And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast really missed Welcome to you. No Jenna, No, this is and that's what you really missed the Glee Rewatch podcast. I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and this week we are talking about season one episode sixteen, Home Home, directed by Paris Barclay, his second episode of season one that he directs. It's very exciting. I love Paris. It originally aired on April twenty seventh, twenty ten, the day before my twenty fourth birthday. Oh my god, it was so long ago, and the day before Harry's twenty eight. That's right, and so Jenna, Jenna and Harry have the same birthday, along with many other people that I know. Is a very popular day for twenty It's very popular. Okay, the number one do anything for your birthday? We went to were you there? We went to Tokyo delve Um. It's a sushi restaurant in North Hollywood and they have like dancers that dress up like and they sing sync and they lit like yeah exactly yeah, and we got a sushi boat and Telly was there. I think you were there, Kevin. I think I was and it's it was just really fun and low key. So that was you, um, what was going on in the world. The number one song was nothing on You? How does that? Bob? Nothing on You? Oh right, okay, nothing You? Oh you? And this was Bob's I think it was his first single and Bruno Mars. Oh really yes, and this was a big thing for Bruno Mars. Yeah, How to Train Your Dragon was the number one movie in the country. I have seen that. UM. The day before this episode came out, we went to UM evening with Glee, a special screening and panel for the Television Academy and North Hollywood. Do you remember that. I remember going to that big, long panel. We talked about the show was moderated, we talked about lots of fun stuff, and then at the end of it, all the people who are there who could buy tickets come bum rushing the stage and I remember thinking like feeling like, oh my god, all these people want our autograph and our photos. It was like overwhelming. It was pretty crazy. Yeah, and this was also our first TV Academy event. So you do these things, you hope that TV Academy members are in the audience, and so therefore you know the aspiration is that we get nominated for Emmy's Coming Out. Yes, right, Okay, so this one is a lot of guest stars. We have Christian Channowith, John Gruff, Romi Rose momd and Mike O'Malley. Oh what a great stacked lineup of guest stars. Curly, we are so so lucky. There's a couple of fun facts about this episode. Okay, this, um, this is this one isn't fun. There's no jama that's not fun. We need jamak. But it's the first episode where the title is the actual name of a song. There's the first episode where there wasn't like a Rachel centric storyline. Wow, that's crazy. And already we are at our one hundredth performance. Good lord, Yeah, crazy beautiful. When Amber sings Beautiful towards the end of this episode, that's our one hundred Wow Wow wow wow wow pretty wid Yeah. So the songs in this episode are Fire by Bruce Springsteen. A House Is Not at Home by Dion Warwick. B Backrock just recently passed away and one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and it felt nice to watch this episode and hear some of his music and this um one, Let's spelled to answer by Barbara full By Christina and Home from the Whiz. You know, wow, big episode. These are legends, legendary songs and songwriters and singers. Get We have Dion Warwick, Barbara Streiss and Bruce Springsteen, Dame and Bert Backreck in one episode. That's this is when we're starting to get like the bigger artists, the bigger songs, like the catalogs are just being kind of like given gifted to us a you know, alamadonna. Um let's get into it. This is a fun episode. Yeah, I really enjoyed this episode. Um So. The eppisode summary. First of all, everyone is feeling displaced from their homes in some way or another, whether metaphorically or physically. New directions. Finn, Jesse, Saint James, Mercedes and Kurt Will April Rhodes. So one of the main storylines is that Mercedes, Um and Kurt joined the Cheerios and Mercedes is asked by Sue in preparation for their big magazine interview where Sue is named coach of the past two thousand years, that Mercedes has to drop ten pounds. The whole Cheerios team has to lose pounds weight, but Mercedes has given an assignment of ten pounds, and so we start out with Sue saying that Mercedes, your chords have had more fantastic runs than a Kenyan track team, but that look will simply not do oh yeah, oh indeed, and then she says that she wants Mercedes to lose weight so she can be wearing a gender appropriate costume by the end of the week. When Tracy Pendergrass gets there for the interview, not great. So they're in the cafeteria and Mercedes is eating a salad and some grilled chicken and you know, waters, I think. Kurt says, that's what you're eating. You have a week to lose ten pounds. It's like having to lose one of my butt cheeks. And Kurt says, look, Mercedes, this is not Please, don't mess up our chance to finally fit in and be with the cool crowd. So Mercedes is feeling the stakes of this and not wanting to disappoint Kurt. So Mercedes then goes and asks Brittany and Becky and Santana how they stay so skinny and they share the master cletons. Do you remember that this cleans was like all the rage at that time. Kevin. We're like, you're whole Foods at January first of the new year, and they had like all of the things set out for pepper thing where you just drank that in water for a week. I had so many I think I was the only person not doing that. We did a lot of cleanses on set. Yeah. Um, and we see Quinn like kind of from a far sea Mercedes and like, you know, longingly, like knowing what she's going through. Um, So Mercedes is at this way in right, and she she gains two pounds and Sue is like, no, you have four days to lose the waiter. You're out and threatens her by saying, yeah, you have to do other thing like you like soon you'll be like like Becky has a way in as well. Right right, It's like, oh, you're gonna be like every other American teenaged girl and start hiding bags of bile and vomit around your parents' house like it's in your living your parents living room or something like that. Yeah, it's not not good, but this is one of my favorite things we ever did. I didn't realize it happened this soon oh, yes, season two. In my head, this is this is it? Well back nine. Honestly, the back nine kind of feels a season two. Yeah, so I was gonna say what I because we had such a big gap in real life between the first thirteen. In the back nine, the back nine feels like a completely different, Yes, experience, it does, it does. There was a time off, there was it steels separate. Okay, So we're in the cafeteria and Mercedes is with Tina and Artie and she is starving herself because obviously she has four days till these ten pounds, which is wild, and she starts hallucinating and she starts to see us as food and Amber gives such a wonderful performance in this whole episode. I was so excited for her, so proud of her. Um this was like her big storyline. I remember her really taking this super seriously and you know, really, you know, just doing doing the deed. She is amazing. So but I remember us coming out in these outfits and try to laugh at her and ruin her takes because she was, you know, she had to kind of be serious and this was so ridiculous that we looked like this. Kevin and It's one of those things where Paris is very serious. He can be fun and silly, but like, yeah, you know, Amber had a really serious thing to portray her and just don't screw this up. And you and I and Leah and John. I was sitting in that back room in these costumes looking a fool. Yeah, and like we couldn't look at each other. So like I remember and this actual scene sitting around the table, you and I could not make eye contact with one another. We had to just like the only one we can stay in this is to look at Amber and just remember we have to give it to her and not mess this up. Lines. I'm literally a piece of cake. I also how cool this was because this person that had made costumes for like Katy Perry or something that's right and had to build it around your wheelchair. Yes, they had to get like three people to lift the piece of Like when the take was over, I couldn't just get up. I had like zero arms. It's so funny. I'm sorry, Oh god, it was one of my favorite things we ever did, truly. Yeah, Okay, so basically during all of this, we're just saying that we love her the way she is in these cleanses. People don't it doesn't work and you know, blah blah blah, and then she um she runs away and we see Leah and Croff in their ridiculous costumes. This is Groff's second episode also, and he's in a bird her and she passes out in the cafeteria and we so she ends up should we cut to her in the nurse's office, right, and such a sweet scene. I think the scene is beautiful, beautiful, And we haven't seen Quinn and Mercedes together either. It's like the budding relationship and friendship that they have. And Quinn tells her that she's like, eat the granilla bar. She's like, I'm not hungry, and she's like, yes, yes you are. I've been there. And then she says, M, did they start looking like food before you passed down? She's like, M, been there. And Quinn tells her that her relationship to food changed when she got pregnant because she's realizing she's doing everything she can to fuel her body for this little thing. Then why can't she do that for herself? And I thought that was really beautiful. I think that's an incredibly well written line. Yes, I've been thinking about that line all day because how that translates to a lot of us when we get cut up in fad diets and things about if you're willing to do this for somebody else and make sure everybody else is eating correctly, like why aren't we yeah doing that or caring about ourselves. It's one of those moments where we were just addressed as desserts and then all of a sudden, you have Amber sitting there, Mercedes sitting there crying right talking about her body, and then Quinn saying yeah, like yeah, I get it, And here's why. It was a really powerful moment and one that because you know, I think Paris made a point of doing this in every episode to balance that out perfectly. Yeah, where you still believed both realities. Yeah, and like again, we're now tackling eating disorders, we're tackling kind of weight loss, we're tackling all of this. Like Quinn's line about saying like she's lucky because she's always been home in her body and don't not to let suit take that away from her. I mean, it was so beautiful and it really resonated with me because, like I obviously in this industry, like I've struggled with my body and just seeing yourself on camera every day it's like jarring, and um, you know, having Emma like my body, my body has changed my mentality in the fueling of my body and also like nutrition wise, like wanting to eat well, not for weight loss, but to eat to fuel myself so that like I can have I can live a long life. That's really like the way I look at it now, it's just so crazy but very existential. But um, it's really it was really beautifully done. As you said. Now we get to we're cutting, we're cutting a head a bit, but we're just getting through this whole Mercedes beautiful Mercedes storyline where Tracy Pendergrass shows up and Sue was expecting a woman, right and he shows up with the PEP rally and the interview and Mercedes switches up the plan and she decides to come out and take Quinn's advice and sing, you know, says, cherios aren't about you know, looking caught and you know, being cool, but like actually just really loving each other and loving ourselves and learning how to do that every day. So meanwhile, Sue's freaking out because Tracy Pendergrass said that this is going to be like a hard hitting expose, and then the number that she had planned doesn't happen. Mercedes comes out and god yeah and sings this number and gets the glee club and some fellow classmates to come up and sing with her and this, and then Amber does this beautiful one hundred number. Beautiful huh see what I did there? And I remember shooting this and just being so proud of Amber. I think we shot this towards the end of the episode, maybe that this at home, and just watching Amber kind of do this whole performance was really It's just fun to be able to watch your friends do things that like stretched them. And you know, Amber can wail and do sing about just about anything, but like to watch her actually act and hold this episode was like really beautiful. Yeah, tears, she was providing tears. She was providing tears, and I know she was nervous about that too, so um. And then we get to the office the next day where Tracy says she's going to continue this interview next the next day and she's office and you know, it says that he admitted that he hadn't liked Sue since in that minuting matter, and the fact that she called him rerun twice made him think that she was a little bit racist. Moving on and then yeah, and then she realizes he realizes that he was wrong, right, and says that seeing that performance and seeing how he's she's teaching her cheerios to be inclusive and positive about these things that are not always respected and thought positively of in that cheerio cheerio world. And she's like, well, yeah, m I did that on purpose. Yeah, And then we have this moment of her admitting that he was wrong to Mercedes about the cheerios, and we know the stakes of trying to fit in right, which is really nice. They have such a great friendship, do they really? Do? We fall in love with Marchine? So meanwhile, Sue has blocked out the entire auditorium just to I don't know, mess with Shoe because it's too cold outside her cheeros to be rehearsing. So she has a sign up sheet in her waistband and says that Will can't use the auditorium after he confronts her about it, and the whole week is reserved just for the cheerios taken away from their home. If you exactly displacing them. So when Will shares us with the Glee Club, Rachel recommends a sit in, Puck recommends that they torched the place, but mister Shoe takes upon himself to make a promise that he's going to find them a new home for the week. Shoe goes to the roller roller Rink, which in real life in La Moonlight Rollerway that we It's in every movie you see, every TV show you see. If there's all, that's the one. They have a great LGBT and Iron Wednesdays. You should go check it out. Yeah, it's great. I've been several times. Yes, um and lo and behold who's at the roller rink? Pulling focus on the main stage. But Kristen Chenno with aka April Rhodes And she's like, well, Schuster, I just had a sex stream about you, and then queues up a song Fire by Bruce Springsteen, hands him a mic that's bedazzled, bedazzled with flames, ready for the song, and they sing this great number. I would just like to point out again how good Christen Chenno is as a singer. I mean, I will say there are a lot of musical theater people I mean she has her master's an opera. Yeah, she's classically trained who cannot do everything what she does, she can adapt to any style of song. She is singing on that Bruce Springsteen song, she cut out her vibrato entirely. Yeah, she's like Jesse Mahler. Yeah, she's just singing this like pop rock song. Yeah, she made it a pop song, but it's, you know, rock song. And it's just very very very very impressive. She sings so many different genres in this one episode, and she sings them differently each time. Yes, she does what is called for in the song she called. We call that versatility. Yeah, it's just so I'll never get over it because it's so hard to be able to do that. Yeah, she can do anything with her voice. Yeah, yeah, Plato. It's really crazy. And she's a great actress as well. Because we get into this scene where Will sees April and this like hero, I thought you were getting sober. She says, I was so chatted about so bring up and studying a new life that I had to stop at a bar and get a drink just to calm down. And then she lived at the bar for four months, right, and then she admits that she's actually running this roller rink because she's a new mistress of Buddy Leewwitz, who is a strip mall tycoon, and Wills like, oh, well we need I'm a temporary space for the glee club. And she's like, oh, bring him here, no big deal. And then Will tells April that he has to sublet his apartment because he's getting divorced. And this divorce, does that mean you're free to date? And by date I mean sleep with people, and by sleep with I mean have sex with people people like me. Kidding, not really, And so she's offering, it's so good, she's offering to sublet his place. And it's like, I'm gonna need to come see the funk Hua or fing fong whatever it's called. Oh, and so she is gonna weazle her way into going to his home. Then mister Shu was like, Hey, new directions. I got the roller rink and we're gonna go perform there. Rehearse there, right, And then Kurt addresses the glee club. He says, mister Shu has something to say, and he just says that we all need to find a sense of place and that everybody's feeling. He's kind of like naming it all, Like, you know, Finn is feeling upset that their their parents are dating and you know, um, well we'll get into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he breaks into the song. Well he goes through Brad and uh sings houses not at home? Do you actually just have the sheet music sitting there on the piano ready? But he knew, Yeah, that's how it works, say, and it's it's an uncomfortable performance. He's emotional, he's like working through things and Finn's like, what is happening? Right? But then which I forgot about, we cut to Finn singing in this number, Finn singing, his tradition of singing to enimate objects continues, and he somehow makes it work for him because God blessed Scory, like you you know, he can make anything work. But of course he had to sing to the chair and to the urn of his his late father. Um, it was weird. It was weirder than him singing to the ultrasound. Definitely, at least it was quick. It was really quick. No, no, yeah, I would also say I in this episode, I noticed a lot Corey's physicality and he was a twenty something year old man playing a sixteen year old right, and I feel like he does such a good job of embodying the physicality of like a teenager. Okay, Golden Retriever, I don't know how my body moves yet. Yeah, goofy, goofyman Coverston, You're right, Yes he didn't. He didn't quite inhabit his body, but Corey did so exactly. Finn didn't. All right, So we get to April. Okay, you take this, Kevin, because this is your favorite. This is maybe my favorite song ever in this show. I know nobody understands this. Maybe it's top three, I don't know, it might be number one. I love this number. I love it because I think it is such an excellent mashup and the arrangement of the song, the harmonies of this number are I don't know, I don't know what it is. And I will also say watching this um actual number in the show, Paris's music video directing fully comes in handy here. Yeah, because yes, the way this is so simple but yet choreographed so perfectly, Like, never did I ever think I would be so enthralled with people laying in bed belting for their lives. Yea and it's beautiful and how it cuts together. It's fully music video. This is absolutely someone who knows musicality and music video. Yes, that's all I kept thinking, I haven't but I haven't heard this song in a long time, like unlike you, And so I was reminded with a slap in the face with how good number. That's how good it is? Yeah, you get struck with it across the face. Yep, it is a masterclass. And I think this scene too, right before leading up to it, when April shows up at Will's house, it's like, I'm gonna check it out, and he's like, you can sleep on the couch. I'm not really cool with this, but no funny business sleeping on the couch, and she's like dressed in this crazy outfit, bought her bag. She brings out a bottle of wine, and then it goes into this really obviously it's weird. They're singing to each other in the house. Whatever, well, right, we'll buy it. And then it's this really beautiful moment for both of them feeling displaced and this house. They're both around people, they're not that comfortable within this house, but lonely and how they can find It's also one of those things too, where this song the lyrics really don't apply to their situation, but the power of music, of how you can pull from a song what you need to to apply to your life is what's happening. And I just think, you know, Adam Andrews some crazy work on the arrangement. Yeah yeah it Um, Kristen and Matt just sounds so good together. I mean, two Broadway stars right there. Yeah, but that's like it doesn't necessarily sound like no, no, a musical theater song singing is you're right between? Yeah, it is somewhere between, and it is theatrical. It's over the top, but there you just put that song on. You just oh, that's so funny. I an't about watching the video at some point because I think that also will inform me in a different um anyway. Okay, so so after this beautiful number, that's one of three. Now, I know we can break it down if you want. The April tells well, Will says that um at the roller rank that they shouldn't a habit of sleeping in the bed together. And then Will says, what do you do in April? Like you deserve more than being someone's mistress and deserves to find happiness and hope, and you know he really has. I hoped for her. And so April tells Will that she's going to go break up with buddy. Is this where Chris got injured at the roller rink? By the way, everybody's explained his wrist or something. I think you're right. I think you're right. The new directions are not rehearsing, they're just skating. Well, we're trying to stay alive. Yea, his reality and I at least had big wheels. I had you to hold on to, whereas other people didn't. And do you see Harry go down? I don't think that was fake. I was very appreciative that I got to sit in the chair. I hate roller skating because I'm so bad. It's hard. It's hard, and I was scared um, but I was laughing because it was such a It was a fun day for us because we get we weren't had no lines. It just got to like be there and actidally and do some physical comedy and not die. I love too that this was sort of Groff's introduction to being part of the league club. We're like welcome to not having any lines, and you're just an all DC. You're just hanging You're just saying um. So okay. So then we cut to April showing up at Will's office and she's like what. He's like, what you're doing here? And she she told him that she broke up with Buddy or she and then and then he had a stroke in front of her and died. And she's rich. She got two million dollars. So she's sobering up and heading to the Broadway where she's gonna Mount Mount, the first all white Productional I didn't know April was racist? Is the turn of events, and the turn a dark turn of events. April is not it's not good. It's not. Um. But but in in in April Roses roses defense and I'm not defending her. I'm just saying she is offensive. Yeah, there are character is offensive. Yeah, but again, I don't think that would fly. We wouldn't be making that joke now, No, no, because it's not a joke. Um. And then and then she's not a Rachel's I did you tell them that? Um? April Rhodes has bought the auditorium, she has bought our home back for us, and it is named the April Rhodes Civic Pavilion. Um fun fact, I think Kristen actually has a theater named after her in her hometown or surrounding town nearby. That's awesome. Um, and then we'll get to that last number yeah later, but um. So the other storyline happening in this is the good old storyline Kurt and love with Fenn thing. So what happens is Kurt Kurt rolls up to Finn after leagu club one day and ask for advice for redecorating his bedroom and Finn's like, I have no idea, like why are you asking me? In like points to something. Meanwhile, Finn's mom, Carol, is all of a sudden selling Finn's late dad's stuff, and when it comes to recliner, Finn freaks out and it's like, no, that's not for sale, Like why are you doing this? This is dad's chair. It's the only picture I have of him with me. He's holding me in that chair, and Carol's like, it's not it's a chair, it's not him. And then Carol says like, look, also, Carol's dressed completely differently. All of a sudden, she's she's no longer in the acid washed jeans and best and Carol's says, I've been seeing someone and I'm in love and the person I've been seeing is Kurt's dad Bert, and so Finn then confronts Kurt about it, and it's like, what's going on with our parents? And then Kurt says, like, didn't you notice anything's different about your mom her look? Before? You know, like they'll be living together and redecorating their room together, hence why he was asking this. So Kurt has been planning this whole thing as a way to, you know, get closer to Finn, Jenna, do you I don't know what I was doing, But I don't remember Kurt being in love with Finn being such a huge storyline. I don't know why I have no recollection of this. Yes, I agree, it does become short lived because of Kurt, Carol and Burt, I think, and it no longer flies when like their parents are actually together. But you're right, I don't quite And maybe it's because they were just shooting so much off to the side. We were never really there, like we weren't at the breadsticks scene, like we didn't watch these things until we saw them when the episodes came out, So maybe it's just because we weren't part of it. I think I also like thought this whole Kurt, I mean this Carol and oh god, Carol, Kurt, Bert, I know, I know, I know Carol and Burt think happened later in season two. Agreed also, but they they do live on So that's why I think we set you know, Burton Carroll quite a bit. So. But yes, I think a lot of this feels like the back nine feels like a far off dream from the first thirteen day we did. Um and so mad. Yeah, He's like, I like my house, I'm not moving, I'm not selling that damn chair. And and Finn's very resistant towards all of this, but they obviously he's a kid, so he has to go do what his mom says. And they go to breadsticks on a double date with Kurt, Finn and their parents, and we were moving to bread sticks. So glad I didn't have to do breadsticks. Um, Finn says, you know, makes this off kind of like, oh, we're not a family, and you know, in response to like I think Bert saying something, and and then Burt and Finn like Bert wins Finn over with his charm talking about sports, and you can see that like Kurt is commenting on Carol's clothes and you know, the thing that they kind of bonded over and her makeover, and now Kurt's very hurt about Finn and Bert getting along, and we see this beautiful scene between Kurt and Burt where he's like, I feel, you know, I left felt left out and sad, and Bert's like, of course, I love you like you're my son. Like we don't try to change each other. That's our relationship. They have a very open and communicative, communicative relationship, as we've learned, and a little guy talk with some other kid isn't going to change that. And then Kurt says guy talk, I'm a guy, and Bert says, you know what I think. But I thought that was really powerful though, like Kurt's saying like, I'm a guy. Yeah. I think it's important that these scenes are a little messy, like yeah, yeah, not everybody's saying the perfect thing all the time, but there's an understanding. Really their intentions are in the right place. And then Bert says, suddenly, I'm not the guy who sat through River Dance three in a row. It's so cute though, because they do think the best of each other most of the time, and they do bring out like that that really deep good part of each other. So and that's why I think it's very sweet. Um. And then Kurt's like, maybe it is too soon that you started dating, and Bert says it's been eight years. And then the really kind of questions, which because he can see right through his son obviously in question why he set him up with Carol in the first place. That was good. Wasn't it to make me happy? M hmm. Kurt tells Finn that, mmmm, this isn't gonna work. We need to break them up, and Finn could tell it hurt. Kurt admits he doesn't like seeing his mom move on either, and Finn agrees, and they shake hands and like, okay, let's put an end to them. Right Then Finn threatens to throw his dad's ashes down the toilet. He takes the ash. He's like, oh, I'm just gonna like I can do this too. You've been doing it, and so it's great. Yeah, I think Carol, oh my gosh, just roam, gosh, just really going says that they can do what they've been doing for the past ten years, which is pretending, and she reveals she hasn't felt this way about anyone since his dad and he's being selfish, tells Finn that she loves him and that they need a family and a home. And I thought it was really powerful when Finn, you know, says this isn't what dad would want, and she's like, you don't know him, and that's tough, Like it's it's still crazy to me. This is the same show, yeah that you know, not that we're dressed in cupcakes and cupcakes and things, and a really powerful, I think hard to articulate thing that people go through all the time. Well, that's dealing with the parents that's passed away at an early age, right. I think that's really what's so powerful Luckley though, is like you hit these really hard hitting situations and it's you know, like social issues and um, you know, eating disorders and you know, loss and grief and and then you break into song into Madonna and Bruce Springsteen and like, no studio these days if you pitched a show like that, unless you're Ran Reffe would be like, yeah, I get that, Like you'd be like, that's two different shows, right. I think even then they were like Ryan being like believe me, no. Yes. So the storyline starts to wrap up when Bert all of a sudden, is at Finn's house and they have this man to man in the kitchen and it's very tense and they're both like I have a lot to say. I have a lot to say, and m Bert's like, well I don't have that much to say, so I'll start. And he's like, I will never hurt your mom. I love her. Your dad was a hero. I would like to be a hero for your mom as long as she wants me to be. Michael Malley Man, Yeah, there's just there's something beautiful about the simplicity with Romy and Mike doing these scenes where it's let me just let me just say these words because you know they're not doing some huge, um extravagant let me show you how good of an actor I am. They're good because it's true how they're saying it. Yeah. So then Finn just sort of wraps it up. He's like, oh, okay, well I was just gonna ask if you want to watch a game. Yeah. I mean he hears it, he doesn't have to admit it. But he hears, you know, Burt in what he says, and and then um, you know they He's like, no, you wait, you can sit here in the chair. He moves. The scene is almost completely perfect, almost and then almost too Kurt standing outside the window. I'm surprised wasn't raining on the on the window raining? Yes, right, Kurt standing at Finn's house, crying like he might as well have been an adjacent mask, like what what is what is happening? Why? That like sweet moment, and then it just pans to him in this gigantic windows. Very do you not see him? He's very funny. It's very funny. It's so creepy. It's so creepy. So we get to the final moment of this episode is us in the auditorium behind Chris and Chennewith where she sings home in the new April World Civic Pavilion. That's right, and she comes on in this beautiful gown. Now she's rich done jewels, and we're all we're all her choir, which happily we are, you know, swaying and singing with her in her backup singers that beautiful scrim lifts and you see this beautiful clouded sky in the background that is lit beautifully. It look stunning. I think it looks so good. Are you just it makes me uncomfortable having like a white person sing this song right right? It feels weird, right it's it's so beautifully done. And I wasn't even thinking of that. Thank you for that? Um right. I don't know why. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm I don't but I I mean so yeah, Okay. When I think of this, I think of Amber at the White House and Michelle Obama singing this song. It's an incredibly written song. Are the Wiz is incredible? This is an incredible song, right, Um? But it just feels it feels so fair enough, strange, fair enough? Um but I do love this song. Also, if anyone hasn't seen Jasmine Sullivan singing this song on YouTube at eleven years old in the A Whiz production of her at her school, go look it up. Have you seen it, Jenna? No, but I saw you storied about it. I watch it monthly. O Jasmine Sullivan at eleven years old done. It's unbelievable. I don't understand. But she's a prodigy. Obviously, it was a prodigy like I just whatever anyway, Okay, that's home. That Okay, let's do it so cringe moments aka special shout out to Paris for Auchiese. This episode, there's a couple lines. I mean, I would say the whole mounting and all white production of the Whiz, right. I think that was the one. Not a great look. I think the um the line with Becky earlier in the episode about vombiting and having an eating disorder, it's not great, you know. I think having Mercedes lose weight there's great things. Well, yeah, I mean her Sue talking about, you know, Becky gonna be you know, a volimic. It's it's like, we're not. Yeah, we're not. That's not really how we handle things anymore. Um. Been singing to the chair? Oh did you say that one? Yeah? That's that's a good one. That's the one. UM. Worse dance move. Um, I don't know, And I don't think. There wasn't a lot of dancing, right. We weren't a lot of group numbers either, So no, okay, UM, I think maybe singing to the Urn still counts in that category as well. M M. Best song home, but now you made me rethink it. No, because the song is good and christ and Chenowitz is but beautiful. Also, I mean, like anything ever sing is obviously is wins. I mean, obviously I'm going to pick my favorite number of all the time. Oh, I have been embarrassing things to admit. Yes, I had never heard the song home before we filmed this episode. Oh no, I feel like there's a lot of edumicating happening here. Well I must have. I had seen the win, so I must have, but I didn't know it, like it was not on my radar sort of thing. Fair enough, Yeah, best performance by a prop, the arn, the arned, the arn is good. I also have to say the bedazzled nikes really stood out to me. They were beautiful. They reminded me of like of course Christens on TOURZ. Yeah. Okay, and then the best line. Okay, So in the last last episode, I thought the line about the you know curtain Mercedes having their own Bravo show was in Madonna, but it's actually in this episode. How do you guys not have your own Bravo show? Say? Um, what else is there, Kevin? What there's a I'm just gonna rattle off a couple of incredible ones Britney saying I think my cat is reading my diary. It's a good one. Um Puck mouthing, defend you're gay, oh Bert saying I hate Duke like a hate the Nazis. Yeah, I think is absolutely incredible. Yea, and then Kurt saying I feel like the guy who set up Liza David guest. You know it's very niche and specific, but that's right. Delicious, delicious yummy. Okay. So Jenna, um shit we found on the tiktoks this week, tell me um this incredible video. I just it's how Glee would sound in real life. Glee thing posted it, okay, And it's one of those videos where you just you have random clips of the show and then you have the real sounds. It's silent, basically like it's like splashes in the pool. No, it's it's very good. You have pulled it up and watch this thing. I'm pulling it up like some music playing in the hallway. You have no because like kids randomly seeing in the hallway just like yeah, kids talking around them like what is happening? No, this is so awkward. It's so good. Yeah, you have to the sneakers, you guys got We'll go to the Glee thing TikTok um and watch it. How Glee that sounded real life. It's excellent. Thank you for tagging us in that. It's it's a minute of pure joy. Very good, very very good. It's very funny. Well that's home. That is home. Um you guys, don't forget the walkathon for Alexandria House um I Transitional Home for Women and children and many many other supportive services here in La. They're having a walk withth on so um. If you can't be there, you can donate if you can, or find other ways that you can help. Alexandra House dot org. And that is Home. Join us next week for bad review Days. There's so much to on back, so much too on time. We've had such a good run. I can't wait to talk about this episode. Well, thanks for joining us. 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And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast really missed Welcome to you. No Jenna, No, this is and that's what you really missed the Glee Rewatch podcast. I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and this week we are talking about season one episode sixteen, Home Home, directed by Paris Barclay, his second episode of season one that he directs. It's very exciting. I love Paris. It originally aired on April twenty seventh, twenty ten, the day before my twenty fourth birthday. Oh my god, it was so long ago, and the day before Harry's twenty eight. That's right, and so Jenna, Jenna and Harry have the same birthday, along with many other people that I know. Is a very popular day for twenty It's very popular. Okay, the number one do anything for your birthday? We went to were you there? We went to Tokyo delve Um. It's a sushi restaurant in North Hollywood and they have like dancers that dress up like and they sing sync and they lit like yeah exactly yeah, and we got a sushi boat and Telly was there. I think you were there, Kevin. I think I was and it's it was just really fun and low key. So that was you, um, what was going on in the world. The number one song was nothing on You? How does that? Bob? Nothing on You? Oh right, okay, nothing You? Oh you? And this was Bob's I think it was his first single and Bruno Mars. Oh really yes, and this was a big thing for Bruno Mars. Yeah, How to Train Your Dragon was the number one movie in the country. I have seen that. UM. The day before this episode came out, we went to UM evening with Glee, a special screening and panel for the Television Academy and North Hollywood. Do you remember that. I remember going to that big, long panel. We talked about the show was moderated, we talked about lots of fun stuff, and then at the end of it, all the people who are there who could buy tickets come bum rushing the stage and I remember thinking like feeling like, oh my god, all these people want our autograph and our photos. It was like overwhelming. It was pretty crazy. Yeah, and this was also our first TV Academy event. So you do these things, you hope that TV Academy members are in the audience, and so therefore you know the aspiration is that we get nominated for Emmy's Coming Out. Yes, right, Okay, so this one is a lot of guest stars. We have Christian Channowith, John Gruff, Romi Rose momd and Mike O'Malley. Oh what a great stacked lineup of guest stars. Curly, we are so so lucky. There's a couple of fun facts about this episode. Okay, this, um, this is this one isn't fun. There's no jama that's not fun. We need jamak. But it's the first episode where the title is the actual name of a song. There's the first episode where there wasn't like a Rachel centric storyline. Wow, that's crazy. And already we are at our one hundredth performance. Good lord, Yeah, crazy beautiful. When Amber sings Beautiful towards the end of this episode, that's our one hundred Wow Wow wow wow wow pretty wid Yeah. So the songs in this episode are Fire by Bruce Springsteen. A House Is Not at Home by Dion Warwick. B Backrock just recently passed away and one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and it felt nice to watch this episode and hear some of his music and this um one, Let's spelled to answer by Barbara full By Christina and Home from the Whiz. You know, wow, big episode. These are legends, legendary songs and songwriters and singers. Get We have Dion Warwick, Barbara Streiss and Bruce Springsteen, Dame and Bert Backreck in one episode. That's this is when we're starting to get like the bigger artists, the bigger songs, like the catalogs are just being kind of like given gifted to us a you know, alamadonna. Um let's get into it. This is a fun episode. Yeah, I really enjoyed this episode. Um So. The eppisode summary. First of all, everyone is feeling displaced from their homes in some way or another, whether metaphorically or physically. New directions. Finn, Jesse, Saint James, Mercedes and Kurt Will April Rhodes. So one of the main storylines is that Mercedes, Um and Kurt joined the Cheerios and Mercedes is asked by Sue in preparation for their big magazine interview where Sue is named coach of the past two thousand years, that Mercedes has to drop ten pounds. The whole Cheerios team has to lose pounds weight, but Mercedes has given an assignment of ten pounds, and so we start out with Sue saying that Mercedes, your chords have had more fantastic runs than a Kenyan track team, but that look will simply not do oh yeah, oh indeed, and then she says that she wants Mercedes to lose weight so she can be wearing a gender appropriate costume by the end of the week. When Tracy Pendergrass gets there for the interview, not great. So they're in the cafeteria and Mercedes is eating a salad and some grilled chicken and you know, waters, I think. Kurt says, that's what you're eating. You have a week to lose ten pounds. It's like having to lose one of my butt cheeks. And Kurt says, look, Mercedes, this is not Please, don't mess up our chance to finally fit in and be with the cool crowd. So Mercedes is feeling the stakes of this and not wanting to disappoint Kurt. So Mercedes then goes and asks Brittany and Becky and Santana how they stay so skinny and they share the master cletons. Do you remember that this cleans was like all the rage at that time. Kevin. We're like, you're whole Foods at January first of the new year, and they had like all of the things set out for pepper thing where you just drank that in water for a week. I had so many I think I was the only person not doing that. We did a lot of cleanses on set. Yeah. Um, and we see Quinn like kind of from a far sea Mercedes and like, you know, longingly, like knowing what she's going through. Um, So Mercedes is at this way in right, and she she gains two pounds and Sue is like, no, you have four days to lose the waiter. You're out and threatens her by saying, yeah, you have to do other thing like you like soon you'll be like like Becky has a way in as well. Right right, It's like, oh, you're gonna be like every other American teenaged girl and start hiding bags of bile and vomit around your parents' house like it's in your living your parents living room or something like that. Yeah, it's not not good, but this is one of my favorite things we ever did. I didn't realize it happened this soon oh, yes, season two. In my head, this is this is it? Well back nine. Honestly, the back nine kind of feels a season two. Yeah, so I was gonna say what I because we had such a big gap in real life between the first thirteen. In the back nine, the back nine feels like a completely different, Yes, experience, it does, it does. There was a time off, there was it steels separate. Okay, So we're in the cafeteria and Mercedes is with Tina and Artie and she is starving herself because obviously she has four days till these ten pounds, which is wild, and she starts hallucinating and she starts to see us as food and Amber gives such a wonderful performance in this whole episode. I was so excited for her, so proud of her. Um this was like her big storyline. I remember her really taking this super seriously and you know, really, you know, just doing doing the deed. She is amazing. So but I remember us coming out in these outfits and try to laugh at her and ruin her takes because she was, you know, she had to kind of be serious and this was so ridiculous that we looked like this. Kevin and It's one of those things where Paris is very serious. He can be fun and silly, but like, yeah, you know, Amber had a really serious thing to portray her and just don't screw this up. And you and I and Leah and John. I was sitting in that back room in these costumes looking a fool. Yeah, and like we couldn't look at each other. So like I remember and this actual scene sitting around the table, you and I could not make eye contact with one another. We had to just like the only one we can stay in this is to look at Amber and just remember we have to give it to her and not mess this up. Lines. I'm literally a piece of cake. I also how cool this was because this person that had made costumes for like Katy Perry or something that's right and had to build it around your wheelchair. Yes, they had to get like three people to lift the piece of Like when the take was over, I couldn't just get up. I had like zero arms. It's so funny. I'm sorry, Oh god, it was one of my favorite things we ever did, truly. Yeah, Okay, so basically during all of this, we're just saying that we love her the way she is in these cleanses. People don't it doesn't work and you know, blah blah blah, and then she um she runs away and we see Leah and Croff in their ridiculous costumes. This is Groff's second episode also, and he's in a bird her and she passes out in the cafeteria and we so she ends up should we cut to her in the nurse's office, right, and such a sweet scene. I think the scene is beautiful, beautiful, And we haven't seen Quinn and Mercedes together either. It's like the budding relationship and friendship that they have. And Quinn tells her that she's like, eat the granilla bar. She's like, I'm not hungry, and she's like, yes, yes you are. I've been there. And then she says, M, did they start looking like food before you passed down? She's like, M, been there. And Quinn tells her that her relationship to food changed when she got pregnant because she's realizing she's doing everything she can to fuel her body for this little thing. Then why can't she do that for herself? And I thought that was really beautiful. I think that's an incredibly well written line. Yes, I've been thinking about that line all day because how that translates to a lot of us when we get cut up in fad diets and things about if you're willing to do this for somebody else and make sure everybody else is eating correctly, like why aren't we yeah doing that or caring about ourselves. It's one of those moments where we were just addressed as desserts and then all of a sudden, you have Amber sitting there, Mercedes sitting there crying right talking about her body, and then Quinn saying yeah, like yeah, I get it, And here's why. It was a really powerful moment and one that because you know, I think Paris made a point of doing this in every episode to balance that out perfectly. Yeah, where you still believed both realities. Yeah, and like again, we're now tackling eating disorders, we're tackling kind of weight loss, we're tackling all of this. Like Quinn's line about saying like she's lucky because she's always been home in her body and don't not to let suit take that away from her. I mean, it was so beautiful and it really resonated with me because, like I obviously in this industry, like I've struggled with my body and just seeing yourself on camera every day it's like jarring, and um, you know, having Emma like my body, my body has changed my mentality in the fueling of my body and also like nutrition wise, like wanting to eat well, not for weight loss, but to eat to fuel myself so that like I can have I can live a long life. That's really like the way I look at it now, it's just so crazy but very existential. But um, it's really it was really beautifully done. As you said. Now we get to we're cutting, we're cutting a head a bit, but we're just getting through this whole Mercedes beautiful Mercedes storyline where Tracy Pendergrass shows up and Sue was expecting a woman, right and he shows up with the PEP rally and the interview and Mercedes switches up the plan and she decides to come out and take Quinn's advice and sing, you know, says, cherios aren't about you know, looking caught and you know, being cool, but like actually just really loving each other and loving ourselves and learning how to do that every day. So meanwhile, Sue's freaking out because Tracy Pendergrass said that this is going to be like a hard hitting expose, and then the number that she had planned doesn't happen. Mercedes comes out and god yeah and sings this number and gets the glee club and some fellow classmates to come up and sing with her and this, and then Amber does this beautiful one hundred number. Beautiful huh see what I did there? And I remember shooting this and just being so proud of Amber. I think we shot this towards the end of the episode, maybe that this at home, and just watching Amber kind of do this whole performance was really It's just fun to be able to watch your friends do things that like stretched them. And you know, Amber can wail and do sing about just about anything, but like to watch her actually act and hold this episode was like really beautiful. Yeah, tears, she was providing tears. She was providing tears, and I know she was nervous about that too, so um. And then we get to the office the next day where Tracy says she's going to continue this interview next the next day and she's office and you know, it says that he admitted that he hadn't liked Sue since in that minuting matter, and the fact that she called him rerun twice made him think that she was a little bit racist. Moving on and then yeah, and then she realizes he realizes that he was wrong, right, and says that seeing that performance and seeing how he's she's teaching her cheerios to be inclusive and positive about these things that are not always respected and thought positively of in that cheerio cheerio world. And she's like, well, yeah, m I did that on purpose. Yeah, And then we have this moment of her admitting that he was wrong to Mercedes about the cheerios, and we know the stakes of trying to fit in right, which is really nice. They have such a great friendship, do they really? Do? We fall in love with Marchine? So meanwhile, Sue has blocked out the entire auditorium just to I don't know, mess with Shoe because it's too cold outside her cheeros to be rehearsing. So she has a sign up sheet in her waistband and says that Will can't use the auditorium after he confronts her about it, and the whole week is reserved just for the cheerios taken away from their home. If you exactly displacing them. So when Will shares us with the Glee Club, Rachel recommends a sit in, Puck recommends that they torched the place, but mister Shoe takes upon himself to make a promise that he's going to find them a new home for the week. Shoe goes to the roller roller Rink, which in real life in La Moonlight Rollerway that we It's in every movie you see, every TV show you see. If there's all, that's the one. They have a great LGBT and Iron Wednesdays. You should go check it out. Yeah, it's great. I've been several times. Yes, um and lo and behold who's at the roller rink? Pulling focus on the main stage. But Kristen Chenno with aka April Rhodes And she's like, well, Schuster, I just had a sex stream about you, and then queues up a song Fire by Bruce Springsteen, hands him a mic that's bedazzled, bedazzled with flames, ready for the song, and they sing this great number. I would just like to point out again how good Christen Chenno is as a singer. I mean, I will say there are a lot of musical theater people I mean she has her master's an opera. Yeah, she's classically trained who cannot do everything what she does, she can adapt to any style of song. She is singing on that Bruce Springsteen song, she cut out her vibrato entirely. Yeah, she's like Jesse Mahler. Yeah, she's just singing this like pop rock song. Yeah, she made it a pop song, but it's, you know, rock song. And it's just very very very very impressive. She sings so many different genres in this one episode, and she sings them differently each time. Yes, she does what is called for in the song she called. We call that versatility. Yeah, it's just so I'll never get over it because it's so hard to be able to do that. Yeah, she can do anything with her voice. Yeah, yeah, Plato. It's really crazy. And she's a great actress as well. Because we get into this scene where Will sees April and this like hero, I thought you were getting sober. She says, I was so chatted about so bring up and studying a new life that I had to stop at a bar and get a drink just to calm down. And then she lived at the bar for four months, right, and then she admits that she's actually running this roller rink because she's a new mistress of Buddy Leewwitz, who is a strip mall tycoon, and Wills like, oh, well we need I'm a temporary space for the glee club. And she's like, oh, bring him here, no big deal. And then Will tells April that he has to sublet his apartment because he's getting divorced. And this divorce, does that mean you're free to date? And by date I mean sleep with people, and by sleep with I mean have sex with people people like me. Kidding, not really, And so she's offering, it's so good, she's offering to sublet his place. And it's like, I'm gonna need to come see the funk Hua or fing fong whatever it's called. Oh, and so she is gonna weazle her way into going to his home. Then mister Shu was like, Hey, new directions. I got the roller rink and we're gonna go perform there. Rehearse there, right, And then Kurt addresses the glee club. He says, mister Shu has something to say, and he just says that we all need to find a sense of place and that everybody's feeling. He's kind of like naming it all, Like, you know, Finn is feeling upset that their their parents are dating and you know, um, well we'll get into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he breaks into the song. Well he goes through Brad and uh sings houses not at home? Do you actually just have the sheet music sitting there on the piano ready? But he knew, Yeah, that's how it works, say, and it's it's an uncomfortable performance. He's emotional, he's like working through things and Finn's like, what is happening? Right? But then which I forgot about, we cut to Finn singing in this number, Finn singing, his tradition of singing to enimate objects continues, and he somehow makes it work for him because God blessed Scory, like you you know, he can make anything work. But of course he had to sing to the chair and to the urn of his his late father. Um, it was weird. It was weirder than him singing to the ultrasound. Definitely, at least it was quick. It was really quick. No, no, yeah, I would also say I in this episode, I noticed a lot Corey's physicality and he was a twenty something year old man playing a sixteen year old right, and I feel like he does such a good job of embodying the physicality of like a teenager. Okay, Golden Retriever, I don't know how my body moves yet. Yeah, goofy, goofyman Coverston, You're right, Yes he didn't. He didn't quite inhabit his body, but Corey did so exactly. Finn didn't. All right, So we get to April. Okay, you take this, Kevin, because this is your favorite. This is maybe my favorite song ever in this show. I know nobody understands this. Maybe it's top three, I don't know, it might be number one. I love this number. I love it because I think it is such an excellent mashup and the arrangement of the song, the harmonies of this number are I don't know, I don't know what it is. And I will also say watching this um actual number in the show, Paris's music video directing fully comes in handy here. Yeah, because yes, the way this is so simple but yet choreographed so perfectly, Like, never did I ever think I would be so enthralled with people laying in bed belting for their lives. Yea and it's beautiful and how it cuts together. It's fully music video. This is absolutely someone who knows musicality and music video. Yes, that's all I kept thinking, I haven't but I haven't heard this song in a long time, like unlike you, And so I was reminded with a slap in the face with how good number. That's how good it is? Yeah, you get struck with it across the face. Yep, it is a masterclass. And I think this scene too, right before leading up to it, when April shows up at Will's house, it's like, I'm gonna check it out, and he's like, you can sleep on the couch. I'm not really cool with this, but no funny business sleeping on the couch, and she's like dressed in this crazy outfit, bought her bag. She brings out a bottle of wine, and then it goes into this really obviously it's weird. They're singing to each other in the house. Whatever, well, right, we'll buy it. And then it's this really beautiful moment for both of them feeling displaced and this house. They're both around people, they're not that comfortable within this house, but lonely and how they can find It's also one of those things too, where this song the lyrics really don't apply to their situation, but the power of music, of how you can pull from a song what you need to to apply to your life is what's happening. And I just think, you know, Adam Andrews some crazy work on the arrangement. Yeah yeah it Um, Kristen and Matt just sounds so good together. I mean, two Broadway stars right there. Yeah, but that's like it doesn't necessarily sound like no, no, a musical theater song singing is you're right between? Yeah, it is somewhere between, and it is theatrical. It's over the top, but there you just put that song on. You just oh, that's so funny. I an't about watching the video at some point because I think that also will inform me in a different um anyway. Okay, so so after this beautiful number, that's one of three. Now, I know we can break it down if you want. The April tells well, Will says that um at the roller rank that they shouldn't a habit of sleeping in the bed together. And then Will says, what do you do in April? Like you deserve more than being someone's mistress and deserves to find happiness and hope, and you know he really has. I hoped for her. And so April tells Will that she's going to go break up with buddy. Is this where Chris got injured at the roller rink? By the way, everybody's explained his wrist or something. I think you're right. I think you're right. The new directions are not rehearsing, they're just skating. Well, we're trying to stay alive. Yea, his reality and I at least had big wheels. I had you to hold on to, whereas other people didn't. And do you see Harry go down? I don't think that was fake. I was very appreciative that I got to sit in the chair. I hate roller skating because I'm so bad. It's hard. It's hard, and I was scared um, but I was laughing because it was such a It was a fun day for us because we get we weren't had no lines. It just got to like be there and actidally and do some physical comedy and not die. I love too that this was sort of Groff's introduction to being part of the league club. We're like welcome to not having any lines, and you're just an all DC. You're just hanging You're just saying um. So okay. So then we cut to April showing up at Will's office and she's like what. He's like, what you're doing here? And she she told him that she broke up with Buddy or she and then and then he had a stroke in front of her and died. And she's rich. She got two million dollars. So she's sobering up and heading to the Broadway where she's gonna Mount Mount, the first all white Productional I didn't know April was racist? Is the turn of events, and the turn a dark turn of events. April is not it's not good. It's not. Um. But but in in in April Roses roses defense and I'm not defending her. I'm just saying she is offensive. Yeah, there are character is offensive. Yeah, but again, I don't think that would fly. We wouldn't be making that joke now, No, no, because it's not a joke. Um. And then and then she's not a Rachel's I did you tell them that? Um? April Rhodes has bought the auditorium, she has bought our home back for us, and it is named the April Rhodes Civic Pavilion. Um fun fact, I think Kristen actually has a theater named after her in her hometown or surrounding town nearby. That's awesome. Um, and then we'll get to that last number yeah later, but um. So the other storyline happening in this is the good old storyline Kurt and love with Fenn thing. So what happens is Kurt Kurt rolls up to Finn after leagu club one day and ask for advice for redecorating his bedroom and Finn's like, I have no idea, like why are you asking me? In like points to something. Meanwhile, Finn's mom, Carol, is all of a sudden selling Finn's late dad's stuff, and when it comes to recliner, Finn freaks out and it's like, no, that's not for sale, Like why are you doing this? This is dad's chair. It's the only picture I have of him with me. He's holding me in that chair, and Carol's like, it's not it's a chair, it's not him. And then Carol says like, look, also, Carol's dressed completely differently. All of a sudden, she's she's no longer in the acid washed jeans and best and Carol's says, I've been seeing someone and I'm in love and the person I've been seeing is Kurt's dad Bert, and so Finn then confronts Kurt about it, and it's like, what's going on with our parents? And then Kurt says, like, didn't you notice anything's different about your mom her look? Before? You know, like they'll be living together and redecorating their room together, hence why he was asking this. So Kurt has been planning this whole thing as a way to, you know, get closer to Finn, Jenna, do you I don't know what I was doing, But I don't remember Kurt being in love with Finn being such a huge storyline. I don't know why I have no recollection of this. Yes, I agree, it does become short lived because of Kurt, Carol and Burt, I think, and it no longer flies when like their parents are actually together. But you're right, I don't quite And maybe it's because they were just shooting so much off to the side. We were never really there, like we weren't at the breadsticks scene, like we didn't watch these things until we saw them when the episodes came out, So maybe it's just because we weren't part of it. I think I also like thought this whole Kurt, I mean this Carol and oh god, Carol, Kurt, Bert, I know, I know, I know Carol and Burt think happened later in season two. Agreed also, but they they do live on So that's why I think we set you know, Burton Carroll quite a bit. So. But yes, I think a lot of this feels like the back nine feels like a far off dream from the first thirteen day we did. Um and so mad. Yeah, He's like, I like my house, I'm not moving, I'm not selling that damn chair. And and Finn's very resistant towards all of this, but they obviously he's a kid, so he has to go do what his mom says. And they go to breadsticks on a double date with Kurt, Finn and their parents, and we were moving to bread sticks. So glad I didn't have to do breadsticks. Um, Finn says, you know, makes this off kind of like, oh, we're not a family, and you know, in response to like I think Bert saying something, and and then Burt and Finn like Bert wins Finn over with his charm talking about sports, and you can see that like Kurt is commenting on Carol's clothes and you know, the thing that they kind of bonded over and her makeover, and now Kurt's very hurt about Finn and Bert getting along, and we see this beautiful scene between Kurt and Burt where he's like, I feel, you know, I left felt left out and sad, and Bert's like, of course, I love you like you're my son. Like we don't try to change each other. That's our relationship. They have a very open and communicative, communicative relationship, as we've learned, and a little guy talk with some other kid isn't going to change that. And then Kurt says guy talk, I'm a guy, and Bert says, you know what I think. But I thought that was really powerful though, like Kurt's saying like, I'm a guy. Yeah. I think it's important that these scenes are a little messy, like yeah, yeah, not everybody's saying the perfect thing all the time, but there's an understanding. Really their intentions are in the right place. And then Bert says, suddenly, I'm not the guy who sat through River Dance three in a row. It's so cute though, because they do think the best of each other most of the time, and they do bring out like that that really deep good part of each other. So and that's why I think it's very sweet. Um. And then Kurt's like, maybe it is too soon that you started dating, and Bert says it's been eight years. And then the really kind of questions, which because he can see right through his son obviously in question why he set him up with Carol in the first place. That was good. Wasn't it to make me happy? M hmm. Kurt tells Finn that, mmmm, this isn't gonna work. We need to break them up, and Finn could tell it hurt. Kurt admits he doesn't like seeing his mom move on either, and Finn agrees, and they shake hands and like, okay, let's put an end to them. Right Then Finn threatens to throw his dad's ashes down the toilet. He takes the ash. He's like, oh, I'm just gonna like I can do this too. You've been doing it, and so it's great. Yeah, I think Carol, oh my gosh, just roam, gosh, just really going says that they can do what they've been doing for the past ten years, which is pretending, and she reveals she hasn't felt this way about anyone since his dad and he's being selfish, tells Finn that she loves him and that they need a family and a home. And I thought it was really powerful when Finn, you know, says this isn't what dad would want, and she's like, you don't know him, and that's tough, Like it's it's still crazy to me. This is the same show, yeah that you know, not that we're dressed in cupcakes and cupcakes and things, and a really powerful, I think hard to articulate thing that people go through all the time. Well, that's dealing with the parents that's passed away at an early age, right. I think that's really what's so powerful Luckley though, is like you hit these really hard hitting situations and it's you know, like social issues and um, you know, eating disorders and you know, loss and grief and and then you break into song into Madonna and Bruce Springsteen and like, no studio these days if you pitched a show like that, unless you're Ran Reffe would be like, yeah, I get that, Like you'd be like, that's two different shows, right. I think even then they were like Ryan being like believe me, no. Yes. So the storyline starts to wrap up when Bert all of a sudden, is at Finn's house and they have this man to man in the kitchen and it's very tense and they're both like I have a lot to say. I have a lot to say, and m Bert's like, well I don't have that much to say, so I'll start. And he's like, I will never hurt your mom. I love her. Your dad was a hero. I would like to be a hero for your mom as long as she wants me to be. Michael Malley Man, Yeah, there's just there's something beautiful about the simplicity with Romy and Mike doing these scenes where it's let me just let me just say these words because you know they're not doing some huge, um extravagant let me show you how good of an actor I am. They're good because it's true how they're saying it. Yeah. So then Finn just sort of wraps it up. He's like, oh, okay, well I was just gonna ask if you want to watch a game. Yeah. I mean he hears it, he doesn't have to admit it. But he hears, you know, Burt in what he says, and and then um, you know they He's like, no, you wait, you can sit here in the chair. He moves. The scene is almost completely perfect, almost and then almost too Kurt standing outside the window. I'm surprised wasn't raining on the on the window raining? Yes, right, Kurt standing at Finn's house, crying like he might as well have been an adjacent mask, like what what is what is happening? Why? That like sweet moment, and then it just pans to him in this gigantic windows. Very do you not see him? He's very funny. It's very funny. It's so creepy. It's so creepy. So we get to the final moment of this episode is us in the auditorium behind Chris and Chennewith where she sings home in the new April World Civic Pavilion. That's right, and she comes on in this beautiful gown. Now she's rich done jewels, and we're all we're all her choir, which happily we are, you know, swaying and singing with her in her backup singers that beautiful scrim lifts and you see this beautiful clouded sky in the background that is lit beautifully. It look stunning. I think it looks so good. Are you just it makes me uncomfortable having like a white person sing this song right right? It feels weird, right it's it's so beautifully done. And I wasn't even thinking of that. Thank you for that? Um right. I don't know why. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm I don't but I I mean so yeah, Okay. When I think of this, I think of Amber at the White House and Michelle Obama singing this song. It's an incredibly written song. Are the Wiz is incredible? This is an incredible song, right, Um? But it just feels it feels so fair enough, strange, fair enough? Um but I do love this song. Also, if anyone hasn't seen Jasmine Sullivan singing this song on YouTube at eleven years old in the A Whiz production of her at her school, go look it up. Have you seen it, Jenna? No, but I saw you storied about it. I watch it monthly. O Jasmine Sullivan at eleven years old done. It's unbelievable. I don't understand. But she's a prodigy. Obviously, it was a prodigy like I just whatever anyway, Okay, that's home. That Okay, let's do it so cringe moments aka special shout out to Paris for Auchiese. This episode, there's a couple lines. I mean, I would say the whole mounting and all white production of the Whiz, right. I think that was the one. Not a great look. I think the um the line with Becky earlier in the episode about vombiting and having an eating disorder, it's not great, you know. I think having Mercedes lose weight there's great things. Well, yeah, I mean her Sue talking about, you know, Becky gonna be you know, a volimic. It's it's like, we're not. Yeah, we're not. That's not really how we handle things anymore. Um. Been singing to the chair? Oh did you say that one? Yeah? That's that's a good one. That's the one. UM. Worse dance move. Um, I don't know, And I don't think. There wasn't a lot of dancing, right. We weren't a lot of group numbers either, So no, okay, UM, I think maybe singing to the Urn still counts in that category as well. M M. Best song home, but now you made me rethink it. No, because the song is good and christ and Chenowitz is but beautiful. Also, I mean, like anything ever sing is obviously is wins. I mean, obviously I'm going to pick my favorite number of all the time. Oh, I have been embarrassing things to admit. Yes, I had never heard the song home before we filmed this episode. Oh no, I feel like there's a lot of edumicating happening here. Well I must have. I had seen the win, so I must have, but I didn't know it, like it was not on my radar sort of thing. Fair enough, Yeah, best performance by a prop, the arn, the arned, the arn is good. I also have to say the bedazzled nikes really stood out to me. They were beautiful. They reminded me of like of course Christens on TOURZ. Yeah. Okay, and then the best line. Okay, So in the last last episode, I thought the line about the you know curtain Mercedes having their own Bravo show was in Madonna, but it's actually in this episode. How do you guys not have your own Bravo show? Say? Um, what else is there, Kevin? What there's a I'm just gonna rattle off a couple of incredible ones Britney saying I think my cat is reading my diary. It's a good one. Um Puck mouthing, defend you're gay, oh Bert saying I hate Duke like a hate the Nazis. Yeah, I think is absolutely incredible. Yea, and then Kurt saying I feel like the guy who set up Liza David guest. You know it's very niche and specific, but that's right. Delicious, delicious yummy. Okay. So Jenna, um shit we found on the tiktoks this week, tell me um this incredible video. I just it's how Glee would sound in real life. Glee thing posted it, okay, And it's one of those videos where you just you have random clips of the show and then you have the real sounds. It's silent, basically like it's like splashes in the pool. No, it's it's very good. You have pulled it up and watch this thing. I'm pulling it up like some music playing in the hallway. You have no because like kids randomly seeing in the hallway just like yeah, kids talking around them like what is happening? No, this is so awkward. It's so good. Yeah, you have to the sneakers, you guys got We'll go to the Glee thing TikTok um and watch it. How Glee that sounded real life. It's excellent. Thank you for tagging us in that. It's it's a minute of pure joy. Very good, very very good. It's very funny. Well that's home. That is home. Um you guys, don't forget the walkathon for Alexandria House um I Transitional Home for Women and children and many many other supportive services here in La. They're having a walk withth on so um. If you can't be there, you can donate if you can, or find other ways that you can help. Alexandra House dot org. And that is Home. Join us next week for bad review Days. There's so much to on back, so much too on time. We've had such a good run. I can't wait to talk about this episode. Well, thanks for joining us. 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