TGI – Episode 718 “How Cory and Topanga Got Their Groove Back"

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Speaker 1: I went to south By Southwest.

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Speaker 2: I did two panels for the Red Weather, just super fun. Got to bring some of my cast out and answer questions about how we made that, and it was just a blast. Like south By, its super fun and it was the Oscars were there, so we had like a big oscar party at our house that we were renting and got to see all these filmmakers and friends and it was great. But so this one, this one, this is just the classic experience that I know you guys have had, uh where your sense of confidence is completely at odds with the way the world perceives you. And God, yes, so you know, I just don't. I'm you know, I pride myself on being somebody who doesn't care about the way they look or what people think of me. I want to be the most confident person in the world, you know, I like, I try, and you know, I don't judge people by how they look or how they dress. I you know, I hope people don't do the same for me. So anyway, but then there are these things and times we have to be a celebrity, and I'm so bad at it. So while I was there, iHeart has the iHeart Podcast awards and they asked me to present, and I was like, yes, this is fun, this is good for me to be talking about the Red Weather, which is something I'm so proud of and I spent a year and a half working on, and like I want, I wanted to get as much attention as possible. And also I love podcasts so I get to meet other podcasters and give out an award.

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Speaker 1: So I should never.

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Speaker 2: Agree to do award shows. I'm so bad at them. They make me so nervous. It's a live event. It's dealing with you know whatever, So huge mistake. I got through it. I'm glad I did it.

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Speaker 1: Whatever.

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Speaker 2: But before I go, so I'm sitting there, you know, I'm having brunch with friends. We're all you know, we had all been up late the night before. And then I was like, oh, we're having brunch and I'm like, oh god, I got to go home and change because I got to go to the award show. I'm gonna have to do like this red carpet, and like, you know, my friends around the table are like, why you gotta change?

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Speaker 1: You look great, writer, and I'm look down.

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Speaker 2: I'm look wearing like what I'm wearing and I'm like, well, I don't know, like I don't even put my context in. I got my glass and and like, you know, my one friend Abby who's like young and cool and lives in New York and like, you know, I think she's got good taste. And she's like, you know, Writer, you're a good looking guy. You're like your age, you're getting into like an aging cowboy look, which is really cool. And I was like, oh my god, that is like the greatest compliment I've heard in years. Like I'm like, you know what, You're right, I'm gonna just like you know. And my wife is like, writer, don't worry about it. We don't have to go home and change. Just go like just be yourself. And I'm like, you're right, just go be myself.

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Speaker 1: So I go.

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Speaker 2: I do the awards. I'm like, screw it, I'm gonna do the Guess what. Guess what articles get written?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, what.

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Speaker 2: How old writer or strong looks and how shocking his fans looking like Phoemie and how.

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, yes, I'm just like I hate my life. I hate it so much. Why can't I just be me and like be a person in the world.

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Speaker 2: And it was like just a class example of all the things that you know, we talk about, and it's just like I don't like I you know, and of course I liked kind of make a joke about it and whatever and like just don't Obviously I didn't google myself, but unfortunately somebody sent me the link to like the article, like you know, and it's just like do that. It wasn't it wasn't mean spirited. I think they meant it as like a look at this funny other thing that was in the article. But of course, like I you know, suddenly am like of course, but it was like so clearly like it was like this moment of like, I'm gonna go to this awards show as me wearing my clothes and I'm gonna be confident about that, and friends like Abby think I.

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Speaker 3: Look good for my age.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be cool and no, no, no, yeah, one.

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Speaker 1: Of those moments that yeah, really sucks.

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Speaker 4: Well we're getting old.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, of course can't help that, right, I'm talking just to you, writer, Danielle. You're going to always look like that. But writer, you and I are getting old. We're just too getting old.

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Speaker 5: I just get botox, that's it. That's the only different.

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Speaker 3: No, it's but it's it's just that that standard that we're held to, you know.

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Speaker 2: And it's like it's it's why I don't want to be an actor or celebrity, Like I would love to be appreciated for my podcast that I wrote, or you know, the things that I say, or you know, the content of my character.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be nice?

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Speaker 2: And so it's it's just so funny because like this is like that struggle that I've felt since I was a kid, you know, and like part of being an actor is being presentational, is looking good and taking care of yourself and be fulfilling people's dreams of what human beings should look like on screen, which is fine, and that's its own thing and that's its own talent.

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Speaker 1: I'm not that interested in doing that.

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Speaker 2: That's like it takes a lot of work that I don't want to spend my time on because it really.

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Speaker 1: Does make me feel bad.

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Speaker 2: And this was just another slap in the face of like, right, I'm just going to stick to podcasting and writing and like be behind the camera because it's well, you know.

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Speaker 5: What's funny is that I remember talking to you at a con and I was saying. It was at a time when I was still I think I was. I don't know how far postpartum I was with Keaton, but enough that I was feeling like, well, I'm working out, I'm eating as healthy as I possibly can, while also still having that I'm not like dedicating my life to fitness, but I'm not being unhealthy. And I'm starting to think that easily, this is the best body I'm going to get post kids without some sort of surgical intervention unless I wanted to just like completely commit my life to dieting and exercising. And I was saying, so, I had looked into whether or not I wanted to have a mommy makeover, whether I wanted to have a Tubby tech, And I said, and I just go back and forth because on the one hand, I think, why shouldn't I do that? I know for sure I'm going to feel more confident in my skin and in my body getting rid of this kind of tire area around my waist that I have after having kids, you know, my flanks as they call them, Like, I'm gonna just feel better in my clothes. Everything's gonna fit nicer and things. I'm just gonna feel more confident, and so like, why should I not embrace that? And then on the other hand, I very much struggle with the idea, why the hell can I not just be confident with what I have. I'm not unhealthy, I have had children, my body has changed in the forty five years I've been alive. Why is that not okay? And I feel like then I start to think to myself, you need to embrace radical self acceptance, not going back to, you know, surgically altering yourself, because yeah, self improvement, because that's the only way you can feel confident. And I said, and also, so I'm not even I'm barely on camera anymore. I'm a director. Now what on earth do I have to you know, uphold some physical thing for And you said, well, because we do things like this. We were at a con and I was like right, and you were like, yeah, you know, people are taking your picture and they're putting your picture on the internet. And I was like, writer wants me to have a tell me no, no, no, And that's why you feel the pressure, right exactly.

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Speaker 1: We are still in the public eye.

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Speaker 2: We are doing a podcast right now, and like our videos are on Instagram, all the time. We do have to be somewhat aware that this is part of the job. Is like we you know, and people connect to us in part because they watched us on screen and looked at us and either liked looking at us or just want to go back and look at us again because it reminds them of their child or to the stories we were telling and that there were a part of their life. So when we look different, when we look older, that's like jarring. But then I was having this conversation with somebody and they were like, you know what's worse, though, is when you see somebody doing so much plastic surgery to not look and they don't look human anymore. Yeah, that's even more. And then you're seeing somebody desperate, and I'm like, yeah, but I understand it. I understand that impulse, and I I think it's just a struggle. I think it's always going to be a struggle for us, and I think it's struggle for everybody in the world of social media and in the world is so image based because we just that's how we communicate, that's how we communicate through visuals now and like completely like nobody just reads material from other people like you know, it's like you always are seeing somebody's face or yeah, I mean even like facetiming, like that's like Indy talks to people face to face on phone calls, Like that's crazy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's super important though, especially when it comes to stuff like social media.

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Speaker 4: To remember that everybody's lying.

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Speaker 1: True, it's true, it's not it's filters and nobody has this amazing life and you're looking for twenty minutes to get the perfect shot when really the rest of your day. Yeah, it's the idea of I have to put my best foot forward. It's this it's a fake life, which is one of the reasons why I do the finsta And I'm probably even on that too much, but I don't want to put myself out there.

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Speaker 5: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: And actors are the most insecure human beings in the world anyway. Like, as a group, a lot of people fake being really confident, but you actually talk to an actor and we're all the most insecure people in the world. And now that's spreading to everybody else because everybody has that same I have to look good on.

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Speaker 4: Social media, and I have to look great here, and I have to and it's awful.

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Speaker 1: It's just awful. So yeah, everyone's lying.

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Speaker 2: And now I think we've talked about this on the show before, but like Alex and I have a rule about like or just it's like a law of social media that like, the more somebody brags about their loving relationship, the closer they are to divorce. Of course, it's like the second of the post start company that's like, I have the greatest husband of the world.

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Speaker 6: You're like.

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Speaker 2: Split up, and you're like, I go, park, Like, no, just if you're cool in your relationship, you're probably just cool with it, you know. It's like usually you're just happy. You don't have to like talk about it all the time.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 5: I would also like to say that there are, at least for some people, for men in particular, there is a certain faction of people that'll go, oh, he's a gray fox, a silver fox. Oh he just got hotter with age. I love his wrinkles in his forehead. They make him look so distinct.

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Speaker 3: That's a double standard that women never forget.

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Speaker 1: Never no one knows.

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Speaker 5: You can look at two people who are the exact same age, have been married for thirty five years and they'll be like, Wow, the husband just got hotter, and they're like.

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 5: What happened to her? The same aging. It's just that we're a little more accepting of it on men.

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Speaker 3: I think it's gotten better though he has.

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Speaker 1: It's a little now.

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Speaker 2: It's like there are women that are appreciated and you cherish that look their age, and I think it's like, because yeah, I definitely feel that, Like I feel like you see it more. You see women without makeup, You see women being held up and still well, still in the public eye. Because he used to be literally, if you were an actress, you were done at like forty something, correct, If you were shut out, you just became what's a sunset boulevard? You're like in a mansion somewhere yourself because it was.

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Speaker 1: Picture.

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Speaker 2: It's definitely better than that now, totally, like you can still have an acting corepac Sue.

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Speaker 1: And I watch Love Island because it's just our guilty pleasure. And and so the show always starts where the women wake up in the morning and the men go make them breakfast, and the women sit in their makeup room and they do make up for an hour and a half and then they're in makeup all day long, and then at night they show them taking all their makeup off, and then they're all getting to bed.

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Speaker 4: And all the women look so much better.

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Speaker 1: Wait right before they're gonna go to bed, when they've taken all the crap off, and it's.

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Speaker 4: Like, you look so much better like that, And it's.

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Speaker 1: I and again, I'm not a woman. I could not imagine what it's. I know it's harder for a woman age, and it is for a man age. You can see that. It's just clearly the way that it is. But I think most men don't want all that crap. They're most men. I think women put it on for themselves to feel more confident for other women to look at them.

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Speaker 4: Because never as a man and been.

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Speaker 1: Like, wow, she needs a ton of makeup or I don't think she's it's like that just doesn't happen.

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Speaker 5: So she'd be so much more attractive with a ton, like a full pound of makeup on her face. But I will also say that the there are also a lot of men who are like you boy, with new makeup on, and you're like, have you my no makeup? Look? Yeah? Okay, that also took an hour that's just still my no makeup look. You know, it's like they think they want natural, but really that's like, well, I still got bowtos, I still have my hair colored, I still have my teeth whitened. I've had I've had a nose job. I get my eyelashes permanently dyed and curled. And you know, so even just my my eyebrows have been laminated.

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Speaker 1: And to be clear, you have not gotten. You haven't said.

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Speaker 5: No, I've actually never done any of that. I've I don't have laminated eyebrows. I don't have eyelash extensions. I don't have any of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But faminated eyebrows like like literally like laminated like a like a driver's license. Land.

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Speaker 5: Well, actually what I was trying to say was microblading. But lamination is another thing you can do.

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Speaker 2: So blad it just sounds like something you should not do't.

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Speaker 5: It's many tattoos, it's scarring and cheek bones with.

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Speaker 1: It. Get a puffy writer. I also do want to say, now that you are a podcaster and you're you're in that world, you also sound old.

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Speaker 2: That's good because I always sounded like a fifteen year old boy. My voice never changed, so I like sounding that's good.

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Speaker 5: I would just like to say both of you are beautiful men that the rest of the population would give a limb to look like. You both have very hot wives who think you are very hot, and you have so many things going for you on top of your good looks. You should just, honestly, every day you should just wake up and be like, oh, it's so nice to be hot. I want both of you to think that.

00:13:59
Speaker 1: I would talk, but you're going like I can't turn the air condition.

00:14:13
Speaker 5: Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Offishal, I'm so hot.

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Speaker 1: I'm writer strong well.

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Speaker 5: No, Welcome to today's episode recap. We are recapping season seven episode eighteen, How Corey and Topanga Got their groove Back. It originally aired March seventeenth, two thousand. The synopsis Corey and Tapanga try to shed their boring personas by hosting a bash on the same night as the school's biggest rager of the year. It was directed by Lynn M McCracken. She directed Really the Boy Meets World episodes one in season six, two in season seven, and this is her final episode. It was written by Barbie Feldman and before I jump into our guest stars. Do we have any overall thoughts?

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Speaker 1: Will good? Will hear me go? First? Yeah, I did not like this episode of Oh No, Oh God No. I thought it's just terrible. Well it's because, yeah, so the food fights and the sexual food fight things are not too much.

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Speaker 4: It's like, it's obviously very funny and having a great time.

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Speaker 1: So watching him is great. The bet story is the dumbest. It's it's so stupid and awful, and it was just painful to watch. Matt and I are both phoning it in. It's so none of it makes any sense. I hated I hated it. It's arguably the worst bet story of all of seasons. Saying something so.

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Speaker 2: Funny it really didn't bother me as much. My My biggest problem is that it was just very predictable, like it was. It's like a standard sitcom episode, like it literally follows like, which is fine. It's just a Boy Meets World usually breaks the stick coom mold a little bit, like it usually sets up like the Cory Topanga storyline is exactly what you'd expect. They they think they're they're gonna, they're not. They're boring. So they're gonna try and be risk a. Turns out they.

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Speaker 3: Like being boring, which makes them risk a.

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Speaker 2: Like it's so predictable, and the same with the It's like it's just follows like sitcom logic perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Which is a little boring to me.

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Speaker 2: But otherwise I thought it was cute and fine, and yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: The Beast story. This is it's it's so you're coming off of plays with squirrels and this is this is over the top where it's right, I'm wearing a helmet that says so they stop to stencil Eric on the helmet and it's a helmet that I have because I always hit.

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Speaker 4: My head, but I've never worn them before.

00:16:50
Speaker 1: And I'm sneezing the lottery numbers and a homeless person is then supposed to come and tell us that he's I'm there to see. I didn't get that.

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Speaker 5: Idn't understand that.

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Speaker 2: I thought he was going to get the car the to motto and win the millions, which I feel like maybe they had an original draft and they.

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Speaker 3: Were like, that's too predictable. Let's go the other way.

00:17:08
Speaker 1: And just none of this made The Beast story was just and again watching you and Ben just be you and Ben like this could be You could easily have seen how they could have spun you off into like a mad about you like that and that.

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Speaker 2: What's crazy about the season for me is that it's like the Corey.

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Speaker 1: To Panga season like that. It's so cool.

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Speaker 2: It's in some ways it's kind of a waste of like the rest of us. It's like we've set up all these characters and then we make it a couple show, you know, like and I don't mind that. It's just it's so interesting to realize, like, oh, this is why you know this The legacy of boy Me's world is so much Corey into Panga because for the last for the first five.

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Speaker 1: Seasons, it really wasn't you know, it really wasn't.

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Speaker 2: But now it really has become the show about their love and their relationship. And I mean, I thought those scenes were funny, like you guys in the bedroom, you guys.

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Speaker 1: It's when you think about when we went back and watched the show where the joke we were making for the first year or two was like on the show. So when you think about the actual writing magic trick they did to where by the end you're like, well, the show is about Corey Depanga. Yeah, it was always about really meant it's actually pretty brilliant when it's now it's Cory and de Panga, the A story, Eric has the B story, and even Sean is kind of lumped in with the rest of the crew.

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Speaker 4: It's it's it's real.

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Speaker 1: And I wonder if part of that is just the writing, and part of that is writer. They picked up your vibe whre It's like, writer doesn't really want to be here. We'll give them some stuff every episode.

00:18:35
Speaker 5: And you were at school.

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Speaker 2: I just think I also think in season six, Angsty Sean just didn't work, like it just it wasn't interesting and it didn't go and it felt young in a way.

00:18:45
Speaker 1: It felt it just felt wrong, right.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think they know what to do with me at this point, which is too bad because I actually could have I think, probably embraced some like if we had embraced the race issue, if we had embraced more things about the relationship other than we'll they won't they stay together, but actual like, what is it like for Sean and Angela to be in We don't ever get the same dynamic relationship that like Corey and Penga, when really we should have been a counterpoint for you guys constantly, right right, we're whatever, you know, breaking up and dating other people and that's making you guys.

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Speaker 1: Jealous or you know.

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Speaker 3: Instead, it's like, I don't know, it seems like a way so opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's one of the things where where the thing they did on Friends So Well is they were able to juggle the storylines for six different characters pretty brilliantly. And yes, while an episode might be focused on one character more than another, it never seemed like any of the characters are really marginalized for a long period of time, whereas our show never found that balance.

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Speaker 4: It was like, oh, if you're not part of this episode, you're just not part of it.

00:19:44
Speaker 1: It's a little impossible for our show.

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Speaker 2: Though, because i'man hearing you say that, I think part of the reason is they were adults. The point of that show is that they were established characters from the beginning, whereas our show, because we're growing, we're physically changing.

00:19:56
Speaker 1: You have to keep adjusting who these people.

00:19:58
Speaker 2: Are and how they relate to one another, and our life situation keeps changing.

00:20:02
Speaker 3: We're not living in an apartment in New York City. As like this starting of.

00:20:06
Speaker 2: The show, we've like every season, had to adjust the entire ladies. So that's like a huge writing challenge, Like how do you keep the characters consistent because it's an event.

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Speaker 1: You don't do in a story, in a B story, which is which is a format we were stuck with. You do a flowing multiple scene show. Corey and Tapangurs are some of the scenes, and Eric and Jack are some of the scenes, and Sean and Angel are some of the scenes.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's ways to do it. We're also, by the.

00:20:31
Speaker 1: Way, not using a tag anymore, which I think is a big mistake.

00:20:35
Speaker 5: Waste of minutes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, I think you know, again, hindsight being what it is, I think they were they thought there were too many characters towards the end, whereas really I just don't think the characters were utilized the proper way. Have you and Bill done anything together this season? Yes, isn't wasn't the trying to get the football player. Oh that's not right, the Jacquelina where I'm I'm the that was the whole thing. Trying to get phoeneied past the football player or had a couple of little storylines here and there, but now he's really.

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Speaker 2: Been under used the season because I feel like they kept, yeah, all the adults at this point, they're just like sidelined completely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but yes, watching Corey and Topanga be Corey and Topanga is a show on to itself. Ben is great.

00:21:24
Speaker 4: You're both great. You are coming.

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Speaker 1: Into your own as a comedian and you're you're finding jokes where there weren't any before, and they really didn't give you an opportunity to do that, Danielle, and you can see especially, you know, things like we were laughing about last episode, like saying goodbye the DVD player, like bye, that was all you. Yeah, so you're doing that more and more. Ben is being hysterically Corey and got He's so funny. So the two of you together is could have been an entire sit come on to itself, which again it kind of then they tried to do with Grolman's right because they saw what what that was. But the rest of it to me was just Yeah, the whole sneezing a lot of things that just killed me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is your go example of how ridiculous Eric gets you you've always said, and I never remember.

00:22:04
Speaker 1: This, but it's really it's just ridiculous.

00:22:08
Speaker 2: It is.

00:22:08
Speaker 1: It's bad, and it's but it's not even funny ridiculous like plays with Girls is funny ridiculous, right, this is just bad? So yeah, why is that?

00:22:16
Speaker 5: Is it?

00:22:16
Speaker 2: Because it breaks the rules of reality, like because you can become you become literally psychic, and that's the joke.

00:22:22
Speaker 1: I guess, but it's also a weird kind of psychic where well, I think the.

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Speaker 5: Main thing is what's the what happens He bangs his head, No, no, but what was the what's the moral of the story? Not to be greedy?

00:22:35
Speaker 1: Greedy?

00:22:35
Speaker 5: Jack shouldn't be greedy? Is that something that's affected anyone on the show at any point? Is that something?

00:22:42
Speaker 2: And Jack has always been established as a rich character who doesn't want to be rich, so he doesn't care about money.

00:22:47
Speaker 1: He never has.

00:22:48
Speaker 2: He in fact, has rejected his parents' money. That's kind of his whole jam.

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Speaker 1: Well, think about anytime, uh, and it's funny because this is being written by a guy who's got hundreds of millions of dollars. Think about any time anyone quote unquote rich comes on the show, they're the snoody like hello, and anybody who is rich has to play against Tony's character is has to get rid of Westport, but he can't be worried money is.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:23:12
Speaker 2: So that was definitely the values of the time, you know what I mean. That was like because in the nineties you didn't you.

00:23:18
Speaker 4: Ever wanted eighties you're coming off of exactly good.

00:23:21
Speaker 2: But now we've gone back to agreed is good completely and now it's just launted.

00:23:25
Speaker 1: If you got it, then we've stayed there. Yeah.

00:23:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the nineties was a little blip of like, you shouldn't ever showcase that you have money.

00:23:32
Speaker 1: Right, it's weird.

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Speaker 5: I loved the a storyline. I did really enjoy the Corey into paying aspect of it. I totally understand why you think it's why you think it's outlandish and crazy, and I think the bigger issue is it doesn't pay off. Plays with Squirrels is a thing about listen, moving forward in your life. These people that you're friends with now they are going to be the things that ground you, that keep you that they know you better than anybody. Don't be careless with the things that you do to the people that you love. Like it has such a it has a beautiful list, insanity for a great purpose, is character motivated.

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Speaker 3: It came from Eric.

00:24:10
Speaker 2: Yes, this is he literally gets hit on the head off camera, I know, and then has magical powers.

00:24:15
Speaker 3: And it's like but and it's just how he reacts to it.

00:24:18
Speaker 5: And then also he goes, this happens to me all the time, and you're like, wait, what happens to you all the time?

00:24:24
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:24:24
Speaker 2: I think if it been like he initiated something which Jack told him not to do, which then gave him the magical powers, then.

00:24:31
Speaker 1: We could see.

00:24:31
Speaker 2: But instead it's like it's completely it's just what if this crazy thing happened to Eric?

00:24:35
Speaker 1: What do you just write an Eric's storyline where he doesn't have magical powers?

00:24:41
Speaker 5: Or can I make a suggestion keeping the magical powers? What if Jack is the one who notices your magical powers and instead of being a reluctant participant, is the one who comes up with the idea of putting you know, of t oh, what else can you do?

00:24:56
Speaker 1: The lotto?

00:24:57
Speaker 5: The lotto's four million dollars and you know, because like right the way it starts, he's like, I don't want to do it, and you were like, you have to help me, and then he goes, actually, there is some good that can be used for this, and then you're going stop using my magical powers. You're the one who said, yeah, yeah, I don't know.

00:25:16
Speaker 2: It's just well, that's funny because that's my first note on the first scene, which is the quran tapanga literally say this isn't our scene, the entire scene. And then when I at the end go it's not really for you or it's not your scene, you guys get all upset. I'm like, you've literally been saying that for the first five minutes, So what are you mad about?

00:25:34
Speaker 5: It's so dad, I guess, I guess the idea there. The only thing that's kind of funny is the idea of like, oh my god, I can't stand my best friend. She's the worst. And someone else goes, yeah, she is a bitch, and you go, hey, don't talk about my best friend like that, where it's like, oh, no, fun clubs not for us. Yeah you're right, that's not for you. Excuse me?

00:25:55
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.

00:25:56
Speaker 5: Well, jumping into our guest stars, we have Rob Evers as punk. This was his first real job in Hollywood, and he would go on to appear in shows like How I'm At Your Mother House and Swatt plus the movie Project X. And he's still working as he was just announced as a cast member on the reality show House of Stossy. Literally just announced at the Hulu Get Real event. The actor on this show.

00:26:18
Speaker 3: Hold on, But what is punk? He's the role of punk.

00:26:20
Speaker 5: I'm gonna assume it's.

00:26:21
Speaker 1: The role of Drvin Right.

00:26:23
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, it's punk. Yeah, I don't know why, it says the reality guy.

00:26:28
Speaker 4: If he's an actor, they're supposed to be real totally.

00:26:33
Speaker 5: And then we have Forbes Riley as the TV reporter. As a child, Riley was named Miss Teenage New York and appeared on shows like The Practice twenty four and The Pretender, but would later become one of the most successful spokespeople in infomercial history, working with Jack Llane's power Juicer, Maxiglide, the micro Grill, and her own exercise device Forbes Riley's spin Jim.

00:26:57
Speaker 1: I want to hear again Forbes Riley Spin Jim for.

00:27:03
Speaker 5: She has generated more than two point five billion in sales and now helps others with advice on how to pitch their own products. Is she the most interesting guest? Star in Boy Meets World possibly Forbes. Are you ready for this? Forbes? Riley will be a guest on Pod Meets World?

00:27:23
Speaker 4: Really Borbes?

00:27:25
Speaker 5: Riley? And then Harley Zumbrum.

00:27:29
Speaker 1: Okay, cool? Someone just one.

00:27:32
Speaker 5: Harley appeared in Wow, but Harley Zumbrum played by He appeared in tough guy roles like cop, criminal, pool hall owner, and biker on shows like n y p D, Blue, Sybil, and Six Feet Under. He also played a convict in the movie Conair. This was his second Boy Meets World episode, as he played Swindle in season two's danger Boy. Sadly, he passed away in twenty twenty four at the age of seventy.

00:28:03
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry.

00:28:03
Speaker 4: He's the guy, don't you remember They cut.

00:28:05
Speaker 1: To the dude being uh interviewed the reporter who's like sitting there like like, yeah, that the it's I'm sure it's perfectly safe, like the roller coaster. He is the guy who owns the amusement park and walks up to the reporter and he's like chewing on his nails, like yeah, I'm sure it's perfect.

00:28:25
Speaker 2: This recap over because I have no recollection of that time too exists.

00:28:29
Speaker 1: What are we talking about like Danger Boy. Great episode. We loved danger Boy. Yeah yeah, remember liking danger and he was one with then on the.

00:28:37
Speaker 3: On the roller coaster.

00:28:38
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.

00:28:51
Speaker 5: All right, jumping into our recap, we start in the student union. Corey brings a latte to Topanga, cheerfully instructing drink up. We do not want to be late. Topenga assures him they'll make it, but Corey begs to differ. That's what you said on Sunday, and we missed most of sixty minutes. It's not called fifteen minutes to Benga.

00:29:10
Speaker 1: And that was that was a that Joe could have been should have been rewritten.

00:29:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, it shouldn't have been fifteen.

00:29:16
Speaker 1: It should have been fifty. Like you just missed ten minutes exactly.

00:29:19
Speaker 5: I know, because otherwise he does have a real reason to be right. You missed thety five minutes. It's not called fifty eight minutes. Yeah, I mean that's like a funnier joke, right.

00:29:27
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:29:28
Speaker 5: Then Rachel, Sean and Angela walk in all the.

00:29:31
Speaker 3: Leather jacket gay oh my God, to break out in song.

00:29:35
Speaker 5: And then they're both in long leather jackets.

00:29:39
Speaker 2: We literally every single one of us who walks together.

00:29:42
Speaker 3: The term is wearing a leather jacket.

00:29:44
Speaker 1: It gets better because I don't know if Matt and I did this on purpose, if the show did it, or whatever it was, but we're both wearing our wardrobe from H Double hockey Sticks. Really, so that's the jacket I wore an H Double hockey Sticks. I still have it, and that was the jacket Matt's character wore an H Double hockey Sticks. So yeah, and you guys came out that year.

00:30:02
Speaker 2: You guys probably literally were like, wait, everyone else to wear leather jackets, we could bring ours, And so we're you're literally wearing our our wardrobe from the movie.

00:30:10
Speaker 1: We just shot together that year.

00:30:11
Speaker 5: That is so funny. Yeah, that's definitely you guys were planning an Easter egg.

00:30:16
Speaker 1: We must have.

00:30:16
Speaker 3: I just wanted this all to like break out and dance with switchblades.

00:30:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, just like you know, one bad. Then Rachel, Sean, and Angela walk in all dressed up and hip black fits with leather jackets. Rachel searches for Jack and Eric, and Angela knows they have to hurry because this place is gonna get packed. Sean is sure they're waiting on jacket his hair to Penga butts in, where are you guys going? And Angela tells her the Blue Room. Corey's face hours, Oh I hate that place. Loud music, tight clothing, wild dancing. Sean sarcastically notes, yeah, why would we want to go there? Then Jack and Eric finally arrive, also looking like cool vampires, and apparently Eric is also part of the goate Club.

00:30:59
Speaker 1: Now, oh yeah, you notice that we're there. We're officially there.

00:31:02
Speaker 6: Huh.

00:31:03
Speaker 5: Also, it's one week after your supposedly fatty mcphatterson's and you don't have an ounce of fat on you.

00:31:10
Speaker 1: Well that's not true, but I definitely look thinner for some reason. Yeah, yeah, it's the way they they dressed me.

00:31:15
Speaker 5: I know they last week. They both of us.

00:31:18
Speaker 4: Also played it up.

00:31:19
Speaker 1: I like I think I pushed my belly out a little more on the last Yeah, bad posture, clout, I always have bad posture. I'm working on that now.

00:31:26
Speaker 5: Okay, good terrible. Jack complains that he doesn't want to go, but Eric insists. Jack wins, it's a disaster. You don't understand. It's just not holding all right, And of course he is talking about his hair. Meanwhile, Topega reminds Corey, I like dancing, So Rachel chimes in, why don't you come with us? Corey scoffs, because we have other plans tonight, or did we forget about watching the Doyle Quintuplets on twenty twenty. Tapanga reminds him they can tape it well. Jack is still complaining about his hair. Of all the nights, tonight is the night he ran out of hair gel. Corey isn't interested in to panga suggestion, no tape, it just is not the same. And Eric is trying to talk down Jack. If I were a woman, I'd think you were swell. Then he does a little eyebrow raise and kissy face at him. Jack optimistically lights up. Really and now topangas negotiating with why they're.

00:32:13
Speaker 1: Eric and Jack in this scene No idea because.

00:32:16
Speaker 5: Because they needed to establish that they were going to.

00:32:19
Speaker 1: No, it does nothing. It's just to show that the entire friend group is going out without Yeah, okay, that's.

00:32:25
Speaker 2: But they should have established the values that are going to play out in your storyline, like if, because right now they're having this whole conversation about Hairjael, which has nothing to do with the B story it could have been a moment to be like, I don't know, like something about Jack always spending too much or being greedy, right, like just a little bit of like there's a conflict here that's going to play out through theirs because none of this relates to gambling.

00:32:49
Speaker 5: He's playing the lotto, go back to something he's spending money on.

00:32:52
Speaker 1: It's weird.

00:32:53
Speaker 2: It's a wasted opportunity to have this weird joke of like, it's.

00:32:56
Speaker 1: Just they just wanted all of us together to show that everybody's going out without Corey, and.

00:33:00
Speaker 5: That was Yeah, Tapanga is negotiating with Corey. Fine, then we can watch it and go with them afterwards. Corey treats her like she's a crazy person and lasts off the idea. At eleven PM, Tapenga rolls her eyes and tells everyone to go have fun.

00:33:13
Speaker 1: Did everybody when they heard that go, I'm not going at eleven o'clock?

00:33:17
Speaker 5: I know, I was like, yeah at eleven not the idiot, Topanga.

00:33:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's exactly what I thought. Crazy.

00:33:24
Speaker 5: Sean tries to make her feel better about it. You wouldn't really have fun anyway, it's not your scene, and as they leave for a night out. Corey and Tapanga seem very offended by the content. Yeah, I get.

00:33:35
Speaker 3: Corey has described what he hates about this place.

00:33:37
Speaker 5: Yep, yep. And it doesn't sound like something other than the fact that Tepega does like dancing. It doesn't really sound like something to bang. Is that into either?

00:33:45
Speaker 2: No?

00:33:45
Speaker 5: Then we're in Corey in Tepega's apartment. Topanga is aggressively brushing her hair, repeating Sean's declaration from earlier, not our scene?

00:33:52
Speaker 1: What do they mean?

00:33:53
Speaker 5: Not our scene? And this is when I noticed something that we get a lot of emails about in the background on Corey into Penga's dresser.

00:34:02
Speaker 1: Yep, it was there last week.

00:34:04
Speaker 5: Do Hugsy Penguin it was there last week too, yep. Did you notice it is a stuffed pal from Friends?

00:34:13
Speaker 1: It's a joy? They do an entire storyline about it.

00:34:15
Speaker 5: Yes, I really think it's an homage. I think it's us paying an homage to Friends.

00:34:23
Speaker 1: What season was Friends in by this point? Do we know? Because that was Huggsy was way later because Rachel already had her baby, because that's what the show was about. That's what the episode was about.

00:34:34
Speaker 5: Okay, So Friends was on from ninety four to two thousand and four. So in this this the year two thousand six?

00:34:44
Speaker 1: Season six is what right now two thousand, but started in ninety four.

00:34:50
Speaker 5: Season six season starting two thousand and the start of season seven.

00:34:54
Speaker 1: I wonder who was first?

00:34:56
Speaker 5: I mean spring of two thousand. I don't season six started. I don't.

00:35:00
Speaker 2: We're in the spring of two thousand right now is when this episode is airing from Mars?

00:35:03
Speaker 1: I know?

00:35:04
Speaker 5: But so is when does Huggsy make an appearance? First appearing in the one with the Inappropriate Sister?

00:35:11
Speaker 1: So when did that air?

00:35:13
Speaker 5: Season five episode ten? Okay, so good. So season six started in the spring of two thousand.

00:35:17
Speaker 1: So literally, this is not this can't be the one with Hugsy. Oh, unless you know what it is. It probably it just shows they just show Joey napping with Huggsy. Huggsy's not part of the storyline yet, right.

00:35:28
Speaker 5: But we do see Huggsy. Yeah, so we see Huggy there. Okay, all right, So yeah it has to be an homage. I mean unless where we think we're at the show's trying to say it's operating in the same universe, or it's just.

00:35:38
Speaker 1: The same propous ground of the same prop house. This is the same propouse.

00:35:41
Speaker 2: So we just needed a stuffed animal or whatever, and we were all using the same prop house.

00:35:47
Speaker 4: But why would there be a stuffed animal back there?

00:35:49
Speaker 1: It doesn't make because it's.

00:35:50
Speaker 5: Like, no, it's definitely an homage. It's like also on the corner of the dresser in the front. It's it definitely wants to be seen. It's not like just a random thing they put.

00:36:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's the Yeah, that's the episode with George Newburn. Who Yeah, he and his sister.

00:36:05
Speaker 2: So who on our show was intentionally homaging friends? Our art department or our writing staff?

00:36:13
Speaker 1: Question?

00:36:13
Speaker 5: Good question.

00:36:14
Speaker 1: I would say maybe our writing staff, don't.

00:36:18
Speaker 5: I mean this episode was written by Barbie Feldman, do we think? But last episode in the last one too, maybe Patty and Laura maybe they wrote the last one.

00:36:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's quite possible. But yeah, that's good.

00:36:29
Speaker 5: I mean Patty and Laura were young, young cools who would have liked friends.

00:36:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, that's clearly has to be an homage. Yeah, Huggsy is their front center for sure.

00:36:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, so Cory's eyes are glued to the tv. Those Quinn tuplets are as cute As the Dickens Topanga's ramp continues. They think because we're married, we're not fun anymore. Corey says, I'll tell you who's fun. Ricky. Tapega doesn't know who he's talking about, so Corey explains he's the quintuplet that no one thought would make it. You get him Ricky.

00:36:54
Speaker 1: For a moment, I was like, are we talking about Ricky and Paris?

00:36:57
Speaker 5: I know that's what I thought. I believe they used. Tapenga turns the TV off in declares, we are boring. Corey can't believe what he's hearing. According to who, the in crowd at the Blue Room, why is he saying that? He started the scene by saying, not our scene?

00:37:20
Speaker 1: What are they? That's it?

00:37:21
Speaker 5: That is what he's saying. According to who, We're not boring. According to who, those losers I don't care about. He's still saying it. She According to who, she's the one who's saying we are boring. He's literally just in love with what he's doing, and I'm the one who's upset about this this life. Yeah, that makes to Pega reminds him, our friends didn't even invite us to go along with them. Corey brushes it off. Who cares, Now turn on the humidifire and come to bed. She takes her spot next to him in bed and let's out a happy sigh. We got everything we need right here, don't we, says Corey. She half heartedly agrees, I guess so. Then he shouts spoons and turns his back towards her, as dooming his position as the little spoon. As instructed, She turns the lights off and snuggles with him, But then a second later she jumps up and turns the lights on. We're in a rut. Just because we're Mary doesn't mean we have to be old. Corey doesn't get it old. Why because we choose to stay home and have a nice, quiet evening while the others are out gallivanting around trolling for happiness. To Panga declares, we have become your parents. This immediately gets Corey's attention. Never never mention my parents in bed.

00:38:29
Speaker 1: Now.

00:38:29
Speaker 2: If we have established anything about the Matthews, it's that they go out.

00:38:35
Speaker 5: I know they like it.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: They go to Aerosmith concerts, They go to hotel rooms and pretend to not know each other.

00:38:41
Speaker 1: They not boring, are not boring?

00:38:44
Speaker 2: They are constantly living in a good life and having romantic rendezvous.

00:38:48
Speaker 1: I don't get this at all.

00:38:50
Speaker 5: I don't either. It makes no sense. I don't know why she picked his parents. I don't. I mean, why not. We've become FIENI that.

00:38:58
Speaker 1: Is going to say the easiest thing to say, yeah.

00:39:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay to Penga says they have to do something drastic. Corey jumps up, Okay, fine, I'm getting dressed and we are going to that blue fish room. To Penga slams his drawer shut. Not like this, not because I'm forcing you to go with me. Corey shrugs, okay, fine, back to bed. Then he hops right back into his previous position. To Penga, size I just don't want to be excluded anymore. I want to have fun. Corey starts to see her point. Maybe you're right, maybe I am becoming a little set in my ways. He comes up with an idea. Tomorrow night, you and your old man are going to go to the hippiest, hottest Reginis party anyone has ever seen. To Panka asks where, and he grins right here. Then they high five and woolf. Corey tells her let's get to sleep. There's a six am saal at the Linen lofton guess who's got coupons?

00:39:46
Speaker 1: So they're planning a party for the following day, just the next night, the next night.

00:39:51
Speaker 4: Okay, yep, I know, And it makes I guess it makes sense.

00:39:54
Speaker 1: That they wouldn't know that the hippist party is that same night, because they wouldn't know when the Hippist party is, so that.

00:39:59
Speaker 5: No, I mean, and I guess it also does make sense that, like they are going out on a Friday night, and so it does make sense that they could plan something for the next I just don't know. Does anybody really do that? Does anybody go, Okay, you want to have fun, let's do it tomorrow night, twenty four hours from now.

00:40:13
Speaker 1: Right. Japang is such a planner that she'd be like, no, no, no, we're gonna do it next week. We're gonna do it right, We'll make sure everything's great. But yeah, yeah, she's not to peg anymore. She's Missus Matthews now, which is a different character.

00:40:24
Speaker 5: Totally different person. Now we're at the guy's apartment. Jack's reading the sports page when Eric screams from his room. Ow he walks out rubbing his head and the audience aws because I guess they feel sorry for him, and you get lots of.

00:40:37
Speaker 1: That's the thing, Eric, so much love.

00:40:39
Speaker 4: I go back to He's the golden retriever.

00:40:42
Speaker 1: You see a dog get hurt or something on camera, you're just gonna always be like, oh my god. I mean, that's Eric. It really is.

00:40:47
Speaker 5: It's true.

00:40:48
Speaker 1: I have a weird question, and I'm not trying to bash how I look, but I'm asking an actual question. If I looked the same way in season seven that I did in season six, or even season if I hadn't put on anyway, I had the long hair still look like that, do you think A they would have treated the character differently and B they would have hooked him up with Rachel.

00:41:14
Speaker 6: That's a really.

00:41:15
Speaker 2: Interesting question, man, And I don't I don't, Yeah, I don't know. I do think that there's something, there's something harmless and sweet about Eric. Yeah, yeah, But I don't know how much of that is based on you your looks.

00:41:32
Speaker 1: I mean, how much of that that's personality to it? Now? I mean, because of how I look, I've gone kind of the teddy bear rout. I'm kind of playing it. And again, I'm fine with that. That's it worked for the character at the time. But the character's so different in seven than he wasn't six that I'm wondering, if I still look that way, if they would have done completely different storylines, more girl stuff, more Jack and Eric are fighting over girls still.

00:41:56
Speaker 2: Like it's it's a chicken and egg thing, because Matt is so clearly the straight man in both terms of looks and his acting.

00:42:05
Speaker 3: You know, his characters perform like everything about him is like.

00:42:08
Speaker 2: I'm like the good looking lady's got ladies man sort of every you know.

00:42:13
Speaker 4: And so as they turned into the odd couple, which works. I'm not saying it doesn't work.

00:42:18
Speaker 1: The dynamic works, but it's a completely different dynamic now because of my physical appearance compared to what it was when we were he's playing into it. I think it's played into it a little bit. Sure, I think so too.

00:42:29
Speaker 3: And I think it's part of the reason why they probably did.

00:42:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but so what they got you and they got Jack and Rachel together that was in season six, right, Because wouldn't that have been.

00:42:39
Speaker 1: A perfect season seven kind of arc where it's like, all of a sudden, Eric and Rachel realize there's something there, and now they're going behind Jack's back, and that gives her something to do for the season.

00:42:50
Speaker 3: But they've lost They've you're right, they've taken away.

00:42:53
Speaker 1: All romantic inclinations from Eric.

00:42:55
Speaker 2: Yes, except that, oh right, sucking.

00:42:58
Speaker 1: The girl says that's that's kind of but it's but it's I mean, the girl part is gone. Girl crazy aera.

00:43:05
Speaker 5: Would you still be able to be a golden retriever of a character if there were storylines like you going behind your best friend's back? And I don't think that has anything to do with looks or wait or anything. I don't think they made that decision because they were like, well, he would never you know, grat he would never bag her that. I don't think that's it. I think it's literally just this is the moral compass of the entire universe on the show, right, and having one relationship storylines, you'd either have to be with Rachel, in which case then it would be a problem maybe with Jack, or we'd have to bring yet another character in, which would probably then separate you from the group. I think it's all just logistics and protecting the teddy bear of a character that you had developed over the seasons.

00:43:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I was thinking about that. I was just curious because they never.

00:43:55
Speaker 5: And I also don't think they wanted you to be pathetic. And if they, if you were going to be in a relationship with somebody, you could never do anything wrong or bad too in the relationship, in which case then you'd always be dumped.

00:44:09
Speaker 1: They made him a little pathetic this season with I mean, you've got.

00:44:12
Speaker 2: No, he's just not he's not motivated. The interesting one to me is that he's lost motivation to like, you know, I guess he's The pathetic part is that he's like stucking on her toes and like following, but he's not like dating or aggressively trying to find It's like he's lost all drive himself.

00:44:29
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but but they taught they they've talked about that. It's that they've made it sound like he's tried to date. And I see the way the women look at Jack and they don't look at me because of my seventy percent lab And then when I was dressing like a woman, you're talking about his hair cell exactly. It's they they're clearly playing into the he's the good looking guy Eric is the fat, funny one.

00:44:50
Speaker 4: And again I get why they wrote it, and it works.

00:44:52
Speaker 1: It is it really does delineate the two characters even more than it did in the previous season. So I get the dynamic. I'm just wondering how much they wrote to that because of how I looked, as opposed to what it would have been if I didn't look like that. Probably I think girls have existed.

00:45:09
Speaker 3: I think you're right. I think you're I think you're reading you know.

00:45:11
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is the the dynamic of actors and writers, right, Like you have to watch, especially when you're dealing with kids who are growing into bodies and growing into adulthood. You have to write to their strengths, or write to their looks, or right to all of it. So I think it does play a part in it, you know, for better or worse, I mean, And I think in this case, it actually was better in terms of the comedy because like having two good looking guys as roommate, like two like chiseled good looking guys as roommates who were both trying to be the straight and interest wasn't as interesting like we saw it. It was like, yeah, the first five episodes of season six, we were like, this is boring, man.

00:45:45
Speaker 5: Like, especially the competition aspect.

00:45:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't that funny, and it didn't bring out Matt's strengths. It didn't bring out you. And so like the second you became more of a goofball and went.

00:45:54
Speaker 3: With it, it was great.

00:45:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:45:55
Speaker 2: And obviously they hg double hockey sticks, probably play them on the same dynamic. I don't, I've never seen the movie. But are you like the goofball sidekicking that?

00:46:03
Speaker 6: No?

00:46:03
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm I'm a minion of Satan going to buy Matt Lawrence and Soul's Okay, he's a hockeyckey player.

00:46:10
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so he's a straight man and you're the person coming in Okay, Yeah, yeah.

00:46:13
Speaker 1: I'm definitely the goofball. But yeah, but it's yes, yeah, I was just I was thinking about that because they never did try to get Eric and Rachel together in.

00:46:22
Speaker 5: Any way, shape or form, I know, And I really did think, why do I have a memory of that happening?

00:46:27
Speaker 1: Because we made out in one episode that was like a fantasy episode. That's probably right, That is what I was, which I didn't remember that. I was like oh god, Maitland and.

00:46:33
Speaker 5: I have kissed. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Jack reads him with a good morning, but Eric pleads make it better. Jack's eye for the last time. Kissing the boo boo doesn't make it go away. You'll be fine. I know, wrong, My kid's absolutely science. Eric argues, this booboo feels different, it feels special. My nose is all tickley, and I just feel like and then he lets out a huge sneeze right into Jack's bowl of cereal. Eric blurts out, you're gonna pour milk into your cereal. Jack counters, not that I'm going to eat it now, but then he doesn't. I know, he doesn't do it.

00:47:03
Speaker 4: So Jack never pours milk into a cereal.

00:47:05
Speaker 1: You're right, so the silkyowers is that's the point, doesn't work, and it's like, but then the numbers are real, right, But then their numbers are so he really does understand what's going on, and so none of it made it. He never pour It was like, Okay, you've just killed the theory in the very first joke you made. That's pretty funny.

00:47:22
Speaker 5: That is funny. But Eric's in disbelief. This is amazing. When I sneezed. I saw a vision of you pouring milk onto your cereal. Jack isn't sold. No, this is just more background information for the nice people at the asylum. Eric agrees, you know they were nice. Jack pushes him aside to get a piece of toast, and Eric continues smashing my head is what gave me my special powers. When I sneeze, I see the future. Oh, he feels one coming on. He sneezes, then screams out, there's a fire at the Peterman warehouse. A second later, on the TV, the anchor slash millionaire infomercial entrepreneur has breaking news. This just in. There's a fire at the Peterman warehouse. This is all the proof Eric, it's his powers are real. Jack wins, No, no, no, this can't be happening. But Eric knows the routine. Yes, Jack, we've been down this road before. Something amazing happens to me. You try to resist, and I pull you down anyway. Jack submits, fine.

00:48:15
Speaker 2: Which I guess is true with the Lucky Penny episode. That's really the only Yeah, okay, we've.

00:48:20
Speaker 1: Done other things like this where it's like the bank, the bank, Yeah, you know, pulling him down crazy roads. That kind of thing. I thought when I said, I thought I was going to pull a joke there, I thought. When he said, we've been down this road before, this road called life, like I thought we were, I was going to throw it a a meta way. He's all a joke yet.

00:48:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, fine, I'm gonna die either way. I believe in your stupid little powers. Eric is thrilled. All right, See that was painless.

00:48:44
Speaker 1: Now.

00:48:44
Speaker 5: The first thing I believe we have to do is determine why God gave me this power. I wonder why he gave it to me and not someone like say, oh, I don't know you. Then eric'sneezes again, this time blurting out twenty one forty six fifty three. Jack Wins's you snoted on me, But Eric repeats his vision, Dude, twenty one forty six fifty three. Those are my Nana Boo boo's measurements. She is hot?

00:49:11
Speaker 1: What is this like? Why are the Nana Boo boo measurements? Nothing?

00:49:15
Speaker 5: I mean measurements are across the top of your chest, your waist, and your hips and normally the I guess the I mean.

00:49:22
Speaker 1: Literal twenty four thirty six is the one they say, is like the perfect tape, right, it's actually weird looking.

00:49:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're wide here, very narrow here, and then wider in the hips. So in these measurements, she's very small in the top, medium in the in the waist, and then bigger in the hips. So she's stayed like shaped, not even bell shaped, triangle shaped.

00:49:42
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, and my grandmother I know.

00:49:47
Speaker 5: So why then the news reporter makes another announcement, hurry to those lotto machine folks. Tonight's Pennsylvania lottery is nearly four million, Jack perks up. I mean, isn't that funny too, that that four million? And was like you made everybody jumping around and now we have one billion dollars. Yeah, it's insane, Jack perks up. Oh no, no, no, no, no, those aren't Nana Boo Boo's measurements. Those are lottery numbers. Eric reminds him the lottery's got six numbers, so Jack encourages him that's right, come on, sneeze me the rest. Eric contends, I am not a carnival act. Well, yeah, I am a carnival act. But my sneezing is a gift. It's a gift that should not be abused, unless, of course, we can use it to get chicks. Jack clarifies, we get those lottery numbers and you can buy all the chicks you want. Okay, so come on, sneeze me the rest on cue. Eric sneezes again and shouts the King of Norway's having a fish.

00:50:43
Speaker 3: And so Eric is okay with it if you can get chicks.

00:50:47
Speaker 1: No, none of the it's it's just it's it's absurd.

00:51:02
Speaker 5: And we're in the student union. Corey's handing out flyers to students, including Rachel and Angela, repeating come to our party, come to our party. The girls look at the flyer and Angela wonders what party. Rachel reads the invite Corey into pangas we are out of our rut rip roar and party party.

00:51:17
Speaker 1: I would love to have this flyer. I kept looking.

00:51:20
Speaker 2: I want this because I was trying to figure out the little drawings. It looks like there's a car.

00:51:26
Speaker 4: It's like a fifth grade kid's birthday party.

00:51:28
Speaker 1: It's Friday.

00:51:29
Speaker 2: It would be a great T shirt.

00:51:33
Speaker 5: We wonder if you can posit, and if we can posit and.

00:51:35
Speaker 2: Make a T shirt, we should make merch that's just come to Corey to Panga's Party's cute.

00:51:40
Speaker 5: We are out of our rut rip ror and party party.

00:51:43
Speaker 2: Yes, And then she talks about what it says on it later, like what I guess it says.

00:51:46
Speaker 1: No parents allowed the M two question.

00:51:51
Speaker 3: We gotta make this we have to figure this out shirt.

00:51:56
Speaker 5: They giggle and Angela continues to read Cake ice Cream, Games, Surprises, Look Sean Surprises. I loved this read. She said that was look Sewan Surprises, Look, Sehn Surprises, Supress funny. Sean smirks and yells over to Corey, what's with the party. Corey's offended. What a couple of people like us can't throw a hoe down? Then he does a little dance to emphasize his point. YEP, Sean congratulates him forgetting out.

00:52:26
Speaker 2: Ben is just like, how can I make ride her laugh? And he is like, you know, he like, I just let him go for like minutes to in rehearsal. So he's waiting for me to keep to stop, and I just refuse to say my line.

00:52:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a fun dynamic. That was the best.

00:52:40
Speaker 5: Sean congratulates him for getting out of his rut, and Corey instructs his friends in the Jewish grandmother accent. For no reason. I want all you kids to wear your tassels in your leather, and you get up and such, and I will see you all get it and such. They all look concerned. Rachel questions, tonight. Corey exclaims, yes, tonight, Saturday. I know I've been out of the loop for a while, but isn't that the night y'all rebel rouse Angela answers, yes, it is, especially this Saturday night. Your party is the same night as Jerry Durvins. Corey doesn't see the problem, so Rachel clarifies Jerry Durvin's party is the best party of the year. Sean jumps in, no big deal. We'll go to Corey and to Panka's party, and then we'll go to Durvans and have some fun. Corey asks, excuse me. Sean responds, don't worry. We won't leave until your party's over. Your thing will be done by ten right. The inmates ooh at that one, as it seems the goateee has made him quite the little a hole.

00:53:36
Speaker 1: A.

00:53:36
Speaker 5: Corey tells him to look carefully at the flyer and tell him what it says. Sean reads no parents allowed. M nice touch. Corey tells him to read on. Sean reads aloud eight o'clock to question mark. Corey repeats question mark, Shawnnie, do you know what that means. It means nobody knows when this party's gonna end. Do you know? Sean shakes his head no, and Corey wonders, do I not?

00:54:00
Speaker 2: Oh?

00:54:00
Speaker 5: Sean says no, so Corey excitedly exclaims it's totally impossible to predict. Rachel jumps in and tells Corey not to worry. They'll spend plenty of time at his party. Corey blows her off. No, it's fine. You go to Dervan's and make nice nice with the cool kids, but you are making a big mistake, Missy, by doubting the power of a Corey into panga party. Sure we won't be in leather, but that's because I'm allergic and Topega is a sweater. Sean assures him, calm down, we're coming to your party. Corey gets even sassy. Here, don't do me any favors. The whole campus has seen these fliers, Shawnee, so there might not even be room for you or this thing on your face. Then he plays with Sean's little flavor saver.

00:54:41
Speaker 1: Oh, don't ever say flavorsaver. It's so disgusting. It's called that because of why I think it's called that.

00:54:47
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, oh gross, so disgusting.

00:54:50
Speaker 2: I'll add it to the list of stummyache, nippies, pooky pooks, stinkle and tushy that.

00:54:55
Speaker 3: I have written here on a post.

00:54:57
Speaker 1: Yes, just keep it in my desk. Favorsa what on there? Put that on?

00:55:09
Speaker 4: No from our Okay, I thought we were just saying awful things.

00:55:12
Speaker 1: Gotcha happy that?

00:55:15
Speaker 2: Actually we didn't say flavor saver in the episode we just had on the podcast.

00:55:18
Speaker 5: The podcast, Yeah, I just put an asterisk. Sean is sure he doesn't mean that, but Corey begs to differ. He snatches the flyer back from Sean. Don't come to our party. Then he takes back the flyers from the other random students in the union. Repeat that doesn't make any sense.

00:55:34
Speaker 2: Should take it back from me and Rachel and Angela and then walk out.

00:55:39
Speaker 4: Literally taking it from you and handed it to somebody.

00:55:41
Speaker 2: Exactly, or he said not you, not you, you can come.

00:55:45
Speaker 3: You could come and then walk down.

00:55:46
Speaker 5: But in this Sace, in this case, it makes sense that then no one showed up, because.

00:55:49
Speaker 3: It exactly it appears that he walked around.

00:55:52
Speaker 5: The implication, too, is that he's continuing this as he goes, taking away invitations from everyone.

00:55:57
Speaker 1: No, he should have said, taken it from you and god uninvited, and handed it to somebody who already had a flyer. Yeah, totally, don't.

00:56:07
Speaker 5: Come to our party. Don't come to our party. Before leaving, he turns around and shouts, but will compare notes on Monday about who went to the better party, and I take notes like a secretary, and.

00:56:21
Speaker 2: It totally it put me in mind of his Jimmy Glick impression, which we talked about.

00:56:26
Speaker 1: Yes if I, if you.

00:56:30
Speaker 3: He would do the rhythms of the Jimmy Glick interview and get that face.

00:56:38
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was so funny.

00:56:41
Speaker 5: The batch he pauses, he will compare notes. I take notes like a.

00:56:45
Speaker 2: Secretary, secretary, and then it's so it's like the moment of doubt that it was not a good line.

00:56:53
Speaker 5: I'm committing to it and committing to it anyway.

00:56:55
Speaker 3: I said secretary, which sounds bad, but.

00:56:57
Speaker 1: I'm going with it. Oh god, he's so funny.

00:57:00
Speaker 5: Then we're at the gas station, which is a new and weird set. Alert. Jack and Eric walk in to buy those lottery tickets and Eric is wearing a helmet. He doesn't understand a weird set and.

00:57:10
Speaker 2: This weird defensive set because you have to put in.

00:57:13
Speaker 5: All those snacks.

00:57:14
Speaker 1: Yes, it's like a really expensive set for I don't need it a big scene.

00:57:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know.

00:57:21
Speaker 1: Weird.

00:57:22
Speaker 5: Jack and Eric walk in to buy those lottery tickets and Eric is wearing a helmet. He doesn't understand why Jack forced him to wear one, and Jack explains, you have a propensity for an on que. Eric runs headfirst into the door and falls to the ground.

00:57:33
Speaker 1: It's a bad fall. I want to do that again. I want to do to The fall is good. The hit wasn't good. Yeah, the hit is very telegraphed. Yeah, I would love to have done that again, but the fall was good. But yeah, got one.

00:57:45
Speaker 5: I think you have big feet, and so the problem is getting your head. When you take a step, your foot touches the door before your head, so there's really no way of you and a half. There's no way of getting your head there before an other part of your body.

00:58:01
Speaker 3: I have a big uvula, so it would have been fine for me because would have done it.

00:58:06
Speaker 1: Correct.

00:58:07
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:58:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just see bugs bunny like punching it like.

00:58:11
Speaker 5: Exactly, Jack adds head drama. Eric jumps back up and eyes the door before stumbling inside. He sees right through his friend. You don't care about my head. You just care about your stupid lottery numbers. I mean, sure, the helmet looks good, but this wasn't a gift given out of love. This was given out of greed. Jack's too busy writing down the lottery numbers to care. So Eric gets in his face. You take all the fun out of sneezing. Jack isn't fazed, instructing him to sneeze you, baby. He pulls out of pepper shakers. Eric begs him, not the pepper my nostrils ert Eric is pretty.

00:58:46
Speaker 2: Funny, I mean, throw at you and forces you to see Jack, Jack, Jack, that's.

00:58:55
Speaker 1: Funny, dude. I was dying. I was like, that's just a funny image. It's a funny image, but I mean the storyline, it's so, oh my god, it's funny. I'm sorry. Jack, Yes, and getting away with a lot more in seasons.

00:59:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, were earlier we couldn't even say sucks.

00:59:12
Speaker 5: No, yeah, so yeah, come on, man, I got twenty one, forty six fifty three and then I got nothing. I need you to help me out. He tells Eric. It's now or never. Eric sneezes again, but this time he says, oh my gosh. Jack guesses the numbers and Eric responds, no, someone's in trouble. That's what I just sneezed. We've got to get out of here. Jack grabs him by the collar. That's ridiculous. Who's in trouble. Eric admits he doesn't know, but he does know this person needs his help. He explains, God gave me these powers to help people, not to give them stupid lottery numbers. Jack consists, I'm people, I'm people.

00:59:45
Speaker 1: Help me.

00:59:46
Speaker 5: Eric scoffs and begins to walk out. Then he sneezes directly onto a random girl. He looks at her and casually announces he's cheating on you. She shoots daggers at her boyfriend as Eric sneezes once more, and he's gonna rob this place. He points to the man. You know what, You're just a bad guy. Then Eric stumbles out once again, slamming his head into the front door.

01:00:05
Speaker 2: I thought there was gonna be a payoff here that the guy actually had, like a gun falls to the ground.

01:00:09
Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing, the fact that he just said someone needs my help and then calls out that someone's about to watch to replace sure everyone in here then is the person who needs the help. It should have been just the cheating on you. And then if they wanted to elevate it one more time, there should be something else, but not something that puts someone in danger because we want I then forgot that we need to talk about anybody being in danger. Once they pointed out the guy was going to rob the place.

01:00:34
Speaker 4: He also sees things in the future.

01:00:36
Speaker 1: So does he see the guy sleeping with somebody other than her? Is that how he knows he's cheating? Mm hmmm, let's take them seriously, That's what I'm saying.

01:00:49
Speaker 5: It's then we're back in Corey in Tebanga's apartment. It is decorated for the party. Corey excitedly calls for Tapanga, Tabanga, could you come in here for a moment. Tapanga walks in and seems a little concerned about the decorations. Honey, don't you think this might be a little much Corey disagrees, No, I think people appreciate it when you go the extra mile to panga nods and a timer goes off. Oh my keishes are done?

01:01:11
Speaker 1: Also, how many are you making because it seems like there's platters of keish everywhere.

01:01:17
Speaker 5: Well, we think we're having a rager. We've passed out flyers, so why wouldn't.

01:01:21
Speaker 1: That just be jello shots?

01:01:22
Speaker 2: I also, can I just say, I think both of you look fantastic?

01:01:27
Speaker 1: You do? Is that my age? Or is that they actually look great?

01:01:31
Speaker 2: And you're everybody? You both better than you have the entire season. So I talked about you guys were dressing dorky is actually so good for both of your characters.

01:01:44
Speaker 1: You you look great, even Ben Shoes. I was like noticing. I'm like, he looks amazing you.

01:01:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love this look they have for him, and we.

01:01:51
Speaker 1: Get to see your arm.

01:01:53
Speaker 2: Oh scandalouss scandal we're getting ahead of ourselves.

01:01:57
Speaker 1: But yeah I did.

01:01:59
Speaker 5: I did notice that. Pretty crazy. Corey explains, you know, I thought people might be tired of twenty questions, so I got a few other games. He grabs some board games off the top of the fridge while putting the keishes on the stovetop to Pega isn't sold. Oh, Corey, I think people might be tired of But then she can't hide her excitement. Oh clue, I haven't played that game in years. Corey is devishly proud of his decision. Exactly that guy Dervin may have flashed, But we've got substance. This party is going to be quite satisfying. Tapega feeds him a kish taste. This Corey is satisfied, hmm, Kisha delicious. He goes in for another keish, but Topanga takes the pan away. Corey have to save some for our guests. They're going to be here in two minutes. Corey starts stressing, it's seven fifty eight already. I haven't even picked the music yet. Well to Panka sets the table. Corey runs over to the cabinet. What should we start with? Corey asks, Tapenga doesn't know something we can dance to. Corey gets a look in his eye. That's exactly what I was thinking. He puts on a little bit of samba and then starts dancing to it, trading off that bus that's Bombo. I don't know, Oh gotcha, I think.

01:03:01
Speaker 1: You would because you were on Dancing with the Stars.

01:03:03
Speaker 5: Yeah that was last year.

01:03:05
Speaker 1: Oh gotcha. This isn't like a vnd's march exactly. Neither of you were holding frame.

01:03:12
Speaker 5: I think the chirn says somba music. Gotcha, uh, trading off, moves to his ears and bobbing around, though he looks a little crazy to Panga joins in, and then in the hallway we see Sean, Angela, and Rachel are just arriving to the party. Sean says, Angela, if you tell me one more time that we left Durvin's party right as you were about to get your groove on all. Angela cuts him off and threatens you'll what scared. Sean quickly responds nothing, dear. Rachel reveals I was getting on my groove too, you know. Angela and Sean look at her with a raised eyebrow. Rachel quips back what it would have happened. Eventually, Sean tries to get their spirits up. It's only ten o'clock. We'll be back at Durvans by eleven. Angela is frustrated. Corey does not want us here anyway. Sean knows Corey better than that. That's what he said, But what he meant.

01:03:58
Speaker 2: Was terrible scene. This is like, the three of us are just so bad.

01:04:04
Speaker 6: These three characters and these three actors should not be together, and everything is bad about We are all just like expositional delivery, and none of us want to be there.

01:04:15
Speaker 1: It's well, just hear it, you recount it. I'm like, oh, I just want to die inside. I will say. I still own this shirt that I'm with. Do you really it is completely faded.

01:04:26
Speaker 2: I was so happy to see the dragon very prominent in the black. It's an urban outfitter's dragon shirt. Red dragon is so faded it is barely there.

01:04:35
Speaker 1: The sleeves are free. I still wear this.

01:04:37
Speaker 2: On a regular BASI had it in gray and I had it in black for Shawn Hunter, and I took them both, and the gray has a red dragon. That one is still somewhat on the gray in the gray, but the black one of the white is just the white dragon is gone. So I was looking at it, going, oh man, it was still so so bright.

01:04:55
Speaker 1: Still love that shirt.

01:04:56
Speaker 5: But what he meant was if you don't, I'll nag you till you bleed. Arrive at the door and see signs that read entering Funville. Do not enter unless authorized for fun Danger party ahead and no parents loud. Angela is overwhelmed. Damn. Sean opens the door and here's the tribal music, but instead of a party, it's just a panga and Corey sitting on a couch, defeated, crushing the keysh in a factory line for size.

01:05:22
Speaker 1: You just holding the thing and him just slamming the keys down and you're putting it over him slamming the key.

01:05:26
Speaker 3: It's but you don't notice the door opening.

01:05:29
Speaker 2: No, no, of course, not with this door. This is the magical door. Is the door nobody knocks on. It never gets locked. People just open it and Stane asylum workers just walk through.

01:05:40
Speaker 5: And then there's a ten sad break. Sean has closed the door, which they also didn't notice, and retreated back into the hallway. He can't believe it. Nobody came. I feel so bad, Rachel says. Angela nods. They look devastated. Rachel thinks they should do something, but Sean is already walking away. Angela's confused, where are you going back to Dervin's party? Sean explains, and the girls follow him out, and then we're in the apartment to Panga.

01:06:03
Speaker 2: I mean this is like, is the is the implication that you're supposed to be worried that Sean doesn't care about his friend?

01:06:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's not clear, Like is it?

01:06:12
Speaker 1: Is that what it's supposed to be?

01:06:14
Speaker 3: It should the whole setup for us walking up to the door.

01:06:17
Speaker 1: Ye should be.

01:06:19
Speaker 2: They don't want to go. I don't want to go, but at least you know Corey and Sean Corey in Tebanga will be having fun.

01:06:25
Speaker 1: Don't worry.

01:06:25
Speaker 3: We'll just stay for it.

01:06:26
Speaker 2: And then I see it's awful, and then it's like uh, and then I should say something that implies let's go back to Durwin's party where at least we can have fun.

01:06:33
Speaker 1: I don't know, I go back to Durvin's party to get the crowd to bring I know that.

01:06:37
Speaker 2: You know that, but shouldn't. Story Wise, we'd be wondering if Sean's going to turn on his friend.

01:06:43
Speaker 1: Like there should be so dynamic ko I think, you know, like the second because it seems like you leave with the mission and while and it's certainly they you're like, I'm going back to Durvans. I think because you were being a jerk quote unquote jerk in the beginning, right, this is my setting it up that you're supposed to, Oh, wow, Sean is really being a jerk, and then you come back with the crowd. It's like, no, he's being shown.

01:07:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yes, that's what I mean.

01:07:03
Speaker 2: I never believe that I was being a jerk. I never believe that I was being a jerk. Like this moment just seemed like going back to Durman's and it should have been a dynamic like between the three of us where they think I'm being a jerk.

01:07:13
Speaker 5: Right where you like, that's pathetic, let's get out of here.

01:07:16
Speaker 2: Of course, and they yeah, something like what happened, or like I don't even want to talk about it, you don't want to see what's behind this door, and then I run.

01:07:22
Speaker 5: The only thing that sells it for me is the fact that they ask you where you're going, and you say back to Durvins, and they look to each other like.

01:07:29
Speaker 1: I guess we're going.

01:07:30
Speaker 5: I guess I guess.

01:07:31
Speaker 3: They want to go back to Durns, like I know.

01:07:33
Speaker 5: But but the fact that they're like, should we now, it seemed to me like they were thinking shouldn't we do something, And you're the one who's like the ring leader getting them back to the party. So it did sell it for me a little bit, but not it could have been better set up because you're saying it should have been more clear that you're being a jerk, right, yeah, yeah.

01:07:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, And Angela and Rachel would never be jerks either, like they're really good friends with Topanga.

01:08:01
Speaker 5: Well, I think that's why they give that look of like, are we really abandoning them? Follow Sean right, it's yeah.

01:08:08
Speaker 1: I think you're just supposed to think you're going back to the party when you're going back to me, right.

01:08:13
Speaker 3: And I didn't. I never believe that I was going back to the party.

01:08:16
Speaker 2: I never believed that there was any conflict between us about going back to the party. I think you could have played it out a little bit and said, you've got three very stale actors just not announcing exposition to each other as they walked through a hall day.

01:08:41
Speaker 5: We're back in the apartment to Panga and Corey or comatose on the couch to Panga lays sadly on Corey's stomach. Corey sad as can be. Corey responds yeah, honey, nobody came to our party, to Pega reveals, while pouting, Corey knows. He admits, I almost left to peg has seen enough that we are a boring married couple who doesn't know how to have fun. Corey disagrees, We're not a boring couple. We're a young, vibrant, healthy, exciting couple who've been saddled with superficial friends who wouldn't know a good party if it fell on their heads. They both look upset to Panka starts trashing the snacks, but Corey makes an observation, you know, maybe it's a good thing that no one showed up. I mean, those keishes warn't your best. To Panka is confused what Corey tries to explain himself. I mean, don't get me wrong, they were great. I'm just saying, you know, you've made better. It's a compliment, really, to Pega drops a keish on the floor and smiles, really, well, do you want to compliment from me? Her smile disappears. Bite me, excuse me, Corey asks. Tapanga suggests maybe nobody came to the party to eat my keishes because they read your great jokes on the flyers. Come join our party. It'll be partyrific. Buckle up for the ride to Fundville. Are those jokes all those jokes now?

01:10:00
Speaker 1: No?

01:10:01
Speaker 5: Okay, their quips right exactly? Quippi, what is that? Corey calls it wit And it wasn't the jokes that kept people away? To Panga sarcastically wonders, was it the signs on the doors? Because I guess not as many people were authorized for fun as you thought. Corey's getting angry. Well, what about your dumb dance music? I mean that really packed him in, but he puts the music on. It's his choice.

01:10:28
Speaker 1: Yep, sure was.

01:10:31
Speaker 5: To Penga gets even great, even angrier. Oh my dumb music. Are you sure you don't mean dumb tastic or super duper dumb dumb?

01:10:39
Speaker 7: That I that's my favorite episode, fantastic, All this other this, this whole scene starts to feel like conflict building for the sake of conflict building.

01:10:49
Speaker 1: But that one actually made me laugh.

01:10:52
Speaker 5: Corey starts yelling, you know what, Topanga, you were the one that started this whole thing. He mocks her. I want to be hip. We're in a rot. He continues. I was perfectly happy staying home on a Saturday night and doing nothing to Panga yells back, well, I'm not I want to go out, Corey. I want to have fun. I want to be wild. Corey laughs wild ha, you wouldn't last ten minutes in those night gloves to Panga says, cram it, old man, and then take some party guacamole in her hand and smears it all over Corey's face and vest.

01:11:22
Speaker 2: I cannot tell you how gross I find food and sex combinations in life in general, not even like chocolate creaming, nothing, hate it all you always have.

01:11:33
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because of this.

01:11:35
Speaker 2: You may try no never, because I think it's probably because of Boy Meets World, because when I watched this, I get sick to my stomach and it's like weird.

01:11:43
Speaker 3: It makes me uncomfortable. I love hu, I love sex.

01:11:47
Speaker 1: I don't want them to have anything to do with each other. And I maybe it's.

01:11:49
Speaker 2: Because of this, because I was watching this and I was like it was like a horror film with like body horror that I had to like cover my eyes. I was like, oh, oh my god, is she going to kiss him with that guacamole like on his face? It's like I'm going to throw up, and then the next scene I couldn't watch.

01:12:01
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, well, I mean somebody, somebody clearly has a fetish when it comes to food insects. It's been used on our show a number of times.

01:12:10
Speaker 5: I remember them talking about this scene and you're saying they wanted it to be like nine and a half weeks.

01:12:17
Speaker 4: They actually said that it felt that long.

01:12:20
Speaker 1: Is it not half a week? Half weeks? Where the like anal sex with butter scene happens?

01:12:24
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I've never seen it.

01:12:25
Speaker 1: What now I'm watching it? What is it's? Is that the Marlon Brando I've never seen it?

01:12:31
Speaker 5: But no, hold on, hold on, it's something you.

01:12:34
Speaker 1: Threw that out there, like you you know what's up? No one knows what I'm talking about.

01:12:38
Speaker 4: This is this a famous Hollywood scene?

01:12:40
Speaker 3: But yeah, Marlon Brando, get the butter.

01:12:43
Speaker 1: Look at it.

01:12:44
Speaker 2: And I probably know this because of the butter scene. Oh it's Last Tango in Paris. Yeah, cheese, Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. Yeah, I've never seen it, but it's uh wow, lots of sex with food.

01:13:00
Speaker 1: Your own scene was a salted butter. Some important questions I can't irish because when it's grass fed, it makes a difference. We're trying to watch our cholesterol, so when we have anal sex we use I can't believe it's not.

01:13:15
Speaker 5: Butter Nine and a half Weeks an unrivaled sexy classic that shall always be remembered for the scene where Mickey Rourk seduces Kim Basinger with a very liberal use of berries, honey, and several other flavors while she sits eyes closed and enjoys the function. Surely one of the sexiest food scenes of all time.

01:13:37
Speaker 1: I've never seen that.

01:13:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember that being brought up and being like.

01:13:43
Speaker 1: It's just I guess you're right. If if it's your your thing, there's something sexual about it.

01:13:50
Speaker 5: But if it's you're not trying to I'm not trying to kink shame you, but no exactly.

01:13:55
Speaker 1: But if it's not your thing, then it's just kind of gross and a real waste of food. You know.

01:14:01
Speaker 2: Will You've said this before that it was like someone on our set had a fetish for it.

01:14:05
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's necessarily true.

01:14:06
Speaker 2: I think it's actually just kind of the safest visual sex thing you can do.

01:14:12
Speaker 1: But you can't.

01:14:13
Speaker 3: You can't show sexiness, and especially in a kids show.

01:14:16
Speaker 2: Any other way, you know, where there's a level of like sort of like messy, you know, like you're not going to rip each other's clothes off, even though we do a little bit here, you can't go far, but you can smear food on each other, and it visually says like.

01:14:30
Speaker 1: We're getting down and dirty, do you know what I mean?

01:14:32
Speaker 5: Like it's I don't know what I mean, predumity to you, Yeah, for a purpose that isn't just sexual, Yeah, because.

01:14:38
Speaker 2: I don't know what how else to represent unless we were like literally just watching people make out, which we also have done that I think in order to like show you know, I don't know, I just I think it's kind of a standard television thing to do.

01:14:53
Speaker 1: But then see they ruined it later because Sean opens the door and they're both fully dressed under twister thing, So why not just have Sean open the door and just stay on his face he goes oh and shuts it, like you know, they're naked and going out and would mean to see anything. It would have made me so much happier.

01:15:11
Speaker 5: But that's what I mean.

01:15:12
Speaker 1: It's like, why you don't need to see them like now they're just well now we're just kissing covered in food under a twister yea.

01:15:19
Speaker 5: Or or you've you've seen us in the Honeymoon episode, like you saw me under the covers without anything on. Why not have us under a twister blanket without our cut, our obvious clothes on.

01:15:28
Speaker 1: Or just a twister blanket with people under it. You know, I don't see what you just see them moving around or something like that.

01:15:35
Speaker 5: They went under their way to show like, hey man, this led to this led to them kissing, kissing. Yeah, food, Yeah, of Cory, you're furious, that is it. He grabs chocolate sauce and squirts it all over to Penga's shirt. To Penga, yeahs. Topega reveals an evil smile, and they both run for more snacks to throw at each other. To Pega, you're going down. She reaches for whip cream and starts spraying him with it. You want more, mister Rogers, Oh a shot at my sweater? Very funny, Corey says, while spring mustard on Topanga. What about your wild little get up?

01:16:08
Speaker 1: Huh?

01:16:08
Speaker 5: When's the PTA meeting? Mister Rogers? She yells, while ripping off one of Corey's sweater sleeves. Shocked, Corey eels back. Soccer mom then rips off a sleeve from Topanga's shirt. Topega screams, this was a nice blouse, Corey points out, and now it's a ripped one. They finally start to catch their breath. Corey points out that her blouse is now off her shoulder a little bit, to Pega notes she could say the same thing about his. And it's all starting to steam up a little covered in food. The two of them are overcome with passion and start making out, falling on the ground and out of frame, and then we're in a junkyard and Ali in.

01:16:47
Speaker 1: Ali, I think nor dumpster.

01:16:49
Speaker 5: Eric is still in a helmet with his name on it, and Jack is annoyed. We're in the middle of nowhere, but Eric is on a mission. Something bad is going to happen here. Jack, I can feel it. Jack agrees, something bad is happening, costing me four million dollars, four million dollars, give me my numbers. Eric tries to calm him down. Hey, hey, hey, obviously, Jack, you've never had superpowers. Okay, so you don't know what's going on? Look, there is no way that money could be nearly as satisfying as what we were brought here to do. But Jack points out the obvious. Look around you, Eric, there's no one here to save, and once Eric does look around, Jack grabs Eric's head and smashes the helmet continuously into a trash can now, gimme my numbers. Eric screams in pain, ow ow ow ow ow, but then he sneezes twelve twenty two forty two. Jack's earsbrokeup.

01:17:34
Speaker 6: What was that?

01:17:35
Speaker 5: Eric, now crying, repeats himself. I said twelve twenty two forty two. Jack quickly takes a pen out. Yes, all right, thank you, buddy, he starts yelling through the tears. Yeah, that's right. You know what, You take your numbers, and you remember when you're sitting there with your four million dollars. To get it, you had to bash your best friend's head against a dumpster. Jack larifies you had a helmet on. Eric realizes something.

01:18:01
Speaker 1: It was you.

01:18:02
Speaker 5: Jack is confused, what was me? What are you talking about? Eric is adamant it was you all along. And then an old man rises up from behind the dumpster.

01:18:12
Speaker 2: So none of this resolution makes sense to me so f his psychic vision was the Jack to be saved.

01:18:21
Speaker 1: No, but it wasn't even that he was just somebody needed. But he's realizing in this moment that it was Jack that needs, Jack that was in dangerous. Then Jack doesn't change anything. No, No, Also, why is this the only vision that he has that isn't a specific? I mean, he saw the guy going to rob the place, He saw that he was cheating on him, he saw that there was a fire at the place he had just someone needs help. But now some random person in an alley needs help, right.

01:18:44
Speaker 5: Instead of finding out it's instead of getting the vision that Jack needs help.

01:18:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jack, come with me quick.

01:18:48
Speaker 1: You need help.

01:18:49
Speaker 5: In an alley, an old man rises up from behind the dumpster. He's reaching out to you, Jack. He's trying to save you. Jack laughs, save me. Eric nods, that's right, save you from your greed. My vision was about you. The old man puts his arm around the boys. He's right, you're the one in danger. Eric agrees, Yeah, Jack, look at what this lottery has done to you and you haven't even won it yet. Jack size, as dramatic music starts, You're right, I mean, I let greed take me over. I didn't care what happened to you or our friendship. You know, it's unbelievable what people will do for money. The music cuts out in Jack shrugs, Oh, well, not have to buy me a ticket. Jack quickly leaves and the old man turns to Eric. Hey, we tried. I don't get it. No, I like writer thought that he was going to have to start.

01:19:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, or just give it the numbers to the homeless guy and then he becomes a billion becomes millionaire, and that would be like, oh, we saved his life.

01:19:53
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

01:19:54
Speaker 5: Or I thought he was going to be the person that was going to try to attack Jack. Jo was gonna need you know, like something. I thought then that like, yeah, it is you. You are the one that needs help. I was like, is that supposed to be ominous? Is he going to attack them? And then when Jack runs off, is he gonna attack Eric?

01:20:11
Speaker 1: No?

01:20:11
Speaker 5: He just says, way, we tried.

01:20:13
Speaker 1: Two different swing sets and four different guest cast for that storyline. You're right, big makes any sense? Wow?

01:20:26
Speaker 5: What is really extremely the lotto?

01:20:30
Speaker 1: That's only two four guest stars? Yeah, all for that storyline? Yeah, man, that is a real waste. Yeah, I just it's it's just you know, the the a story. Even as you're recapping it, it's great, you guys are fun and funny, and it makes sense, Cory and Topanger, the old married couple, all that works, and then it's just this and it's just it's this seems like the two Am placeholder that they were just like, just go with it, just go. Will will make it funny, exactly, Will will make them funny. Go, And it's like, yeah, I just yeah, this is the one. This is the week where I look back and go, I wish I had just said something like I truly wish I had just said something.

01:21:13
Speaker 6: Well.

01:21:13
Speaker 5: Back in the hallway, Sean, Angela, Rachel, and a group of other partygoers are walking to Corey and te Pega's apartment. One guy says this party better be good. Hunter Durven's party was awesome. Sean turns to him, Annoyd, shut up, Durvin, should I love you? I loved your delivery of it. You're like, it's like the ninth time he said it on the walk over here. Shut up.

01:21:33
Speaker 3: Not the smartest, not the sharpest tool in the shed.

01:21:37
Speaker 5: Sean addresses the group, all Right, I'm gonna go over this one more time. On the other side of this door. It's ugly. These people are wonderful, but they are incredibly square. Now, remember, nobody gets their twenty bucks unless they stay the full hour. Rachel smiles, this was a really sweet thing to do, Sean. Angela just hopes they're not too late, and with that, Sean opens the door to see Corey into Panga making out while wrapped in a twister mat. There's food everywhere on the floor covered in sauce. To Panga looks at Corey and says, this is the best party I've ever been to. Corey smiles back.

01:22:07
Speaker 3: And again they don't notice the door opening.

01:22:09
Speaker 1: Nope.

01:22:10
Speaker 5: To Panga, I was wrong. I love your kish. He bites food off her forehead and they continue kissing. Yew, still oblivious to the crowd at the door, to Panga, declares, I love every boring bone in your body. Really, he says to Panga doubles down. I'll never go anywhere.

01:22:27
Speaker 1: Oh that's going on the list.

01:22:28
Speaker 5: Put that on the lid on the list. Let's never go anywhere ever again. Sean and the group turn around and closed the door. Back in the hallway, he asks Angela, you think they do that every night. Angela answers, well, gosh, that's probably why they go home at nine o'clock. Dervin pushes to get inside, but Sean announces party's over. There's no way we're gonna save this one. Dervin announces, I'm going back to Durvin's. Rachel reminds him, you are, Dervin. As everyone leaves, Angela can't believe they felt sorry for Corey and to Panga. Rachel agrees, I know they should feel sorry for us, then walks away. Now alone, Sean jokes to Angela, I wonder what their food bill is a month. Angela doesn't know, but she suggests let's just go back to Darvins. Sean agrees, and they start to walk away, but Angela stops him. You know what, forget Durvins, Let's just go to a grocery store, Sean happily.

01:23:20
Speaker 1: Now gonna they're gonna They're not gonna buy bananas or anything. They're gonna have sex buy with the food. That's the joke.

01:23:30
Speaker 2: Guys, So there's gonna be they're gonna they gotta go buy a lot of groceries to have sex.

01:23:38
Speaker 1: So and and sex. We said, he's gonna put his penis in her. That's what's probably gonna happen.

01:23:43
Speaker 2: I think I don't know that.

01:23:44
Speaker 1: I don't wanna, I don't want to overstep, but I think maybe that's what they mean. I think they'll get naked.

01:23:57
Speaker 5: Back at Eric's apartment, Jack is sitting on the couch watching Eric. Quick come out here. He yells no. Eric screams back. Jack looks apologetic. Come on, I said, I'm sorry. Eric enters the living room with an angry look on his face. You're not sorry, you're evil. Just sit down and watch me get filthy rich. Jack says excitedly. They're about to announce the winning lottery numbers. That's blood money. Eric contests, with his eyebrows furrowed. I'll give you half, Jack says. Eric then quickly drops his moral outrage and sits on the couch. Turn it up and with that, the news reporter returns, and here are tonight's winning lottery numbers. Eric exclaims, I'm gonna buy myself a new helmet. So cute thirty two six twenty seven, eighteen nine two.

01:24:36
Speaker 4: We're rich.

01:24:37
Speaker 5: Eric screams and jumps off the couch. Jack sits him back down. No, we are not. Those aren't the numbers you gave me. This is worthless and you're worthless. Here. Jack rips up the lottery ticket and shoves the pieces into Eric's mouth. No, Jack, no, Eric says, well, he's chewing the papers. Eat it, eat it, you psychic snotline. Jack continues, but the woman on TV continues for the New York Lottery. Now for the four million dollar Pennsylvania Lottery. Jack looks at the TV in horror. Oh my god, the reporter continues. The winning numbers are twenty one, forty six, fifty three, twelve, twenty two and forty two. And now, because the ticket is ripped up in Eric's mouth, they don't win. Putting the last piece in his mouth to chew, Eric remarks, well, that's a coincidence. Jack looks furious. Then Eric sneezes again. He gets another vision. Uh oh, the things Jack is gonna do to him. They're gonna have sex.

01:25:37
Speaker 1: At least that would have been interesting.

01:25:43
Speaker 5: Well, we have a tag. We're in Corey Intopega's room to Pega's comfortable in bed watching TV. Corey Come Quick. John Stossel is doing an expose on tainted meat. Corey runs in from the bathroom and excitedly jumps into bed. Would you rather be spending the night at some glitzy club or learning how to spot a bad brisket? To Panga nods, you're right, brisket, Corey explains, It's not like I don't enjoy dancing and going out and having fun. It's just that the best time I have is when I'm here with you. To Penga smiles and gives him a kiss. Oh look, bad flank stake. He smiles and tells her he loves her, giving her one last kiss. Then after a few seconds, their draws hit the floor with whatever the next image of old meat was.

01:26:21
Speaker 6: Yay.

01:26:22
Speaker 1: I have a suggestion that in any future episode where or even past episodes where there is no tag, we just put in Corey into Panga singing war of every episode no tag, just throw that well.

01:26:40
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