Glee on the Rocks: S5E8 - Previously Unaired Glee-mas

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This is another one of those
performances where I was like,

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when they get the script for
this, does anyone think about

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quitting?
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'm Emily.
I'm me.

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And I'm Allison.
And it's Christmas in August for

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this recording.
For what I was.

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Looking forward to the Christmas
part.

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And then I'd I didn't pay off
even the Christmas songs.

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I was just like, oh, OK.
I.

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That's because there's no
Christmas spirit in this

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episode.
What?

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No, I'm, I'm usually such a
sucker for Christmas stuff.

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Like I'm usually such a sucker.
But the first Christmas song in

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this episode is Curt on his
little cute little piano.

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And I was like, absolutely not.
There's nothing about this

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that's filled with with the
spirit of Christmas.

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That song also comes 12 minutes
into a Christmas episode.

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Sure, that's.
That long to get to a song.

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This is season 5 episode 8.
Technically the previously

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unaired Christmas the Glee club
members auditioned for parts in

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the nativity scene.
Meanwhile, Rachel Curtin Santana

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work as elves at a mall.
This episode aired December 5th,

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2013.
So found out before this

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recording that I am the only one
who had seen this episode

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before, or at least the only.
One with any conscious memory of

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having seen it before.
It's not a good memory.

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I've seen these images on
Tumblr.

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You could not avoid the images,
you're right about that.

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I remember Santana, Santana and
her little dress.

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It's a nice one.
This this episode does not

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actually exist.
This is a non canonical episode

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of Glee which is fucking wild.
It it is.

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It does not fit in the timeline.
It exists in its own space.

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It's not a memory of someone.
It's not like Blaine high on gas

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fumes thinking about puppets.
It's not Tina getting knocked

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out in a fountain and and doing
a body swap.

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It just doesn't actually exist.
These things did not happen in

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the in the canonical timeline of
Glee.

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They just did this episode
because season 5 is a

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continuation of the school year
of season 4 and is past

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Christmas, which meant that they
wouldn't get a Christmas episode

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out of season 5 so they put one
in it.

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And you got to get those
streams, got to get those albums

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sales.
This entire this, this was just

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a mistake.
This was an enormous mistake.

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The whole thing was a mistake.
It's not like the songs were

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good.
No, no be worth it.

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No, no.
You wanna give me an you wanna

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give me like a cut in Christmas
episode?

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Give me a Warblers Christmas
special.

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Yeah, love that idea.
Like something.

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Nothing about nothing about this
was good.

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Nothing OK except for Santana.
Santana, in bits and pieces of

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this episode, was a perfect
Angel.

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Everything else was garbage.
It, it's, it is historically a

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bad episode.
I don't know that there's, I

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mean, maybe there are some
people who watch Glee who could,

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who would argue for it.
It made Klain fans incalculably

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angry because it resets back to
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The rib.
Which is already a frustrating

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storyline.
And then it's like, OK, we

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haven't really seen Kurt and
Blaine together for a while

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because they've been in Lima, in
New York.

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Now we're gonna do an entire
Christmas episode, which is like

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a clean thing anyway, Christmas.
And we're gonna have the broken

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up again.
And we're gonna have Kurt horned

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up on a creepy Santa.
Why?

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It was just like, it's the
opposite of fanservice, like

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whatever that is, it's like fan
fuck you.

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Fan taxes fan.
Taxes.

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We had to pay taxes.
We had to tithe.

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This was a.
Typing damage like.

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It's awful.
Like, I don't even know who was

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it was.
The writing credits go to Ross

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Maxwell.
I don't even know who the fuck

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that is who did this.
What?

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Yeah.
Did he ever write any other

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episodes?
Who the fuck is that?

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Yeah, who are you?
His Wikipedia.

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Turn isn't even linked.
Was this like like a spec script

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that was like just dug out of
the file somewhere like?

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It says he's a writer, producer
on Netflix's Chilling and Branch

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Adventures of Sabrina.
Well, that's where he's over,

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isn't it?
It's like, does that mean

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anything to anyone?
No.

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Here's the other episodes he
wrote on Glee.

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Now, did he write them by
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Probably not.
Yeah, unlikely.

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He wrote Hold on to 16 and Dance
with Somebody.

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Those are good episodes.
Yeah, they are.

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Sadie Hawkins and Sweet dreams
from season 4.

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And then in season 6, he wrote a
wedding He must have.

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What happened?
I don't know.

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He can't be the sole writer.
Hold on, Dance with Somebody is

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a really good episode.
Yeah, it is.

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No, he wrote it solo.
He has the solo credit.

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He has the solo credit that
doesn't.

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They're solo writers around
Blaine and Kurt also have like a

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broken up cheating on each
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He's an anti cleaner.
Yeah, A. 100.

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Percent.
We're on to you, Ross.

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Anti clean, anti Bretana.
I can't.

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I don't understand.
This episode is just like it.

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It's dumb.
I mean, there is a reason

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everyone skips over it.
It just it doesn't exist.

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We could just end the recording
now, but you know.

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To you by America's Phantom on
the rocks.

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Yeah.
I mean, there's nothing in here

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that that carries forward.
It's not plot like, it all just

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disappears.
It opens with Jane Lynch as Jane

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Lynch, but dressed as Sue
Sylvester.

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And you know that if a if an
actor is going to cold open a

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show, that it's very special.
Is this is the specialist of

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special episodes of Glee?
And it's like, is this, what

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kind of special episode is this?
I'm America's Jane Lynch.

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In October 2012, on the
Paramount Sound stages, the cast

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and crew of Glee filmed a
Christmas episode entitled Rough

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Trade Santa.
Upon viewing the director's cut,

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Fox executives were coiled in
horror and then locked the

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episode in a lead vault, where
it languished for an entire

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year.
After a year of pleas from fans

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all over the world, the episode
will now air.

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Yeah, and she's like.
In 2012, the cast filmed this

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Christmas episode that was
suppressed by Fox for being too,

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I would say, bad.
Suppress it harder.

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Yeah, suppress it harder Fox.
You don't, and it's only now

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being aired with several edits.
One of the cutscenes that she

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mentions is Blaine and his
obsession with Yule logs.

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I would actually watch that.
The other one is explaining why

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Will has given up on his
Washington dreams.

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I would have also liked to see
that.

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Yeah.
I don't like Will Schuster, but

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I would have loved an end to
that storyline.

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Yeah, I would.
I would have appreciated that

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apparently the fact that this is
not a real episode of Glee did

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not come across to all of the
fandom because people were

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confused and pissed after this
aired.

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So this little cold open
explainer did not do the trick.

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But in the choir room, they're
doing the 50th Annual McKinley

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Classroom Tree Decorating
Contest.

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I heard it as a door decorating
contest for first and I was like

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OK whatever but.
It's a tree decorating contest.

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Like a classroom decorating
contest?

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Yeah.
Yeah, but it's for a tree,

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something that we've never heard
of before or since, because this

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isn't real.
And she?

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Expensively says we didn't do
last year, the year before or

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the year before that.
But it's an annual tradition. 50

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years.
The show calls that out the

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entire time in a way that's
like, no, that's, that's our

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job.
You as the, the writers

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shouldn't.
If you're, you know that you're

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bad at your job, what are you
doing?

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Fix it.
Why does it have to be an

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ancient tradition?
Why couldn't you be like, for

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the first year, we're gonna do a
Christmas Day?

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Like it just didn't matter.
It was just in celebration of

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coach of coach Principal
Sylvester's first year as

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principal.
First of forever, we initiate

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the tree decorating.
Come on guys.

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She's not principal in this
timeline.

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Oh no.
Yeah, she's only coach.

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Principal Figgins is back.
Because it's 2012.

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Because.
It's 2012 in anticipation of

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Coach Sue's tale, like Coach
Sylvester's takeover of Glee.

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I had to do, I had to do a a bit
of math because I was like,

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what?
Where are we in Glee?

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Because should Marley and Jake
and Ryder even be there?

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But they should.
So it's only like 4 or five

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months earlier in the show's
timeline, right?

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Like they're still in spring
2013 in the show.

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Well, they're in Christmas. 20
this episode.

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I'm sorry, I meant like episode
previously.

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Yes, they're still in spring
2013 and.

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So this like so going back to
December 2012 is only going back

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quote UN quote four or five
months, 5 or 6 months, I don't

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know what month it is.
Far enough back before everybody

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gets back together, but not so
far back that Jake and Marley

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haven't broken up yet.
There's too many things that

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happened.
I'm like, Santana's not in New

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York curtain plane or like just
freshly broken up.

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Or was it Curt and Adam who had
just broken up?

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I wasn't sure what they were
trying to say.

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Well, yeah, that was confusing
too.

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I Who knows, because Glee's
timeline is both very short and

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extraordinarily long.
He was single, which I think is

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the only thing that matters for
this particular plot point.

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True.
People's personalities have also

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reverted because Tina is back to
being like a power craze

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lunatic.
It was awful to watch.

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It was really, Yeah.
Tina, my girl, what did they do

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to you?
The prize for winning the

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decorating contest is a special
glass Angel with like powers,

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and Tina thinks the angel's
powers are going to get her both

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a boyfriend and prom queen.
So we're back to episode 252

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where she wants to be prom
queen, which also means that

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Finn is still alive.
Right.

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Ouch.
So that's an unintended

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consequence of this.
Was he mentioned at all?

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No.
I have a note in my notes about

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Finn when Shoe is up at the
board talking about green

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Christmas.
My note was immediately like,

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not blue Christmas.
We're not going to tie that.

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No.
OK.

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There was a photo next to Shoe
on the bookcase that I think was

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from National Season 1 in the
gold outfits.

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Yes.
And I think, I think it's Finn

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and Artie in the front row of
that photo.

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And I was like, hold on, is that
Finn?

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It is Finn.
Hyphen.

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So he's there in spirit.
Yeah, I guess 1 little cute

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thing was Blaine trying to sing
Joy to the world and everyone

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telling him to shut up.
Yeah, I liked that.

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Me too.
Except it would have been a

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better song for them to sing
than some of the other shit that

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happens.
The song choices are so fucking

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wild.
In like, it's bombastic.

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Wild.
They are terrible.

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But I am really excited to get
to one of them, so hold on.

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OK, so keeping at McKinley,
we'll do McKinley and then we'll

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do New York 'cause they don't
talk to each other.

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No, they do not.
There is the non denominational

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Christmas club meeting, which if
you call it Christmas, it's not

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the non denominational club
meeting.

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It has to be like the non
denominational Yule season.

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The winter time holiday club.
We have this problem at work

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where we have to call everything
Yule instead of Christmas and

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part of me just doesn't give a
fuck like but.

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Yule is also a holiday, like a
specific holiday now.

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Religious, isn't it?
Pain of this.

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Yeah, it's old religious.
Holiday.

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It's Norse.
It's it's Old Norse.

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It's what we landed on instead
of trying to be like winter time

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festivities.
I mean like cool in your in your

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like global education of the
day.

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In a full circle moment, Yule is
Norwegian for Christmas.

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Yes.
So it's, it's all the same.

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I mean, like it's not the, it's
not the same, but like to say

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Merry Christmas in Norwegian is
good.

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Yule, it's good Yule.
It's it's just the it's, that's

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what it is.
Wow.

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So it's all kind of smushed
together.

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And holidays is a fine word to
use.

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It yeah, that's that's another
podcast of we're tired of this

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shit.
I would just like my Yule logs.

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Please can I have some cake?
Yeah, OK.

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And going back, is Blaine
obsessed with Yule logs like the

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cake or Yule logs like what
burns in a fire?

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Is it supposed to be like an
innuendo?

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That too, I don't know.
Surely.

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Yeah, you know, Blaine's on the
bottom and all that.

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I guess.
So Speaking of Blaine, he does

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call out that the Christmas Club
looks an awful lot like the Glee

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Club.
And it sure does, right?

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Was there even anybody in there
who wasn't I?

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Don't recall seeing anyone in
there, but frankly.

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I didn't either, I watched.
This episode with one eye?

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Yeah, understandable.
So.

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The outdoor Manger scene has
been defaced.

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Why?
There's an outdoor Manger scene

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at a public school?
I don't.

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Know and they once.
Again, say that out loud like

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they do.
Say it out loud.

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It's like what?
What they they say it out loud

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and then they just double down
by doing a living Manger scene

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and singing away in a Manger on
public school property.

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And as someone who frequently
yells at other people about the

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separation of church and state,
I think I would be writing a

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note to the Superintendent of
the school if I saw that shit

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going down 100.
Percent.

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Did they just run out of secular
Christmas songs?

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I think they must have.
Yeah, I saw this in a comment in

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one of the the recaps either
like EW or Vulture or something

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that was basically just saying
like, were there no other good

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Christmas songs for them to do?
Why didn't they?

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Take like a an approach they're
about to take in like two or

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three episodes and just redo
some of those other Christmas

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songs to different people or
like a different arrangement.

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Slow it down, speed it up,
whatever I think that was.

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Better.
I was really sad that they

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didn't start leaning into like
the the media based Christmas

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stuff.
Like why don't they do any of

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the songs?
Like why didn't they do a dance

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number for the the song like
Linus and Lucy from from from

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Charlie Brown Christmas special?
Like aren't there?

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Aren't there other?
Like aren't there other songs?

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There's like, oh, there's like
so many like 90s Christmas songs

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they haven't done what's like
the Britney Spears and **NSYNC

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Backstreet Boy type songs
There's.

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Things they haven't.
Done yet that are so secular

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90°.
How to really this gift Oh.

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Yes, a very boy band Christmas.
That would have been incredible.

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A perfect name for the Warblers
Christmas episodes.

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The Holly and the Ivy isn't that
non religious.

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Not that one fun, but it sounds
pretty secular, I mean.

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It's definitely Yule based, but
like we've established that

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that's secular.
It's cool.

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And there's there's a fight,
obviously there's gonna be a

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fight over who's gonna be the
Virgin Mary.

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Me, me, I wanna be the Virgin
Mary and they.

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Don't just solve it by having
three of them.

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No, just.
Everyone rotate in and out.

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If you're gonna be standing
outside doing a living nativity

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scene, just rotate in and out.
What are we?

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What is the problem?
I would also.

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Singing a trio song is not going
to help them decide which one of

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you should be Mary.
I mean, obviously they just

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wanted to do that song and I
liked the performance.

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I'm not mad at it, but that's
not how you audition for

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something.
Yeah, so Kitty's the only one

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who's like, I'm not going to
audition for Mary.

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And Marley goes up to her, like,
why not?

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And she's back in her little
hats and scarves, 'cause that's

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how that you regress your
characters.

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You just put them back in their
their first outfit they ever

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wore, Rachel.
Rachel.

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Rachel.
Little sweaters and and mini

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skirts, and now it's just mini
skirts and tot.

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I don't know who knows.
But yeah, Kitty's like, no, I'm

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not gonna, I'm not gonna
audition for Mary.

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And it comes out that she
doesn't feel like she's worthy.

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She doesn't have the Virgin Mary
spirit.

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Yeah, she.
Says I'm a Christian and I know

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what it means to have the Virgin
Mary spirit in your heart and I

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don't have it like and my no
hair was just reader.

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I snorted.
Like what part of Kitty is

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supposed to be a practicing
Christian?

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The bullying.
Part the.

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Yeah, the bullying part, which
if you think about it pretty

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close, but what what a part of
her, her character?

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Are we?
To me, this was I I wanted

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someone to come out and be like
Kitty.

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You're you've never been in a
church in your life.

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And like, everyone takes it.
Fucking seriously?

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She starts.
Talking about how, you know, I

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don't have the spirit of the
Virgin Mary.

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I'm more like Mary Magdalene.
I'm like Jesus also loved Mary

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Magdalene.
What's the poem that's half?

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The point of Mary Magdalene?
That's half the.

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Point of Mary Magdalene is that
she was also worthy of Christ's

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love.
Like, are you?

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I don't.
I don't understand.

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Did you not?
Read the book.

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Obviously you didn't read the
book.

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Most of them haven't.
But like, there's many things

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Glee shouldn't talk about the
like religion is one of them.

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The actual tech like just stop.
But yeah, I having Kitty all of

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a sudden be like, I can't do
this because I'm too religious

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when she spent her entire
character arc bullying people

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into eating disorders and
breaking up relationships.

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Like just just don't.
Why are we doing this?

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And they they have the audition
for Mary and they they perform.

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What song is it?
Frankly, all I never seeing are

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the sparkly dresses it's called.
Mary's boy child, Oh.

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Yeah, I also didn't think that
was a real song, but it is.

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I now hear the angels sing A
king was born today.

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Jesus Christ was born on.
Christmas.

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Day, Harry all.
Right.

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Are you ready for more global
slash Norwegian education?

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It's like, do you?
Do all the Norwegian children

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have to learn the song in
Norwegian?

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Is that?
Absolutely no idea.

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But so in one of the things that
I'm learning about Norway is

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that over Christmas, they're
super, super big on advent

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calendars, right?
Mm Hmm.

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And so the, the, the culture
really practices like the

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Sundays of Advent, but also
every like media thing produces

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advent calendar.
So there's like advent calendar

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TV with like little mini
episodes every day and a lot of

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like advertisements where you
get different coupons every day.

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And there's an old Norwegian TV
advent calendar called the ula

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Calendar and it is done by like
a trio, a comedy trio which tell

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at the same time the story of
like little Christmas elves who

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crash in an airplane and like a
farm husband and wife who end up

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accidentally taking in like a
elf hunting vampire monster.

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And it's.
Very funny and done in like

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straight Norwegian and then like
kind of pigeon Norwegian, where

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it's like the direct translation
of Norwegian but done in

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English.
It's very funny and I love it.

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But they do this song in the
Eula calendar.

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Why?
Because.

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It's hilarious and so I didn't
know that this was like a real

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song I because I had only ever
heard it in the EULA calendar.

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It doesn't and I'm like.
Glee, did you really pull a

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Christmas song from like a 30
year old Norwegian Christmas

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comedy sketch?
Was that really what you did?

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Maybe let's see Mary's.
Yeah, maybe.

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Maybe that's where he saw it
from it.

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It was incredible because I'm
like doing the silly little elf

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dance, the little Nyssa dance
while they're playing, while

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they're doing the song.
And my husband was like, Oh

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yeah, I know that song and he's
like singing the version in the

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office while I'm watching the
episode.

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It was hilarious.
This song Wikipedia maybe

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falsely states that it was
widely performed as A Christmas

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Carol number one on the UK
singles charts in November 1957.

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I I will.
Appreciate the the fun poppy

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upbeatness of it I think.
A lot.

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Of especially when they ended on
a very slow traditional blurring

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song.
I did appreciate the very

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upbeat, high production value
numbers in the middle.

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That was definitely different
than all the other Christmas

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episodes they've done for sure.
Yeah, I.

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I will say though, I really like
Tina and Marley and Unique as a

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trio.
Yes, that is the.

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That's an upside.
It's such an.

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Upside and it's so much fun,
although I have the beef, it's

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the it's the Broadway beef.
Did they put unique in pants and

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long sleeves because she's fat?
Probably or.

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Was that like a performer
choice?

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Was was Alex like, hey, I want
to wear something else?

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So they do.
This for every outfit that the

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girls have Unique always has
sleeves when nobody else does.

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I just it makes me so mad.
Part where?

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She has pants while they're
wearing like a a bodysuit kind

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of look.
Yeah, they always cover her up

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more.
I would.

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If it's a performer choice,
great.

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If it's not.
Yeah, they used to do this.

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Lauren Zeisses was always more
covered up than Mercedes.

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Always.
So maybe it was.

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Actor.
For that, I'm not sure.

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Yeah, well.
'Cause Mercedes was always more

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covered up than like Rachel and
Quinn and Brittany and Santana,

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but Zeisses was more covered up
than Mercedes.

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00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:06,200
Right.
But when?

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There was like costumes, usually
Mercedes was the same as the

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other girls, but Zeisses always
had like, additional sleeves or

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length or something.
So gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

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It's annoying.
I think I'd like to believe it's

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Alex.
I would truly hope that it was

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Alex's preference, but something
tells me it's not.

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00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,720
Yeah.
Something tells me it's not, but

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you know what that like the
unique ends up wearing like 2

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almost like disco outfits yes,
the white one and then the blue

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one lady of the episode and
they're incredible.

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00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:38,520
So you know what?
I.

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Yeah, I mean all that, you know,
bullshit needing to cover up

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plus size people
notwithstanding, the outfits are

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amazing.
They really are fun.

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And the staging, they have like
a whole staging, like, yeah.

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And they look like little snow
fairies and they're so pretty.

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So unfortunately.
It's still wild, but.

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The song is.
Wild performances.

447
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Unfortunately, Mr. Shue does
have to say the line.

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I'm happy to help judge your
virgins.

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00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,080
Oh.
No.

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Yikes.
I love that.

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Also, when Beast and Artie and
Shuster are sitting at the

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table, Beast is like, well, you
know, I don't really have a

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whole lot of experience judging
the Glee club and Artie's like,

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I'm sitting right here.
Yeah, forever.

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Ignored forever ignored.
Poor director Artie Abrams.

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I know so so dumb.
They the the Glee club kind of

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like teams up to get Kitty to be
Mary because they do another

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song of the 1960s Supremes love
child unique has like a fake

459
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,880
pregnant belly performing.
They do like the whole Jesus

460
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,920
birth scene with a baby doll.
People are like, mostly dressed

461
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,280
up in their costumes like
they're doing the entire thing.

462
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,920
Uniques on a table giving birth.
Is it writer who catches it or

463
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,160
like is Jake?
I think catches.

464
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,440
It and Kitty just comes flat out
calling the performance like

465
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:23,840
sacrilegious and profane and it.
Was one of my favorite parts of

466
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:28,800
the whole episode.
Unique was incredible.

467
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,240
This is another one of those
performances where I was like,

468
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,200
when they get the script for
this, does anyone think about

469
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,960
quitting 'cause that's on
celluloid forever, yeah.

470
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,760
We're still watching it like
you're trying.

471
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,000
To go out for a new job and
someone just pulls up the tape

472
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,600
like, was this you?
It it was you did.

473
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,080
This 'cause he's like, we have
to do this the right way or not

474
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,920
at all.
Like again, why do you care so

475
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,840
much just for this one episode?
And like, if they were gonna

476
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:02,320
make her super, super religious
like Quinn was, then like,

477
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,840
awesome.
But commit to the bit, my dudes.

478
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,560
I do that.
I love a silly.

479
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,320
Glee episode, like I have no
trouble with Glee.

480
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,080
Like jumping the shark as we've
talked about.

481
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,760
We literally just had a puppet
episode.

482
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,280
Yes, episode they jump to shark
all the time, but like the

483
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,240
characterization, that's all
we're asking for.

484
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,400
Keep the characters consistent
and they can't do it.

485
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,080
They can't.
They're just throwing.

486
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,080
Shit out to fit the plot and
it's like, no.

487
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,520
It's not like she's going to act
like this ever again, right?

488
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,560
And I know that we don't wanna
talk about it.

489
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,760
Well, based on how much I don't
wanna talk about it, I'm

490
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,520
assuming that y'all don't wanna
talk about it.

491
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,240
But talking about characters
that they need to keep

492
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,760
consistent.
For the love of God, Becky, in

493
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,640
this episode, no.
Yeah, I mean, that's an entire

494
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,680
other storyline.
Is this Tina, Sam.

495
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,920
Becky Is the.
Tina, Sam, Becky, thing like.

496
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,400
Jesus, I I.
Watch season like season 4,

497
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,520
season 5, and I'm like, Becky's
a pain in the ass, why is she

498
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,640
still here?
But then I remember season one,

499
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:13,680
season 2 Becky, and I was like,
Oh yeah, 'cause when she

500
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:19,520
started, she wasn't this like,
weird, nonsensical, whatever,

501
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,640
like person.
Like I don't understand.

502
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:31,520
I know it's Yeah.
So Sue begrudgingly gives the

503
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:36,880
Glee club the win for their
their green Christmas tree made

504
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:42,280
of stuff that Sam and I guess
Tina, but mostly Sam has like

505
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,240
foraged from the Ohio wilderness
I liked.

506
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,520
Their tree.
It was pretty.

507
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,120
It was.
Kind of cute.

508
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,880
It was really good.
Actually, I do.

509
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,520
Really hope that they boiled
those antlers before they put

510
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,760
them on the tree, otherwise
there's going to be some stuff

511
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,520
growing in it.
But for real.

512
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,760
Yeah, and while they're
decorating, they did rocking

513
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,880
around the Christmas tree,
which, yeah, that makes sense.

514
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,280
That was fine.
That was cute.

515
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:05,840
Perfect.
Love it.

516
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,120
No notes other than like
whatever other than.

517
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,760
Will Shuster got to sing a lot
of that song.

518
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,400
It took it from Artie, which was
a disgrace.

519
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:19,240
Totally.
Becky has made a a green

520
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:24,000
Christmas tree out of stuff that
is green.

521
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,440
Which, for the record, should
have counted.

522
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,920
I think it should.
I mean, unless there was

523
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,840
something in the bylaws that
said it, that's not correct.

524
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,640
She also got recycled material
by stealing stuff.

525
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,680
So that's I.
Like that was the part that I

526
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,080
didn't really understand.
Like Sue was so mad about it.

527
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,520
I'm like, her tree was gross
because like it was moldy bread

528
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,360
and the other stuff.
But I'm like when you introduce

529
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,960
the theme green Christmas that
she stuck to the she stuck to

530
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,960
the what's the to the Oh my God,
the brief.

531
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,040
Yes, the brief.
She stuck.

532
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,280
She stuck to the brief.
Unless the brief was like 9 more

533
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,160
pages that we didn't see, it
simply said on the board green

534
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,000
is good, her tree was green.
And it was good.

535
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:14,720
I don't.
See what the problem here is?

536
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:16,800
But yeah.
What was her crime?

537
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,480
Taking it too literally?
You should have said like eco

538
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,400
Christmas or something.
You didn't want alternative

539
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,320
interpretations, That's the
whole point.

540
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,840
Very symmetrical.
I think she gets points for

541
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,480
going outside of the box and not
cutting down a harmless

542
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,040
Christmas tree.
Hey, Sam saved that vole.

543
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,040
He.
Saved the tree vole.

544
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:42,080
That's true, that was cute.
Sam and Tina have the the glass

545
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,880
crystal, but I think probably
actually plastic that is

546
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,960
supposed to grant them special
powers of some sort.

547
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,440
And Becky is pissed about it and
confronts them in the hallway

548
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,240
and spews a monologue that I
didn't bother writing down

549
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,520
because I was too grossed out by
it.

550
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,400
And that that was the return of
a Becky that I was like, I wish

551
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,480
you weren't on the show.
I hate this early in the.

552
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,720
Episode she, like, has what she
thinks is mistletoe, like,

553
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,360
attached to a little hat on her
head and like, walks up to

554
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,000
Santina and it's like making out
with me right now and I'm like,

555
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,560
like everything about this is
no, yeah.

556
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,000
Turns.
Out it's poison sumac, but yes,

557
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,720
yeah, and.
It's just like she just

558
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,760
continues with this language and
continues with and the whole

559
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,360
vibe is just like, I hate, I
hate this.

560
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,800
I hate it actually.
Because if a dude said that to

561
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,960
anybody, you would all be
rightfully disgusted.

562
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,840
But it's OK because she's played
off as a kooky, funny character.

563
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,320
Not for me, man, Not for me.
You don't just.

564
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:56,080
Get to say that it's still bad.
See, I was not, I was not

565
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,480
impressed by Becky.
She gave her she gave Sam and

566
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,440
Tina gifts of her baby teeth to
remind them of the pure,

567
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:11,760
innocent love of baby Jesus.
And then they asked her to play

568
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,600
baby Jesus in the nativity.
Yeah, sure.

569
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,960
Do which?
Was horrifying.

570
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,800
Giant head, plastic baby body.
Although Sam did have a good

571
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,840
line in there about giving Becky
the the Angel.

572
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,240
It's Ohio.
It's a swing state.

573
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,040
The votes can go either way.
I thought that was great.

574
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,040
I was like, OK.
That's actually kind of funny.

575
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,120
You can have that one.
But yeah, so they they do their

576
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:44,160
little nativity scene at the end
and saying away in a Manger,

577
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,680
which put me to sleep.
I mean the.

578
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:54,240
Harmonies were pretty, I guess,
but I this was very much an

579
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,160
episode like for Christians, but
also very much not for

580
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,400
Christians because there are so
many like blasphemous kind of

581
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,320
moments.
So like, who was enjoying this

582
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,800
episode?
I don't know, I think.

583
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,880
Maybe just the writing stuff.
I think that.

584
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,360
Was it Maxwell?
What's his face?

585
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,320
That was it maybe.
That's why Fox shoved it in a

586
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,960
drawer.
Which, I mean, that was all like

587
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,440
theater, right?
Like, they just.

588
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,160
Oh yeah.
Like they just let's make the

589
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,200
stupidest episode possible and
we'll just say yeah.

590
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:26,600
And they?
Sure did.

591
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,280
They succeeded.
They.

592
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,200
They followed the brief.
Because over in New York, we

593
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,720
have Kurt and Santana exchanging
Christmas presents.

594
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,560
Because Santana.
Just like dropped by because she

595
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,560
still has her the University of
Louisville scholarship.

596
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,240
Yes, yeah, she's rightfully
calling out that she's, you

597
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,640
know, midway through the year
and she has her scholarship, but

598
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,400
you can't just drop out halfway
through the year.

599
00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:00,000
And her gift to him is a My
Party Princess, all jazzed up

600
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,720
styling head.
What's in the box, Kurt?

601
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,960
What's in the box?
Oh yeah.

602
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,600
That did not look like a styling
hen like they usually have like.

603
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,120
Shoulders so they can.
Like sit up for you to style

604
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,199
them.
That was definitely just a

605
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:13,719
mannequin head.
It really was.

606
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,080
Just a mannequin head.
Which is.

607
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,639
Terrifying so that he can relive
his Jeffrey Dahmer fantasies,

608
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,679
literally.
Yikes.

609
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,360
And she also gives him a trip to
Dildo Island.

610
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,320
Like how much money does she
actually have?

611
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:29,320
Well, she.
Spent half of her college fund.

612
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,400
Yeah, presents mostly for
herself.

613
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:38,679
And she she wants Kurt, who is
newly single, says that he just

614
00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:42,960
broke up with Princess Valiant.
See, that's what I did.

615
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,960
They mean Adam or Blaine.
That's probably.

616
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,000
Blaine.
I guess.

617
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,239
But I mean, well, yeah, Prince
Valiant does have dark hair, but

618
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,679
he has a Bob.
Curt Blaine's hair isn't that

619
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,440
long.
But yeah, I guess it's Blaine,

620
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,760
and she wants, she wants him to
like go live wild for a little

621
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,000
bit.
Yeah, because she's talking

622
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,440
about that.
She just broke up with Brittany,

623
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,640
so I imagine it's like right in
that area.

624
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,720
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, just to really

625
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,640
dig a dagger into the fans
hearts that there's a Christmas

626
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,080
episode, but no clean, no clean
duet.

627
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,600
Ouch.
Only one without a clean duet.

628
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,640
It just evil and then Rachel
comes home and she has gotten

629
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:32,080
her and Kurt gigs to be
Christmas elves at the Midtown

630
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,360
mall.
I think is what they call it is

631
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,800
there.
A mall in Midtown.

632
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,680
Yeah, it's, I mean, I guess it's
a mall, It's a shopping center.

633
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:46,520
It's the it's at that little
park down at like 38, OK.

634
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,680
'Cause I was, I kept thinking,
I'm like, if you're going to be

635
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,000
elves in New York on Christmas
time, why aren't you at the

636
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,760
Macy's on 34th St.
Yes, the.

637
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:53,560
Macy's.
Thank you.

638
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,000
I think that's what they were
getting at is the Macy's.

639
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,560
But there's like stuff around
the Macy's, I guess.

640
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,280
Yeah.
I wouldn't call it a a a mall,

641
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,520
but there's other shopping.
Yeah, fair.

642
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,320
Enough.
Fair enough.

643
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,480
You got to go.
Out to Jersey if you're going to

644
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,360
start mall shopping, it's true.
Or at least upstate.

645
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,960
Downtown has like, what is it?
Brookfield?

646
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:18,440
It's kind.
Of a.

647
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,920
That sounds right.
Is that in like in Queens?

648
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,520
No, it's down.
Welcome to New York Minute.

649
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,240
It's not all the way to the
battery.

650
00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:31,640
It's on the the West side.
Gotcha.

651
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,080
So there are in fact malls in
Midtown where they could be

652
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,560
Christmas elves.
Yeah, but it would be Macy's.

653
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,560
But they just can't say Macy's.
Macy's would have no part of

654
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,200
this.
Absolutely not, nor should they.

655
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:50,320
So they show up, the hundreds of
children are chanting that they

656
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:54,960
want Santa and we get like a
slow pan up, Curt in his green

657
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,960
and red stockings with bells and
a cap.

658
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,200
Looking adorable, by the way.
Sure he is.

659
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,600
So Elf on the Shelf coated he is
so.

660
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,040
Elf on the Shelf coated indeed.
Rachel calling out that all the

661
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,520
lady elves are dressed like
candy stripe hookers, cueing

662
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,040
Santa to come out in a super
short tight outfit.

663
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,920
Hey.
Santana looking looking real

664
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,640
pretty.
Yes ma'am.

665
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,720
Such beauty, so pretty.
The Santana or the Santana the

666
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,320
you know, many times I had
trouble typing out Santana and

667
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:32,320
Satan and Santa all like
together go with.

668
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:40,240
The go with God, Satan, Santana.
So Santa shows up.

669
00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:44,760
He is, you know, your typical TV
Santa who is drunk off his ass.

670
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,400
I I feel like maybe real mall
Santas want to start unionizing

671
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,960
against their portrayal in
media.

672
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,240
I want to be.
Good, hard working, decent

673
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:59,720
people, right I was.
Really expecting to know this

674
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:05,160
guy like I thought it would be.
A Yeah, like.

675
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,200
You know, could it have, could
it have not been like Sandy

676
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,800
Ryerson?
Oh my God, that.

677
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,280
Would have been so funny.
Like, I just like, 'cause he's

678
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:21,840
like pulling down his like
facial beard wig and like

679
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,040
yelling at Kurt, like don't look
at me in the eyes.

680
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:25,800
And I'm just like, I'm supposed
to see if he's.

681
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:30,800
Am I supposed to recognize you
or are you just mean and?

682
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,560
Drunk.
Yeah, I think a cameo would have

683
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,040
been good, but no, he's just
mean and drunk.

684
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:43,560
So to entertain the children,
the trio saying here comes Santa

685
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,880
Claus to entertain, to entertain
them.

686
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,000
But not even tiny.
Piano with a little.

687
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:57,440
Tinkle, tinkle, piano.
Not Here comes Santa Claus.

688
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,240
Here comes Santa Claus.
Right down Santa Claus Lane

689
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,400
Vixen.
And Blitzen and all his reindeer

690
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:09,160
are pulling on the reins.
There's a ring in children

691
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,000
singing all his merry and
bright.

692
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,160
Hang your sockets and say your
prayers.

693
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,160
Because Santa Claus comes
tonight.

694
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,520
Here comes Santa Claus.
Here comes Santa Claus, right

695
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:30,920
down Santa Claus Lane.
A good good song choice I will

696
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,240
give them that for the the scene
right like here comes Santa

697
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:36,720
Claus because you know they're
waiting for Santa Santa Claus

698
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:41,880
good song choice a decent song
that I think most people kind of

699
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:47,520
enjoy around the holidays not
sure where the other people

700
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:55,160
showed up from well, it's.
It confused me because Kurt or

701
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:57,880
Rachel like walked out and were
like, oh, look at those other

702
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,000
female elves dressed like sluts.
And then but there's nobody out

703
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,040
there.
So I was like, where are these

704
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,480
other elves?
And then they joined the the

705
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,840
song and I was like, they're not
dressed that slutty.

706
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,360
No, they're not.
They're just, I was like,

707
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,560
they're more dressed so they can
do like tumbles.

708
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Rachel was projecting.
She was looking in a mirror.

709
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,080
Yeah, 'cause I, I imagine if a
parent shows up at one of these

710
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,960
and the elf is dressed like
either Rachel or Santa Santana,

711
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,240
you're gonna be like, I don't
know about this.

712
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,600
How about?
That are are we perhaps at Dildo

713
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,200
Island they.
Are, I think at Dildo Island and

714
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:40,080
not the mall.
And obviously the kids hate this

715
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,560
because they don't understand
real NIATA performances.

716
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,480
And the little one Hitler Youth
and training calls out, you

717
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:53,400
know, let's go already.
Or yeah, you guys suck eggs And

718
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,200
is not reprimanded by his
parent.

719
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,880
So where does Santana get the
bubble bath?

720
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:02,040
Yeah.
Is she in the loft?

721
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,880
I don't know.
This confuses me every time.

722
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,040
Not that I've seen this more
than twice, but twice it has

723
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,760
confused me that there's like a
commercial break.

724
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:18,840
We go to some other scenes, we
come back there definitely, I

725
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,520
think still at the mall 'cause
they're not talking to her on a

726
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,720
phone, right?
They're just yelling at her,

727
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:26,640
like from behind the curtain.
No, they're.

728
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,200
Talking to her on the phone are
they say I think she's on the.

729
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,440
Phone.
Yeah, she's on.

730
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,800
She's on speaker because she's
in the bath.

731
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,520
And so she has like an old
school phone receiver plugged

732
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,720
into her cell phone.
I wasn't even looking and I

733
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:45,760
paid.
Attention because I had never.

734
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:51,240
I had not wanted to be ATV
character so much until that

735
00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:53,800
moment.
I wanted to be in a bubble bath

736
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,160
with an old school phone
receiver, just like reading my

737
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,400
magazines with my pretty
candles.

738
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:05,760
I wanted to be that so bad.
This the scene was perfection.

739
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,240
Allison, you remember living in
New York?

740
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,000
They're they're doing this job
in Midtown.

741
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,960
Let's.
Put them, I don't know, 7th and

742
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:27,760
34th, They live in Bushwick.
So how long is this event

743
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:34,800
happening that she can get to
Bushwick, take a bubble bath and

744
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,800
then get back?
So she did have a line earlier

745
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,760
where she said she wanted to get
a hotel.

746
00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:44,040
Just to put that out there.
I do want to know how far

747
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:48,440
Bushwick was though, sorry.
That looks like the the styling

748
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,600
of that room looked like the
apartment, but I did question

749
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,040
like, did we know that they had
a a bathtub?

750
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,640
I don't know.
I had SO.

751
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,280
Many questions about this entire
thing.

752
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,600
Because if her hotel is down the
block, great.

753
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,120
But it didn't look like a hotel
room, maybe.

754
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,360
Well, she ends up.
Sleeping at their house because

755
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,640
she ends up.
Sleeping because Kurt invites

756
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,240
Santana to stay.
We have our first holiday

757
00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:20,240
houseguest.
Yeah, but I think this is like a

758
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:23,200
new day at work.
I don't think this is the same

759
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:24,440
day.
Second day.

760
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:26,800
OK, I.
Think this is the second day

761
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,600
where Santana just like didn't
show up OK.

762
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,760
That makes so much more sense.
This is why you're here.

763
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,440
And my.
Brain was like, so she went to

764
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,520
Bushwick, she took a bath, and
now she's gonna come back in 20

765
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:41,840
minutes?
I don't think so.

766
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,520
Well, let's see.
It depends, I think a lot on

767
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,320
whether or not the L train is
running.

768
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,240
It depends.
If she got that Uber helicopter

769
00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:56,560
running well.
So she could have taken the

770
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:00,720
north from 34th Herald Square
and transferred to the L and

771
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:04,720
that's a 41 minute train ride.
If the L is not running, she

772
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:08,840
would have had to take the C to
a bus which takes 59 minutes.

773
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,760
If it's and.
If it's on time, and we all know

774
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,400
that the L is constantly under
construction, so if their stop

775
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,320
is whatever, but it takes
somewhere between 40 and 60

776
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,960
minutes to get from Midtown
Manhattan to Bushwick, Brooklyn.

777
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,520
It's gotta be another day.
This is so inconsequential to

778
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,000
the episode itself, but it's one
of those Glee things where

779
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,160
you're like, is this the same
day?

780
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,360
Is it not?
What are we doing?

781
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,080
I.
Believe in my heart it's a

782
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:35,560
different day because there's no
way that Santana would have like

783
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,320
unless they got called in for
like a second shift at like a

784
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,720
second Santa Land.
But I'm just going to believe

785
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:43,240
it.
This is the second day.

786
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:49,720
Because this, because now they
have Santana as Missus Claus in

787
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:55,640
a new little red Santa outfit
which is so tailored that would

788
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,640
she like have it ready?
Because I don't, I don't think

789
00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:59,280
this mall had that ready for
her.

790
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,080
But she does ask who's ready to
sit on my lap.

791
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,760
And the dads in the audience are
real excited.

792
00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:10,480
And I did like the little girl
who looks like Brittany.

793
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,200
And then Santana just starts
trauma dumping on her.

794
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:14,840
She does.
It's very sad.

795
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,960
I really also appreciate that
Kurt and Rachel are like wide

796
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:21,400
eyed.
No no no no no.

797
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,120
Don't talk about that with
Santana the entire time.

798
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,880
But make no actual move to stop
her, no.

799
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,840
She says wildly inappropriate to
thing things to most of these

800
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,480
kids and Santana and Kurt are
just or Rachel and Kurt are both

801
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:38,000
like, oh that's so bad, keep
going, keep going.

802
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,400
We need go to that parent.
Mob, they're like if we if we

803
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:45,600
take another Santa away.
We need 575 an hour that we're

804
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:50,520
making from this Yeah union job.
Apparently.

805
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,120
Yeah.
Are they earning points towards

806
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:54,760
their SAG cards or that was
like.

807
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,640
I see you.
Equity card.

808
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,240
Yeah, equity.
Yeah, Santa, Santa definitely

809
00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:02,400
thought that they were, you
know, your equity card

810
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:03,960
attitudes.
Yes.

811
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,320
You know, they don't have equity
cards yet.

812
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,360
They haven't heard that, Rachel.
'S in theory about to earn her

813
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,520
equity card, but only if she
participates.

814
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:18,560
She's not very good at that.
But then Sexy Claws shows up

815
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:25,800
absolutely out of nowhere.
He just rolls up and his name is

816
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,480
apparently Cody.
Hey Bud and.

817
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:34,400
He deputizes them as his elves.
Kurt is all for it.

818
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,560
Santana is mildly for it.
Rachel is confused.

819
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,560
Rachel's.
Confused, she just wants to get

820
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:44,040
the job done and Sexy Claws
invites himself over to dinner.

821
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,480
And no one has any issues with
this?

822
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:48,520
No?
Kurt.

823
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:54,000
Is immediately like, yeah, yeah,
my creepy, my creepy radar is

824
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:58,440
usually pretty good, and I'm
really upset that Glee made me

825
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,240
question it because it's Glee.
Oh OK, 'cause I was.

826
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:05,840
Like, you know, in a regular TV
show, this guy would be all red

827
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,400
flags, but it's Glee.
Oh, I was gonna say this guy

828
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,400
didn't give you bad, bad vibes.
Oh, he.

829
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,480
He gave me weird vibes, but I
just thought that Glee was gonna

830
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,680
just like, do it anyway and have
it all be fine, you know?

831
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,600
'Cause.
It's Glee Santa 'cause it's

832
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,720
Glee.
But the longer he was in the

833
00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:27,440
episode, the more my alarm bells
were like Ding, Ding, Ding,

834
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,200
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding Ding.
Yeah, yeah.

835
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,600
He, he's like in their
apartment, like, oh, it's, it's

836
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,080
so nice in here.
My God.

837
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,240
Maybe that's what it is when
they first kind of like move

838
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:41,760
into their apartment, into the
into the loft.

839
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,440
Isn't it like super bare bones?
Yeah.

840
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,840
Does this.
Explain why their apartment is

841
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,440
bare bones, No.
Because this doesn't happen.

842
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,520
This isn't real I.
Guess all right, this this.

843
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,320
Is not real.
Nothing that happens in here

844
00:47:56,320 --> 00:48:01,400
sticks like this man is this
this had nothing about this

845
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,920
happens.
Once it's over, we go to five

846
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:10,680
nine and it's gone.
It ceases to be and that's it.

847
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:12,800
Disappointing.
One more.

848
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,280
Scene at the end with Jane
Lynch.

849
00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:17,480
I mean, yeah, being like, and
none of that ever happened or

850
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:19,720
something.
Merry Christmas.

851
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:21,800
Yeah.
It was just like it ended and I

852
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:27,920
was like, OK, yeah.
They so sexy Santa has brought a

853
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:32,280
literal bag of tricks which is
disturbing, including a helium

854
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:37,200
pump and they all suck helium to
sing the chipmunk Chipmunk song.

855
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:44,600
Now as a fan of the Chipmunk
song, I would have liked this

856
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,520
more without fucking sexy Santa
in it.

857
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:54,840
Yes, like without the the
lingering EW of him in the

858
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:59,200
background doing stuff.
If it was just Glee members

859
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,320
having a good time, being fun
and weird together.

860
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,280
'Cause everything about Rachel
Curtin Santana in this song is

861
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,880
adorable.
Yeah, other than the fact that

862
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:17,080
they're all snorting helium.
Yes, indeed, it probably won't

863
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:18,760
hurt you, right?
One, one song.

864
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,960
But like, you know, having a a
fun little time around

865
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,160
Christmas, singing a doofy
little song, OK, it's not a

866
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:31,240
chart Topper, but whatever.
But the fact that he's there

867
00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:32,880
really kind of puts a damper on
it.

868
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,920
And then, and then we catch Kurt
making out with sexy claws who

869
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,240
apparently swings both ways,
which is just not important

870
00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:43,440
information.
But hey, at least they said it

871
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:44,760
on TV.
They.

872
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,360
Just say it on TV, you're right.
So everyone's, everyone's drunk.

873
00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:51,960
They cheer to being naughty on
Christmas, and then in the

874
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,240
morning Rachel wakes up covered
in tinsel.

875
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,760
Santana is sleeping on the
floor, which is a big mistake

876
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,560
because Rachel's bed looks
plenty big.

877
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,600
Yeah, still.
In her high heeled shoes they

878
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,640
do.
Make a joke about being roofied

879
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:09,040
at Lilith Fair, which I was
like, again, It's like Britney

880
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,600
and her tent.
Yeah.

881
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,840
Like stop.
It but they were robbed during

882
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,920
the night.
Obviously.

883
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,600
Of like everything.
Like even stuff that no one

884
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:23,280
would ever want to steal.
Yeah, you look at Playbills.

885
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:24,560
That's so rude.
I know.

886
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,800
So.
It's not worth anything you look

887
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,600
at.
My notes and increasingly I'm

888
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,560
like, he's going to rob these
children blind.

889
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,920
Oh my God, he's going to rob
them blind.

890
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,800
Just like progressively louder
in my notes.

891
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,600
And poor Kerr is left hog tied
all.

892
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:42,720
In.
The bedroom hog.

893
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:47,960
Tied at tinsel Outstanding.
Like it's very, very bad, but

894
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,840
just the number of things that
have to happen in order for you

895
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:57,560
to get hog tied with tinsel.
Yeah, it really, really went

896
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:03,760
there ugly.
So yeah, everyone's really

897
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,720
ashamed of what happened even
though it's like, I mean, is it

898
00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:09,720
their fault?
No 'cause like, you can't victim

899
00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:12,920
blame.
But no one vibe checked Sexy

900
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,080
Santa, No.
No one.

901
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,960
Checked I DS they're just like
come into our house.

902
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:21,720
They didn't grow up in the 80s
like you.

903
00:51:21,720 --> 00:51:23,680
Just don't invite strangers over
to your house.

904
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,520
And why did they think they
could trust him just because he

905
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,680
saved their ass when they needed
a Santa?

906
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,800
Did he even actually meet any of
the kids?

907
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,400
No.
Because it sounded like that was

908
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:37,080
the end of the day and he it
sounded like he would do it the

909
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:42,800
next shift, which is even more
confusing with like where

910
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:44,720
Santana was.
Was that like beginning of the

911
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:47,480
shift and this was the end?
I don't know.

912
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,080
Oh, yeah, 'cause he was like, I
want to get to know y'all before

913
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,800
we work together.
Before I could, like, admit.

914
00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:56,120
Yeah, yeah.
But I mean, in the end, I don't,

915
00:51:56,720 --> 00:52:00,360
I don't know if he's a real
Santa anyway, right?

916
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,440
Doesn't he just rob people?
I mean he.

917
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:06,560
Might have ABS out, yeah.
He might just cost like Santa.

918
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,720
Just taking advantage of elf
actors like what?

919
00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:14,400
How do you get on that scam?
He just.

920
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,760
Trolls.
Malls looking for harried elves?

921
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:24,200
I don't know, but Rachel has a
job to make up for it, and that

922
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,240
is playing living mannequins at
a clothing store.

923
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,880
So they also sang away in a
Manger while standing behind

924
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,640
glass.
Not that anyone walking by could

925
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,120
hear them because they are
behind glass.

926
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:38,560
Curt.
'S hafit is so cute.

927
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:42,880
It's like this Burgundy.
All three of them are, all three

928
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:47,240
of them are looking great.
I particularly love Rachel, like

929
00:52:47,240 --> 00:52:51,040
looking down at that little girl
like she is Jesus Christ reborn.

930
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:57,440
And I was like, Oh yes, the
Rachel Berry show, the little

931
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,080
girl.
Was wearing this pink like hat

932
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:03,000
and matching jacket and it made
me think of when she like came

933
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,920
to New York that first time with
the matching like hat and jacket

934
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,080
it was like.
A little Berry.

935
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,400
A little baby Berry.
Yep.

936
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:17,280
So.
Bizarre episode, completely

937
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:23,560
unnecessary really I think just
meant to hurt people which is

938
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:27,280
honestly overstating the impact
of this episode but it was just

939
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,280
dumb it.
Was it was a waste of so many

940
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,400
things?
I I just OK, so they wanted to

941
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,320
have another Christmas episode
shoehorned in so they could get

942
00:53:37,240 --> 00:53:41,400
money for the songs, but then
they didn't pick good songs.

943
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,080
It's like.
They were like, what the let's

944
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,160
do some Christian songs this
time, see if those sell, you

945
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,840
know?
Yeah, just give it a go.

946
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,640
Give a little little something
something.

947
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:57,280
None of the reviewers really
liked this.

948
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,880
Shocker.
Shocking.

949
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,800
I pulled a quote out of the EW
Report Report review.

950
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:09,320
It says after last week's puppet
catastrophe, a veritable Titanic

951
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:14,120
of felt, a Hindenburg of googly
eyes, in which Blaine further

952
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:18,080
proved that he is systematically
going more and more insane with

953
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,760
each passing day at McKinley, we
return to a staple of Glee, the

954
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,760
holiday episode.
Wow.

955
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:28,840
So I love that this took the
time to call out the previous

956
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:32,160
week's episode that they'd
already shit on before they got

957
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,280
into this one.
Again, just to call Blaine out

958
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:38,800
for being insane.
Which, yeah, fair, it's not his.

959
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,560
Fault There was a gas leak.
How?

960
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:44,320
How long has that gas leak been
there?

961
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,960
It's been there the whole time.
Yeah, it's.

962
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,640
On the back, if that was the
ending of Glee, that it's been a

963
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,640
gas leak the whole time.
Oh.

964
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:54,440
My God.
And the whole thing was just

965
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,000
like shoes.
Dream, Yeah.

966
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,320
Yeah.
Wow, I'd have.

967
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:02,080
Taken that.
I would have liked that ending,

968
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:03,400
actually.
It turns out Glee was a

969
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,280
psychological thriller the whole
time.

970
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,920
Like in, in a in a very
different world, in a very

971
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,840
different world where Glee turns
into like a post apocalyptic

972
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:22,480
horror, you know, Blaine wakes
up after the gas has just run

973
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:27,800
dry to just find the entire Glee
club just dead in the Glee

974
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:31,520
classroom from like carbon
monoxide poisoning.

975
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,640
I mean, this is a Ryan Murphy
property.

976
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,840
Glee meets American Horror
Story.

977
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:46,720
High school Horror Story.
It couldn't be any different.

978
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,040
It could work.
It could work.

979
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:49,720
That'd be sad.
It could work.

980
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:56,280
Entertainment Weekly gave the
Away in the Manger song a rating

981
00:55:56,280 --> 00:56:03,480
of the percent symbol.
Like that, not a BCDF.

982
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,200
They gave it a rating of a
percent symbol.

983
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,880
Because taking this seriously
doesn't even seem to matter at

984
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:10,600
this point.
Ouch.

985
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:16,440
Oh damn.
They did give Mary's boy child

986
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,520
an A minus.
Because it was, they said.

987
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:22,360
Because it was fabulous, it was.
Fabulous, right I?

988
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:26,440
Was like, all right, I think an
A minus is a little high if they

989
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,200
gave rockin around the Christmas
tree AC plus and it's AC plus

990
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,880
because quote nothing happened.
I was like, what?

991
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,720
Yes, I'm sorry, do they?
Want songs to move the plot

992
00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:37,880
again?
We haven't done that in three

993
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,600
seasons.
I know like roster was.

994
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,720
The Christmas tree they did.
That was it.

995
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:46,200
That was it.
Yeah, they that's what the song

996
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,920
does.
I don't what's what's problem

997
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,120
and they gave Christmas don't be
late.

998
00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:57,800
It says I've never given a song
lower than AC, but unfortunately

999
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,640
I have to bust out AD minus
because I feel like I'm a worse

1000
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:05,600
person for having watched it.
You're telling.

1001
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,360
Me that they didn't give
apartment.

1002
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:10,880
You're telling me they didn't
give Turkey Lurkey time AD

1003
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,080
minus?
I don't know, let's have the

1004
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,320
Kiki part made-up for the Turkey
Lurkey part.

1005
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:17,440
I might have, might have done
it.

1006
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:18,320
It might.
Have.

1007
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:24,000
Oh, man.
Yeah, yeah.

1008
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,200
It's says at the end, I will say
that despite my disbelief that

1009
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,000
the episode has now ended and
nothing appeared to have

1010
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:35,160
happened, the three of them so
Kurt, Rachel and Santana look

1011
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:36,920
downright gorgeous in the
window.

1012
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,560
So A for effort, but C for, I
don't know, climate change.

1013
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,800
Yep.
Fantastic.

1014
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:48,920
Great work.
Yeah, this.

1015
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:54,360
Episode was bad, let's move on.
Yeah, pretty much like I, I

1016
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:58,000
don't know.
There's it is, I don't know.

1017
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:00,960
I tried to look at some of the
Reddit threads about this.

1018
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:07,920
There is a Reddit thread from
three years ago of someone

1019
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:10,440
posting like just now
remembering how insane this

1020
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,640
episode was and someone
commented like this is one of

1021
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:19,880
the only episodes I genuinely
thought was funny and I've never

1022
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,880
wanted to block somebody more.
What?

1023
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,320
Vibe.
Genuinely funny.

1024
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:28,160
I guess the the the love child
scene.

1025
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:30,960
Yeah, that was how love child.
'S pretty funny.

1026
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,560
And then someone else was like,
I love this episode.

1027
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,680
Dare I say my favorite Christmas
special?

1028
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,120
Probably.
It's unabashedly silly.

1029
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:42,680
Like again.
What what that just.

1030
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:46,160
Sounds like people who like
chaos and meanness and not love

1031
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:47,880
and joy.
Because that sounds like.

1032
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:54,320
People who came in in Season 4.
Yeah, that.

1033
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:59,640
Feels like somebody who didn't
who didn't get maybe it's cold

1034
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,720
outside.
They just didn't have bad in

1035
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:08,000
their hearts.
I They didn't have the true

1036
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:09,280
meaning of Christmas in their
hearts.

1037
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:12,320
You know what?
We still won, guys.

1038
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,600
We still won because every year
we pull up those silly Christmas

1039
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:19,160
song lists on Spotify, and every
year it's the.

1040
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,360
Clean Duet.
It's the clean duet that makes

1041
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:25,040
it on the list, shared to
everybody on Spotify.

1042
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,320
You're right.
And sometimes you hear that in a

1043
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,560
grocery store, and then you
really know, I hear.

1044
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,120
It in the grocery store, I'll
hear it like in, you know, I'm

1045
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,920
like walking through the mall
and I hear I hear curtain plain.

1046
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,160
And there they are 'cause it's.
Superior.

1047
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:45,040
A couple pieces of trivia from
the wiki that I thought were

1048
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:50,920
interesting.
And like, like, is this true?

1049
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:57,040
It says this episode marks the
last time Marley sings in the

1050
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:00,680
series I saw.
That too, and they just must

1051
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,600
mean a solo.
Right.

1052
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,600
Right, she's in the background
of the next.

1053
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:11,720
All the next songs right I.
I would hope so but I I honestly

1054
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:13,760
don't remember.
Like does she just disappear?

1055
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:15,960
That's so.
Sad.

1056
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:17,960
I hope she's still around.
Don't they have?

1057
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:19,840
I don't.
Know no, they go to LA.

1058
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,720
Yeah, they go to LA because
that's coming up in like 2

1059
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:26,480
episodes.
Yeah, and it's the last holiday

1060
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,880
themed episodes of the of the
series, I think because they

1061
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,040
killed all joy in the world
indeed.

1062
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:33,920
Literally they could have had
one more if they hadn't.

1063
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:37,680
And it's also the first
Christmas episode where the

1064
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:41,520
title card doesn't change,
probably because it's not a real

1065
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,600
episode.
There's no joy.

1066
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,400
They couldn't, they could have
done a thing where they like

1067
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,640
flipped it upside down real
quick or like did a little thing

1068
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,080
to be like, oh, it's not a real,
you know.

1069
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:53,960
Or like it falls over.
Yeah, yeah.

1070
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,040
That would have been funny.
A little, I don't know,

1071
01:00:57,040 --> 01:01:02,240
something, but Nope.
But yeah, the I was like, Marley

1072
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:05,440
doesn't sing again.
This can't be true, so we'll

1073
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:09,640
have to find out because I love
her anyway.

1074
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:13,400
That was previously unaired
Christmas which should have

1075
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:21,600
remained unaired as someone got
paid to write that and Ross.

1076
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,320
Maxwell got paid to write that
I'd like.

1077
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,840
A refund case?
An answer for your crimes.

1078
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:28,840
Yeah.
I'd like a refund, thank you.

1079
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,120
This can't.
Have been the only idea in the

1080
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:33,320
writers room.
You know, I saw a comment on the

1081
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,560
Glee wiki that I think was
great, but I see why they

1082
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:38,120
couldn't do it.
It should have been the season 1

1083
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:39,520
Christmas special they never
had.

1084
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:43,640
I think that's hilarious.
It's really a 2009 episode in

1085
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:47,040
this season or next season 1
where they go back to season 1

1086
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:47,720
or whatever.
Yeah.

1087
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,200
So fuck it, I love.
That, but I guess they had all

1088
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:56,880
the newbies on the payroll, so.
I just I'm still pulling that

1089
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,280
somewhere in the vault is the
Unaired Warbler Christmas

1090
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:02,720
special.
Yeah, maybe if we.

1091
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,480
Pay them enough, they'll just do
it for us, sounds.

1092
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,720
Great Warblers in concert live
in concert, so.

1093
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,040
I'm I'm really glad you guys
finally got to watch this.

1094
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:14,880
I feel like it's a trauma that
all Glee fans have to endure so

1095
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:16,640
that can be.
Trauma bonded, that's the.

1096
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:18,720
Point of this podcast, guys,
yeah.

1097
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:22,960
I think, I think if you haven't
seen it, are you a Glee fan?

1098
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:25,800
Like, really?
I feel like.

1099
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:27,720
You don't.
Watch it in protest.

1100
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,200
I just re upped my Glee
membership.

1101
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:35,640
I earned this today.
You've literally.

1102
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:37,680
Paid your dues for the year?
I think it.

1103
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:40,160
Was a quintessential fandom
experience at that time to just

1104
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:45,160
watch episodes in like gifts and
yeah, song clips, and then you

1105
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,960
would decide if it was worth
watching the full episode and

1106
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:48,760
then you'd be like, you know
what?

1107
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,760
Nah, because if it.
Was just one scene that got gift

1108
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,000
over and over and over again.
You knew it wasn't worth it,

1109
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:59,000
right?
Yeah, that I people were just

1110
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:02,640
like and next.
But you know what?

1111
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,960
Blaine is really fucking cute in
this episode and he's.

1112
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:08,720
Back to wearing his like old man
sweaters, which I love.

1113
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:09,680
It's.
Adorable.

1114
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,360
He's like the Angel in love
child.

1115
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:16,040
That's so funny, He.
Was he gets typecast because

1116
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:17,640
wasn't he also the Angel in
Greece?

1117
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:18,280
You know it.
He.

1118
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:20,080
Was teen Angel?
Yeah, Angel.

1119
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:23,360
It's a.
Little sad that he got devoted

1120
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:28,520
from Angel for the for the live
nativity, but unique got it and

1121
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:31,120
she was fabulous.
So like I'm not that mad about

1122
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:32,120
it.
Unique to.

1123
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:37,160
Deserve the role, it's true.
Let's see, I I also.

1124
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:40,160
I really liked Santana in this
episode.

1125
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:42,960
I thought she was adorable and I
really liked the Chipmunk song.

1126
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:45,800
I didn't hate.
The Chipmunk song.

1127
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:47,240
I just hated that Santa was
there.

1128
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,160
Yeah.
I just block him out.

1129
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:53,320
And just the three of them being
little goofballs singing

1130
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:54,640
chipmunk songs, that was
precious.

1131
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:56,840
So yeah.
Yeah, I like Santana and this

1132
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:57,680
too.
I always miss her.

1133
01:03:57,880 --> 01:03:59,800
She's like.
Such a bad influence on Kurt.

1134
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,160
And then she like regressed it
at the end, which I also thought

1135
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:07,280
was kind of funny.
It was like not the nasty

1136
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:10,720
Santana like she was.
She was crude, but she wasn't

1137
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:14,240
mean.
I think for for all the shit

1138
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:17,040
talking I'm doing of the writer,
I do think he did a good job

1139
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:20,960
writing Santana this episode.
This is a Santana I really like.

1140
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,240
I agree she's chaotic but not
cruel.

1141
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:28,920
It's a it's a lot.
It's like a a fine line.

1142
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:30,920
It is.
Some of them just don't know how

1143
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,600
to do all right.
Then he gets one plus sign on

1144
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:40,680
his in his column.
The rest are negatives, so.

1145
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:43,120
Who knows what he had to.
I just wonder what the writers

1146
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,720
room they were pitching stuff
like what if this was the best

1147
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:50,920
of the worst?
I'd like to see the others.

1148
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:54,200
Yeah, what were my options?
Yeah, show.

1149
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:57,600
Us, the others, and we'll let
you know if you picked the worst

1150
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:02,120
one we'd like to.
Bring you to fandom court to to

1151
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:05,640
sit before the tribunal, lest he
be judged well.

1152
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,080
This was not my favorite trip
down memory lane.

1153
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:13,840
No, but we did it together.
We did it together.

1154
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,680
The next episode is Frenemies.
I don't really remember anything

1155
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:21,280
about it, but I think this is
when Santana auditions for

1156
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:22,320
something.
Who'd be the?

1157
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,000
Understudy.
Oh, the.

1158
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:24,960
Understudy.
Yeah, that's right.

1159
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,240
Oh, I hope she.
Gets it?

1160
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:34,520
God, I hope I get it.
I hope I get it so.

1161
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:39,680
You know, more, more drama in in
Glee because can't not have

1162
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:41,760
that.
So yeah, thank you for

1163
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:44,920
listening.
Apologies for anyone had to

1164
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:46,760
relive the trauma of that
episode.

1165
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:50,800
It's a while before Christmas,
but that doesn't mean that you

1166
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:52,680
can't celebrate by watching
something better.

1167
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:55,880
Maybe a nice die hard Christmas
movie.

1168
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:57,720
Let's all make a.
Recommendation What would be

1169
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:00,640
your Christmas palette cleanser
after this episode?

1170
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:04,280
Mine would be How the Grinch
Stole Christmas, the live

1171
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:07,800
version with Jim Carrey because
I think it's genuinely funny.

1172
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:13,120
I haven't seen it, but I will.
I have never.

1173
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:14,880
Seen it.
I really want to what?

1174
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:18,800
Wait for real?
Never for real.

1175
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:21,280
Then you guys definitely have to
watch it.

1176
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:23,560
Well, maybe it won't hit if it's
not nostalgic for you.

1177
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,160
I don't know, I could be totally
wrong and it's not actually good

1178
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:27,800
movie and I'm just nostalgic for
it.

1179
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:31,760
But I think it generally has
good music, good actors, is

1180
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,360
funny and has a very satisfying
cathartic ending.

1181
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:37,840
All the things that this episode
did not have.

1182
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:43,800
OK, yeah, I'll watch it.
I'm I like Jim Carrey so.

1183
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:49,800
I don't think I'm very good at
Christmas movies.

1184
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:55,120
I would definitely flip through
a couple of Christmas episodes

1185
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:58,760
of TV.
There are some great Christmas

1186
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:03,360
episodes of The West Wing.
There are some great ones of

1187
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:14,160
Friends, but mostly I would just
read Christmas fic as a little

1188
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:16,480
palate cleanse.
But if I could wave my magic

1189
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:20,200
wand, I would be back in the
apartment that I used to share

1190
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:24,760
with Emily, watching crappy
Christmas Hallmark movies.

1191
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:28,320
Because it didn't matter what
the movie was, the vibe was

1192
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:32,080
right.
Yeah, anyone who lives when they

1193
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:37,040
get stuck watching those.
So I learned a lot about the

1194
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:42,440
fabulous high-powered career
woman and the she gives up her.

1195
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:45,200
Entire life gives up her.
Entire life to settle for a

1196
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:46,560
townie.
Yep, Yep, Yep.

1197
01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:47,340
Yep.
Mm.

1198
01:07:47,340 --> 01:07:50,600
Hmm.
Well, you know, lower taxes, I

1199
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:51,360
guess.
Yeah.

1200
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:56,120
Easier to run your start up.
That's very true.

1201
01:07:56,120 --> 01:08:00,240
So you sell it to the other
high-powered I.

1202
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,560
I guess it kind of depends on
the mood.

1203
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:10,880
I would probably give someone
Christmas vacation for some for

1204
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:13,560
some giggles.
I always love AI, always like

1205
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:16,120
watching enough that I could
probably recite the whole movie

1206
01:08:16,359 --> 01:08:19,720
by heart just like run the jokes
for them.

1207
01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:23,800
I really like Jingle All the
Way.

1208
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:27,520
Yeah, you do as a.
Dumb Christmas movie with Arnold

1209
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:32,120
Schwarzenegger classic.
It's not a Christmas movie, but

1210
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,880
I think it's one of my favorite
holiday movies, which is Planes,

1211
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:37,840
Trains and Automobiles.
It is technically a Thanksgiving

1212
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:40,040
movie.
Unfortunately, the Santa Claus

1213
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:42,399
is still very good despite Tim
Allen I.

1214
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:43,720
Love that.
Movie.

1215
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:47,160
I love it.
That's a good one.

1216
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:50,160
Yep.
And then the Santa Claus too.

1217
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:53,720
Just because Bernard.
And Oh yeah, Bernard, what a

1218
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,319
cutie.
All right, so now we know what

1219
01:08:56,319 --> 01:08:58,000
we're watching tonight.
Outstanding.

1220
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,120
I did learn the other day that
there's a movie called Christmas

1221
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:02,880
Twister.
Awesome.

1222
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:06,680
But it doesn't have Glenn Powell
in it, so I guess what's the

1223
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:09,479
point?
But yeah, so thanks for, you

1224
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:13,520
know, sticking through this one
to get to the next episode and

1225
01:09:14,319 --> 01:09:16,680
the ones after that.
Eventually, we're gonna hit

1226
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:21,840
season 6, and then I'll not have
seen any of it, nor will you

1227
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:23,479
guys.
No one will have seen any of it.

1228
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:27,040
I watched it but like in the
background so I only have some

1229
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:33,000
vague recollections so I only.
Have two images from Twitter or

1230
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,600
from Tumblr GIFs that I think
come from season 6, but I don't

1231
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,760
know how they play into any of
the plot.

1232
01:09:40,399 --> 01:09:42,279
OK, but when?
They come up, you'll be like,

1233
01:09:42,279 --> 01:09:44,520
hey, I know.
That one I will.

1234
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:47,760
It'll be really exciting.
Excellent.

1235
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,840
All right, Well, we'll, you can
find us online at Phantom of the

1236
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:55,120
Rocks and I don't know, we'll
ask you online what your

1237
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:58,760
favorite, like palate cleansing
Christmas movie is and we'll

1238
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:03,040
catch you next time.
I don't know, hanging tinsel,

1239
01:10:03,440 --> 01:10:06,240
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1240
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:08,400
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1241
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