Glee on the Rocks: 5x15 - "Hate Crimes as a C-Plot"

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I'm sorry you wasted you wasted
data on this.

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You wasted film.
You what?

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You're listening to Glee on the
Rocks.

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Hello.
Welcome back to Glee on the

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Rocks, a Phantom on the Rocks
podcast.

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I'm Emily.
I'm Mandy.

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And I'm Allison.
And this is Season 5 Episode 15

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Bash.
In for a fun time, a fun episode

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this is.
Gonna be so much fun.

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Rachel mitts further to Funny
Girl as Kurt is the victim of an

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attack.
This episode aired April 8th,

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2014 and was written by our good
friend Ian Brennan.

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So I'd like to state for the
record, Your Honor, I didn't

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hate this episode as much as I
thought I would, or I think the

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reasons I thought I was going to
hate it, like the things I was

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prepared to hate, I didn't mind,
and the things that I didn't

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know about, I hated with a
burning, bleeding passion.

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Oh, OK, Oh, oh, because you
haven't seen this.

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Before.
No, I've never seen this before.

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That's right.
That's that's right.

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We have a, We have a newbie.
We have a newbie.

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So it's like I was prepared to
go in like hating a certain

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amount of things.
And I was like, oh, those, those

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weren't bad.
Or maybe they weren't bad

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compared to all the other
garbage, but the stuff that I

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like didn't see coming or the
stuff that I was like, yeah,

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whatever.
I'm just like, I'm sorry you

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wasted you wasted data on this.
You wasted film you.

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Yes.
What?

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Why?
Well, I'm curious to see what

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that is when we get there.
I did have a like you did on the

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last episode, a a moment with
the here's what you missed on

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Glee, which was when they said
Rachel got the lead in Funny

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Girl.
As if I could have missed that.

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As if that hasn't been the plot
of the last 400 episodes of this

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show.
Yeah, they they, they really did

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assume we're stupid.
Yeah, here's what you missed the

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show like.
No, no, I I haven't missed that

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part at all.
So thank you for reminding me of

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the entire point of the last
episodes.

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But we do start this episode
with a solemn, sad procession of

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of the New York group singing No
one is alone for a memorial.

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Well, it's not quite a memorial,
because he's not.

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Dead out of that.
I definitely thought he was dead

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even though I'm sure I had the
same reaction the first time I

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watched the epic I was like.
Oh, he died.

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Oh, really?
There's not usually a memorial

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to someone getting beaten up,
right?

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No.
And that that was my thing is

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like if I had never been to one
of these before, I would have

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had absolutely no context.
Yeah.

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Yeah, if I if I didn't know what
a group of people would candles

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in New York City looks like or
had never seen a roadside

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memorial, like it didn't make
any sense at all.

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No, you kind of have to have
context of a lot of things.

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But they're they're singing for
a memorial for a student.

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Well I guess we found out later
he was a student who was gay

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bashed on the street by some the
Hicks.

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Really.
A guy?

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Is that a pickup truck?
But this is this is a student

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who we don't know, he's kind of
an unnamed figure.

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And this is, it's definitely a
very special episode of Glee

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because it's there's a whole
plot line of gay bashing and

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that sucks.
It's interestingly handled

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because it's it's threaded in to
some other plot lines, which I

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think is my biggest.
That's I think will be my

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biggest bugaboo with it is that
it's not like the focal point.

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Yeah, it really was like the C
plot.

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Yeah, and maybe that was their
point, is that it's often not a

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not that it's not a big deal,
but that it's such an under the

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rug thing that happens to people
and you just carry on with life.

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Or does that give Glee too much
credit?

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I'm always wary of giving Glee
too much credit, but I mean, it

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does make sense.
Yeah, cuz even, you know, even

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Kurt really just tries to brush
it off the whole time.

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Yeah, it's not like this is the
focal point of the episode.

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No, not even a little bit.
Which is what threw me off

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because I definitely thought it
would be.

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It feels like it should be.
It feels like someone getting

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hate crimed.
Literally hate crime.

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Literally hate crimed should be
a bigger deal and maybe their

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point was that it's not taken
seriously by people.

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Yeah, because the biggest
hashtag hate crime in this whole

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episode is the 97 trials and
tribulations of Rachel Berry.

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Yes, yes, because after the cold
open, we go to her, we go to

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Rachel, giving notes to the
Funny Girl producer, which I

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thought was bold.
That does feel like a bold

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choice.
She's giving notes about like, I

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don't think Fanny would say
this.

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Like that's the book.
Yeah, literally, my notes are

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like.
But those are the words of the

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play, ma'am.
Like they have, this is a

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revival, where are you changing
the line?

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What are you doing?
Stop it.

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And Sydney's like, we need a
hit, a real hit.

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Like yeah, all Broadway shows
need to be a hit.

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We're dogging.
What are these lines?

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But it's all leading up to her
having a scheduling conflict

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with her rehearsals because
they're like 2 weeks out.

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They have tech and previews and
her midwinter critique for

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Niata, which we have not heard
about before but is apparently a

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big thing.
Of course, because Niata is the

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weirdest school in the world
where random major things can

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account for most of your grade.
Yeah, just happen sporadically.

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I just like the amount of
calendar based rage I had in

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this episode.
Just.

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Like, let me tell you any
anything, anything that can

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actually affect your grade and
your academic standing cannot

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happen outside of the class
period.

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It just can't.
It it, it just can't.

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And if it does, it has to be
done like months in advance.

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This has always been the issue
of her doing a fucking Broadway

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show while she's a freshman like
or a sophomore, whatever the

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fuck she is now like.
The.

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First of all, these should not
be occurring at the same time.

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Your classes happen in the day,
your stuff happens at night.

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This should not be a problem.
Second.

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Of all Broadway rehearsals
happen all day.

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Fair enough.
Well then NIATA needs to get its

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head out of its butt because the
entire purpose of being a

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Broadway performing arts school
is to have people on Broadway.

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Like dude.
That's why it doesn't make any

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sense like.
Any sense?

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You can perform because your
your show is at 7-8 but like

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rehearsals I don't understand
how the school works and she's

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like I've been juggling classes
and the diner and Broadway like

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why is?
She still working?

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Why is she still working at the
diner?

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How, literally how?
And also like what 2 diner

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shifts are covering rent?
I don't well.

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I'm also like confused at how
over the past few episodes we're

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supposed to think she's living
this like kind of luxurious life

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but then also like not if she
were working diner shit look.

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Like shit.
Exactly.

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She'd be so exhausted, so
rundown, like she'd be waking up

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at like 4:00 AM to try and get
all that done in a day.

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Yeah, you should look like shit.
And actually that tab car might

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be a good idea.
Yeah, so you can like catch a

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nap in the back between, you
know, where you're going.

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Like, I don't remember where I
saw it, but someone had a good

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point at some point.
Like, shouldn't Niata give like

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a leave of absence for a
semester or something?

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Like just take the fucking
semester off while you do this

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and then.
Come back.

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I feel like that should be
considered like an internship

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equivalent situation, like a
work experience situation,

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right?
Because she'll have an argument

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later with Carmen about the
whole thing.

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And like, shouldn't I don't know
if we want to just get to it,

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but I don't know, do we just
jump all the way to?

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It yeah, we can just go ahead
and do this whole Rachel thing.

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So we're out of the way.
Blaine, they have this midwinter

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critique and I don't.
Blaine and Rachel opt to do

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Broadway Baby as their as a duet
for the Midwinter critique, and

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they're not in the same class
because she's been there a year

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longer, so whatever.
She's in like a fluffy pink

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dress.
He's in a tux with tails.

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Broadway baby learning how to
sing and dance.

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Waiting for that one big chance
to be in a.

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Show.
Immediately, Madam Thibodeau

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looks annoyed as shit.
I kind of love it.

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They look like they're having
fun.

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It was cute.
It was cute, but Thibodeau

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flunks them both.
We're feeling like they are

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above the class and the
assignment because the

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assignment was like a solo
performance encapsulating what

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you've learned so far.
And you know what?

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She's not wrong.
She's.

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Not wrong.
The parameters of the.

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Assignment.
Yeah.

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If it wasn't the assignment,
then yeah, touch it, Rachel.

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Yeah, like do do the work that
they gave you.

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I mean, also, we as much as I
love Blaine, he probably did

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think he was above it because,
you know, he went through all of

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McKinley being exactly child.
So yeah, he he could use a

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little humbling too, but he
takes it much better than than

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Rachel.
And the entire time, my whole

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brain is just going Tony
Awardman or Darren Criss,

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literally.
Yeah.

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And yeah, there's, there's two
people in this scene and one of

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them has won a Tony Award.
The.

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Other can't read, sorry.
Maybe that's why she did the

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assignment wrong.
Yeah, perhaps.

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She couldn't read the paper, but
they, you know, Madame Thibodeau

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does give them a second chance,
which she didn't have to do.

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And she's like, do what I asked
for this week or fail.

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So Rachel marches her ass in the
Madame Thibodeau's office to be

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like hey about rescheduling the
second chance performance.

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I have Broadway rehearsals, can
we reschedule for after opening

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night which is in like 2 or 3
weeks?

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No.
And that's when Thibodeau is

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like, hey, all of your
professors say that you're

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underperforming egregiously and
you are barely scraping by.

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Which makes sense considering
her fucking schedule.

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Yeah, that is the most realistic
thing about that whole situation

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is that like something's got to
give and she's fucking her

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glasses.
Yeah, and she has the nerve to

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be like, I have put up with
every single thing the school

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has thrown at me.
Like what are you talking about?

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What thing?
What is the school thrown at you

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other than your assignments that
everybody else has to do like?

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Rachel, you're paying to be
there like you're paying for

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them to throw those things at
you.

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Yeah, like you have the nerve to
walk in here and ask for special

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treatment and she's like, why
are you being so difficult?

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It's just a critique.
It's like this is your grade,

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That's why you go to school is
to be critiqued.

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I don't.
Why do you?

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Yeah.
And people who are like, I love

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Rachel, like, how do you watch
this and be like, this is my

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girl?
Like I love a difficult

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character is great.
This this is the version of

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Rachel where you're like, she
never apologizes for this.

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Like she never sees this version
of herself and is like, oh,

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yeah, that that sucks.
I was wrong.

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And she just gets to exist like
this as a whiny, entitled brat

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and gets told by Carmen
Thibodeau like, you are not the

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first supernova to come through
here and you are not ready.

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And her reaction is simply to
say I don't need you and you're

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going to hold me back.
You've been there a year maybe?

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At best, At best, you last year,
weren't you?

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Like on your knees.
Like begging her.

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Begging to be here.
Begging.

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Begging and in not 3 episodes
from now I believe you're going.

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To quit your fucking show,
You're.

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Going to quit your fucking show
and something else like.

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So much rage.
Just I have A at this point.

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I need to talk to Rib.
Are we still supposed to like

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Rachel?
Yes, that, yes, excellent.

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Are we post?
Like are we supposed to find

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this funny and endearing and
like, well, Rachel knows better

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than everybody else?
Or are we supposed to at this

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point be like girl?
Yeah, I hope.

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We're not supposed to like her
because there's just nothing

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likable about her.
There's nothing.

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And again, where are the,
where's the Rachel stand?

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Who's like, no, I get this.
Like tell me.

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Tell me.
I I don't get it.

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All I get is like, entitled.
Yeah, right.

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It's awful.
This is awful.

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The entire, the whole episode,
I'm just like Rachel Berry has

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decided to become a swamp
monster and I, I, I, I can no

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longer, I can't support it.
And it's not like it hasn't been

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leading up in the other
conversations, like when they

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were back at McKinley and she
was talking to Mercedes of like,

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why is Mercedes apologizing to
you?

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You.
Slept in high school.

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Yeah, I.
Hate it, I hate it.

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Well, Speaking of Mercedes.
Yes, Mercedes is in town and so

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Sam and Blaine have moved into
Mercedes exceptionally nice

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apartment, but Sam is up late
watching The Facts of life.

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I love, like one of my favorite,
actually legit favorite things

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about the episode was Sam
describing the facts of life.

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He was, and I was like, are we
watching the same thing?

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Yeah.
I will say, for as much as this

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whole plot line just rankled me
this whole episode.

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Sam Evans, the criminally high,
beautiful goober that you are.

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Now, yes, he's like, delightful
in this episode though.

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He is, yeah.
He's definitely the bright spot

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of the episode.
Yeah, he is.

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Yeah, he's.
What it's worth, sometimes the

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second hand embarrassment was
too much.

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But.
Well.

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Most of the time it was
wonderful.

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And like, apparently he has
trouble sleeping and so Blaine

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would read him Star Wars fanfic
as a bedtime story.

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Adorable.
That's cute.

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Truly adorable.
I like that they've read enough

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that Sam has thoughts and
feelings about particular fic

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authors.
Yeah, he has critique.

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He has critique.
He has, he has.

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He has absorbed enough fic that
he has thoughts and feelings.

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Apparently George Lucas has
written fic of his own, of his

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own.
Like media work.

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Yeah.
Congratulations Sir, if nobody

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wants baby confick.
I love that for him.

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So Mercedes has woken up because
of the facts of life blaring

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from the living room and they
have this little conversation

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asking like why did Mercedes
break up with him so quickly

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into their second, first, second
attending for dating?

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Whatever this was, yeah.
And she calls Sam out for dating

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literally everybody in the Glee
club.

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Well, I guess the women.
He never flipped sides.

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Sorry, blame.
Sorry, well, no thank you.

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And Mercedes, like, listen, I
just don't, I don't want to mess

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around.
Like, I'm not into dating the

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circuit.
And but it's like she and Sam

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never really got to figure out
who they were as a couple

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because it was over before it
started, which leads to them

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making out on the couch.
Like OK, but like all right and.

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Because the chemistry is too
real.

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That's what he's been saying.
It's too palpable.

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So I wish they had more
chemistry.

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He's trying.
He's trying.

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They're both trying.
Yeah, yeah.

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They make good friends.
I do.

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I think I remember there being a
large contingent of Sam,

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Mercedes, Sam.
Yeah, it's it's not one that

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ever grabbed me.
To be honest, there's not really

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any Sam ships that did ever grab
me, but this one I wanted to

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like more than I did.
I wonder if that's why he was

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with every available character.
I mean, maybe so.

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He just kept trying.
They were like, yeah, Quinn.

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No, too blonde Mercedes Tina,
the 30 year old nurse.

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I like just lying though.
Like she was 30.

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Yes, man, that did not, did not
age well into modern times, did

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not, which I know we addressed
that when it was actually

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happening, but like again, Nah.
Well, there's a lot of jokes

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that Glee does where you're
like, yeah.

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It doesn't feel like it was long
ago that this show was on the

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air until you hear some of the
humor and then like, oh, this,

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This actually was.
Yeah, a different era of

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television.
They'll they'll talk about Sam's

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Bill Cosby, his imitation.
And they're like, oh, oh, OK,

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we're OK.
Here we go.

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That whole conversation I was
like so they we have a weekly

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potluck dinner which is only
Week 2 at the Bushwick apartment

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and I don't remember who it is.
Grabs a flyer and it turns out

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that it's like the neighbors
friend who was bashed down on

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Beaker St.
And I wanted to like this

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conversation, but it's really
just like the writers attempt to

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insert, here's why this is
important.

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Yeah, it's like this very
stilted conversation about hate

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crimes rising in New York City,
and then it's cut off by the

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midwinter critique and already
catching Mercedes and Sam

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playing Footsie under the table.
So you're like, again, part of

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me wants to think that the hate
crime storyline is threaded the

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way it is on purpose.
That these, like, really

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important instances in people's
lives do get subsumed under

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nonsense like, Oh yeah, hate
crimes happen all the time and

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no one's paying attention.
But that requires Glee to to be

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doing something.
Right when the the more

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realistic reality is Glee also
forgot to pay attention.

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Kind of, yeah.
They started the story and then

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literally just forgot.
Yeah, because like, Kurt's been

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assaulted in the past, Yeah, for
being gay, but also because,

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like, the people in the school
suck.

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Also blame the gay bashing that
they tend to routinely forget

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ever happened to the whole
reason he went to Dalton.

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Yeah, this entire this whole
storyline happens in this

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episode.
And not once is it referenced

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that that Blaine was assaulted
before he came to McKinley or to

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Dalton.
Like that was the moment for

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them to connect, right?
To be like, remember this

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happened to me too and it turns
out OK.

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Even just like that moment, like
we got a moment of blame

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reflection singing to Kurt and
we still didn't get the

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acknowledgement of that.
Because I don't think the show

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remembered.
They don't.

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They absolutely do not like you
gave.

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This character, this back story
of something really terrible and

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awful that happened to him and
you.

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I just forgot.
For an episode that makes fan

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fiction such a bright spot and
it's like C Plot, they sure did

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not read any fan fiction in
preparation for this episode.

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They did not.
No they did not.

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Although the Sam Sadie stuff is
a bit fanficky.

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Absolutely.
Like taking this romantic walk

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out on the East River cuz he
doesn't want to keep their

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relationship a secret but she
does.

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Yes, And it's like, it turns out
it's kind of like a black white

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thing.
Yeah.

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She sings, you make me feel like
a natural woman just like to the

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world.
Cuz he he's gone off.

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She tells him to like go back to
the apartment.

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She'll meet him there.
She needs to like, think about

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this whole should they be
together?

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Should they not?
And then she sings, you make me

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feel like a natural woman.
And it's like, it's great cuz

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it's Amber Riley and her backup
singers show up.

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All the like, dancers on the
carousel.

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Yeah, Like, it looks cool.
Great.

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Yeah, shoehorned right on in
there.

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Shoehorned right in there.
One of my things about this

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episode is the, the very, the
New York City of it all and the

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stuff they get right and the
stuff they get wrong.

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So I did not live in Manhattan
or Brooklyn, nor did I really

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work outside of the Google
building or outside of the

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Central Park building where I
worked.

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So I do need your, your, your
help.

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So they live in Bushwick, which
is in Brooklyn.

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Is bleaker in Manhattan or is
bleaker in Brooklyn?

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No, Bleaker Street is down lower
Manhattan.

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Lower Manhattan, Yeah.
So first of all, why are they

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going to like all the time?
Why?

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Because.
That's for fun.

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It's like Greenwich Village.
It's like the cool.

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They live so far away from
there.

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It drives me.
It grinds my gears every single

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time about like all of their
plot stuff happens in, you know,

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lower Manhattan, but they all
live in like the butt end of

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Brooklyn.
Anyway, I do have to give a

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special shout out to, you know,
Sam making a wish on the East

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River and just like throwing a
coin in there and this New

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Yorker going like.
Are you about to throw a coin in

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the East River?
Excuse me, Excuse me?

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You can't just throw things into
the river.

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I mean, you can't if it's a
body.

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You can't if it's a body.
And then a little bit later on

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there, like romantic walk, Sam
is like determined to help

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Mercedes, like, you know, button
up her image because he knows

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what's coming.
And they start this like out of

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absolutely nowhere fight about
her fur coat.

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And they get 30 seconds into it
before Mercedes is like, dude,

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it's fake, don't worry about it.
And he's like, but it's about

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the image.
So she just like strips it and

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just throws it over the railing.
Like.

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Girl littering girl, do not
throw your clothes in the river.

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It's gross.
You should know that.

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Even people from Ohio should
know this.

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Like a penny over the side is
one thing.

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A whole ass faux fur coat.
Plastic.

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That's micro plastics.
Mercedes.

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Like I really needed that New
Yorker to come up to her and

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feel like you too.
Really.

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Yeah.
Mercedes Jones, I love you to

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the to just the moon and back.
Do not throw perfectly

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acceptable clothing into the
river to make a point.

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Terrible girl, someone was just
down below catching it.

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I hope so.
Right onto a kayaker.

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It's just like sinks to the East
River.

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They're like shruggy emoji.
Whatever, it's fine.

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It's fine.
This is how I die.

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Then they.
So Mercedes and her her backup

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singers are, are having a chat
at a restaurant before Sam shows

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up.
And she's talking to them about

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Sam being like the boy from high
school.

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And they're like, I guess even
though high school was what,

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like a year ago?
Yeah.

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And they're kind of like, I
guess that's cool, but like

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maybe you could be doing better
than that and.

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You know what?
From their perspective,

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reasonable assumption.
Reasonable.

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Very reasonable.
And then and then Sam shows up

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to make one of the more awkward.
This is a special investment,

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Yeah, yes.
That we I think have have sat

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through on this show and he
started, he immediately like

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launches into a goofy ass
impression.

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I think of, what do you say,
Kevin Hart doing a Chris Tucker

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impression.
Then.

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In front of like 3 black women.
Clive, imitate me all day and

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kiss your fat ass.
That's my impression of Chris

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Tucker doing a Kevin Hart.
No, Kevin Hart doing Chris

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Tucker.
It's working progress and it

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like and especially to the
backup singers, they didn't know

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him at all.
No, they've never met this man.

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It is just like some random
white man coming up and doing a

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Chris Tucker impression.
Like what are you doing?

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Yeah, and then and then he goes
into a thing about like a hip

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hop artist naming themselves
after cars.

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OK I've always wondered this.
OK what is the thing with hip

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hop artist naming themselves
after cars?

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Because.
Because one of the backup

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singer's name is Tesla.
Because her name is Tesla.

455
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,960
And and because Mercedes Jones.
But he already knows why she's

456
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,600
named Mercedes.
Yeah, something about her mom.

457
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,760
Like her mommy.
Favorite TV series or something?

458
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,680
Yeah, I was like, I hate this
so.

459
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,960
And luckily the the one Tesla
her, she was like, yeah, my

460
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,120
mom's favorite inventor was
Nikola Tesla.

461
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:27,400
It's like, great, thank you so
much.

462
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,440
Thank you.
And then and then he launches

463
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,520
into like how being a model is
easy.

464
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,120
And then he touches her hair.
Starts to ask is this real or is

465
00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:40,120
this like a wee like you?
Wanted to turn it off so bad.

466
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,560
Yum.
I hated it, think I hated it so

467
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,800
much and so did they.
How did they it?

468
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,280
Was not a popular move.
It was not popular because later

469
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,800
it's Mercedes and her friends at
the apartment, like outside on

470
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,120
the stoop talking about Sam and
his impressions and they are not

471
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,760
impressed.
Not.

472
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,240
But it's mostly about him being
white and she's black and that

473
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,720
dating a white dude is gonna
alienate her black audience.

474
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,360
And I wanted to be like, yeah
maybe, but also cuz he's so

475
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:14,400
weird.
Yeah, like and my, my whole

476
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,000
notes, I'm like, you know what,
if they might have a point, I

477
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,520
have no idea.
But I don't know enough about

478
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,960
this to be able to like, yeah,
make a point like.

479
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,800
I did have a question, like, how
many white people wrote this

480
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:26,920
episode?
Yeah.

481
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,800
And like, as a white audience
member, like, I can't speak on

482
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,200
this.
Yeah, I don't know.

483
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,280
But I do know that Sam made
everything worse.

484
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,800
Sam did make everything worse.
Poor guy.

485
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,840
Yeah, so then Mercedes and Sam
have a conversation.

486
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,880
Well, well, she's just telling
him that she can't be his

487
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,000
girlfriend because she's worried
about what people are going to

488
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,720
think.
And he gets it, like

489
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,920
immediately.
He's like, he knows that it's

490
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,600
because of their race.
And she talks about the Glee

491
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,200
club that there was gay and
straight and black and white and

492
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,600
Tina.
An icon.

493
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,640
Icon, a legend which is another
one of those lines.

494
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,920
You're like, is it funny?
Yes, it.

495
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,200
Was funny to me.
Yeah, it's like I laughed.

496
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,600
Poor Tina.
Poor Tina.

497
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,560
Always shut out of the
conversation, but you know

498
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,160
they're not in Glee club anymore
and the real world has real

499
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,840
world rules despite some
progress I guess.

500
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,600
And then she tells him to move
out, which is rude.

501
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,920
Considering trying to find
housing in New York City.

502
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:38,880
Rough.
Although I guess he can always

503
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,960
go back to the loft.
In theory.

504
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,840
That the cursed loft?
Does that mean does Blaine get

505
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,880
to stay though with Mercedes?
Is it just Sam who has to move

506
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,560
out?
I don't think they clarify that

507
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,760
and I don't remember.
Because at some point then cuz

508
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,040
later Sam's like, oh, you and I,
or is it Blaine?

509
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,200
He says like you and I can go
find an apartment so I can read

510
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,400
fanfic to you some more.
So I guess they're a package

511
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:10,760
deal, which is cute, that is.
But we do have Kurt and Rachel

512
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,920
meeting up for what looks to be
kind of an expensive Italian

513
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,640
dinner.
Yeah, for sure.

514
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,600
I almost had the names.
How many hours at the diner

515
00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,480
really pay for that?
Although to be fair, I have been

516
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,640
in probably 15 different Italian
restaurants that all look like

517
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:30,200
that of various price points.
This is true, yeah, but I am

518
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,480
thinking like they're paying for
school and work at a diner.

519
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,320
I feel like maybe they should be
cooking at home.

520
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,400
Yeah, this is a, this is
definitely a $30 a plea kind of

521
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,880
place.
Yeah, like I, I don't know that

522
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,680
they should be eating out.
Never.

523
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,680
Yeah, you should be drinking
ramen soup.

524
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,240
Yeah, this is good for you guys,
especially the Rachel, like

525
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,840
never wears the same outfit
twice.

526
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,160
Yeah, or Kurt, like let's.
At least Kurt would make kind of

527
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,280
sense if he still had access to
the Vogue closet.

528
00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:00,920
He could just.
Be wearing them then returning.

529
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,840
Them the next day don't.
Bring out.

530
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:03,880
Vogue.
I know it's.

531
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,000
Such a same spot.
Dot com Emily vogue.com.

532
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:09,840
I'm sorry, but well, you got
some point.

533
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,160
He would be.
Yeah.

534
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,480
And now that Anna Wintour is
stepping down, there's room at

535
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,680
the top for one anyway.
For Elizabeth Hamill.

536
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:20,840
For Vogue.
For Elizabeth.

537
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:26,840
But yes, so he gives her kind of
a what for about quitting Niata

538
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,920
and is rightfully like, an
education that Niata will give

539
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,160
you options.
And she takes that to mean,

540
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,160
like, you think I'm not going to
make it on Broadway, which is

541
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,480
not what he said.
And she's like, the Dean of

542
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,040
Niana doesn't like or support
me.

543
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,640
OK.
There's other students.

544
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,600
Like, I kind of feel like they
don't get it's not their job to

545
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,640
single you out as a student.
It's their job to support

546
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,920
everybody.
And she goes off about her

547
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,080
friends stopping her from
accomplishing her dreams.

548
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,720
Like, I don't know that that's
ever been the case.

549
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,240
I feel like everyone on this
show exists to prop up Rachel

550
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,440
Berry.
They do makes me so mad.

551
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,440
I mean, they definitely do,
yeah.

552
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,560
So like, what are you talking
about?

553
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,680
And she goes off on him that he,
Kurt, is afraid to like, venture

554
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,840
out and that Niata is a safe
space for him to not have to

555
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,400
grow up.
You guys are 19.

556
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,080
It's just it.
It's a fundamentally wrong

557
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,120
observation on every possible
level and I just don't

558
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,760
understand it.
And again, like you asked, are

559
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:34,960
we, are we meant to be on her
side or are we meant to look at

560
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,840
this and go, damn you suck cuz I
can't imagine looking at this

561
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,800
and going, yeah, you're right.
I cannot imagine it in there.

562
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,960
You guys are children in
college.

563
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,760
I wouldn't consider college a
safe space.

564
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,560
Like you go and you take classes
and some of them make you

565
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:55,920
uncomfortable, some of them
don't.

566
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,160
Kurt's out there doing his
bands.

567
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,680
He's had one failed.
Band 1 is out there performing

568
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,200
in front of a live audience
like.

569
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,280
For a college band is not a
failure.

570
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,840
I feel like he's, he left small
town Ohio.

571
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,320
He's now in New York City.
None of that is safe.

572
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,040
It's been a year maybe.
Yeah.

573
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,760
Also just like what you said
like 19 like he he doesn't need

574
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,480
to do every single exciting
thing in one move.

575
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,720
Sometimes you can go
sequentially and just like

576
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,680
finish college.
Yeah, you can.

577
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,120
You can take steps towards
adulthood.

578
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,400
You don't have to.
Yeah.

579
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,520
I mean he is skipping a few by
being engaged already.

580
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,320
Yeah, that's true.
That's true, Sorry.

581
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,320
Well, Rachel, he's the one in a
relationship, not you.

582
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,160
But not that that makes you an
adult.

583
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:42,560
Sometimes that makes you an
idiot.

584
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,120
So what?
I I, Rachel, I think the call is

585
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,240
coming from inside the house.
Isn't Broadway the safe space

586
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,920
for you?
And so Kurt tells her to fuck

587
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:52,760
off.
Yeah.

588
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,760
And then?
She for it mad at him.

589
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,400
She's been at this restaurant
for like 30 seconds.

590
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,640
The fact that she's able to take
off her cat just confuses me.

591
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,040
Yeah, yeah.
Takes over code, then puts it

592
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,560
right back on and storms out.
OK.

593
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,520
OK.
Kurt is leaving.

594
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,040
And then, I mean, I guess maybe
the restaurant has happened to

595
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,000
turn the table over to someone
who's actually gonna order.

596
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:17,080
Yeah, Kurt sees someone else
getting beat up in an alley and

597
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,440
he runs to intervene.
And I guess he is Bert Hummel's

598
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:26,120
son.
And then he gets hit with a

599
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,000
brick and beat up.
He does.

600
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,040
I'm like, I, you know what?
I was not expecting them to go

601
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,520
quite that visceral with it.
Yeah, So I remember when this

602
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,600
episode came out, a lot of the
conversation was about like how

603
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,720
the scene was shot and how quiet
it was and how, like, it's

604
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,080
graphic, but very like, it is
quiet.

605
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,240
And it's very kind of, I don't
even know what the right word

606
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,200
is.
It's it's not in your face.

607
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,440
It just it like happens.
It just happens.

608
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,520
It just happens, which frankly
is kind of the way that a lot of

609
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,800
things happen in New York City.
Stuff just kind of happens, and

610
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,680
even if you think it's supposed
to be a big deal, it just

611
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,760
doesn't end up turning into it.
And that's the part about I feel

612
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,960
like I just yelled.
And that's the part that's the

613
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:13,000
part of the concept of like hate
crimes just occurring that makes

614
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,400
sense in this episode.
Like the the filming of this

615
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,120
scene fits where it just
happens.

616
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,840
It's it's not that it's not a
big deal, but it's not

617
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,760
fireworks.
And, you know, it's it's a

618
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,040
moment it happens and it's
devastating, but it's not.

619
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,720
Then it's done and they're gone.
Yeah.

620
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,320
I think it's the, I think it's
the earlier parts of the episode

621
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,560
where they're trying to, like,
loop in the conversations around

622
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,720
like, well, hate crimes are
rising in New York City, but

623
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,280
they're falling in the rest of
the United States.

624
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,680
Like, why are you shoot?
Like that part feels not icky

625
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,520
but sloppy somehow.
Yeah, it's, they're trying to,

626
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,240
they're trying to
intellectualize it as opposed to

627
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,080
the like visceral reality of
like this kind of stuff that

628
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,560
just happens.
Yeah, that's the part of the of

629
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,200
the that plot line that doesn't
work for me.

630
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,120
Fair enough.
So we have to go back, back to

631
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,160
the law of Sam is telling Blaine
about Mercedes.

632
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,320
He's like, and it's really hard
to be a straight white male.

633
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,240
Sam, Sam, my guy.
Oh, Sam, my silly sausage.

634
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,600
It's it's a that's kind of a
funny juxtaposition, but it's

635
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,200
not.
And it's one of those moments

636
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,040
of, like, I see what Glee is
doing here, but the tone shift,

637
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,200
you're like.
The tone shift was wild tone.

638
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,760
Shift was wild, like oh geez.
OK, here we go.

639
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,840
And at least Blaine is like,
let's not do that.

640
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,040
No.
But then Blaine gets a phone

641
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,400
call.
He in fact gets the phone call.

642
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,800
He gets the phone call that
absolutely no one wants to get

643
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,840
correct, and the framing here is
really good.

644
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,480
Like off to the side, his head's
kind of cut off.

645
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,480
Literally this montage where
everyone does like the Kurt got

646
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,520
beat up in a in an alley phone
tree.

647
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,080
Yeah.
Yeah, is one of my favorite

648
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,680
things that I've seen yet on
Glee.

649
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,560
It's.
Yeah, it was pretty good.

650
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:00,520
This is the shit that I hate
from RIB and his his acolytes.

651
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,480
Every once in a while you get a
really good cinematography

652
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,440
moment.
For me this was really good.

653
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,280
Like, why don't you do this all
the time?

654
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,120
And I know you have to shoot an
episode in eight days.

655
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,800
I get it.
But you can you can make these

656
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,199
moments really impactful.
So what do?

657
00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:20,679
You.
Why don't you?

658
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,719
Why don't you?
I mean, I know we can say that

659
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:28,239
from afar and 10 years later and
sit on a high horse and just be

660
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,120
like, why don't you make your
show better?

661
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,480
It's OK, we were also saying it
10 years ago.

662
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,960
We were.
Actively shoveling the slop into

663
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,080
our mouth, asking them, please,
can you give us some actual food

664
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,120
next time?
Yeah.

665
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,920
That's the time we were watching
it going NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM.

666
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:44,960
But could you make it more
please?

667
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,159
NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM?
If you make it better I will

668
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:49,480
still eat this, but also I'd
have a request.

669
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,760
Yeah, I'm gonna reblog all of
this shit, but actually, if you

670
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,239
could NUM, NUM, NUM, NUM, make
it better, please.

671
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,840
But yeah, so these moments are
just like, they're incredible.

672
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,400
I'm not gonna say it makes up
for the rest, but it helps.

673
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,520
It it makes the rest like I
don't want to say you tolerable

674
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,880
even, but it's why we keep
watching the rest yeah yes,

675
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,480
hoping that we get another
little moment that isn't

676
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,760
absolute shit bumped onto a
plate a. 100% and that's what

677
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,480
you missed on Glee.
So everyone has to gather the

678
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,400
hospital.
Blaine is the one who's talking

679
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,720
to the doctor because, yeah,
fiance.

680
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,880
Cuz Blaine is his emergency
contact.

681
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,520
I'm so soft for emergency
contacts.

682
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,800
Like it's just such a.
It just hits for me so hard.

683
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:36,520
That's his boy.
And you know, Sam is just like,

684
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,760
I'm going to kill this man,
which I appreciated.

685
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,440
Yeah, I didn't.
I didn't love.

686
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,000
Not while I'm around.
No, I did not.

687
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,360
I.
Didn't like part.

688
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,680
OK, so this episode is basically
like a Sondheim episode.

689
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,200
Yeah.
So I guess they just picked all

690
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,600
Sondheim and I don't know
whatever.

691
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:02,400
But it is the third time that
Darren Criss performs a live

692
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,720
solo.
Yeah.

693
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:10,080
So about that, I mean, you
could, I mean, no one's doing it

694
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,960
like Darren Criss, Yeah.
Tony Award winner Darren Criss.

695
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,600
That's all I got.
So.

696
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,120
I'm sorry, we're we're not gonna
talk about all of Leah's live

697
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,280
solos on Glee.
How many were there?

698
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,480
Dot dot dot question mark.
Yeah.

699
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,840
Exactly.
It's Teenage Dream acoustic

700
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:34,560
version against all odds.
And then suddenly Seymour and I,

701
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,960
I did kind of like how they take
him singing at Kurt's bedside

702
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,400
into that being his solo for the
critique.

703
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,320
He gets better hair during his
midwinter critique.

704
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,480
There's like a flash of him and
it's like a little floofed up

705
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,880
hair.
And I was like, you, you can do

706
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:52,880
it.
I mean, every time they show

707
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,120
blame with better hair I get
viscerally angry.

708
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:56,840
That we don't get that all the
time.

709
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,920
I feel personally affronted,
like you're doing this to hurt

710
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:01,360
me.
He is.

711
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,000
It's fine.
I know he is.

712
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,640
I know he's out there still.
I know, I know, I know.

713
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,280
I know.
He still sits there and thinks.

714
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,760
That Tumblr user.
She still thinks about it.

715
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,360
She does still think about it.
She and shouldn't.

716
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,240
In fact, she does.
Yeah, I think my big beef about

717
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:22,240
it was that I think he sounded
better at his at bedside than in

718
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,840
the big critique.
Well, Kurt wasn't there to help.

719
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,400
Yeah, there was.
There's something about the vibe

720
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,880
that was missing.
I just, it wasn't, it didn't hit

721
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,280
quite as hard for me.
The vibe was beeping alarms

722
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,440
some.
It's sad, like Kurt.

723
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,760
It's sad and it sucks and this
happens to people and it

724
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,400
shouldn't.
And it's not like we've gotten

725
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,040
that much better in the 11 years
since this episode aired.

726
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,320
Right.
And maybe that's the worst part.

727
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,360
Yeah.
Like maybe that's the big tragic

728
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,840
take away is that it's not
really gotten that much better

729
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,160
because Bert shows up.
Father of the Year, Congressman

730
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,320
of the Year of Forever.
Bert Hummel shows up and is

731
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,040
straight up like what the fuck
were you thinking stepping in on

732
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,080
an assault cuz he was scared for
his son.

733
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:11,240
PP Burt was rightfully scared
and angry and he was like you.

734
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,880
Kurt was like, you would have
done it.

735
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,840
He's like, I played football, so
did I, so I die.

736
00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:18,320
Funny, incredible.
Which I guess sometimes they do

737
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,200
watch their own episodes.
Yeah, you were a kicker.

738
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,640
Like, yeah.
And.

739
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,240
It was funny.
It was funny.

740
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,120
And he's got, like, tears in his
eyes.

741
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,360
And he has this thing about,
like, what?

742
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,280
Am I an idiot because I thought
you'd be safe here, Like, yeah,

743
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,880
no, but yeah.
But not really but like.

744
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,400
I love these conversations
because something happens to

745
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,480
this show and the writers when
they put Bert Hummel in a scene

746
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,440
and I don't know what it is like
they put this man on paper and

747
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,240
it's like they all become
scholars.

748
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,480
They all like learn how to write
all of a sudden and I don't know

749
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,120
what it is.
Am I an idiot because I thought

750
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,160
you'd be safe here?
Such a good line.

751
00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:57,880
Yeah.
Not too preachy.

752
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,880
It's not like, did you know that
the rising crime rates in New

753
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,040
York, like it's not pulling
statistics.

754
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,480
It's it's like a real thing.
Someone would say I'm gonna

755
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,120
throw my fucking computer across
the room.

756
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,600
Please don't you need that?
I do need it.

757
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,600
There's like, there's unfinished
fick on here.

758
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,880
I've got to keep it.
And then we've got Kurt saying

759
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,440
that like he's proud of what he
did because he knows now that he

760
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,160
is Bert Sutton.
How did he not know that before

761
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,320
Kurt?
I don't know that before.

762
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,120
The hairline, maybe?
Perhaps.

763
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:30,640
Do you love that in all like
Thick and fan art, Kurt Hummel

764
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,720
has his mother's hairline?
Perhaps.

765
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,720
It's not the Hummel hairline.
I quite like that.

766
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,000
I like what we get to pick and
choose for for fandom.

767
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,760
But yeah, it's, it sucks and
it's sad, but these are good

768
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,360
scenes.
And we have Curtain Blaine

769
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:49,040
putting more flowers out for the
the kid who was initially hurt.

770
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,440
And we never see if the the
assaulters get caught.

771
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,080
And I guess that's part of the
thing too, is that the bad guys

772
00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,520
don't always get caught.
So we also have Salmon Mercedes

773
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:05,720
meeting up at the studio and she
kind of apologizes to him for

774
00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:08,560
taking race into consideration.
And like I.

775
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,200
Didn't need to apologize for
that.

776
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,000
No, she didn't.
Yeah.

777
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:17,000
But then she sings an original,
a Mercedes Jones Amber Riley

778
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,400
original to him and I OK, I
could.

779
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,440
Have done without this.
Could have done without this.

780
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,800
Her voice is amazing.
The song's not for me.

781
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,320
Yeah, that's how I felt about
it.

782
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,920
I was like, cool, thank you.
I mean, I'm always happy when

783
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:32,880
Amber Riley sings.
Yeah.

784
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,400
But this moment I was like, I'm
good, thank you.

785
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,240
And especially because it wasn't
like the Glee cut, it was a full

786
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:43,280
on like 4 minute.
Yeah, full song.

787
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,320
And it's not like there's.
A song.

788
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,320
Just two people in a room.
Not that that's inherently

789
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,320
boring, but I was like, OK,
there's this is other things

790
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,680
happening here in this episode,
then then for this.

791
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,880
So we do have to go back to the
I think they're at the loft and

792
00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:03,040
Kurt is like beat up and alive,
but still trying to convince

793
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,960
Rachel not to drop out of Niata.
And I was like, I don't, I don't

794
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,440
want to hear your friendship
after this.

795
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,440
No.
Because I guess she has some

796
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:14,720
guilt thinking that their
argument at the restaurant kind

797
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:18,560
of spurred him into his action.
The alleyway.

798
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,920
I love that his hate crime
becomes a her problem.

799
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:29,520
Right, Yeah.
Oh my words so compelled you to

800
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,320
step in on like fuck right off.
To throw yourself in the middle

801
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,120
of mortal danger.
No, they didn't.

802
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,160
You're not that important,
Rachel Berry.

803
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,360
You're not that important.
He is his own man.

804
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,840
He is brave and good on his own.
He doesn't need you.

805
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,240
Fuck off.
And she tells him that he's the

806
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:48,720
most talented person she's ever
met.

807
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:50,480
Like you, Rachel Berry wouldn't
say that.

808
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,240
No, she's only saying it because
she feels fucking guilty.

809
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,920
Correct.
Go away, go away.

810
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,880
I hate you so much.
And we've got another potluck.

811
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,440
I guess it's been a week.
Week 4.

812
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,720
Sam and Mercedes are officially
dating.

813
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,960
Everyone makes fun of their
previous relationships.

814
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,320
Date stamp That Funny Girl
starts in two weeks and somehow

815
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,560
Rachel is going to go to Kurt's
Niata Midwinter critique, even

816
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,080
though the whole point of this
plotline was that she couldn't

817
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,160
get out of rehearsals.
Yeah, whole thing.

818
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:25,520
Show OK, And for Kurt's Niata
Midwinter critique, he sings I'm

819
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:30,120
Still here from Follies.
No shiny gold pants this time,

820
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:31,440
though.
No.

821
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,920
Yeah, but Bert's there.
He is, isn't he, like, singing

822
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:41,880
along?
I stood on bread lines with the

823
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:49,440
best wash while the headlines
did the rest in the Depression.

824
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:54,800
Was I depressed?
Nowhere near.

825
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,280
I'm at a big financier and I'm
here.

826
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,600
I've gone through Herbert and J
Edgar Hoover.

827
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:10,560
He is saying he knows all the
words.

828
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,120
I love that.
Yeah, yeah.

829
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:12,880
He.
Knows.

830
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,360
He knows all the words.
He's the first to stand up and

831
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,520
cheer at the end.
He's the best.

832
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,760
I'm assuming he gets an A.
Carmen looks pretty pleased.

833
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:21,880
Yeah.
Carmen looks pleased.

834
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:27,000
Yeah, so we don't find out the
the end, but assuming it's fine

835
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,080
because why wouldn't it be?
Rachel already suffered for the

836
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,400
art this week.
Kurt does not need to suffer

837
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,160
more.
No, he suffered for the the

838
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,440
sheer fact of his sexuality.
Yeah, he suffered for regular

839
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,720
life.
Yeah, I did think.

840
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,200
I mean, I don't know if it was
just the take or whatever, but

841
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,520
there's like a moment at the end
of his song.

842
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,760
Like Blaine goes in for a cheek
kiss that Chris slash Kurt

843
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,320
clearly isn't prepared for and
totally misses.

844
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,480
So.
You can see him kind of going

845
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,560
for it and it's not clocked at
all.

846
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,360
And I was like, Oh no.
In that scene, I could hear, I

847
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,000
could hear you both in my head
going like they're not allowed

848
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,600
to touch, they're not allowed to
touch.

849
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:12,000
I mean, literally, yeah.
Also, okay, Speaking of they're

850
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,960
not allowed to touch again, I'm
a sucker for somebody gets hurt,

851
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,120
somebody else is overwhelmed
because their partners gotten

852
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:20,040
hurt.
I'm a sucker.

853
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,720
I'm a sucker.
Yes.

854
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:26,080
They said the doctor said that
Kurt had a like a like a like a

855
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:27,720
hairline fracture in his orbital
bone.

856
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,960
Like didn't he?
Didn't he break his face?

857
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,240
Yes.
Was it the orbital bone I think,

858
00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:35,680
Or was it skull?
I don't remember.

859
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,200
He had a facial.
Fracture of something.

860
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,560
Of some kind.
He had a facial injury.

861
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,960
And then Blaine is just there,
like tucking his face right up

862
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:48,000
against Kurt's nose.
And I'm like Blaine Anderson.

863
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:52,360
He is that you're nuzzling up
against a fracture, Sir.

864
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,080
You have to.
You have to step back.

865
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,240
You need to.
You need to lean back my man.

866
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,600
I love you and also lean back.
Lean back.

867
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,280
Listen.
He can't help it.

868
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,040
He can't help it, his guy is
injured.

869
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:10,800
I know I need the minimal
swelling for how much damage you

870
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,880
think probably took there?
Oh yeah?

871
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,480
Well, you can't.
You can't make your hot

872
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:15,960
attractive cast.
It's true.

873
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:18,160
It looked too bad of.
Course not.

874
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:23,840
Yeah, they could take some
lessons in making your male lead

875
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,320
look unattractive for the sake
of the plot from 911.

876
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,400
Takes put some boils on it.
Yeah.

877
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,760
It didn't work though.
I was gonna say, unfortunately

878
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,040
for me it didn't work.
You still it.

879
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,680
Worked for me because I have not
seen that episode.

880
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,320
Oh, it's pretty good.
That's a pretty good one.

881
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,840
Like not that we need to talk
about that right now, but yeah,

882
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:47,080
yeah, didn't work for the the
the profilated 1 is the boils

883
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:53,680
did not work for me.
Yeah, yeah, Glee's makeup like

884
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,520
they never, they never looked
bad.

885
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,000
No, yeah, they don't.
No.

886
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,720
One ever looks bad, even Yeah.
Yeah.

887
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,360
Even covered in slushy they
still look great.

888
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,840
Yeah, I mean, there were some
moments I think it was.

889
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,040
I mean, it's usually Rachel,
honestly, who just only ever

890
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,120
looks like Lea Michele at this
point, right?

891
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,160
Like the amount of makeup and
hair styling, like, when do you

892
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,200
have time to do this?
No.

893
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,080
Wonder she's failing her
classes.

894
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,800
Well, she does this.
Is all you do is hair and makeup

895
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,840
like damn, couldn't couldn't be
me wouldn't be me.

896
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,760
Well, and also Speaking of like
appearances, the next the next

897
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:35,000
episode is when Blaine discovers
cronuts so.

898
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,320
Were we about to talk about
Blaine getting fat?

899
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:41,400
Yep.
And is that supposed to be a bad

900
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,680
thing?
Yep, sure is.

901
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,640
It's a bad one.
OK, back to bash.

902
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,840
Favorite song?
Blaine solo being.

903
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:57,360
Close.
And being clever ain't like

904
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:30,720
being true.
Oh yeah.

905
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,520
Not while I'm around, yeah.
But I will give, I will give,

906
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,280
Miss Mercedes Jones, you make me
feel.

907
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:38,680
Yeah, that was.
That was good.

908
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:43,880
I kind of liked Broadway baby.
I didn't like Broadway, baby.

909
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,240
Yeah, I like Broadway Baby in
that it's a Sondheim song, and

910
00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:51,600
he's pretty good at his job.
Yeah, but like, yeah, I it like.

911
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,120
All in all, these were not my
favorite songs.

912
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:55,880
No SO.
Then it's kind of hard to pick

913
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:56,440
one.
You're like.

914
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,360
I mean, yeah.
They were fine.

915
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:02,760
Guys did good.
Like I'm not, I'm not

916
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,480
downloading this EP.
Like I'm not downloading the

917
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:06,920
songs.
No.

918
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,600
Or the yeah this is not my cast
album.

919
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:12,480
No.
No.

920
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,400
OK.
Any lines that stood out?

921
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:16,520
Gay, straight, black, white,
teenage.

922
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,280
Yeah, no, that one was good.
I liked I played football, Kurt.

923
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,880
So did I.
Yeah, you didn't.

924
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,360
That was also good.
You were the kicker, OK?

925
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,840
And that thing that I liked.
You know what?

926
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:30,800
I have a thing that I liked
about this episode.

927
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,080
OK.
No, Will Schuster.

928
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,960
Just like it's refreshing.
Even when I want to complain

929
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,560
about things in the episode, I'm
like, you know what?

930
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,240
At least I don't have that to
complain about.

931
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,600
Imagine the talk Will Schuster
would give them about hate

932
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:46,400
crimes.
I know.

933
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,320
But an actual, actual good thing
I liked about it is Bert.

934
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,640
Anytime Bert is back, I'm I'm on
board.

935
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,480
Yes, yes.
Good scene, good character, good

936
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,640
actor.
Always like a specific good

937
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:03,240
thing is just Bert singing all
the lines to to Kurt's song, you

938
00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:05,920
know?
Yeah.

939
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,520
But honestly, I think my good
thing is that I didn't hate the

940
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,560
gay bashing storyline as much as
I thought I would.

941
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:15,280
I hated Rachel Berry much more.
Yes, that does over shadow.

942
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:16,520
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah, Yeah.

943
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,480
It's like, I was totally
prepared to go into this being

944
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,040
like, Oh no, they're doing a gay
bashing storyline, it's going to

945
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:23,560
be terrible.
And by the time I got through

946
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,560
with it, I was like, it wasn't
great, but it wasn't nearly as

947
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,440
bad as I feared.
That is very true, yeah.

948
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,960
Could have been worse.
Yeah, that is 100% where you're

949
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:38,200
like, well, yeah, she's worse.
Emily, what's that thing you

950
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:39,960
like?
It's got to be Bert.

951
00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:42,600
He's the best.
Yeah, he comes in and you're

952
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,320
just like.
Yeah.

953
00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:47,600
This is gonna be good.
It, it is like, oh, I can relax

954
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,640
for this scene.
I'm going to enjoy this, right?

955
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,880
Like, I don't have to worry
about this scene where it's

956
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:54,800
gonna be feeling.
It's gonna be good.

957
00:49:54,920 --> 00:50:01,040
OK, Well that that is bash this
round of episodes, man, I don't

958
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,600
know.
And we're not through yet.

959
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,520
This not not not peak Glee.
Not Peakley, no.

960
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,200
But you know what we're we're
all in it together.

961
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,200
We are.
I've never seen those movies, so

962
00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:17,120
I can't, I guess I can't have
stolen Valor by saying that, but

963
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:18,920
we are.
We're all in it together.

964
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,200
We're all in this together.
This together, sorry.

965
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,040
It's OK, we're gonna.
If you haven't seen the movies,

966
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:25,680
then we're at least gonna get
you to code it right.

967
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:31,120
I'm so sorry.
OK, well then you can find us at

968
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,280
Phantom on the Rocks.
We're going to make Mandy join

969
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:38,640
us for a 911 bonus episode and
so she can tell us her opinions

970
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,640
instead of just listening to
ours.

971
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,480
Cannot wait.
Cannot wait.

972
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,840
And then you can tell us your
opinions on both Glee and 911

973
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,240
and Teen Wolf and, like,
whatever the hell else.

974
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,520
Yeah.
And then I guess we'll see you

975
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:56,080
on the next episode, which is
516 tested, if you remember what

976
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:57,480
that one's about.
Oh yeah.

977
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,080
Cuz I do cronuts and STD's.
Cronuts and STD's is is word on

978
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,760
the street.
That's just what life in New

979
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,680
York is about.
And then we will catch you next

980
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,200
time on Glee on the Rocks.
And I guess that's what you

981
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,680
missed on Sondheim.
You've been listening to Glee on

982
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,000
the Rocks, a Fandom on the Rocks
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983
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,640
A huge thank you to our sound
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984
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:23,120
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985
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,240
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986
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:29,560
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987
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,680
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988
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989
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990
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991
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992
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:47,360
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