And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome to and that's why you really miss podcast Funk. She's steel on the baseline. Hi Kevin, Hi Jenna. We're almost at the end of the first season. That's crazy. If you've made it this far on our podcast, pat yourselves on the back. Thank you for sticking with us. We're proud of you, We're thankful for you, and I'm happy we didn't do it without you. Somehow tricked Jenna and to hanging out with me every week to do this, So we tricked each other, really tricked. Yeah exactly, Yeah exactly. Um so funk Okay, okay. This episode aired June one, twenty ten, And when we when this episode came out, we were still on our first tour, right. We were in New York performing at Radio City. Very exciting, very exciting, legendary. What else you had already performed at Radio City before, hadn't you? I just imagine you had no. Thank you for thinking that. No, I had not, So this was like a really even like even extra big deal for you. Yeah. Yeah, Like the Radio City is like the mecca of New York. It's the Rockets. You think Christmas, you think you know, like I didn't. I didn't see a ton at Radio City except for like the Rockets. Yeah, I was really it. Yeah, and it's just like an iconic venue. Everybody knows it. Oh yeah, this was huge, This was a big deal. I remember when we did it. We we got to go up on that Marquis and take pictures. And I remember my mom and my family came to this and my mom and my sister were across street like watching us in the whole block filled up with people. I don't think I was up there. You did you not make it up there? Not not not only heights? Oh oh yeah, maybe you didn't. Yeah, some of us did. And I just remember my mom and sister telling me that they were concerned because kids were running into the street and they're you know, New York taxi drivers don't care if there's a human in the way, right, they're going to go. But that was so so insane for a number of reasons. I also, do you remember like Chris had his birthday and we all went out, we went out to the Greenhouse right without it was. That was so much fun, wild times. That was crazy. That was really fun and then um, while we were in New York, I remember speaking of looking down at the street our dressing rooms, you could see out into the entrance to where the fans were, Yes, where the stage door is, if you will, and um, we would wave at fans and like talk to them and joke at them, and we were like joking about flashing them. We didn't. And and we also did elvis or Amzy Morning Zoo, which is where we got that insane chalkboard that you help on too for twenty years. Yep. And I just remember too. This also felt like we I think we had some crew members there. It was New York, so people were there. It's an easier city to get to people. You know, it's a destination. Jane and I came. Yeah, And I remember the stage door area when we would leave, because I think we did to Matinee at some point and we might have been being shuttled to and from the hotel to venue and kids were chasing our vans and it was mostly just so unsafe for people to be doing that. But it felt like I did feel like we were the Beatles for a second. Didn't remember that when you like the most stereotypical image of I don't know, like celebrity or fame or ever what have you to me was that of musicians getting chased by people in cars and things. And it was very surreal because you know, we felt like a glorified cover band. No, for sure, I think we named it as that was happening. We were with our amazing security, Clinton and Todden, maybe not Toddy at that point, but Clinton and we were on the bus and somebody said maybe you was like, this feels like the Beatles, or like what the Beatles had, like a this is like a taste of what they experienced. Girls haanging on the bus while we were at like a red light, and then the girl was running in flip flops and we were like, somebody, please stop her before she gets run over, Like it really was a safety issue. But it was also very cool to be in New York and performing had such an iconic theater and we had that incredible impromptu little rap party because it's we were ended there and that's where we ended up at the little bar. And it went from us being at tables like eating like normal people, and before we knew it, all the tables were moved out of the way, dance for, Dance for and do you remember um before that? That was the time that Ian and all of them came up on stage duringing like a prayer. It surprised us. And then there was also that cake they made that was the Radio City cake. It looked like the front of the marquis of Radio City and I was like this, I'll be I forgot about that. It's also when I got Naya to do because the last show and so everyone was acting a fool. Yes, but Ryan and all the bosses were there, so we didn't want to do too much. But I had convinced Naya and Chris Pooley are m d two? Um add a little extra hit? And what was it? What song was it? Was it the Boys Boys Mind? Yes? I think it was the Boy's Mine. It was like a Michael Jackson style hit. And she like did the Michael Jackson pose? Oh that's right. And I'm like, no one's gonna knows that tickock me? No one's gonna know and no one did. I remember. I brought it up to Ryan like did you notice? He's like, no, I thought the song just skipped. We're not playing it off of CD. It's not going to hit a bump in the CD skips. That's not how this works. Um, all right, should we should we get into this episode? So this is an interesting episode because you, I think we have similar feelings about this episode, but differing feelings about this episode. I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. Interesting, I hated it more. Here's the thing. I didn't hate it. Yeah. I think it's the first time because coming into the season, because we're towards the end, there were episodes that you and I clearly remember disliking and every time I've been surprised so far where I really enjoyed all those episodes. This was the first episode that I felt like it was filler, you know, where I was like, Okay, we're at the end, what are we going to do? And you go it's I think almost every single time there's a song, it feels really weird and forced. Also, the whole thing was funk. I think Amber's face in the first choir room scene really sums up my entire feeling about this episode. Interesting because I think she's the viewer, you know, she's acting as the viewer in this of being like, is this how we need to be taught Funk Amber. There is also the like the scale of how cringey this episode is. Yes, her face is. She really was doing heavy lifting in the Eye region, and I think this would have been crazy, but well, I just totally unacceptable. Yeah, okay, So before we get into it, the for number one song was still MG featuring will I Am by a Shirt, and the movie was still Shruck Forever after which I still haven't seen. And we've still got our special vocal adrenaline frozen friends Adina and John A Finn, and we are missing miss Jama Mays in this episode. And this is the filler episode, the penultimate episode before our regional's moment. And again I do think this was flipped an airing order. I think we shot it, we did Funk, then we did theatricality and then journey to regionals. But I think for some reason you are correct. I think it's because Ryan thought this episode was not great they swapped it, and I don't know why you are correct, but yeah, so Ladie Keane is back directing this. Ian Brennan wrote it, well, you know all of them. Elie did so many episodes. She did she did a lot of episodes in the first first season. I also thought about maybe they swapped it because maybe American Idol was like their finale was around the time of theatricality or something like that. I don't know. I think you may be exactly correct. I think that there was some reason why. Yeah, and that makes sense. There were a lot of songs in this episode. Tell Me we have another one, Bites the Dust Um by Queen that Jesse, Saint James and Vocal journalin Do tell Me Something Good by Rufus and Chaka Khan, That Little Schuster Does Um Loser by Beck, That Puck and Finn and Hart Bamboo and Saint Maryson Harry Schuster, It's a Little Acafella's Momentum. It's a Man's War World by James Brown, performed by Quinn and the Unmed Mothership Connection, Good Vibrations by Marky Marking, The Funky Bunch performed by Finn, Hudson, Mercedes and Noah Puckerman and give Up the Funk by Parliament sunk by the new directions. I would also like to point out something else about the music, and I don't know if you noticed this. The vocals and the episode were mixed so strangely, you know, I did notice that it hasn't happened. So there's some episodes where depending on the scene, they'll mix the lead vocal a little higher, and it's always worked. There's some reason why they're doing it. This episode, it makes no sense. Another one bites the dust. It sounds like Groff's vocal is seventy percent of what you're hearing. Yes, everything else is buried underneath it. And then when it gets to give up the funk, you can't even hear Amber's ablebs at the end, and she's wailing, and they're like, and she's featured on screen singing, but it's her vocal is buried underneath everything, and all you hear is done mother. How Well, there's a lot going on during this time, and I feel like this was around the time at the recording studio when we would go in, we would hear from Adam or Alex. Was Alex around at this point yet his brother, Adam's brother. He becomes like our main guy for a while and yeah, we hear this has to be sent to Sweden, yeah, overnight and then mix and come back. And I don't know that there was always the case that it always got mixed there it was, it was okay, So it has nothing to do with it, no, because it was a twenty four hour thing. Their whole system was that we record in la while they make the tracks in Sweden, and then they mix the tracks in Sweden. So it's a full twenty four hour loop where we don't lose any time, got it? It was the I think it was in post production that they mess with the vocals and the actual episode because those are different than the recordings. It's the same actual vocal, but the mix is different. Interesting for the interesting interesting. I don't know why. There's a good interesting point, all right. The episode summary. What happens in this episode, you know, not a lot. So the Glee Club gets bamboozled slapped across the face by Jesse St. James, which sends them into a tailspin. And then that's also sort of how um you know, Shoe comes up with his plan for the week, last minute plan, last minute plan, which then helps Mercedes and Quinn connect over some serious issues. It's like this serious thing going on while everybody else in Glee Club has lost their minds. And then Will and Sue have a very interesting Little Tango if you yeah, yeah, yeah, a fun revenge storyline. Right, do you want to talk about Jesse Saint James's storyline first? Sure? All right, So Jesse's named James transferred back to Carmel and he goes to Vocal Adrenaline. Goodbye, easy to just swap schools like this? No, okay, no, didn't think so. But you know what, maybe his transcripts were all there and he was just a click of a button. Who knows he's pretty? He is pretty. So he goes back to Vocal Adrenaline and and they end up performing for us. I don't randomly out of nowhere, just come back and perform another one Bites the Dust, which is an incredible vocal from I mean, they looked great. Yeah, but they're doing it as as a strategy that they always do to freak out their competition at regionals. So this is one of those episodes two where the episode title is mentioned about eighty times. So their plan is to psych us out, to send us into a funk funk if you will, if you will? Oh, and and then we go into so Rachel's very upset and we go into the choir room and Kurts like, I mean, it's going to take a lot more than that to like send us into a funk. And we find our entire choir room has been toilet paper, which is really fun to shoot in. You remember props. Can you imagine how long that took a lot of paper? You can't like reshoot that like once we start taking it down, but we didn't. No, I can see. It's very intentional about you see what we're perfectly splayed out one of us and we just stop as soon as we enter so we don't touch it and mess it up some to reset it like gout dot to the doilet paper. Yeah, and of course if you tell us not to touch things, we're going to touch them. Yeah. So so in retaliation, Puck and Finn decide that there because mister Shoe's like, well, let's get them back, right, Let's let's kind of like hit him, wear it hurts and do this bag and Punk and Finner like we got it, don't worry about it. Sho's got bad ideas. They're lame. And it was this funny voice over with Puck being like, obviously we knew it was gonna come down to us. Also, like mister Shoe being like get them back. You're like, WHOA hold up a second, mister Shoe crosses the line so many times this episode. Yes, agreed, Okay, let's just put that out there. Yeah, so pucking Finn slash all the Vocal Adrenaline range rovers, which it was very funny to watch, and also range rovers in high school. That's crazy. Um. Even though I was able to get myself a range Rover at this point, this was exciting. Yeah, in real life I was able to I've lived the dream of the range Rover and it's over and it's gone. But I went to a high school. I went to private school one year of high school. It's the only year I ever went to private school. I so did not fit. I could not afford private school. And I remember all these kids driving around and like really expensive cars. And I was getting dropped off by my mom every day in our old car, and I was like, oh, drop me out at the car. Who are these kids? I had just moved to LA. I'm like, I don't know about this, right is right? I'm poor? Yeah? Anyway, So, so Vocal Adrenaline's gift with a very good booster club kids range rovers for their win and fucking Finn slash the tires and they end up in Fagin's office where they get in trouble and mister She's like, it's a harmless prank, which it's not, and Shelby car grin and not pressing charges and umh. And Finn comes to the rescue by saying that they'll get jobs and pay them back by the end of the year, which is also crazy that like Sheets and Things is not going to pay back for tires twenty tires, but anyways, um but they get a job at Sheets and Things and Terry's back. So Terry comes back and she has this really inappropriate crush on Finn. She sees him as mister Shoe. She gets has this really inappropriate crush on him after they sing Loser, which we'll talk about in a second, and it's do you also know when she was like, we'll just put it into the iTunes, yes, which I also feel like was a nod to what they did this episode in real life, And that's no shade. I think they told us like sometimes when they had, you know, the plot or like the buzzword that they wanted to use for an episode, they would just throw it in, which is why all these songs. I feel like Loser was a pitch from Corey. I don't know, maybe yeah, I feel like Corey or Mark would have pitched Loser. For sure. It was not how I thought. I wouldn't think a Beck song would be in a funk episode, but here we are. I canna say, honestly, for the song itself, on the way that it was presented in the episode, I thought I did it a great job shooting it like it was. She kept it interesting. Yeah, she kept it, you know, funny and weird, and it was like what do you do with that? Like as a director, I'd be like what do I do with this? So I thought she did a great job with it, especially because again, if I think we should just mention how we get into some of these songs where Tobolowski is like, where's my muzach And that's how we get into Loser, and to go and put on the music a boom, like what's yeah? No, just have their guitars there? Yeah yeah, That's where I set out loud no less than three times reminding myself and my friends who are watching with me last night, it's a satire. Okay, um okay, so then what tell me? No, I was just I had so a friend was watching this with me last night and he's never seen Glee, and he sat down like halfway through this episode. No, that's not through his eyes, and I was like, this is not because if you know, if you were to watch this episode with no context, even with context, it's still odd and without context, he had questions and he didn't understand that it was a comedy. I was like, no, this is a comedy show. The first season at least is and then yeah, it was great. It was really enlightening for me. An interesting, Okay, what did they How did they respond? They were like, oh I was so worried. Okay, got it, Like everyone is so mean to each other, Like, yeah, it's a satire exactly, speaking of being mean. So Jesse Saint James calls Rachel out to the parking lot after they've been toilet paper and been yeah, thank you, range rover tires have been slashed, and he says to me on the parking lot and Rachel runs out again satire Smolmo running slowmore, running toward Jessie and she gets egged. That looked like it hurts so bad. And I remember Lea saying it got hurt. Um, she also had a double if you didn't notice, like there was at one point when she gets hit all over the place, you see it's a there's a wig and it's not her must have been her standard. But um, it was crazy and it kept me. It made me think of Never Been Kissed, one of my favorite movies. When she gets egged, which is so sad, but Jesse eggs her and the whole Vocal Adjournine team eggs her, and it was really sad. And then Rachel says, now I keep having nightmares of all the mothers of the little baby chicks coming at me for revenge, which yeah, and Vocal a Journaline for all the money they have. They're sure in the same outfits they were at the beginning of the episode. Sorry, I'm gonna be Debi downer this episode, pointing that rubbed me the wrong way. That's okay, I'm a hater. I guess I'm a hater today. Um, it's all right, we're all. We're all. We can be haters of some episodes, not all of them. So we talked about maybe the weirdest part of this episode, the Sue and Will feud thing that happens. Yeah, let's talk about that. But so when vocal Journaline tps and does the surprise performance for the new directions, somebody's like, how did they get in all their equipment? Which I loved they actually addressed because you know how many times things magically appear in the show, we don't dress them. And then Sue marches in saying, oh, I let I gave them keys. I did a sound check with them earlier, like I helped them, And then she goes on this whole rant about how she needs to blow out the wall because she's going to put in a new trophy for when she wins Nationals in the glee club loses regionals and she gets to take over the room and rightly so this pisses off Will, which starts, which starts off this whole almost fever dream of a storyline. Pause. Do you remember the breaking of this trophy? The throwing of the trophy? I don't remember it. Okay, I don't either, and I feel like I would have remembered something like that, But I think it was a real trophy, like I go plastic one. It wasn't like a dummy one or anything like that, and he actually had to like throw it, and I think I remember them being like, don't close your eyes because like then he want us to get particles or pieces and our eyes. We're like, we're fine, We're fifty feet away, right. Anyway, they're always very cautious. Card I guessed though, when he threw it, I was like, oh, mister, she was good, Yeah, yeah, okay, continue one. Yeah. So while Rachel is you know, also Will is mad. Rachel's upset about this whole breakup, and She's saying, you know, destroyed at the heart of the team's heart, then destroy the team. And then Will of course with light bulb and so he starts courting Sue. Really, so there's a lot of late night they're at the school by themselves after hours, not sure why. Darkness, yes, darkness. And so Sue comes into the choir room late one night and Will was like, Hey, I need to ask you some questions. I'm I'm wondering about this idea for regionals, but I don't know if it's you know, too suggestive. Can I do it for you? And after he also had been complimenting her skin for what felt like an eternity. Yeah, and God Jane is just so good. So she's I'm never just not like flabbergasaid about how good she is in all of these different weird situations. She sells anything and it makes everything work. Yep, makes everything work. So he performs tell me something good. Um, it made me uncomfortable. Honestly, I have to say, Malik good, Malik? Did he did? I think it was? It's like I don't want to watch my parents. Yes, blurt it was, yes, yes, yes, I didn't like that. Yes, I agree, And then Sue's like what's happening, and she's journaling and being like, oh my god, I think I have a crush on Will Schuster. Like now I'm actually picturing his head on the pillow next to me when I wake up, and it's attached to the rest of his body. A lot of murder. I gotta say, the journal drawing. Did you see the drawing of Will Schuster? That must have been Jason. Who's you that right, one of our crew members jasone incredible artist. Yeah. He was used to draw all of us in character and like give us cards and like with our characters drawn on them like he was amazing, So he must have drawn that. Um. That in the journal that picture illustration. That was a good spot. He probably did. He was sure it looks familiar. It looked familiar. So around that time Will comes in, brings her flowers toim atch her her track suit, and then she says she hates them, but then he surprises her with her favorite I don't know, workout whatever gummies or something or something supplements and asked her out on a date. And she shows up in her track suit and pearls pearls. Because this whole time it sort of it feels like him flirting with her. It happens over several scenes and it's going on and on and on, and then when it finally gets to breadsticks and she doesn't show up and she realizes she got stood up and shows up at his house and they have this whole fight and it was very, very rewarding. I thought Will slash Matt did a very good job of it. Was hanging with Jane in this in terms of the actor chops fair enough. It was really fun to watch them play and do something that they don't normally get to do with one another, like each other right right, Very satisfying, No, was satisfying. They also is like the roles were reversed, which is like fun I watch. I mean, in all this, to me, the best part was that after this, she has an emotional breakdown and doesn't leave bed for four days. But we see that because all the cheerios without their ponytails, because I clearly don't know how to do them without her, they're falling apart. And you see Heather go through with Jacob and Israel being loved me also her shirt backwards, Naia crying it's so good, and Kurt being like, look, obviously she sucks, but some of these girls need the scholarships to go to college. And Will feels bad and he goes into her apartment. Now do you remember I remember talking to Ian about this because he was so excited. We had never seen Sue's apartment or house before, and he was like, she's going to be a hoarder. It's all trophies, it's a hoarder's house. It's funny. I mean, he loves those shows he wanted he was talking about like he's obsessed with like the QVC hoarder, like couponing. He's like he's very interested in all of that. So this makes total sense, and that house is very funny. It also gives me atred, like I can't look at it for too long. No um, but it's very funny. It's very laying there in her track suit for you and he gets her back and she ends up winning nationals again, and there's that incredible little TV moment and this weird moment of almost a kiss, Oh do you I she brings she with Heather and Naya, she brings her national trophy into Will's house and that was cute because they're like uncomfortable and then sorry mister shoe. Yeah, and then she's like kiss me and he says no. Then she says no, I'm not going to do this. Even your breath stakes some mediocready perfect. It's awkward and it's funny. Here's the thing I don't think the show this episode is called funk. I think it's called funky. It's a funky smell. You're right, there's a funky stench to it. It's teena boy rock smell. Also, mister Schuster in the choir room going funky Dad. I was like, oh boy, oh boy. There's a lot of fringe moments like there were also a lot of this whole episode to me, is like the whole nod in a wink thing. Yeah, yeah, where I think the writers knew exactly what they were doing and you exactly hope heard some of the stuff was and we're referencing it within it. They were also between us a lot of inside things like the funk. Get was like sort of making fun of the runs we do that then Ryan would do behind the scenes. It's the exact same. That's why we laughed in the choir room because it's all familiar and like some of the dances we do later on and give up the funk or our personal dances with each other. So there's a lot of referential things. Yes, and we had we had to keep it light. Okay. So meanwhile, Terry and Will are officially divorced, which happened very quickly. They the paper just as divorce. I mean, what else is there and it's just it's divorce. Sometimes the show feels like a cartoon to me, and I like it. Yes, yes, yes, that is a very good analogy. Sometimes you just have to you have to look get it that way. Sometimes Will so Will is depressed, he's kind of um, he's in a funk, and that's obviously where he got his last minute lesson from um and he's inspired, and he when he's meeting up with Ryerson, Ryerson's you really want to do this? Ryerson reminds him that vocal adrenaline has a weakness and that they have never done a funk number and they don't know how to do it. Because there are people still consulting with Sandy Ryerson, I don't know. He has to beating underage boys in the pilot inappropriate. He has to come back here because because Steven Tablowski has to come back. That's where he's a communic genius. He is a communic genius even though he shouldn't be allowed back. And the whole time Sandy Ryerson's like him done a funk number. And then Will comes into the classroom like, guess what, there's our lesson. It's like, you've got your lesson from Sandy Ryerson. Right's not right, right, it's not right. So this kind of catapults this whole Quinn situation. How Mercedes is like, good, I got the funk lesson. I got it, and Quinn's like, excuse me, what about me? And everybody laughs, and Mercedes thinks it's funny, and Quinn feels like she has lots of anger and passion that she has to share, so she is going to be the first to share in the choir room. The next day with her assignment, we get into this is a man's world, which for so many reasons, this is just the most the weirdest, one of the weirdest things will ever witness. Only is what I think. It's the unwed Mothership Connection, which, by the way, if you didn't notice, is a play on The Parliament's fourth album that Give Up the Funk is on and it's called Mothership Connection. So the unwed Mothership Connections. See what happens when you put in a song and time you got a whole storyline. So all of our friends, dancer friends come in and play pregnant women who do this very inappropriate, weird mother dance, which kind of reminds me of the waitress ballet contraction ballet. Yes, and it's weird, it's really weird. But our friends Audrey and Courtney and all of them are doing this crazy wild swan swan Lake fans number pregnant. It's inappropriate and uncomfortable. I remember when we were shooting it, laughing and being like what where are we right now? But Diana sounds great on this and this is totally up her alley. She's a funky gal. She loved singing the song, he could tell, and she was just living her best life, like take away the pregnancy pad underneath, Like that is Diana. Yeah, true, truly, this is the most Diana number, like the Say Little Prayer numbers are, Quinn, this is Diana, Diana exactly she was living. Um. I also remember watching this but on paper we're like, what is this number? And then watching it we had a great time because it every while the choreography is insane but also incredible. Yeah. Yeah, it's so weird and wonderful. Um. And then so Quinn also earlier on pre pre music pre song talks about being oppressed by the man right and Mercedes. This is where we're que Mercedes reaction. Please don't go here, please Amber, Amber, please help us, And I thought, oh boy, And you know, Elodie was one for that. I do feel like all of those shots were thrown in because Elodie needed them, because I remember Elodie walking up to us being like, what are we going to do? Yeah? What are we gonna do and I can just picture her seeing Amber giving these reactions. She's like, yes, keep doing that. This is what we need, right and it helps in the later up seeing nice scene between the two m So, um, we'll let's dump to that, because Quinn and Mercedes have this very nice, emotion like sweet scene, which I feel like in spirit of like twenty twenty three or twenty twenty two, and you know, the Black Lives movement. Um, we were just like, I'm not taking giving clet Glee credit, but like we just started to skim the surface of like this a little bit, and I was Okay. I mean, it's a touch, like a droplet of water, but I was like, Alrightley, okay, okay. Yeah, And I don't think I realized at the time either what was happening in this crazy episode. You're still sprinkling in something significant and that matters in that something that deserves seeing much more dialogue. Yeah, exactly. But they really do kind of, um find like this common ground of feeling on the outs, feeling like they don't belong, feeling like they you know, Quinn being pregnant and Mercedes being black, and so there's definitely this really nice friendship that we This is the beginning of the Quinn and Mercedes friendship that we see, which I was like, it's a very unexpected one, but I really like it. And so Mercedes very generously has already asked her parents if Quinn can move in because she can't live with Buck anymore. And um. And so after that Good Vibrations performance, well, yeah that number was not funk, not funky, um wild, yes, a rap song would. But they're dancing is a plus plot to get them. Honestly, I will have to say, like, the two of them were probably are the least coordinated dancers that we had in the glee club and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure, and Corey would be first to tell you like, can't dance. Um, but the two of them actually Zach got them to like move and in sync and I was like, wow, Okay, they can do it. Yeah, And which was like frustrating because Zach would always be like, I've seen you guys move. I know you can do this. I know you're frustrated in other numbers, but like, I've seen you do this before, so this is proof you can hand right, here's the pudding. Yeah, and then say you can't exactly, so they do good vibrations. It's not it's not a funk song, it's a rap song. But anyway, it had to be thrown in there because I guess we had to have that number. And then all things kind of resolve and we're back at our final number of give up the song, which um is taking us to regionals. Uh, I mean how we did? We performed for Vocal Adrenaline all in their cool sweatshirts, which I was like, can I have that sweatshirt? I know? Right? Shoe calls them back to be like meet us three pm at the auditorium, and like what we show them is this number, and they're mad at it. They're like scrim happening. And then we come out and all these outfits that feel wrong. I don't I don't know what I was wearing. I don't know what I was wearing either, And I don't know what I was wearing. I was wearing a flat rimmed baseball cap with a bandana underneath, a crazy yellow tank top and some wild pants. I was wearing orange and camo, Like you kind of look like Justin Bieber. But this memory was really fun. Do you remember shooting it. We were in Long Beach, right was christ and chennawit there that day. Why do I have this memory of her stopping by because I think she was in town and I have a memory of her coming by just be like, oh my god, my children, and I like, my friend was there? Or I think Marco Marco was there, right, Marco was there? Was Naw? I don't know. I think she visited this day like this is what we're doing since you've been gone? Really, I think so, because we hadn't really spent that much time with her since the show had become as successful as had become, and then it was like we saw her and she was like, oh my gosh, like, look what's happening. I think she was there. I think you might be right. Well, but we had a lot of fun performing this and Dana, who's from the Bay Area, got to do her this face. That's what this. If you see us put our hands in front of our faces and come to do that weavy thing, that's a Diana move. Then got on gleat, which was great, and if you listen to E forty or he goes this face, that's what that is. We were crazy during this number and I think Elodie was like, just go for it. Whatever, yeah, and um, we were dancing. A lot of it was free we call this free form rock out, So Zach would lay our choreographer'd be like okay, and then free form rockout, which meant we get to do whatever we want. And that was always my nightmare. And when we did the line, the disco line of like, um down the middle, it's my work line. Yeah, the soul train line, thank you, it's actually my worst nightmare. I don't like improvising dance moves. It's not my thing. I don't this song wasn't really my thing. So I was like, oh gosh, so I did the sprinkler. I think are some crazy great yeah whatever? Yeah, But than me, I just fist pumped. Well, Harry looked the best, Heather looked, you know, like just leave it to the pros. Nia did the Nia dance, She did do the Dia dans. Yeah that was great, but yeah that was improved. And we were just living our lives and we were also exhausted, and I think we were like the end is near and basically how I feel now after that is like, let's just get to the finale. That's right. That's right. Um, and that's the episode that's fun Yeah, that's it. It is funny. I feel like you and I don't have a lot of memories from that episode, um, because at that point I think we were like the well had run dry. I remember being there, I just don't being there. Yeah, it was just being like a little like dead behind the eyes. Fully, I think you're right. I think theatricality was supposed to be this one because we had started rehearsing for regionals during theatricality. Correct, Yes, very good, Kevin. Should we do some Tardie takes? Yeah, let's do some speed round TARTI takes. Okay, cringe, moment's Outcheese. There's a million um the Sue and Will seduction. I picked the Will overstepping he um over sharing with the Glee Club. You actually, I did wrote this. I wrote this down because I was shocked at it, the fact that he was like I just finalized my divorce, and I was like, I yelled at the screen, I said what I share that? And then Santana speaks up and addresses it, which I was thankful for. It's like, thank God, I don't even think they cut to her. I think they her voices. No, she was, she was laying on the chairs. Okay again, I think fully sums up how everyone felt about this episode. Never have you ever seen anyone laying on the chairs in the choir room. Worst dance move I mean, I mean, but it's good and bad is good vibrations. I gotta say, there's some cringe. Give up the funks in there that we're just some were great and some were just not right. Best song none, not another one bites the dust. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. I think we peaked early, Yeah, we did peak early in this one. And then performance by a prop. I think all of the trophies for sure, the one that broke the hoarders, the national one. Yes, trophies were winning. Do you remember when Tina got hit in the head with the trophy in a later season? No, Sam Cord moves and he hits me in the head and I go down. No no, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, not on purpose by accident in a scene and I go down. It's very funny. You're is there is it in the actual cut? Or Oh it's with chums. It's when we go into chums. Oh sorry, anyway, trophies galore u best lines. I think we have the same one. Okay, we did. We wrote him here. It's the same one. So they're in the office. They're talking about the prank, the slashing of the tires, and will goes, look, nobody got hurt. It was a harmless prank, and sou goes, that's what they said about a young man in Chicago in eighteen seventy one who thought he'd play a harmless prank on a dairy cow of one old of one Missus O'Leary. He success successfully ignited its flatulence, and the city burned. William that young terrorist went on to become the first gay president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. What I had to rewind it and listen to it, like three more try to do because I thought so weird. I was like, I didn't know. I'm like, are we talking about one of the great fires in Chicago? We're talking about mad cow disease? Are we talking about? Like what? God? It was so good. It was how didn't let field? But it worked so well? Jane just killing it again. It was okay ball also with the line um to Adina about being um, I can't even remember what he said to her, but it was like, yeah, it was very inappropriate, and Sue's reaction of like glaring at him was flawless. It was absolutely flawless. Um Jenna the ship we found on TikTok today. It was very exciting because it has almost nine hundred thousand views, wow, two hundred thousand likes, and somebody threw an incredible twenty fourth Glee themed birthday party. What yes, Um, it's really great. Click on it, watch it by um McKenna Renee. And they have karaoke, people are dressed up in costume. They have food themed as like rice Crispy treats it looks like but with Cheerios. There are all kinds of wonderful. They have big pictures, they have gold star balloons, people and Cheero's outfits. Fondu for two, they have the top slushies. They even have like a quiz looking thing. It was. There are paper plates with our faces on them. Yeah, this is great. It's really really good. You check it out. Because it is twenty twenty three or twenty twenty two, whenever this was people are still having Glee parties wild, but this is great. It's great work attention to detail. Thank you for sending that, Thank you for having the party. Hope we had a great birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday per usual. Thank you for sending that in. Thank you for listening. Next week is our finale of season. What we did it? Wow? This is very exciting. I can't wait. And we have lots of memories. I end up in the hospital at one point, so what Yeah, I went to the er during the filming of Journey to Regionals. I remember this now. A lot happened. All right, Well, let's do it. Um. Thanks for joining us, Thanks for sticking with us. We can't wait to wrap this season up and get on to the next one. We're just getting going. One season almost down, five to go and a couple of tours and a movie that no one watched it And that's what you really missed. Bye bye Ta Ta. Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram at and that's what you really miss pod. Make sure to write us a review and leave us five stars. See you next time.

And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome to and that's why you really miss podcast Funk. She's steel on the baseline. Hi Kevin, Hi Jenna. We're almost at the end of the first season. That's crazy. If you've made it this far on our podcast, pat yourselves on the back. Thank you for sticking with us. We're proud of you, We're thankful for you, and I'm happy we didn't do it without you. Somehow tricked Jenna and to hanging out with me every week to do this, So we tricked each other, really tricked. Yeah exactly, Yeah exactly. Um so funk Okay, okay. This episode aired June one, twenty ten, And when we when this episode came out, we were still on our first tour, right. We were in New York performing at Radio City. Very exciting, very exciting, legendary. What else you had already performed at Radio City before, hadn't you? I just imagine you had no. Thank you for thinking that. No, I had not, So this was like a really even like even extra big deal for you. Yeah. Yeah, Like the Radio City is like the mecca of New York. It's the Rockets. You think Christmas, you think you know, like I didn't. I didn't see a ton at Radio City except for like the Rockets. Yeah, I was really it. Yeah, and it's just like an iconic venue. Everybody knows it. Oh yeah, this was huge, This was a big deal. I remember when we did it. We we got to go up on that Marquis and take pictures. And I remember my mom and my family came to this and my mom and my sister were across street like watching us in the whole block filled up with people. I don't think I was up there. You did you not make it up there? Not not not only heights? Oh oh yeah, maybe you didn't. Yeah, some of us did. And I just remember my mom and sister telling me that they were concerned because kids were running into the street and they're you know, New York taxi drivers don't care if there's a human in the way, right, they're going to go. But that was so so insane for a number of reasons. I also, do you remember like Chris had his birthday and we all went out, we went out to the Greenhouse right without it was. That was so much fun, wild times. That was crazy. That was really fun and then um, while we were in New York, I remember speaking of looking down at the street our dressing rooms, you could see out into the entrance to where the fans were, Yes, where the stage door is, if you will, and um, we would wave at fans and like talk to them and joke at them, and we were like joking about flashing them. We didn't. And and we also did elvis or Amzy Morning Zoo, which is where we got that insane chalkboard that you help on too for twenty years. Yep. And I just remember too. This also felt like we I think we had some crew members there. It was New York, so people were there. It's an easier city to get to people. You know, it's a destination. Jane and I came. Yeah, And I remember the stage door area when we would leave, because I think we did to Matinee at some point and we might have been being shuttled to and from the hotel to venue and kids were chasing our vans and it was mostly just so unsafe for people to be doing that. But it felt like I did feel like we were the Beatles for a second. Didn't remember that when you like the most stereotypical image of I don't know, like celebrity or fame or ever what have you to me was that of musicians getting chased by people in cars and things. And it was very surreal because you know, we felt like a glorified cover band. No, for sure, I think we named it as that was happening. We were with our amazing security, Clinton and Todden, maybe not Toddy at that point, but Clinton and we were on the bus and somebody said maybe you was like, this feels like the Beatles, or like what the Beatles had, like a this is like a taste of what they experienced. Girls haanging on the bus while we were at like a red light, and then the girl was running in flip flops and we were like, somebody, please stop her before she gets run over, Like it really was a safety issue. But it was also very cool to be in New York and performing had such an iconic theater and we had that incredible impromptu little rap party because it's we were ended there and that's where we ended up at the little bar. And it went from us being at tables like eating like normal people, and before we knew it, all the tables were moved out of the way, dance for, Dance for and do you remember um before that? That was the time that Ian and all of them came up on stage duringing like a prayer. It surprised us. And then there was also that cake they made that was the Radio City cake. It looked like the front of the marquis of Radio City and I was like this, I'll be I forgot about that. It's also when I got Naya to do because the last show and so everyone was acting a fool. Yes, but Ryan and all the bosses were there, so we didn't want to do too much. But I had convinced Naya and Chris Pooley are m d two? Um add a little extra hit? And what was it? What song was it? Was it the Boys Boys Mind? Yes? I think it was the Boy's Mine. It was like a Michael Jackson style hit. And she like did the Michael Jackson pose? Oh that's right. And I'm like, no one's gonna knows that tickock me? No one's gonna know and no one did. I remember. I brought it up to Ryan like did you notice? He's like, no, I thought the song just skipped. We're not playing it off of CD. It's not going to hit a bump in the CD skips. That's not how this works. Um, all right, should we should we get into this episode? So this is an interesting episode because you, I think we have similar feelings about this episode, but differing feelings about this episode. I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. Interesting, I hated it more. Here's the thing. I didn't hate it. Yeah. I think it's the first time because coming into the season, because we're towards the end, there were episodes that you and I clearly remember disliking and every time I've been surprised so far where I really enjoyed all those episodes. This was the first episode that I felt like it was filler, you know, where I was like, Okay, we're at the end, what are we going to do? And you go it's I think almost every single time there's a song, it feels really weird and forced. Also, the whole thing was funk. I think Amber's face in the first choir room scene really sums up my entire feeling about this episode. Interesting because I think she's the viewer, you know, she's acting as the viewer in this of being like, is this how we need to be taught Funk Amber. There is also the like the scale of how cringey this episode is. Yes, her face is. She really was doing heavy lifting in the Eye region, and I think this would have been crazy, but well, I just totally unacceptable. Yeah, okay, So before we get into it, the for number one song was still MG featuring will I Am by a Shirt, and the movie was still Shruck Forever after which I still haven't seen. And we've still got our special vocal adrenaline frozen friends Adina and John A Finn, and we are missing miss Jama Mays in this episode. And this is the filler episode, the penultimate episode before our regional's moment. And again I do think this was flipped an airing order. I think we shot it, we did Funk, then we did theatricality and then journey to regionals. But I think for some reason you are correct. I think it's because Ryan thought this episode was not great they swapped it, and I don't know why you are correct, but yeah, so Ladie Keane is back directing this. Ian Brennan wrote it, well, you know all of them. Elie did so many episodes. She did she did a lot of episodes in the first first season. I also thought about maybe they swapped it because maybe American Idol was like their finale was around the time of theatricality or something like that. I don't know. I think you may be exactly correct. I think that there was some reason why. Yeah, and that makes sense. There were a lot of songs in this episode. Tell Me we have another one, Bites the Dust Um by Queen that Jesse, Saint James and Vocal journalin Do tell Me Something Good by Rufus and Chaka Khan, That Little Schuster Does Um Loser by Beck, That Puck and Finn and Hart Bamboo and Saint Maryson Harry Schuster, It's a Little Acafella's Momentum. It's a Man's War World by James Brown, performed by Quinn and the Unmed Mothership Connection, Good Vibrations by Marky Marking, The Funky Bunch performed by Finn, Hudson, Mercedes and Noah Puckerman and give Up the Funk by Parliament sunk by the new directions. I would also like to point out something else about the music, and I don't know if you noticed this. The vocals and the episode were mixed so strangely, you know, I did notice that it hasn't happened. So there's some episodes where depending on the scene, they'll mix the lead vocal a little higher, and it's always worked. There's some reason why they're doing it. This episode, it makes no sense. Another one bites the dust. It sounds like Groff's vocal is seventy percent of what you're hearing. Yes, everything else is buried underneath it. And then when it gets to give up the funk, you can't even hear Amber's ablebs at the end, and she's wailing, and they're like, and she's featured on screen singing, but it's her vocal is buried underneath everything, and all you hear is done mother. How Well, there's a lot going on during this time, and I feel like this was around the time at the recording studio when we would go in, we would hear from Adam or Alex. Was Alex around at this point yet his brother, Adam's brother. He becomes like our main guy for a while and yeah, we hear this has to be sent to Sweden, yeah, overnight and then mix and come back. And I don't know that there was always the case that it always got mixed there it was, it was okay, So it has nothing to do with it, no, because it was a twenty four hour thing. Their whole system was that we record in la while they make the tracks in Sweden, and then they mix the tracks in Sweden. So it's a full twenty four hour loop where we don't lose any time, got it? It was the I think it was in post production that they mess with the vocals and the actual episode because those are different than the recordings. It's the same actual vocal, but the mix is different. Interesting for the interesting interesting. I don't know why. There's a good interesting point, all right. The episode summary. What happens in this episode, you know, not a lot. So the Glee Club gets bamboozled slapped across the face by Jesse St. James, which sends them into a tailspin. And then that's also sort of how um you know, Shoe comes up with his plan for the week, last minute plan, last minute plan, which then helps Mercedes and Quinn connect over some serious issues. It's like this serious thing going on while everybody else in Glee Club has lost their minds. And then Will and Sue have a very interesting Little Tango if you yeah, yeah, yeah, a fun revenge storyline. Right, do you want to talk about Jesse Saint James's storyline first? Sure? All right, So Jesse's named James transferred back to Carmel and he goes to Vocal Adrenaline. Goodbye, easy to just swap schools like this? No, okay, no, didn't think so. But you know what, maybe his transcripts were all there and he was just a click of a button. Who knows he's pretty? He is pretty. So he goes back to Vocal Adrenaline and and they end up performing for us. I don't randomly out of nowhere, just come back and perform another one Bites the Dust, which is an incredible vocal from I mean, they looked great. Yeah, but they're doing it as as a strategy that they always do to freak out their competition at regionals. So this is one of those episodes two where the episode title is mentioned about eighty times. So their plan is to psych us out, to send us into a funk funk if you will, if you will? Oh, and and then we go into so Rachel's very upset and we go into the choir room and Kurts like, I mean, it's going to take a lot more than that to like send us into a funk. And we find our entire choir room has been toilet paper, which is really fun to shoot in. You remember props. Can you imagine how long that took a lot of paper? You can't like reshoot that like once we start taking it down, but we didn't. No, I can see. It's very intentional about you see what we're perfectly splayed out one of us and we just stop as soon as we enter so we don't touch it and mess it up some to reset it like gout dot to the doilet paper. Yeah, and of course if you tell us not to touch things, we're going to touch them. Yeah. So so in retaliation, Puck and Finn decide that there because mister Shoe's like, well, let's get them back, right, Let's let's kind of like hit him, wear it hurts and do this bag and Punk and Finner like we got it, don't worry about it. Sho's got bad ideas. They're lame. And it was this funny voice over with Puck being like, obviously we knew it was gonna come down to us. Also, like mister Shoe being like get them back. You're like, WHOA hold up a second, mister Shoe crosses the line so many times this episode. Yes, agreed, Okay, let's just put that out there. Yeah, so pucking Finn slash all the Vocal Adrenaline range rovers, which it was very funny to watch, and also range rovers in high school. That's crazy. Um. Even though I was able to get myself a range Rover at this point, this was exciting. Yeah, in real life I was able to I've lived the dream of the range Rover and it's over and it's gone. But I went to a high school. I went to private school one year of high school. It's the only year I ever went to private school. I so did not fit. I could not afford private school. And I remember all these kids driving around and like really expensive cars. And I was getting dropped off by my mom every day in our old car, and I was like, oh, drop me out at the car. Who are these kids? I had just moved to LA. I'm like, I don't know about this, right is right? I'm poor? Yeah? Anyway, So, so Vocal Adrenaline's gift with a very good booster club kids range rovers for their win and fucking Finn slash the tires and they end up in Fagin's office where they get in trouble and mister She's like, it's a harmless prank, which it's not, and Shelby car grin and not pressing charges and umh. And Finn comes to the rescue by saying that they'll get jobs and pay them back by the end of the year, which is also crazy that like Sheets and Things is not going to pay back for tires twenty tires, but anyways, um but they get a job at Sheets and Things and Terry's back. So Terry comes back and she has this really inappropriate crush on Finn. She sees him as mister Shoe. She gets has this really inappropriate crush on him after they sing Loser, which we'll talk about in a second, and it's do you also know when she was like, we'll just put it into the iTunes, yes, which I also feel like was a nod to what they did this episode in real life, And that's no shade. I think they told us like sometimes when they had, you know, the plot or like the buzzword that they wanted to use for an episode, they would just throw it in, which is why all these songs. I feel like Loser was a pitch from Corey. I don't know, maybe yeah, I feel like Corey or Mark would have pitched Loser. For sure. It was not how I thought. I wouldn't think a Beck song would be in a funk episode, but here we are. I canna say, honestly, for the song itself, on the way that it was presented in the episode, I thought I did it a great job shooting it like it was. She kept it interesting. Yeah, she kept it, you know, funny and weird, and it was like what do you do with that? Like as a director, I'd be like what do I do with this? So I thought she did a great job with it, especially because again, if I think we should just mention how we get into some of these songs where Tobolowski is like, where's my muzach And that's how we get into Loser, and to go and put on the music a boom, like what's yeah? No, just have their guitars there? Yeah yeah, That's where I set out loud no less than three times reminding myself and my friends who are watching with me last night, it's a satire. Okay, um okay, so then what tell me? No, I was just I had so a friend was watching this with me last night and he's never seen Glee, and he sat down like halfway through this episode. No, that's not through his eyes, and I was like, this is not because if you know, if you were to watch this episode with no context, even with context, it's still odd and without context, he had questions and he didn't understand that it was a comedy. I was like, no, this is a comedy show. The first season at least is and then yeah, it was great. It was really enlightening for me. An interesting, Okay, what did they How did they respond? They were like, oh I was so worried. Okay, got it, Like everyone is so mean to each other, Like, yeah, it's a satire exactly, speaking of being mean. So Jesse Saint James calls Rachel out to the parking lot after they've been toilet paper and been yeah, thank you, range rover tires have been slashed, and he says to me on the parking lot and Rachel runs out again satire Smolmo running slowmore, running toward Jessie and she gets egged. That looked like it hurts so bad. And I remember Lea saying it got hurt. Um, she also had a double if you didn't notice, like there was at one point when she gets hit all over the place, you see it's a there's a wig and it's not her must have been her standard. But um, it was crazy and it kept me. It made me think of Never Been Kissed, one of my favorite movies. When she gets egged, which is so sad, but Jesse eggs her and the whole Vocal Adjournine team eggs her, and it was really sad. And then Rachel says, now I keep having nightmares of all the mothers of the little baby chicks coming at me for revenge, which yeah, and Vocal a Journaline for all the money they have. They're sure in the same outfits they were at the beginning of the episode. Sorry, I'm gonna be Debi downer this episode, pointing that rubbed me the wrong way. That's okay, I'm a hater. I guess I'm a hater today. Um, it's all right, we're all. We're all. We can be haters of some episodes, not all of them. So we talked about maybe the weirdest part of this episode, the Sue and Will feud thing that happens. Yeah, let's talk about that. But so when vocal Journaline tps and does the surprise performance for the new directions, somebody's like, how did they get in all their equipment? Which I loved they actually addressed because you know how many times things magically appear in the show, we don't dress them. And then Sue marches in saying, oh, I let I gave them keys. I did a sound check with them earlier, like I helped them, And then she goes on this whole rant about how she needs to blow out the wall because she's going to put in a new trophy for when she wins Nationals in the glee club loses regionals and she gets to take over the room and rightly so this pisses off Will, which starts, which starts off this whole almost fever dream of a storyline. Pause. Do you remember the breaking of this trophy? The throwing of the trophy? I don't remember it. Okay, I don't either, and I feel like I would have remembered something like that, But I think it was a real trophy, like I go plastic one. It wasn't like a dummy one or anything like that, and he actually had to like throw it, and I think I remember them being like, don't close your eyes because like then he want us to get particles or pieces and our eyes. We're like, we're fine, We're fifty feet away, right. Anyway, they're always very cautious. Card I guessed though, when he threw it, I was like, oh, mister, she was good, Yeah, yeah, okay, continue one. Yeah. So while Rachel is you know, also Will is mad. Rachel's upset about this whole breakup, and She's saying, you know, destroyed at the heart of the team's heart, then destroy the team. And then Will of course with light bulb and so he starts courting Sue. Really, so there's a lot of late night they're at the school by themselves after hours, not sure why. Darkness, yes, darkness. And so Sue comes into the choir room late one night and Will was like, Hey, I need to ask you some questions. I'm I'm wondering about this idea for regionals, but I don't know if it's you know, too suggestive. Can I do it for you? And after he also had been complimenting her skin for what felt like an eternity. Yeah, and God Jane is just so good. So she's I'm never just not like flabbergasaid about how good she is in all of these different weird situations. She sells anything and it makes everything work. Yep, makes everything work. So he performs tell me something good. Um, it made me uncomfortable. Honestly, I have to say, Malik good, Malik? Did he did? I think it was? It's like I don't want to watch my parents. Yes, blurt it was, yes, yes, yes, I didn't like that. Yes, I agree, And then Sue's like what's happening, and she's journaling and being like, oh my god, I think I have a crush on Will Schuster. Like now I'm actually picturing his head on the pillow next to me when I wake up, and it's attached to the rest of his body. A lot of murder. I gotta say, the journal drawing. Did you see the drawing of Will Schuster? That must have been Jason. Who's you that right, one of our crew members jasone incredible artist. Yeah. He was used to draw all of us in character and like give us cards and like with our characters drawn on them like he was amazing, So he must have drawn that. Um. That in the journal that picture illustration. That was a good spot. He probably did. He was sure it looks familiar. It looked familiar. So around that time Will comes in, brings her flowers toim atch her her track suit, and then she says she hates them, but then he surprises her with her favorite I don't know, workout whatever gummies or something or something supplements and asked her out on a date. And she shows up in her track suit and pearls pearls. Because this whole time it sort of it feels like him flirting with her. It happens over several scenes and it's going on and on and on, and then when it finally gets to breadsticks and she doesn't show up and she realizes she got stood up and shows up at his house and they have this whole fight and it was very, very rewarding. I thought Will slash Matt did a very good job of it. Was hanging with Jane in this in terms of the actor chops fair enough. It was really fun to watch them play and do something that they don't normally get to do with one another, like each other right right, Very satisfying, No, was satisfying. They also is like the roles were reversed, which is like fun I watch. I mean, in all this, to me, the best part was that after this, she has an emotional breakdown and doesn't leave bed for four days. But we see that because all the cheerios without their ponytails, because I clearly don't know how to do them without her, they're falling apart. And you see Heather go through with Jacob and Israel being loved me also her shirt backwards, Naia crying it's so good, and Kurt being like, look, obviously she sucks, but some of these girls need the scholarships to go to college. And Will feels bad and he goes into her apartment. Now do you remember I remember talking to Ian about this because he was so excited. We had never seen Sue's apartment or house before, and he was like, she's going to be a hoarder. It's all trophies, it's a hoarder's house. It's funny. I mean, he loves those shows he wanted he was talking about like he's obsessed with like the QVC hoarder, like couponing. He's like he's very interested in all of that. So this makes total sense, and that house is very funny. It also gives me atred, like I can't look at it for too long. No um, but it's very funny. It's very laying there in her track suit for you and he gets her back and she ends up winning nationals again, and there's that incredible little TV moment and this weird moment of almost a kiss, Oh do you I she brings she with Heather and Naya, she brings her national trophy into Will's house and that was cute because they're like uncomfortable and then sorry mister shoe. Yeah, and then she's like kiss me and he says no. Then she says no, I'm not going to do this. Even your breath stakes some mediocready perfect. It's awkward and it's funny. Here's the thing I don't think the show this episode is called funk. I think it's called funky. It's a funky smell. You're right, there's a funky stench to it. It's teena boy rock smell. Also, mister Schuster in the choir room going funky Dad. I was like, oh boy, oh boy. There's a lot of fringe moments like there were also a lot of this whole episode to me, is like the whole nod in a wink thing. Yeah, yeah, where I think the writers knew exactly what they were doing and you exactly hope heard some of the stuff was and we're referencing it within it. They were also between us a lot of inside things like the funk. Get was like sort of making fun of the runs we do that then Ryan would do behind the scenes. It's the exact same. That's why we laughed in the choir room because it's all familiar and like some of the dances we do later on and give up the funk or our personal dances with each other. So there's a lot of referential things. Yes, and we had we had to keep it light. Okay. So meanwhile, Terry and Will are officially divorced, which happened very quickly. They the paper just as divorce. I mean, what else is there and it's just it's divorce. Sometimes the show feels like a cartoon to me, and I like it. Yes, yes, yes, that is a very good analogy. Sometimes you just have to you have to look get it that way. Sometimes Will so Will is depressed, he's kind of um, he's in a funk, and that's obviously where he got his last minute lesson from um and he's inspired, and he when he's meeting up with Ryerson, Ryerson's you really want to do this? Ryerson reminds him that vocal adrenaline has a weakness and that they have never done a funk number and they don't know how to do it. Because there are people still consulting with Sandy Ryerson, I don't know. He has to beating underage boys in the pilot inappropriate. He has to come back here because because Steven Tablowski has to come back. That's where he's a communic genius. He is a communic genius even though he shouldn't be allowed back. And the whole time Sandy Ryerson's like him done a funk number. And then Will comes into the classroom like, guess what, there's our lesson. It's like, you've got your lesson from Sandy Ryerson. Right's not right, right, it's not right. So this kind of catapults this whole Quinn situation. How Mercedes is like, good, I got the funk lesson. I got it, and Quinn's like, excuse me, what about me? And everybody laughs, and Mercedes thinks it's funny, and Quinn feels like she has lots of anger and passion that she has to share, so she is going to be the first to share in the choir room. The next day with her assignment, we get into this is a man's world, which for so many reasons, this is just the most the weirdest, one of the weirdest things will ever witness. Only is what I think. It's the unwed Mothership Connection, which, by the way, if you didn't notice, is a play on The Parliament's fourth album that Give Up the Funk is on and it's called Mothership Connection. So the unwed Mothership Connections. See what happens when you put in a song and time you got a whole storyline. So all of our friends, dancer friends come in and play pregnant women who do this very inappropriate, weird mother dance, which kind of reminds me of the waitress ballet contraction ballet. Yes, and it's weird, it's really weird. But our friends Audrey and Courtney and all of them are doing this crazy wild swan swan Lake fans number pregnant. It's inappropriate and uncomfortable. I remember when we were shooting it, laughing and being like what where are we right now? But Diana sounds great on this and this is totally up her alley. She's a funky gal. She loved singing the song, he could tell, and she was just living her best life, like take away the pregnancy pad underneath, Like that is Diana. Yeah, true, truly, this is the most Diana number, like the Say Little Prayer numbers are, Quinn, this is Diana, Diana exactly she was living. Um. I also remember watching this but on paper we're like, what is this number? And then watching it we had a great time because it every while the choreography is insane but also incredible. Yeah. Yeah, it's so weird and wonderful. Um. And then so Quinn also earlier on pre pre music pre song talks about being oppressed by the man right and Mercedes. This is where we're que Mercedes reaction. Please don't go here, please Amber, Amber, please help us, And I thought, oh boy, And you know, Elodie was one for that. I do feel like all of those shots were thrown in because Elodie needed them, because I remember Elodie walking up to us being like, what are we going to do? Yeah? What are we gonna do and I can just picture her seeing Amber giving these reactions. She's like, yes, keep doing that. This is what we need, right and it helps in the later up seeing nice scene between the two m So, um, we'll let's dump to that, because Quinn and Mercedes have this very nice, emotion like sweet scene, which I feel like in spirit of like twenty twenty three or twenty twenty two, and you know, the Black Lives movement. Um, we were just like, I'm not taking giving clet Glee credit, but like we just started to skim the surface of like this a little bit, and I was Okay. I mean, it's a touch, like a droplet of water, but I was like, Alrightley, okay, okay. Yeah, And I don't think I realized at the time either what was happening in this crazy episode. You're still sprinkling in something significant and that matters in that something that deserves seeing much more dialogue. Yeah, exactly. But they really do kind of, um find like this common ground of feeling on the outs, feeling like they don't belong, feeling like they you know, Quinn being pregnant and Mercedes being black, and so there's definitely this really nice friendship that we This is the beginning of the Quinn and Mercedes friendship that we see, which I was like, it's a very unexpected one, but I really like it. And so Mercedes very generously has already asked her parents if Quinn can move in because she can't live with Buck anymore. And um. And so after that Good Vibrations performance, well, yeah that number was not funk, not funky, um wild, yes, a rap song would. But they're dancing is a plus plot to get them. Honestly, I will have to say, like, the two of them were probably are the least coordinated dancers that we had in the glee club and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure, and Corey would be first to tell you like, can't dance. Um, but the two of them actually Zach got them to like move and in sync and I was like, wow, Okay, they can do it. Yeah, And which was like frustrating because Zach would always be like, I've seen you guys move. I know you can do this. I know you're frustrated in other numbers, but like, I've seen you do this before, so this is proof you can hand right, here's the pudding. Yeah, and then say you can't exactly, so they do good vibrations. It's not it's not a funk song, it's a rap song. But anyway, it had to be thrown in there because I guess we had to have that number. And then all things kind of resolve and we're back at our final number of give up the song, which um is taking us to regionals. Uh, I mean how we did? We performed for Vocal Adrenaline all in their cool sweatshirts, which I was like, can I have that sweatshirt? I know? Right? Shoe calls them back to be like meet us three pm at the auditorium, and like what we show them is this number, and they're mad at it. They're like scrim happening. And then we come out and all these outfits that feel wrong. I don't I don't know what I was wearing. I don't know what I was wearing either, And I don't know what I was wearing. I was wearing a flat rimmed baseball cap with a bandana underneath, a crazy yellow tank top and some wild pants. I was wearing orange and camo, Like you kind of look like Justin Bieber. But this memory was really fun. Do you remember shooting it. We were in Long Beach, right was christ and chennawit there that day. Why do I have this memory of her stopping by because I think she was in town and I have a memory of her coming by just be like, oh my god, my children, and I like, my friend was there? Or I think Marco Marco was there, right, Marco was there? Was Naw? I don't know. I think she visited this day like this is what we're doing since you've been gone? Really, I think so, because we hadn't really spent that much time with her since the show had become as successful as had become, and then it was like we saw her and she was like, oh my gosh, like, look what's happening. I think she was there. I think you might be right. Well, but we had a lot of fun performing this and Dana, who's from the Bay Area, got to do her this face. That's what this. If you see us put our hands in front of our faces and come to do that weavy thing, that's a Diana move. Then got on gleat, which was great, and if you listen to E forty or he goes this face, that's what that is. We were crazy during this number and I think Elodie was like, just go for it. Whatever, yeah, and um, we were dancing. A lot of it was free we call this free form rock out, So Zach would lay our choreographer'd be like okay, and then free form rockout, which meant we get to do whatever we want. And that was always my nightmare. And when we did the line, the disco line of like, um down the middle, it's my work line. Yeah, the soul train line, thank you, it's actually my worst nightmare. I don't like improvising dance moves. It's not my thing. I don't this song wasn't really my thing. So I was like, oh gosh, so I did the sprinkler. I think are some crazy great yeah whatever? Yeah, But than me, I just fist pumped. Well, Harry looked the best, Heather looked, you know, like just leave it to the pros. Nia did the Nia dance, She did do the Dia dans. Yeah that was great, but yeah that was improved. And we were just living our lives and we were also exhausted, and I think we were like the end is near and basically how I feel now after that is like, let's just get to the finale. That's right. That's right. Um, and that's the episode that's fun Yeah, that's it. It is funny. I feel like you and I don't have a lot of memories from that episode, um, because at that point I think we were like the well had run dry. I remember being there, I just don't being there. Yeah, it was just being like a little like dead behind the eyes. Fully, I think you're right. I think theatricality was supposed to be this one because we had started rehearsing for regionals during theatricality. Correct, Yes, very good, Kevin. Should we do some Tardie takes? Yeah, let's do some speed round TARTI takes. Okay, cringe, moment's Outcheese. There's a million um the Sue and Will seduction. I picked the Will overstepping he um over sharing with the Glee Club. You actually, I did wrote this. I wrote this down because I was shocked at it, the fact that he was like I just finalized my divorce, and I was like, I yelled at the screen, I said what I share that? And then Santana speaks up and addresses it, which I was thankful for. It's like, thank God, I don't even think they cut to her. I think they her voices. No, she was, she was laying on the chairs. Okay again, I think fully sums up how everyone felt about this episode. Never have you ever seen anyone laying on the chairs in the choir room. Worst dance move I mean, I mean, but it's good and bad is good vibrations. I gotta say, there's some cringe. Give up the funks in there that we're just some were great and some were just not right. Best song none, not another one bites the dust. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. I think we peaked early, Yeah, we did peak early in this one. And then performance by a prop. I think all of the trophies for sure, the one that broke the hoarders, the national one. Yes, trophies were winning. Do you remember when Tina got hit in the head with the trophy in a later season? No, Sam Cord moves and he hits me in the head and I go down. No no, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, not on purpose by accident in a scene and I go down. It's very funny. You're is there is it in the actual cut? Or Oh it's with chums. It's when we go into chums. Oh sorry, anyway, trophies galore u best lines. I think we have the same one. Okay, we did. We wrote him here. It's the same one. So they're in the office. They're talking about the prank, the slashing of the tires, and will goes, look, nobody got hurt. It was a harmless prank, and sou goes, that's what they said about a young man in Chicago in eighteen seventy one who thought he'd play a harmless prank on a dairy cow of one old of one Missus O'Leary. He success successfully ignited its flatulence, and the city burned. William that young terrorist went on to become the first gay president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. What I had to rewind it and listen to it, like three more try to do because I thought so weird. I was like, I didn't know. I'm like, are we talking about one of the great fires in Chicago? We're talking about mad cow disease? Are we talking about? Like what? God? It was so good. It was how didn't let field? But it worked so well? Jane just killing it again. It was okay ball also with the line um to Adina about being um, I can't even remember what he said to her, but it was like, yeah, it was very inappropriate, and Sue's reaction of like glaring at him was flawless. It was absolutely flawless. Um Jenna the ship we found on TikTok today. It was very exciting because it has almost nine hundred thousand views, wow, two hundred thousand likes, and somebody threw an incredible twenty fourth Glee themed birthday party. What yes, Um, it's really great. Click on it, watch it by um McKenna Renee. And they have karaoke, people are dressed up in costume. They have food themed as like rice Crispy treats it looks like but with Cheerios. There are all kinds of wonderful. They have big pictures, they have gold star balloons, people and Cheero's outfits. Fondu for two, they have the top slushies. They even have like a quiz looking thing. It was. There are paper plates with our faces on them. Yeah, this is great. It's really really good. You check it out. Because it is twenty twenty three or twenty twenty two, whenever this was people are still having Glee parties wild, but this is great. It's great work attention to detail. Thank you for sending that, Thank you for having the party. Hope we had a great birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday per usual. Thank you for sending that in. Thank you for listening. Next week is our finale of season. What we did it? Wow? This is very exciting. I can't wait. And we have lots of memories. I end up in the hospital at one point, so what Yeah, I went to the er during the filming of Journey to Regionals. I remember this now. A lot happened. All right, Well, let's do it. Um. Thanks for joining us, Thanks for sticking with us. We can't wait to wrap this season up and get on to the next one. We're just getting going. One season almost down, five to go and a couple of tours and a movie that no one watched it And that's what you really missed. Bye bye Ta Ta. Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram at and that's what you really miss pod. Make sure to write us a review and leave us five stars. See you next time.