00:24:03
Speaker 5: It was the Yogurt Cup and we're shooting on locations.

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Speaker 2: Broccoli Lover, Phil leads.

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Speaker 5: Roccoy Leeds is in there, Phill leads, and I this this was an important one for me.

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Speaker 4: It also kind of starts.

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Speaker 5: You know, We've talked about how season three was kind of Sean's and season four was kind of Eric's, and this kind of started the Eric storyline.

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Speaker 4: So I am taking You Can Go Home Again.

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Speaker 3: I'm surprised you chose that over Uncle Daddy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I.

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Speaker 5: Like I prefer again. I liked the start of the whole storyline.

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Speaker 3: I liked just.

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Speaker 5: The ben are, the Cory and Eric kind of dynamic of it, and then the Dad coming in.

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Speaker 3: You could have gone like, let's just look if I'm looking at the list, if you start with You Can Go Home Again and you go to uh security guy and the final episode you have a We're Eric storyline that is wonderful and Uncle Dad if I forgot that, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's the one I forgot. Yeah, so you could have a four a four run that. It's just like a whole season of Eric's part, which is wonderful.

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Speaker 5: You know, Godfather Too might be better than Godfather One, but Godfather one gets you into the world. So I'm taking and of course I am comparing. You can go home again to Godfather.

00:25:23
Speaker 2: If you think boy Me Toold has never been compared to the Godfather before, you'd be right, you would be correct.

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Speaker 5: And much like my acting in Get No, Yes, So that's what I'm taking. I knew it was one that you guys probably weren't going to grab. That is my my my personal one, which.

00:25:40
Speaker 2: Okay, I like that.

00:25:41
Speaker 1: I like that you got a personal one and there that means something to you more than a panda or even an episode rated.

00:25:48
Speaker 4: I got a Percy.

00:25:49
Speaker 1: All right, writer, it's back to you. You're very excited because.

00:25:53
Speaker 3: This was in the middle. Yeah, it wasn't the one, but now I'm suddenly getting concerned. Oh, because I'm realizing and I've because he took cult fiction really I don't have a lot of I'm going for all romps. Is that true? Gosh, it's so funny.

00:26:12
Speaker 1: You love throwing out all the logic and reality and story. You know, you're the guy who's like, guys, you're sosial shallow boys.

00:26:25
Speaker 3: Come on, you know you know what's a bummer? Is that? Like? I really like the Cory storyline of Singled Out. Yeah, remember that episode where Corey's getting his tonsils out and the whole hospital stuff you talk about absurd, But I just can't go for the The Eric storyline is just terrible.

00:26:43
Speaker 4: It's terrible.

00:26:44
Speaker 3: Sorry, I can't take it, But I really want that Corey tonsils storyline. It's so good. Okay, ah, yeah, I'm gonna go for another kind of one off, slightly weird show that again I did not think was going to be good, but I found thoroughly entertaining. And when I look back, I go, this is a this is a classic episode. I'm taking quiz show. Oh yeah, because it's super fun, but also it has a really like remember the discussions we had, Like we actually went back and forth for a while about what it means and what the and you know, whether Phoenie is it's okay for Phoenie to be upset with the kids. And I think any show that can be that funny and that's sort of basic in terms of its actual storyline and yet generate that much conversation just between the three of us. I think it's a great episode, and like I still think about it, like if I it's yeah, what was the message there? What you know? Does entertainment pander?

00:27:38
Speaker 4: Does it?

00:27:39
Speaker 3: You know? Do you have to be dumb in order to be entertaining? Or you know? I remember will you got really kind of upset? You were like pop culture is pop culture? That shouldn't be the But I just think I think that it's a it's a it's a good question and ye, and yet the episode is not heavy, it's not dramatic, so that's a that I just think it's a fun, great sitcom episode that actually gets its meaningful points.

00:28:01
Speaker 1: So it's funny because when I was going through all the episodes last night and this morning, a quiz show is one that kept popping out to me as being one of my favorites of the season just really stuck with me.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: It really stuck with me. That one was that one was I keep saying they're all high on my list. But really it really was hard. It was really easy for me to pick.

00:28:21
Speaker 1: Like twenty one and twenty two. I knew right away the rest of them. I was like, oh, I gotta keep moving these around, all right. So to do a little recap, Will has hair Today, Goon Tomorrow. Writer took chick like Me. I have Shallow Boy and an Affair to forget. Oh, writer has B and b's B and B. Will has Cult Fiction and you Can Go Home Again. And Writer just took quiz show.

00:28:44
Speaker 3: Wow, Oh I Danielle's got this because now.

00:28:47
Speaker 1: You get two, because now I get too, I do get two. My next pick is going to be I'm taking Uncle Daddy.

00:29:08
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:29:09
Speaker 1: I really loved this episode. I thought Will was, as per usual, absolutely spectacular in it. I'm taking Uncle Daddy off off the table. And now with the second pick that I have, oh man, it gets really kind of difficult here, because here's what I'm torn between. I'm torn between part one of a Long Walk to Pittsburgh.

00:29:43
Speaker 3: I'm still on the table. Us none of us were like quick to grab either, none of those which I can know, but we know that they're important.

00:29:52
Speaker 2: We know that they're important people. And I do remember enjoying Part one more than Part two.

00:30:00
Speaker 5: Arguably our biggest audience reaction to date, Yeah, was Part one.

00:30:05
Speaker 4: I mean that was like two Part two you got back in the rain.

00:30:10
Speaker 5: Part two, excuse me, biggest reaction we've ever had. I mean it was like we had to pause and hold and hold and hold.

00:30:16
Speaker 2: I know it is true.

00:30:17
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna if I'm going to do a strict panther to the audience, I probably would go with Part two because people would maybe remember the ows and aws of Topanga showing up in the rain and all of that.

00:30:27
Speaker 2: But we've also got the sixteen Candles and four hundred Pounds Men, which is the Sweet sixteen episode, which we didn't.

00:30:37
Speaker 1: Really love, but people talk about that episode a lot. People liked that wrestling episode. And then I don't know, this is really difficult. Let's see, Oh my gosh, I don't know. I I'm gonna take I'm gonna take dangerous secret.

00:30:59
Speaker 2: Oh I'm dangerous secret.

00:31:02
Speaker 5: I know.

00:31:04
Speaker 3: It's a drama episode.

00:31:06
Speaker 2: A drama episode.

00:31:10
Speaker 1: Another episode we had a lot of discussion and conversation about.

00:31:14
Speaker 2: I think it was culturally important at the time. I think it's still relevant today.

00:31:18
Speaker 3: Also, oh yeah, because I need to balance that with some drama and some importance. And that was well.

00:31:25
Speaker 1: And I also took a really good will episode and now I really wanted to take a very good writer episode. So I feel I feel really good about both of those. Uncle Daddy and Dangerous Secret off the table.

00:31:39
Speaker 4: Wait, so what do you have? Your shallow boy and a fair to Remember? Are fair to forget Uncle Daddy and Dangerous Secret? Yes, that's a great list, solid list. That is a solid list.

00:31:51
Speaker 3: I mean with those first two picks, she's just I mean.

00:31:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I know.

00:31:55
Speaker 2: Okay, we've got writer.

00:31:59
Speaker 3: I know that if if I wanted to pander, I would do a long walk to Pittsburgh. But I can't do it. I just can't do it. I can't do it. Everyone knows how my feelings are. So even though part one is far superior to Part two, Part two is the one that really pumped me, I still just can't pick Part one. But I do need some I would like some drama. I would like, you know. God, here's what I'm torn between. I'm torn between Fishing for Verna, which is just a great episode, and I when I remember that there's that whole Cory storyline with the lunch lady Dine. And it's also Scharene Mitchell's performance is incredible in the hotel room scene with then, so that's a good drama one that gosh, but it just doesn't Okay, it's either that one or security Guy, because it's another No, No, I know what it is. I know what it is.

00:33:07
Speaker 5: What I wrote that down because I knew that's what you were going to pick. Amazed it went this long, I know, well, you.

00:33:16
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I'm trying to remember what's the B storyline in that. All I remember is the the fact that Chet works at the school, but I can't remember what the B storyline is. So I know it's a good Sean episode. I know it has you know, dramatic theft, so it's a good one. Uh and yeah, I think I think that balances out because I've got really fun between the quiz show and and uh B and B and then and then a little bit more meaning with Chick Like Me, which is still just the best episode of Boy Meets World, and then yeah, I'll throw Janitor Dad in there for some some drama.

00:33:55
Speaker 2: Okay, I like those Okay, well what about you? You get the final pick.

00:34:02
Speaker 1: Everything that's left, no competition, everything that's left is yours security guy.

00:34:09
Speaker 3: Turkey Day, right, Turkey Day. It's such a weird episode men that if you want to pander, because I mean, that's a I didn't people like it. It's not great, But didn't people love it? With the wrestling? I know, Danielle, you didn't take it?

00:34:25
Speaker 4: Okay, so you took Janner your dad I had.

00:34:29
Speaker 1: I'll tell you just my last three episode twenty out of twenty two, like last ones for me to take was a Long Walk to Pittsburgh Too.

00:34:38
Speaker 2: It was twenty out of twenty two.

00:34:39
Speaker 1: Wow, Turkey Day was twenty one out of twenty two, and twenty two What's Wheels?

00:34:46
Speaker 2: Uh no singled out?

00:34:49
Speaker 4: So Wheels didn't even make the list.

00:34:51
Speaker 2: Wheels was Let's.

00:34:52
Speaker 3: Say where it tals go? Where did Let's go?

00:34:57
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:34:57
Speaker 3: Wills was eighteen Okay, Wheels my least favorite of the season.

00:35:02
Speaker 2: Will Here's what here?

00:35:04
Speaker 1: You know?

00:35:04
Speaker 2: What saves it for Wheels?

00:35:05
Speaker 5: For me?

00:35:06
Speaker 2: Will and his famous birthday song and the and the.

00:35:11
Speaker 3: That actually performance when he's driving go around me legendary.

00:35:19
Speaker 1: Even though I didn't like the episode, there were enough funny favorite moments from the episode for me that it didn't didn't.

00:35:29
Speaker 3: Go around me.

00:35:29
Speaker 4: Please, Oh god, he was so funny and good.

00:35:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I have do I pander, pander, pander and take one of the long walks.

00:35:39
Speaker 4: Obviously would see that's the thing is.

00:35:40
Speaker 5: Long Walk to Pittsburgh Part one was infinitely better than Long Walk to Pittsburgh Part two, But Long Walk to Pittsburgh Part two had the moment that everybody's looking.

00:35:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean when you're.

00:35:50
Speaker 3: Long Walk to Pittsburgh Part one two also had that weird beginning storyline where Eric confronts Sean for kissing. Remember is not real storyline felt weird and I don't know, yeah, it.

00:36:03
Speaker 5: Sets up a great story, but I mean, when you're when you're talking. When they do the montage of Topanga, they start with her pushing Corey against the locker, they cut to her cutting her hair, then they cut to her in the rain.

00:36:14
Speaker 4: It's like the third thing they show.

00:36:16
Speaker 3: But think about the rest of that episode. We're just living and they're just talking and yeah.

00:36:22
Speaker 5: I could go Easy Street with Buddy Hackett and Soupy Sales kidding, but it was not my favorite episode.

00:36:29
Speaker 2: No, we haven't even talked about. I ain't gonna spray. Let us know more when we buy the Wilderness.

00:36:37
Speaker 1: But Alan, it's a good adult acting episode. I don't know that the episode is.

00:36:46
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. Did no one pick security guy?

00:36:51
Speaker 2: No one picked security guy.

00:36:54
Speaker 4: I think I'm going to have to go with security guys.

00:36:57
Speaker 3: Hold on, so what do you have then? What would you have?

00:37:00
Speaker 1: You would have hair today, goon tomorrow, whole fiction. You can go home again? And security guy m hmm.

00:37:09
Speaker 5: Is like you may come in second, but well, yeah, it's just a it's an Eric heavy.

00:37:15
Speaker 3: I was going to say heavy because you already have uh, you can go home again, which is kind of.

00:37:22
Speaker 4: Learning to Fly was not a bad episode.

00:37:24
Speaker 5: Learning to Fly was great, throwing herself at exactly Dean Bolander.

00:37:31
Speaker 4: There's a green, great scene with Eric and the Dean.

00:37:37
Speaker 5: I oh, man, yeah, I'm.

00:37:43
Speaker 1: Why don't we rule out some things like you some things you're like taking that okay, turkey crossing it out.

00:37:48
Speaker 3: Sixteen candles of four hundred pounds, men out out.

00:37:51
Speaker 4: I think the long walked wheels out.

00:37:54
Speaker 2: Wheels out, okay, wheels.

00:37:55
Speaker 5: Although they go around me go around easy is out for me, okay, sixteen cannels for men.

00:38:03
Speaker 4: No Dangerous Secret was taken.

00:38:05
Speaker 5: Great episode Singled Out was not my favorite episode.

00:38:09
Speaker 3: Oh Security Guy had the whole Sean storyline where where Poemie's pretending that they get cake at the s A t.

00:38:15
Speaker 2: Pres Yes, that's really funny.

00:38:17
Speaker 3: That's one of Bill's funniest bits where he's like in the I mean.

00:38:21
Speaker 1: If you need a romp, easy Street, easy streets.

00:38:26
Speaker 3: He doesn't want it.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: You don't want it.

00:38:27
Speaker 3: I know.

00:38:27
Speaker 4: I was not a huge fan of me the whole I was.

00:38:30
Speaker 3: Yeah. The ending of that episode is just.

00:38:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but you're not in the mob.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: You're in an alley.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: Why is it?

00:38:36
Speaker 5: Do you have a box of cocaine? Like, what what's happening? It's a Teddy Bear is exactly.

00:38:41
Speaker 4: So, I don't unless they literally at the end sent you to cap somebody.

00:38:44
Speaker 5: I wasn't interested, right, So I think I think I am damn it.

00:38:57
Speaker 3: I don't.

00:38:58
Speaker 4: I just all know something.

00:38:59
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.

00:39:00
Speaker 4: I know, I'm already I'm gonna go.

00:39:01
Speaker 5: I'm going down swinging, damn it.

00:39:04
Speaker 4: Uh.

00:39:06
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to remember which episode was Pooperrie that was the one after I ain't gonna spray let us when there's he's trying to find a news.

00:39:15
Speaker 4: Was that the B storyline.

00:39:16
Speaker 1: Learns to appreciate when the lunch lady passes away. So it's gonna be I ain't gonna spray let us no more is.

00:39:23
Speaker 2: The Yeah, it was pretty you're looking thing.

00:39:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, he quits and so you guys go to the Yeah, I mean that's a good one.

00:39:33
Speaker 5: I like, it is a good one. But no, I'm I'm gonna stick with Security Guy. It was a solid episode. It's kind of an underrated episode too. I think a lot of people don't remember Security Guy. And when we saw it was one of those kind of.

00:39:45
Speaker 4: Hey, this was really good. So I'm gonna I am gonna go down.

00:39:50
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go down picking what I want to pick and uh, and I'm not gonna pander to these amazing people that I love very very much. And you know, if they were voted for me, that'd be great. But whatever was was was Lonnie in that episode Security Guy? Yeah went went what because she did three episodes?

00:40:09
Speaker 3: Right? M hmm, I'm trying to think. I just remember you were powerful Sick. Powerful Sick was when we introduced that I was introducing her, or was that taking her away?

00:40:19
Speaker 5: No, powerful sick was introducing her, because that's when your friend, the guy that you knew, who he loved, who was so great. The musician Mickey came in and said, I got it, my mind. My mom was taken sick and I walk up and this is my this is Lonnie.

00:40:31
Speaker 3: I can't keep track of the Wilderness Store after I just pray, let us know more because that that happened that I know Shallah boy takes place at the Wilderness Store, but.

00:40:37
Speaker 5: Will super easy to to to keep track of. In season five though.

00:40:43
Speaker 3: Just gone career.

00:40:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna now wait.

00:40:49
Speaker 2: What, Oh, I'm sorry, I already changed it down.

00:40:51
Speaker 5: Now it's scribbled out, scribbled out, wa, dribble it out? Really, Oh, I'm pandering. I'm gonna pand her.

00:40:58
Speaker 2: I'm going to take a changing Well, I'm episode up.

00:41:02
Speaker 4: I'm taking long walk to Pittsburgh. I'm pandering.

00:41:04
Speaker 5: I'm taking one or part two, Part one, I'm taking long walk to Pittsburgh. But I like, as I write it, for people to remember the awesome scene in part two and imagine that was in part Wow, here's here's the.

00:41:16
Speaker 3: Way to do it. That part that is only meaningful, it's only powerful.

00:41:22
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, yes, yeah, I'm gonna take I'm gonna try it.

00:41:27
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try to pander.

00:41:28
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well you also, you have so much Eric you need?

00:41:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.

00:41:32
Speaker 2: Done, he's got hair today, goon tomorrow.

00:41:34
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a solid episode.

00:41:36
Speaker 5: Hair. I could I could pull in the second. Let's be honest, because I'm not going to win. I could pull in the second. Just with hair today goon tomorrow. That's that's a real possibility. With Topanga cutting her hair and good looking guy, that's that's the gosh with good looking guy and cult fiction. I have cult fiction too, I know. So yeah, I'm gonna go a long while. I'm gonna try to make this my pander list. And I picked one personally, which is you can go home again. But other than that, I'm gonna take long.

00:42:03
Speaker 3: You know what. Actually, if I look, if I think about your list, yours is probably some of the most defining episodes of season four, Like yeah, you know you look at those Yeah that's pretty good man. Yeah all right, I mean.

00:42:17
Speaker 1: If anything, I might say though, well, no, you're right, you've got because you you really do have hair today gooon tomorrow. If we look at just the A storyline is a great Topanga Cory storyline, the best, possibly the best Corey and Tapega story we're ever gonna see ever in the history of boys world.

00:42:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, great, great guest star with yes name being the and then also probably the best Sean to Pega stuff.

00:42:42
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, that's that dynamic, All of that's wonderful. And then the B story of that being good looking guy is incredible for an Eric storyline. And then Colt Fiction is a Sean slash writer, strong showing triumph. You can go home again, Your personal Pick is also a really good Eric setting off the Eric storyline.

00:43:04
Speaker 2: And then Long Walk to Pittsburgh.

00:43:06
Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw out a hot take though, and because I was going through these last night, and I'm gonna make a bold statement, and I think you're all You're both going to disagree with me, probably, but I think and af Fair to Forget was the best season.

00:43:20
Speaker 4: That best episode of the season.

00:43:22
Speaker 5: Rewatching that last night was you and Ben were so good in that episode. It was a perfectly balanced sitcom episode. It was funny, it was tongue in cheek, it was basically a perfect sitcom episode. We had some bangers in season four, but man, an A Fair to Forget was really really I agree.

00:43:44
Speaker 3: It's it's based in character. Yeah, and it's very simple actually, it's just you know, just us talking and going from room to room. But the dynamics are it's really fun.

00:43:53
Speaker 4: Man, you guys on the phone.

00:43:54
Speaker 5: I mean, I was losing it again last night. You know hard it is to make me laugh at sitcom. That's it's and just the just a little like, oh, I was just listening to your voice.

00:44:02
Speaker 4: Oh god, it was brilliant.

00:44:03
Speaker 2: I know, brilliant was so good. Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I don't disagree with you.

00:44:08
Speaker 1: Between here today, gooon tomorrow, and an Affair to Forget, it's a great ones.

00:44:14
Speaker 5: Perfect yeah, but you have an Affair to Forget and shallow Boy, I know, and Dangerous Secret. I mean you go from wacky where we're singing a song with a girl that's the craziest thing in the world to Dangerous Secret, which is like it took the very special episode and made it real.

00:44:32
Speaker 4: It wasn't like a cartoony version of a very special episode.

00:44:36
Speaker 3: You got.

00:44:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's going to be a tough list to be.

00:44:38
Speaker 1: I'm proud of us. I'm proud of us though I think I think we picked. Yeah, we have good lineups. We held true to ourselves. We did that. We did I think we.

00:44:46
Speaker 3: Will didn't really hold true to himself.

00:44:52
Speaker 5: Taking an episode I didn't like all that much because I think the audience might absolutely correct.

00:44:58
Speaker 4: It's absolutely correct.

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