So Much We Didn’t See (“Laryngitis” S1 E18)

those days. We're racking our brains to remember the week of May eleventh, twenty in Glee history, when episode eighteen of season one aired laryngitis, because we were trying to remember what we were doing in the real world outside of the show, which was we were about to start our tour, first tour, yes, which was one of those things that you didn't imagine that you would be doing as part of a TV show. But there we were in Phoenix, Arizona, in early summer, and it was hot

as hell. Heather's from Scottsdale, yes, and so we she kind of knew the territory. I do remember that it was very hot, but we were in a dark room a lot of the time. Yeah, we were in a theater in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. It felt like I think it was like a hundred degrees and I remember walking outside in the sun blinding our eyes and there was nobody around because of course nobody would be walking the streets and that heat, and it did feel like a ghost town like we we had like free rain. It

was summer break sort of thing, summer brick. It was very exciting. It was my first time in two gay bars. I do remember I went to only went to one of those. I believe it was fun. I remember when Zach Woodley were at one and we got invited to go upstairs in this like secret room of this place to try expensive tequila, and I thought it tasted like light or fluid, so I didn't have the palette I have now. Was this the club where they announced that

you were there? It was the same night, different club where you know, closeted. Me was in a gay club for the first time, and then like the cast of Glee is here, and we ran out of there so quickly. I was like, where's Chris. Get Chris, because at that point it was me, Chris, Kelly, and I think Megan, which was also funny because I obviously was not closeted

to you guys. But by the time we got to La Jane Lynch came up to me after the show and was like, I heard you were a little gay boy, like in a sweet way, and I turned bright red and was like, She's like, oh, okay, never mind, Sorry, you shouldn't have said that. I was like, no, it's fine. I just want other people to know. I don't know

what my problem was. That's funny. I recently was back in Phoenix and went to a gay bar and I was like, I wonder if this is the same place, and it didn't look the same at all, and I was like, well, my one memory of it is being in this like back bar. I knew, like geographically the opposite of what you would have done. Jennet. Yeah, yeah, I don't remember anything geographically because I don't know geography. And I wandered through this crowd and I saw the

back corner bar. I was like, oh my god, this is it. I gave a drag queen tickets to the show. I don't know if she came, but it all happened better. Yeah, wow, the one gay bar. Yeah, it was really magical. I was happy to find it a billion years later. M

very exciting. Do you remember too. So for this tour, Phoenix was our place where we were working out what the show was going to be, because there was still a debate of whether or not we were going to be in character the entire time or were we going

to be ourselves? And we had skits. There were skits in this tour and the skits in this tool and during the first show there wasn't a consistent like, sometimes we refer to each other and as our real name, sometimes we refer to each other and our character names.

I was in the wheelchair the whole time, so I was always ardy, right, And so it was a weird mix of we didn't quite know what we were doing yet, trial and error, and there was also the thing of the people behind the scenes who are running the tour, who that's what they normally did. They're like, Oh, it's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be like one Direction where there's people screaming everywhere. And then do you remember nobody cheered. We went out on stage and after each number like

people applauded a little bit. And then we finished the show. Everyone went crazy, and we realized the demographic of the audience was so far off from what they thought it would be. They thought it was going to be like teens, and it was teens and younger children and through their grandparents it was body and that was so people react differently in different demographics, and then people were reacting like they were watching a theater show and not necessarily a concert.

I don't remember. It was the first night and every afterwards like did people like it? And we had to have sort of like a meeting to sort of dissect what was going on. And we realized because we were doing so many skits and in our characters, that people thought it was a theater show. So you don't clap in the middle of a theater show, really, and so we had to then add in bits to like involve the crowd, crowd participation, make them feel like, no, this

is a concert. We're not putting out a theater show, even though this is like a musical theater type thing. That's funny. Well, what a memory, Kevin that I don't remember any of that. I just remember because I was just like, they hate it, We're not nobody. I was taking it very personally. Well. It's also it was like a new format for a TV show to go on tour, and I think before that high school musical had gone on tour, and that was a heavily skewed demographic in

terms of you knew exactly who was showing up. It's Disney Channel. It's a young audience and kids will screen tweens. Yeah, exactly, exactly with us, which is what they expected. I don't think people knew, right, you know, we met people when we were out getting recognized, and there was grandparents to children.

So no, truly, I mean even like people would come to visit and said and on tour, like when they come up to us some coffee shops, they'd be like, my girlfriend really likes the show, but I love the show. It was very much that so the show, I mean this episode am aired on May eleventh, which also was Corey Corey's birthday, yea, and my dad's birthday. Oh and you know my mom's birthday is the same as Lea's day.

Really yeah, and now we know that my mom's birthday is the same as Ryan's birth Ryan's birthday, and you and Harry and my friend Will and there was one other person, Marco's brother, Marco's brother. There's quite a few people with April twenty anyway, it's one of those days. Yes, Well, the tour was a hit, obviously after we figured it out with your memory, there was an experiment it wasn't

and then didn't we also film at Radio City? You're right, we filmed at Radio City and we weren't really sure what it was for what they were going to do with it, but Ryan was like, let's just film it, and we never saw it. We should have asked Ryan if he has it, Oh, we gotta check him and ask let's ask him, because I need to pull that out of the archives. I would love to see that,

especially you know shot the way it was shot. Do you remember like a steady camp was following Lee down the aisles for don't Random My Parade and like the whole thing. I remember too. At Radio City all of the Fox executives and Ryan everybody came and that's when they sort of fest up to it being like a

pilot program. They're like, basically, we're doing this like we're not going to make any money this time, because as much as it's costing to put on this tour, we're not putting you on the road long enough to actually recoup all of that money. But if this is successful, then next season we'll do a bigger tour. And we're like, oh no, what does that mean? And it we broke. I think at the time the merch sales record at Radio City, right, and like it worked as successful? So

next season get ready all right? What else was going on? Number one song nothing on You Bob featured Brutal Mars Right. The movie Iron Man two released on May seventh, with our friend Gwyneth Paltrow, our future friend, our future friend. Yeah, and then on the Stay. In two thousand and nine, the Glee cast attended their season one premiere screening event. Oh yeah, at Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica. How far we had come in a year? Right? Right?

I mean it was right when the show premiered, like after American Idol in two thousand and nine, we did that high school thing. And it is weird to think within a year than we were selling out Radio City. Yeah. Nobody could have told the cast of Glee at that amphitheater that we would be on a tour selling out Radio City or like my home. And and yes, we

can talk more about the tour another time. Let us know you guys if you want to hear more about tour number one, and also we'll ask Ryan about seeing it. That's where I got that tour was fun and Drea was fun. We went out of the night after Radio City to that restaurant that they rented out for us, and we got buck wild dancing on the I think you talked about this in the previous episode Dancing on

the Tables. I was also able to like order sushi from my favorite place because which is now closed, our ip Codama, because I was home. I was like, Wow, this is this in my hood. It was a very good time, we very exciting. We got to go in a private chat for we'll talk about the next week. Okay, So this episode Laryngitis was special for a number of reasons.

So if you hadn't noticed up to this point during the back nine so far, Naya is progressively singing more and more and more and it's yes, thank God, and it seems like the creative team starting to recognize how damn good she was at everything yep, which leads us

to the Boy's mind this episode. And this also goes to with our interview with Ryan where and he was talking about how it was so special that we got to spend so much time in between set scenes where he got to know us, because this episode is exactly a product of that. The Boy is Mine and the Climb there was also a lot of us getting to bond with Alfonso Gomez, who will be one of our resident directors, yes, who was amazing, did a great job,

very artistic though. So sometimes there are some directors that would take really quickly Eric Stults, she takes done. There are some directors that some are men in the middle. And Alfonso really I got these like very special shots and he was very specific and so sometimes we would do it all and we weren't used to that. But it looks are like who is this? But they looked his episodes like we'll get two grilled cheeses, oh goodness, gracious.

And if you watch American Horror Story, he became a central figure on that show with all of those like crazy from the ceiling to the floor, like spinning around type shots. That's all well Fonzie. So if we refer to him as Fawnsie, um, that's why. And that's him quite good friends with him too, Yeah, just he was like around and poor guy. I remember him like I'd seen him for ever around led and would just be like and he's a quiet guy, and we were the opposite.

And I think you had a good impression of him. Kevin He's the only impression I can do. It's niche and it only works for a certain group of people, but he is the only impression I can do. And a little Ryan all right, and yeah, definitely right. And so this was technically written by Ryan, but we know

it's the holy trinity Um Brad, Ryan and Ian. And we have guest stars Michael Malley who feels like regular UM Zach Weinstein very special guest star um Eve Gordon as Miss fret Hold as Zach's mom or a Sean's mom, and um actually think is in this episode. Everything is very funny in this episode. Yeah, we get we get Fink, we get a lot more thinks soon. And unfortunately there's no Jesseline or Jama, which is sad. You know, we need them. Tell us about the music, Kevin, tell me

about them. We have some gigantic songs. We have Jesse's Girl by Rick Springfield. We have Lady as a Tramp by the cast of Babes and Arms. I don't know what Babes and Arms is, Jenna, it's a show. Well, I thought this was like a Frank Sinatra song. You know, they made it like Frank Sinatra songs. So I would have believed somebody covered it, but it's a Broadway song. I had no idea, all right, The Boy's Mind by Brandy and Monica, The Song of Our Time, Rose's Term

by the cast of Gypsy, and One by You two. Specifically, it is the new version of one that features Mary jay Blige. It is. I wouldn't have known that it's the cover because I was obsessed with that cover and I was a little sad I didn't get to sing on this one. Oh No, but I was really happy they used the cover because I remember Bono also said he preferred that version because he hates how he sounds

on the original version. Oh wow. A little tidbit break this episode down for us, Jenna, let's do it so A sort of throat affects Rachel's singing voice and she goes into panic mode. She's one of my favorite quotes of the series in this episode. Meanwhile, Kurt tries to change his persona to across his father get his dad's attention, and Puck tries to regain his social status by dating Mercedes after he shaves the mohawk. He was so sick about mohawk A lot to maintain. It was a lot,

and it just made him so distinguishable out more. That's right, there was no hiding. Should we get into the episode to talk about some some memories here? So all right, Puck shows up at school and his mohawk is gone, you know, Hell's frozen over, and all of a sudden we realized that the mohawk gave him his popularity, that gave him his power, and now that it was gone, gone was his power and people being scared of him.

And he's noticing that Mercedes is now a cheerio, she's totally up to her social status and thinks, well, maybe I need to go after her because she can make me popular. After he gets thrown at the dumpster, and he has this you know, aha momentum fun fact. I don't know if you noticed this, but there's a on the waste management sign on the trash band that he gets thrown into. It's spelled incorrectly. Yeah. I wonder if they had to do that for like legal reasons. I

don't know, but it's like trademarked or something. I don't know. That seems pretty general. That's funny, yeah, or somebody just doesn't know how to spell right, which is fine, um, so Puck tries to go after Mercedes, saying all kinds of offense appropriate inappropriate things, calling her the black girl several times. I'm like that emoji with the teeth. Um he was very funny this episode. He doesn't get to do a lot of silly comedy, I think, And it was and he's a funny kid, Like he really did

make us laugh a lot. And then and then because of Puck and Mercedes actually Mercedes actually being wooed by Puck even though she really kind of knows exactly what this is. It takes us to the Santana and Mercedes singing the song of the Century, the Boy's Mind, because Quinn has given her heads up, because Quinn's like, I'm not worried about Puck breaking your heart. I'm worried about the ramifications of Santana of you going after Santana's man

like good luck. And then after the assignment when he does Ladies a Tramp with Mercedes, Santana is like, no, no, this will not stand. We're not having this. So do you want to talk about Boy's Mind? Basically, and this

is also where tour comes in handy. You need to go watch some bootlegs because somehow when we were sitting around, we'd have our chairs in our director's chairs, cast chairs in a circle in the middle of the sound stage while they're setting up shots, and Nia starts doing this Monica impression, which involves a lot of neck movement and head bobbing and hair moving, and she did this incredible,

incredible spot on monica impression. And Ryan comes up, because this was happening probably during Madonna, right when Ryan was around, He's like, what do you He would show up out of nowhere, like just appear like a phantom and be like, what are you all laughing at? And so we're like, Naia, do the thing, Please show him and he was dying laughing. And then what do you know, in the next episode or two episodes there it is. I would say, Amber

also sounds phenomenous. Oh my god, it's it's literally my dream. I couldn't believe. It felt like a coup, like we had tricked Ryan into doing the thing we wanted to do. I mean sometimes we definitely try before, Like Ryan listened to this and it worked. You just had to make him think it was his idea, you know, And then he's like, let's do this thing. I came up with

her great and so I remember Naya. She went to record it, and then afterwards she was like, well, I tried to do the full Monica impression, but Adam wouldn't let me, and she threw it in there. She definitely

got it in. If you notice, it's sort of like how she pronounces some of the vowels and the verbrato on some of the wards dude things dud do like And there's a shot if you go watch the number where she's at the piano and her Amber started the piano and Amber walks to perform to the kids, and when she leaves the piano, yes, it's her last shot at the piano. She puts her hand up and she does this nice thing. And that was part of the original impression that she did for us, and she snuck

it in there, and it got in there. Her ability to put in inside jokes constantly and keep a straight face was unmatched, unmatched. It's so good and it's so funny, so good. And I discovered when I was sort of like looking you know this episode up, I found her doing this on that first tour and she does full Monica impression. Yeah, she watch some recordings on YouTube. It is full Monica and then a bit with the recorded version, you'll see what we're talking about. Then that is the

boy is Mine. I mean, there's not much else to say other than the fact that it's brilliant and we couldn't we literally couldn't be happier that it was in the episode, and we weren't probably jumping up and down when we saw it in the Scriptum. So Mercedes quits the cheerios the end of it goodbye and says, nobody quits the cheerio as you either die or I kick you off. But at some point Mercedes the jig is

up right, like she's got back to Gale Club. Um, okay, so can we just at some point during this, him trying to woo her, says Blacks and Jews have a history of sticking up for each other, and Wikipedia says that King Martin Luther loved the Jews. I can I mean, I have a cringe line for later, but he just it would like he joins a black church. It was sort of like the same thing he did to get Rachel.

It's always like I'm going to leave my Jewishness. It's it is funny um, but it's also very wildly inappropriate. It's pretty crazy. So this leads us to our inside joke number two, which was also a thing we showed Ryan. Well, yeah, this was okay, this is amazing. Leah Lead had this thing where she bad sings, and because she has such a phenomenal voice, the juxtaposition of her bad singing is so good. It's it's cringing, it's off key, it is piercing, and it's so freaking funny. And she would do it

all the time. We'd ask her to do it all the time on set, in between takes and when she's up in the choir room kind of like when she did the climb, like standing there. She would do it with a song and she had the ability to like just get just off key enough that you're like, oh God. And we made her do it for Ryan and he

was laughing. And so that is the name of our episode, because she would the face she performs the climb with is the face she always does her bad singing with where she's like, she's not aware, but she knows something is up. You know, I think something's wrong. You were all I remember her joining the climb and because it wasn't she did it live, so she wasn't singing to pre record because it obviously wasn't a recorded, recordable thing.

She had an earwig in and you can see it, go back and see it in her right ear when she looks at mister Shoe. She has the earwig in so she can keep time and hear the track. But she's singing and there's no music. So imagine us in the choir room with silence, with her singing the climb. And this is the first time. Phonzie also was directing and didn't really know us, and we all are all trying to keep it together. Yeah, but it was so hard.

I'm crying thinking about it. There was a shot of me right before she starts singing, and I'm also I'm already laughing. It's hard. It's really quick. I'm I'm doing my frowny face to keep from smiling, and I'm turning away from her before she's even started, and I got caught i camera doing it. Because I also remember her being like, guys, you got to stop while thing because I kind of get this done because she we were

making her laugh. Um, but the only way for us to not laugh was to make confused faces, which were worked. It worked for the scene. Harry's face was phenomenal in this. My gosh, that was so funny. I was laughing. It makes me want to cry. Um, it's so funny. Nothing I think every in my life has made me laugh harder than when she would do those impressions or that single. I used to tell her when I have a bad day, I'm going to call you, and I think I did once and I was like, just give it to me.

I'm going to call you in like ten seconds. I need you to be She picked up the phone and just started singing terribly, and I was crying. It's so never got old, never got old, all right. So in the storyline, Rachel gets laryngitis and she she realizes, as um, we're warming up in things that, which is a very cute montage as well, that people aren't pulling their way

they've stopped singing. Um, So she gets she bribes ICs with Candy to bug the choir room, and all of her suspicions are confirmed and Finn's definitely not singing because obviously Jesse's getting all of the solos and everybody else just kind of yeah, and then Jesse Corey for some reason or Finn, sorry, Finn goes with Rachel to the doctor's appointment and I thought that was very His performance was very funny. The doctor's appointments are very funny in

the show. Um, he's like, you're never going to sing again, Jess kidding. But then we get into one of our most iconic songs, which Ryan Murphy confirmed in his last interview that g SEC James was named so that Corey or Finn rather Sorry, I keep calling Corey that Finn could sing this number, and this number is just when I think of Corey, this is the number, that's the one. This is Finn, this is this is his this is his. Don't ring in my parade, that's right, Like this is

his thing. He did it on the tour. Every every night we would dance backstage to it and ordered under this stage. Really, Jenna, how would you dance to the song? All right? Well, the girls had a changing room under the stage, a quick change room where we would change our coustumes real fast. And somehow along the way we

turned into like us pole dancing and stripper strippering. As we were undressing, strippering, stripping, um stripping as we were undressing and changing into our next and we had like a little bit of a long stretch in this one. And so Kevin heard about it and he came in and he would see us literally in our fish nets with our thongs like fully, with our legs in the air. Day it was full stripped tease. It was so much fun. Yeah, it was great. Wait was this the tour that I

peed in the bucket? Second tour? Bucket? No, you stripped teas second tour? No, No, because there wasn't. We didn't have that stage underneath. Stripped Jesse's Girl a second tour? Oh okay, okay, okay, so never mind, I take it back. But you'll have to wait now to hear about the pee in the bucket if you haven't heard about any yea, yeah, okay, okay. So does Jesse's Girl Jesse's Girl, which it becomes an iconic number. But then Rachel ends up losing her mind

and she finds she loses her will to live. Um, she is just she has no purpose anymore, or they're told she she's told she has to have surgery, which is a very scary thing, and as a singer, it is a scary thing if you have to have anything down to your voice when your throat. Um. So Finn decides to take Rachel to m see his friend Fredder and he doesn't pre empt any kind of information with Rachel. So when they go to see him, Um, he's in. She sees a photo of him and he's in his

football uniform and everything. But they go to visit and they learn that the wonderful Zac Line scene, who is an incredible actor who was actually a paralyzed actor from the waist down. He does a beautiful job of playing Sean fred Hold who in the show ingly also had an accident, a football accident and was also paralyzed. And I remember Lean telling coming back after shooting these scenes because we didn't meet Um, I didn't meet Zach not until tour he came to exactly, I didn't need him

till after. And UM remember Lea being so moved by working with him, and um just crying. You can see in her scenes the whole time she's just crying. Yeah that's real, Yeah, definitely real. Um. And it's beautiful. I mean, they really do a beautiful job with it. And this this is the beginning of like falsie handling. These like very heavy scenes and kind of like the more traumatic stuff of Glee, like, um, so beautifully really so beautifully yeah,

um a great storytelling. They get to sank together at the end, which just broke me. I agree, yeah, just crying right. Um. I thought it was interesting. There's an MPR article that they did on Zach that came out the day that this episode came out, and he didn't say anything bad about you know, you being in the wheel share or anything like that. He just asked for equal opportunity, for there to be opportunities for you know, paralyzed actors to work and not just in paralyzed roles.

You know, like he can do more than that. It's like not being pigeonholed. And she just just this one thing, which I think is so beautiful. It's also important to have him on. I think that was sort of like a we're paying attention, we're listening, like, yeah, we're learning. Yeah, definitely. And when they sing, so Rachel offers him obviously, Wait, so let's go back. So Rachel's in the in the hallway and she's eating cereal and she's in her pajamas.

She looks on kempt and Fins like what is going on? And she's like, I can't get out of bad. I'm miserable. I'm like tinker Bell, I need applause to lift. I don't know why. It just tickles me so much. Oh, it's so good, so good. It's so funny to see. I like seeing Rachel kind of off her game. It's fun to see UM's so dramatic about everything. So it's like, right, of course she has tonsils like she's gonna be fine.

I get it together, um. And that's kind of what this spearhead, this thing, this idea for Finn to be like, get your shit together. I said, you don't have it that bad. Yeah, let's let's talk about perspective. Yeah, exactly. And then Rachel obviously knows and she gets her voice back, and she offers Zach to have or Sean to get voice lessons, and they sing one together. We break into one. Did you like doing one? Kevin? I? Did? I just remember? Weren't we saying that we were dressed like a gap

ad white converse? Yes, I'm sure, I think, goes Zach Woodley. This is our gap ad moment. We do these a lot too, with Fonzi because we do um uh, what of god? That was one of us and we're all white. Remember por poor Alfonso, you guys Alfonso? Did he do fix you too? Oh? God, we tortured this poor man. I don't know why. It was always him, probably because he was the sweetest. He would never get mad, and we abused him because we serious serious numbers. We could

not control ourselves. We lose it and the more serious it was, the more we started laughing. It was like, you know people who get laugh attacks at funerals. That's how we behaved. We'll fix you. It was the worst and we'll get there. He was really the worst. That

was embarrassing. So the other thing that's happening in this episode is Kurt Kurt, because the assignment for the week was everybody to find their voice because Rachel has lost hers or people aren't singing, and so you need to pick a song that really represents who you are, which is why we get all these great solos. Kurt, on the other hand, is really threatened with what's going on with Burt and Finn, and Finn's getting treated to all

these like sports ball games. He's you know, he's going to football games, and Kurt's like, okay, I need to get it together. He missed Hero's practice because you're so upset, and Sue confronts him, and Sue's like, how do you know you're gay? Have you kissed a boy? Have you kissed a girl? Like your generation? She says, See, that's the problem with the generation. You're obsessed with labels. So you like show tunes doesn't mean you're gay, means you're awful,

which is ac very funny. Um, now not accurate, obviously, it's for the joke Jenna. And and so he's like, you know what, Sure, I'm gonna try this thing, and all of a sudden goes on this John Mellencamp trip where he starts dressing in flannel and Bert is like, what's happening? Okay, we'll go with it, and things ain't that America? After? I feel like that was also a

Brad foul truck moment. She had to write all of this, But the scene where he's making out Brittany and purposefully puts the thing on to knock come down and Bert comes down and wants him to see and Bert says, Michael Malley the brilliant Sure he is says either what we when you decide, let me know and it Yeah, it is always so poignant and it really is so

impactful and every time it gets me. And also it's the show constantly is going sort of like high low, where you have like the comedy of them making out in him being like, what do boys lips taste like? You smell like this? Then she's met you know, boys really like my armpits. And then Bert comes down and has that really touching, grounded scene, right, and the show is constantly swinging back and forth between this within a scene. Yeah,

and that is I think, great, impressive. Yeah, so he's over that, he realizes this isn't probably working for me, gets upset. Finn and Bert are still have a great relationship, and Bert's like, look, this is why I'm doing this, you know, like he's opening up to me when we have these one on one and like he deserves this. It's okay. And then Kurt burst into Rose's turn and has I have pictures of this of his name and lights. It was this really phenomenal performance Chris just like Blade.

I mean, he was nominated for an Emmy for this episode that I believe that, and he didn't win unfortunately, whatever, but a golden globe later. It's fine, Yeah, next year, it's this year, and it was just like a really phenomenal thing in Bird's there to see him, and it's sort of like you don't need to try to change who you are to like make me love you type thing. Do you remember Chris getting the song Rose's Turn? I know he wanted this song so bad, and I know

he had been pitching this song so hard. Really I did not know this, Oh my gosh. I mean Chris, I think I knew this song. Yeah, no you didn't, but but Patty LAPONI did. I mean, there's a million people who've done it, and it's so iconic and it was so brilliant and the fact that he got a sign kind of like roxy Heart in Chicago. I was change the lyrics. Yeah, I was just blown away. And I was so happy for him. He was so excited to do it. I remember going that day to see

it to watch him. Yeah, do it, because gosh, what a nun better never sounded better? What a great number, What a great number. Also, if you haven't seen Billy Porter doing this and the commercial break of the Tony's a couple of years ago. Um, YouTube that it is pretty brilliant. That's right, literally, just like off the cuff. Yeah, it is unbelievable. Um, that's the episode, and that's that's the episode. You guys, you're in dry Yeah, that was it.

That's it. Nice. Lots of memories, I you know, with now no thing that Chris really wanted this song. This episode really hit hit. It was you know, I think them listening and giving everybody what they wanted truly, which was great. Nice. We had a great time we did. This was an episode built storylines around these songs, which is so fun. Blast okay, party takes, tardy takes, Daddy takes,

cringe moments. I think right off the bat, Puck just referring to Mercedes black Girl as black Girl not once but twice, but maybe three times was not my favor. Specifically for me. I think it was the girl you got more curves than a nissan Ad and the way he says it, Um, yeah, I'm sure I let that sit there. The worst dance move, okay, I pick the best dance Oh great, and I'm going with the Naya head bob for Monica. Absolutely, that's it. That's that's the one best song, Kevin, I mean, I know, I'm I

will go with the Boy's mine. I'll go with Jesse's Girl. We'll call it even great, Okay great, I love that for us. It's a tie. Yeah performance by a prop Kurt and lights on the stage. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yea yeah yeah better. That's good. And the best line what do you got? What do you love? I'm like Tinger Bell thin, I need applause to live so good. I think mine is the so you like show tunes.

It doesn't mean you're gay, just makes her awful. And there's also another moment in that scene too, where she's like, I check out of this conversation a minute ago. I gotta remember remind myself to not stop and talk to students. Even when she's not really in an episode. She's in an episode. She shows up, says the greatest shit ever heard out, and the check clears. Yeah, um, okay, are you ready for the ship we found on TikTok? Are

you ready? I'm ready? Okay. There is this TikTok called Glee is My Therapy, and they rank the songs in their opinion of every single episode. So if you go to their TikTok. Yeah, it's actually pretty great. So for laryngitis, for example, they okay, they ranked the climb at number seven. I'm going to disagree obviously. Yeah, maybe they don't know the story. You know, they don't know the story, that's right.

And then um, pink houses well made in America, ladies a tramp one okay, Rosa's Turn, Jesse's Girl, and the Boy is Mine. They got some of those right, yes, yeah, yeah, they got the top three correct. That's awesome. Um, but go to their go to their TikTok. It's pretty great, okay. And I'm like, I'm going to go through here and see what they say about all of us. Yeah, please send, all right, I will send. Yeah, So go check him out.

Thank you for tagging us in these things, and thanks to all the TikTok accounts that are i guess dedicated to Glee. Things still mind blowing, and that is laryngitis. We have a very exciting episode next week, Kevin. That's right, more of us, Jenna, It's like Wheels Part two and more of us, but more of you dancing. That's right. Yes, as huge, it's as huge, as huge as it's huge, I can't wait. Yeah, I can't wait. I decided to

watch it. I almost watched it last night. Same. All right, Well thanks for joining us, you guys, um, that's what you really missed. I took your line, Vin, and that's what you really missed. It's in caps, Jenna. See you next week. Everyone. Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram at and that's what you really miss pod. Make sure to write us a review and leave us five stars. See you next time.