It’s time to recap a memorable episode involving mini-golf, Shakespeare and a very shady melon! Coming off a rather disappointing BMW, it’s a welcome change for Danielle, Rider and Will to gush over, and remember insider details from, an episode they love. Also, did Will really eat 17 cheeseburgers?
Take the stage - it’s time for a very theatrical Pod Meets World!
Writer, did somebody tell me that the Phillies have asked us to throw out the first pitch? Um? We I became friends this this summer when I went to Alaska. One of the families that I was there with that the father is Um, a producer manager. He does theatrical events for the Phillies. So he said he was like, oh, you gotta do something at the stadium, Like you come, We'll do something. You guys can at least throw out the first pitch. But they also they do concerts. They're obviously like big concerts. Like when I saw him, he had just the night before had had Elton John out. Um. So I don't think we could sell out the stadium. But they also have like mini theaters. I think there's like other sections of the stadium where they do Philly sell out the stadium. Guys. Well, you know what's interesting is they have all those little kiosks everywhere, like the food kiosks. So one of those would be perfect size to do a Chubby's pop up. Those one of those would be good for you. Will you could just have a kiosk. I'll take over the stadium. Yeah, No, would be perfect size for a Chubbies pop up because it's not too biggest space and it's already set up, so it would probably work. Would I would want good food for Chubbies, Well, that's a good good burgers. That's a good question is is they'd have to be good burgers and what good dogs are? Just like what would be what would be at Chubbies Just cheese steak would be like the sort of know what if we just we just did green beans and jello, That's what I mean. And everything's cold and you can't choke anything down. You can you can't take bites. You have to take fake bites of burgers and leave her stuff around with your fork. You put it towards your mouth and then just throw it over your shoulder. You start choking because they're not cooked. It's like Dr Peppy to lead it. I also have a have a dream of the Chubbies that we do things at having really good food. I think maybe because I seem to remember the Chubbies set actually having the worst fake food. For some reason, the food we had in the Chubby scenes was even worse than the food I remember from the cafeteria scene. I agree. I guess it's just burgers and fries. Don't don't don't last now more than you know what it should be like. You know what Chubbies should be like. It should be like Rubies, because Rubies was so Goobies is delicious. It's one of the best burgers I've ever had in my life. And it should be straight up like Rubies. Rubies is delicious, My absolute favorite Diamond Dot all time. I mean, listen, we're doing it again. We're doing writers least favorite thing, which is starting our show off by talking about food Donald's food to talk about. You know, we all Sue and I made it three for three. I was telling Danielle before on the way home we grabbed McDonald's after the three of us McDonald's dot Our Lives show. It did. People will know my wife was with me, so I pretended I wasn't that hungry. Um, you know that kind of thing, like I guess I'll just order for me. Have I told that story? I must have told that. But there is a story. Didn't you. Didn't you have like a burger eating competition at one point in your adolescence With myself, it wasn't like I thought you were with your football team or something. And you ate like thirty something cheeseburger. It was seventeen. It was seventeen one sitting that's crazy that size? What kind the regular McDonald cheeseburgers? Okay, okay, like like a happy cheeseburger. Correct. And I ran out of money like ten in and people in the restaurant, we're just buying me burgers because they wanted to see if I could eat them. So I was probably like I was probably thirteen, maybe it's like freshman in high school at this point, and it was it was just hey man, i'll buy him too, because I want to see if he can hold them down kind of thing. And I stopped at seventeen. Yeah, it was, oh my god, Yeah it was awesome. Yeah, I can't. I've never I've never watched like food eating competitions. I know that they're like remarkable, and people makes me watch them. On the fourth of July, we have to watch the hot dog eating contest. That's not something you should be forced to do. It's brilliant. The announcer for that genius is brilliant. It is truly genius. But it's mostly the watching them dip the buns into the liquid and then well, sometimes it's water. Sometimes it's like fruit punch and the fingers come out and it's just pink and disgusting and makes me sick to my stomach. Have you ever seen Joey Chestnut trained for the hot dog eating He's made like these mouth things where he just choose on him, so he builds up like his jawn muscle. He works in as if he's training for a sport. It's insane to watch this guy training to do this. It's they win money, right, I mean, it's a really good amount of money, and it's it's there's apparently an eating circuit that can get really nasty, like they have. They have awful contests f a l like the brains and stuff reality show compete like about like the yeah, you're right, don't we make a Christopher guest movie and Will Will be the star than you? What a great idea? Have you seen? Chicken people? Is that what it's called the one? The so speaking of a Christopher guest type of movie, but that's actually real. It's either on Netflix or Hulu, and it's people that raise show chickens, so it's they show them like a dog show. But it's all that I have to, and you think it's fake, right, and it's not very real. It's complete and totally real. And the cross breeding. And I've been working on this one line of chickens for twenty years. It's it's worth a watch. Okay, I'll watch Chicken People. I'm into that. Welcome to Pond Meets World. I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm Writer Strong, I am Wilfredell. We watched an incredible episode. I have so much fun watching this episode. And I realized Writer had the correct memory or Will had the correct memory of of Lee doing the southern accent. We were both right, because then yeah, it was that was both of you. I think that was both of you because I was like, I remember a different one, and then I was like, oh my gosh, it was both. I did not remember the tag of this at all, Like there were so many moments of it. I didn't remember every part of the show, none of this, none, but both this and the next episode are indelible to me. For some it's like it's like it's the middle of the season where right Or zoned out and came back. Because I remembered every line. It was so funny. The costumes like yeah, it's it's but I also just remember, I mean, this one's fun. It's differently right. We had a swing set of the stage building Shakespeare. I everybody in fun costumes and you got to see William Daniels doing Shakespeare. It was great, It really was. Well, let me tell, let us tell our listeners what we're talking about. This is the synopsis is that Corey gets cast as Hamlet in the school play, but when he thinks the material is too soft, he quits. It was season one, episode twenty, The Plays the Thing. It originally aired April. It was directed by David Trainer, written by Ed Dector and John Strauss, and as guest cast we had Ryan Tomlinson as the spear carrier. I remember him. Actually, the only thing I remembered was his face, because I saw him in the background. I went, that guy's got lines, like he he has lines, that's not an extra. I remember he was week. I guess because he's again like a just I have a very clear member of hanging out with him and talking with him, and yeah, so funny. I remember the overall feeling of this week being big, like oh, we get to wear costumes and we're doing a play, and like, I do remember that. I remember, I remember that, and I remember being very excited that I was Ophelia and um, knowing that like Lee and I got to work together kind of in that really funny way with him stepping on me. Like all of that I remembered, um, But then there were so many things, like I did not remember Ryan Tomlinson, and when he started speaking all the way at the end of the episode, I was like, whoa brand new character in the tag. That seems like something we've never done before. So let's jump into the recap. We start in Phoenie's classroom. Phoene walks in and asked the class to let out their most agonizing grown and then announces it's time for the springtime class play and everyone grows again. But he has been there, done that, writer. I know this. At the very opening part of the scene is that the girl that's you guys called see me, yes in the back in the back, I'm sure you are left, Yeah, yeah, the one behind Dusty, behind Dusty Yes, Okay, so I really noticed her today. I was like, oh, that must be see Me. And then and then Dusty has a real big part in this one. He's everywhere. Dusty is the star of the show Dusty, Where are You Dusty? Still searching for Dusty? So Phoene hypes up the selection this year and announces the class will be doing selected scenes from Hamlet. Phoenie tells Sean he will be a spear carrier, which doesn't have many lines to memorize. Topango will play Ophelia, a challenging role who goes insane. Topanga calls Corey a brillo head. I didn't know that that ever came back after that first episode. I think this might be the only time. It's also the only time I feel like Topanca's and insulting. I got the same thing. I kind of liked it because I kind of like that there's a part of her that's I don't know, there was something where fire. Yes, And I'm also still I'm still real, I'm still a kid. I still have this in my arsenal. And I know you don't like to call you, so here's what I'm gonna say to remind you to mind yourself. And there was something kind of cool about that, Yeah, kind of new to Panga. Well, there's something about this whole episode which is like everybody is aware of Corey's character, you know what I mean. At the end of this scene, obviously it's like t up of like he talks all the time, he never takes anything seriously. That and you know, setting up Corey, and that's only possible after twenty episodes of establishing this character, and and and it's fun that everybody sort of knows him. You know, they don't know each other, of course, but it's just it just goes to show like how how a story can evolve, you know, when you've seen the same characters doing similar situations over and over again. So at this point we're very we can fun of him, we can make fun of each other, and yeah, it's fun. I also feel like this episode, obviously a number of the shows had aired, so this audience seemed like one of the first audiences that were straight up Boy Meats World fans. They were in, you heard, they were reacting to a whole bunch of stuff. It didn't seem like a forced audience that we had some of the beginning ones when people didn't know the show. It seemed like we're now starting to get audiences that were coming specifically to watch our show being done. It makes a big difference. Yeah, it definitely makes a big difference when you just otherwise have a bunch of people and they who are like, what are we watching? And now we've got to watch it three times in a row and now I'm bored, and now I'm fake laughing and now I'm doing this. But we're now they're in and you've got him from the second you start. It's it's great. It's totally changes the show. So Phoene says Mincus will play Polonius, but Minca says Polonius only has forty eight lines. He wants to play the lead instead. Phoeny says Hamlet is hard to cast because he gets on a lot of people's nerves. He makes a lot of mistakes, and he never that's up, And everyone does the slow turn to Corey and Corey says, what do I have a booger? Which I thought was very funny. And then we are into our opening credits and we end up in the Matthews backyard slash side yard backyard. Corey is practicing mini golf with Morgan pretending to be a windmill, waving her arms and her legs back and forth. And I thought this was interesting because all of a sudden, it sets up that Corey like that Corey and Allen are going to be teamed up again in a mini golf tournament at the Jersey Shore. And it's the first time we've ever mentioned a Jersey Shore. There's no mention of even like a vacation ahead of time. It's just like I for a second was like, wait a minute, where's the show taking place? What do you mean the Jersey Shore? Like what is going on? But it then ends up being that there they take a family trip to the Jersey Shore every year, and that they compete in a golf tournament. Is it just the four of you or there other people competing in this thing? I think it's supposed to be a family thing. It's always Mom and Eric versus Alan and Corey's like they've gotten seven years and that I didn't remember this storyline at all, Like no, because he does say I'm not going to lose again in front of everyone on the Jersey Shore, which makes me feel like it's a competition that you as a family are you two are like against each other, but there are also other people competing. Oh, it's like a big family. Like maybe it's like a market giant vacation like a like a work trip where all the families compete against each other or something. What does say market giant on the like when in the course that they end up building and yeah, I mean, like, is the idea there that that Alan and Amy built an entire like they made all that or they took it from And I think they made it. I think they tried to make it look because one of the things I noticed is like the one of the things looks like it's Morgan's dollhouse, so they kind of grabbed stuff that was there to kind of make it look. I also love how again nobody else in the family exists and it was called Corey's golf course. We'll get into that later trauma. Also, Alan does say he put the imperceptible groove in part of it, so that yeah, so he did it himself, which again I'll get into when we talk about it. Where did anyone come up with the time for this? Parents easier to just drive to the Jersey Shore than it does to building building any of this. Really can't afford the drive there, but you can afford a nine whole mini golf course in your past, your own backyards. In your own backs backside yard, Yes exactly. Eric comes out and he asks Corey for cash, and Corey, very very in a very nondescript kind of throwaway way, says, I'm allowance boy three. Now right, we've had We've had three risk boy, allowance boy, not sidekick, but something like accomplice. This is the first one that's like he can tell he's not really committed. He's like a boy's like, are we still doing this? We're still doing this one still in the script and I am once again they've decided now just full grund. Yeah, it's great, it's really cool. And you've just gotten a haircut. I could tell. I was like, Will's hair looks like it was cut that day. It probably what but yours, I noticed is steadily getting longer, longer than the one they're just keeping the fugitive. It was like, oh, just let him have long hair. Yeah, your hair, he's gotten so long it's starting to curl again. It's like they straightened it, but it's also still starting to In real life, I would get wigs because they would just flip out on the side. So that's why they would straighten it on the show to keep it sort of contained in real life, especially because like back then, I was washing my hair every day, Like every time I would take a shower, I would shampoo my hair, which, yeah, and it just means that your hair gets super frizzy because I wouldn't put any product in anything. My hair was just gigantic and all over the place and flip it. It's funny though, because there's times where it comes back around and curls in and it almost looks like a mustache. It does. It comes this way and comes it's very Yeah, it's it's such a hair show. You know who else looks like they just got a haircut in this episode? Dusty really? Yes, In one of the classroom scenes maybe even that opening scene, there was a great shot of Dusty and I was like, Dusty fully just got a haircut. I mean, he must have had a haircut the day before. It is crisp. Let me tell you so. Eric says that they cut salaries five percent at the market. And Eric says, if Corey gives him five dollars, Eric will throw the golf tournament this year. What does Eric need five dollars so badly for? Right? And even if you cut five of your salary, you still don't have five dollars. I mean, you are living penny penny my friend. He to mouth apparently for Eric, because it's like, I'll throw, I will throw the tournament, I'll do all this stuff. I know, I thought I thought the five dollars was I guess they had to find the balance between asking Corey for an amount of money he might actually have and maybe you're collecting more money from other people. But I mean, if you're throwing the tournament for five bucks, imagine what you do for God, I don't even want to know what Eric would do for fifty dollars. So they're going back to our old theory. That kind of makes sense. So if it's a Market Giant thing, because then when he says we had to cancel a vacation, it's alan not just canceling it for the family, He's canceling it for all employees of Market Giant, to which kind of gives it more gravitas. I think if that's accurate or not, I mean they're just not clear. Now. It's a little bit of a like really loose premise. They're like, let's just there's a vacation and then they have to cancel it. Meanwhile, the kids that don't handle it like okay, I could be I mean that's the thing is like with sitcom. You know, it could be a rewrite that came in the day before we were shooting, and then you're like, tell the art department they've got to build an entire golf course in the backyard and they have twelve hours to do that. I mean there's so many times and stuff like that would happen, right, like, uh, that's just the nature of the beast. Like if if a b storyline suddenly changed, everybody would have to get different wardrobe or different props, and you know, and it sends like fifty people into like no sleep mode for two days, you know, productions, intense productions that we would just show up and be like, look minute, your golf course actors, and we were just every credit. Yeah, thank you so much to the props, art department, everyonebody, but everybody that helped us, because we never probably gave you the proper credit as the self absorbed young actors that we were, like we got square guns, like yeah to drive to nine places to go get that at three o'clock in the morning, thank you. And then I couldn't find the one the producers wanted, so I built this one from the heart in my own house. Were like, thanks so much, Jeff, it's Jared whatever like that. You know, that was not true. We were not like that. That makes us sound very bad. We actually were not like that, not towards, not later. I think at the beginning we were all still so star star struck of kind of being there. At least I know, I was that it was still the magic of TV. It wasn't the work that tons of people were putting in, you know. So, yeah, thank you. I can't believe all this comes together magically. Can do? Yeah. So Corey says he doesn't need Eric to rig the tournament, but then Eric hits a hole in one and says, yeah, you do. And then we're back in Phoenie's classroom. The classes rehearsing Hamlet, with Corey rattle off Hamlet lines. Eventually he calls it garbage. Corey thinks he can make the play better and tells Pennie to make it like die Hard. He says, all Hamlet does his talk even when no one is there. Phoene says Hamlet is one of literature's most human characters with consequences and decisions. And then to Panga walks in her Ophelia dress. And I remember this costume, of course, because it is everything little Danielle loves more than anything. Coffee sleeves. It was. We could have almost just warned that as to Panga, Like fact, there was an episode where you just showed up in that. I don't think anybody would have batted an eye. It would have just been like, oh, this is part of the character exactly. It's not that much different. And I go. Growing up, I was absolutely obsessed with the Little Mermaid's wedding dress where she had those big poofy white sleeves, and so as a kid, any dress with a poof oh, I loved it. So I remember, oh, yeah, the big sleeve thing. I don't I don't get it, but it looks like the Pioneer woman. Now listen, they're girls there. There's like girl hot and guy hot. Things that girls think are hot most guys are like what is that? What do you doan? And then the things that guys think are hot we just don't care about. Maybe not yeah, because it was super addresses like that. She came out and she's like what do you think? I was like, I think it looks like you're on the wagon train. What do you want me to say? Like, what what are you doing? Are we cooking over an open flame tonight? Like what's happening? She's like this is the style? Like okay, great, whatever made Dr Quinn exactly exactly? It's what it looked like. And another Jean Claude van Damn reference. Listen, we've got a fan on staff, right, there's gotta be because if we we've had we'll have several over seven years, we have Sean Claude van Damn references. It was one of our writers. Like there's a Arnold Schwartzegger references we've met, I mean, the relist. They were all. It was just the arrow of like I mean, I still was the thing, right, Like there's Neeson taken movies the last ten years ago, Like every every decade has like that figure. By the way, yeah it's but also not to get off topic, but how many times can your kid be taken before it's just your fault? There's like taken four an hour or whatever. It's like, okay, maybe you're just not responsible. It's like I've never seen it I've never seen. The first one is brilliant, The first one is amazing, and then you're like the second one, it's like I'm being taken again, Like really maybe the same person. Well, now they get taken, the parents get taken and the kid helps them. And then by the third one you're like, Okay, you just suck at this parenting thing, like maybe this is not in your forte I know, I'm sorry, I don't want to get off, but it's like by the third one, you're gonna come on, you, come on now. I can't. I can't. I can't be invested if you're gonna be this lazy. I can't. Was this the first time Jedediah was was mentioned? You've mentioned Jedediah before, right, because because bookstore the base game, right, and the book and got you right and the Unicorn bookstore, Rainbow Unicorn bookstore, right, Yeah, and here he's so's yes and Jedediah jedted I had made his costume last night and m I and I did at that age, like that's what I took home back four. I loved to say that. Yeah. So the idea that it was like that was the joke that a guy can sew was weird to me even then. I remember being like, but I liked so well. Before we even got to the sewing, Joe Corey says he doesn't want to wear tights and said maybe if Hamlet had worn pants, he could have made a decision or two, and then Topanga calls him out and asks if that was a sexist joke, and Corey says, well, that's what I was shooting for, which was great, like just exactly I actually, it's exactly right. You did it. I called you out for it, and you were like, yes, yes, I did. That's that totally worked for me. It was mine follow up with the sewing that I was like, that's a cheap shot, and you could kind of tell me Ad didn't quite go for it. There was a like at all, It's like why, I don't know, Like I think we could have just cut that line, could have just because I think it ends with Corey being like, that's what I was hating for. It was a hat on a hat and the second hat wasn't that funny. It's a great joke. The Yeah, that's what I was going for. Yeah, that's what I was shooting forward totally worked. Yeah, I was a weird music cute? Did anybody else here? There was? Just right after that the music change in a very bizarre way, and it was like, what really really weird music change right there? You didn't hear that? Corey says, if Pheny won't listen to his ideas, then he quit it. Which quit it? It was cute. I like that. He put his hand on his heart too. I quit it. And then he walks out and then we're in the school hallway very quickly. Sorry, why did he? I didn't fully get why he quit. It's just because seen he wouldn't wouldn't change the play and he didn't want to wear the cost he didn't want to. Yeah, he wouldn't change the costume for Corey. We I mean he also starts the saying hating the character, and right, yeah, and I need to be like die Hard and why can't we do this? It's yeah, it is. It's kind of a whole overhaul. But the straw that really broke the Corey's back was the type Penny, can we just go back for a second. I very distinctly remember the Jimmy Deane sausage theory line. Really do you remember this? Because I remember being like, what, I didn't get it at the time. Of course I didn't know who Francis Bacon was. I didn't, you know. It's like such a weird little but yeah, I totally That's what I remember so much about this episode. Obviously, like with my costume later and the facts, that's probably why. But even lines like that. I didn't remember the sewing line, but I remember the Jimmieting sausage line. Have you ever had had a lot of fun and talked to a you know, a Shakespeare historian or Shakespeare expert and jokingly said, you know, it's Francis Bacon could have written them all and watched the color drained from their faces. No, I've never had that experience. That seems like a very niche experience to have, you know, when you're talking with your Shakespeare scholars. I have a friend Shakespeare historians historians, And if you made the joke, yes, because a friend of mine was this is a Shakespeare storian. And when I say that to her, I saw one of our on running jokes like when when you know so when Bacon was writing all the plays and she's like, well, you just please. It's like one of our favorite. You know, your normal Shakespearean jokes that you have with people. Of course, all of you who have had that experience, please send us an email. I don't I can't wait for that happen. I can't wait for anybody who's had that experience and made that little Francis Bacon joke and then seeing the color drain from their face. Yes, and tott if meet world is hit us up exactly. So we're in the school hallway. Sean asks Corey if Phoenie will give in to Corey's ideas, and Corey says Phenie has no choice. No one else knows all the lines. And then Mincus comes up behind them in the hallway wearing you oh, just in his all black vest suit thing, and he's reciting Hamlets lines. He jokes about doing the role with a Scandinavian accent and walks off, saying, softer now. The Pherophelia mysens be always seems remembered, which I remember when he said it at the table at the table read Do you guys remember it? No? I know, but it's so funny. I mean, he's just brilliant. I he did it at the table read just it was the kind of laugh where you have to fully reset the show almost where it's like it is such an explosive laugh and every and then it just kind of trickles off and then it starts over again and you're like, okay, okay, okay, we have to get back into the read. It was hilarious and then all week and it just never got less funny. And watching it now, I was like, that's the moment I remember more than anything. Right after he walked off the at with doing the Swedish Chef, which is hysterical, I wrote, how does he only have two episodes left? No, I don't get it. I'm sorry. I know we've talked about it a hundred times, but I don't get how you watch these performances. Possibly the biggest mistake of boy Meat's world history easily easily, in my opinion, the biggest mistake in boy Me's world history. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, this episode is mildly funny without it's a funny episode, I will be honest. Jensen's a little concerned that the show won't be funny anymore. He's like, how's this show even going to be funny without him? So I don't know it is. It's the end up day and I just keep going to that kid standing next to Harley in hallway and Harley is his best friend. Is comedy for years. Yeah, so yeah, it's such a shame and harp on it, I know. Anyway, Okay, Corey calls him Prince Hoggendoes, which I also thought was very funny line that I didn't remember, and says Peney will beg for him to come back to the play and it'll be like hambo okay, pretty good, pretty good. And then we're in the Matthews kitchen. Corey tells Eric he just sank eighteen in a row. But Eric says the tournament has been canceled because of the pay cuts at the market and now they can't afford to go on the trip. But Corey says Alan is the boss. He can do whatever he wants. And then he goes into the Matthews living room. He asks Alan why they're not going on all over the place. She's sewing his shirt. There's a hole in his shirt. She has to fix it. It's very real though, because if you think about it, there they have three children. He's the you know, the the general manager of a grocery store, which is probably a you know, pays well but not an exorbitant amount of money. And she we kind of is also is a homemaker, but it is also a part time real estate agent, though that hasn't come back. I mean money, you would be a very real issue for this family that they're addressing it. Yeah, because if you think about the fact that they probably had to live on a very strict budget, where you have this much money per month for food, this much for clothes. If you lose five percent of your income, you're going to have to do some re shuffling. It's not like it's not like you just that's nothing, you know. So I can see why maybe the bills were all out because they were trying to do a rebudget. That makes sense, not just that all the bills were due, but let's pull them all out, see what we spend on average, and let's see where we can cut, where we can tighten. And of course the first thing that goes is the family vacation. It's like, that's the first thing that goes. It has to be, even though it was and this is kind of what I liked about it. You're a family in Philadelphia, a drive to the Jersey Shore is not a ridiculously long drive. You're with your whole family. It's a good fun place to go, and it would be in budget of a kind of a lower middle class family, which is what I think they are. Um So I liked that it was. It was very real. It wasn't like we can't go to Hawaii this year. That's things. It's like first class, right we go, No, we go. We get into the car as a family and we drive and we go play a mini mini golf tournament. And it's also shows why Corey is looking forward to it so much, because they do it every year and it's like the big family vacation. I thought it played very very real to me, this whole kind of storyline, which I thought was cool. I'd like to make a suggestion that they everyone just has to lose one layer problem again, That's what I say to remember save some shirts. Speaking to shirts, I was watching this episode with my wife and she went too much patterns in this scene. Have you noticed Betsy's wearing a flower print sweatshirt on a flower couch. Ben's wearing like a everybody's wearing different patterns, and then she's got like what she's sewing is like a pattern, a pattern, a pattern. It's like whoa. Once she pointed it out, you can't unsee it. I was like, oh god, yeah, too much pattern. It's like they must have shown up on Thursday night, Like I can't belie if nobody caught it. Like that's funny. I love. I love when hearing like what your family each other's family members point out about things. It makes me want to go back and rewatch the whole episode. Um So, Alan says that it wasn't up to him. It was Bob Williams who made the decision for the pay cuts, and Corey asks why he can't just fire Bob Williams, and Alan says he can't fire the district manager that's one of his bosses. Amy asks Corey what he suggests, what he suggests they do about it, and Corey says they should go in there and talk to everyone and if it doesn't work out, he should just quit. And then he ends by saying, throw some weight around, trust me feels good. I thought that was again to Will's point about how real this all feels. All of this is just so real for a kid, where you really do I remember being a teenager and thinking I knew everything, and like, God, why don't my parents just ask me more? I'd fixed this for them if they would just ask me. Yeah, I mean, trust me, it's working. Okay, it's what I'm doing, and it's totally working for me. My life is great at twelve, so I kind of have this down. I think I figured it out at your age. Yeah, of course. And then we're back in the Matthews kitchen. Alan is weirdly sitting on the island looks like Hamlet, looks like Hamlet post. I did not even put that together. And definitely no, I didn't sit on the island that Hamlet. It's a total Hamlet post and the Hamlet. I didn't put it together. But I'm also not super familiar with Hamlet, to be honest, so I didn't put it together. And I was like, what, why would he sit on the island. There's a perfectly good share right there. It's the middle of the night, the roe draped over, it's talking talking to the melon, which is talking to the skull. So it's straight Yeah, all right. I hope I'm not the only person who didn't know. I hope there were other listeners who are like, oh, otherwise it's just me. So you really are the only one that hasn't had a Shakespearean talk with a Shakespearean historian. Wow, yeah, I really am. I apparently that's like very common, not in my life. Um so uh. And then he just leaves by the way, just leaves the melon. I know, we didn't even we didn't even get all that. He's sitting on the counter. Amy walks downstairs. He asks if Amy sees him as a spear carrier or if his employees just see him as a pushover company man. Amy and Allen know he needs to talk to Bob Williams, and Alan practices what he's going to say in the form of a cantaloupe. He does it at first, very common, rational, weirdest looking cantaloupe. I remever, sank you that's all said the entire night. I was like, what is that? Is that? Is that a coconut? Is it? Harry? Is it supposed to look more like a skull? Maybe? But I was like, what is that thing that they're holding? I thought that the dramatic lighting, the moonlight lighting, which is coming from a skylight above them, Like why is the why is there moonlight coming from directly above? This episode had very dramatic lighting and change because you know later with Bill, which makes sense, but this lighting was so over the top and him sitting, but the cantaloupe in the lighting just looked weird, like I think it could. I think it was supposed to be slightly rotten so that when he drops it it explodes. I mean, like, I think that's the point. And if if you have a fresh candleloupe, if you drop it from the three ft or four feet, it's probably not going to have that big break that. But Sue said the same things, like what the hell is that? I thought the exact same thing, And then just now when you said, oh, it's like when he's talking to the skull, the very first thing that popped in my mind was, Oh, that's why the that's why the candleloupe was like that. It was narrow. It's narrow and kind of tall, the way a skull would be. And also some of the like in dense would be like I sockets nose, So I I think it was a very conscious choice for it to also yes a little rotten so that it would get the looks like a skull exactly. That looks mel exactly. It just looks weird, though I find it. So it was melon, Yes, melon, not a melon. I like. I don't like that. I don't trust that melan. I didn't either. It's a shifty melon. Shady about that melon. Melon, that's our new T shirt. Shady melon. Alan holds a sunglasses, shady melon. That's a shady melon. That's a melon with a past. Trust that mel just got out of jail. I just don't trust it. Man, Like, you can sleep on the couch for a week, but then you gotta be out of here. Melon. I just can't do it. And then he steals all your booth exactly. We all know that. We all know that melon. We all have that melon in our lives somewhere. So after Amy leaves, Alan says to the bob cantaloupe, let me show you what I've always wanted to do to your head. And he drops the cantaloupe, which splats on the floor, and then he turns around and he just leaves it there, but he walks away, saying, now my wife would call that cranky. Just goes upstairs. I guess he's the first one up and plans on cleaning it up, but now later that she had to clean it up. Yes, it's just like with woman. Yeah, I can't go to sleep if there's a one dirty dish in the sink, I can't do it. So the idea of going to bed with a broken, shady melon dishes over and just leaving them at your house, I had this very much the same will. I love doing dishes. I love doing dishes. I put on music like so and I cook together, and then I put on some music and the water is all nice and warm and everything gets all soapy. I love doing I don't care. I don't do them in your batman under pear or sometimes it depends on how I'm feeling. That's not washing away job. I hope that you put on a cape every tipe, dishwashing cape you No, I like to feel I don't know the dishes, yeah, no, I like the feel of it there. Yeah, that's funny. I don't care about doing dishes like I have. I use my dishwasher. I basically just rinse everything and put it in the dishwasher, because you know, obviously big things you wash. But I am very much a person who feels my environment really sets the tone for my mood that day. And if I'm in a very cluttered kind of claustrophobic thing, I will feel out of sorts. And so at night, after the kids go to bed, I spend twenty to thirty minutes walking around picking up the things, moving things back, making sure everything's like in its place and cleaned. And then I can like look around the house, turn off the lights, and go to sleep and wake up the next day like ready for a new day. Do you make your bed first thing in the morning. No, I actually don't make my bed first thing in the morning because Jensen sleeps in later than I do. So I wake up and come downstairs, have my cup of coffee, do my little morning meditation, and then get the kids up. Then when once Adler's gone to school, then I get ready for my day. And that's when the bed gets made. That's like my feet hit the ground, and because Sue gets up before me, but my feet hit the ground and the bed is made in like thirty seconds. Yeah, I have to have to start with the hospital corners. Not that I mean I like it. I like a nice clean bed. You know, there was that admiral who gave that great, that great speech at the one of the graduations. I forget his name, but he gave one of the most famous speeches a couple years ago that people watch we talks about the first thing you should do is make your bed, because then if the rest of your day is terrible, you've already accomplished one thing, and when you come back at the end of the day, you get to get into a nice clean bed, and you get to accomplish one thing first thing in the morning. The next day too. It was really cool. So I've but I've been like that since I was a kid. I always made my bed. I just yeah, you know who doesn't make their bed? Shady melon shade even when he's on he soils every We all know that melon. So we're in this hallway. Sean arrives in his costume. He is now polonious. When Corey dropped out, you look so great this scene. Writer, you could tell that I just love wearing the fat keeping I keep doing like little fat jiggles, like facides and I'm like, I'm an actor in a costume. Let me be funny. And the death scene gets a dial all over the place so great. Seawan says, it's really cool because an Act three, scene four, Polonius dies and then you acted out and the way you bounce off the lockers and fall to the ground jump up. Man, it was so fun. I was like having fun through you. This is the first time we kind of see Sean excited about something at school. I think, right, it's like the first you see him light up because of a project at school. It was a cool side of him that you really got to see before. And like, Sean clearly should have been a theater major, Like he clearly should have been in theater. He loves it. He loved it. And I hate to do this because I hate calling out background, but a young woman walks through the scene right when you are both there, and it goes to the locker behind you, and she's not good. She's got a weird like she's making this weird face as she walks by, like somebody just told her something horrible or some complex. You know, it's but I noticed her because she was alone, just stands there at the light. I think it's I think it's awkward. It's just bad direction in general, because like I think they had to keep the hallway empty for me to be able to do the death scene. So they were like no, so it's like a completely empty hallway except recording and me. And then she comes in after my death scene and it's just awkwardly there alone. It's it's bad torect weird. It was weird in the room right now. I actually horrible time mean that. I didn't mean, no, she's just it's like somebody just told her her uncle was shady melon. That's why it came out. It's Sarah. She comes in that this kind of weird look at her face and then just has to stand there and you're right, it is just bad direction, bad direction, Like it was so because I noticed, and I didn't think she was bad. I just was like, why why am I noticing this person? It's because she's the only one in the hall. But maybe that's what Maybe that's what it was. It was just it was so so weird that it came off as she was dad when she was and it was just direct. Also, it never bumped me if it wouldn't have bumped me if there was nobody in the hallway, because you guys are in play rehearsal. It seems like it seems like there are other the kids are doing other things, so it was basical correct exact classes in session right now. Yes, So Seawan says Mincus is doing pretty bad as Hamlet and that Mincus won't back out. He asks Corey to come back to the play as a favor. Shawn says he may have to quit, but too many people are relying on him, and even his dad is coming to watch the play. So you actually don't say that you may have to quit. You say you will not, absolutely not. You've got people who rely on you, which I thought is so cute. We see Sean have responsibility and he takes it seriously and he likes it. And that your dad, who possibly abuses you, it's gonna come and watch you in a school boat, is your dad? Shady melon is kind of a shady melon is kind of a shady melon. Corey realizes he's alone as the quitter after Sean rejects his offer to play hoops and runs to catch up with his friends. By the way, Dusty one of the people who walk by when you go, hey, wait for me, and he shakes his head like no way, dude, and walks off. And then you say, if they disobey me again, I'll sit on emphasize fat suit with a little yeah, so get one of one of the many dusty features in this episode. And then we're in the school theater. Mincas is rehearsing and he's facing the back of the stage. Phoene stops him and tells him to put on his glasses so he can face the correct direction. And even though Minca says glasses aren't right for the period piece and also almost stepping off the stage and and Build stopping him was hysteric commitment. Man, he was going to do it unless it was great. Yeah, it really was really well done. And also I love that you can tell Lee Wade like sixteen pounds because just stopped, He's like putting his full weight on your stomach and you have to act like it means something. I know. I also love the fact that Mincus is bad at something I know, just flat out bad at it, and everyone's kind of stuck with Mincas doing this this thing, which I look that he's bad at it for funny reasons. You know, he's bad because it takes it too serious, exactly super close into it. It's great, but he's just he's not good at it. It's it's hysterical. Yeah, well, Mincas tries to do his Hamlet lines in a Southern accent with his foot onto Panana. Oh my gosh, it's so funny. He does such obviously, he does such a great Southern accent, and Penga can't breathe, so she pushes him off, and then he says, I can't work like this. I can't work like this. I remember remember that. I remember this that I remember, guys, I've said it my whole life, not remembering that. It was. Anytime I'm anywhere and something isn't working, I'll say I can't, I guess. And I didn't know where it came from. I just thought it was like in a movie or something I saw, or like I didn't help. And then I watched the episode and I had to pause, and I said, I've been saying it my whole life. You've been quoting, quoting your own world, And I didn't know I've done that with multiple lines, like multiple things, and already this season I've seen a few of them. Yeah, and this is this is definitely one of them. Like, well, I know the inflection, and it's because there were great moments in our lives, like we were there on show night. Lee delivered the line like this. Obviously he probably delivered it like it all week, and it got to laugh every rehearsal. It gotta laugh every table read. So it's just like grained in our brains is like a funny way to say something, but it actually doesn't make sense to anybody else reference to our own show. Yeah, I can't believe we do that. That's embarrassing, is it? Or is it actually kind of cool? Well? He was cool, but also I'm like embarrassed that. Then if anybody were to say to me, like, oh, that's funny, I would be like, yeah, I just made it up, Like I don't know, I would. I didn't know. I thought I actually got it from I must have seen it in some movie somewhere. I never would have thought it was a boy meets world line. But I've been saying it my whole life, and writer has too. It's so funny, all right, the best Leonora's okay. Phoenie ends rehearsals for the day and Corey asks how. He asks Phoenie how the play is going, and Phoene says not, Well, Corey admits he didn't think his qudding would affect the place so much, and Phoenie says he didn't either, to be honest. Corey says he'll come back, but Phoenie says Mincus is his Hamlet, and he offers Corey the spear carrier role, and then he says there are no small parts, only small actors. Corey says he didn't have quit if the school was doing something cooler, like scenes from the Terminator or a Steven Seagal soliloquy. And then Penny turns off the lights and recites Hamlet, and we see the amazing William Daniels do Shakespeare. Shakespeare awesome, it was awesome. What other kids show would do this? I mean, we were at Heart quote unquote a kid show and you've got William Daniels doing Hamlet. Yeah, well you know we we we recap that episode with the kid gloves, with the graduate shot, and you say, I felt like this whole episode was an excuse for that. This felt like this whole episode could be an excuse for this scene. And it's worth it. And this is what you do. This is what you do. You set up a moment where you allow Bill Daniels to deliver a Shakespearean moment and it's totally worth it. And ex also to the credit of the episode. What a great idea to have a bunch of kids and basically it's an episode of BTS behind It's a BTS episode behind the high school like a junior high school play, you know, which is like a great idea where you can you let kids go with tons of hijinks. And then Bill Daniels as Hamlet is just and from an acting standpoint, watching him just let the words do the work. Yeah, I mean when you get Shakespeare, which is which is so funny because it's it's essentially what Lee is doing as Minkus in the show is he's putting so much into it and he's he's getting so big and Bill doesn't. Bill just kind of and he says the words and perfectly and and feels the sentiment and just lets the words do the work. And it's brilliant. It's so brilliant. What a scene. It was just Yeah, totally worth the price of admission. Yeah. In fact, well I would say the lighting and the music I bothered me because I felt like it was trying too hard to like say Hey, kids, this is a dramatic moment that scares Corey when the reality is like the words, we're doing it. Bill's perform was doing it in a way that's more intrusive that the show was sort of like hideon and underlying it. And Bill didn't like his performances, like how he probably would actually have played Hamlets the ghost, you know, like how he would have actually played it if he were casting that role, which is the better way to go. Yeah, So, in a weird way, I wish they had pulled back on the lighting and the dramatics of it a little bit more, because it was it was just this understated performance where he just he's saying the words and you feel the sentiment and you got I got a chill. It was like, wow, that's how it's supposed to be. Well, he proves Corey wrong. It does scare and interest him. And guys, when we had Bill on the show, didn't he say Hamlet is a role he wished he had played. You know, That's what Bonnie said. Was it Hamlet or was it McBeth? It was Hamlet. I think it was Hamlet. Yeah, I think it was. I think we asked him if there was anything he ever wanted to play, and Bonnie said he should have done Hamlet. Well, we are in the Matthews living room. Eric gets excited, thinking Alan has come home, but it's only Corey Amy and Allan um. Amy says Alan went down to talk to the regional manager about the pay cuts, and Corey says Alan can't talk to Bob Williams because they'll fire him, and he goes to stop him, but then Alan comes through the door. Alan says it wasn't the easiest meeting he's ever had, and he didn't get the money he wanted. He didn't quit even though he was tempted, and he because he didn't want to let his family down. Corey says he wishes he didn't quit his play because he let a lot of people down and compares being a lead in a play to being a dad. Morgan yells to Amy that Alan is home so they can start, but Amy runs up to tell her not yet. Corey says it's okay, they're not going to the Jersey Shore, and he's okay if he never sees Goofy golf again. Alan says, then he's going to be really disappointed when he sees what's in the back Can we just take a step back that? I love that. When then when Corey makes a comparison like it's like being a dad, rust He's like, no, you know, like you're trying to make a connection here. I just thought that was funny because that's what the episode is doing, right, The show is trying to make this connection. I like that we just addressed it like. Corey's like, it doesn't actually less it and Rusty's like, no, that doesn't make any sense at all. I thought that was a great little touch to say the thing and then dismiss it. Yeah. So then they run to the backyard and he sees Goofy Golf is set up and he says how much he loves Goofy golf. Corey says it's great because now they don't have to drive to the Jersey shore to play. Morgan, Eric and Amy come out in their gear to play golf and offer Alan and Corey one chance to back out now, and Corey says he quit quitting, and uh, there you know, it's revealed that there's a their cheaters. There's a imperceptible quite were cheaters on Corey's uh personal golf course. That. No, it's not the Matthews family golf course just for core It's not my family, it's just Corey. Forget. There is the one who was the most disappointed about the thing being canceled. I had a professional sign made for the love of God like it was like hand calligrapheed. What's what's going on here? You got other kids allan so much money. He's still bad at TV dad. You know what I will never get over. Look at me, TV Dad. I try too. There's real there's real feelings under these huge long flannel shirts and hands and feelings are feelings under here. This is how you turn a normal kid into shady melon. That is how it is happened. If in the sun and then we get a really fun tag or a bright it's the tool theater. The Hamlet play is on. Mincus is doing his hamlet. Corey and another student, actor Ryan Tomlinson are playing the spear carriers, and he is just so bored. He says, if I was any more bored, I'd be dead. Corey tells to have some pride, make being a spear carrier his own. So the other student walks over to Sean and pops his inflatable belly with the spear, which for some reason and immediately makes all of us start fighting each other. Once your thing is is popped, your belly is popped, and you push him. The rest of us just start pushing and shoving each other, which makes absolutely no sense, but it's sure is funny. Minca's falls off the stage and everyone starts pushing each other. To Panga and Dusty are fighting. I was very excited about this. Eventually, Corey pushes to Panga off the stage with the back of his spear and he's the last one left on spage stage and he has this perfect little moment of doing a little a little jig, and Indy was jumping up and down on the couch like and I was like, what is going on? What do you He's like, he just loves the chaos. He's like and he's like he's flexing, he's showing his muscles. He just thought it was the funniest thing that, like, Corey took over the show and ruined everything. Oh Andy was so happy. He's just like bouncing up and down at the end of this episode. So do we have a too much shirts? Uh? No? I did. I did actually record but it wasn't much more than like, what are you doing? He's just like he was bouncing off. I was like, you just love chaos was basically what I just said was all it was. But that's the thing that shows you perfectly. Again, we keep talking about this. Indie got something out of the show. We got something out of the show. It's it worked for everybody. Yea four quad you know this actually did. This did remind me of my real life. My first acting job. I played a guard in some horrible children's play. I was five years old my first play, and my brother and I were just guards. We had no lines, and we decided to come up with a bit in the front of the state. We just had to stand at the front of the stage for an entire like scene while this stuff was going on, and we my mom built us. My mom made our costumes. We had these was like a Russian I don't even know what the play was, but we were like Russian guards. We had these like big furry hats that my mom sewed for us. And we decided to come up with a whole bit where I pulled out a carrot and started eating it and then he like made me put it away and then like and then I tried to do it again, and he like went and grabbed the carrot for me and like walked to the other side of the stage and then he starts eating the carrot like this whole like and we just came up with this whole bit. And it got to the point where, I mean we only did the play I think, like three times over a weekend, but it got to the point where everybody was laughing at us and we were stealing the show. You know, this is a bunch of like eight year olds behind us, and we were like the younger kids that were just given the Like Anyway, I totally thought it was like this actually happened in my life, like where I was basically a spear carrier and trying to come up with a bit to steal the show. Wow. Do you think you told the writers about this experience and they were like, we're gonna so I wrote this episode, is what we're saying. Yes, basically you didn't create this podcast, but you did write this episode, and you did give you credit where credit is due. Shady Melon, I'd like to thank you for coming up with the dear for this podcast and all our stuff. Yeah, thank you guys for being here with us. This has been Pod Meets World. You can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show. You can also send us your emails pod Meets World Show at gmail dot com. And we've got March March Pod Meets the World Show dot com. Our next episode that we will be recapping is season one, episode twenty one, Boy Meets Girl. It originally aired May six. That's the day after my birthday. Oh, I got nothing. I don't know. I don't know what you want us to say. Nothing. It's not even the day of my birthday, which would almost be worth mentioning, but the day after my birthday. It's a couple of months before months and like seven months before good but Ryder and I are both born in the eleven Soul Brothers Brothers. Hey, half, I'm gonna i'm coincidence, it's not. I'm gonna put my arms bill. Hey. There's start above the pyramid with the eleven eleven for Boy Meets World. If you take it twenty and you look in the window of the Capitol, there's there is a looking out with holding up the number of left telling you what our shirts need to be is I'm a shady melon. He's wearing a shirt that just has the number eleven on it. Yeah, because it means something. This means something, all right, who wants to send us out? 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