Glee on the Rocks: S5E6 - Gleein' Out

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I would like a smidgen of
consistency please.

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What show are you watching?
You're listening to Glee on the

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Rocks.
Hello, welcome back to Glee on

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the Rocks, a Phantom on the
Rocks podcast.

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I am Emily.
And I'm Adriana.

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And this is oh God, this is
season 5 episode 6 movin out.

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I think it's actually movin no G
movin out.

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Yes.
Yeah, before we start talking,

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I'm just going to do the rundown
so we don't forget.

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The new directions pay homage to
the piano man, Billy Joel.

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As graduation looms closer, the
seniors make plans for their

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futures beyond the halls of
McKinley.

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Do they, though?
I mean like some do.

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Yeah, it's it's 4 because it's
Sam, Blaine and then Becky and

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Artie.
Artie literally just mentions

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his plans but.
Tina is a senior, right?

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Tina says something.
Tina set a line that she kind of

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didn't matter.
Hopped out at the very end of

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the episode and I was.
Like, oh, you're here, Yeah.

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Like, Oh yeah, you exist still.
Yeah, but it's mainly, it's

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mainly BLAM and Becky's once a
season plot line.

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Yeah, very bland, heavy.
I don't know.

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I want to say like half of this
episode was Artie and Becky and

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I could have completely cut it
out and been happy.

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I feel like that was how I felt
when it originally aired.

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And this time you're like, Nah,
I dig it.

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And this time I, but because I
had such big clean goggles on at

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this time and, and I, and I
could feel it because I could

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feel that my brain turned off
whenever the two of them weren't

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on screen or whenever one of
them wasn't on screen, right?

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Because some of these, I'm like,
oh, oh, I don't think I heard

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these lines in 2013.
Like I don't think I heard this

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10 years ago or whatever.
But I didn't love the way they

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went about Becky's storyline,
right?

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I feel like it could have been
done a little differently.

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I appreciated the conclusion.
Yeah.

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We'll get there.
I I think just in like general

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Becky's character annoys me
because it's meant to be like

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funny and a little twisted and a
little kind of off kilter and

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it's just, I just find her so
annoying and I can't help it.

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It's just like, oh, she gets to
say insane things and you're

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like anybody else.
You wouldn't stand for this.

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Like, I just don't think it's
funny.

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I yeah, I just don't find a lot
of her life and going back into

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the seasons, right like.
The the joke is that it's a

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person with Down syndrome saying
something.

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Yeah, saying something
outrageous.

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Not something saying something
that you don't expect them to

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say, that that's the joke.
Which maybe for like 6 episodes

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in season 1 you'd be like oh
damn, five years later you're

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like, all right.
Yeah.

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And, and like with this
particular plot line, which is

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not which 'cause I feel like a
lot of her other plot lines use

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the fact that she has Down
syndrome as a piece of it.

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And this one was like 95% of the
reason that the storyline even

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existed was that.
And so you're sitting here like,

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OK.
Yeah but like and wasn't her not

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wanting to leave school the
whole point of the school

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shooter episode too?
Oh yeah, if I remember

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correctly, it was more so the
idea of she brought a gun to

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school to protect her from the
outside world 'cause she was

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like scared of what would happen
when she left.

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And I could be making it.
I could fully be making this

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next part up.
But I feel like the conclusion

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that they came to was you'll
have your friends there with

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you, but you also don't have to.
Like it seems like the

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conclusion that Sue came to may
be off screen was no, my Becker

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Terry isn't leaving actually.
Like no, she brought a gun to

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school because she's scared so
she's actually never going to

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leave.
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And like, she was talking to
Brittany in that episode about

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she, you know, like, she looks
up to Brittany and that they

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they should both like, never
graduate, right?

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Because the real world is so
scary.

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Brittany is the one who's like,
you need to go to college.

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And Becky even then was like, I
can't go to college.

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And that they make up like a
little pinky promise.

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Yeah, and like, nobody has to go
to college.

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No, we've talked about that
before to do that.

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Yes, exactly if someone wants to
go to college, please look into

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the avenues that are available
to you.

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But pushing this on Becky that
she has to in even in that

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episode is not necessarily
helpful.

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But then also in this episode,
imposing that she can't or that

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she won't is not like and then
already pushing her and bringing

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her a genuinely overwhelming
amount of pamphlets.

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Like you could have given that
to me and I would have been

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like, I would have probably had
the same reaction.

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Also, pamphlets are Emma's job.
Yeah, but where was she?

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They.
Had first of all, they had a

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career fair without the guidance
counselor.

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Like yes they did.
They have an entire guidance

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counselor job and a career fair
without.

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Her that is tenured.
I don't know where she is,

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haven't seen her in a while.
We haven't seen her, Have we

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seen her this season after the
quarterback?

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No.
I mean like, good for JAMA but

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right?
What does it say about your

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school that the episode opens
with a career fair?

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And I'm like, OK, this is cool
because since this, since this

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school year has more time, we're
doing a career fair.

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And maybe it's just a thing that
like we didn't focus on in past

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seasons and then Sue's like,
Nope, this is the first annual

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career fair first.
Yes.

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What?
In Mckinley's illustrious who

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knows how long the school has
been around.

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This is their first career fair.
And like my school didn't have

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career fairs, but they had
different universities come and

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talk to the to the to the like
to not to the college, to the

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seniors.
And you could like actually take

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application materials with you
after these talks.

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That's cool, which is really
cool.

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But then to not have to like,
not like to not have any sort of

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college fair.
And then to blatantly point out

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that this is the first annual
career fair.

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But this school has a pool.
It has a pool, it has an entire

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football field, it has a dance
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Cheerleading team.
Oh my goodness, we're getting

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off track already.
OK but I do love how quickly she

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was like just ranking on the
Glee club and.

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Like, Oh yeah.
There's, you know, students are

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entering a competitive job
market, but there's no booth for

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theater, music and dance.
And I was like, yeah, no shit,

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Sherlock.
Like, it's 2000 and like 9 or 10

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in the world of Glee.
Like, yeah, the markets crashed.

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There's no career in the arts.
We get it.

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And like to and and for shoe to
be like mad about that with with

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Sue and then go to the Glee club
and be like.

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But you guys do have to
understand the reality that you

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have zero career odds like you.
You have to know that if you're

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looking for a career in the
arts, like, you're gonna be very

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disappointed and that's why
we're gonna do this.

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But before we get there, why was
the career fair set up in the

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hallways like against the
lockers like, and not in the gym

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or in the cafeteria?
You're blocking the kids access

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to the.
Lockers, I think that's the set

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that they had that week.
Oh, absolutely.

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But if you're gonna like if, if
they're gonna get granular and

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be like, here's the reality of
the situation for these

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students.
These students can't go out of

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class.
They can't get their fucking

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books.
They don't need books at

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McKinley.
But that is how Shoe introduces

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the lesson.
Of the week he admits to the

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Glee club that their a career in
the arts is impractical, which

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stuns the Glee club.
Like, yeah, they should know

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this by now.
Come on.

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I also think it's fascinating
that, like, all of them seem to

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think that they're going to be
professional artists.

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Not one of them is like, no, no,
I do this for fun.

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And I'm, I actually like really
want to be a lawyer, but seems

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like somebody in there wants to
be a vet.

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Tina actually, that was her
safety thing anyway, but that's

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that's a couple episodes from
now.

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That's true.
I here's the thing.

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Before Marley got into the
spoiler, into her, like,

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songwriting bag.
I'm like, this girl is a

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teacher.
Yeah.

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This girl's a teacher if she
doesn't become a therapist.

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OK, Kurt should be in fashion.
He's not a Broadway star.

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I will die on the hill.
He's a murder like I I will take

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all comers in that fight.
Kurt should be in fashion, not

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on Broadway.
He can have his little band with

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Elliot.
What's his face like?

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Fight me to the death.
That is a character.

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And you'd be.
Art like I am correct and will

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Brooke no arguments like.
I did.

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I also feel like Kitty is Kitty
is a person who's in the Glee

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club for no real discernible
reason.

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None at all, yeah.
Like I feel like she's had maybe

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a line or two about how she
enjoys performing or like these

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are her friends or these only
the only people in the school

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that she doesn't hate.
I do not think this girl would

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enjoy a career in the arts.
No, it reminds me of Bring It

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On.
It runs.

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Yeah.
She's like the school has no

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gymnastics team.
This is my last resort.

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She's like, I'm right.
This is like another thing that

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I need to do to stay busy.
Yeah, but she did have so before

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she was like, this is what we're
going to talk about.

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And he just says like, whatever
blurb he said about about Billy

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Joel, she goes finally Marilyn
Manson week.

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And I was like, oh, things from
2013 that aged like milk.

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Yikes.
Also did not peg her for a

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Marilyn Manson fan.
No, no, that one.

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That felt like a like something
someone threw at the wall.

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That was like, wouldn't it be
funny if Kitty like Marilyn

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Manson like it just doesn't.
It doesn't sit.

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Right.
But it doesn't matter because

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then we just move on.
It's one of those like.

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What the title is moving on.
So let's keep going.

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Just.
Keep keep rolling.

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I love how fast they're just
like Blaine has an audition at

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Niata.
Haven't heard about this at all.

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This is the first time, yeah.
And then?

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Sam has an interview with Hunter
College.

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Haven't heard of this shit it
OK, we're doing it.

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I did like the Channing Tatum
former stripper Grant.

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Oh, that was so funny.
That is.

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I I wrote that down.
Yeah, Yeah.

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That is, that is.
Yeah.

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Like that's that kind of thing
where I'm like, you know what?

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This is a joke that everyone
that year would get, but that

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also becomes funnier with age
and also is a thing that I truly

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actually would believe exists.
We're recording this in 2024 and

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a Magic Mike movie came out last
year because so they burst into

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moving out by Billy Joel because
they're because they're going to

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miss the week's lesson.
So they just do the week's

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lesson.
Which did Shu like?

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How much time was between Shu's
conversation with Sue and then

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going to Glee club?
Because that means that either

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Sam and Blaine had this song in
their back pocket or that Shu

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told them ahead of time.
Here's the week's lesson.

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You guys aren't going to be able
to be here the whole week.

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So before you guys leave for New
York.

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I yeah, I mean, I do believe
that Blaine has the entire Billy

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Joel catalogue memorized.
I don't think Sam does though.

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I don't think Sam does no SO.
And he does participate.

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Yeah, yeah, I think that's just
the magic of Glee.

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Glee.
So I mean, Blaine's jacket falls

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into the category of the magic
of Glee here, too.

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God.
That's.

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Hideous.
I just every single time you

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talk about his wardrobe, I
remember that you've talked

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about them dressing him as a
toddler and just getting

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toddlerified as the seasons go
on.

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And in this and in this episode,
I was like, the the

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toddlerification is so strong
here.

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Like I've seen that jacket at
Oshkosh Bagosh.

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I really have you've.
Put like, what are they those

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those teddy bears that you can
put together?

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Yes, a build-a-bear.
Build-a-bear, yeah.

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Yeah.
I've given that I've put that

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same outfit on a Build-a-bear
and then given it a little name

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and then taken it home and never
touched it again.

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That that bear was called
Blainers.

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That.
Bear was called Blainers, but

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they, through the power and the
magic of music, get to New York

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and they arrive at the loft.
Yeah, I, I believe that Blaine

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could afford to get there.
I don't know how Sam got there,

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so I let's believe that Blaine
paid for it.

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But they also come out of the,
like, set that they built as

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like a subway, like an
underground subway station.

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I'm like, OK, so they I've never
lived in New York.

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OK, I looked at this.
So what I think we did, I think

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they must have flown into JFK,
They took the air train and then

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they transferred to the A and
then they just took the L1 stop

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to Bushwick.
But I don't know where in

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Bushwick this apartment is
'cause then they get on a bus

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and that's where I don't know
where the, the, the loft is.

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Because they, they, if they took
the L to the Bushwick station,

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that from the airport, like it
had to have only been one stop.

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If it came from JFK, if they
came from LaGuardia, I don't

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know what they did.
See, because I've only ever

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taken greyhounds that drop you
off at Port Authority.

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Oh yeah, yeah.
So I was like, that's not like

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Port Authority does not spit you
out underground.

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OK, fair.
If they took the Lima Express

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that from Lima to to Port
Authority, then then who knows

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how they got there.
Yeah, I assume they flew into

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JFK.
Yeah, 'cause they were.

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Singing the same song, so it had
to been a.

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Shot and a flight and a flight
from a flight.

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I have flown from Columbus to
New York and that flight as A

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and I stop in New York as a
layover, but like that flight is

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significantly shorter than the
12 hour bus ride.

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Either way, they also look very
clean.

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They did not sleep on a bus.
No, they they didn't.

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They didn't walk through Port
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They arrive, they they, they
still look like they have the

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will to live and that's how you
know they weren't on a

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greyhound.
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My big note here is why the fuck
is Kurt hugging him first?

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Well, my big note is why does
Kurt look so surprised that

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they're here?
Like he clearly knew they were

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coming, but did they not give an
ETA?

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Did they like?
Did they not exchange travel

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plans?
Yep.

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And also it it's homophobia that
he's hugging Sam first.

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It really is, yes, because then
they go and hang out at the

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Spotlight Diner where Santana
asks a very pertinent question

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of why the fuck is Rachel still
working at the diner when she

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should be rehearsing for
Broadway.

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And she's like my director.
And I believe that it's that

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Fanny Brice was a working girl.
So it's important for the

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integrity of my performance.
I'm like you need to sleep.

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Yeah, 'cause these the hours at
the spotlight don't seem to be

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very consistent.
But but rehearsal hours are.

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Yeah.
So I don't, I don't know how

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she's doing this other than to
keep Rachel in the plot lines.

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Yeah.
Which is also interesting

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because you notice, I don't know
if you noticed this, but I did

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while I was watching it as it
was airing, that like Rachel as

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a character had a lot less
storylines in this half of the

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season.
And to me as a person, it was

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clear that it was like to be
able to give Leah a paycheck

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while still giving her some
time.

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But it's like this girl looks
not OK.

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Like, she is here.
She's got her makeup on, She's

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wearing her wardrobe.
She looks sometimes like she

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would rather shit a brick than
say these fucking lines.

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Totally.
Yeah.

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And like, and this has, and I
don't want to talk about it, so

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I'll just mention it here.
This episode, they have her and

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Sam have these, like, little
moments across different scenes.

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I know.
And I'm like, please stop A,

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because these two don't make
sense and B, it's stupid.

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Like, can can there be a single
girl in the Glee club that that

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doesn't date Sam?
First of all, it's and also like

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it's literally been three
episodes since we had a tribute.

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Yep.
I mean, I know it's been like it

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was six months or something
between 3:00 and 4:00, but still

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or however long, they said there
was some number of months.

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There was no way it was six
months.

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No, there was some number of
months between quarterback and

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Katy Perry.
I just don't remember how long

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it was.
And I know that it was like a

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couple of months in between
Finn, Finn, the character

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passing and then everybody going
back for the dedication and

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everything, but there's no way
that it was six months just

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because the school year is
still.

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Going on?
No, but did you catch in the

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cold?
Oh, I did the longest year.

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Ever.
Springtime or the longest year

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ever, I was like, OK, you can't
just call it out and.

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Then cause The thing is we we
still have 8 episodes.

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Before.
New New York.

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I know.
New New York is 5/14.

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It's so when I was, I started to
like list out a couple of the

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episodes in my notes just to
like make space in the dock and

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5/8 is previously unaired
Christmas and I was like,

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Christmas, what the fuck?
So Santana asks, why are you

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still like, why are you here?
And she's like, because I'm

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here, Yeah, they're talking
about and Curtain, Blaine and

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Sam are sitting and they're
talking about the Niata audition

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and if they're going to go it
like, and like, what sites

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they're going to see, right.
And Blaine says that it's mostly

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campus visits.
And Kurt has this attitude of

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like, why would you do campus
visits?

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You're going to Niata.
And he's like, well, you know,

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NYU and Columbia are my safety.
Schools like NYU and Columbia

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are your safety.
Schools.

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Schools he really should have
applied to a year ago.

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But also a hashtag rich rich kid
Blaine Anderson.

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But Columbia is an Ivy League
school.

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Sure is.
And that's your safety school.

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It's just humble brag, Blaine
Anderson.

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Like, are you joking and.
You gotta love him for it.

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Though yeah, you really do, you
really do.

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And the writing, 'cause they
just believe that Niata's so

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prestigious that NYU, but also
surprised that they just ignore

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the existence of Pace.
Yes, SUNY, they yeah, they

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continue to ignore these other
performance schools like it was

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either Juilliard or fake school
anyway.

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And Kurt has this attitude these
like, he keeps pushing this

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like, well, you're gonna,
you're, you're gonna get into

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Niata.
And it's the only choice you

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have to.
Yeah, like you.

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Will and you have to.
Yeah, and then he pushes Blaine

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to do a warm up audition and
perform, and three things happen

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simultaneously that I clocked
and enjoyed.

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As Blaine gets up to go to the
piano, Sam pulls a harmonica out

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of his pocket.
Sure does.

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And.
Just been carrying that shit.

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And I choose to believe he's had
that in his pocket since the

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very first time he walked into
the into the Glee club.

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Yes, he's been holding it down.
He's been waiting for the right

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moment.
Santana realizes what's

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happening and she says
seriously, you all need to be

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stopped.
I love it.

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And I realize, oh, we're just
going to ignore that.

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The song that's about to be sung
was done in Season 1.

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Yep.
OK, mm.

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Hmm.
All right, Chance.

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And they do a pretty darn good
rendition of Piano Man, if I say

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so myself.
But.

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It's sad and it's sweet and I
knew it complete when I wore a

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younger man's clothes.
Sing us a song.

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You're the piano man.
Sing us a song tonight.

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Well, we're all in the mood for
a melody, and you've got us

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feeling all right.
I know I hate, I hate it to have

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to admit that Darren's actually
quite good at Billy's moms.

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I he's just he sounds.
Good.

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It's a good key for him.
Like it's a good it works.

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And when he says the old man
sitting next to me, the old man

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sitting next to Curtis, dressed
exactly like Blaine in his

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toddler fight, it sure is.
I love, I love the look on

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Kurt's face too.
That old man toasted him.

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Yep, and they get the entire
diner singing and dancing along.

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Seems like a delightful thing to
have happen as you are trying to

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have a meal.
Well, that is the whole point of

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the spotlight is you get
assaulted by your waitstaff

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singing but.
It's not even the waitstaff.

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This is another, it's true,
trying to have their meal.

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Does he get tips for this like?
I mean, there's not a, there's

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not a lot in that bowl.
There's like a $5.00 bill and a

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couple ones like, and, and he's
rich kid Blaine Anderson.

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Like it'd be really rude of him
to take those.

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Does he now get $2.50 worth of
pay?

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There were so many.
Wait, there's so much waitstaff.

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There are so many extras dressed
as waitstaff.

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Half of them are performing half
the time.

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So like, yeah, someone's got to
bring drink refills.

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As the song ends, Kurt is
putting, once again a lot of

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pressure.
On.

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He says, see, there's no way you
don't get Insaniata and then all

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of our dreams will come true.
Yeah, why don't you put you take

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that on, make all of their
dreams come true yourself, but.

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Or like this is the problem with
an ensemble cast, that there's

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so many things that we just have
to assume happen off screen.

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Like there's we just have to
assume that they've had these

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conversations off screen.
Except we find out that they

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don't because later on, Blaine's
like, maybe I want to be a

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doctor, maybe I want to be a
teacher.

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Which as fanfic writers, they
have been exploring that for

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like a billion words on AO3.
So we all know that Blaine

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Anderson wants to be a teacher.
Kurt somehow has missed the

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boat.
That one.

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Blaine Anderson should be
elementary school teacher.

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Blaine already dressed as like
an elementary school child.

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Yes, so that's why it fits.
He makes them comfortable in

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that he's already wearing their
clothes.

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Exactly.
The the moms bring in the

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clothes that the toddlers have
outgrown and just give them to

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Blaine exchange program within
the school.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They, they have this beautiful

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scene where I remember when the
spoiler came out on Tumblr of

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Blaine wants to go premed this
scene happening and we all sat

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there like, yeah, sure.
Because Blaine is a teacher,

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yes.
Blaine as like a child

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psychologist, yes.
Blaine as a, as a premed

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student.
No, no.

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And I've actually don't know if
I've read the thick of him as a

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doctor or as like a nurse.
I don't think I've read that

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actually.
I feel like I I've seen it.

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I don't know that I've.
I've seen it exactly.

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Because I was probably like, no,
that's not right.

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I was like, that doesn't track
for me.

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But we all sat there like, no,
no, that's just not like, what

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are you doing?
And then the scene actually

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happens and it's this thing of
both of them of essentially

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blame freaking out.
And outwardly it seems like he's

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saying, well, you don't actually
know what I want.

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But what it is is a person with
anxiety or a person who's unsure

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of their actual talent and
ability to get into this, like,

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you know, talent, school and
their ability to get in and the

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fear of, well, if the thing that
I want doesn't happen,

448
00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,600
everything falls apart around
me.

449
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,360
Yep, no pressure.
Though, no, Yeah, no.

450
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,680
First of all, no pressure.
Though Secondly, thanks Kurt for

451
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,440
all the pressure.
And then all of our dreams will

452
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,240
come true.
Because then you're putting a

453
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,000
lot of that on if I get in or
not and you're believing that I

454
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,960
will.
But what if I don't like what

455
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:21,680
happens then?
But it also rings very true to

456
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,280
me in the context of where it
sits, but also just how I

457
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:31,480
understood the scene.
And I feel like if you're, if

458
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,960
you've never been in that
situation of like going for

459
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:40,280
something and not knowing if
you're good enough to get it or

460
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,720
having something shit the bet on
that, that two people's future

461
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,720
depends on and not knowing if
that's gonna happen.

462
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,520
We know that doesn't.
Work gonna hit a little

463
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:58,800
different, but also like, these
are two people whose frontal

464
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,000
cortexes still have not fully
developed.

465
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,600
They're literally under 20 years
old.

466
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,240
Well, there doesn't actually
seem to be any academics.

467
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,680
We're literally at yada because
Blank says like it's a

468
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,280
performing arts school that's
all you can study.

469
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,520
Which made me a little worried.
Also, because they didn't, I

470
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,840
don't know that they learned to
read and write at McKinley.

471
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,520
So this is like their last shot.
And also he says that.

472
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,760
He's been talking Blaine up to
Carmen Thibodeau.

473
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,720
If they if they can only take.
How?

474
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,440
Regardless if it works or not,
how much one-on-one time do you

475
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,280
have with the Dean of the
school?

476
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,880
And why are you spending that
time talking about your fiance

477
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:50,240
and not your your academic
future?

478
00:30:50,760 --> 00:31:12,390
Like that's real.
They don't have any Gen. eds

479
00:31:12,390 --> 00:31:19,070
they don't like.
Well, they're going to be stars.

480
00:31:19,070 --> 00:31:20,590
They're not going to work at a
law firm.

481
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,200
Like what are your Yeah, what
are your.

482
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,560
I wonder if Niata has any like
work study opportunities and

483
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:32,160
what that looks like.
Cuz like full tangent, the only

484
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:37,360
reason that I am in the job that
I am is because I worked at the

485
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,840
human resources office at my
college from literally the first

486
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,480
week of school until the day
before graduation.

487
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,000
And because I had that office
experience, I got my first

488
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,600
office job, and that led me to
reception, and that ended up me

489
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,360
falling ass backwards into
billing at a law firm.

490
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:10,160
Yeah, but but like, not, not
every student who goes to Niata

491
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:19,600
is gonna be a star.
Sure, Kurt does say like you're

492
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:26,560
just scared and he says some
things that are like very Glee,

493
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,640
kind of like not placeholder
things to say, but like you just

494
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,600
you can't be afraid of your own
greatness.

495
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:38,200
I'm like, I'm not.
It's the whole thing of like

496
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,200
that we've talked about before
of like, yeah, Rachel's

497
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,560
talented.
You can believe Rachel is

498
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,920
objectively talented.
She's not the only objectively

499
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,200
talented person in New York
City.

500
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,560
Blaine may be a great performer
objectively, has a pretty good

501
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:03,640
voice, has tons of charisma.
Not the only person who is as

502
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:10,880
talented and as charismatic, but
Blaine Kurt does say like this

503
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,480
beautiful line.
I can't stop you from failing,

504
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,440
but I can promise to make it
safe if you do.

505
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:18,840
It's good.
It was actually.

506
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,400
It was also one of the few lines
though that was like

507
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,600
personalized to them.
Yeah, yeah.

508
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,520
Because some of the other ones
of like, you can't shy away from

509
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,320
greatness.
Like that's something Shu might

510
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:35,320
say, not your fiance.
That's something that literally

511
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,120
Shu would say to Rachel.
Yeah.

512
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:42,400
And and it it does feel like of
like the ending of a clean

513
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,960
scene.
They didn't kiss and that feels

514
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,560
rude.
There was a lot of clean

515
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,720
violence in this episode.
Like then they didn't kiss here,

516
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,800
they just had like a 2 feet
apart hug.

517
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,640
Back on a bed though.
On a bed, yeah, which probably

518
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,120
was like a piece of plywood with
huge mattress on it, you know?

519
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,280
A mattress Topper.
Yeah, and back at the Starlight,

520
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:11,760
once again Kurt was sitting with
Sam and I was like, what is

521
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,600
going on?
And then we don't even get to

522
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,920
see.
I also remember being mad we

523
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,560
don't even get to see Blaine's
audition.

524
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:22,840
No, just that he.
Crushed it.

525
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:30,719
And even though they made such a
big deal about Kurt and Rachel's

526
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,920
auditions.
Yeah, there was like 4 episodes

527
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,639
about it.
Also, why did Carmen Thibodeau

528
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:43,920
travel to see Kurt and Rachel
but then Blaine travels to

529
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:49,840
audition for her?
Because they couldn't afford.

530
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,520
Because they couldn't have.
Because they couldn't afford

531
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,960
Whoopi Goldberg.
Yeah, probably is the real

532
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,480
answer.
But like, they couldn't afford

533
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,840
her this early in the season.
They had to pay the Billy Joel

534
00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,840
rights.
But.

535
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,560
But make it make sense?
It doesn't.

536
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,920
No, this was so.
I mean, at the same time, like,

537
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,640
do we really want to rewatch the
entire audition?

538
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,840
I don't, I just want it to make
sense.

539
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,720
I know.
I would like a smidgen of

540
00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:20,800
consistency please.
What show are you watching?

541
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,520
And then, and that's pretty much
the end of their of, of Curtin

542
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,440
Blaine's barely existence
storyline this season or this

543
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:30,320
episode.
It is.

544
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,520
You can rewind back to Sam
though.

545
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:42,520
Sam first has his interview at
Hunter College and like, I get

546
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:47,520
the feeling that it was supposed
to look like it was a train

547
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:52,160
wreck before it wrecked.
And objectively I know that it

548
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,680
was, but I was like, this is a,
this is an 18 year old kid from

549
00:35:55,680 --> 00:36:00,640
fucking Kentucky.
He's doing his best.

550
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,040
And then he said, so you're
black.

551
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,360
That must be interesting.
I really actually hated this

552
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:13,080
scene.
Like, yeah, I I hated this

553
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,280
'cause he bombs this entire
interview.

554
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,360
Oh, he really does.
He really does like but he just

555
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:23,400
make it so much worse.
And the whole thing, it's so bad

556
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:26,320
he's because he starts it with
like, I'm not like a good

557
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:31,520
student, which, OK, we've had
entire storylines of him

558
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:37,120
struggling with dyslexia, which
like I don't think they

559
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,840
remembered.
No, but they remembered.

560
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:45,560
For writer they remembered for
writer and and Sam is like OG

561
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:50,360
writer and better and they
couldn't bring that up in his

562
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,000
interview to be like well I
overcame dyslexia and now I'm

563
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,400
applying for college and I still
struggle with academics but I'd

564
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,520
really like to succeed and then
saying he just like not good

565
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,640
student they.
Bring it around.

566
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,600
They stupidly bring it around to
like how he wants to do

567
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,560
impressions.
And so he's like, so 'cause the

568
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,640
counselor basically says like,
oh, your grades seem to like

569
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,520
have gone up a little bit.
And he's like, yeah, well, I've

570
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,440
never been a good student, but
like, I started doing an

571
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,600
impression of a good student and
like, it worked.

572
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:27,960
I'm like, how about instead you
got a dyslexia diagnosis and

573
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,800
actually got a reasonable
accommodation for your homework

574
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,520
and understood how your brain
worked and that's what made your

575
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:42,760
schoolwork make more sense as
opposed to I'm doing an

576
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:48,240
impression of a good student.
He still was not doing great.

577
00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:51,320
Like, he did not prepare because
they asked him why he wanted to

578
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,920
go to Hunter College.
And he says some bullshit about

579
00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:58,440
like, I want to do impressions.
And also there's more chicks

580
00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,800
here than guys.
Sorry.

581
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,080
I mean, girls, It's like, so you
Googled the school.

582
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,680
Yeah.
And didn't even look past the,

583
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:13,120
like, the the summary.
You OK?

584
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,600
And then he has this scene with
Rachel where she's trying to

585
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,840
cheer him up, and she's trying
to tell him, like, there are

586
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:25,720
more things that you can do.
And he confesses that he wants

587
00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:36,800
to be a male model.
Yes, which he kind of has done

588
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,000
in the past.
Like he's done male modeling

589
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,360
stuff in the past with like the
calendar and did a whole thing

590
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,320
about like how much that
affected his self esteem.

591
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:54,960
Yeah, I just think it's such a
wild thing to pull out of your

592
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:59,440
ass in the middle of this
episode and then make the rest

593
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,000
of it about this.
Yeah.

594
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:06,720
Like I, I think it's, I think
it's great that they're like,

595
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:13,080
OK, so Blaine's path is going to
be performing arts college and

596
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,160
Sam's path is not going to be
that.

597
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:22,200
It's going to be whatever he has
to do to get modeling jobs.

598
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,400
It's been a while since I've
been that uncomfortable watching

599
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,440
a scene on TV as I was watching
that photo shoot.

600
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,840
Yeah, I didn't.
Like it and I and I watched

601
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:50,800
Riverdale and Angel like.
I didn't like Rachel rubbing oil

602
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:55,400
on him.
I didn't like Rachel rubbing oil

603
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,560
on him and making eyes and all
of the comments.

604
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,600
Also all of the commentary from
the photographer who's like the

605
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,000
marketing photographer for for
Funny Girl.

606
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:09,920
Did you pay this woman?
No, maybe there's no way they

607
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,840
paid her.
So is this a personal favor?

608
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:18,280
I don't think Rachel has enough
clout yet to do personal favors.

609
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,920
And also, how do you.
Yeah, like what?

610
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,880
What?
OK, At least it was a good setup

611
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,160
though, right?
They get those pictures

612
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:34,080
developed like lightning, Yeah,
it feels like. 5 minutes later,

613
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,720
he's taking his lookbook to a
modeling agency run by Miss Tyra

614
00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:41,360
Banks.
I forgot that Tyra Banks was in

615
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,760
this episode.
I forgot that episode.

616
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:50,000
And as he's looking, I had to
pause the episode because as

617
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,240
he's he's like trying to make
the small talk until she

618
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:53,720
actually acknowledges his
presence.

619
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,240
He goes.
Because I heard it was bichet,

620
00:40:56,240 --> 00:40:58,400
but now that I see it spelled
out it looks like it should be

621
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,280
bitch at like a little mini
bitch.

622
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,720
And I.
Yeah, was.

623
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:08,560
In tatters.
Yeah, like it's such a like

624
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,000
2013, 2012 joke too, where
you're like, like a little mini

625
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:13,960
bitch.
Like a little.

626
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:22,000
You're a little bitch.
Tyra Banks.

627
00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:27,640
I'm not calling her a bitch yet.
Tyra Banks says she doesn't have

628
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,920
like, she likes the pictures.
She doesn't have anybody with

629
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,960
his look.
Your Midwestern eyes have the

630
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,280
vacant stare of a cow's.
Yep.

631
00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:40,400
Yeah, but you?
But you need new pictures.

632
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:46,200
Yeah, I kinda, I kinda liked it.
Oh God, my mouth dropped.

633
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:51,480
It was like.
I wish it hadn't turned to the

634
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,520
like.
You need to lose 10 lbs though.

635
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,960
Yeah.
Because it's like, but we've

636
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,920
done, we've done these
storylines with Marley and with.

637
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,240
Sam.
Yeah, like we, we did this whole

638
00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,760
thing of him being uncomfortable
with how he looks and feeling

639
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,240
like he needs to lose weight and
be cut and like.

640
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,160
And also be the that be the only
thing that he contributes.

641
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:18,680
Yeah, like we, we did this just
without Tyra Banks, like we.

642
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:19,840
Don't have to.
Do it again.

643
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,600
Like, is it realistic?
I don't know.

644
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,240
I'm not a model.
Is it necessary?

645
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,480
No.
No, we can give Sam Evans more

646
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,520
to do on Glee.
Yeah, I did love his attitude

647
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,640
towards it though, because she
does tell him like you are not

648
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,920
going to be the spread you are
going to be basically fluff for

649
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,680
like you're mostly going to do
runway work that you're not

650
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,800
going to get paid for.
If you're lucky, you get to keep

651
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,840
the outfits.
If you get print work, you're

652
00:42:54,840 --> 00:43:00,760
just fluff for the main event,
which is the girl and the word

653
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,000
that you're going to hear the
most is no.

654
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,160
And his attitude towards it is I
get that.

655
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,120
I'm not afraid of it.
I'm not afraid of hard work.

656
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,200
I I want this and I'm going to
go for it.

657
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,560
And then she goes into like the
you need to get new pictures and

658
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:20,480
like, pay for them yourself this
time, which like rude and you

659
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,600
need to lose 10 lbs.
And it's like, all right.

660
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:30,040
But I did love his attitude
towards the fact that there are

661
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:36,640
a lot of characters on this show
who do not have good reactions

662
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,920
to hearing no.
Yes, this is true.

663
00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:47,960
No.
And and I feel like hearing that

664
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,680
from Sam was really refreshing,
that he didn't have a defeatist

665
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,440
attitude about it or that he and
that he also wasn't like, I

666
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,280
won't hear the word no, I'm too
good for that, that he was like,

667
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,720
no, I understand that.
And like I acknowledge that and

668
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:13,200
I'm and I still want to do it.
And then that moves us to back

669
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,280
at the Loft.
Santana complaints that they now

670
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:22,720
have even less space because
Blaine has gifted them a piano.

671
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,080
Yeah, for for.
Letting them stay there.

672
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:31,360
So like did this bitch go out
and buy a piano or is this a

673
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:35,920
street piano?
Like did he was this did someone

674
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,720
leave this out on the street and
he was like ah a piano I shall

675
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:41,120
take it.
Or, or did he just go to

676
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:47,480
Steinway and buy a piano?
Rich kid Blaine Anderson.

677
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,480
I know.
I had actually forgotten that

678
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,520
like in the course of a day he
bought them a piano.

679
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:58,280
I was like what the fuck?
Also like the amount that you

680
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:04,480
spent on a piano was probably
more than the amount you would

681
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:12,080
have paid to stay in like a
shitty hotel that would have

682
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,000
been more central to the
campuses you were going to be

683
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,200
at.
Oh God, it's trying to find

684
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:23,760
sense in a senseless show.
Yes, if you go, if you stare too

685
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,840
deep into the darkness.
But Santana is complaining about

686
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,800
this piano.
I'm really excited for their

687
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,720
neighbors hating them even more.
I.

688
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,720
Choose to believe they live in a
condemned building and that's

689
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:43,640
why the neighbors don't complain
about band practice, about all

690
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:48,000
of their antics, or literally
anything else 'cause they don't

691
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,520
have any fucking neighbors.
Their only neighbors are rats.

692
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,200
I sure hope.
So Santana says she's

693
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,600
complaining about Santana
complaints about the piano

694
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,920
because there's less space.
But then they're also talking

695
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:12,840
about how Sam shouldn't need to
lose weight to be a male model

696
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,440
and how he should just find
another agency.

697
00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:25,280
And Blaine decides to say
something along the lines of

698
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,200
like, if we can't talk you out
of this, let's sing you out of

699
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,200
this.
And Santana says that she needs

700
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,600
her piece and she, and like she
knows they're already going to

701
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:42,480
be insufferable about this.
And I wrote down in my note, in

702
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,240
my notes.
Santana's right in needing her

703
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:49,480
piece, if only because y'all
need your vocal rest.

704
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:54,160
For fuck's sake, you're singing
waiters.

705
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:59,200
Rachel's in rehearsals for a
musical and is also a singing

706
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,200
waitress and is also and both of
them are also attending

707
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,400
performing arts school.
And they have Kurt's band.

708
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,960
And they have Kurt's band.
Yes, you need your vocal rest.

709
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,720
Please, please stop singing in
the shower.

710
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:19,440
And please, please don't sing on
your off hours.

711
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,000
Yes, well, I mean, they were
singing in Glee club all the

712
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,440
time.
Maybe, I don't know.

713
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,880
Weren't they?
Doesn't make it better.

714
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,600
Yeah, but they didn't.
It wasn't.

715
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,440
It wasn't like every single
facet of they had class, right?

716
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,920
We don't.
I mean, it's never been proven

717
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:40,960
that they actually went to that
many classes.

718
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:47,560
Yeah, that's true.
But this turns into them singing

719
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:54,480
Just the Way You Are, which was
how I found out that Bruno Mars

720
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,640
is how Just the Way You Are is
not the only song by that title.

721
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,280
It's good to say.
Definitely thought this was

722
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,440
Bruno Mars, huh?
We did have to suffer again.

723
00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:08,040
Rachel and Sam dancing together
and getting like, close.

724
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,480
But I did appreciate Santana's
face when she clocked it.

725
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:14,520
Yeah, the the weird thing is
that other characters are

726
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,720
clocking it and being like, this
is fucking weird at the same

727
00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:22,520
time that the viewers at home
are like, stop, this is fucking

728
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:26,000
weird.
I just don't remember if anyone

729
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,120
in the fandom was like hell
yeah.

730
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,120
Nobody.
Well, I say that and then I'm

731
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,280
like, yeah, I had a lot of tags
blocked.

732
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,480
Yeah, fair.
Like, I really did.

733
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:43,840
So I don't actually know.
And that's kind of where New

734
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,960
York ends off.
Yeah, they got there singing,

735
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:53,240
they're dancing, and we have to
go back to McKinley.

736
00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:57,760
We have to go back to McKinley.
Artie for some reason, like

737
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:03,120
zeros in on Becky for this
entire episode and really like

738
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,880
wants to know what her plans are
for when she graduates because

739
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,640
she is also a senior.
And then he just like slips in

740
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,560
that he's going to film school
in New York, which I guess we

741
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,800
should have remembered that he
got accepted in one of the other

742
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:20,200
episodes.
I don't remember which one it is

743
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,160
now.
And he's.

744
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,880
Like whatever episode his mom
was in.

745
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,800
Yeah, that one.
Or has that not happened yet?

746
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,160
No, that one happened.
Yeah, it happened.

747
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,520
It happened in the same way that
all Glee episodes happen at the

748
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,640
same time.
Always right, all at once, you

749
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,640
know what I mean?
It's it's there.

750
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,200
Glee episodes all happen in the
eye on Jeremy Baramy, Yes.

751
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:41,060
Yes.
Mm.

752
00:49:41,060 --> 00:49:45,600
Hmm.
Tuesday in October and also

753
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,440
never, and also.
Always yes, that is 100% how

754
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,400
Glee exists.
It's it's why you can still say

755
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,120
like they did this on Glee, but
you're talking about like a

756
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,200
Billie Eilish song.
Yeah.

757
00:49:58,240 --> 00:50:00,800
So don't think about that one.
It's too hard because then

758
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,240
you'll hear it and you're like,
oh God.

759
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,240
And you just, you don't, you
don't want that in your head.

760
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:12,480
Yeah, and, and the minute that
he talks to Becky, Becky's like,

761
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:17,960
no, I'm not leaving.
And then Sue Strong arms him

762
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:24,080
into stopping to talk to Becky
about future plans because Becky

763
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:27,640
is not leaving.
And you're like, is this Becky's

764
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,160
choice or your choice?
Yeah, Sue wants her to be there

765
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,880
indefinitely as her becritary,
which is.

766
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,000
Like a clever play on words,
it's a very.

767
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,760
Clever play on words but it's so
appropriate, inappropriate for a

768
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,160
grown ass adult to be like I
don't want this teenager to

769
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,040
leave because I want her to
serve me.

770
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,480
And like she, I think in the
second scene she has with Artie,

771
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:54,560
she makes the point of it being
like, I care about her and I

772
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:58,360
don't want her to go through
something difficult.

773
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:00,800
Sure.
Yeah, I don't want her to go.

774
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,760
I don't want her to do something
that she's not ready for.

775
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:09,880
And so that's why I want her to
stay here, because she is

776
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:14,440
comfortable here.
She knows what, She knows what

777
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:18,800
this world is.
Where's Becky's mom in all of

778
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:23,520
this?
Unimportant, because it's for

779
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,920
Sue Sylvester to decide what
Becky should do.

780
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,000
And it has been since season 1 I
guess.

781
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,080
Pretty much, yeah.
Artie comes back and he's, like,

782
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,200
trying to convince her because,
like, you can do cheerleading in

783
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,040
college and he gives that
really, like, lame.

784
00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:42,240
You can do anything you want.
Like Artie.

785
00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:45,600
That's not true for anyone.
Yeah.

786
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:52,720
Also, even if we're choosing to
believe that it's still early in

787
00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:56,760
the spring semester or at the
midpoint of the spring semester,

788
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:02,040
it is so late to apply for the
fall semester of college.

789
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:07,440
Yeah, too late.
Too late, unless the University

790
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,600
of Cincinnati has different
rules that we just don't know

791
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,760
about.
And like, I feel like I should

792
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,480
have texted my mother-in-law
because she did work at the

793
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,640
University of Cincinnati.
That's cool.

794
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,440
Like the counselor for the
School of Nursing.

795
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,840
So like there's a lot in, in
like in their home, there's a

796
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:27,160
lot of like merch basically from
the school, like with the logo.

797
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,680
So I was like, Oh my God,
they're wearing like the

798
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,760
freaking logo.
And then she says like, go

799
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,280
Bearcats or whatever the fuck it
is.

800
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,000
And I'm like, I've seen that
logo go off.

801
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:44,720
But but I doubt it.
I doubt that the university, you

802
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:51,200
know, he sings for a song.
This one was so I on I I tuned

803
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:52,120
out.
I really did.

804
00:52:53,720 --> 00:53:01,640
I had to fight not to skip it.
And it was a song about honesty.

805
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:08,480
And Becky says thank you for
being honest about how you've

806
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,120
been in love with me this entire
time.

807
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:17,520
And and he's like, no, this was
for this was me telling you to

808
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:22,120
be honest with yourself.
Do you want to go to college?

809
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:24,200
She's like, yeah, but I'm
scared.

810
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,120
Like, OK, let's.
So he goes.

811
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:37,800
He takes her to go see the UC
campus and specifically to go

812
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:42,280
see a program for students with
Downs.

813
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,800
Yeah.
And I thought that was pretty

814
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,400
cool.
I did too, yeah.

815
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,960
And although, I mean, in, in
Glee's hands, it's preachy,

816
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,120
right?
Like it's, anyone can be

817
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,840
whatever they want, 'cause it's
Glee, right?

818
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,800
But it's still like, at least
they're not leaving Becky

819
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:05,200
behind.
And at least they're not.

820
00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:07,880
And at least they're
specifically being like, here's

821
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:13,080
a program that we know can work
for you because it has because

822
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,440
it works for students who are
similar to you.

823
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:25,960
And you can sit in on a class
and you can see how like how

824
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,720
these students interact in this
class with their professor.

825
00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:36,120
And also the class that she like
sat in on was about like a life

826
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,080
management class.
They were like doing budgeting

827
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,360
and like.
Honest that's everybody in ugly

828
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,320
club needs that shit.
Everybody in the world needs

829
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,840
that.
But particularly, I think it's

830
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,160
really cool that like, at least
in the storyline, it was like

831
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,760
tailored to help students who
want to become more independent

832
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:02,080
do that.
And then she comes to the like,

833
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,320
she comes back to school and
she's like, I wanna do this.

834
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,440
I, I wanna do this.
Yep.

835
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:12,840
So that was like, I didn't love
that there was so many scenes of

836
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,120
literally just the same things
being regurgitated back and

837
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,200
forth until we reached the
conclusion that we knew we were

838
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,720
going to reach.
But it's Glee.

839
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:27,880
But it's Glee.
I don't yeah, it for 42 minutes

840
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,800
in a for an episode to spend
this much time.

841
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:35,280
I was like come on, I got got
other plot lines.

842
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:40,680
Actually, yeah, especially Becky
is essentially a recurring

843
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:42,720
character.
She gets a storyline of season,

844
00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:44,840
which is more than some
recurring characters get.

845
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,760
OK, but this was.
Legit because where the fuck is

846
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:52,880
Tina right?
I mean like, no shade to Becky

847
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:54,680
even though.
No real like.

848
00:55:55,400 --> 00:56:00,080
Where the fuck is Tina?
Tina's a main character since

849
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:04,320
season 1 and she gets a line at
the very end.

850
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,640
She's supposed to be graduating.
What's her college story?

851
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,240
Bro fuck if she knows, fuck if
we know, fuck if the writers

852
00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:12,720
know.
And then our last storyline is

853
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:15,920
the BLOB 2 point O.
Oh my God, these people I swear

854
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:21,000
to God like Marley just be gay.
I don't just drop them both.

855
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:26,680
Be alone by yourself for like a
week.

856
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:29,200
That's what she chooses at the
end.

857
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:30,960
We just have to suffer through
it first.

858
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,880
She still goes on a date with
Douche McGee.

859
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,760
Like what the fuck Marley just
OK.

860
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,400
He does pressure her into it by
singing that stupid song in

861
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,240
front of the entire Glee club.
So so.

862
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:45,000
We'll start from the beginning.
Sorry, no 'cause I 'cause I have

863
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:49,360
some delicious ass things to say
that I wrote down and I was

864
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:53,080
like, no, this is gonna be a
zinger I got.

865
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,320
Oops.
I got I got jokes for days.

866
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:03,040
So we start with Jake trying to
like, almost sweeten the pot and

867
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:07,040
like trying to get Marley back.
And I'm just sitting here like,

868
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,240
do you actually want that?
Or do you feel like that's what

869
00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:14,080
you have to do?
Because if you want that, saying

870
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:17,400
that you made a stupid mistake
is not the way to go about it.

871
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,680
Nope.
You didn't trip and fall into

872
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:22,160
Bree's vagina.
No.

873
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:25,960
I mean, not this time, but maybe
later.

874
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:32,720
But he puts these the he puts
this like loose bouquet of

875
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:36,720
flowers in her locker because
she opens her locker and just a

876
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:42,920
bunch of like loose roses fall
out and then she kicks them to

877
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,840
the side and I'm like honestly
icon.

878
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:50,480
He like, catches up to her and
like, essentially tries to like,

879
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,360
convince her to go out with him
again.

880
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:57,200
And she's like, no, no.
But she makes this point of

881
00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,280
saying like, you are who you
are.

882
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,280
I knew who you were when I got
into it, and it was stupid of me

883
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:05,720
to think I could change you.
And for some reason, he takes

884
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:09,240
that to heart.
OK, this whole thing of like you

885
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,040
are who you are, I'm not the guy
anymore.

886
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:16,080
Like you, you people are like
16-17 years old.

887
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,280
You're not anybody 15.
They are sophomores.

888
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:20,320
Oh, that's right.
They're sophomores.

889
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:22,440
They're not even juniors.
Like you're not anybody.

890
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,560
You're just little.
You're little babies.

891
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:28,760
You're you're not like a player.
You're just, you're nobody.

892
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,000
You're just a sophomore, junior
in high school.

893
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:37,080
Like you're I'm a bad boy.
No, you're stupid, Daddy.

894
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,960
And.
Brother issues and that's fair,

895
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,920
but good got at what cost?
And it was really funny.

896
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:48,120
I was talking to I was talking
to my therapist shout out

897
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,600
Caroline.
We were talking about the

898
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:57,000
dichotomy of like how the
original cast looked like they

899
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,680
cast actors who are so fucking
old.

900
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:04,400
And so then in comparison,
casting the the second

901
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:08,720
generation of Glee students as
like people in their early 20s

902
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:13,680
was like still better.
Like comparatively, because you

903
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:18,040
have you have Puck standing next
to Jake and Jake could

904
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:22,240
potentially look like he's 16,
even though Jacob Artist was

905
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:26,520
like 2324 years old because Mark
Selling was in his fucking 30s

906
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:31,440
and looked it.
And so then Ryder comes and.

907
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,720
Confronts him as the.
Guy is lifting weights.

908
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,840
Like first of all what is your
problem in confronting somebody

909
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,440
about something they did like
you have no skin in this game.

910
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:49,720
I know just like bro.
What bro bro like start to learn

911
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,880
to like the real Jake Puckerman
Like there is no you're you

912
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:57,760
haven't formed a real anything
and also you've been with

913
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:00,080
Marley.
For the majority of the time

914
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,200
that we've known you as a
character, like they introduced

915
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,920
you as a character and then they
said, oh, he's a player in

916
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:09,960
episode 2.
And then he didn't do anything

917
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,160
in episode 3 of season 4.
And then in and then in episode

918
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:17,400
4, he's like.
Trying to get with Marley and

919
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:22,000
then they start a relationship.
So we've just known him as

920
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:26,240
Marley's sweet boyfriend who's
also a Puckerman.

921
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,800
So it's like we're trying to.
It's like the writers are like

922
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:35,240
reverse gaslighting us into
like, the three episodes that we

923
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,960
saw of him being a bad boy is
his entire personality as

924
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:43,120
opposed to an entire season of
being a background boyfriend.

925
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,760
Yeah.
Sorry you got caught out.

926
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,280
Being a boyfriend, yeah, and he
but he then.

927
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:53,880
Sings my life the.
Concept of what he's doing.

928
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:59,240
Is fucked up 'cause he's
presenting to the entire club

929
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:03,800
and like almost making himself
out to be a victim of like it's

930
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,880
your fault that I cheated on you
because because you didn't put

931
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:10,720
out and this is who I am and
this is who I've always been.

932
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:14,920
Like this fucked up also to do
this in front of everybody when

933
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,840
everybody knows what you did.
But like he sounds so good.

934
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:20,400
This is who I've always been
since I hit puberty.

935
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:27,600
Three days ago, but he sounds.
So good honestly not to quote.

936
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:32,080
Taylor Swift too much, but
honestly, Jacob Artis should

937
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:36,040
have been a bigger artist.
Yeah, and now?

938
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,880
He's just making fucking Glee
related tik toks.

939
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:44,240
Yeah, I mean he's.
He's good Juilliard, yeah.

940
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,240
Well, I mean he should have gone
to Niata.

941
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:49,680
But I.
Literally sat there and I was

942
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:53,120
like, he is dancing his
Juilliard ass off.

943
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,800
He is singing.
I am enjoying it.

944
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,280
When is the last time he got a
solo?

945
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:03,520
Did you see an like I feel like?
I had it in my brain that like,

946
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:05,600
oh, here's a thing that we
should do for TikTok, except

947
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,800
none of us want to be on TikTok
because like faces.

948
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:14,000
But someone did a TikTok of
like, ranking the the male

949
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,360
singers on Glee, and I was like,
Jacob Artis really kind of

950
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:23,000
belongs near the top, yeah.
Like, he really does.

951
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:30,800
And The thing is that, like,
Glee also favors its female

952
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:32,640
singers.
Yeah, for sure.

953
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:35,640
And then within the male
singers.

954
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:41,600
They just favor whoever sells
the best, which is Darren,

955
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:46,440
because Darren had a
pre-existing fan base that I

956
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:47,680
will.
Cop to was.

957
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:51,040
Rather rabid.
Yup, I was there.

958
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,160
And I was.
Rather rabid about it thus far,

959
01:02:55,640 --> 01:03:01,120
but like Jacob Artist is a
really good vocalist.

960
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:05,040
Yes.
Like I still have his first solo

961
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:08,120
on my phone and if it comes up I
do not skip it.

962
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:11,320
Nice 'cause he's he's.
Very good.

963
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,000
But yeah, I was a really I it
makes me sad that he didn't get

964
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,480
more to do and that what he was
given to do was like, not great,

965
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:23,600
but I enjoyed the song.
I do too.

966
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,320
I enjoyed the.
I didn't enjoy.

967
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,960
What it was supposed to be
doing.

968
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,800
But they can't all be winners.
Can't all be winners.

969
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,400
Sometimes it's just a song that
you listen.

970
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:39,000
To on an iPod.
An iPod on your phone on an

971
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,880
Apple product on an.
But then Marley has this really,

972
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:50,240
really sweet, if a little bit
puritanical, interaction with

973
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:52,280
her mom.
This made me angry because I

974
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,040
wanted.
It to be something so much

975
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:57,000
different yeah I love Marley's
mom I.

976
01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:58,880
Mean she's such a.
Sweet character.

977
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:03,160
I don't know why she's working
in the school kitchen for lunch.

978
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:05,680
Like I don't like Marley.
I don't know why she's helping

979
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,440
out for lunch.
I didn't think it was lunch, I

980
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:12,080
just thought it was like after.
Hours and she's just hanging.

981
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:13,720
Out with mom and like helping
her.

982
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:15,760
Out.
I'll take that up.

983
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:17,240
No.
No.

984
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:19,160
I'll take that 'cause I was
like, why were you allow?

985
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,680
Like, is that a thing that
students can do is help out at

986
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:23,120
lunch, 'cause I don't think we
had that.

987
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:25,360
But yeah, I didn't.
I do.

988
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:30,120
I don't like conversations of
like, your first time needs to

989
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:32,080
be special, 'cause you can never
get that back.

990
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:36,800
Like, let's not do that.
Yeah, I do.

991
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:41,800
Like I know it was something
that was very popular at the

992
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:46,080
time to tell teenagers instead
of saying instead of going the

993
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,080
Mean Girls route of don't have
sex.

994
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:49,640
If you have sex you'll get
pregnant and die.

995
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:54,280
Telling them your first time
should be with.

996
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:57,080
Someone you trust and.
Care about and it's special and

997
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,920
you can't get that back.
And that has always kind of been

998
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:05,560
Glee's like messaging about
teenage sex.

999
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:07,960
So like, at least it was a
little bit consistent.

1000
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:13,400
I more so appreciated that
Marley has like, the

1001
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:17,400
relationship with her mom where
she can talk about these things

1002
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:22,480
freely, right, 'cause she's not
only talking about like, being

1003
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:26,040
glad she didn't sleep with him,
but she's talking about her

1004
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,520
feelings and about being
conflicted and about missing

1005
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,840
him.
These are not really easy

1006
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:35,640
emotions.
And I'm glad that she had

1007
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,560
someone to talk to.
I mean, like, Unique probably

1008
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:41,040
would have been there to talk
with her about this, but it

1009
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,760
would have been sassier.
And I'm glad that she had her

1010
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:47,000
mom there too, right?
And then Ryder pops out and he's

1011
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,360
like, go out with me, Go out
with me.

1012
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,560
I'm a good man.
My grades are up.

1013
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:54,280
Yeah, he just like.
Bombards.

1014
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:58,040
Her in the.
Hallway I I will give them

1015
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:00,960
credit for the line of now that
I can read, I get good grades.

1016
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,040
Yeah, I did.
I did like that.

1017
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:06,400
I hate that it comes from
writer.

1018
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:08,960
God, what a thing that aged
like.

1019
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:14,440
Milk to have him sing.
I'm an innocent man.

1020
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:19,320
And OK, and for him, for him to
say I would never hurt you, I

1021
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:25,520
was like, oh, no, Oh, no.
You think they should just edit

1022
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:28,920
that out of the the like, just
cut that out.

1023
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:30,400
Just take it out.
Just take it out.

1024
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:31,720
She just decided to come on a
date with him.

1025
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:37,280
He he first of all, he starts
like he asks her and she's like,

1026
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:42,640
no, I, I first of all, she says
that she's like tired of men.

1027
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,640
I'm like, these are not men,
they're little babies.

1028
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,040
They're boys.
If you don't want to say boys,

1029
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:52,720
you can say.
Guys, I wasn't called.

1030
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:54,200
I was 15.
I was having boy.

1031
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:56,960
Trouble.
I was not calling them men.

1032
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,920
But like, good for her.
She stood up for herself.

1033
01:06:59,920 --> 01:07:01,600
She stood her ground.
She was like, I need some time

1034
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,320
for myself.
And also, they literally just

1035
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:05,800
broke up.
Yeah, like what?

1036
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:07,520
That morning, whatever day it
is.

1037
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:09,880
Like give her a minute and then
he.

1038
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:13,800
Start they, they framed this in
a very interesting way where

1039
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,080
there are just mirrors and then
he just starts looking in the

1040
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:18,920
mirror and singing in these
mirrors.

1041
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:22,880
And then it cuts to him singing
in the Glee club and like what a

1042
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:31,120
weird thing to do to publicly
ask out your bro's ex-girlfriend

1043
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,760
in front of him and all of your
classmates.

1044
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:39,800
Like not just through song,
because it would have been one

1045
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,200
thing.
To be like I'm.

1046
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:44,800
Going to show you how dedicated
I am to like wanting to be with

1047
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,760
you, but still hold that
boundary of I just, I want to

1048
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,600
show you how much I like you,
but I'm not going to ask you out

1049
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:52,280
again.
But then he does it.

1050
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:57,240
He he ends up in front of her
and he's like go out with me cuz

1051
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:00,760
he sucks.
And he's like, OK.

1052
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:06,400
And in the corner of the frame,
like Jake walks out and I'm

1053
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:10,240
like, you don't, you don't have
a right to be mad.

1054
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:15,680
Like you can feel your feelings.
You don't get to take them out

1055
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:17,520
on her.
No, I did kind of wish that he

1056
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:20,160
had kicked a chair on.
His way out, a la Finn.

1057
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:23,600
I thought that would have been
kind of like a funny nod, but

1058
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:25,920
yeah, this kind of storyline
ends like.

1059
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:30,439
They go out on a date and after
their date, Ryder just gets.

1060
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:32,840
There's no other word.
It's just cringe.

1061
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:36,960
Oh, it's full cringe, Yeah.
He made them Instagram official

1062
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:39,399
and it's like best date ever.
Like, Oh my.

1063
01:08:39,399 --> 01:08:43,720
God, can you fucking chill?
And before she can even, like,

1064
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:49,080
actually start a conversation,
Jake gets in between them.

1065
01:08:50,359 --> 01:08:55,600
And I was like, oh, all right,
yeah, sucks it.

1066
01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:02,560
And, like, it's just annoying.
And he just goes like full gross

1067
01:09:02,560 --> 01:09:06,439
boy and like full gross
Puckerman, Yeah.

1068
01:09:07,319 --> 01:09:12,359
Cuz Puck as a character, they
did this thing with him where

1069
01:09:12,359 --> 01:09:16,120
either he was pursuing someone
and having real genuine emotions

1070
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:24,319
or he was objectifying either
teenage or adult women.

1071
01:09:24,319 --> 01:09:27,520
There was no in between.
That's kind of what they did

1072
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:32,479
with Jake in in this episode
where, like, he was either

1073
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:36,800
seemingly sad about Marley and,
like, trying to get her back or

1074
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:39,960
women are objects that I fuck
and I'm like, you're 15 years

1075
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,240
old.
Yeah, Yeah, Like it's too.

1076
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:46,520
Yeah, you're too young.
It's.

1077
01:09:47,279 --> 01:09:49,880
Yeah.
Stop it.

1078
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:52,439
And.
Then we.

1079
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:57,480
Culminate with Sue having a
complete change of heart and

1080
01:09:57,480 --> 01:09:59,400
putting up a booth.
For the arts during the career

1081
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:06,040
fair and and then.
Them teeing up perfectly for

1082
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:07,320
the.
Glee club to sing.

1083
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:09,200
I did.
I had to write down her line

1084
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,200
because.
She says over My dead body.

1085
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:15,160
Will you inexplicably shoehorn
in another Billy Joel song just

1086
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:18,120
to punctuate one of your weekly
lessons that inevitably veers

1087
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:20,720
off into a saccharine barrage of
angst and affirmation?

1088
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,280
Oh, that was delicious.
It was so.

1089
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:25,360
Good because.
It's meta.

1090
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:27,600
Glee never learns.
They're going to do it every

1091
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:31,000
time.
It's hard to be mad at them for

1092
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:35,200
calling themselves out and then
just doing it anyway because how

1093
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:36,320
else are they going to end an
episode?

1094
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:39,280
They can't end an episode
without a group number.

1095
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:43,640
Yeah, I.
Feel like I had a Mandela.

1096
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,360
Effect type of.
Thing where I was like, no, this

1097
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:49,000
episode ends with them singing
We didn't start the fire.

1098
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:53,280
Oh.
Yeah, why did I think that?

1099
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:55,400
I was gonna say.
Oh my God, it's like shoes

1100
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,160
first, like lead solo in a
while.

1101
01:10:57,160 --> 01:10:59,400
And then I was like, he sang
Blurred Lines last episode and I

1102
01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:02,280
just shared it, 'cause I 'cause
I didn't.

1103
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:05,160
Know like.
Outside, no.

1104
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:10,840
Out of pocket, no.
But like, it makes sense that he

1105
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:12,000
has.
The teacher is leading it.

1106
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:14,440
Yeah.
And.

1107
01:11:14,440 --> 01:11:16,080
He didn't get a ton to do this
episode.

1108
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:19,240
No, he, he at the.
Beginning and then at the end.

1109
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,640
To be fair, this was about the
kids going to college.

1110
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:23,160
So it made sense that he wasn't
here.

1111
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,200
There's some plot movement
because we've got Blaine and

1112
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:30,320
Sam, like getting their New York
set up 'cause they're obviously

1113
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:33,640
gonna move to New York.
Yeah, and so is and.

1114
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:35,200
And so is Artie.
So is Artie.

1115
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:36,840
Although they didn't make that
as clear.

1116
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,360
That he's gonna be with them.
No, it was just one line.

1117
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:43,560
It's not clear.
That Tina is just gonna be

1118
01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:47,120
dropped because she doesn't go
to new.

1119
01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:48,240
York.
So it's like.

1120
01:11:48,440 --> 01:11:51,920
Goodbye E bye, girl.
If we can't have you in New

1121
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:59,680
York, you can't be on the show.
And then like the poor McKinley

1122
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:03,240
kids, I guess if they can't have
a romantic storyline, they still

1123
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:06,120
can't have storylines.
I feel like it was just like

1124
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:11,040
they literally.
Got tired of writing the

1125
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:14,000
newbies?
Oh yeah, they always do.

1126
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:17,360
But this was the first time that
we had.

1127
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:21,720
Them I I.
Mean I say that and like it's.

1128
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:25,800
Were six episodes since the
season 5, but like these this

1129
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,880
was still the first batch of
like newbies that were supposed

1130
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:34,520
to be leads and.
And it was.

1131
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:38,600
Supposed to be this dual thing
and then they just literally got

1132
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:42,560
tired of writing these
characters and it seems to have

1133
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:46,360
been this season.
Like.

1134
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:50,960
In this part of the like,
basically in this stretch of

1135
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:54,760
episodes into because they like,
it seems like they knew where

1136
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:56,480
they were going and they were
like, well, then we're just

1137
01:12:56,480 --> 01:12:58,560
going to discard these
characters before it's their

1138
01:12:58,560 --> 01:12:59,840
time because it doesn't make
sense.

1139
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:03,080
And like, they made them so
boring so quickly.

1140
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:06,040
They made them so boring they
recycled the.

1141
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:10,240
Storylines and it because I
really liked Marley.

1142
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:13,480
I do too.
Yeah, I.

1143
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:17,040
I because I don't remember a.
Lot of season 5 because I put it

1144
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:20,440
out of my mind yeah I keep
hoping they turn her around

1145
01:13:20,440 --> 01:13:25,280
because she's so interesting
like the actor is so good she

1146
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:29,480
sounds so wonderful when she
sings like I miss whenever

1147
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:34,360
Marley and unique sing together
it's oh it's magic so I.

1148
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:40,800
Just kind of keep hoping.
Keep hoping it picks up from

1149
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:42,800
what I remember.
It doesn't, not really.

1150
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:50,120
Which makes me sad.
But like I, I just remember.

1151
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:53,920
At the beginning.
Of Season 4 being really,

1152
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:55,200
really.
Excited for Marley.

1153
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:57,640
And then she kept getting stuff,
even if it wasn't great.

1154
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:59,840
So I was like, I'm invested in
this character.

1155
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:04,960
And then this season rolled
around and like she wasn't

1156
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:08,000
getting anything good to do.
She wasn't singing as much.

1157
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:12,920
I was like, this makes me sad.
It does.

1158
01:14:14,480 --> 01:14:20,120
Well, you know, Ryan Murphy's
team is not known for developing

1159
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:24,920
their toys, they're known for
picking up new ones.

1160
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,360
I guess we can just wrap it up
by playing.

1161
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,760
What is your favorite song out
of this episode?

1162
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,680
Oh geez, how did I not think
about this?

1163
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:34,840
Obviously it's Piano Man.
What are you doing?

1164
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:37,440
I mean.
Yes, it is very.

1165
01:14:37,440 --> 01:14:40,120
Much Piano man?
Absolutely.

1166
01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:43,440
It is piano man.
But I want to give a shout out.

1167
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:46,080
So I want to give a shout out to
my life.

1168
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:48,560
OK, fair.
As much as I hate the concept.

1169
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:51,640
Of what he's doing.
He sounds good.

1170
01:14:51,640 --> 01:15:04,680
And you?
Can speak your mind but not all

1171
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:09,160
night time.
I don't care what you say

1172
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:16,520
anymore, this is my life.
Go ahead with your own life.

1173
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:25,180
Leave me alone.
No, he does.

1174
01:15:25,500 --> 01:15:28,700
And like, this is 10 years too.
Late but positive reinforcement

1175
01:15:28,700 --> 01:15:32,820
for the things that are good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, legit.

1176
01:15:33,420 --> 01:15:38,900
Favorite line?
Mine is definitely like a little

1177
01:15:38,900 --> 01:15:39,460
mini.
Bitch.

1178
01:15:42,340 --> 01:15:44,500
Like, yeah, it's not very.
Often I have to.

1179
01:15:44,500 --> 01:15:48,520
Pause an.
Episode to laugh that is a good.

1180
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:55,600
One so I mean I think I think I
think it's and I'm up for this

1181
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:58,280
awesome scholarship the.
Channing Tatum former male

1182
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:03,520
stripper Grant so Sam gets. 2.
Yeah, yeah.

1183
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:05,000
We had good singers this
episode.

1184
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:07,320
Yeah.
Those are those are good.

1185
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:11,160
That was a good singers episode.
OK.

1186
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:14,040
And then we can end.
With what's that thing I like?

1187
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:15,320
So what's that thing that you
liked?

1188
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:18,880
I 'cause we end.
On a positive note.

1189
01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:25,280
Yes, yes we do.
I really liked, I guess we end

1190
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:27,960
on a positive note.
I really liked the kind of a

1191
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:33,120
positive or uplifting attitude
that everyone kind of ends on.

1192
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:38,760
Like Sam is literally told he.
Is going to be.

1193
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:42,160
Rejected continuously.
And he's like, yeah, and that's

1194
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:44,760
fine.
I have this dream and I want to

1195
01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:50,680
go for it.
And Becky sees that leaving

1196
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:55,880
McKinley and leaving Sue is
going to be a change, obviously,

1197
01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,880
and it's going to be scary, but
she sees what's out there and

1198
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:03,520
she looks forward to it.
And I just.

1199
01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:04,880
I really.
Like that for them, OK.

1200
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:14,920
I.
Like I like.

1201
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:18,920
The the school is actually.
Attempting to set their students

1202
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:23,120
on a path outside of high
school.

1203
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:26,680
Like, for the first time ever,
McKinley is is doing a career

1204
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:30,680
fair.
And is it at least attempting to

1205
01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:33,760
let their students know that
something happens after

1206
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:35,800
graduation?
Yeah.

1207
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:38,280
For the first time I, I.
Liked that growth for them.

1208
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:42,080
I like struggle to believe that.
It's actually their first one,

1209
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:45,840
but I appreciate that that's
what they did for these kids.

1210
01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:47,840
Yeah.
I mean, it is McKinley, so all

1211
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:48,640
things are.
Possible.

1212
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:50,640
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1213
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:53,640
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1214
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:58,360
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1215
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01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:12,160
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1219
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:16,640
And then we'll catch you next
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1220
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:20,840
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1221
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:23,840
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