And That's What You REALLY MissedSo many firsts and so much controversy ... welcome to "The First Time."
McKinley High is tackling West Side Story ... and some of our favorite students are wrestling with taking their relationships to the next level. Yes, Rachel and Finn and Kurt and Blaine go there, and it's all tastefully done.
Plus, Artie succeeds as a musical director and has his first voiceover. Kevin and Jenna have all the behind-the-scenes dirt on this episode of many firsts!
And That's what you Really missed with Jenna.
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Welcome to and That's what You Really miss podcast. It's a musical week, well school musical week.
It's a week of first Oh, very good, very good, Kevin.
This episode, season three, episode five, the first time originally aired November eighth, two thy eleven. This was a dense episode.
A lot a lot happened.
I stopped halfway through and I was like, this has got to be almost over right, Not because I was bored. I just meant I wasn't sure what because I thought my side story number was in this and I was on halfway through.
Yes, I I did the exact same thing. I had to pause, and I was like, oh, there's a lot a lot happens. Let's just get into it. There's okay, So something's happening in the world before the number one song. I feel like we're gonna see this a lot moving forward, not that we haven't before, but like we're gonna do the song. Five episodes later, we found Love is the number one song Rihanna and Calvin Harris, and that's going to be an iconic number for you. Kevin and the number one movie is still pussing Boots. But more importantly, there's a lot of Glee news this week.
Yeah. On November eleventh, Glee The Music the Christmas Album, Volume two was released Shout Out Too. Yeah. The album featured twelve fest tracks, including two original songs, eight of which appear in episode nine of this third season. This album was available on CD Ancient and for digital download Get All in One for Christmas? Is You Extraordinary? Merry Christmas? Santa Baby, let it snow Christmas Rapping? Do they know it's Christmas? Oh? My god? Do they know it's Christmas?
Christmas? Wow?
There's a lot.
Yeah, we'll get into that with the next episode.
Yeah. So this episode was directed by our editor extraordinaire and also now director Extraordinaire Brad Beaker.
M H and written by Roberto A Gear Sicassa who is off to make it a very very large career for himself after this.
A little show called Riverdale.
Have you heard of it? Okay? So, the songs in the show tonight, we are doing school musical, so a lot of them will be west Side Story, but some of them won't Tonight west Side Story, Uptown Girl, Billy, Joel, interesting, boy like that. I have a love west Side Story, America, west Side Story and one hand, one heart. So this is like the Brittany episode and then you get only exception.
Yeah, we also get our introduction to one Grant Gustin.
Welcome to the show.
Grant. We start that roller coaster pre him being the flash m hm, and I didn't realize he came in, so well we'll get there. But I was like, oh, Grant's coming in hot.
Oh yeah, I know, okay. Grant also, fun fact, was in the national tour of The West Side Story right before this, right before he started Glee and now is in Angle.
So he was being haunted by West Side Story.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a great show. Okay, fun facts. We've got some fun facts for this episode. So Kevin, this is Artie's first voiceover of the series.
I could tell because someone wasn't very good at them.
So when you do the voiceovers for this, for any only, usually it's like the end of the day. The mike, like the boom operator, who is like one of our main sound guys. They come over, you stand with the director literally like holding your lines, and you read it a few times. That's at least my experience.
On the soundstage, you're not in a recording shat or anything like that. They just pull you aside and.
People are like finishing their day. It's so weird. You're not in like a recording booth. You're not like doing it a million times. You probably get two or three and you're like, oh, right, got it. So that for people who didn't know, this is the second episode to not feature any solos, only duets or group numbers. Interesting.
Wow, the person was Vitamin D, which was so long ago.
Wow. West Side story performance shown in the episode was actually strictly forbidden. So MTI, the company that licenses the show. Every show has a licensing company they go it, so this one's with MTI, and they strictly forbid any group performing the musical for making changes to the original musicals, books, song or story. Changing the dialogue of the musical to match the nineteen sixty one film version is also forbidden, which is also done. So we had a lot of penalties. I don't know what happened, but we're really not supposed to do a lot of this stuff.
Do you think we got in trouble or we asked for permission?
No? I think we just did it, and then I think we just then we just went with it.
Damn. This is the second episode to show a viewer discretion advice content rating message right before the airing of this episode, the first being sexy hmmm interesting.
Rachel also said she wasn't going to lose he virginity until she turned twenty five and what had wanted Tony and her Broadway career was established, which Finn does allude to about winning our Tony, but that goes to crap.
Brittany had a very controversial line in this episode when there are people were talking about their first times, she says she just climbed into my tent alien invasion, and that obviously led to people debating whether not Britney was sexually assaulted during her first time. Although it's Brittany and so maybe she was just confused about the situation and making a joke that fascinating. I didn't even when she said, I was like, oh that hmm. It did make me wonder, you know, huh. Also in Latin America, the part where Curtin and Blank kiss was cut when the episode was aired.
Oh no, yeah, no.
Hell no.
Screen copies of this episode was sent to a number of critics before the show. My gloss Yellow shout out. He from tv Line he called it stellar in a standout episode, and Enter Team in Weekly's Tin Stack wrote that it was one of Glee's best in stallments ever and an exceptional episode. This is so interesting to me, too fascinating. So prior to the broadcast, Chris anticipated that the episode sexual themes a lah him and him and Darren, you know, doing the deed and content would prove controversial among television watchdog groups. He said, I absolutely expect to hear from them, but I don't. But I think it's handled very sweetly and very emotionally. They're expecting this big, raunchy, suggestive brainwashing storyline when it's really very very sweet.
And before the episode aired, the Conservative Parents Television Council called the show reprehensible and the Fox network reckless for celebrating teen sex. Where had they been the past two seasons? We literally did like a virgin montage, Like, you know, people just want controversy and just want some free press. That's not what was happening. But Jenna thoughts about this episode because well hold on, so they summary of the episode is under Artie's director or leadership. The kids prepare to perform the school musical West Side Story, which leads to two couples to take their next step in their relationship Wanky. Meanwhile, Finn meets with a recruiter and Coach Beast has an admirer. You and I were just talking about how we feel about this episode before we started recording, Yeah, because it felt like there was a lot of ground to cover. It felt like there were about eighty storylines happening in this right and also like the full length version of America totally right, like there was a lot. Well that's it.
It wasn't just the school musical, like, it wasn't like, oh, it's all surrounding like some drama and we get it done in time and something goes wrong, Like there were like fifteen other important storylines happening alongside the musical, which is why I think they wrote it that way. But I was like, wow, are really stuffing it in.
It was serious stuff too.
And we don't usually see this right like a school musical performance anyway, So for it to be weaved in throughout these storylines without music that was quite applicable to those storylines, like it felt a little like, Okay, so we're gonna make this musical work, and we're gonna make all these storylines the can we're try and intertwine them, and it just felt like a lot of my brain felt like a little stuffed.
I sort of I feel like that must be like a maybe like a Beaker Brad Beaker idea m to make all of it work so it's not just musical number seeing musical number scene, because it did feel like a real like musical movie to me in that way, or especially the first time they start doing it where they're talking about who's had sex and who hasn't, and they're weaving it in with the actual number, it felt I liked that a lot, but I wasn't really aware of what was happening, Okay, like, oh, is this a rehearsal? Is this right the actual show right? I don't know. And then I think because there was so much to cover than some storylines got lost and like Mike Chang storyline had just like a couple of shots and a scene that will.
Live on, that will live on. But yeah, agreed, agreed, This is when I feel like they'll there's a lot to cover because there's so many characters and so much to write for that we'll see this trend throughout the rest of the series because there's just so many people and people that like fans care about, so they want to write about everybody. That's true, and sometimes you get lost in the abyss aka Teina Khan Cheg. But like you know, it's just like there's just a lot of characters to give time to.
I would like to start this off by saying, what is Artie's problem? What do you mean when it comes to relationship stuff women? Especially, He's so bad and like weird because.
I think in real life a lot of guys are bad at this.
It's hard to watch.
I'm sorry. I don't mean to generalize, not everybody.
I was shocked several times by his behavior in this episode, where like making the students have.
Sex right like that I thought was interesting.
They don't have passion because they had never done it, and like, as a friend, he respects their aversion to fun, and then he meddles and coach beasts love life, which was weird.
Interesting, why are you the one?
This is a grown ass person. Why are you coming up on her and meddling asking why she walked out when it's not your business, not your business. I don't know, like sure, ultimately maybe it leads to a really nice moment later on in the episode.
It was just interesting. It was you right, like you didn't have to be me. I will say, though, you have had a relationship with coach Beast amongst all of all the characters, like your experience with like wanting to be on the football team, and that whole storyline, like it is the closest that's not Finn or Puck.
Was shooting this episode.
No, what.
Was he?
He was in the audience, Kevin, he was watching the show, was in the audience, But that's it. He had a nice he was busy.
He must have been doing something else.
And no su oh yeah yeah yeah yeah.
So that's why there was so much of using the other people.
Yeah and everybody else. Okay, okay, okay. Already though, I will say, has a really nice storyline with the whole director his directorial debut and how he gets a panic attack and everybody is actually just thinking him and how you really helped us to open up. It was very sweet.
Do you remember filming that little scene? No, so this was the first time for me. I'm sure they had done it to other people, but I found out right we were filming a scene earlier in the day and right after that they said they are changing. So originally I had like a two page like monologue.
Yes, Kevin, I remember this. I was quizzing you on it.
Yes, you were helping me work on it because it was really long, and I wasn't someone like Sue or Shoe or Santana who normally had a bunch of lines like that, Oh my god. And so you were helping me. And then they came up and like, oh, we're going to get some edits, they're going to rewrite it, and I started to panic, and then they gave me. You know, normally the script you have set called sides. They're like little versions of the script. They're like shrunken down and they're just the pages you're shooting that day, and they're white like a script. And then any change is a different color paper, so you have a yellow, green, blue, depending on what edit it is. And so they gave me like these new green pages and it was longer than I think that's than what was in the episode. I think they chopped it down a bit, but I was so panicked, and Brad Beeker is just the most gentle soul and he would never let you freak out. He's like, don't worry, it's gonna be fine. Because I had everybody in the cast looking.
At me, staring at you, and you.
Don't want to like make the day longer for everybody. And I believe it was the last scene of the day. And so there we are and I'm looking at you. I'm just like, stay in it, just get it together, like we got it. And everyone was very supportive because everybody knew, which was nice.
Yeah, okay, okay, thanks for the memory job, Kevin.
I forgot about it. I remember that happening, I just didn't know when it happened.
And then when you saw the episode.
When I see myself wheeling up on the stage having that panic attack, I'm like, this is it. And so during all of that, like when we were shooting those little things, that's when I was getting given the new pages. Oh fun, Like while we're still like shooting something, right, I'm like, cool, this is fun for me. It might have been the day we did America, to be honest, maybe maybe it was that, And it was at the end of the day.
I think it was because I think you were sitting in the back. We were doing America and you were working on it, and then they gave you the new ones.
Because that's all day. Because I'm not yes, yes, So I spent all day working on the wrong thing.
We've all been there. Don't worry, they'll be wanting me like that. But I loved I liked your little storyline, and I also liked your line about finding your new purpose to boss people around.
Honestly, Artie storyline was very relatable for me in twenty twenty three, mm hmm. It's still up performing, but I have realized I like doing these other things too, behind the scenes and bossing people around and making decisions about taste.
Yes, that's all it's about.
It was very fun, like when Leah was trying on the stresses and things. Doing that whole stuff was very fun.
Oh that was really funny. Do you remember shooting that? Yeah, really funny.
Because you know, it was like stuff we didn't normally get to do. Right, we're usually doing our routine was usually the same every day, like reading the Quire room.
We're doing a number, right, But when we each had like a different storyline it was like, oh, memorable, Yeah, exactly, We're very funny though.
So what happens during the top of Artie's storyline and the west side storyline West side story storyline when Artie talks about Blaine and Rachel not having passion because it looks like they probably haven't had sex before, Coach Beast and Emma Pillsbury get up and leave immediately, but Artie doesn't let that go for some reason. So it's revealed that Coach Beasts has also never been intimate with anyone. Well yeh, she just had her first kiss. Everyone down. But she does have a crush on Cooder Mankins, who's the football recruiter from Ohio State, and so Artie sort of finesses this date happening. He finds out from Beast. Then he meets Cooter and is like, you need to be straight up with her and ask her again, like very clear yes, And then Beast opens up to him and they have some great chemistry together. They together very.
Cute, and she's just cute. I mean, she's just the sweetest little muffin. And so when you and when you get vulnerable Beast versus like football coach funny chicken eating beast. It's like, I just my heart breaks for her all the time, and how honest she is and how vulnerable she has to be about not wanting, you know, not feeling like you know, she she deserves love. And so I'm anytime you get Dot Dot Marie Jones getting some you know, tears out, it's it's always a win for me.
It also makes you wonder if they just started, you know, once you get to know Dot and they did know Dot like Brad Ryan and Ian, if you know you start writing to that because Dot is.
Just like that in life. Yes, yes, totally, they know she can do it.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, So Mike Chang, his dad is going to confront him in this episode and this will continue on. But obviously this this is continuing from Asian f where his dad wants him to be have a real job, go to school, go to an ivy league, and Mike Chang has decided that he's going to audition and book the part of ref and be in the school musical and uh just kind of go against his father's wishes. But this is the intense one where his dad confronts him in the hallway when he finds out he's going to be in a west Side story and says that he's going to disown him as a son if he does this. This is very dark, it's.
Very very intense, and nothing else in the episode is happening like that, right, and all of a sudden, First of all, why is he coming to school to do this? Do you guys?
Not bad place, bad time?
Live in the same place, like not tech, what's at home?
Right? Right?
But so intense and like to disown him, to threaten him, to disown him if he pursues his dancing professionally.
Is and he has the sport of his mother now, which is good. But obviously he looks out to the audience and he's not there, and it's not very heavy to be doing in the school hallways and for them to make those rash decisions very quickly. But I will say, like a lot of kids deal with their parents not wanting them to pursue the arts. So I'm glad this was this. This topic is you.
Know, being addressed.
Yeah, being addressed. And obviously the stakes are a little bit higher for this one. It's not like, oh, we're not paying for your college. It's like, oh, you won't have a dad.
But yeah, and I mean I think all of us who have pursued the arts professionally luckily like you and I, have very supportive parents. But I mean, how many people every meetings that do not have that. I think it's more common that parents are not so into the idea because it's super unstable and always nobody wants.
To say their kids suffer. Look now, having a kid, I'm like, I don't want I'm going to do this. Yeah, but like, you know, what are you going to do if she says she loves it? When am I say? No, you can't live your life like it's not my job. I'm looking forward to seeing how this all unfolds. I mean, I can't remember, but it's also.
Just nice to see like Mike Chang, Yeah, step up and just be like I'm doing this. I'm not going to be a doctor, right, empowering. Yeah.
Should we talk about Blaine and Kurt or should we talk about Rachel and Finn.
Let's talk about Rachel.
There's a couple of things happening here, So Rachel and Finn. Rachel is encouraged by Artie to have sex to become more passionate and understand, you know, intimate for their opening night, so that they could take on the roles of Maria and Tony having lived experience, and she basically, I don't know tricks Finn, And I don't know if you would say tricks, but I maybe kind of say tricks. Fin into going to have sexual for the first time before opening night, and she blorts out, I have to do this before the show opens, and he's like, wait, hold on a second, and so they have like this conflict going on of he thought she wanted to wait. She has ulterior motives obviously for her career, because that's Rachel Barry. And then Finn is also dealing with Cooter being in town. Who is the football.
Recruiter, Cooter the recruiter.
I had to say it, So they each have.
Their own emotional shit going on, right, It's very heavy, and I also like going into this, Rachel is sort of like Cheers into four months with no drama, and then immediately here it starts drama by trying to basically use the first time it's Finn has something for her career here, like there we go, We're back to our regularly scheduled program.
When we did this, I remember doing this the scene where Rachel calls the emergency meeting and we're all talking about our stuff, and.
I liked the scene a lot. By the way, you were great.
Hated shooting this scene.
You were really great, though.
Oh thanks, I thought I was awful.
Disagree.
I also like it was like back cameras too close to my face. Get out of there, you know season three Jenna, ooh brutal, Okay, I just get out of my face. Please. I hadn't. Gina hadn't figured out her her jawline yet, she hadn't figured out her makeup like it all could have.
You know.
We're just we were waiting to mature a little bit, and I was like, please get out of my face. That was hard to watch. I will be honest, but.
Also break this episode. I also even said that.
Oh thanks, that's nice of you. I actually was okay. So for America, which we'll get too. I was preparing for a photo shoot the next day and I was doing the water diet. It's horrible and I never would encourage anybody. I don't even want to tell you what it is. But I was on some kind of crazy, wild thing that people do, and I was I was like, oh god, I hate how good.
I damn it because I wasn't drinking any water. That's so bad.
I know, it's really horrible. I'm not going to tell you what it was other than that anyway. But the first time scene I remember, it was really quid and you know, brad Bee Creek comes in. He's like, Okay, let's do this and let's do that, and he's just like so sweet about everything. But I don't I hated that scene. I hated my work in that scene.
That's so funny.
I think it's funny. Thanks, But it was a fun scene to shoot. Like all the girls don't get to like hang out like that in the scene, So it was like all these different This episode was kind of like a lot of different groups of people.
I also do love It's one of my favorite things of high school shows when they do this, when like kids are having sort of these what would normally be again, this would not be happening in school and like some private classroom. These kids never go home. That's why their parents have to come there to talk to them.
There.
Yeah, but you know, these conversations that are hard to address, these topics that are hard to address, but Rachel just on a Bachelor. They's asking about it, and then all of you are giving it to her, you know, honestly back whatever your experiences and not being embarrassed about what anyone's going to think of you. And I always think it's aspirational not necessarily realistic. But I do love when teen shows do this sort of thing. It elevates so it's like, yeah, it's what you want to see, it's what you want you hope kids are talking like totally.
There's a lot going on with Rachel's kind of like conflict of wanting to have sex. But I will talk. I want to talk about Finn's recruiter thing because the storyline is like it's minimal, it feels so small in the scheme of what's happening in the episode, but the scene with him like kind of recounting when when Cooter comes in and he's like, oh, you're going after Shane, and then his scene with Rachel when he's like revealing that he didn't like he has to kind of rethink his whole future. Corey at his finest coreyet is finest acting wise. It just reminds you why you love Finn so much. It's like the circumstances and the topics they were talking about were really great. Now that I'm like talking about it more, I'm understanding the importance of this episode revelation in the middle of the.
Like I think you and I are just like shallow and like we want fun.
Like whatever, teen sex, no problem?
Yeah, Like this is heavy.
No, No, it's important stuff. It's important topics for teenagers. And the fact that people were talking about and we were allowed to do it on broadcast television is actually a really good up. I applaud Fox for like doing that.
I also think you know what you said or the fence storyline wasn't a big thing. It was sort of minimized. But I also feel like that's a great representation of how he is in his career aspirations comparatively to Rachel, where it is very much in the back seat, on the back burner, a second thought or afterthought, you know, because he doesn't have the Broadway dreams that Rachel has. No one's really checking in with him being like, what do you want to do after high school? He is sort of the alpha, the pinnacle in high school right and very clearly hasn't thought about like what's going to happen as soon as that high school career is done? Right, And so to see him finally and I think it's like a very male reaction of I'm holding all of this in, all this tension that's probably subconsciously been building for a very long time, but didn't realize it until he was faced with it with the Cooter situation, right, And I yeah, it was like just like the Mike Chang storyline, even though it was quick, these are very I mean, they're obviously very well acted, very well written, but they still stand out just as much as a huge performance.
No, totally, and they're just important. Like I think a lot of like think about like how I like football for you probably also is huge in high school, but oh no, well you went in California, but still I feel like football. Like even where I went to school, it was either football or theater.
It was like your way out.
Yes exactly, And a lot of these were looking for that way out or not thinking about their futures at all and going I'm the cream of a crop here in school and then like don't really know what to do afterwards. So just like to really approach these topics, talk about them like I I get it now, my glossy yellow and tim Stack, I could get it.
I mean, they're never wrong. We love them there, you know it's I mean, it's also a testament to like the high school trope of like people peaking in high school.
M h.
I mean I imagine it was because the kids who weren't popular are considered hot and all that they were dreaming of all the ways in which they could get out of there and how they were going to do it and building their dreams and aspirations and how they're going.
To show so focused on something like being so focused on like I wish I could be that popular kid in school. When it like it goes to show like none of that matters, you know later in life. Okay, it's that. Now we go to Blaine and Kurt, who we have a love triangle. Well, I don't know if I call it a love triangle.
I call it a villain.
A villain so much a villain. He came in grant.
I want that.
I won't care. It doesn't matter to me if if you don't, if it doesn't bother you.
What what when he was talking about how he drinks, what you said Cavassier in his coffee. I drank it like mother's milk when I lived in Paris. I GA, it's crazy because Grant Gustin is the sweetest human possible, not the most adorable. I love him and then he plays that range.
Mm hmm yes, and that's how we first met him, and then we were like, oh, wait, this is Grant.
We love Grant like you're ours forever.
Oh we love Gramp. Yeah. So Blaine is also on the same track as Rachel, thanks to already worried about lacking life experience, starts hanging out with Sebastian but also Kurt, then becomes jealous, but then Blaine brings Kurt into the drama by them all going to scandals the bar.
This scandal.
Where we see one Max Adler, we see Krooski. It's hanging at the.
Bar, all these high schoolers hanging out at that bar, like he's had a couple of kids and yeah, been there, lives.
It's so funny. But I thought that their sweet little side conversation at the bar was also really important, like really great. But k is just talking about like getting through high school, and it's like real foreshadowing for what's to come for Krovski very sad, but I really liked the little conversation and then him also just going and like getting what he wants in the middle of Blaine. And then they have this very heated scene in the car where I was like, where is this going?
H Like, I was like, we can't make Blaine do that, right, but it feels real. This episode, in so many ways, feel so much more grounded than Glee normally.
Is that's why it's so different?
Yeah, because we were playing with heavy themes almost in every single storyline, right, and not making jokes about them like they just are. They're just existing as real and heavy as they should be. And the k of it all leading into that car scene, it's like you don't really get a break, right, it's sort of relentless. And then there's the tension of Sebastian just watching and stirring the pot and dancing with Blaine.
There's a lot happened, also Blaine visiting the Warblers and like them doing that hours so random, Like that teacher. I was like, what is that is the teacher that looks like at Dalton Academy?
Because I am confused? Yeah, And also like, and they're just dancing with her. This feels inappropriate.
It was all that was really interesting to me.
It was weird because I just think the Warblers are so popular that they kept having to find ways to involve.
Them, right, I mean, I didn't mind watching it. I just was like, this is so strange. It doesn't really make sense.
The only thing that's really happening outside of the school ever.
We needed to bring Sebastian. Yeah. I did like the Sebastian girl like that, like montage, I guess we're like the segue. I thought that was like probably the best one that we had in the episode.
Yeah, and I also do like the Sebastian and Blaine sort of back and forth, like them hanging out getting coffee, keeps it fresh, it's fun. He's like a male Santana.
It's so true. And then we just we see the least provocative sex scenes on television ever. So I don't know what these people are talking about, but I.
Because I think the talking about it was the controversial thing. The actual act of it was pretty.
Barely ms right.
Yeah.
Yeah, Well anyway, now now that we've talked through it, I get it. I get it. It was important.
And like.
Maybe not my favorite episode to like watch, but well done, Glee. Well done.
All that being said, America, okay, let's go Naya as Santana as Anita is.
We need more what we need in.
The actual this number wasn't long enough.
Oh god, it wasn't And it was.
Long, like I needed to see.
It was long. It was so longbelievably, it took a long time to shoot. I remember that it was really fun. One of the best memories of Glue that I have is shooting this number. We had so much fun.
Because all the dancers were there, like everybody.
There, and to watch Mark selling do that number was actually something I'll hold.
You're all in it, everybody, Oh yeah.
Okay, So we got to talk about the accents for a second because we were all instructed to do the accents. No they were not right, No they were not correct. No, we did not have a dialect coach. But I think this is what happens in high school plays. We are all directed to do something with very little help.
So you're saying it's already's fault, but.
It's the school's fault. There was no budget for that. But also, like that's what happens in schools. They're offensive but without trying to be offensive because they just don't know and that's their impression of it.
Like that was like why playing this part? I was like, Oh, it's a school. You pick from what you have.
No exactly, like or you just don't do the musical, but like, who's who's doing that? It was so much fun. I also was like doing that number like Damian mcinty, but doing number You're like, who am I to be dancing with these girls?
Good?
God, they're so good. All these dancers are so good, and I was like.
I dancing together was so good.
But I was like, wow, already really brought in the best.
That's right.
It was really good. It was really really good. It was really fun to dance that. It's such an iconic number to do, and I'm so glad we did it.
It's just weirdly, I go back to many podcasts ago when one of our guests was like I just think about like this is what you hear walking through the halls, Like it's setting up this unrealistic expectation that somebody is going to be as good as Naya at being Anita in high school. Like that was like an Oscar worthy performance, like she is unreal and all of you when you have like all these professional dancers, you who's actually been on Broadway several times, Like these are all very very skilled people doing this as high schoolers and it's hilarious.
Yeah, that's fair. It is an unrealistic expectation for what's supposed to be because it's not.
But I wish we did an episode that was just the West Side story performance all of them. Yeah, like just somehow do like the TV versions of the entire show so we can just see the show.
See the whole show. And it's maybe that's why we were allowed to do it, because like we broke it up. Maybe it's like you can't see it in sequence, and that's why we were legally allowed to do it.
I don't know.
They must have found a loophole of some sort of I don't know that Fox would have let us do it.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, America goes down as one of my favorites of this season so far. And I don't really say that because like I'm usually when I'm in it, I'm like, I'm not going to count it. But it was really good and I honestly forgot about it. Mmmmm, and that is up there with some of the best performances ever in the show.
Mm hmm. Agreed. It is just so good.
It's really good. It's a great number in general, like it's iconic, and so you're like, and it lived up. It lived up.
It doesn't feel you know, other times we're doing things that they make it feel more amateur, like more high school. That one just didn't feel like that, Like that felt like a Tony Award, like a performance like opening.
I mean, you have all the performers who probably would have done like the dancers who would have done that anyway.
An actual movie.
Yes, exactly, exactly. Okay, well there's your episode. You're very important episode that we were wrong about.
We were wrong about.
It should wed some tarty takes.
Okay, already approaching beast, approaching beast, it's already in general.
Already already asking telling Blaine and Rachel they need to do the deed. It was just I don't know Britney's oh and Britney's only innovation, which is still questionable but still unacceptable. So we just we'll put that in there.
Yeah, I think Britney's thing has to be has to be.
Contused by it. Okay, the best dance.
Move all of America. I mean, come on song, Zach Woodley and Brook like fully out of themselves in that, Yeah, best song America. I liked everything. I liked all the music. I did like the music being woven in. Like I said, I do wish there was more of a difference. I wish the music was heightened, more agreed.
But it is a school musical, so I guess you would kind of keep the integrityrounds.
Yeah, fair enough, prop uh the fake fake ideas. God, that's a good one. Very funny shout out to props.
Best line I do have to I don't think this is this is like an honorable mention. I just want to say this is the already line. As you friend, I support your strange aversion to fun. I really enjoyed doing that, and that was a very Kevin thing to say.
Yeah, Curage had some really good ones in this. Oh yeah, have relations on a doing matter of Lilac Taylor Lautner before I gets.
Yeah, Cooter had one last week. I told her I had a gift certificate to Applebee's. She totally fancy restaurants to make her nervous, funny, so good. He's so good. I really him.
Yeah, we'll see more of Cooter performance. MVP. Oh man, that's really tough. I think I'm gonna go with Dot Marie Jones.
I think Dot. I know Nya wasn't really in it, but the way Anita just I can't get over it. I cannot get over it.
I know it was good.
It was like everyone had a moment, so like, I don't know if it's like an ensemble award.
Okay, we could do that?
Is that a thing?
You can do that? Yeah?
Because I feel like everyone has really given it. Okay, that's fair, and there were no like leads this episode. It's so true. People really showed up. Okay, be okay with that an ensemble MVP. I am, I am okay great. I mean, we make the rules. It's our show. Okay. Shit, we found on the TikTok okay, okay, are you ready?
I'm ready.
It's great. It's a trend on TikTok and Heidi Puke that can't be is that right? High Hide and Seek it's talking about what music is your therapist? And it's just the gleek cast, all of the Gleek Cast songs and the gleek Cast artists, and she says, that's showbiz.
Baby, that's funny. The comment below.
When for Bray's Ponytail saved me on my darkest days. It's very good and people are roasting her because she's only liked seven songs. Oh oh my.
Gosh, you guys, let's just be kind. Uh oh man.
Someone said, I just cried to Finn's girls just want to have fun.
Like five minutes ago. Very funny. Okay, well, next week is oh I was wrong. I thought it was Christmas. It's mash off and it has Glease three hundredth number and one of our best numbers ever. Rumor has said someone like you stay tuned, thanks for joining us.
I just between this, I know it's too much, and next week it's too much all of a sudden the Santana show. Wow, and I'm all about it rightfully so and it's like she's just become a star.
Yeah exactly, Pam, Well that's what you really missed, and it was a lot if you missed this episode, it was a lot.
You really missed a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah, we'll see you next week for our three hundredth musical performance.
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