Chicken, Video Games, and DJ Drama

Well that's that's pretty much a good way to open every episode of our show because you never know. But this this one, I don't know. Let's let's just jump right in. Okay. Uh. Season three, episode seventeen, The Game is Chicken, aired on January six, nine three. We're into a new year, did you notice. Oh yeah, that's right, January. Yeah, we never get out. Ninety two is long because y'all

do so many episodes. But it's good because it took us a really long time to get through it now, but back in two, it was like a blink of an eye. So yeah, freshman in college, so I was in my freshman year of college. I started fall of ninety two, and so this would be January. Yeah, and you were this is the year you were getting together with the girls to watch the show. Oh my god, definitely. And I think it even got more next year because

I can remember because I know where I lived. Freshman year, I lived in like a house with like fifty girls, and then the next year I lived in the house with a hundred girls. Oh my gosh, I had I started sweating right when you said said that that's a lot of the best. Yeah, I'd say there was like a maybe seventy. Wait, is that what it's like to live in a sorority house? Fifty? It's always that many? Yeah,

pretty much. I mean I would say fifty is yeah, because I mean there's two levels in my house, two levels of rooms, and you had either two, four or six girls in a room. The only sorority houses I've seen are the ones in the movies. Okay, so is it like a normal house on a street, queue with a lawn, and you go in and it's like the living room and it's like house, but then upstairs it's all the bedrooms exactly. So you go in, first of all,

do you call it a foyer or a foyer. I call it a foyer, Okay, so do I. But then on on like h G t V, they always say fouriers. So and there's there's that, and here's like a little tidbit. So let's say I'm upstairs and I have a girlfriend like coming to visit. They say, um, Amy sugar Man, you have a guest on two, which means come down to level two, you have a gut and you know that's a girl. But if they say Amy Sugarman, you have a caller on two, that means it's a boy,

but he's come to see you. A caller. Fashion we didn't have. There was no cell phones, there was no internet, so the only way someone could call you was you had a landline in your room or they had to call a pay phone, and like someone's job was to just kind of answer the pay phone when people called, and then you'd have to go on the intercom and say, like Amy Sugarman, line too, or there was two lines line one line too. I missed that on so much. Oh my god, do you want to come to my

sorority one day? Like even there old like we could go so we can go to a football game and then we can stop by the sorority and get like a tour wait and pretend like were probably old. I'm not sure if it was the me looking forty or you being super famous one it's going to I forget my age so that I forget that it would be weird that I just shoved there. But yeah, wow, I love too, because yeah, I've only seen it on House Bunny and legally blonde. Legally Blonde is just like a

very very exaggerated version. Okay, like we don't wear like pink and stuff, but we do like well, I mean, I don't feel like I'm assuming it's the same, but yeah, people, sure we do sometimes wear like themed outfits lots of like gummy candy all the time, meaning like not not like cbde gums, but it's like whoa, okay, sign me up.

Like you would always just get like a puffy painted box and it would say like your name, and it have like gummy bears or gummy worms, and you would like grab it while you had to go to like something sounds fun. I never had any fun in the nineties like that. And every meal is prepared for you. You don't even have to do your dishes. You have to take your dishes though, and and like I thinking maybe even had to scrape them and then put it in a pile, but you know, not like washer dishes even. Oh,

it's the life sounds really nice anyways. Sorry. Synopsis In detention, Steve meets Joe, a troublemaking punk who gets him and Brandon involved in hot rod racing. I like saying that despite Dylan's warnings. Of course, then Brandon realizes one of the hot rod racers was behind the wheel when Andrea

was nearly killed in a hit and run accident. Meanwhile, Brenda and Kelly try to distract themselves from the Dylan drama by going on a blind date with two kids from Princeton Junior High School, while David and Donna butt heads as she fills in as a guest DJ at school. Directed by Jack Bender, written by Chip Johansson and maybe Darren Star. Okay, wow, Okay, this episode The Game Is Chicken had pretty much four different storylines, right A. B. C. D Ye would you call the A the Chicken the

Game of Chicken? I really am not going to number them or letter them because that would show favoritism or it's or it's Kelly Brenda. One of those is they I'm gonna go with number one, Donna and David. Oh. Donna takes over Mike uh for David and because he's got a study because he's graduating in like two days, like literally the second semester senior year for him, all of a sudden. I don't know how anyone could pull

that off, but David, I bet you. But we're really seeing Donna Uh sort of open up than right and and find her voice and blossom. If you will have some mad skills. She has some mad DJ skills. The DJ skill well, I guess, so she's good to push in the buttons. But she's also just kind of good

at like Riffin talk show host skills her. She knows her core audience is uh is women fourteen to eighteen as a producer, and you just came out her demo is it actually is very hard to go from one song to another because Ryan Seacrest used to like have to run to the bathroom. So I'd have to do it, and it was like your heart is pounding as you're like, am I gonna screw this up? I'm I gonna screw this up because you're alive. Yeah, and on like Ryan

Seacrest Radio. That's like to the world, and you have to put like a like a production in it's a video. Ever have to go like that like wake a wack of but you have to like those things that look like volume controls. One has to go up while one's going down, and then another one has to go down while another one goes up. That you know what that's that's hard because you saw it. She segued the song or said the song push some buttons and there it went, you know, pretty easy. But but did you like her

DJ hat? She had some very sort of bright colors with black, like a lot of black because she was edgy for the for the being the DJ, I felt like I was in the hat with a giant sunflowers. I mean, could you miss it? That was that? But it was it was perfect Donna attire the entire episode. But we'll get to that. So when she did the song, she also knew there were two six bones in the human body, I mean, and she used some sort of algebra thing. She doesn't get enough credit. Wo, this girl

is on fire. I really uh was happy to see her jump in there and I was even happier to see David just call the f down a minute and give her a little credit because he's do we feel he's always wound up? Yeah, David, he can't unclench, he goes, Yeah, I guess he can't. They do always seem to figure out their things in forty four minutes, though, do you

know what I mean? Like they have conflict, it gets a little heightened, and then they work it out all in the same episode, like we're never totally left hanging on them like we are yet I guess, Oh my god. But yeah, I like enjoyed their storyline and I think they're so great too. I wish Donna was here just to talk I mean, donnay see what happens to us too. I wish story was here because I wanted to talk to her about how it felt to be the DJ like and then that was like a cool moment for

Donna and really cool. Yeah, we really do get to see her characters. And they gave Mark and Brian a shout out, so for those I mean, actually Mark and Brian were national. They do work in real sort of l A things like we've talked about, so they said, oh, we could be Mark and Briant, which were like the hot they were the dj V. Yeah, in the time. I think Kevin and Bean came a little bit late or or they were just starting to but on a on what radio station was that kloss that's Kevin and Bean.

So Mark and Brian I think, or maybe Mark and Byrne went to Kaleos later. You have a lot of Kalos stickers on the lockers in the always Oh yeah, I was like, what can I find? Well, I don't know. It was a good episode and I was happy to see them getting along. Um. But her voice was just so sweet and I don't know her like Donna's Oh my god, I did it. Dory's young voice is so it's like pure, like the driven snow. Yeah. She's just really adorable in all the episodes. Yeah, well that's all

I have to say about that one. So okay, so shall we go to Yeah, what do you feel about? Whatever? Should we go now? I feel like we should go to Andrea and her and her PTSD. I did too, because what's interesting is they almost could have let it go, meaning this story, like we know, they had to work it in because she had her surgery in real life, and she's off the crutches now almost kind of forgotten about it. But like they are, they're out how to

justify it somehow. It makes sense. We want to find out who did this to Andrea. Are sweet, sweet Andrea. I'm not sure that her knowing there were stars from a hypnosis would have warranted the full arrest that they did,

straight arrest, like, no question, I know. I did just arrest him, and I did not hear them read him his rights, she asked, and I was like, what about when she's in the peach pit, she's just like non shalantly putting money in the jukebox and over here listening to the Dylan and Brandon and Steve talk in the booth, like what you guys talking about? We don't remember that. That's how she finds out that they're They're like, oh, Andrew, they totally feel busted for a second, and then they're

like talking about like card legal things. Did you think for a minute you were watching Greece. It totally reminded me of Greece. Amy, We are not to the drag racist go back to Andrea. You just need to calm down. It gets to my most important question though, which I don't know whether I should ask now or at the very end. I'll save it to the end. I have sort of like a nine O two one oh, like the theoretical question, I'll save it for the end of sounds deep it is. I kind of was like trip

myself up with her. I felt like, um, so frustrated with the vest. There's another that like, I'm almost as frustrated with the ugly vests that she's wearing as I was earlier in the show with the boom sightings. The thing for me is also she was older, meaning in real life, why age her up with all the fashion? It's like you'd think they could, they would have wanted to make her look younger, but instead they really that I don't get. I guess it's her character, but it's

like it's her character full on. But in the vest, the vest again with the ugly flowers, Like, there's a lot of blazer to which I never wore a blazer to high school ever. Do you wear a blazer these days? A million percent now? But oh that's my go to Tory told me once, if I ever see you in a blazer. She hates when I wear blazers. Blazers. I love blazers with nothing under whoa. Thanks. Yeah. So Kelly was wearing a yellow, bright yellow blazer in this one. I think if it was at the end right yellow,

was it red yellow? It was a lot of a lot of jann and had that cool I do remember those. It was probably a body suit, but it was like almost muscle ta tank tight in the jeans at the very end. You know what that was is probably one of those thong numbers. Solid the boy with a thong can't stand those. Sorry, I won't do a body suit ever again after college. Wait, because I wore them so much and I'm like, I'm never doing that again. Did you have no? They were like just body suits. Did

you do you wear bodysuits now? No? That I have a very long torso. I don't know if you know this, but most good, most body suits don't accommodate people because they'll just go up the butt, up all the things. Oh yeah, No, I'm done with body suits forever. And I know they look really cute, but like, no, pass, I'll just tuck it in. Thanks. Yeah, clostal grandmother, do you know what that is? No? I love that's my look. So it's hot right now. I am into it, but

it's not the most flattering. But that's my look. Diane Keaton. Y, I want to be Diane Keaton. Go on your TikTok because coastal grand is now the cool look for millennials. So like, I'm going to rock coastal grand all summer. I'm excited for that. Use a little coastal grand right now. That sweater? Wait, I am totally coastal grand hold on, let me look got I got? My pants are wide legs? Oh my god, full coastal grand got a big grandpa sweater. So I'm I'm coastal grandparents. Yeah, so should we get

to not yet? Okay, Steve, somehow, I don't know. It just comes out of nowhere that all of a sudden he's getting bullied at detention and and and sits on a cupcake. I think it was a ding dong. That makes it even better? Is that what those are called? That kids not bringing a cupcake to school? That g like this. I thought the ding dongs were shaped like a twinkie. No, there's a brown there's a brown ho ho ho thinking of a hoo good one. Oh oh, I love those ding dongs. So that was back in

the day. It was like, that was not a ding dong. That was a chocolate cupcaak with the white swirlies on top. I don't know the name of it, but the ding dong was the one that was in the thin, super thin tinfoil. It's coming back to me. It definitely wasn't like a Susie Kicks, like that guy had something that he got at seven eleven. Do you know what I mean? That's where those were sold and you can still buy this grocery store. Yeah, I think they still. They're still

there from the nineties. They have so much shit in them that form something. You know, ever breakdown swinkies last I think they said like forever. Oh man, it looked good until this cupcake. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh my god. Yes, so it was a cup kick a cupcake and then he winds up drag racing behind our stages, which do you remember. No, I just recognized the street with the helmet circle that had a round

about thing like what's that cul de sac? Oh? Yeah, I just felt like it was that they made them wear the helmets, meaning like um, some like safety person because like the helmet was so random for me. That just crush it for you. Well, it was like when they were a helmet when you're in the like or something, but like these guys were. I'm almost certain that was like a network. They have to wear helmet for one,

because I really had to drive probably right right. Yes, I don't know, of course, but I don't think they had stunt drivers. They probably did. Brandon of course gets involved, and we see the seed of a future gambling addiction with him, I hope. Personally, I honestly have no idea what's going to happen in the next episode or after that. He but does he get problem? And they've been sprinkling

it on us for a while. Remember when remember first of all, and pardon me, everybody, remember remember when they're having Christmas and he's got the money on the game. He's all, I got a lot of money on this game. And Jim Walsh was like, huh, and He's all, not a lot of money. Like, Brandon's got a gambling problem. I wrote, g A, he needs gamblers anonymous. Oh, I hope that's coming up. Otherwise it was as opportunity to

the writers. Yeah, but they end up racing um against this very, the very the very guy that ran over Andrea Frank Padilla Franka. He looked bad. At first, I thought they called him Ray Padilla, and I got really excited because I know Ray Padilla. That's someone different who's um he was my first kiss? No? Is he around still? I don't know. I mean, dude, he was alive. I don't know. It was junior high and he was just a regular old kid in the eighth grade. I wouldn't

say a regular old kid. Yeah, may I give me a little credit? And where was the kiss? He was tall and dark and handsome, mysterious and naughty. I knew he was naughty. And my mom where he was naughty too. That's why she got so mad when she saw me kissing him. She saw, Yeah, wait, were you at your house? Or like it was a dance? Oh was school dance? And he we danced real close. And she not exactly a sock cop. No, was it this Sadie Hawkins dance or just a regular dance dance? I don't even called

Sadie Hawkins anymore? They called turnabout. Why is something wrong Sadie Hawkins? I don't know. It's not pc to called Sadie Hawkins anymore. I'm actually not sure. We'd have to google that to know for sure. But it wasn't. It wasn't even was Frank Padia. But was it a good kiss with Ray? Oh? Yes, yes, multiple kisses or like me like that was my onset of I like bad boys. Yeah, I like it. Did you kiss once or did you like go? Were you going? I don't remember, honestly, Honestly,

I swear to God, I don't remember. It wasn't. We didn't go. I don't know what your mind is doing right now, but we did definitely not. We didn't go anywhere. We just didn't kissing. Got that, mom? All right, it's back to Steve. But trigger point for Steve if you bring up the mother, right, that's what I thought. I mean, if you mess with Samantha Sanders, you are gonna go down. Yeah. I liked how he's got really pissed though, like she

she adopted me when no one wanted me. That was like whoa yea and kind of shut down the other guy. But when we first see Steve in this story, um, and he's walking through the campus to the detention, he's so like erect. Yeah, he's so like lean and he's like a mean, lean fighting machine or something. His hair looks good and they they really have transitioned a little

bit his fashion to be less terrible. Yeah, he looked wealthier somehow, Yeah, better like more Steve, Like how I wanted to Steve to look like we heard that all of a sudden detention was through auto shop. Like I was like, wait, wasn't isn't like detentions like in the gym or something. Library, Oh, they're moving it because he went through the auto shop, right, Like, I was like,

what's going on? Yeah, well, you know they had to kind of tie in the old drag racers, but you know what the thing is about the lean, mean bodies. Iron still has the same body that he did, the same exact body. I wonder how hard he has to work to have that. I don't I know, I know he works out, but like I think he's just obsessive, right, Maybe he's just lucky, happy and healthy and active that guy. Yeah,

I like it. But I was wondering why didn't Brandon Why instead did did Brandon not want to write an expose on the illegal street racing because he probably because he wanted his money from it. He liked he got that addiction to the money. He loves the gambling, so why would he out his own I don't know. I felt like it was unlike Brandon, the guy who always kind of gets involved in you know, fights for the underdog, and like, okay, this brings to this perfect moment from

my big question. Okay, ready, okay, So now, and when I asked this, I don't mean it to like lessen your character, your or you or Shannon or Iron or anybody. When you watch these episodes, who is the star of the whole thing? Is it Luke Perry, Dylan or is it Jason Priestley Brandon? Because in this episode you could literally argue both. Yeah, I see your point. In this episode,

I would have to lean towards Dylan. I that was where I went to because the star of the show, which is like a bad way to say it, but you know what I mean, Like, he's the hero saves the day. And that's just what Dilwig did. He saves the day by bizarrely driving his car into the middle of a race and cut them off. Is that? And yeah, but I loved it. I was like, oh he and he just was so hot. And then Frank Padilla knew him, and it's kind of like Dylan said, stop. I loved

it when Frank goes, who's that McKay? Is that you? Yeah, they just called h McKay. It's kind of hot. But then you could also argue that Brandon Jason Priestley is the star because he went off to get the cops and save the day, and he's sort of the he's the good guy hero with his arm around Andrea and like, look I saved you. Yeah, it's it's like it was weird, was like a battle for the for the spotlight between those two are not necessarily a battle, but I would

they had to share it kind of. I see what you're saying. But what I mean, I it's hard for me because Dylan, in my opinion, is being a real d I c k in other areas. So, but I did really love seeing the three boys together. The hug. The hug when Steve hugs Dylan and is such a puddle and Dylan is so strong. I did not love the hug, Oh you didn't. I thought it made Steve

look kind of wimpy. But I love Dylan. I didn't think it was a good choice for Steve's character and like he'd just done this big like macro thing and then he passive cry session on Dylan's shoulder didn't work for me. I feel like I'm wildly I was like, I wonder if the director pushed that, like put your head on his shoulder at the end so we can really see like it was like a real babycause I

felt weird. It just felt weird, yeah, because Steve was just like buying time, so he kind of was the hero too, essentially, like he's like Brandon's gotta go get the cops. I gotta I can't let these people get out of here. They're all fine. So he could have been almost badass and out of the are like yeah, buddy, we did this together, you know, But instead he was so like scaredy cat. Yeah melt pepeet a little in his pants when he was driving the race car because

he doesn't know how to do that. I mean, yeah, he drives a vet and it's fast and everything, but that's that's drag racing. People's been with the hydro nitro injector and it totally reminded me of that scene in Greece when they're like in that weird thing in l A. That's like the river, the river, the river basin. I like that scene. That's where they should have been for this. What are they called drag racing Now it has a name street racing something that's bad, because drag racing is

the whole. I mean, I've drag race, but it's a different kind of drag race. I dragged race like RuPaul together. Actually that's a more popular form, way more fun in my opinion. Yeah, but I just from the beginning, I was like, why, why why is this guy Mr Wardlow Joe Wardlow? Yeah, why is Joe all of a sudden, Like I don't know, he just came out of nowhere and he's picking you so major well yeah, and then he was at the peach pit at the end. But hello,

he's kind of cute. He's that's Thomas Wilson Brown. He did like a lot of acting back then. We're gonna track him down because he's really great in it. Yeah, and he was. It was confusing because Dylan sort of thought they were like up to some shenanigans, like going to try and get the money and then throw the race. So I was like, I didn't really seem like that at the end that Joe was trying to do that. I know, I couldn't figure out if he was in it for Steve's money or what. I didn't I couldn't

figure love of the drag race. And then then he ended up. Then he ends up back at the peach pit. So he must be a good guy. Yeah. I think he's like a good guy. I don't know if he ever comes back again, though, it's like they they're friends for like just this one episode. What about when he puts the chickens in Steve's car? Oh my god, it was the dirty rotten thing. Startled me. Who puts chicken? Where do you get the chickens? It's probably the eggs were on top. Yeah, I was like, what is he

is he gonna egg him? There's all the chickens. It pood and pood and pecked their way all around the inside of that corvette. Man, I'd be pist. I can't. I can't do the word poo b I know I can do you can take him, yeah, but I cannot say pooh. Oh, oh my goodness, this is so fascinating. Poop versus pooh the question of the day and not po like apostrophe d I can't do food, just like saying what you still up? I'm going in reverse. But did you notice in the very beginning of the episod

zown there was like really loud rock music. I don't know if I'm getting that just because I watched it on Amazon. It was awful. I don't know about the beginning. I did recognize some equally poor music taste in the music when they were racing with Frank at the Big Race. Uh, that was seriously some of the worst music that my my ears have ever heard. No offense, it almost I almost could not watch that part of the show because the music was so distracting. Yeah, there was, it was.

There was some stand out bad music in this one. So I don't know if it was like because I know they change it depending on where you're watching it, like Amazon or like on the DVD or whatever. Probably there's more music issues with this show because we did use like popular music of that moment, and I know a lot of it couldn't get licensed or they couldn't make deals or whatever. But I also had a note

in here, what's going on with Jim? I got really confused some issue with money or finances or something he was working for him, he was doing I started to take interest in. Then I fell as late because he's talking. I couldn't understand somebody was having a problem and I and they kind of explained it, and then I was

just like, I can't follow this. So I don't know if that's going to be important later, but I hope not, because yeah, I checked out Harry even wait wait, wait, wait, what about when they drove the vet Remember when they peeled out in the Corvette, Brandon jumps in over the door. That was really driving that car and he, I know, is little ding ny wit did you do it when he did that? Because he really liked it. You guys,

Jenny said, that's so fast. But like you have to take a minute because she just said, I don't want to repeat it. Just rewind rewind everybody so that you can hear what she just said. And I wish you had the visual. Well, they really liked it. I'm sure

that was my point. It was such bad driving because and then what about when they're when they're like when they're when they find out there under the hood of the car at the races and they find out that it's really Frank Padilla, the guy with the stars, the guy that ran Sweet Andrea over. And then they they're like, oh my god, we gotta do something called police do this do that. I was like, guys, just were cool, be cool, Like they're gonna know you're acting so suspicious,

don't right? And I know I was nervous, and I'm like, where is Brandon running to running? Yeah? But then got running? Yeah? How did he suddenly and call the police? I can't like, first of all, if you're gonna drag Race, I'm sure they're way out like Peacoima and Beverly Hills is very far away. I do not think you and get Andrea like everything is like so tight, there's nowhere you can drag Race like that. I guess. Honestly, she was just waiting in her trailer, so it was easy to tend

to get to her. But thank god Donna has her that rare Donna and Dylan seen in the peach pit. Yes, that never happened. Very cute, right, I love that. I'm sure they loved it. I'm sure they love filming that. But but that that gets She says, well, why are you here then? If your friends are out in trouble. I like that, I know. And he was distracted because he was so worried, all very cute. He couldn't listen. I couldn't listen to her. Nothing new there. Um, okay,

are you ready to get to it. Let's take a break because I feel tired now. I need to have a moment. Just remembered something so good. Why don't they use doors? Brandon jumping into the Mustang like through the window, or Steve did it in the Corvette like jumped in through the windows, Because that's how does that is how the Fonds got into the car? I think it was the Dukes of Hazard. It was Bow and Luke. Dude, they never was on a motorcy No, you're right, you're right, sorry,

but even on night Rider he used the doors. Well I guess kids get for him. But yeah, Bow and Luke Duke went in through the windows, and so does Steve Sanders. I was like, what, I kind of want to try that. I feel like I could do it. I've always also wanted to try. Have you ever seen when they're like running and they have to slide a cross the hood to head in the car really fast? I'm like, I don't want to do that because that would scratch the hood of the car. But I could

not get in through the window. I have had to do where you someone's parked too close to you, so you have to get in the passenger side and climb over him. I'm gonna go outside and try to jump through my window. You guys, I'll let you know how that goes. I don't know how convertible, so it's gonna be a little tricky. Okay, let's talk out before we get to the double day. I did right Brandon's outfit at the peach Pit, unbuttoned with a necklace, washing potatoes.

That must have been a standout moment for me. Well, first of all, before that, I had a problem with the potatoes because you really buy that the peach Pit is back their hand cutting their French fries every day. Brandon is back there doing that every single day. I don't think so. And I happen to know that those French fries were from Fatburger, so they're they were good.

Let's do it. Let's talk about our fourth and final storyline, which is um Seth Green, Yes, your date, Your girls date distracted and they go on a date with Seth Green, and some other day. Yeah, it's adorable. They're adorable totally. But first of all, Mrs Walsh hosed them so hard at that moment when she's like, of course they will, and the girls are like dope, they stop in their tracks. And how old were those guys supposed to be, like

seventh grade? Eighth grade? Yeah, they looked yeah, they looked to be like maybe little, yeah, but they were just so cute. Seth Green was so cute. He looks exactly the same today, he really does. That was sort of his beginning, all right, and he's gone on to just yes of success. Yeah, he's done a million million shows and I think he does like voices of animated stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, that's like his big ticket there. But I when I was married to Peter, he did a

movie with maybe one or two. He was friends with Seth and he did a couple of movies with him, and I got to know Seth. He has he's really nice guy. Did you remember each other from back in the day? Like, did you when you re met? You know what you're talking to. I don't remember anybody from back in the day. People have to like fill in all the blanks in my brain and we know I was on your show. That happens all the time I was on your show. We did scenes together. Yeah, I'm like,

oh right, yes, yes, I got it. And does it come back to her? Yeah? Usually it does. Sometimes no one I have to fake it, but was set that kind of did kind of didn't. But when I saw it, it made me remember it, and I loved it. I loved their whole Like that, I've spent an entire day with somebody and not remember. Oh my god, you're pointing out when an asshole. I am not really, but like I've met people briefly and then kind of forgotten. Do

you know what I mean? You see them again and they're like, oh I met you with blah blah blah, and you're moeriously a day years ago whatever it was. No, Like, I wouldn't forget somebody that I like, went is that high school with I don't know, do you remember? I mean, I just can't imagine now I might not remember their name. So like if I bumped into, like, I don't know someone from high school, I might not be able to

exactly like get the name. But if they I don't think I'm gonna forget them unless they look drastically different, which happens yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah not not in set case you look exactly the same. But they're really good at the art. That arcade where we shot those scenes, do you know where it was? Yes? That I think it's still there if I'm not mistaken. It's the one on um Suppulvita Boulevard in Sherman Oaks and it has like a golf and stuff with it now

and I don't know arcade. I've been there. I've been there with my kids. Has a batting cage. It looks exactly the same inside. You guys have to go see it if if you haven't been there. Oh, Sherman Oaks Park. They said it's called some out of towners call it supple Vita, but it's Sepulvida, sepple Vita. The Castle Park, Castle Park, that's it. That's where we filmed that, and I think it's all still there. I want to go one million percent is it looks so fud bring your

vaccine card, but you can go. And they have like cotton candy and all the many golf arcade, batting cage. Oh my god, that's where we shot that we need to have a party there. I just don't believe that would be so fun. Let's have a wrap party there. Party areas are available for reservations see, or we could go roller skating. I'm just saying either one. I'm into it, but I want to go to this place first. Feel like, let's do it. Let's golf course looks incredible. It's really

like literally, oh my god. I was a little bit like, why would I why would they do this? Why would they reunite? Kelly and Brenda have this great story where Kelly and Brenda are like best friends that that that is a good friendship that they have. They have such good girl chemistry. They really made me so so sad because I was like, I that I see that what's coming.

They're gonna lose this their friendship over this guy. And they almost know it because they said something and you guys said something in this episode of like what but if he doesn't pick because what if he doesn't pick either one of us? Yeah, and then says giving him a bit too much power? Right, Brenda says, um, let's we'll never let a guy come between us, and then and then they say any guy, Yeah, Like that's what

I wish would happened. But I gotta be honest, I started to get a little ticked off with well because it was also perfect and cute and and just I just loved seeing them together so much, and the way they I don't know, and I remember together with shan In, and it was just fun. We had so much girly fun. And the photo of you the photo booth, that was so cute because the date really became a date for the two of you on a date with each other.

I loved it, but it did feel a little bit forced for story telling of it all, you know, like because that in real life, when your best friend gets together with your boyfriend, you're probably not going to want to, like go to the arcade with her be besties. So it's a little weird in that respect. But I just get I just started to get mad. I guess that the writers, I mean, the end is dramatic, very cute.

You put the picture on the locker. It's a little too allowing the competition, like, hey, Dylan, here's our picture together. Almost like they should have told him you don't get either of us. I mean that's what they should have told him. Yeah, And I noticed a lot of people on our platforms are saying like they're seeing in a different way this whole love, which is exactly what's happening

with me. I'm I was in it. I didn't know to look at it objectively or from a different perspective then, and now looking at it, I'm like, these two amazing young women deserve so much better. He's a jerk. He's treating them, he's mocking their feelings, basically pandering with them. I just don't understand why they would love him. My struggle is he was he was very into Brenda, believed it very high school, but believed it. Yes, you see that start to kind of fade, having its problems, which

would be very high school. Nobody stays together a hundred years for the most part in high school. Then you see kew Lian Dylan bonding, especially when Brenda, you know, first they had that weird conflict, and then when she went to Paris, and that seemed very natural. My beef now is that it's almost like he's enjoying the threesome of it, and it's like that's a little bit that's kind of bugging me more, really bugging me, like he should have just owned it, stayed with Kelly. He made

his choice. They made their choice. It's the fact that now we've gone backwards again and and you guys are working on the friendship. It's just messy. It's messy, and I don't understand why the writers chose to do this, Like I'm I'm frustrated with them. No offense, but give me a break, guys. Well, it's very days of our lives. Triangles are such a storyline in almost every soap, so it's like the soap element I would say, I mean, but yeah, but they're really no focusing at all on

the feelings of it all that. It's just more about the logistics of it and the competition of it. Yeah, yeah, you make a really good point and dividing these two girls, Like god, that's so interesting because in the nineties that would be how this went. But in a show, even as like a One Tree Hill or you know the shows today, they would have explored more the subtext the emotion behind it. Back then, it was so like, this is the love triangle, this is the conflict nine oh two,

one oh. Like, I just feel like today the same storyline would be so different. I mean, it did really set set me up because I love Kelly and Brenda together in this episode, so it's set me up to be really devastated if they end up not being friends because of Dylan. And like I said, I don't remember what happened, so it's a journey's going to happen. I at the end, you felt like it was something I

don't know, but the thing I thought it was dramatic. Yeah, the end for me, I don't know the end though, it was just like was the first time for me that I was actually gripped, like riveted and I And it has to do not with the the situation the writing so much, but the way it was shot, in

the way it was produced, the music. Um was it was the first time in the show, which after this point it happens a number of times, and it happened for me quite often, but the music would like just pull you in and like grab you and grip you to the storyline, and I find I was like what

is the song? I had that same moment where I'm like what is this in the in the in the way they used the camera and the like the pushing, the slow motion of him walking up to them and just the slow motion of the girls, I thought, because I really really love that stuff, like just like I think that's the hook. So I get why this is such a good storyline and so juicy and meaty. But at the same time, a therapist would be like, this is oh, this is this is this is very unhealthy. Yeah,

that's what a therapist might say. Um, but it was just it felt so gloriously like nineties rom calm. Like that ending was just everything for me. I hope that the show recognizes that and that there's more because I want more of that. It was hard for me not to roll into the next episode. Yeah, I did, sneaker. I didn't cheat. I didn't cheat. I did start to look ahead because I want to see who we can have on I did. UM have a couple of notes though about UM, the part when Brendan Kelly are getting

ready for their hot days. I totally wrote a note was that your eyes was that your lips. I didn't like that and didnt care for those shots they were too close. I was actually thought I would never allow it now, I would look never allow the camera gets like that your face, the camera gets more like the camera now. The camera department and the camera get more than like two arms link away from me. I started to internally combust and have a panic attack. I'm like,

too close, too close to close? Was that your face? Do you know that was standing? Those were our faces. I recognized those lips, those teeth. Definitely recognize the teeth of not just me, but of Shannon. That was crazy. It was just weird. I mean what that was if you guys looked good like it was totally fine. I'm like, oh, thank god, we were pre pubestent at that, you know,

we were so can't they couldn't touch it up? Then? Really, you couldn't go in and smooth out the pores at all or make the teeth like a little less bizarre. The eyes wasn't so bad. Get that close to my eyes now, I will literally hurt you come that close to me with a camera. I was like wow. And also, why did they dress like forty year old women? I'm telling you you had a plaid blazer in this episode. I think a yellow blazer. Somebody had a big bow in their hair. I love the bow and Kelly's hair,

but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about when they got ready for their date, and they looked like they were going to the symphony or something. Yes, like in a bad eighties award show. Bad hair, bad hair, bad makeup, and bad so overdressed. But I guess, you know, it's really bring home the point that they're older than the boys that were taking it. Oh my got Yeah, they were very gussied up. Gussied up, that's what they were like this episode. I do think it was ridiculous,

but I do like it. I the end for me just redeemed it all. I have a lot of issues with the music and it's the drag racing cart. For me was like it felt like the storylines were so oddly stitched together somehow, but somehow it worked. I don't know, I want more. I don't know about you. You know

so funny. I like get kind of hooked into it when I'm watching it and I'm like, you know, it ends and I get up and do whatever, And I realized, like, wow, I really like shows, right, You're like that sticks with you throughout the day the episode, think about it and you care? What do I care? That it's not a crappy show? You know what I mean? Your show is not crappy. It's really not crappy. Big fan over there, thank you. Let's come back and talk about fashion then.

But I totally like it. I'm glad you like it. I'm glad you think it's not crappy. We're taking a break. That would be remiss if I didn't just talk one more time about the drag racing and how I feel very strongly that this should not be happening. They should not do a chicken race. Didn't they do that? Like foot loose member on the track, that's one saying. It was very like, yes, oh my god, his foot stopped duck with a shoelaces so stressful. Oh god, I got

so scared. But then the helmets brought me back to reality that it was just a TV show. It's stupid. So yeah, why was that sort of of the time, Like, I don't know, maybe it's people do that chick can race. Somebody's gonna get hurt or die. Yeah, that's bad. It's not a good choice. If anybody asks you to chicken race them, people don't do it. I'm just saying, all right, let's talk fashion, let's talk lines. Um, you've already had a lot of fashion comments. You didn't like the Blazers.

You didn't like my bo like them. I like them, I just feel like it's not high school. Yeah, nineties Blazers. Doc Martin's I don't know Dona Donna c D jacket was pretty fine, my god, very it was very on the nose. It was alot of all black, which I thought was cool. I like the polka dot ad dress in the very beginning. And David looked really cool for once in the very first scene, not in the next scenes because his shirt choice. But and I really liked ward Low. It's a very hard name to say Wardlow,

Joe Wardlow's jacket. And I like Dylan's red jacket. Dylan always looking good. Heart heart heart, Okay, best line, best line. This is what stood out to me. Donna's doing her djaying when she was kind of bad, and somebody I can't remember if it was you or Brenda goes call nine one one, she's dying. They gave like a lookout Howard Stern reference to and then call nine one one she's dying. But then she deems herself. I had I couldn't pick one. I had three, okay. The first one

was from Steve Sanders. It must have been like during the fight when in the detention when he says, why don't you clam up bone head? Is that was that written on the page or did he? Hope so? But I think so because it reminds me of the lines between David Arquette and Jason Priests, Like it's whoever's writing it's right in the same don't you clam up? Bone heading? To somebody today? What about this one? Um? This was Kelly in the arcade when she says, who's to say

there isn't level on eleven or million and eleven? We're gonna die here, Brenda. It actually made me l O L like I I chuckled all out to my with my just me and yeah, it's a good one. And then my third and final line was um from Joe wardlow Ah, you're a one man psych Ward you know that. Yeah, there was some good good stuff there, some good lines in this show, you really like if you really do look for them and appreciate them, they're there there. Maybe

we can do another re enactment. Oh boy, those really those hurt. They're very hard. Good. Let's to test my acting abilities. I feel like we need to have some sort of a like a system in place. Yeah, like five peach pit Burgers, you know what I mean, Like so five fries. Five fries like this would be so on a scale of one to ten because it's so how many Mega burgers would you give it seven? Seven

Mega burgers? Six or seven? Yeah? I think I think I'm right there with you because I don't want to overdo it because there's there's there's nines and tens out there. Because I just love I mean, I love the photo boot booth moment so much with with Kelly and Brenda and I. In the end, i'd have to give it like a six. Probably, I'm just deducting burgers because like, I just don't think these guys are going drag racing. Yeah, you gotta take some burgers away for the for the

bad music too, deny them the burgers painful. God. I gotta go watch it on the DVD to see if it's different music. I don't think it will be. It hurt my ears at the open. It was like we had new shots of school and it was like they really wanted to use them, and so they were like, oh, we need music with this. So I don't know if it's my age. I think it is your old fo darn loud in the words from Back to the Future, like I go, is this a thing? Is this what

happens you guys? Um, you start to I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but it's embarrassing when you go, like when I go to a restaurant nowadays, which happens a lot. Just kidding, not really. I never leave my house. Um, but the all the other noises in the back, I can make it so I can't hear what the poston

in front of me is saying. So I literally, if this is me, if we're having dinner, I turned my head so that my ear is Um, how's the straighter line of connection with your mouth so that I can pass? But I have to keep looking at you because I have to also read your lips while you're talking to sort of figure out what you're saying. But then guess what. I have no idea what you're saying, and I just say, oh, yes, let's go what. I just had my hearing checked. Have

you had your hearing check? I don't want to do it. Have you not seen the TikTok that says we're at that age where we have to turn the radio down to see. That's so true. I never really thought of that. You're like, wait, everybody quiet, I'm driving. Yeah, and the music, the loud music. I went to a rock and roll show the other Why did you go to? I think I told you I went to They told us a theater. I want to see Palace and I'm even know if that is. It's a great band. I'm a huge fan

of theirs, kind of like indie all stuff. And I had to stand in the back. Yeah, yeah, did your ears ring when you got home? You're like, oh, no, yeah, that's that. I'm used to that. But like I was, literally like, it's a little loud. Can we leave now? Anyway, the point is relatable. I hope that you guys have a good week and we have our homework. Uh, what's next? Next week is episode eighteen of season three Midlife? Now what that feels? Gim and Syndish? Oh you think you

guys are life? Because oh, to be in my midlife? Is that? What's happening? Is this? What that is? Midlife? I feel like I'm on the upper crust of midlife. In the next one, whatever that one is. Wait, I have a trible another question for what is what? Am I am not a millennial? I'm not a gen you and are jen X? Okay? Because the other day and I bet you everybody listening is jen X too? What

they're the best? Those are our people? Are you? The other day I asked my has than that question and he told me I was a baby boomer and I fell down, No, because we're the same age. I think we're a year apart or something. But is that what he thinks of me? Is he jen Why he's younger than you? Right? Yeah, we're gen X. We're not baby boomers. Thank god, that is close. We're not even close to baby boom boomers. Hold on, I'll get you the years

for everybody curious that's listening. Gen X years. Gen X range. Baby boomers were born between sixty five and eighties. Baby boomers were born between And he thinks I'm that old, my husband, we have a project we're full gen X because it's sixty five to eighty and we're like right in the middle of that. Yeah. But you know when you're younger and you look at someone who's older, you think they're a lot older. Yeah, that's what's happening. We

need the oping I've got to make an appointment. Better help, Where are you people? I guess he's millennials. I guess there is no gen y. I thought there was. And you know what, it's all making sense to me because also my daughter called me a boomer not that long ago, and now I know what a boomer is. I thought it was just somebody cute that didn't know how to use their computer. Whoa jen? Why is millennials? Oh my god, I've just learned something. Wait, it's the same. I'm married

to a millennial. Is that what you just told me? Yeah? Oh my god. Yeah, that's tough. I'm breaking out in hives. When did gen y change to millennials? Oh? It must have had a name change. Wow. On this episode of nine o two one off topic. Anyways, watch and watch the episode next week. We're we'll be here. I hope you guys have a great week.