TGI - Episode 222 “Career Day”

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Speaker 1: M h. We got some sad news recently. A a towering figure in our lives, or at least in my life, and someone who has figured uh kind of prominently on this podcast passed away. David Combs, the incredible studio teacher who we've we've brought up multiple times, passed away rather suddenly. He was only in his early seventies. And we got the news from our our other incredible studio teacher, Wesley Staples, and so I thought we would take a moment. And you know, we had actually been talking about having David Wesley on this podcast just because we've they've come up and they were such a huge part of our show, in our lives, and you know, we've noticed that behind the scenes stories tend to involve them. So anyway, this is not great news, but you know, we thought we'd just take a moment to talk about David.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, David was a I mean we, like writer said, we've talked about him a lot on this podcast.

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Speaker 3: David was just a really really special, unique man.

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Speaker 4: He was.

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Speaker 2: I still think to this day, the smartest person I've ever met in my life. Yeah, he was smart in every subject. There was nothing he didn't know. There wasn't anything you couldn't have a conversation with him about. Even in just very casual conversation, you would learn so much from him. He was also very quirky and weird in some of the funniest ways. We've talked about how he could just deliver very eccentric.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe and maybe, can we say, I think he would be okay with this. A snob.

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Speaker 3: He was a snob. I think he can.

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Speaker 2: I think he just to pride in being a snob. He brought me to my first museum. He brought me to my first opera. He he once bought me an art print and had it framed because at the time I was dating Lance and there was something. We went to this museum and there was a painting on the wall that I really liked, and he bought me the print of it because he said that the reason I liked it is because it reminded me of Lance, and I had never really put it together, but it was a young woman looking lovingly at a young man, and he said that he thought it you know that it was that he remembered when we were at the museum together, seeing me connect because I was not a museum kid. I was like, this is so boring, Please don't make me do this, and he was like, no, you're going to go and you're going to like it. And he said that he felt like that was the first moment that I actually connected with an art piece, and so he bought me the print and he had it framed for me and I still have it, And yeah, I mean, David could deliver just a soul crushing, soul crushing blow and one sentence without meaning to.

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Speaker 3: Like the time when I was like, I have a crush on David Letterman.

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Speaker 5: He's like, hmmm, so you're attracted to power.

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Speaker 2: He's also I told you guys that he's the one who called a bathing suit a baving costume, and I absolutely love it. A bothering costume I still called a bothering costume. I have thought about David, I don't know, once a month, every month since the time Boy Meets World has ended, at least there are things that come up in my life all the time. I the day we got this news about David passing away, I was having a hard time not being in tears all day. And one of the memories that came up for me that I then ended up telling producer Jensen Karp, husband of this podcast, about that I thought you guys might appreciate was that, for whatever reason, one day, my mom wasn't able to take me home from work.

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Speaker 3: She couldn't pick me up, and.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why. I then didn't go home with writer or Ben like I sometimes would. I would sometimes go home to Encino with writer or Ben and my mom would then leave Calabasis and pick me up in Encino. But for whatever reason, that couldn't be done on this one particular day, and so David Combs drove me home. And David Combs in his car. It was very hot. I don't think the air was working. We had the windows down, and he talked the whole way home. He also drove like in the slow lane, very slowly, and and yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think some part of the eccentricity of David is that he's the you know, he's the he was the kind of guy who could tell you the origin of a word, yeah, and it's history and the history of its usage in seven different language. But then he couldn't keep his car clean.

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Speaker 3: Correct, It was a not clean car.

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Speaker 2: It was very cramped feeling there was stuff everywhere, and it was a long drive and we were in traffic and there was no air, and the windows were down and my hair was whipping all over the place. And he got lost and I was like trying to tell him where to go, but he wasn't. He also didn't seem like a great driver, like maybe he was not familiar with freeway, like real lifestyle.

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Speaker 3: Yes, very frazzled.

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Speaker 2: And I got he got We got home, and he walked me up to the door and my mom opened the door and David and my mom talked for a little bit and then David left. And my mom had been working in the garage. So the way our house was set up was that the garage was directly next door to like where the front door was. So I walked in and my mom was like, I'm in the know. I was like talking to my mom, and my Mom's like, I'm working in the garage. Follow me into the garage. So I follow her into the garage as David is walking down and I start loudly complaining about this car ride home with David.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe you made me go home with David.

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Speaker 2: Comes.

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Speaker 3: It was terrible. There was no air, condision. It was a thousand degrees. My hair was whipping all over the blays and he wouldn't roll out the windows.

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Speaker 2: And then we got lost, and he wasn't listening to me, and there was stuff all over the car, and I'm just acting like a little brat, just complaining about how awful it was that I had to make this drive home with David Combs.

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Speaker 3: And I was so mad, and David.

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Speaker 2: Heard every word Oh no, But David didn't let me get away with it and just let me know no. He turned around and he walked back up to the front door, and he rang the doorbell and the doorball rings and were like, who's that And I realized it's David, and I opened the door and I go Hi.

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Speaker 5: He goes, Danielle. I heard everything you said. I'm sorry that it was such an awful experience for you driving in my car. I thought I was doing something nice and wonderful for you, doing you the favor of taking you home. And I have never been more mortified in my entire life. And there have been times when I have woken up at two o'clock in the morning, get around, cannot go back to sleep yep because I'll be like, remember that time in nineteen ninety four when David Combs drove you home and he heard you talking bad, like bad mouthing him, just absolutely devastating.

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Speaker 4: He was quite a guy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was just gonna say very brief because I was only with him for a year, because I only had but he was my only teacher for a year, like Wesley was never my teacher.

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Speaker 4: I only had David for one.

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Speaker 6: Year, and he would do very interesting and unique things with you to pass the time. Because one of the things that had happened was we've talked about this. I was a terrible student before boy Mets World started, and then you're sitting in there with one teacher who has Danielle said, is one of, if not the smartest people you'll ever meet your life. He spoke seven languages, he used to meet a tutor to the show of Iran's Kids. I mean it was he was a very smart and my school back in Connecticut didn't know what to do with me. So essentially they said, pick a college and take whatever courses you want. So by a combination of picking the courses I want and having David as my teacher, he taught me to love learning, and what would happen was I would have a week off in between, you know, we'd have our week hiatus. But because I lived in Connecticut, I wasn't flying home every time.

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Speaker 4: It was just too much.

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Speaker 6: So a lot of times David would take me places and you would pick these places that were educational without you knowing they would be educational.

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Speaker 1: So with you too, oh yeah.

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Speaker 6: So like one of the things we did, he called me is like, hey, the LA Subway is opening up today.

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Speaker 4: It's the inaugural ride.

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Speaker 6: We're going. It was for one block. It was as much as it was open. We drove downtown, we got on the subway for the inaugural ride, We drove one block, and we walked upstairs. He'd call me again later he goes, have you ever been to the oldest street in Los Angeles? Come on, we're going to It was at Alvarado Street. We're going there to get some some good Mexican food.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 6: And you'd pick you up and you'd go and you'd do stuff, and it was just these little moments that he would take with you. And then when we got the closest was my final project for senior year in Latin was to translate the Odyssey, and he and I sat there every day and worked on Latin together. We'd sat it, we sat on the couch and I would want him to just translate it, and he's like, I'm not translating this book for you.

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Speaker 4: He's like, that's this is not how this works.

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Speaker 6: And so we would we'd work through all the conjunctions and so it was just it would.

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Speaker 1: Sit there with you guys. I don't know if you remember, but that's how I learned the story of the Odyssey.

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Speaker 4: Oh did you really? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I would sit with you guys while you were doing that, because then I did it later when I because I then decided to take Latin because you guys had done it. I would sit there and listen to you, you know, and you would basically be telling me the story of the Odyssey because you would be translating him from the Latin.

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Speaker 4: So cool it was. He was brilliant, eccent, weird.

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Speaker 1: He could be rude, he.

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Speaker 4: Could be off putting.

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Speaker 6: He would do things that he would pick up right away, like for a week he would ride his folding bike to.

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Speaker 4: School, can you remember that?

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Speaker 6: And then I'd have to drive him home because he'd be like, well, I can't drive home, and I'd be like, how'd you get here?

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Speaker 4: And he's like, I drove my bike on the freeway.

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Speaker 6: I'm like, you were on the freeway on that little folding bike.

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Speaker 4: And it was just he was an odd.

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Speaker 6: Man who could really make learning a ton of fun. And I wish I knew him better than I did, and you and Danielle certainly knew him better than I did. But he was a good guy and he will certainly always hold a very special place in my heart, especially when I think of anything intellectual. He's somehow in the conversation and I'm honored to have.

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Speaker 4: Known him, I really am.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think maybe it just needs to be stated for our listeners who who don't know a studio teacher usually is not this involved, right, But like a studio teacher job is actually sort of like you know, it varies from being basically a daycare, you know, where you're just sort of there or like you're you're a substitute teacher, like you're and you're a substitute teacher who's there for all subjects. So you know, a lot of them specialize in one or two things, but really they specialize in just making sure that you get your homework done basically, like they keep you in the classroom and they oversee you doing your homework. And David, as obviously from the stories you're hearing, just went so far above on that. You know. He within the first the first year of being on Boy Meet's World, he flew up to my hometown to meet with all of my teachers at my tiny school in the middle of the woods. I mean I you know, I was a whole school of only fifty kids, and he met with every one of my teachers. Yeah. He took us to everything. He took me to London and Paris for weeks. It took me to my first ballet, my first opera. Took me to movie screenings Clockwork, Orange Amazing, late night midnight screenings of movies in la He brought David Trainer. He found out David Traynor did Shakespeare, and he brought him into our classroom to teach us Shakespeare.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It took me to poetry readings, local music shows. When I wanted to leave high school early, he convinced me to stay and instead got me signed up for correspondence courses like you will at college courses got me, you know, teaching that I mean, set me up for my interview at Occidental College, where I ended up going to school. I wasn't even going to apply. He just was like no, and he set me up with the interview and I got in. You know, I just changed my life.

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Speaker 2: Change that he didn't really, he really and he took it upon himself to make sure that the kids he came in contact with on TV shows were not going to wind up being uncultured dummies because they had had bad educations, because they had been taken out of real school. He looked at it as an opportunity to actually give you an even better education than you were going to get at whatever school you came from, because you could be one on one or three on one. However, many kids were in his tiny little class on a set. He really made sure we were well rounded, cultured, educated little weirdos just like him.

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Speaker 3: And I think he succeeded.

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Speaker 1: The one thing that he did, and I know he did this with you, Danielle. I don't know if he ever did this with you Will, but that changed me irrevocably, and I will always cherish is every once in a while. You'd be in the classroom, usually not when you were done with your regular schoolwork, and he would just pull down a book because he had a classroom full of books, and start reading poetry. Yes, and you know poems you had never heard of poem like he would have, you know, the great pantheon of English literature at his fingertips, John Dunn, John Keats, Shakespeare, yeah, anybody. And he would read and not only read and talk about the poems and like, but he would start to cry. Yeah, And I remember remember him weeping openly reading poetry. And I think about that now. It's like, not only was this man like engaging with us intellectually and saying, like, learn these things because they're good for your brain, but he was unafraid to show that art is emotional, that it changes you, that it makes you feel things, and that you know, and that it's okay to cry reading this poem or listening to this poem, and like, you know, I read poetry to my son all the time now, and I would never I don't think I would ever do that except for David.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he also taught me how to read poetry, like I remember him because he wouldn't just pull down books and read it them himself. He would pull down a book and open up to a thing and say, read me this, Read this to me, and I would read it, and I would read it the way I thought poetry was supposed to be read, like with the pauses at the end of every line or whatever. And he would say, you don't have to pause there. You can just read it like a story. You can just read through. You can just read, you know, and I remember him, you know, there's something for whatever reason that can feel intimidating. Poetry can feel intimidating. He took away all of the intimidation and just made it you just read it. You can read it. You can read a small we can just read it for two minutes. You don't have to sit down and dedicate four hours to poetry. You can read it for five minutes. You can read it before bed, you can read it whenever. And so yeah, he David Comb's truly a life changing man who we will miss very much, and we just wanted to give that little tribute to him because we were really, honestly, we were a bit devastated to find out that news. So welcome to Pod meets World. I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm right a strong, and I'm Wilforde. So we are going to recap season two, episode twenty two, Career Day, which originally aired May twelfth, nineteen ninety five. The synopsis is that after Sean finds out his mother has run away, his father takes off to find her, leaving him completely alone looking for somewhere to stay. Also, Eric is having trouble studying for the SATs, and Alan feels like a disappointment at Corey's school. Career Day. It was directed by David Traynor. It was written by Matthew Nelson.

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Speaker 4: It is his first one, right, that's what I thought. I wrote that down, was like, is this his first one? I didn't think he was there at all in season two.

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Speaker 1: That's so amazing. Yeah, I didn't realize that. But because there's something about this episode that felt very I don't know, that just makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it just makes sense now.

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Speaker 1: It makes sense, Like that's this feels like a Nelson episode.

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Speaker 4: It's Verry Nelson.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And you know we talked about how he was like a Sean voice in the room. Yeah, and like that's clear in this episode.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Matthew Nelson. So it is guest starring Blake Clark, who arrives for the first time as check Hunter, Jason Marsden as Jason Mary, Darlene Vogel returns as Catherine Kat Tompkins, and Peter Tork of the Monkeys as Jedediah Lawrence also for the first time.

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Speaker 3: Dad Yes number one.

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Speaker 2: Will Esties returns as Alex So. To recap, we are in mister Turner's classroom. Alan walks into mister Turner's classroom for career Day. Corey is bummed. Corey says everyone will know his dad isn't an NBA player. He's a grocer's son, a son of a.

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Speaker 4: Grocer, son of a grocer, son of a grocer.

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Speaker 2: Alan comes over to Corey and Sean to read his note cards about how many different kinds of rice they have. Even Sean admits he's happy he isn't Corey. Jedediah Tapega's dad is up first for career Day. He tells everyone he is a luthier, someone who makes musical instruments. Sean jokes and says that is the nuttiest religion.

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Speaker 4: I'm a Presbyterian, So to each his own.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Tapega tells her daddy to share who called their house last night, and he says Tippy.

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Speaker 3: They don't want to hear that.

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Speaker 2: Sean and Corey can't believe Tippy and they start to make fun of her, but to Pega turns around and growls at them.

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Speaker 4: Are you ever this is a Tippy again? But is there ever a Tippy again? Because that you figured that I would stick somehow.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe the same actor playing her dad would stick.

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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I know you figured Tippy is something where it's like somebody that eventually donning.

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Speaker 1: It just felt like Season one, like this whole run because like you turn to growling was very much like.

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Speaker 3: The original You're the original.

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Speaker 1: Topanga and then of course your dad being the sort of hippy tippy musician.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you guys making fun of Tapanga for being that. I mean it did. It felt very You.

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Speaker 1: Look extremely tanned.

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Speaker 4: To me, I was very tan, but then really.

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Speaker 1: Starting to deal with acne because I am also incredibly made up this entire episode like I'm starting to out something awful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to figure out because normally I'm very tan. In the very early parts of the of a season because I would have come back from Hawaii. But I noticed that as well, and I wonder if it was just a makeup choice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe.

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Speaker 3: Or may the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Like we talked about when we were recapping the last episode, there was this weird gap. Maybe we really did have like a break, like a yeah break for some reason this year.

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Speaker 4: Maybe why had to been something. I had to have been something that happened.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure, so I guess uh it is then revealed it was Bruce Springsteen who called the house. Everyone is very impressed. Alan jokes, well, he can make these guitars, but can he play them? And then Jedediah starts playing the guitar perfectly like he's in the Monkeys, and Alan even says he's toast, And then we.

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Speaker 3: Get our first little commercial break.

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Speaker 1: So, hey, little girl, your dad is your home?

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Speaker 4: Is your daddy home?

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Speaker 1: Joke? Really not good?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm not great.

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Speaker 4: So Peters dad or mom? I can't remember which one was my parents' college professor really in Connecticut. He taught as think it was at the University Connecticut. He or she.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if it was his mom or dad, but was one of their I think law professors back in the day, and I remember telling that to Peter and he was like, oh, okay.

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Speaker 1: Well that's meeting.

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Speaker 3: Good start. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So then we're in mister Turner's classroom. Alan is up next for his career day presentation. Mister Turner jokes Alan isn't going to talk about how much rice he stocks. There's more to it than that, and Alan throws away his first note guard with all the rice jokes, which is.

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Speaker 6: Again rusty, so good rusty. So he played the just going back to the start of his like how many how many rices do you think you have?

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Speaker 4: Like he's so excited.

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Speaker 6: I know, Sean's like ten, He's like ten won, He's so excited, including the short grain short grains with a long grade. He was he plays kind of goofy excited, so well, yeah, and then he instantly can change into Alan's the dad, but that kind of like, oh I'm in my element, goofy excite.

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Speaker 4: Oh god, rusty.

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Speaker 1: Well, his range in this episode is awesome because he went end up totally different that sort of goofy beginning yep, and yeah, it's wonderful, so cool.

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Speaker 2: Alan nervously reads off his cards about being a grocer, that he's proud of his job since everyone needs groceries. He says they actually sell dreams, and a student will SD's yells what Isle, What Isle, which is funny.

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Speaker 4: Great, heckl what Isle.

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Speaker 3: So then we continue in Turner's classroom.

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Speaker 2: The speech is now over and Alan is walking around the classroom handing out coupons.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so who didn't who didn't get a coupon? Who didn't get a coupon?

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Speaker 2: He was great, it's so funny, and uh, Turner says that took guts. Corey asks Sean if the presentation was as bad as he thought, and Sean says no, he got sixty cents off of apple jacks, and then Chet Hunter, Sean's dad walks in for the first appearance.

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Speaker 1: Of a tornado.

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Speaker 3: It's all so great.

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Speaker 6: It's such a Nelson thing because it's such a great misdirect. You think it's going to be an episode about how Corey's embarrassed by his dad, and it's going to be the stereotypical he doesn't have the cool job at work and all the story is obviously going one way, and then bam, here comes black and it takes it to a whole different thing. I thought it was really clever the way they set it up. They really thought you were going one way, and then they just throw this.

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Speaker 2: It does.

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Speaker 4: That's what's even that's what's even more amazing about it.

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Speaker 1: It does come back around, yaf but.

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Speaker 7: Blake like a wrecking ball, and it's phenomenal. Oh so good, Yeah, so good. So Chet apologizes for being late. He says he was in the hall smoking. Don't endorse it, don't deny it, don't.

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Speaker 2: Deny it, and he slaps Dusty on the back so hard.

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Speaker 3: It's so great.

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Speaker 2: Cory asks Sean what is DA does for work, and Sean tells him to shush. He wants to find out too, which is amazing. Chet says he doesn't make things or sell food. It's hard to put a finger on what he does, but he mostly buys and sells things. Corey points out that Sean isn't breathing through his speech. You go sorry, sorry, Chet says sometimes he sells a fridge, sometimes a car, but what he sells best selling ideas. He says he even came up with a twenty four hour news station, and Tapega asks, you came up with CNN. He says, yes, that's exactly what I called it, Chet News Network, but he told it to a Southern man in an elevator who stole his idea. He then asks mister Turner his last name, and Turner says, no relation. Really a little Ted Turner jokey. Corey says Sean's dad is something, and Sean agrees, Yeah, he's something. Check continues his dishonest rant and asks everyone who here has a microwave oven. Students raise their hands and Chet then says you're welcome. Uh So, then we're in the school cafeteria. Eric tells Jason he's in the sat zone and all his other senses are shut down and then he drops his bowl of soup on his lap and doesn't notice.

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Speaker 1: And this is biggest laughs we've ever had.

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Speaker 6: I remember this, people loving all this physical stuff, and it was this is also the start of dramatic show going on. Give Eric wacky stuff to do as dramatic show goes on around him.

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Speaker 4: This was like the genesis of that because I remember this. I remember pulling soup into my lap and really there and.

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Speaker 1: I honestly didn't see what happened at first, Like it kind of like boom, and then the audience just kept going yeah, and I was like, what just happened? And it didn't really register for me, Like so I kind of missed it, but.

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Speaker 2: I saw it happen right off the bat. It also missed has been you know. Jensen Cart, producer of this podcast, also missed it.

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Speaker 3: And he was like, wait, what happened?

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Speaker 2: Said he just tipped his whole bowl of soup into his lap, and the audience just I mean, you're right. It's one of the longest audience laughs we've ever heard. It was so funny.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's him giving the dead pan look and still with the bread like there's no soup there. But I'm like, sopping up stuff is so much as the start of just they're going to do. They're going to go act and be dramatic and I'm going to do the wacky stuff. Yeah, which I had especially at the beginning, I had no problem with.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was great.

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Speaker 3: It was kind of like all so funny.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's it's interesting that it is a storyline which now is like the third time about you being bad at school or in school, but.

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Speaker 4: Still they're studying.

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Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, you're trying hard, Yeah, trying to study for the S A T. S. And I know how important they are and and that kind of so it's, yeah, I'm curious to see where the transition, the actual transition is going to be to like, oh, it's he doesn't care about it, just doesn't care.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So Jason tells Eric he spilled soup on his lap, and then Eric says what and then he looks down and starts screaming. Corey nearby is eating with Sean, and he says he envies the son of a baseball player who let the ball go under his legs at the World Series. He's referencing Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner.

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Speaker 4: He is eighty six. Yikes, you can still hear the call.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, But Sean says, Alan, wasn't that bad. Corey asks the Candilope is your friend? And Sean admits that part was bad. But I don't know, guys, Shady Mellon.

00:26:32
Speaker 4: I didn't even think about that.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: Shady Mellon's your friend, Shady Melon is your friend.

00:26:38
Speaker 3: Everybody knows one.

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Speaker 2: Corey says Chet was amazing and told great stories, and Sean says, yeah.

00:26:44
Speaker 3: That's just what they were stories.

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Speaker 2: A student is eating cantalope nearby and says he's eating Allen's best friend, and Corey says he has to transfer. Chet and mister Feoene walk in, Mister Feenie closely following Chet saying Chet is not allowed to be on campus unless he is a student, faculty, your staff, but Chat says he has business on this campus. Chet even tells him he's George Feeney, principal of the high school, which this is a great bit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:27:09
Speaker 2: Feoene obviously has a problem with this, and he tells him he is not George Feeney, and Chet says, I'm parked in his spot, Ain't I so great? Sean then runs over and explains to mister Feenie that Chet is his dad. Feeney backs away and says he's very proud of Sean. Chet says he's surprised to hear that. Mister Feeney says, so am I, and then he leaves. As Peoene leaves, Chet asks Sean if he kissed his mom goodbye this morning, and Sean says yes. Chet says good. That's going to have to last you a while. Chet says she left them and Sean says she'll come back, just like she always does. But Chet says this time is different because she took off and took the house with her, And then he says this great line, that's the problem with having a mobile home.

00:27:49
Speaker 3: It's a.

00:27:51
Speaker 4: You can move it, you can move it.

00:27:53
Speaker 3: Just great.

00:27:53
Speaker 6: Can we talk a little bit about how dark that is that your mom not only leaves you but is taking all of your possessions forget Chet, just Sean taking all of your possessions, the place you've got to live, your bed, everything.

00:28:13
Speaker 4: I'm out. That's super dark.

00:28:16
Speaker 6: I know, I mean it is. It went from the funny stuff in season one of like are my uncle this or my aunt dad?

00:28:23
Speaker 1: Or actually in the trailer park this season?

00:28:25
Speaker 4: Man, is that really what it went? Because now it's like, yikes.

00:28:29
Speaker 1: No, it's it's so it's so interesting, like this is that transition that you know, we've sort of been building towards it, but especially with basically Wrong Side of the Tracks to now it's like this is taking Sean's poverty and family situation which was based you know jokes, like off the jokes and turning them on their head and being like, yeah, what if this was the reality for a kid, and it's great.

00:28:57
Speaker 6: No, I agree, Oh, I think it's awesome, but it is it's it's dark.

00:29:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it's cool and you gotta and and you can only do that when you have somebody like Blake, right, because it's like it's the the ridiculousness and the over the topness of this guy makes that darkness softer or like, yeah, but you know what I mean, like it's it's it's it's okay. It's like you're able to be laughing at it while also still recognizing that that is really awful off.

00:29:27
Speaker 4: But he's the eternal optimist, which is great. You know, he's always the glasses full and invented to glass anyway, so nobody you know, he's that guy, and it's it makes it work, you know.

00:29:36
Speaker 1: So, But I'm curious because we do end up bringing my mom into the show. And who's named Verna? Is that right?

00:29:45
Speaker 6: Because we were talking about how you never saw her and you just it was it was like Vera from Cheers, And when we do, I was like, oh, they actually even named her Vernon similar Yeah, so she Yeah, I don't remember what.

00:29:58
Speaker 1: Season it is. I don't know if it's like fifth or six.

00:30:00
Speaker 4: Or whatever, but it's definitely late.

00:30:01
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:30:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do some dramatic and I think we end up kind of addressing these abandonment yes, yeah.

00:30:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good.

00:30:08
Speaker 6: It gives it gives your character so much more depth. Like god, Blake does just come in like a wrecking ball.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: It's yeah, so great, so good.

00:30:25
Speaker 2: So when Sewn asks what they're gonna do now, Chet says they're going to go after her. Do you still have that keen sense of smell? Sean says he can't just ditch school. He's got to tell somebody. Chet says, okay, but he has to leave before that little mustache man has a duck. On his way out, Chett tells Corey that his dad, the cantelope Man, is good people, mark my word.

00:30:45
Speaker 3: Then he leaves.

00:30:47
Speaker 1: Cory kind of bothered me in the previous seed and then in this one, just a logic point, Chet's not there for rusties.

00:30:55
Speaker 4: No, I thought the same things.

00:30:56
Speaker 6: He's also not there for for Danielle's father, and he's like stuff, and it's like, well, you weren't there for anything.

00:31:04
Speaker 1: But hold on, hold on, stupid point.

00:31:07
Speaker 2: They tried to address it by saying, sorry, I was late. I was actually in the hall having a smoke, so he overheard.

00:31:15
Speaker 3: The whole thing. He over I was in the hall having a smoke, all right, so that.

00:31:20
Speaker 1: You could smoke in a school hallways.

00:31:22
Speaker 3: Of course, not absolutely.

00:31:27
Speaker 4: Right.

00:31:27
Speaker 1: So that way they could reveal the character as a correct but still have reference exactly.

00:31:32
Speaker 2: So he missed I was late, but actually I wasn't in the I was just in the hall having a.

00:31:36
Speaker 4: Smile, because I missed that, and then I was just me too.

00:31:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they did come.

00:31:43
Speaker 2: So Cory asks Sean if he's okay, and Sean pretends like he's fine, and he goes to help his dad, and Corey is left with concerns. And then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Eric and Jason walk in talking about their SATs. Jason is using big s a T words and eventually Eric yells at him to shut up. Alan here's this and asks what's wrong? And Eric says he has a stiffness in his back and all across his shoulders, and Alan tells him, no, I don't remember any of this.

00:32:08
Speaker 3: So funny.

00:32:09
Speaker 4: I remember the burned clothes for some reason.

00:32:11
Speaker 3: I know, because why are your clothes burned?

00:32:13
Speaker 2: But I don't think we ever address it, do Well, you have no idea what's happened to you?

00:32:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think I want to say that that same outfit minus the burns has been worn before, or I owned.

00:32:25
Speaker 4: That exact same right was one of those things.

00:32:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's so funny. So Alan tells him that's because he has a coat a coat hanger in his jacket. No, really, you do, and he pulls out a full coat hanger. This also reveals that all of his clothes are ripped and burned. You like, take off your jacket and we just see your clothes are completely shredded and burned. And it's never explained. And I guess we've really just I don't know so many things. I think the point might be that there are if you're not really paying attention and all your sensoress are gone, there are so many things you could burn yourself on out in the work.

00:33:00
Speaker 4: Just keep getting burned.

00:33:02
Speaker 1: I mean, for the rest of the episode, is going to keep hurting himself and burning himself or electrocuting himself down into trees. And I was thinking, and it's fun I'm just realizing now, Like, so the device is that You're like, you've you're so focused on the SATs that you've lost the ability to like basically function otherwise. Right, But this does become eric and so in a way, I wonder if this episode inaugurated that idea in the writer's minds that you could you're just really funny to watch being ridiculous. So they had this reason for you to be this ridiculous and goofy, and then they just kind of made that your character and just went with it. And it also a lot of it happens off camera, which I thought was interesting, and I feel like in some ways as the show goes on, they brought it on camera, like they you know, it has to sort of start off camera because it's it's kind of cartoony and ridiculous, but eventually you'll just be doing these kinds of antics and physical humor on camera. Yeah.

00:34:05
Speaker 6: Well, I think it's also I think they really like you both said at the beginning, the laugh with the soup was one of the biggest lasts we've gotten. That's not just because I was being super funny. That is because the rest of the episode is You're it's kind of dramatic, so it makes the laughs the goofiness Sharper. So you know, it's it's kind of you see this juxtaposition of the two different storylines of this absurdity and then this almost kind of soap opera drama that's going on next to it, and so I think the writers realize, like, oh, we can get him really sharp laughs, and we can have them sucked into this part of the conversation. And so all of a sudden, it's that that balance between the two and it started to work.

00:34:42
Speaker 4: It just did.

00:34:43
Speaker 6: So it was, yeah, I noticed that as well, but it was it was fun. I mean that's how I looked at it, is like it was it was fun. Put on clothes that are all burned and you're gonna be making loud noises and burning yourself here burn It's like, okay, like that just was goofy.

00:34:57
Speaker 4: I loved it.

00:34:58
Speaker 2: Eric says he's not gonna go to college just like Alan, and Alan says he should go to college just so that eventually, when one day he's at his son's career day, he doesn't have to say he's a grosser. Eric asks, what's the matter, We're all going to die anyway, and Jason responds by saying.

00:35:12
Speaker 3: Well, aren't we nihilistic?

00:35:13
Speaker 2: Some might even say vacuitis showing off his new sat smarts and Eric asks.

00:35:18
Speaker 3: If you're so smart, why don't you understand shut up? Which I thought was very funny.

00:35:23
Speaker 2: Eric says he's going to do well with his street smarts and natural instincts, and then he places his hand on a hot stove and runs upstairs. Amy walks in and asks what happens, and when she finds out, she says, again.

00:35:35
Speaker 1: See, it's starting to establish that it's not just maybe this is just Eric way, you know, like this is where Yeah, yeah, we're getting there.

00:35:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, we might call it that Eric is a little bit clumsy.

00:35:45
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:35:46
Speaker 3: So then we hear Eric.

00:35:47
Speaker 2: From upstairs and Amy says, oh my fault, I left the iron on. Amy asks Alan how career day went, and Alan says he envies the baseball player who let the ball go between his legs at the World Series. Bill Buckner is really getting it rough this episode. So was that the second the second second reference? YEA, they're not going to let him go.

00:36:05
Speaker 4: They are.

00:36:06
Speaker 6: They have now they've all actually forgiven, not only forgiven Buckner, but realize that all they hate towards them was ridiculous. They invited him back to Fenway and.

00:36:13
Speaker 3: Even this big day, he has a nice has.

00:36:15
Speaker 1: A nice guy, like the Cubs fan who caught.

00:36:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, which is another one where you know it's like the team let the lead go. It's not it's not that I mean it was. As a fan, you probably you don't interfere with the thing, but you're also your instinct is to reach up for a foul ball.

00:36:28
Speaker 4: That's what you do as a fan. So it's tough or buckner.

00:36:32
Speaker 2: So Alan says he's boring because of his job, but Amy says that's what he does for work, not all he does. She also says, would I have married you if you were boring? And Alan says apparently. Amy says, I bet Corey is very proud of you and can't wait to tell you.

00:36:47
Speaker 3: Just in time. Corey comes in and asks if Sean called.

00:36:49
Speaker 2: They say no, but they ask why, and Corey explains that his mom took off. Alan and Amy are concerned. The lights flicker and Eric yells again from upstairs. Jason comes running down and tells them everything is fine. Your son is fine. He just needs some ice, and then clearly in a frenzy, he opens up the freezer door and yanks out the entire bin of ice and goes That.

00:37:09
Speaker 4: Was an ad lib from Jay.

00:37:10
Speaker 6: I think at first it was like he goes in there and he grabs some ice and then like runs out with the ice, and then I think another take, he just grabbed the whole thing and got a much bigger laugh. I think that was I think that was Jay.

00:37:19
Speaker 3: That's the way to get Jay.

00:37:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, I love the the second half of this scene, or actually, I just think the scene in general is a great balance. You know, like nice to see Alan and Amy talking to each other about parent feeling scenes. Man, but just also like I love Alan's insecurity and yeah for supporting that. You know, it's nice. It's been a while, yep.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, agree, It's a nice dynamic to see back. And then we're mister Turner's apartment. Turner is on another date with Miss Tompkins. They're getting cozy on the couch. She says they've been dating for three months. She asks where this is going. He tries to get out of answering, and then there's a knock at the door. He tells her he did not plan this, but he's obviously thrilled to be saved by the knock and it's Sean at the door, who has a question. Sean then notices Miss Tompkins and he thinks they're just working late, and then quickly realizes, oh, they're on a date.

00:38:11
Speaker 4: That was a transition beat there, Why teachers, you.

00:38:16
Speaker 3: Are sure we're late? Oh?

00:38:19
Speaker 2: Very cute fun And then Sean apologizes and says he didn't realize they have personal lives, which is also which is so yeah, so real life.

00:38:32
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Miss Tompkins says she'll leave, and Sean says, no, don't. We'll all hang.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: She kisses Turner on the cheek and says we'll talk. Sean comes in and says I like her.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: Do you like her? I like her?

00:38:44
Speaker 2: And Turner asks Sean why he's there and why he's out so late. Sean starts to explain his dad is out looking for his mom, and then asks a pretend random question about Forrest hemingway, of course, and Sean continues to stall and walks around the apartment. Sean sees some food on the kitchen table and he says, wow, you guys were really having a dinner. Turner offers him some leftovers, but Sean says, no, thanks, I already ate, and then as Turner starts to put it away, Sean says, oh, I might just pick at it, and then he starts feverishly.

00:39:13
Speaker 1: Eating in Sean fashion.

00:39:15
Speaker 4: An exact question.

00:39:16
Speaker 6: Do you think Sean went to the apartment wanting to spend the night there, or do you think he just went because he needed to talk to somebody friendly and was going to go back to the motel later, and because he seemed to like the idea of the motel, he seemed to like the idea of the pay per view.

00:39:32
Speaker 4: I mean, do you think he went there with the sole.

00:39:35
Speaker 6: Goal of, like, I want to crash with Turner tonight, like I feel safer with somebody else around.

00:39:40
Speaker 1: I don't think he thought it all that way through, but I think those goals are the same. The immediate the immediate need was, oh, Turner's apartment is right near this hotel. I can walk here, right, I mean, I should go see mister Turner and maybe maybe he has some food, and then you know, and then like, but I don't think Sean's thinking it all the way through, but obviously that's what he really right.

00:40:02
Speaker 4: It's like want in need, what he needed to be obviously.

00:40:06
Speaker 1: Is apparent, and what he wants is more immediate than that, and he's thinking he could just hang out with Turner.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:40:13
Speaker 4: Interesting.

00:40:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, I think it's uh, it's a little like how we've talked about the self awareness certain characters have on Boy Meets World, where it would be a very shan thing to say on the show. I went to Turner's house because I really needed a father figure and I needed somebody who felt like a moral compass and someone to feel grounded. But ultimately, kid logic he had, he just thought he would go there. But deep down, we know, I know.

00:40:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course this scene feels very immediate, it feels very organic, it feels really real, Like, yeah, it's much more meaningful and much more touching that Sean is exhausted and starving and not in any way shape or form presenting is that X you know he's show voting as something else.

00:41:00
Speaker 6: And you and Tony together is just great. It really really great. It's such a good dynamic. The characters work so well together, it is it's phenomenal.

00:41:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, really, this this is so weird. But this is like maybe the first scene that while I was watching it. God, I don't know how to explain, like I saw myself as a kid. M Like, I don't know why, Like obviously I couldn't look at all the other episodes, but I think in when I watched the other episodes, there was something like I was putting myself in my own shoes and like imagining like what it was like to be acting in the scene if I could remember it or if I did. But in this scene, I was like, oh, that that's a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like this, and I just saw myself as this young and maybe because I could see Indy's face on my own face, like because he looks like me, and I could see like there's there's a couple of beats where I just really like, oh my I was young, like this little vulnerable person, and this is the first time I felt that way watching this show.

00:42:02
Speaker 6: Weird.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: Well, mister Turner asks Sean where he's staying until his dad gets back, and Sean said his dad gave him some money for a motel down the street. Turner is concerned by what is alluded to being a shady motel and asks if he's sure he's going to be okay there, Turner says he can stay with him, and Sean says, now, he already paid the guy five dollars to turn.

00:42:20
Speaker 3: On the TV and he gave him clean sheets.

00:42:22
Speaker 2: Turner tells him, well, while you're there, you know, you can come over any time to relax, eat, talk or not talk, just hang out. And as Turner keeps talking and cleaning up, he eventually turns around to notice that Sean has fallen asleep on the couch. Very sweet, touching moment. Turner says, I talk and he sleeps. It's like class, and he half acidly puts a blanket on Sean. And the slow build of Turner as Sean's father figure is just really starting to pay off here.

00:42:51
Speaker 4: It's great. It's a great, great build and a great start to what's going to come.

00:42:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, so nice. And then we're in mister Feene's backyard. Turner is there explaining to Phoenie Sean's current situation. He couldn't just drop him back off at the motel last night. Phoenie asks where Sean is now, and he says, he dropped him off at the Matthew's house. And I love seeing this dynamic of Foenie and Turner concerned.

00:43:15
Speaker 3: Adults, but also Foenie being.

00:43:18
Speaker 2: The person that Turner goes to to talk to him about what's going on. Phoenie obviously knows these kids better than he does. And so just the way it feels, how naturally now Foenie and Turner are a part of this Matthews and Sean Hunter family community. Yeah, this real community of raising these children. Yep, that feels really nice.

00:43:43
Speaker 4: It also makes perfect.

00:43:43
Speaker 6: Sense where he says to him where wereri He's like, well, I just dropped him off the Matthew's house. Like they didn't have to explain why he was there. It's like, of course he'd be there, exactly.

00:43:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was great.

00:43:52
Speaker 2: And then Phoene says Chet should be able to find his way home. Even a pigeon can do that, but Turner needs to be careful about being an authority figure, and he says the line between the two is very fine, and then Alan walks down, I'll.

00:44:03
Speaker 1: Become a big theme of the next season. Right, That's the whole dynamic is.

00:44:09
Speaker 6: Fin And that's and that's genuinely a thing that matters when you're when you're a teacher. I mean, that's a that's a huge thing, is that there is that line, Am I getting too involved in somebody's life?

00:44:18
Speaker 4: And yeah, really.

00:44:19
Speaker 2: Well it's a it's a fine line really if you think about it, any relationship an adult has with a child, there should it's a fine line between you know, because I noticed it as a director, like, I want to be there for the actors that are a lot of times kids on the show, but I also can't be involved in too much of your personal life and your personal drama because you know it is it blurs.

00:44:41
Speaker 4: The line blurs.

00:44:43
Speaker 2: So those blurred lines between adults who have relationships whatever those different types of relationships are, with kids. There's it's always a fine line of not crossing crossing a boundary because it's very easy to cross over one. It's very hard to ever put the boundary back up. Once a boundary has been knocked over, it's much harder build the barrier again. So Alan walks out with the trash and Turner thanks him again for coming on career day, and Alan says, no problem anytime. If those kids ever get routy, I'll just come on in and sedate them. And then Amy walks out and says Alan needs to come back inside because Chet Hunter is at their house. Turner asks if it's okay for him to join. He has some things he wants to say to Chet and they make their way into the house. Phoene quickly calls Turner back, and he says to tread softly. And then we're in Corey and Eric's room. Corey and Sean are throwing a ball back and forth, and Sean says he's staying at a motel and invites Corey over to skateboard in the pool and watch cable.

00:45:44
Speaker 3: Have you ever talked about it?

00:45:46
Speaker 2: I know, before I even got to that funny joke about the cable, have we ever talked about you guys skateboarding?

00:45:56
Speaker 1: Nope?

00:45:57
Speaker 3: No, Suddenly you guys are skateboarding in a pool. So you're like in a half pipe.

00:46:02
Speaker 4: So you're good, You're really good.

00:46:05
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:46:05
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, okay, So Cory says, no, we have cable here, kid thing.

00:46:10
Speaker 1: Actually yeah, now I guescape everybody's skateboards. But back then, like California kids skateboard. It know about Philly kids, especially not in empty pools.

00:46:18
Speaker 2: But yeah, so Cory says, we have cable here, and Sean says not like this.

00:46:25
Speaker 1: We recently discovered that Indy did not know what channels were. What, Yeah, why would he know what a channel is?

00:46:32
Speaker 4: Don't channel on YouTube?

00:46:33
Speaker 6: Isn't it?

00:46:34
Speaker 7: Don't?

00:46:34
Speaker 4: Ever? Doesn't everyone have their own YouTube?

00:46:35
Speaker 1: Chan?

00:46:38
Speaker 4: That was what all kids watch with YouTube?

00:46:40
Speaker 1: No, he wants to, but we we act like we'll only go to YouTube to look. I will not let him watch YouTube. No, he doesn't know what a channel is. And when we had to explain that it's something that's just airing and you have to choose whether to watch it or not. And then yeah, got into this whole discussion about broadcast television and then and then I was like, and then K came in. He's like, and then you could pick what shows to watch? Him like, No, no, No, that's all that meant. You had like forty channels, you didn't care about three you did? He could not, and we wanted. We had like a forty five minute conversation about like the evolution of television, and then he was blown away to discover that basically, like right before he was born was when you could actually just pick something and watch it at any time.

00:47:26
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's so still.

00:47:28
Speaker 1: Pick your show, pick your movie, any content you want, you can download like that didn't exist until.

00:47:33
Speaker 2: You'll still say, by the way, though, like watching something on streaming. If Adler goes, Mom, I don't want to watch the show, I'll say, okay, you want me to change the channel? Like I still I'll still say it's we're changing the channel. But really, then I'm like, so what do you want to watch? And name anything, name a thing, anything, I'll find it.

00:47:49
Speaker 3: I'll get it for you. So funny.

00:47:51
Speaker 2: So Corey says Sean can't live in a motel, and Sean says, why not, at least it can't drive away. Corey says he could stay with him their friends, and Sean says Corey doesn't have to worry about him. Just then Check calls for Sean to come downstairs, and Sean is excited, See my dad is back.

00:48:07
Speaker 3: Everything's great.

00:48:09
Speaker 4: I love it.

00:48:09
Speaker 6: I just very quickly loved the just that very quick beat between you and and Ben because I thought it was it wasn't about it had nothing to do with Corey and Sean, because Sean understands, like, I just want you to know I'm always with your friend, and you were like very earnestly like no, I know, like, I know you're there for me. It says nothing to do with you right now, and I know you'll always be there for me.

00:48:27
Speaker 4: It was really nice.

00:48:28
Speaker 1: And I love this episode for the fact that it doesn't become about Corey right, doesn't make it about himself. It seems a concern for his friend and he can still play a part of it. But it's not you know, it's.

00:48:41
Speaker 2: Not how he can also still recognize how his situation is different and why he still notices, Wow, my parents are reliable.

00:48:50
Speaker 1: And he still has the ending beat, which is so wonderful exactly, so he still has a character arc. It's just not selfish.

00:48:57
Speaker 6: It's just not like and I love that was great. You just kind of that like, no, we're good. I know you're my friend. I know you're always there if I need you, Like yeah, And.

00:49:05
Speaker 1: Storyline wise, you don't need this scene right right right as far as like the a storyline goes, you don't need this scene. So this is the first thing to go. And I think it's to our show's credit, to our writer's credit, that they make sure that you have this important grounding beat where like this, this friendship is not going anywhere yeah, yeah, and that Corey is there for him, and Sean is there for Corey.

00:49:28
Speaker 4: You know, it's just yeah, it's great.

00:49:29
Speaker 1: It's great.

00:49:31
Speaker 2: It's also really nice too that it helps set up that Sean, a kid who has been let down over and over and over again, still doesn't see it coming. That he still has the optimism that the minute his dad is there, he goes, see, it's fine, my dad's mad, everything's great, he says.

00:49:51
Speaker 3: And so at that.

00:49:52
Speaker 6: Age, I think you're still hoping. It's you can't think that badly about your parents.

00:49:59
Speaker 1: I don't think it's at that age. I think it's all your life.

00:50:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think better, you know.

00:50:05
Speaker 1: But the people I know who have been like severely let down by a parent, even in their forties, are still hoping that parent.

00:50:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's I think there's more of a realization of knowing that it's not going to happen.

00:50:15
Speaker 4: But yes, they are.

00:50:16
Speaker 1: Still conscious realization, but emotionally they're still stuck in that whatever age it was when they're hoping that their parents.

00:50:23
Speaker 4: It's probably true.

00:50:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody I know who's yeah, it's it sucks. I mean, that's that's what's so hard about these things happening to children, right, Yeah, it gets and and and a parent. It's just it imprints so and if that parent imprints uh an abandonment. Man, that's really hard.

00:50:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, this this is tough. This whole storyline gets very real, very quickly.

00:50:46
Speaker 3: Yes it does.

00:50:48
Speaker 2: And then we're in the Matthews living room. Chet thanks Turner for taking care of Sean. The most important thing is that my boy is safe and being looked after. Sean asks Chet if you found mom and Chet says, yes, but she gave me the slip again. We have to respect that and that's why he's here. And Sean says, I thought, I'm why you're here, and Chet says he respects Adam, And you know, he just calls Alan Adam and Chet asks Alan for a favor because his wife is out there and she has his heart and also his wallet, his keys, and his major credit cards.

00:51:20
Speaker 1: He's got like.

00:51:21
Speaker 4: One speech after another. Blake has just got like monologue, monologue, monogue, and he's splitting attention. He's going over here, and then he's going over there, and then he's going over there.

00:51:29
Speaker 6: It's a really great performance for somebody who's never been on the show before.

00:51:32
Speaker 4: Who is stepping into a role like this. He really nails this.

00:51:36
Speaker 2: It's also so well written because you get this character, and not only do you get the character, but you somehow love the character.

00:51:50
Speaker 3: He is doing this awful thing. You're rooting for him.

00:51:57
Speaker 1: A lesser writing staff or a lesser writer would just make Check a villain, right, like, just make him the easy bad dad stereotype of some sort of layers. But instead you love Chet and and so you're you're in the same position as Sean where you want to like this guy and you don't, you know, you want to let him off the hook.

00:52:21
Speaker 2: You also are having the same optimism Sean has, which is this is going to work out right, You're going to do the right thing, right, like.

00:52:31
Speaker 4: Really well written, really well acted. It just worked. Yeah, it was great.

00:52:35
Speaker 2: It's really great. So he asks Alan to take care of Sean, and Corey likes that idea. Turner says Chet should probably ask his son what he thinks, and Sean says he's okay with it, But then Sewn also asks why he can't just go with his dad, and again it's one of those just heartbreaking moments where you realize like he would give up everything. Sean would give up everything just to be with his dad. I have to sleep under I have to sleep in a trash can, under a bridge, doesn't matter. I'd be with you. Leave my best friend like I don't care. You're my home is what he's saying. And it's just so painful. So Chet says no, he needs to stay back and go to school. Chet says it'll only be a couple of weeks and he will call in every night. Amy and Alan tell Sean that he is more than welcome to stay with them, and Chet is thankful for these fine people. Jason and Eric then walk in and Eric has a nosebleed. Eric asks how long that tree has been out there, and Chet says, come on, Sean, let's go get you a toothbrush and a new shirt before he leaves town. And he also asks Corey just to clarify, your name's Corky, right, which again he now doesn't know any of these people well enough, even though they are the most important people outside of mom and dad to Sean, and Corey is very excited to have Sean stay, and Alan make sure that Chet is coming back in a couple of weeks, and Chet says even Texas women couldn't keep me from coming back here.

00:54:06
Speaker 6: And then Random's assortment of words that's actually very Funny's going to have a duck.

00:54:14
Speaker 4: That's also that delivery. When he's got that kind of you know.

00:54:18
Speaker 3: I've heard of it, he's going to have it.

00:54:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, they're great, the heart of duck great.

00:54:29
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:54:30
Speaker 2: Everyone leaves, and Turner tells Alan that Chet was right about one thing. Alan is a good man. And now, in this moment is when I realized, what did Turner want to say to Chet other than the line where he said, shouldn't you ask your son what he thinks about this? Turner never, Turner doesn't actually address I.

00:54:49
Speaker 4: Thought that same thing.

00:54:50
Speaker 6: And then the way I rationalized it in my mind is he said, I've got some things I want to say to that man, and he was pissed. And as he's getting there, that's when Phoene says, be very careful, don't cross the line. So I think it, you know, he auto, you know, course corrected in his mind.

00:55:06
Speaker 2: What he was going to say, could be that what he was going to say was listen, man, you can't ever do that again.

00:55:11
Speaker 3: Don't just leave your son.

00:55:12
Speaker 2: And then when he walked in the news was I'm leaving my son, and so he realized like, oh, this is a person who that message is not done exactly done.

00:55:21
Speaker 1: Deal.

00:55:21
Speaker 4: It's funny I thought that same thing where it was like he didn't actually address him.

00:55:24
Speaker 2: But yeah, so now alone, Corey thanks Alan for coming to career day, but he left out the most important thing, all of the stuff he does after work for his friends and his family. And Corey says he thought he was the son of a grocer, but he really is the son of his father.

00:55:41
Speaker 4: Very sweet, I know, amazing.

00:55:44
Speaker 1: It's an incredible line, it's an incredible beat. And then Rusty's reaction is so not gal I know, it's just so you and it's just like boom, I got you, dude, and like, yeah, oh this is like one of my favorite endings of ever.

00:55:59
Speaker 3: Agreed. It's so beautiful.

00:56:01
Speaker 2: He snacks him on the belly, yes, which he is so much, such a better reaction than a I'm gonna have a I'm gonna cry.

00:56:11
Speaker 6: It's so beautiful. He's got the typical sitcom music behind me, like all that. They didn't do any of that. It was just a father and son, awesome moment together yep.

00:56:22
Speaker 3: They shake hands.

00:56:23
Speaker 2: Basically they do a little high five hand shaky thing and it's the end of the episode and just beautiful. So we're in the tag in the school cafeteria. Eric and Jason are eating and talking with all their sat vocabulary words.

00:56:36
Speaker 6: Eric, we're talking. We're not actually eating, but pushing the pushing the food push. A lot of big words, a lot of big words. No, no actual bites, but a lot of big words.

00:56:45
Speaker 2: Eric is starting to feel confident with the test and he's healing and he's getting all of his senses back, and Jason admits he's now worried about the math section. Eric is terrified. He didn't realize there was a math section. Jason says it's half the test. Eric says half, so what like.

00:57:05
Speaker 1: Right there?

00:57:05
Speaker 3: Absolutely that could.

00:57:06
Speaker 1: Have just just got it because I killed me.

00:57:09
Speaker 3: It was so funny. And then Eric starts to panic.

00:57:13
Speaker 2: He gets up out of his seat and fully throws his lunch right on to mister Feenne. Again we get another big food gag joke, and mister Fane is.

00:57:22
Speaker 1: Just it's just not that great because it's like preset food on Phoenix.

00:57:25
Speaker 4: And also, if you notice, because Sue even said.

00:57:28
Speaker 6: Susan even said, as we were watching, She's like, was there spaghetti on your plate?

00:57:33
Speaker 4: I didn't even see that.

00:57:34
Speaker 6: So we went back and looked. No, there was, but it wasn't mixed with all the salt and everything, the sauce and everything. So it was like it went from being a white pasta with just a meatball on top to then being fully coated spaghetti all over the Yea, this.

00:57:47
Speaker 1: Went down clean. I think that that Michael and the team were like, we can't throw food at Bill Daniels, and so they just assumed, or do you think Bill was like, you're not throwing.

00:57:57
Speaker 3: Food at me. I don't think it has anything to me to do. This is to throw food, and the problem is it's not going to stick.

00:58:03
Speaker 2: It would hit him and fall straight down, So it wouldn't be enough of a.

00:58:07
Speaker 1: Directed many episodes with Michael Jacobs, that would not have stopped him. He would have insisted that we can do it live, and every time we had food or slime or anything on Girl Meets World, I had to actually try and make it happen. He would never let me do slime because the point the comedy comes from watching it happen. So whether it sticks or not. He would have been we have to do it lot.

00:58:33
Speaker 2: No, you're right, because it would have been funnier. The funny The reveal of him covered in it is not as funny as watching somebody get hit with it, even if it doesn't stick. So I don't know, maybe he wasn't as big of a maybe this is when he learned it.

00:58:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is either Bill saying, uh, you you're not gonna throw food, or I think my take is that they preemptively were like, we can't throw, we can't throw it.

00:58:55
Speaker 4: Must we have to.

00:58:56
Speaker 1: We have to just get him a pre made suit that hasn and have a beer review.

00:59:00
Speaker 2: You're watching the moment when Michael Jacobs learned you cannot do it, you have to do it live, and that this is a moment where he was like, yeah, let's do that. That sounds fine, let's pre set it. It'll be great. And that's not funny. It's not funny. It's not funny.

00:59:14
Speaker 3: I'm never doing that again.

00:59:15
Speaker 1: It's not as funny.

00:59:16
Speaker 3: And so now let's pay attention if we ever see it again.

00:59:19
Speaker 1: See, we've already done food and water fights and stuff, and we've all and it's always been live like, we've already done that on our show, and it's already been like, you know, you have to see it. The pie has to hit the face, right, We'll just show like, yeah.

00:59:36
Speaker 3: Well there we go.

00:59:37
Speaker 2: All right, So mister Feenie says, I hate sat Time and that is the end of our episode.

00:59:44
Speaker 3: So, I mean, what a great.

00:59:48
Speaker 2: Episode, one of our best, I think, one of the best, one of my favorites.

00:59:55
Speaker 3: Coming in.

00:59:57
Speaker 4: Strong. Yeah, Blake coming in strong, coming in strong.

01:00:01
Speaker 6: Tony Quinn and and you know DeShawn and mister Turner stuff coming in strong.

01:00:06
Speaker 4: It is. It's a great episode.

01:00:09
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