A Glee-nomenon (“Mattress” S.1 E.12)

I would. There's a lot that happens, and we're in a lot of it, and I had a lot of fun shooting this thing. There's just a lot of memories in real life. When this episode actually came out, which was on December two, two nine, we had a very busy week. We did, because this is when it started to get gray. Yeah, because up to this point. Also when this episode aired, this was the highest most viewed

episode after the pilot, so we were growing every single eventually. Okay, so um Empire State of Mind is still number one on the charts. And the Blind Slide The Black My God, The Blind Slide the movie with Sandra Bullock. I said that right um has slid up to number one. Yeah, that's why I was going. First it was the Sandra Bullock like come Back Yere because The Proposal was also a huge movie that year. So what happened in um, what happened with us this this uh this crazy week

several things. So some of us did this um appearance in New York City and Brandt Park for like t J Max and Marshall's. We did a Carol Okey contest? Can you participate in that? Now? Did you know? I did do that either? Okay, I remember anything about that? UM unimportant. Next, and then we went to our first jingle Ball. I remember that. Yeah, I do remember that. That was great. I feel very I felt very cool

that I could get into jingle Ball. Well, you also said to me when we went to jingle Ball this current two year to talk about and that's what you really missed. You're like, have you been to jingle Ball? And I was like, no, I don't think I've been to jingle Ball multiple times. Yeah, and I've been with you at multiple Yeah. So they're okay, that's how good

my memory is right now? Okay, So we went to the jingle Ball and then UM, Kevin, do you remember going to the Tervor Projects cracked Christmas and at the Wheel Turns that was with Chris and Corey and I had just gotten off of a flu and my dress. They're real good, YEP. I remember that. And this was the beginning of a long relationship with Trevor Project. If you know what Trade Project is, it's a UM a resource center, hotline for UM LGBT people, UM suicide hotline

you can text in. It's an incredible, incredible organization. And they were really small at this point. They didn't have like the text in chat room things that they have now. And we all went and I remember being so impressed. I also remember because I was like, you know, closeted that I was. I was like, I have to. I'm like, regardless off, I'm scared of people, the public finding out if I'm gere or not. I have to be involved with this organization. And we went every single year, Adam Shaman,

we were presented, did all the things. UM. This week the Gale the music Volume two Jeez were just pumping them out was released. It had seventeen tracks, and UM didn't Volume one does come out? Yeah, well exactly, uh? And then Kevin, you didn't you guys do a photo shoot. Um, they got Vanity Fair photo issues, Yeah, which was felt very fancy. It was the first time I had been in you know, a I think a big like fashion important magazine like that. It was very jealous that you

guys had to do that. And then I remember going to visit you and we had a singing in the rain thing and so we were all dressed in these hats. And so the issue with this for me was I was very excited about this. It meant a lot to me. But do you remember this is when I had my issue with strip where I kept getting recurring strep throughout over and over and over again, and nobody could figure out what was wrong with me, and I kept having to go to the doctor and they were like pumping

me full of antibiotics. And in this photo shoot, I'm standing on a light pole like holding it, wrapping my arm around it. But I had had like I V things in my you know, my elbow, and I was using that to hold onto the light post. But I was trying to be like and they had like fake rain coming down and I could barely stand on this thing because it was so slippery, and I was trying to keep it all together. And I was so sick, and my arm wasn't so much pain because it's like

on a wound, and yeah, and it's in public. It's on a very busy street in front of a very busy museum and getting to do one of the coolest things in my life up to that point, and I am Kevin. It was also really late at night, and I had lived down the block from there at the time, so I said, I'm going to come visit, and they blocked that whole straight up. I wasn't allowed to come and see you guys. And I was like, I swear,

I'm I'm part of this. They know me, I know them, I know them, and they were like, no, absolutely not. So I drove by and I saw the rain going and you guys looked very fabulous from afar, and that's all I got was just a sheer glimpse into the world of the very painful than the fair shoote for you and then ended up being this really like small photo adventity, but you were inventity. Care. I was that's awesome. Okay, okay, let's let's do it. Let's do it all right. So

this is Mattress and Um. This aired December two, two nine, My gosh, and this was directed by Eldie Keene Here she is again, which I was like, wow. Eldie directed a bunch of episodes early on, so crazy. Um. This was written by Ryan Murphy and the Try the Holy Trinity um Ian Brennan and Brad Felt Chuck and Um. We had two great little guest stars who were the Mattress store owner and the DP or the director John

Ross Bowie and Chuck's spitler. We did smile from Millie Allen, which we'll talk about, Um, jump van Halen and then smile Charlie Chaplin. Um. Like I said, this was the most viewed episode, so eight point one five million viewers. That was a high for us. And at some point the originally the episode was called Once Upon a Mattress, but we couldn't get the rights to it. No, they had to change that Mattress. It is okay. I enjoyed

this episode. There's a lot that happens. Yes, So basically, when the Glee Club is left out of the Yearbook due to budget cuts, almost everyone except Rachel is relieved they won't have to suffer the ridicule of past years, because it's known amongst the school's history that the glee club picture always gets defaced by the cooler people's right right, and Rachel tries to elevate the social status of the leae club by getting them cast in a local commercial,

which causes drama, so much drama. And then finally Will discovers that his wife Terry has been lying to him about the pregnancy. Baby. It is peaking. Oh, I mean, this is it's happening. And also I think at this time to remember there writing this episode twelve we have is a one more episode before the break. We know at this point that we're coming back. I don't know that we did. I think by by by the time it was airing, Yes, but we didn't when they were

writing it, I don't know. And so they had to like wrap up some of these storylines or or leave it hanging interested. So I needed the back nine. So this year book the Thunderclap. Yeah, tell me about it. It's a very very big deal. Obviously. Um the show starts out with like Will and the teacher's lounge, everybody getting a double dose of the bad news, which is

Emma and Kin's wedding. Is the same day as sectionals because I'm not getting married, why any or And it's the fiftieth edition of the McKinley High School underclap and she walks in with a black eye and says she convinced Figgins not to let the glee club have a picture in the yearbook because it always gets you know, like I said, the face, it always gets drawn on. It would just relieve some of the pressure and the ridicule and the embarrassment for the glee club. Emma has

some really good one liners in this episode. This is her one two three punch. That's not the saying. But she says the wedding was going to be in Hawaii, but then they told me I couldn't bring my own fruit. How cute, um. But then she goes on to talk about Kennan how he has a lot of flaws. Ken has a lot of flaws. He has seventy four flaws of yesterday. And then I think the best one of all,

Oh my gosh, dude, did someone finally punch you? Sue looks like she has a black eye, but she actually got some work done and her cheer ducks removed, which she was in like rare form in this scene. It was really, really really marked that for my favorite line of the episodes, most likely. Okay, so then we go to the choir room, where do you remember shooting this?

Of course, Well, Kurt's telling everybody that, um, not getting a photo in the Thunderclub is actually a blessing in disguise because um, he says, a yearbook photo would only fuel the flames of anti glee club terror and it gets defaced and we would be all, look real crazy. Um. When we were shooting this scene, Chris had a mouthful there was when it started, I just said out loud, I'm like, oh, Chris couldn't get this. And then you watch it, and it was he had every random word

thrown at him in this scene. And well, and and the hardest thing is like those one like when you have one line, it's actually harder than having a a stream of consciousness and a thought and having twenty lines because it's out of nowhere. You have to remember it out of nowhere and create context for yourself. Um. And for Chris it was like this like one of those famous pair you know monologues where nothing really there's no real stream of consciounessness so, um, poor Chris, but he

nailed it. I remember, and we all had to like interject sometimes, and it was all this pressure where Chris has this really difficult monologue to say and then we have to interject, and like, who are we going to be the ones that mess his entire scene up for him? Right, He's like trying like holding on to We've all been there. I have my memory of that. So Mr Shoe is on. It's not privy to the fact that we're all like, great,

we're not going to be in the yearbook. But he insists that we have to be in the yearbook, and he decides to go to Figgins and Figgins is that the only way to get everybody into the yearbook in the glee club is for thousand dollars, which is wildly expensive for a yearbook photo. By the way, I was very anti yearbook, anti school things, so I don't remember. Yeah, I would have fought for the yearbook. Um, so Will

it's like, okay, what about a quarter page? Um where and and Figgins It's like, okay, it's like three bucks or whatever where two members can be in it. So Biggins now recommends that they pick Finn in Santana. He says, now, I suggest you select a good looking cheerleader, not the pregnant one and the quarterback for the photos. Their faces are less likely to be scratched out with safety pins. And then at that moment, barges in because she's got

some words that she hasn't been seen yet. Oh my god, so funny. Rachel barges in and she insists that glee clubs in the yearbook, and and Mr She's like, got it, Rachel, and she's like, thank you so much and leaves in her very Rachel whye. And then we go through this incredible bit of Rachel in her obsession to be photographed, to practice for the paparazzi and being a part of every club, which some of them just don't. I didn't remember watching this. He was laughing, because, like Leah's face

and these is excellent. This is a very good episode for Rachel and Leah. She is absolutely nailing it because she's very good a physical comedy and like one of those things that we do, like in between takes and things of doing sort of impressions of our characters, and she was using all of those tools, the big smile and all that that's right. We were elevated in this episode. Um. But her in the clubs, I was like, oh, some of these didn't age well. No, so click that for

it is funny? What oh it it's very fun because it's also like we know it's inappropriate at that time though. It is like we know this is wrong, and she's using these using it too in to her advantage in the wrong, wrongest or wrong ways. Um so, and then we had to Quinn in the library. We're not in the library very often, so this is exciting. Yeah, I feel like this is we're going to start seeing the library because get more budget and bigger library. That's right.

So we see quinnin library and she's looking at the yearbook and she decides that she doesn't she wants to be in the cheerios again. She needs to be relevant and I feel like she's a part of a part of something. And I gasped at this. I gasped. Um. She says, I want my kids to be able to look back at these books and see who I was, make them proud, not the bastard carrying now of course the ones will have when I'm married and ready. Yeah, exactly,

John Snow Um, I thought that was very very funny. Um, okay, what what what happens next? Then we go so then we're seeing how the Glee cub effects every single person. I mean, the yearbook affects every single person on the show. It's funny how one of these high school things becomes such a thing. It's very high school. I like lean

into these high school things like this. And then Mr Shoe goes to tell Terry that he wants to buy an ad and use it for the glee club, and she says no five times, but he obviously does not listen because he has always prioritized the glee club. Um and gives Figgins a check to pay for it, and then he tells the good Club that they have to pick two captains for the photo, and then everyone very quickly, on purpose, unanimously votes for Rachel because they don't want

to including Rachel. And I love that scene, like all the kids colluding to just like, yep, you can do it great, finally giving her the attention she wants, the spotlight she wants, and then Will is a little perplexed because this is the first time he seeing that the kids don't want to be in the photo and ask him afored advice, and then Emma apologizes for missing sectionals and tells her he thinks you can schedule the wedding

on purpose. Oh drama. And then Will decides that Rachel needs a co captain and do you I remember filming this because this was the first time that Rachel already have a little one on one. Um, yeah, here's my bid for it didn't age well? Is everybody giving, you know, excuses of why they can't be the co captain? Mercedes says she can't no time kwanza yeah, um, and then Already says, um, you can't. I can't because we'll mess up a composition because if you lean over, it will

look like you have stomach rolls. It's very funny. This scene was very funny. Yeah, and then I thought how this was the best and um, she says, no way, because I don't want to be in a picture with you. It'll get to face and Rachel says, no, it won't, and she says Britney says, if it will, I'll be

doing it. I'll be the one doing it. So Rachel then goes to good old Trustee suite Finn because he is a leader and he says yes, and you know, then insert Smile by Lily Allen, which we were very excited about this because Lily Allen was like coming up. Her album had come out. We were all listening to it on like, um, you know at our chairs in between takes. We love this album and I just am so uncomfortable watching this number. I might have passworded through

it me too. I definitely fast arted this to be real because it felt like it was just inserted for the sake of yes, we need and in these early episodes, we don't. We didn't have that right. They all kind of moved the plot, they moved or they were really really like fun huge numbers with like big costumes and production value, but this one was like why is this here?

Also feel like okay, it sort of felt like Ryan was throwing us a bone because we wanted this song in the show, and there was just a lot of um storyline in this episode, and I think they were just kind of like searching for the right material for the for the songs to fit, but there's just so much other good material in this In this episode, um Rachel also slaps pins. But at the end of this rad and the piano is also like really getting into

that he's living living. I actually fast forwarded and then I um ended up Rad and he was moving Um okay, and then we we cut to Finn who is in locker room and getting um drawn and written on by Crofsky and a Zemio. I love Crofsky and Zemio together. I thought they were a really amazing, horrible bully duo and also got funny. I mean they were trying to draw Nazi symbols on the I mean the Hitler symbol on his face, which I thought didn't it wasn't good.

But but the duo, we're starting to see the duo, which is your potato head, like you could you could write a high kup on his head because that was funny. That's very funny. I don't know if that was outlet or not. So's getting bullied by his own teammates Krofsky, who was not on the hockey team but on the football team, right. And then Rachel Rachel is going to be at the photo it's photo day for the glee club.

She's waiting for her co captain and he's not showing and the photographer UM says he's gotta go because he's gotta He's like, sorry, I gotta go. Hurry up. Um, I've got to go show this commercial for my brother. And the she's like boo, she hears commercial. Um. And John John Ross Bowie, who is the guest star who plays the photographer and the director of the Mattress commercial. You may know him from Speechless or The Big Bang Theory,

that little show, just that small tidy thing. Um. And he also comes back, you know, he goes back in Um, he ends up in the Glee Project. As I thought this scene was so strange, but the two of them are so good that they made it. Like she takes that break and looks in the mirror. Yeah, like there's all these My favorite parts of the show are when we get into those odd, weird, specific comedic things and then she goes and sits down and starts crying because

she's trying to get the job. I just thought it was really very funny executed. Yeah, very very funny. I can cry out of one eye. So then, um, Rachel is you know piste Finn and Finn says, well, they said that I took the Glee Club photo. They'd make me choose between a Hitler mustache or buck teeth and I can't rock either of those looks, so you know, yeah whatever, which leads us into the commercial. The mattress

part of this episode, which is the best part. Well, I don't know about that, but it is one of it's our favorite party. So Rachel's in the glee club. She calls the meeting to session. She says that the glee Club is a rare opportunity to become stars. That we've been cast in a local commercial, and Tina is very excited. Um, and she says, hold onto your hats and get ready to sell some mattresses. All these numbers. I remember shooting all these scenes. They were like so quick.

We were like in one off scenes of like I remember just this this episode moving very quickly. There was a lot to do. It's like, you guys don't matter right now. We don't need to do twelves. We don't need a coverage of twelve different people exactly, it's a group. Um, So now we're rehearsing. Now we're at mattress Land, which was a mattress store warehouse in like the middle of nowhere in California, and it was it was very hot.

And if you watch this first thing where we're all lined up acting out the scene that we're supposed to do in this commercial, we're all a bit dewey. Well that we shot this after we were did the musical number. We were sweating. But um, we're rehearsing this number or the commercial as it was written, and the delivery of these lines is excellent. And I remember Mark's line delivery was cracking us up. We were fully losing it, losing

it and and and ambers and it's just very funny. Um, But do you remember rehearsing for this, like, well, they had to. They put us on the sound stage right, like a separate sound stage because the mattresses wouldn't fit in the tin shed where we normally rehearse, and we were rehearsing really late at night. I remember it was like after we had shot something else. Yeah, I remember rehearsing these. These were real fun, except I was like worried my neck was going to get all crazy. I

just remember too, because it was. Um, there's a lot of pictures online that I think we all took of each other and posted at some point of us like sitting around on these gigantic trampolines that they covered and fabric to look like mattresses, and we were climbing up places we probably weren't supposed to in this empty sound stage, like and I just remember we were left alone on those stages a lot, I think because Zack and Brooke had to go. I think, yeah, I think there was

something another number being shot that needed their attention. Yes, yes, I remember laying on those mattresses for a very long time, and so it was like a nice little break respect on these little soft pads of this mattress and them also being like what what is this number? How are we choreographing this? And I think it was like I can do this, and they're like, great, do that because I can do it. For it and we have to look when we look at that number, like how there

is going full acrobatics. Yeah, full acrobatics the entire time, like like pure wedding into a full split, like a

middle split. I was crazy. She was doing her best cheerleader. Um, so what happens is and the scene is that the written scene that the director wrote after we do it sort of sucks and Rachel's like, we're a glee club and I love how we just whipped up this little van Halen number with all these harmonies, and also like how could this how could Mattress Land afford the rights to Van Halen for their commercial I remember McQuary being very excited about this number, very excited, um and doing

the scream at the the beginning of that stuff. Also the scream is funny because I all, I think of his tour like hearing it so many times. Can you believe because we did Mattress on tour, we brought trampoline covered the mattress pads on tour. I don't remember, I like vaguely remember doing Mattress, but then I was like, oh, like Mattresses where I had put on the pajamas and then I had seven layers of clothes underneath because you just rip off another layer to do another number. Um,

that was a crazy time. If you have people should go to find like recordings of that online or if you were there, can you like tweet us and tell us like did that feel as fever dreamy as it did for us? That? I think it does that? So then we do this number that was absolutely insane. Amber sings the highest notes no to me over and over and over again. I remember hearing the recording and was like, what is wrong with you? And she was just laughing hysterically.

Um that numbers great though. It was like it performed really well, right, and um, it was just a lot of fun too. It was a lot of fun to do. But on the day we were shooting and they had to turn the air off because of the sound issues because it was like blowing and the sound and sounded so sensitive to it that you know, you would have heard that like whizzing, So they had to turn the

air off. So we were doing all of those like crazy running, jumping, twisting, flipping in like heat and I remember being like, can we get some waters in here? And they brought the water from outside and it was like hot boiling, so we were drinking hot water from plastic water bottles and literally just dying. Yeah, but it was a really fun day. But at the same time,

we had really comfortable costumes, so we did well. We had white teaing tops underneath, so we were able to take off our button ups and like were those in between takes. But it was still really really There was also like a lot of um, we didn't know if I should have been bounced on the trampoline. But we remember, we did like it. Just you were laughing really hard. I was because I also like trying. I was just

trying not to move my legs. I didn't know. I was like, I don't know if this is right right, I know, I know, I know. It was a different time. It was a different time. But what a great number it was. Really. Oh, Chris got injured. He went down, He had to go to the medic He did I completely forgotten nack. He tried to do a flip and he landed the wrong way. Yeah, it wasn't a lot. He did get injured. At we all got injured a

lot that Chris went down on this one. Though. There was also like a thing in the behind the scenes for this episode that Diana said that Diana was losing her mind. Do you remember that Diana would always lose her mind. Diana would like towards the end of the night. Yeah, exactly, when she got silly, she would get like cry cry, and she would make us all laugh the cutest. Yes, exactly.

That was really that goes down as one of like the create the most fun memorable like musical numbers, just because of the sheer size of it of like the weird mattresses Ryan must have come up with. That's I feel like that sounds like a Ryan idea. It's really funny. It is a really funny idea, like the kids getting a local commercial format and dream comes true. Um did? I started out doing local commercials, and also people would talk about trampolines and I'm like, well, this feels like

it's a full circle moment for me. Yeah, exactly. Wait, so what commercials did you do? Um? I did? The first thing I ever did was for the local, like local w B, which ended up being CW, but it was w B, and I did it for local affiliates, so I had to say like, oh, when you're tuned into blah blah um. And then I did like a radio shack industrial commercial. Yeah, I did a lot of industrials. I did like a Blockbuster industrial thing too. Those aren't

things anymore. I don't think, no, I doubt it. Okay, So baby let's talk about baby gate because this is um Well, Jescelyn apparently called it um her Terry's Reckoning, or she called this episode the reckoning because this is the reveal she I don't think she gets enough credit.

How good she is I think, is like so awful? Well, yeah, she she is the you know we're we're rooting for Emma and and well here, so of course Terry is going to be the one that's the evil villain that's wrong, wronging Will left and right and kind of a bit we want we want the adultery. But why is she

so Excellent's questionable? So Will is going through the drawers looking for a tie, and some reason is going through Terry's you know, he's looking for his pocket square, which is what I was like, Okay, I believe this, then yes, right, um, and then find the little pregnancy belly. And honestly, Terry's lie was actually pretty legit. I was like, I believe that. Yeah, that was a kindra level lie. Yes, she said it was for trying on clothes for when you were going

to look like you were pregnant. Also, I have to say I was trying to think like, if I pulled out, it doesn't look so obvious, you know what. The look in his eye was like, oh, this is starting to make sense. All of these fictions were confirmed. Yes, So he comes out and confronts Terry, and um, this is

a really well beautifully acted directed shot scene. I think the show I think so far that it's that very loose camera handheld, handheld like there's not it's just you're kind of following them around in this like very in the action intimate moment. Yeah, exactly, And and then Terry's like, I guess I'm just going to reveal us all. So she tells him the plan was too. He's like, what about when the baby was born? And she says, what

we were going to get Quentin's baby. I was a little freaked out because it looked like he was going to hit her, didn't they. I felt like the whole time, I was like, oh my god, is he going to hit her? Like this is He was really scary. I felt like because someone who doesn't ever get angry, and then all of a sudden, You're like, it looks he grabs her wrists and I was like, oh no, yeah it was. It was definitely like him about like a tea kettle, like about to explode of this. I think

this is one of up there too. For my favorite lines of the episode of this marriage, it's something this marriage only works because you don't feel good about yourself. That is wild very throws it in there in the middle of this argument, and it's like, what a line. Very dark, very dark? Um, But you know what's good it is because he's angry. He's not going to say at home, so thank god there's a pile of mattresses waiting for him, kind of because that's going to really

poopoo on the whole bale club. So yes, he leaves and he goes to school and he he sleeps on one of the mattresses. It's like Princess and the Pa with all the mattresses lined up like that. Um. And did you notice that you can see his marks on the floor when he drops the mattress on the floor. They left the mark in there. So our marks are where we stand. But normally if there's like a shot with your feet and it, they take it out and you kind of have to use your best guess where

they put like a tiny little dot. And they left his red mark tape in that. We did. All of us had our own colors. Um, that sweet sweet camera Ben would put down for us. Um, But I had bright pink. What was your Kevin? Blue? Mind switched? I think originally I think it was gray because of my wheels. And then sometimes because there were so many characters, at some point they had to double tape, so some people would be green and blue because there was just too

many of us. But I had bright pink the whole time, and when somebody would sub in for Ben and would give me a different color, i'd I think I have a photo of like fifteen different marks for like fifteen different people that I'll try and and so we can post it. But um, um anyway, so Emma, um, he's a problem, and Emma says he needs to focus on his own life but she would never do that to Terry but gets it not what he was expecting. Yeah, And it was actually a really honest, like grounded scene.

And I was like, oh, like I get it. She's like you're big, you know, uh like a big one to lose or whatever the quote was, but you know it was, um, Yeah, it was a really honest scene, which I really appreciate it because you know, after like she's everything she says does come from a place of

like sincerity and really really meaning to do well. Yeah. Um, and it's nice like and then and amidst all this chaos and mattresses and arguments that you know, she does often say the unexpected, but it's because I think it's the reasonable and real thing. Yeah, it's nice. So all of these three storylines have come to a bit of a boiling point and then everything starts to unravel because Sue's doing her That's how Sue sees it, very inappropriate,

sees corner. Oh, it's it's bad. Her delivery is amazing. It's really bad performance, incredible subject matter exactly. Um, so she needs the mattress commercial. She's like, I'm going to take them down. And then um Quinn asks Sue if she can be in the cheerio photo, but she says no, and then tells her that the glee club can't compete in Sectionals because they really stepped in it. Because what happened was is that that commercial they made made them

lose their amateur status. Because Sue goes on to tell Figgins un tells the glee Club was it says that was in a commercial and accepted payment because they received the mattresses, So they don't qualify to be amateurs anymore. It's been revoked and they're no longer eligible for Sectionals and they can't return the mattresses because one of them was opened and slept on. And this is where Sue says, there's a stack of mattresses in the choir room, pile as high as the empty hair gel bottles in the

dumpster outside of your apartment. I love that she she fits in several several several very good um and and Will admits that he slept on the mattresses because he's thinking of leaving Terry and against us. While I can see that one coming at so good, I love too. And she's talking about Will, but looking at Figgins, well, I didn't see that one coming at all. These scenes are I have a new appreciation for these scenes of Like in Figgin's office with the three of them, it's

just excellent. And then fig feels bad, but also you know, also says like his hands are time and Clee clubs over. So Quinn, to our surprise, is going to go and blackmail Sue. That's right. She's in her cute little cherry off it with her cute o bump and um. She's telling Sue that she knows that she gets all this free swag from the Cheerios in the past years. And if she's like certainly you wouldn't want Figgins finding that out,

or the Cherios would also be banned from competing. So in return, Quinn demands one a full page photo to be given to Glee Club for free, because the Sterios have like sixteen or six I don't remember. And she also demands that she's back in the Cheerios and and she was like, yeah, whatever else, you're ruthless, and I'm gonna Stephanie in the back. You remind me of a young sul Sylvester, right um. And Quinn's like, maybe not. Actually, we'll take the photo, but I don't want to be

back on the Sios exactly. So she says she's rather be a part of a club that's proud to have her. Remember, I have to say to like, this is really summing up how the only I mean, the only person who has had a really big significant story arc so far

in these episodes is Quinn. She's gone from president of the C A Celibacy Club hb i C running ship and here she is now sticking her neck out for the Glee Club, the people she hated, and now when she gets the opportunity to be back on the Cheerio She's like, no, actually, it's a nice redemption arc for her. It's true. That's very true. Quinn as some pretty good arts,

I mean, along with some pretty crazy storylines. But um, and then Mr Shoe this is one of Lad's signature moves in the scenes where you shoot back and you see everybody. And Mr Shoe tells the glee club that since he's the one who slept on the mattresses, he's um fired from sectionals, but but they can still compete and that they deserve to compete for all their hard work.

And the Glee clubs like, we can't do this with that, and Mr Shoes like, but you just did the mattress commercial and if you can't without without me there, then I haven't done my job. And Rachel's like, thanks, Mr Shoe, just no questions asked um, and he's like, I want you guys to smile really big in this Glee photo that s is giving you. And I thought that was really sweet. UM. And the this photo that we took,

I have this, we have this everywhere, we have it framed. UM. It was a big, like personally like a really big moment because it also felt like we're our second to last episode if we were coming back yet when right, And it felt like a really really special moment. It was the first picture we had of us like that,

yeah exactly. I was like, wow, we're all together. So it was a really sweet and this okay, so this scene, I mean this whole episode because we're in a lot of it, but there's not a lot of like storyline for us. We're all kind of like improvising in our characters.

And you start to see like characters bloom, like especially like Puckerman and Finn with the weights like in the locker room doing that was really funny and like they thought of that, and um, you know us doing the makeup and stuff, and like you just see like, um, the very famous like looks that you see in the choir room and these characters kind of like really us figuring out who exactly we are or yeah, which was really fun and like very funny. I just chuckled a

lot during this episode. And I remember to Smile was Michael Jackson's favorite song, and that's we recorded it the week after and it felt and I didn't know like this for some reason that came out after this is his favorite song, and I had just learned that and at the time it was a very big Michael Jackson fan. It was just like it meant a lot for you know, us to be doing this song. It ended up actually singing this at a Trevor Project event years later. Really,

yeah saying it? Are we saying it at the white House? White House? Yeah? Well we have a story about the White House, but we can leave it for another time. Remember that one that was that that was a smile. They're like, keep smile cut true colors. Anyway, another smile was terrible because I couldn't sing it any you hated it, Okay, Um,

and that's that is the penultimate episode of the first thirteen. Yeah, and I obviously the the yearbook photo does get to face, but like it's great and we love it, and yeah, it's almost like schools out. You know, you took your final exams, you still gotta show up to school and so next episode is a big deal. Next episode is the final exam. I actually was like tempted to keep going and watch it. Okay, should we do some Tarty takes, Jenna Tarty takes. Let's do it all right, um, cringe moments,

ak owches, I pick sues corner. I mean, is a couple of things I'd have to do the same. I have to say, like the Kuan's a bit m hmm it feels, and the Hitler mustaches, a rice patty hats. Yeah, the Yam diet, but that's also a non to Brad felt check who ate like so many sweets like an inside joke. Yeah, okay, worst dance move smile, smiles weird, the first smile, the first the best song jump yeah, I mean, and that goes along with best performance by

a prop. It has to be the mattresses trampolines that numbers insane and really just turned it out, um, and then things that didn't age well, it's anytime Sue has opened her mouth. In this episode, she says, all I want it's just one day year when I'm visually assaultedged by heavioeys and fatties, Like what, you just want the meteor to hit you know? You know there's an asteroid that like flew really close to Earth, like the closest ever been in to Earth. So I feel like that

is appropriate. It's fine, just take us out at this point, just go for it. Oh my god. Okay, So best line there's a lot. I think, Um, Like I said, I think mine's a tie between Terry saying this marriage works because you don't feel good about yourself, and then Sue with the tear ducks saying, I got myself a bit of an eye lift, and while we're there, I told to go ahead and yank out those tear ducks. Wasn't using them. I also, um had to go back and find this one because I loved it so much.

It was Sue that she says, what if I were to innocently murder you will, I'd still have to go to trial. Liked to probably get off for justifile homicide. When their faiths off this, I was like what I was crying? Okay, Jenna, bring it? Are you ready for shure? We found on TikTok It's going to make you so happy? Oh? Is it okay? Should I watch it? Yes? Watch it? So um it is a beautiful like fan cam of

Figgins Figgins um all his like clips cut together. He's like speaking to the camera and waving to the camera. So the person who uploaded it Mia done, baby, I don't know, I pronounce it said might be the best edit I've ever made, And I agree I don't know what else you've edited, but this is and incredible. This is insane. We need to get ball in here. We need to send the stickball because Figgins is truly just an m v P. He truly is you aloud? Watch it?

It's ten seconds of pure unbridled joy. Like, if you're ever down, just watch this better. And it's too. I r s by the Cuckoo dolls as well. It's really beautiful, it's romantic, it's everything you wanted to be. Thank you for sharing, and that's all we got for you everybody. Thanks, by the way, Yeah, keep sending them because so many people sent us the Fagans video and it works. We saw it and it's absolutely incredible, So keep tagging us.

We are seeing all of it, We're collecting all of it, um, and I like to be able to show these things to Jenna. I love. Thank you for joining us for Mattress. Yeah twun to next week for sexual Alls. I can't wait. I'm so excited. I might have to go watch it now. No, no, don't do it. Um, Thanks for recapping Mattress with us. This was fun, and thanks for listening. Tell your friends, tell your pets. Thanks for sending in all those tick talks to Kevin. We really appreciate it, and do you

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