TGI - Episode 301 “My Best Friend’s Girl”

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Speaker 1: So we're here, we've arrived at season three.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys remember the hiatus between season two and season three?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this would have been summer of ninety five.

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Speaker 1: Right, I guess. So, So what did you do?

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Speaker 3: I took my first college class. It was a great summer, it was. Yeah. I took intro to philosophy at the at the Santa Rosa Junior College. And my brother's friend Nate was also you guys remember Nate Brewer. Yea, he was also taking classes. He was taking math classes at the JC. So we would commute together to the junior college carpool together and every day. Yeah, it just blew my mind. It was like, oh my god. It was like my first intro introduction to college and like writing papers and I loved it. And every yeah, every afternoon we'd finish up with the class and then we you know, listen to the pulp fiction soundtrack while we drove home. It was it was amazing. Yeah, it was a great summer, great summer up in Sebastaball.

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Speaker 1: What about you will?

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Speaker 4: I'm actually googling what I did because I did a movie every every hiatus, and I think this is the one. Yes, I did a movie called Educating Mom. Oh where with Jane Kasmerrick who went on to Starr and Malcolm in the Middle. She played my mom and it's about her going back to high school with me. I have never seen it. I think it was an ABC Movie of the Week, but it was a movie of the week. I just googled it. It is on Turner Classic Movies. Great, Yes, but I did. I did a film every hiatus, so I would I would you something and then go hang out back in Connecticut for a while. So yeah, I did Educating Mom with janekes Merrick and Devin Gummersaul and then uh yeah, I went home.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. I don't remember, of course, no, nope, don't remember, no clue. Definitely went to Hawaii.

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Speaker 2: Definitely went to Maui. But you know, that's a whole week of my life. I also went back to school, So from March until June, I would have gone to Calabasas High School and I would have participated there, and then you know, probably sometime in June or July we went to Hawaii and then we were back at the show in August, so that would have.

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Speaker 4: Been didn't the Menendez brothers go to Calabasas High Sure did, That's what I thought. Okay, that's curious.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not the most sad hubastank Okay, he's good.

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Speaker 4: I like him, so did.

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Speaker 2: Let's see, I could tell you who else? Vanessa Evigan went to Calabasas High School?

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Speaker 4: Okay, who is?

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Speaker 1: Who is Gabby?

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Speaker 4: Isn't that Greg Evigan's daughter? Who?

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Speaker 1: Gabby Hoffman went to Calabasas High School? At least period of time.

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Speaker 2: She brought Christina Riccie with her for at least a little while. Christina and Gabby and I were all in an English class together.

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Speaker 4: Okay, who outs?

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Speaker 1: Who else?

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Speaker 3: I just remember Christina ricci swimming at the Oak Woods and she had a tattoo at the when she was our age. But we were like kids in a pool and we were like school from Mermaids and she had a tattoo already at the end.

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Speaker 4: She was like twelve, yes, she was young.

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Speaker 3: Man wow oh yeah, Like apparently the story was that she had gotten a tattoo with chaer like when she was on Mermaids or whatever way back. So she was tiny. But I don't know if that's true or not. But we definitely noticed that while we were swimming in the pool. So I had to be first season a boy because I was was not at the oak Woods after that, so I was thirteen, so she would have been thirteen or twelve. She had a tattoo.

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Speaker 4: Wow, like cool, I guess.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: So we're here.

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Speaker 2: Season three, Episode one, My Best Friend's Girl At originally aired September twenty second, nineteen ninety five. The synopsis is that it's the first day of school after summer break, and Corey is fixated on but terrified of asking out to Panga. Eric starts a film society for his college resume, and the school thugs get Involved. It was directed by John Tracy, was written by Jeff Sherman. It guest stars Blake Soaper as Joseph Joey, the rat Epstein Ethan Sipple is Frankie Stacchino, and introducing Alex de Sayer as Eli Williams.

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Speaker 1: He was here, he's here.

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Speaker 2: He was coming off his role in the hit movie Swingers. And special guest Britney Murphy as trainee. Yeah, so we have a bran new opening. Looks like it's the Shole Show.

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Speaker 5: I totally forgot ever existed me to remember this existed, But I swear I would have bet all the money in my pockets that I've never heard this theme song before in my life.

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Speaker 4: I'd never heard that music ever. I don't know how so music.

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Speaker 1: Was actually more familiar to me than the opening.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember the opening, but I did, really I thought, you know, in that it must have been season two. Yeah, the turnaround where at the end it's just the three of you guys together, and we loved that feeling so much. I was like, we must not have been the only ones who loved that feeling, And they decided, let's for season three.

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Speaker 1: This is what we want to give off that.

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Speaker 4: It felt like.

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Speaker 1: This is like three dudes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird because we're not the three of us probably never hang out, Like, no, I don't see it this. Yeah, it's such a bizarre but it does kind of make sense. Though the show has certainly had a male perspective.

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Speaker 4: It's you know, it's boys in the title.

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Speaker 3: It's boys in the title. Yeah, so I guess it makes sense to just put the three of us together.

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Speaker 4: I remember feeling really good. I remember being like, wow, it's I'm in the opening title sequence. It's just it's not just Corey and Sean. It's like they're asking me to be in the opening title sequence. This is this is good. I remember thinking to myself like, Okay, this is good. But remember shooting it.

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Speaker 3: It's so I think it's so telling that Topango is not a part of it yet, do you know what I mean? Like, you would never do anything Boy meates World after all seven seasons without it being Corey in de Bank. We couldn't have just a Korean and Sean or Korean like but Corey and Tapanga. It becomes so foundational for the show, but clearly not yet. Like the DNA of the show has not included.

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Speaker 2: Correct also removal of any sort of real family. I mean, obviously Correy and Eric are brothers, but like as far as they're including a parental.

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Speaker 3: Older hanging out and bringing guy out on your focus on the twenty somethings with Tony and.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and did you notice the rider that your hair was really short? And then you cut to the first scene and your hair is really long.

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Speaker 3: Well that means I must cut it pretty soon, which has.

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Speaker 4: To be right, because this is awful but not great. But they when do we? I don't remember when we shot the opening title sequence because.

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Speaker 3: Or four episodes and when they finally were like, it's cut your hair.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, please cut your hair, buddy. It's really quite a change. So we to jump into our recap. We are in mister Turner's apartment. Corey enters. He's out of breath and much older looking and with the deep voice and a deep voice. And where he's in Turner's apartment where Sean is now comfortably living. Corey is there to grab Sean for school. You're still wearing the same T shirt right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I know this is shirt.

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Speaker 1: This is where new season, same shirt.

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Speaker 2: Writer's hair is so long. And also Jensen caught what he believes is a magic the Gathering card.

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Speaker 3: Which is such a good catch. I'm not it has to be a larger magic the gathering larger someone blew. But somebody may have taken a magic that and blown it up to put it on there as like.

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Speaker 2: A little yeah, a little. First of all, it's smart. It should there should Turner's apartment should look changed by the fact that Sean now lives there. There should be remnants of Sean kind of everywhere.

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Speaker 4: So am I getting you? Am I getting too technical and nitty nitpicky? If I say, how does Sean still have his shirt? If his mother took all his clothes in his house?

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Speaker 6: Wow?

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Speaker 4: So that's what my head is.

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Speaker 3: The one that he was says that he gets the trailer back.

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Speaker 4: He says he found it, but he didn't say what. But he wouldn't traded it into.

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Speaker 1: She traded it.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if he got his stuff back at that point, And.

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Speaker 1: Because actually what they said is did you find your wife?

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Speaker 2: And he says no, I mean, yes, I found her, but she had traded it in for the miata. So I wonder if he even maybe but will that's a good I didn't even think about that. Yeah, but maybe maybe he did. Get the trailer back he found the stuff, so Sean thinks his pizza smell bad, but it turns out it's Corey who realizes he is wearing too much cologne. He spins around to try and lessen the stench. Sean notices the cologne and nice clothes and says, oh, it's Wednesday, T day. Tapanga is back from her summer trip. Corey is stoked. Sean says, you're gonna ask her to be your girlfriend?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: And I what? What?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 1: What? I'm sorry? What what?

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Speaker 4: I That's what I said too? Like really what? Yes?

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Speaker 1: It's why it hasn't been earned it.

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Speaker 3: All at all. I think it's been earned. I think unfortunately we just ended second season on such the Sean storyline that this feels weird. But if you actually think about most of the second season, like the when Ben had Finals, episode ends with you know, you guys talking about liking each other? Are you liking him? And then the the thriller No there were another I feel.

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Speaker 2: Like there's the one where I'm interviewing for the thing and you realize I like him, and I'm like how dare.

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Speaker 3: You gestall prayer? The Gestal's one is about you guys sort of connecting.

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Speaker 4: The end too, It's like and no, and then it's like I've been thinking about her the whole time and all my and he's already obsessed, and it's like, where the hell did that come?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 1: I feel like, what's the rush? What is the rush here?

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Speaker 2: Could we not spend one, maybe maximum two episodes of kind of watching them fall in love, like watching her come back from some the trip and it's and then all of a sudden, he's like wow and we can kind of see it. I feel like, yes, you're right, writer, it doesn't it's not it's not like it comes out of left field, like what do they like each other? We've definitely acknowledged that there are feelings there, but I feel like this is a real Now I'm supposed to care very much that these two get together, and instead I'm like, wait, I missed the part where they actually really like that.

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Speaker 3: You have to start somewhere where you have to start the season or start with your character with a goal like they have. Your protagonist needs to want something. And I think it's great because like last season it was being ready for high school and it was all about the first day of school and like having this plan that you know there is not going to work. And I think with this, it's like I've got Corey's coming with the plan, and my plan is the peng is gonna be my girlfriend. I'm going to make that happen.

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Speaker 4: Like I thought it was fun, Yeah, it seemed like another network note, Like there's always that Seinfeld You hear the Seinfeld story where they're like, hey, we want to pick up your show, but you have to get you have to get Elaine and Jerry together, and like we didn't want to do that. It's like, well then maybe we won't pick up your show. It's like, okay, then we'll try to get them dating. That's what it seemed like to me. It seemed like this started with a network note of we're aging up the show. We want to focus on the boys, so make the boys the opening title sequence, and it's got to be Corey and Topanga, and it seemed like, all right, then let's just jump into everything. It just seemed like a big network note to me.

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Speaker 2: I get it from the story perspective of you know, needing to have him be the drive for something.

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Speaker 1: But I feel a little like I want to, I.

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Speaker 2: Want to root for this, and I felt a little like, oh, I, I guess I just have to because you're telling me I have to, as opposed to and as opposed to really feeling it earned.

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Speaker 1: But I do.

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Speaker 3: I do see you because it has to be.

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Speaker 2: The same way I had dropshot going into the beginning of season two, and then all of a sudden, I just acclimated now that they're together, I'm just going to acclimate to it. This for this first episode, when I've been waiting for well, what is it? What happens, It's like, Oh, it just happens.

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Speaker 3: Happens.

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Speaker 1: It's a little like, well, I was hoping for a little a little bit more than that book.

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Speaker 2: That's fine, so Corey says, he hopes. She says, yes, but they're going to be late for school. His voice is very deep.

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Speaker 4: It is time for school time.

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Speaker 3: Sean said, well, now I kind of want to hear it.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's so very All of a sudden, He's like, Sean, what it's Yeah, he definitely it was a change, weird, Sean.

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Speaker 2: Sean says being late for school is no longer a problem for him because he has a teacher roommate and then says John and asks him for a late slip.

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Speaker 1: Turner enters and.

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Speaker 2: Says, niceself it met yous job interviews. Turner says he will write a late slip, but then he just writes no way on a piece of paper and.

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Speaker 4: Joke, Ben missed a joke here. He missed a joke, so it should have been and not to give Ben a reading, but it should exactly he should be reading going no way. Wait what did he write? Not no way, no way? It was he needed to say it like no way, like I can't believe what Turner's writing. Way, Yeah, and he did write and it was just like, oh Ben, mister.

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Speaker 1: Joke, you're right. Listen. If I can give a note to Bill Daniels.

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Speaker 4: Exactly, I can give one.

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Speaker 1: You can start season three like that.

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Speaker 2: But then he says, if Sean's butt is not in his seat for homeroom, there's no TV, no snacks, no dates. Sean is shocked to hear snacks, and Turner admits he's new at this.

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Speaker 3: I beat. That's that dynamic between the duo us of like the end of season two, sitting on the couch together.

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Speaker 4: Ye.

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Speaker 3: I love Sean just being like, really snacks.

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Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to eat snacks, and it's.

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Speaker 4: Like I'm learning this as I go. Give me a break here. It's great.

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Speaker 1: It's so great.

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Speaker 2: The boys start to walk out, and Turner asks if Sean is forgetting something because he's about ready to walk out in his bathrobe. And I tried to see, but I couldn't really see if you had shoes on.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think you do. I can okay.

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Speaker 2: I would say you walked out with your big white socks on, and then later we see you with the boots on. So uh. Sean then says, oh yeah, and he turns around to grab his books before he leaves in a robe.

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Speaker 1: And I actually really like the outfit with the rope.

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Speaker 6: Great.

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Speaker 4: Great, didn't this look cool?

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Speaker 3: Cool outfit?

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Speaker 1: I mean it was cool.

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Speaker 2: So then we're into our first commercial break, and then we're at the school hallway.

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Speaker 1: Corey says it's a new year.

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Speaker 6: Knew me.

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Speaker 2: He even says he now has a spring and his step from boxer shorts just boys in their boxers. Sean points out to Panga in the hallway, but Cory steps behind to John Adams statue. He pretends it's not because he's hiding and nervous, but he is definitely nervous and hiding. Cory can't stop staring at Topanga. He says, she went away for the summer and she came back a woman, and Sean says, yeah, so did Coach Franklin. But that's another story.

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Speaker 4: And then almost broke and then you almost broke it. Yeah, go back and watch you and Ben yep, yes you did. You almost broke on Coach Franklin.

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Speaker 3: I didn't notice that. I was actually I was surprised that we were just playing. We just like to have the joke and just played it straight and like and I liked that. I was like, oh, we just Coach Franklin came back a movement and you.

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Speaker 4: You get the you do the you do the Shawn Mouth turned the upturn in.

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Speaker 1: A little upturn.

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Speaker 2: Sean says, Corey just needs to walk up to her, and Seawan says, we have went over and over and over this, just go up to her, oscar to go steady, which I love the idea that were we still saying steady in ninety five or was that a hang?

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Speaker 1: Was that a holdover from our writers.

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Speaker 4: Probably hold it, but it is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, what did we say, will you go?

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Speaker 4: Will you go?

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Speaker 1: Will you go out with me?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I say go out? I was will you go? They're going to really go?

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Speaker 4: We said go out?

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Speaker 1: We said go out? Yeah, I said go out. Yeah, they're going out.

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Speaker 4: They're going out exactly out there.

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Speaker 1: I've been going out with them for about a month.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: How long have you been going out too?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay yeah.

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Speaker 2: Uh nearby and now blonde and very hot hottie Hotter Hotterson's Eric is putting up posters and accidentally staples.

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Speaker 1: To leave to the wall. Will you came back? Like a smoke show?

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Speaker 4: Your hair is just glorious, It's very righteous.

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Speaker 3: Your gorgeous this whole episode.

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Speaker 4: I've also put on a little bit of weight, which I think is better better, And and I felt the second I staple the thing and I say hey, all right, no skin, I felt like I was completely comfortable in the character. Yes, like I something whatever had happened between season two and season three, I feel like I will never have that moment of ooh, I feel out of my body again, Like I feel like I'm just there now, which is great for me. I was like oh there it is. Well.

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Speaker 1: What I love about this episode is that.

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Speaker 2: It really starts to set up the Eric as a like lovable heart of Gold guy, like well meaning heart of gold guy, and there there it is actually so much of a will real Wilfredell.

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Speaker 4: I think, really, that's very sweet. Nice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like it's a it's a very I don't know you. I agree with you though. You look very comfortable and you are.

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Speaker 1: Just He's arrived.

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Speaker 2: So Phoene walks up and asks the new president of the Film Society how's he doing?

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Speaker 1: And Eric says, why am I doing this again?

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Speaker 2: Phoene tells him extracurriculars look good on college applications, and Eric asks, are my grades really not good enough to get me into college?

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Speaker 1: And Phoene says his creeds aren't good enough to get him.

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Speaker 2: A slurpy get him a slurpy, which even though makes no logical sense because how do grades ever get you a slurpe?

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Speaker 1: I love the joke, I do too, great.

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Speaker 4: Joke, A great work, very fine, and they're totally setting up Eric and Feenie. Now, yeah, I love it. It's it's the dynamic is here. They're starting to partner everybody up.

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Speaker 1: I love the dynamic. Yet Eric wants to get into college.

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Speaker 2: He cares very much, but he's not necessarily good enough on his own, and that Peene really wants to help him.

00:19:25
Speaker 1: That is a very I'm I'm invested in.

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Speaker 4: That story me too.

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Speaker 2: Eric says he can't believe he has to show Paint Your Wagon a cowboy musical. No one is going to come see it, and Feenie admits it's Coach Franklin's favorite. And I don't understand how why is.

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Speaker 1: This a joke? Did I miss something? I don't understand how Coach Franklin ties into.

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Speaker 3: This at all, because I guess it's they.

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Speaker 2: Just wanted to remind everybody about Coach Franklin because we say it a time later.

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's because it's a musical. Being trans with being transgender would like singing Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Right over my head, right over my E did.

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Speaker 4: Not understand it, didn't It doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:20:14
Speaker 2: Eric wants to show a movie where people get slashed and goured and disemboweled, something with a story Phoenix's Horror Movies with violent and twisted characters have no place on a high school campus.

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Speaker 1: And perfectly timed.

00:20:25
Speaker 2: Frankie and Joey are holding a kid upside down and the coins make a loud noise, catching their attention. Joey pretends the kid swallowed his lunch money and Frankie was helping out by giving him the floor lick maneuver. They are so having so much fun. This whole episode.

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Speaker 4: Is adam gone, like my question, No, Griff, right, this.

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Speaker 2: Is the season where there's the episode with Danny and grand Yes, I don't know time, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I don't.

00:20:52
Speaker 2: I think that isn't the only time, because I think that rounds out all of Griff's episodes, because this is.

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Speaker 3: So interesting that now they've clearly decided they can have right Ethan and Blake without a leader, without a thug. Yeah, you know, but I wonder how much of that is a budget concern, you know, because we brought alex Is now a regular, Danielle, are you a regular at this point?

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Speaker 1: Must have been yeah, yeah, I'm a regular at this point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I feel like, you know, they must have chosen to bring in the Eli character and then get rid of the sort of thug leader.

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Speaker 2: Anybody, Well, talking about budget, I'll guess I'll just bring it up now, even though I have it in my notes for later. But Rusty had finals this week. There's no Rusty is he not that that's right, He's not even in this He's not in the episode.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even notice that.

00:21:41
Speaker 2: So you know, Rusty was busy studying and they had to pay him.

00:21:47
Speaker 4: He's got finals final.

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Speaker 1: Rusty had finals this week, guys, So.

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Speaker 4: You wonder if Rusty was working. Rusty wasn't relegated to he.

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Speaker 3: Might have had another job. He must have. They probably were like, we can, we can do without you for an episode or two.

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Speaker 4: Because it's right at the beginning of the season, and that's normally how they did that for me a couple of times.

00:22:06
Speaker 3: I think they did it for you writer in American history.

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Speaker 4: Ext Yah, he might.

00:22:10
Speaker 3: It was only one scene and it only took one day.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, but no, he was. He was doing something. I'm sure. Yeah.

00:22:16
Speaker 2: Well, mister Feenie says he's going to see them in detention, and Frankie asks why what you do?

00:22:21
Speaker 1: Which is so cute.

00:22:22
Speaker 4: It's a great line.

00:22:23
Speaker 1: Great line.

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Speaker 3: Ye.

00:22:25
Speaker 2: Sean and Corey against the lockers are still staring at Tapanga and Sean says she's looking very fine, very copper tone, and then Corey finally starts to walk up to her and calmly says, Hi.

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Speaker 3: Now, did you guys see this weird shadow drip? Did you see what happened? There's like something falls from the ceiling when he walks away from me and I'm leaning back against the locker, you see something. I watched it like three times. I can't tell if it's a shadow of something, but it's just a weird like like something falls from the ceiling and you can see the shadow of it as like it's like a you'd, yeah, no idea what it is anymore.

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Speaker 4: I'm not so weird.

00:23:04
Speaker 2: I did definitely notice shadows in this episode because when Corey actually gets up to Topanga where he stands, his face is totally shadowing my space and I wanted to be like a just this blocking or fix the light, do something, But it happens a couple of times where it's just bad, bad shadows.

00:23:22
Speaker 1: So I wonder was it a boom.

00:23:24
Speaker 3: Shadow no, because it looks it's like something dripping or falling, like I can't I can't just be a drip because it's too big. But it's like weird.

00:23:34
Speaker 2: I know, I want to go back and see it, and I always say that and I never do it, but I might do it this time.

00:23:38
Speaker 1: I probably won't. This time, I probably won't though.

00:23:42
Speaker 2: So Also, Corey and t Beanga both have their sleeves rolled up, looking very fifties.

00:23:48
Speaker 1: It's roll a smoke in there.

00:23:50
Speaker 2: Topanga just casually mentioned that they have all the same classes together again, and I think they had them together last year as well. But Corey says, yes, he had a nice summer and he walks away awkwardly. Corey goes back to Sean after that very awkward exchange and asks what just happened. He's able to talk to Sean fine, but when did Tapanga become a sea monkey? Or when he talks to Topanga he becomes a sea monkey? And Sean says, that's a bad animal.

00:24:13
Speaker 4: Man.

00:24:14
Speaker 3: I love that. I have no idea what any of it means.

00:24:22
Speaker 6: So good.

00:24:23
Speaker 2: I again, I agree with you what but I love it.

00:24:26
Speaker 3: I love it too.

00:24:30
Speaker 1: It is funny. And then the bell rings.

00:24:32
Speaker 2: Mister Turner pretends he has gossip for them, but instead explains that Corey and Sean when the bell rings, it means they need to get to class, so the boys do, and then mister Feoeney walks up to mister Turner and asks if Sean is giving him a hard time and said, if there's an issue, he should send a note home to himself. Phoene says, I know, and Phoene says, vacation is over. The relationship must change accordingly, and Turner says, I mean, come on, George, you can't know everything. And then the bell rings again.

00:25:00
Speaker 1: He goes, how does he do it?

00:25:03
Speaker 2: Just a great line and very funny, but why does the bell ring again?

00:25:10
Speaker 3: You get with the warning bell and then the actual now you're late?

00:25:16
Speaker 2: I like it, don't remember that from my my history. Uh, then we're in Turner's classroom.

00:25:21
Speaker 4: Now, can we just very briefly? Yes, that scene was so long?

00:25:26
Speaker 2: Was it?

00:25:26
Speaker 4: That opening scene in the way all that happened? Ten pages?

00:25:32
Speaker 3: But it's similar to this season season two. You introduced so many people and reintroduce. In fact, I would say this is it's really weird that Alex's introduction is horrible, Like the way he walks. He should have because isn't he a teacher at the school. He not, because he should have been introducing this scene. We need they needed to, like, I don't know, it's weird, Like the way he comes into the show is yeah, it's not.

00:26:00
Speaker 4: But this scene that must this must have been like an eleven to fifteen page scene. I mean this scene lasted like ten minutes.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, it right, but it was and it was like ever because there's only one hallway in the school, so it was like over on this side of the hallway, and over on the side of the hallway, and then let's go back to the side of the hallway. And so yeah, it did show a long scene. So now in class, Sean tells Corey to ask Tapanga to a movie, but as she sits down, all he says is thanks for this, and he salutes her, and then he says, I saluted, and Sean responds, we all saw, we all saw.

00:26:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got some one liners this time. Favorite lives.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: Your commitment to not making eye contact with him when you say that is so good, because it is I feel that you are so secondhand embarrassed for him. You're like, we all saw, man, it's so funny. Corey tries to talk to Tapanga again, with Sean suggesting to just act natural. Corey proceeds to ask her what's going on this Friday night? And she says I don't know Corey awkwardly and eventually replies, neither do I, and then he just gives her a big thumbs up.

00:27:08
Speaker 3: That whole performance is some of the best I loved so great that still acting uncomfortable, like, oh, it's so funny, so.

00:27:19
Speaker 2: Funny, And you know what I really love about it is that it's it's it's it's it isn't it doesn't make me cringe. I feel embarrassed for him, but I also feel like it's somehow the perfect balance of like super really awkward but without being cringey. I just really believe it. It's super believable and is and it is cute. And he gives that thumbs up and he turns and he tells Sean I did this, and he repeats the thumbs up, and you just you love Corey. You love Corey in this moment. And then we're in the school cafeteria. Everyone is booing Eric as he puts up posters for the movie club.

00:27:53
Speaker 1: He defends himself, I'm trying to get into college.

00:27:56
Speaker 2: Frankie and Joey walk up with a plan to take all the tickets and sell them out, but they want to make a percentage of the profits.

00:28:01
Speaker 1: They have their fingers in every club in this school except.

00:28:04
Speaker 2: The mime club, who we see in the cafeteria miming eating their lunch. Frankie says, they give him the creeps, and then he managed.

00:28:12
Speaker 3: Actually, this is the only joke I remember from the entire episode, the only thing.

00:28:15
Speaker 4: Well.

00:28:15
Speaker 3: I remember Brittany. I remember her being on set, and I remember hanging out with her just because she's so awesome. Don't remember any of the storyline at all, right, but I do remember the mid joke, this little beat. I had no idea where it was and what context.

00:28:31
Speaker 4: But it is.

00:28:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was one, like they just started something with him, and he goes over there and he makes his way over to them. Then Eric says he knows what's going on here. He tries to say no, but Joey says no. One says no to Joey the rat, and then he yells, isn't that right, Frankie. And we cut to Frankie, who is now stuck in the middle of the mimes, and he yells.

00:28:50
Speaker 1: Help Joey.

00:28:51
Speaker 2: They got me in that box again. And I did not remember that, but it's genius genius.

00:28:57
Speaker 4: You know what makes it brilliant is the again.

00:29:00
Speaker 1: I know this has happened before.

00:29:03
Speaker 4: He's trapped in the box again. Oh, it got me.

00:29:07
Speaker 1: In that box again.

00:29:08
Speaker 4: It takes it from a joke to art.

00:29:11
Speaker 2: It's so good, It is so funny. They are so amazing in this episode. They're having so much fun and you can tell.

00:29:19
Speaker 4: Yep.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: So the school cafeteria continues to Panga walks up to Corey, who is sitting alone, and asks if he's okay. She says he's been acting weird all day, avoiding eye contact and mentions He even saluted, and he says, oh, saluting is in now. And then a hot blonde walks by, and Corey says hi to coach Franklin and salutes her to Pega says she knows Corey is acting strange because of Friday night, and Corey perks up with a proposed plan to all hang out, but she reveals she's already going out with someone else on Friday night and she thought he knew. Corey is visibly upset and walks away and bangs his head against the vending machine, which delivers him a soda, and then Sean walks up and asks if he can get him an orange Corey and Sean Corey says Sean was right. He warned him that someone else was going to ask her out because he waited, and then Corey says he just wants to know who, and Sean shocks the world by saying, shocks.

00:30:19
Speaker 3: The world asked And I didn't remember.

00:30:21
Speaker 4: This at all, so I.

00:30:24
Speaker 1: Didn't either.

00:30:25
Speaker 3: I remember that. How do I not remember? Obviously I don't remember it because of where it ends up exactly.

00:30:30
Speaker 4: But at first I was like, did we do a whole dating story?

00:30:34
Speaker 1: But I do the same thing.

00:30:35
Speaker 4: I remember this.

00:30:36
Speaker 3: I was like, Sean, you son of a I was really just angry with Sean, and then I was like, this can't be.

00:30:43
Speaker 4: How do I not remember this? I have to say, you had you kind of understated your performance this entire episode and it was great. Yeah, Like I thought, you really you you just like that like I did. Like it was just very natural, very the whole whole episode through. It was never big. It was all these like very subtle choices that just made for an awesome performance.

00:31:07
Speaker 3: I think thanks man. I think Sean was just given an opportunity to be sort of like casual in this episode. Yeah, the humor is just how much he doesn't care compared to Corey about but it's also worried.

00:31:20
Speaker 4: There's if you take it even deeper, there's there's something about it. And this is how I read it. I don't know if this is how you're playing it, but there's almost like you're relaxed now because you've got Turner. So it's like your your life is that part of your life is fine. So your back to being like Sean, you know. So there was something interesting about that whole aspect of it as well, where it's just you were very relaxed, very comfortable as Sean because like you're good, you're.

00:31:46
Speaker 3: With Turner, you got the thing. It's like, yeah, I can be late, who cares?

00:31:50
Speaker 4: Yeahbe and you're laid back, and it's just there's something.

00:31:54
Speaker 1: And the ability to make the one liners. There's a cop. Yeah, that's a very it's a comfortability.

00:32:00
Speaker 4: It was cool.

00:32:00
Speaker 1: That's a great perspective.

00:32:02
Speaker 3: If only I cut my hair, Oh god, can we can we play? I have too much shorts for this, too much shirts for this episode. Yes, Andy watched this one with me. It's not it's very low but also we should bring it up while we're while we we mentioned the painter your Wagon storyline because that ends up having a little interesting family history for me.

00:32:21
Speaker 2: Okay, do you want to play an hour? Should we wait till we get into a painter wagon?

00:32:26
Speaker 3: Sne Oh, let's just play it now.

00:32:26
Speaker 1: It's okay.

00:32:28
Speaker 6: I like the episode Coy the Corey do got burned.

00:32:33
Speaker 3: What do you mean he got burned?

00:32:34
Speaker 6: I don't know, it's just what my friends say.

00:32:38
Speaker 3: What did you think is the way I looked.

00:32:40
Speaker 6: In that rest ugly?

00:32:42
Speaker 3: I thought my hair looked horrible.

00:32:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, the hair bug and me, it looks like a tree spreading over your face. Yeah, the episode was okay. I didn't really know what was happening though. It was the whole movie singer or something.

00:32:58
Speaker 3: Yeah. So there was some a movie screening going on, and they tried to switch out the movie because they were playing a movie that nobody wanted to see, which, by the way, was a movie that Granny and Grandpa love called Paint Your Wagon, which I've never seen.

00:33:12
Speaker 6: Paint your Wagon. It sounds like a carnival game.

00:33:15
Speaker 3: It's a Western musical.

00:33:17
Speaker 6: Did they get to paint a wagon?

00:33:19
Speaker 3: I have no idea. I've never seen it, but I can sing you songs from it.

00:33:22
Speaker 6: Oh no, please don't.

00:33:25
Speaker 3: This song that my parents sang to me as when I was a kid was from Painter Wagon. They changed the lyrics. The song was I was Born under a Wandering Star, and they would sing Ryder was born under one.

00:33:40
Speaker 6: Stuff did that indigo song?

00:33:44
Speaker 5: You have an indigo song, like what you said, but they just said my name though who said this?

00:33:51
Speaker 6: She used to sing it to me when we go to bed.

00:33:54
Speaker 3: She took my song and gave it to you.

00:33:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, I had no idea.

00:34:01
Speaker 3: I feel betrayed it. She didn't come up with a new.

00:34:03
Speaker 4: Song for me every night.

00:34:05
Speaker 1: Help to leap.

00:34:10
Speaker 3: Scandal, scandal guys, my personal song, so I get my parents personalized a song from Paint Your Wagon. Would sing it to me every night when I went to bed as a baby, and then my brother they sang the Maverick TV theme song, and they would put our names into songs basically, And so Shiloh had his song and I had my song, which I knew was from Paint Your Wagon, which I still have never seen, but it was I was Born under a Wandering Star, and they changed it to Rioder was born and then yeah, discover that they did the.

00:34:39
Speaker 4: SA so sweet for your son, though it's like the random.

00:34:45
Speaker 3: I was like, come on, he doesn't get his own song. But I just I never knew that. I never knew that she sang that to my son.

00:34:50
Speaker 2: But that's saying yeah school, Oh my gosh. So we are still in the school cat Daria. Corey is very upset. He can't even talk to Sean since he asked out to Penga, so Sean walks away. Corey is broken, talking out loud to absolutely no one, and he asks God, I think for a sign that he's dreaming. And right then, uh frank or Frankie throws a screaming kid onto the lunch table right in front of Corey.

00:35:17
Speaker 1: This is a sign.

00:35:18
Speaker 2: The kid then stands up and Joey and Frankie lift his shirt up for everyone to see. Film Society screening Friday is written and sharpie on his chest. They want Corey to pay up, but it's not a good time. He has more written on his back be there or be dot dot dot, and then another kid comes sliding through with more writing on his chest to finish the sentence dead.

00:35:38
Speaker 1: This was this feels like a big production for.

00:35:42
Speaker 7: A an an ok Joe, I agree, it feels very first or second episode of season two where we are like, no in the luck get him, just like it was a little much this one.

00:35:56
Speaker 2: And I guess they needed to tie in how Joey and Frankie are going to get people to go see the thing, But like, I'm not.

00:36:02
Speaker 1: Sure we really needed it.

00:36:03
Speaker 2: I think had we just found out they eventually sell out the movie, I never would have been.

00:36:06
Speaker 4: Like, but I don't know how they.

00:36:07
Speaker 1: Did that, how they bully people, how'd they do that?

00:36:10
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know that I really needed this answer or this tie in, but but we got it.

00:36:14
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:36:14
Speaker 2: And then we're back in Turner's apartment. Sean is watching TV on the couch when new character alert Eli walks in to tell Jonathan he had a great job interview.

00:36:25
Speaker 4: It's the audience. Thank god, this amazing audience that week who were there for every wu and every clap and obviously made him feel right at home. But it's a terrible entrance to a character.

00:36:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, our show is usually really good at introducing character, really good at that. Like you think about how we introduced Turner, how we introduced Griff, how we introduced hardly everybody seems to have and yet this one just isn't given its tou and I tacked on.

00:36:51
Speaker 4: It was weird. It was like it was just tacked on and oh, we'll just have him come in and it's we're gonna pretend we already know who he is and just go from there.

00:36:58
Speaker 3: It's okay, yeah, yeah.

00:37:00
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel it doesn't feel special enough.

00:37:03
Speaker 2: But Turners's congratulations, you got the job, and Eli reveals, nope, he got the secretary's number. He starts that job on Saturday, and the audience goes crazy.

00:37:13
Speaker 1: They love it.

00:37:14
Speaker 3: So what I remember about this season was that the network had given the note that we should try and be more like Friends yep, because Friends was huge, yep. And so what that meant was, because of the Turner character, they wanted to emphasize twenty somethings or like adults being young adults without you know, and so that's what you feel. That's why they introduced Eli, and that's what this dynamic it's like they're going to have not just is you know, it's that old thing that we've talked a lot about and how our show had to appeal to as many different audiences as possible. Sure, then the notion was that we should also be appealing to twenty somethings, which is right, kind of absurd, but well, but that's also why.

00:37:51
Speaker 4: Obviously the opening title sequence is the Three of Us and it's quick camera cuts and fast and hey it's the three boys and yeah, they're obviously.

00:37:58
Speaker 3: Get that MTV generation yet.

00:38:01
Speaker 2: So Eli reveals that as far as the jobs job is concerned, he's overqualified. Turner says when they kick him out of his apartment, he will always have a place to say, and then the joke is it's the park across the street. Hey, they have new benches. Corey barges in looking for Sean, who is right there on the couch, and he says, aha, I found you. He's still upset that Sean asked to Panga out his best friend's girl, and Sean says, Cory and Topanga weren't even dating all He's all he did was ask out a girl who didn't have a boyfriend. Eli says this sounds like a violation of the gentleman's code of dating, and then he alludes to Jonathan asking out a girl he had just broken up with a Miss Cynthia Harp, but Jonathan says there are always exceptions and that was ten years ago. They have some cute little rapport showing they've been friends for a long time.

00:38:48
Speaker 1: Sean says he's.

00:38:49
Speaker 2: Now going to call Topanga and firm up their plans, which this I thought was a little bit like.

00:38:54
Speaker 1: Wow, knows Bud.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: He squist the knife and Corey says he should firm up all his nights with Tapanga and calls Sean his ex friend. Corey tries to walk out, but he walks into the closet and then he comes out with a sweater and says he's taking back his sweater as he tries to play this off like he went in there on purpose. Eli says, nice, say I say, and it seems like Alexx is just playing his character from Swingers, Yeah, which I love.

00:39:20
Speaker 4: Can we just two seconds about how he just fit right in with us instantly, was one of us and was just is like the nicest human being in the world. Miss I miss him, I really do. I miss him. It would they and I think we're going to see uh this as the show goes on. They did not use him well on the show, I know, but man, he was good.

00:39:40
Speaker 1: He's so great.

00:39:41
Speaker 4: I remember.

00:39:42
Speaker 1: The main thing I remember about him was that he was a musician and he played with a band called the Hepcats, and he used to have gigs all around town and he was just so cool and so like the coolest guy.

00:39:52
Speaker 3: Literally. I just looked up to him so much. And I remember him. I remember him coming back one time and being like talking about having been I think he went to camp and with Swingers. He had like been to a festival with Swingers or some you know, and I remember him. I was like, what what is this Swingers? He's like you hear about it?

00:40:09
Speaker 6: Oh man?

00:40:10
Speaker 3: And it became like the movie.

00:40:13
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:40:14
Speaker 4: I saw some in PCU before I saw Swing. Yeah, and he was so good in PCU that it was just like when he walked down the set, I was like, oh man, oh man, Yeah, he was awesome.

00:40:25
Speaker 6: Well.

00:40:25
Speaker 2: Jensen, producer husband of this podcast, is absolutely obsessed with him and news. We have Alex scheduled for us to interview, and it is of anyone we've interviewed, this is Jensen's number one. He is so excited for that one, so disappoint He will be joining us soon and then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Corey asks Amy if Opposite's a tract, and Amy starts talking about her in her relationship with Alan and how their first kiss was so exciting, and Corey tells her to stop and wonders why he.

00:40:54
Speaker 1: Asked a woman. They only lead to heartbreak.

00:40:56
Speaker 2: He sits down at the table and Amy says, well, this woman brings dinner every night, puts a roof over your head, and gave birth to him, and Corey says, oh, that's getting old. Eric then comes in and tells Amy it might be time for some brother bonding, and then he starts singing Topanga.

00:41:15
Speaker 1: Is going out with Sean and boy the audience.

00:41:18
Speaker 4: Audience, they did not like.

00:41:20
Speaker 3: It's not, of course not it's mean, funny, it's but Eric did this kind of thing in the second season and got away with it in a way that now when you see Eric being mean about Topanga, it's ye, it's harsh.

00:41:33
Speaker 4: I agree it was.

00:41:35
Speaker 1: They were ready to turn on you. They were like ha ha ha.

00:41:39
Speaker 4: They did not like that, and rightfully so it was just kind of mean. Yeah, and you already.

00:41:44
Speaker 3: A line later, what is it you say something like you basically say okay, okay, I'll stop making.

00:41:50
Speaker 1: You're really hurt by this, Well, that takes all the fun out.

00:41:52
Speaker 4: It takes all the fun out.

00:41:53
Speaker 3: I wonder if that was a line added based on the audience reaction. It's so clear that they they had to like backpedal a little bit on the Eric choosing Corey because it was too sensitive.

00:42:05
Speaker 4: Well, it's also you've got now got your best friend just asked out, you're the girl you want to have. Your brother's making fun of you for It's like you can't not everybody can be bashing this guy all the time. So yeah, I think that was that was tough too. But I remember these scenes. I remember doing the scenes with Ben, and I loved just kind of the brother scenes occasionally because we didn't have a ton of them, so it was where it was kind of like, all right, let me give you a little bit of wisdom. That was. I always loved.

00:42:27
Speaker 1: These I know I did.

00:42:28
Speaker 2: I did like that at the end where you were like, all right, listen, I've got ten seconds left of sincerity and you actually give him some real advice. That was a cute moment. But before we get there, Corey says, bite me very much, which I thought was I thought that was like, I don't know, bite me, we say we bite meite me.

00:42:46
Speaker 1: We we can't say, but we can bite me, yes exactly. I was like, Wow.

00:42:51
Speaker 2: So Corey doesn't believe that Tabanga like Sean at all, and then he wants to call her, and Eric makes a joke about Corey jumping off the roof and the audience is not enjoying this. They do not participate again, and then Eric notices that he's really upset and he says, okay, okay, this isn't fun anymore. And Corey says, this doesn't make any sense. He's sitting here feeling all poopy and Tapanga's out there having a great time. He really wants to call her to get to the bottom of this, but Eric stops him. He says he's got about ten seconds left of sincerity in him. Eric says Corey needs to ask to Panga's best friend. He'll get straight answers, no pressure, and Corey thinks that's a great idea. And like I said, this is the scene where there could have been some rusty but he had finals.

00:43:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had finals.

00:43:33
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:43:44
Speaker 2: So then we are at Chubby's Corey is at Chubby's with another new character, Alert Trainey to Panga's best friend, the absolutely hilarious Britney Murphy. What do you guys remember about her and being on set. I remember her and being there with her mom.

00:44:00
Speaker 3: They were inseparable, and her realm was so nice yep, and the two of them were just just the nicest people. Like I just remember instantly bonding and instantly talking to the two of them and just feeling super comfortable and also just having a huge talent crush on her because she was so funny and interesting and different than anybody else.

00:44:19
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:44:20
Speaker 4: We went out to dinner that night. I remember the night that we wrapped the show. I had a couple friends in town, and we all, like a group of us, went out to dinner, and She's was what you saw was what you got. She was just the sweetest person in the world. And then randomly, this is a story I love to tell about her, because randomly, like maybe three or four months, I actually might have been the longer that it might have been like a year, year and a half later, I was on an airplane and she walks on the plane and we're like, oh my god, how are you, and she sits right across from me, and the second the plane starts to move, she just reach over and grabs my hand. She's like, no, no, no, I hold somebody's hand every time we take off and every time we land. So we're just sitting there holding hands as the plane takes off, and then we have a totally normal conversation. And then she got my hand again as we're landing, and it was just it was she was the best she was.

00:45:05
Speaker 2: I mean, she ended up becoming extremely famous just a few years after this. Did you guys ever see her again after like she had really taken off.

00:45:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went to the premiere of a movie that wasn't that great in New York, Little Black Notebook, Something moved. Oh yeah, yeah, Black Book. It's like it was like a comedy that she started in where she was. Anyway, it was I was at the premiere and I said hi to her, and she was super lovely and remember me, you know. And that was in two thousand and one, two thousand and two years, so that was after eight Mile, which was what really blew her up, right, Like.

00:45:42
Speaker 4: Well, I think Clueless probably the first one that did it.

00:45:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clu wasn't clueless like already right about this time.

00:45:50
Speaker 4: After yeah, right after and then she was just off to the races at that point because she did and then she did some really interesting things, I mean when she was doing like in City and I mean just some really interesting projects.

00:46:02
Speaker 3: So so talented.

00:46:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, she really is.

00:46:04
Speaker 2: I mean she is so engaging and so funny. It's impossible to take your eyes off of her. In the scene in Chubbies, she's.

00:46:10
Speaker 4: Great, just so into this character. Just this character is crazy. It's great.

00:46:13
Speaker 3: Isn't it interesting that like Topanga is so normal now that her friend has to be the sort of quirky weirdo, right, right, but you still want to have that dynamic of like yeah, I don't know, it's interesting.

00:46:24
Speaker 4: You know what you know what they did, And Michael told Michael was the specific one who told me about this. He said, the way that you make Frasier normal is you bring in Niles, Right, So that's kind of the way you make Topanga more normal, is you bring in somebody that's even nice.

00:46:38
Speaker 2: You also totally get why Topanga and Triney love each other.

00:46:41
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's been absolutely yeah.

00:46:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so sweet. So Triney is trying to get ketchup out of the bottle and distracting Corey while he talks. Corey starts to ask about Tapanga, but then Triny thinks he's asking her out. Corey laughs nervously, just as Sean and Topanga walk in and apparently don't see Corey and Triny.

00:47:00
Speaker 1: There really just no.

00:47:01
Speaker 3: I think we're playing it cool. I think, oh, okay, pretend you do know, but like, oh, I'm just gonna.

00:47:06
Speaker 2: Because Tapanga doesn't look at them like at all, She just like completely ignores them.

00:47:11
Speaker 4: There's also clearly no ketchup. Did that bother anybody else? There's no ketchup at all, not even closets.

00:47:18
Speaker 3: Let me an old ketchen slapper or whatever. And then nothing happens.

00:47:21
Speaker 4: No ketchup that is a painted bottle. There is no kid. Yeah.

00:47:25
Speaker 2: So they walk past Corey and Triney's boots to the counter and Corey says yes Friday night for the movie. Triney asks if they should get dinner before and Cory says no, I won't be hungry.

00:47:37
Speaker 4: Anybody else noticed what Corey's shirt says?

00:47:40
Speaker 3: No?

00:47:40
Speaker 1: Does he no do dewey deey?

00:47:43
Speaker 4: This is kind of shirt that just it's the name tag.

00:47:45
Speaker 1: Just do the vinted shirt.

00:47:48
Speaker 3: Vinted shirt.

00:47:48
Speaker 1: Someone named Dewey had it Dewey.

00:47:51
Speaker 2: So then in the background while this is going on, Frankie and Joey walk in wearing Reservoir Dog suits and they are shoving Eric and new sets a. Yes, we finally get to see the pool table room of Chubby's.

00:48:05
Speaker 3: Yep, so was that a wall before and they just opened it up at the something so yeah, yeah, I think it was just opened it up so that you could have other stuff going on, which is really smart.

00:48:14
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:48:15
Speaker 1: So Eric calls them Frankie and Joey, and Joey.

00:48:19
Speaker 2: Says mister Blue, mister Brown, which is a direct Reservoir Dogs reference. And then they show Eric a briefcase of cash and say they.

00:48:26
Speaker 1: Sold out the show.

00:48:28
Speaker 2: Eric says, all these people want to watch Paint your Wagon, and Joey hilariously gaffaws at paint your Wagon. Yeah right, and Frankie joins in cackling. Eric is stunned, and Frankie shoves him on the shoulder and says, laugh with us. And again these two they're great. They're just having so much fun. And to see Eric be the kind of bumbling. Oh no, what have I gotten myself into with these guys? The dynamic with the three of you is a great I actually like the dynamic of Eric being stuck with these two.

00:49:00
Speaker 1: Better than I like the Corey and Sean being stuck with these two.

00:49:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're not.

00:49:05
Speaker 1: It doesn't.

00:49:06
Speaker 2: I understand that Eric would also be somewhat physically intimidated by them, But it feels more like you guys are peers and they just sucker you into hijinks that you then are in over your head as opposed to being like these two physically scare me, right, which isn't just as funny to me as this is. This is hysterical to me, I thought it worked. Well, Yeah, it's really great. So then we're in the school theater. The room is basically empty, and mister Phoene says, it's not the quantity of the audience, it's the quality. And then we see four mimes.

00:49:34
Speaker 1: Sitting in the audience and.

00:49:38
Speaker 2: Eric tells them to shut up, which up, shut up, and Phoene says he'd stay, but the mimes give him the creep, so he's bailing. And then Eric runs straight to the back door to let Joey and Frankie in and I loved the difference between the angle we see of you on the stage and then like the way we actually cut to the back room. It just feels like two totally different.

00:49:56
Speaker 3: It's well, what is this set? I was trying to figure it out, like how worked? I feel like the stage was taken out because because.

00:50:04
Speaker 4: I was there the whole time, I remember it was there the old Where were.

00:50:06
Speaker 3: The cameras then, because when we're in the audience, we're getting coverage on Corey and Tapanga and everybody left to.

00:50:12
Speaker 4: Me they came in for coverage. They came in for coverage, but in front of the stage.

00:50:17
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:50:17
Speaker 4: Correct. And here's why I remember this scene so well. And I have a very quick story. So you know, I'm from a very small town in Connecticut, and like a lot of small towns, when something tragic happens, it sticks. So in sixth grade, there was a very bad car accident that involved four high school kids at the time who were young, like like freshmen, like thirteen fourteen, and three of them were killed. Wow, we everybody knew somebody that was in that something happened in the accident because it's such a small town and there was a girl in my class name Tiffany, and her older brother, who was about two years older than her, was one of the people and their family moved away. We go to shoot the scene. I opened the door and who walks in as a background extra? But Tiffany whoa who I had not seen since the sixth grade. Wow, And I remember she had these eyes that were like wolf eyes, this beautiful, like bright blue gray kind of eye that she had her obviously her whole life. And I saw her walk in, I was like, that can't be her. I mean, it can't be her. And I went over Toddie and I was like, can I look at your list? Yeah, and there's Tiffany. And I walked over and I was like Tiffany, and she went, I didn't think you'd remember me. And we then spent the next you know, seven hours, talking about just everything that had happened to her since. But it was so strange to see her out out of nowhere. I think the last time I saw her, I was like ten or eleven years old, and see her in this episode in the Yes, yes I did, and that's it. And there she was second row and I'm like oh my god.

00:51:58
Speaker 2: There.

00:51:59
Speaker 4: So it was just that this episode, and I think it was because of her and because of Brittany where I remembered almost everything from this episode. Don't you remember. Well we'll get into it later, but the little badger we talked about.

00:52:10
Speaker 1: You remembered that?

00:52:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember, and it's that Tiffany is one of the reasons why. So seeing her walk in out of nowhere, it was like a it was just so strange to see her. So, yeah, that was seeing her again last night, I was like, yeah, there she is, So it was it was just weird to see this whole week. Yeah, this whole week was very strange.

00:52:27
Speaker 2: So Eric, let's end Joey and Frankie, who then let in an entire theater full of students. Joey and Frankie bring in a film reel of Texas gut Seckers Part five, Leon's Revenge.

00:52:38
Speaker 3: I'm surprised we didn't make a call back to whatever the horror film from the first season.

00:52:42
Speaker 4: Was or no, it was Explode your head, Explode.

00:52:46
Speaker 3: Your head, someone saws Revenge. It was somebody something your head, Stumpy Stumpy Stumpy's Revenge.

00:52:54
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:52:56
Speaker 2: So they also revealed they have a special guest, apparently Leon is coming the airline lost his guts and Frankie says, yeah, you never check your guts. Just so funny. Corey walks in with Trieney and he sits right next to Sean and to Panga. It's a little awkward, and Tapega tells Trieny she likes her hair. Corey thinks she's talking to him and says thanks, but Sean corrects him and says she was talking to Trainy Corp. Corey then aggressively asks Sean if he wants to step outside, and Topanga has to calm Corey down. The movie starts and Sean puts his arm around to Panga and Corey tries to do the same.

00:53:28
Speaker 3: But I'm still very uncomfortable watching the episode. Yeah, going, you have.

00:53:32
Speaker 4: No idea, none of this. You didn't remember any of them.

00:53:35
Speaker 3: It's like they can't actually be a thing, right. But I think in the same way anybody watching the episode would feel, which is like this can't Sean wouldn't actually do this, But then it is what's happening. So I had no memory, just experiencing it when I was not Sean.

00:53:52
Speaker 2: I have a full I agree with you that I was along for the ride. I did not remember that this was a setup, so I was just along for the ride, and I was like, very interesting. I don't I'll be interested to see how long this storyline goes, and then I'll when we get to it, I have a thought on the whole thing. So Corey tries to do the same thing to Triny, but he takes her headband off while doing so, and Triney says, you little banger in for adorable New York accent, and then Corey looks over at Sean, who's now putting tic TACs in his mouth. So in response, he turns to kiss Triny and she blows a huge bubble with her gum at that exact moment, and Corey says, oh, great, I have been gummed first of all. Way to take it up a notch, Corey yeah, tick tacks to well, I'm gonna plant one on her.

00:54:37
Speaker 3: Yep jeevez.

00:54:39
Speaker 2: So then the opening cartoon is over and Eric comes out and thanks the audience and cartoon.

00:54:46
Speaker 4: It's exactly exactly.

00:54:48
Speaker 2: Well, I mean the film reel. Maybe there was just a cartoon just came with the movie.

00:54:52
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:54:53
Speaker 4: It was also a film reel that was the other thing is literally literally a real so.

00:54:59
Speaker 2: Eric so thanks the associates of the Film Society, and we cut to Frankie and Joey who were caught in the back counting the money, and then Eric introduces Leon from Texas Gutsuckers and says he was in parts.

00:55:10
Speaker 1: One, three, and four and four, so.

00:55:14
Speaker 2: He wasn't in two, and he wasn't in five, which is the one we're watching tonight.

00:55:18
Speaker 4: Actual, Yeah, we couldn't. We couldn't get.

00:55:27
Speaker 6: So.

00:55:27
Speaker 2: When the curtains open, it's Phoenie with a flashlight under his chin and he says boom boom. Everyone runs out of the theater and Joey says, get to the car, mister Brown, and Frankie says, not until I find out what that monster has.

00:55:39
Speaker 1: Done with Leon.

00:55:40
Speaker 4: You know, it's the best.

00:55:42
Speaker 1: It was so good, It was so good.

00:55:46
Speaker 2: Eric tells Phoenie there's a good explanation for this, and when Feenie agrees that there probably is, Eric says, really, I was just winging it, and then Sean and to Pang are about to exit too, but Ta Panga tells Sean she'll be there in a second. She goes back to talk to Corey. She asks what his problem is, and Corey says, Topanga is his problem because she went out with his best friend and now, all of a sudden, in my opinion, Corey gets very unlikable.

00:56:09
Speaker 1: He's so like angry at her because of the situation.

00:56:15
Speaker 4: Rich is so has been in love with her for almost twenty minutes.

00:56:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, he deserves her. Man, he's too cleared.

00:56:27
Speaker 1: He's cleared that for at least twenty minutes.

00:56:29
Speaker 2: He has been insistent that they were going to be together exactly, and Tapega says, you didn't ask me, and besides, you also came to make to the makeout movies with my best friend. But but Topega, see there's a problem here because he did ask you. He did ask you, He asked you in the cafeteria after Sean had already asked you. Was Topeka in on this, because if so, why not? Why is the gig not up? When Corey asks her, hey, you know what I was thinking on Friday? We should hang out with a whole group. That's sounds great, Corey. I would love to do that. And then I go back to Sean and I go, hey, guess what we don't need to do this.

00:57:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no, so Topanga can't be in on it.

00:57:10
Speaker 4: I don't think she's in it. I think friend shot together.

00:57:13
Speaker 3: Somebody asked her, but then she went.

00:57:16
Speaker 4: Out sean, yeah, it's very it's yeah.

00:57:21
Speaker 2: By the way, the way, then, so not only is Banga's not in on it, let's play that out. Topanga's not in on it. She goes she is willing then to go on a date with his best friend. And then also she doesn't care at all that her best friend went out with the guy that she likes and that like.

00:57:42
Speaker 1: And then the way Topanga is talking with Trainy.

00:57:46
Speaker 2: In the seats and she's like, it worked. I feel like Topanga was in on it.

00:57:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, which then again doesn't make sense because he does ask her.

00:57:56
Speaker 2: She does ask her, and she says, you didn't ask me, But like, hold up, he did?

00:58:01
Speaker 4: Did he did?

00:58:03
Speaker 1: He did?

00:58:04
Speaker 2: He may have he may have referenced it as like a group date, you know, but like if the whole idea is, how do we.

00:58:11
Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't ask me in time? Like basically you you you had your chance, you didn't ask me, So I don't know.

00:58:21
Speaker 4: I didn't you. I mean, that doesn't make any sense if if her ultimate goal is to go out with Corey, Corey asked her out, so that would be the end of the ruse if she's in on it. If she's not, I.

00:58:32
Speaker 3: Don't think she can be in on it.

00:58:33
Speaker 4: Then she's going out with his best friend, which isn't cool, and doesn't care that her best friend is going out with the guy.

00:58:39
Speaker 2: That's going out with you, even though my ultimate goal is like I'm so in love with Corey that I'm like yay, Like that feels like a weird way to go out with.

00:58:47
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not I'm not sure I love it.

00:58:50
Speaker 4: I wasn't true.

00:58:52
Speaker 3: Definitely. Don't you remember though, when you were a kid, if you were in a group of friends, you would I mean, at like thirteen, you would you would end up partnering up in ways that were just kind of convening to the socio dynamics of the group. Do you know what I mean? Like, if you have friends like I definitely had, like my my girlfriend, uh when I in the White Rose Worreene. I remember, like my friend my guy friends and her girlfriends. If we were like going to a movie, they would end up sort of passing notes or saying that they liked each other, even though it was clear like it was just for the sake of the fact that we were all in big group going to the movie.

00:59:31
Speaker 2: Sure, I dated a twin once and my best friend really tried to be into his twins so that the two of us could date twins.

00:59:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't work, but.

00:59:39
Speaker 3: I get but I could see you just going like, I guess I'll go to the movies with Sean, but you know, not taking it that seriously, Like.

00:59:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I mean I guess maybe I know.

00:59:48
Speaker 3: The arm around it if Sean made you and Topanga had been like, well.

00:59:54
Speaker 2: Kind of leans into him too, Like he puts his arm around her and she means into him, which makes me feel like she's in on it. And they're right, they're trying to escalate this to force Corey into asking Tapanga out, but like we kind of took the ruse too far, considering he really did ask her at lunch. By the way, give the kid half a day at least.

01:00:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, strange.

01:00:21
Speaker 2: So Tapega says, you didn't ask me, and besides, you also came to the make up movies with my best friend, and then he tries to walk away and says he can't talk to her, and Tapanga has to like talk him down like a mother to a child. To Penga says, look, they're alone. We've known each other our whole lives. We've always been able to talk. He says he can't tell her his feelings now in front of all of these empty chairs. And then Corey finally tells Tapanga how he feels about her and asks her to be his girlfriend, and then Tapanga kisses him and he says, yes or no, we mark uple, We've made it. My hair is so long. My hair is so long.

01:00:58
Speaker 3: So do you just feel like this is a anti climactic coupling.

01:01:02
Speaker 4: For Yeah, I agree. I'm sorry. I think it's Corey in Topanga. I mean, if they're gonna build it, Panga, this.

01:01:09
Speaker 1: Is their start.

01:01:11
Speaker 2: I agree, this is the this is the episode. I've waited sixty episodes, for some forty five episodes for something.

01:01:21
Speaker 4: Hum, I agree with you. I'm sorry, I do. I felt it was it was that moment of wait, this is this is how they got together? Like I don't and I remembered a lot about this episode, but I didn't. I didn't remember it being this kind of huh.

01:01:37
Speaker 2: Weird story is already and I'm looking at this character and I'm going I'm seeing so many red flags, but angry. She's angry, and Topanga is having to be like, please, can you could you talk to me?

01:01:51
Speaker 6: Please?

01:01:52
Speaker 2: Look, well, we've known each other forever. You should be comfortable with me. Can you tell what is it going on? What's going on?

01:01:57
Speaker 1: Corey? And then lay the foundation for Corey to be like, will you be my girlfriend? And then that's it. Tapega gets what she wants. Yeah, kis kis, kis, kis, kiss and.

01:02:07
Speaker 2: Now celebration, we're together, And I don't know, I felt like, man, if they have known.

01:02:13
Speaker 1: Each other all their lives for.

01:02:16
Speaker 2: Already, forgetting what we've already learned in just two seasons, whatever, why is Corey acting like?

01:02:23
Speaker 1: Why can't they have a conversation?

01:02:24
Speaker 2: I don't By the way, I get nervous, and I'm sure nervous.

01:02:28
Speaker 1: But then when he finally is faced with this, I sure would have loved for him to have actually been vulnerable and.

01:02:36
Speaker 3: I'm scared to talk to you.

01:02:37
Speaker 1: I'm scared.

01:02:38
Speaker 4: I don't angry with himself, but it doesn't come off that way, it just comes off as being angry.

01:02:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I mean, I was making the joke that he it feels like he deserves Tapanga right, Like, it feels like he's owed to Panga for some reason, which is a very weird thing. It's like, no, doube, like, yeah, there's no reason that she is not obliged to you or anything.

01:03:01
Speaker 2: And in all the episodes leading up to this, where there has been information about who likes who, it has only been that Tapega is saying she likes Corey, and you imply that you understand that Corey kind of likes her because he's rubbing his hands together and he's like, ooh, I kind of like the way this feels in Corey Wolfe or you know, when she's there and not Corey wolf when she's when he had Finals whatever that episode was called. And so you get that, and then in the next episode it's Sean saying you like him, and then you get Corey saying, yeah, put that for me too. But there isn't a whole lot of like, oh, wow, Corey has really shown us the audience how much he loves her, and now he's just obviously so nervous to tell her this was kind of that first episode where you were going to get to see that how Corey feels about Topanga.

01:03:48
Speaker 1: So I don't know.

01:03:48
Speaker 6: I can't.

01:03:49
Speaker 1: I'm not going to act like I hated it. I did not hate it.

01:03:52
Speaker 2: I just feel like I wish there was I wish it was different. I wish it was a little different me too.

01:03:58
Speaker 4: I felt a little let down. That's what it was me, you know, I just did. I felt like I felt like if this was episode three of season three and we spent the first two episodes really introducing Eli the right way, building up Corey into Panga, I think then it pays off in something like this. Yeah, you know, maybe you show you show Sean and Treey scheming a little bit something like that, where it's like, Okay, we've given you a chance over two episodes, three episodes to ask this girl out. You haven't done it. We're going to take the hold of this and see how you can get to me. But none of that paid off. It was just well, now you love her, so now you're angry because she doesn't love you back, and now you're it's like, what the hell that happened? Really fast?

01:04:41
Speaker 3: Yeah? I guess It was just the decision I think, coming into season three to finally get Corey to Panga together and explore a relationship between them, you know, which obviously is going to continue, and then brik up and continue to get back together and break up and get back all that, all those damages, and I feel like they were they just wanted to get into that dynamic as quick as hospital for that, And I think it's a little brushed. Yeah, maybe it didn't bother me as much. I mean, I mean, I think Corey being angry does it bothered me when he made the whole Sean situation and about him too, you know, And I feel like that's going to continue to bother us, Is that right? Because he's the center of the show. There is a dramatic pool towards him having to make it about himself. The situation is and how it affects him is kind of the audience's way in. But I agree there's whenever Corey like I like insecure, scared Corey. I don't like angry Corky or my self righteous Corey is a really bad look And unfortunately, I think it stays there for a while.

01:05:42
Speaker 2: Yere, it goes there, well, then we get our Arlen Grayson memorial card. Season three is dedicated to her, and we are then in our tag. We're in the school theater. Corey and Tapanga are still making out, and Sean and Trieney walk in, revealing they've set everything up. Corey pulls Sean aside to talk to him, acting like he's going to be mad, but then he just gives him a hug and says thank you, Corey, and to Panga start kissing again, and to Panga pulls away and says, you little badger. In either a terrible impersonation or it's just a me through osmosis, I've taken on my friend's slang. I don't know which one it was, but thumbs down to that performance.

01:06:31
Speaker 3: I liked it.

01:06:34
Speaker 4: I liked the callback too. You were trying to do you were doing a Trey did she did she hear him?

01:06:39
Speaker 1: Did she hear Trieney say it to him in the movie thing?

01:06:41
Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah?

01:06:42
Speaker 1: Paying attention? Yeah, okay.

01:06:44
Speaker 3: I think this is more is a better moment between you and Corey where you're smiling and laughing and then like the kissing, I'm just being hard on this awkward to me? Yeah, yeah, like you sort of like turning your head to block the views, like.

01:06:55
Speaker 1: Oh, pair kiss, okay, yeah, yes, my hair is so long it looks like hair, so.

01:07:02
Speaker 3: They just should have cut both of our hair to start.

01:07:04
Speaker 4: My hair long too, as.

01:07:06
Speaker 1: Long, dying to cut it again already like I was in real life. I guess.

01:07:10
Speaker 2: I think maybe from every moment from here on out, I'm just gonna be like, please let me cut my hair.

01:07:14
Speaker 1: Please let me cut my hair.

01:07:16
Speaker 2: So, now that the episode is over, any snap judgments about the beginning of season.

01:07:23
Speaker 3: Three, it just completely dropped. I mean, we like the way season two ended on this sort of Sean Turner storyline that just got put aside, which is fine, I guess, you know, and and yeah, and then it rushed into the Corey Tapanga dynamic. I don't know less less uh drop shock than season two. Yeah, feel weird. Yeah, it's so fel weird, but I don't know, Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting. God, I just want to cut my hair too when that happens soon.

01:07:53
Speaker 4: I'm glad. I'm glad that you are officially part of the cast, Like we don't we know that you're here every.

01:07:58
Speaker 1: Week now, guess we'll be seeing a lot more of me and my horse hair.

01:08:01
Speaker 4: That's a thing that's happening. So happy with that. But yeah, lest dropshock this time.

01:08:05
Speaker 1: Thank yeah, I agree.

01:08:05
Speaker 4: I thought season two. Season three was a lot easier than season one to season two.

01:08:09
Speaker 3: Yeah. Great, looking more a continuation of the same show for the most Yeah.

01:08:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.

01:08:14
Speaker 2: Well, join us for our next episode, season three, episode two, the Double Lie. It originally aired September twenty ninth, nineteen ninety five. Thank you all for joining us for this episode of Pod Meets World. As always, you can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show. You can send us your emails pod meets World Show at gmail dot com, and we have merchandise.

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