So Cloud nine just thinks that the pandemic is over, because I'm pretty sure nobody told the pandemic that. You got to look at it from corporus perspective. They love money and they don't care if we die. Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Welcome to Cloud nine, a Superstar podcast. I'm Jason, I'm BB and Welcome to the podcasts where we talk about Superstore. No, don't come to the store. This episode was so weird. We're talking about season six, episode four, Prize Wheel, which aired on November
nineteenth, twenty twenty. Written by Laura McCreary and directed by Ryan Case. Yes, one comes in with the COVID. He comes in hot with COVID. Yeah, he has all his COVID donuts. This morning I found out that Beb from my church has COVID. She seemed fine at choir practice last night. I mean a couple of times, but I thought that was from the high notes. So basically, Dina's left to be in charge, and
that's like disastrous. Yeah, let's talk about that for a moment, because yeah, surely there have been days where there's not the general manager in the store and Dina's been the next in charge. But Amy's there to temper her, like you know what I mean. Yeah, so Dina's like the senior out of everyone now used to be her and Amy. Yeah, she was always Amy's senior. Yeah, but Amy knew how to guide Dina, Matato
and Cheyenne. They just kind of let her go off the rails. They even made it worse by even bringing up like the pressure of like all of the shit you after all the snack you've talked about, Glenn, people kind of expect you to kill it right out the gate. I don't know. I just feel like she would have been in this position at some other point. It was interesting to see her in it now. I don't know.
I just, uh, it was interesting to see who she kind of singled out in what way, and like how she gave strikes who was like too emotional for her nose? Yeah, just seeing like other players in her path. It was just anyone that was doing anything that wasn't their job. Yeah. So she had like infractions and things. She was writing paperwork, and I hope Mateo didn't send any of those out. I don't think he did. Yeah, I think he was using that opportunity to get a good gossip
Yep, he did. He was so bad too. He's so he's just kind of mean in this episode a little bit he is, he's a meanie. Well, he just like let Janet like get yelled at. And then it's about Sarah's nose job, wasn't it because she's totally commin right. Well, according to Nikki, she's Janet, I'm trying to work and you should be too. Final warning Janet anyway, and then when he keeps talking about
that one person's nose job, yeah, Sarah Sarah. Yeah, when Sarah was like telling everybody like her glasses are new and her hair is cut, and he like perpetuates the like she's lying, Yeah, I didn't get a nose job. I got new glasses and a freaking haircut. Girl. Obviously, Like with Tayo, you're so bad in this. I love it. I kind of love him being bad. Is that mean? Probably? But it was nice to see Sarah have more lines. Yeah, And there's a
lot of characters with lines in that big scene. Oh sayeed and fucking Justine. That's what set it all off, That's what set it into motion. If Dina would have just been like, yeah, you guys can move over, here. Yeah, that would have probably helped a lot, because their altercation was pretty epic. She calls everyone mama, Hey, their mama hyproplastic mama, then not your mama. Your mother lives in Sarasota. You just
can't handle women lifting up other women. And that was one of the things that like Cheyenne was supposed to be good at, was like knowing who can work together and who can and how to like navigate all of that. Well. She tried to like soften her on that stance, but then she like totally shot herself in the foot in a way by reminding Dina that she's like bit bitch about Glenn being bad at his job. I've been criticizing Glenn for
years passionately. I like to think I've made something of an art form out of it. But now that it's my turn, I kind of have to be perfect. It was an interesting story. I liked that storyline. It was good for me both side and Justine and Dina being bad at her job because she doesn't understand emotions in the same way as others and how pairs can work like and teamwork and all that shit. She understands like efficiency, but not the human part of it. Yeah, Like she wouldn't let Marcus look
at pictures of his nephew. Was so awkward. That was like, I understand you because I am an aunt to a children, babies, and so yeah, it's like you want to see them. It's like horrible that you can't see them during this pandemic. So that was really I like that they touched that on that emotion a little bit, like there was a moment where it's like, that's really real for a lot of folks. No, I just became an uncle and I haven't even been able to meet my fat baby
nephew yet. I mean, look at those rolls. You can lose a chapstick. And it was weird how he was like being so awkward with customer though, yeah, what is Mark's doing in the front. We agreed he stayed in the back. He's a good guy, but he's just like sometimes subhuman, not with the customers. Dude. You could have asked Garrett or what been on Jonah's interview? That was a shit show. Marcus, Like, I know he's in charge of the warehouse, but he seems to be
the only warehouse person that just always wanders out into the store. Yeah, they haven't really built any character from that space, any other warehouse characters. So Glynn spends his day in the car, sitting next to all those donuts donuts guys in a fucking he better Oh my god. Glenn could be like the character that gets sick because of COVID because he's like, yeah, he's diabetic and he hangs out at super Spreader events. Yeah, so that was
kind of right. I thought that was good like that, it's kind of obviously going to have to be Glenn to be one of the first. But then he ropes Sandra into this weird thing because they have so everything's going around, like this big store sale thing. They have a wheel, and Glenn's gotta leave the day of the wheel, and that's like the whole thing.
That's what he's excited about. Yeah, everyone else is really annoyed by it, Yeah, because it's just having to disinfect another thing over and over again. Yeah, every time someone spinds it. Yeah, and giving away those like weird cloud things, those DJ clouds or something. Having discussion about his anatomy, yeah, always that the cloud was his head and he had no body. No, he's all body, So he has eyes in the middle of his chest. That's better than arms going out on the sides of his
head. Oh, like hell it is. And it's good to see them have that chaotic moment at the end because like Dina ignores everyone's feelings and like everyone's in their feelings about it and she can't control it and it's like a back and forth that's just kind of like tiring after a little bit. Like they could have cut that bit a little bit more, it would have been fine, But really get into the feelings. Don't just like pretend to give
me feelings. I want to see motherfuckers cry at work, because don't you tell me that in that store. No one has cried at work. I mean, at least just see. But yeah, I at the end, I really didn't like how they had that aggressive Jonah moment. It was so awkward, like Okay, Jonah, calm down. I really yeah, I was ok because Jonah had his old side journey thing that nobody cared about. Everyone had to get their rage out. Yeah, I really want to know
what that smell was. That was like the whole thing that I was just like really invested in throughout the whole episode. The customers have been complaining about a weird smell. Oh yeah, it's like our worst smell yet. It's like two moldy sponges puked on each other. Wow, that's that's exactly what it is, that awful smell. Because they found a crusty teddy bear. There was like a weird pile of or not even it was like an oil
slick the sludge. Yeah, it was weird. I was disgusting, and they were going to start mopping it like I was just going to spread that. Yeah, that was a thing. Yeah, I'm glad that we're on the same page about that. They should have gotten like a dust pan situation and seeing how much of it would actually just peel up, yeah, and then dispose of it. There's also like a powder that you're supposed to put over wet things or things that are gelatinous whenever there's a chemical bill on the
floor. So the safety hazards alone were just like problematic for me on so many levels, and that's why I really engaged with that. Do you remember when Glenn went back to being a floor worker and was really excited about cleaning up all the spills and stuff. Yeah, he was probably really good at that and I'm like that was one of the things that like Glenn does have abilities to lead these people somehow, yes, and his own Glen ways,
and I like that they're bringing Glenn back in that way. But she looked I don't know. I didn't like Dina in the suit either. That suit jacket was deserting. I hated that. So, yeah, it was a good episode. I would have focused more on side characters. I didn't really care for the Jonah show. Really don't What was Cheyenne doing besides chasing around other people's things too. I would have liked to see Cheyenne one seen by
herself delegating tasks. This is her first time being seen as the floor supervisor and she's basically getting pushed around by Jonah. That wasn't fun. I wanted to see her step into the role a little more. And yeah, at the beginning, I don't know, she was like following Dina around to kind of shadow her a bit. She didn't seem to be like assigning task or anything. Yeah, she was just kind of sidebarring like nothing that like it
drove the plot some, but it was never about Cheyenne. She talked about her needing a new roof and using a mattress and that was depressing. We'll try to cut out our own skylight and it is a mess girl. What you would ask? I think last episode like if we think Jonah is going to go back to school, and it kind of came up in this episode that like that was the big obstacle of him not being able to move on as he didn't have a degree. Yeah, so that might be happening.
You spent the last five years working in retail. You don't have any corporate experience, and it's higher and mark going to be tough to justify bringing you on, right, Well, but I did I did go to a business school. Oh really, I didn't see that on here. When did you graduate? I didn't. So we can part time him and not see him as much, or are we going to follow him to school because that's a
mistake. He's probably just gonna talk about school a lot and be a student, probably try to talk about all these concepts that he learns, and everyone's like, I don't care, dude, shut up. Yeah, I'm just wondering how they're gonna deal with holidays and stuff if they're picking up, Like, what's the timeline here? Because I'm wondering if this is spring or fall, what part in the COVID does it lay in, because it could be early COVID or it could be like current COVID. I believe we're current.
Yeah, that's what it feels like to me. But I wonder how if they're going to do like a holiday episode or any I want to know what the store workers are definitely going through and through this medium, which is weird. I know some people don't like their comedy or their television or whatever to be realistic. They want to escape. Yeah, and I'm like, why escape? It's so interesting to see somebody else's reality. Sometimes I don't know.
Yeah, I believe the first episode of this season caught us up to the current times. I don't remember that time stamps that they gave, but I think it caught us up to the fall. But that's a good time to mention that we're not getting another episode until January, so we might be kind of jumping over the holidays, maybe doing a retrospective of the winter.
Do you think we'll survive Winter omg without Superstore. I mean it's gonna cut to like a post apocalyptic thing, and the employees are all living in the store. Are you fucking kidding me? Like, we went to a fucking super Target yesterday and it felt a little post apocalyptic when I saw empty shelves. Yeah, we're back to this no toilet paper thing. I guess. Oh god, girl, Yeah, it's gonna be a thing I'm not excited about, like the pressure that we're about to put on like frontline workers.
Yeah, And I was when they were saying in the beginning, like the surprise wheel is to bring more people into the store because people aren't shopping as much in person. I'm like, I was just at Target yesterday and it was way too crowded to be comfortable. Like yeah, and it would be really good to show like the but it's it's dangerous to show it even right to make I mean, you could put cameras in like your fake set or
whatever and make sure everyone's safe, but I still wouldn't trust it. But there are so many people, And like when we went, there was a people with the shopping carts that are shopping for you, So it like just made the aisles more cramped for the employees to do their shopping. So it was just like, ooh, I don't know how y'all are doing it. Y'all are doing it though, showing up to work dealing with these customers.
Oh, I don't know. I'm hopeful that they can get like real accounts and give to that like community, because I feel like frontline workers and those menial jobs don't They're not even getting paid, right they should be. There's like a whole thing about fight for fifteen and that's like a big deal for these corporations to give these people fifteen dollars an hour. Yeah, when they're literally putting their lives on the line. But yeah, the holidays, I'm
glad they get the break. I was kind of surprised to see that. I was just looking up, like what the next episode is, and it's not until January. I thought I was going to get more than four episodes. Hey, it's a hard time. I mean, we didn't see bretton this, right, we didn't see a lot of like our I mean, the character cast is still pretty strong, but you notice some things. Yeah, I mean that's pretty normal, like some of the Yeah, yeah,
but that's the current characters rotate through episodes. Yeah, you're right, right, I just felt like we the first couple episodes had like a lot of things to cover with the catching us up on COVID and Amy leaving and stuff. There was like there's a lot of business to take care of, and now it's like we're just getting our feet under its to be like, what are we going to be looking at this season? Well to see, I
mean twenty twenty has been a year where seasons are weird. Yeah, so I think it's fair to give them space and time to really take the show and maybe like given new life even twenty twenty one. Yeah, let's resurrect it. I'm not complaining, like I'm open to whatever needs to happen. Nobody owes me episodes or anything. Garry don't give him his episodes. He needs them. I liked the episode. It was funny, It made me giggle, it made me think, and I want to see more Cheyenne.
So I hope twenty twenty one brings like more more of that, but we'll see. Yeah, And I like the direction they're going with Garrett that he's being open about what he feels more on accident even Yeah, that was a good one. He's like that sounded sincere. Well, good luck with your interview, buddy, Thank you I was being sarcastic and it came off supportive because it was Garrett, It's okay feel your feelings. And see that's why
I did like this episode, because it was about feeling your feelings. That was a good message. I'm like, she she's going to stand the you know, the effects of time, well, like feeling your feelings and not
everyone processes the same. Yeah, and this episode could have happened earlier, like maybe this was but you know, Amy just made it impossible for them to focus on somebody else taking a lead because she went to conferences and shit, Dina could have had an opportunity then well, Dina stated that she's not interested in being the manager. No overall, Yeah, she was just like given anxiety by thinking of how she's given Glenn so much shit that she there's
a false expectation. Although I mean that could change. I feel like they wanted Dina to not want to be the manager so that they could move Amy into that position. Yeah, so who knows, Yeah, I don't know. Glenn might be gone for two weeks and maybe we'll have like a couple of managers. Do you want some news or do you want listener interactions?
Ah give me the interactions. All right. Well, if you want to get in touch with us and let us know what you thought about the episode or just your thoughts on the show overall, you can reach us by email at Superstore Podcast at gmail dot com. You can find us on Facebook or Twitter at superstore Pod. And by the way, if we don't get back to you right away, sometimes that's just because sometimes it takes us a few
days to actually watch it. You know, it comes out on Thursday, but we can't watch it till Friday on Hulu, and then we got to figure out a time over the weekend to watch and record. So yeah, sometimes it takes us a few days, So just be aware, all right. Andrew on Facebook, he wrote to us after we had recorded the last episode, but before it had been released. So's he's talking about other shows that the main character has left and says, I'd say that the one most
similar to this is The Office when Michael left. They're both workplace shows, and the boss leaves. I'd say The Office was not as funny after Steve Carell left, but it did carry on, probably because they did such a good job developing the other characters, like Jim Pam Dwight, et cetera. That's what Cloud nine will need to do and looking forward to the next episode in your podcast. Yeah, yeah, Andrew, thanks and you're right. They I don't know. I don't like to say Steve Carell carried the show,
but he definitely was like a Manni's you know what I mean. Yeah, in the very white sandwich of the Office. But it was a good one and he was very well, like integrated into all the all the show, all the stories, like he was in there. Yeah, so it definitely felt different after he left. But I gave my response to this on Facebook saying, like, I think the show was kind of losing quality for you know, a few seasons, and when Steve Carell left, it didn't.
It wasn't like a huge drop off. No, it was like a plateau that they were hitty. Yeah, and the later seasons are still good. It's just they're fun. They're just like, you know, if you have a deep connection with the very beginning of the Office and the whole Jim and Pam thing too kind of fizzles out. It's a whole thing. Yeah, So I don't know. I did like that they gave you more characters to invest it. Yeah, and I think we're set up well with a
superstore with other characters. Oh yeah, I'm so excited about Said and Justine. Like just that like when Garrett I don't know, but I love that say it is not afraid to like express his dislike for working with this person, because sometimes you just can't work with somebody. And I did like how Garrett kind of side eyed her use of like bees notch or bitch or whatever, like I should be able to call people mama or girlfriend or my bad
beat? Should you? You shouldn't call customers? Probably just a briat like but that was good. So yeah, like these characters are very good at being independent and I hope they get more development. Oh my god. Yes. And okay, so when they were doing their like emotional explosions, somebody told Sandra, I think Cherry should have ended up with Carol. Okay, at that time, this was good? Is everybody good? And that like just flew her up, Sandra, honey, why aren't you not in the
very mate? Like you fucking talking to Glenn was bullshit? Okay, you could have had somebody else on that phone. It could have been fucking Shyenne, because I would have loved it if Sandra was doing her own thing too. Yeah, maybe not the best use of Sandra in this episode. She like launched that guy. Oh and his haircut was bad. It was good. It was a good session. I liked that well. And also what other engagements do We got mos and us some messages and great episode, loving
all the new people, especially Garrett getting some growth. I agree already mentioned that, And I do like there was a lot of people in that big warehouse scene that got lines that we usually get maybe like one or two of them, but there seemed to be like several of them. Yeah. I like the back and forth and the different storylines that are developing, and I hope they don't get like too jumbled, but so far, I like it
a lot. And I'm just bringing the bucket hat back. They're doing a lot, and then going on to say, what do you and BB think is the under over on Garrett having a kid he doesn't know about. I'm thinking Tony is his biological kid. Oh drama. I don't even think about stuff like that, but I guess, yeah, I don't know. I would just imagine Garrett's like wraps it up. Yeah, I don't know, I guess he is impulsive, but he seems like it's more careful than that.
He keeps his sneakers clean, you know what I mean. I don't know, that's a good like I don't know, more soul to think on. And that'd be like a good long haul kind of like plot device too, because then he'd be in a relationship with Sandra and Garrett and Jerry. What a trumpet? Yeah, that would be a weird family. Just imagine looking down like a street getting in their van or something, because that kid
is huge, right. I don't know, Like if this was set in like a small town, I'd be more inclined to feel like, oh, that's very possible, but it just seems nos Yeah, I like, I like where your mind's at. Garrett having a baby running out there. That means Marcus could also have a child, and that's that's a little more likely in my opinion. But I guess he doesn't get laid a lot. I
don't know what about Elias. Elias is Glenn's brother in law. You remember that what talk about that Glenn's wife Jerusha in there being all brother and sister, Like, oh, I love that lady. They just like randomly said one time that Elias is Glenn's brother in law and they've never like done anything with it. I see. This is what happens when you write like some when you don't keep hack of your family trees and things of that nature,
when you're thinking about writing for characters. That's too much. I can't handle that anything. What else what you got for news? Or is that for news? What character do you think is making a return to the show. Can I get a clue? It's someone that was a big part of the show for about a year. You mentioned it, I think last time. Oh god, I can't remember what I said this morning or like twenty minutes
ago. It's Kelly. Oh my god, it's Kelly. Yes, Okay, it's confirmed that she's returning, and we don't know like the details around it, but it'll be an episode seven. It's called the Trough Trough, Yeah, like a pig trough, I think, so. I guess it is set in Missouri, so that'll be a few episodes away, and I don't know if she's coming for one episode or if she's rejoining the cast. Well, honestly, like if she rejoins the cast, I hope she comes
out as like a gay woman or something. Give her a little more crunch because she's so vandilla. Like, if it's just her and Jonah interacting again and making it awkward for the whole show, I'm going to pass. I'm just saying, make her interesting, give her something other than a fucking Jonah. I'm sorry, Like he was such a douche in this episode. I feel like they're going to be revisiting their relationship now that he's broken up with Amy, and like, how broken up are they? And yeah, I
hate that. I hate that. I'm sorry. I would rather explore the baby daddy thing with Garrett and Sandra. Okay, give that kid a backseat. Cool, Well that's all I got. That's all you got. Was a good episode, Glenn, watching them destroy the thing that he never even got to experience. He was so broken. It was great. I loved it. That was really good. But yeah, it was a good one. Yeah, so we'll see you. The next episode is January fourteenth,
twenty twenty one. What's the name of the episode? Do you know? Don't even know yet? An? Oh my god, but Trough is already on the books. Yeah, ew it's gross. Okay, Well, so I guess it's a good time to mention that we have another podcast we've been putting out episodes on. Yeah, if you want to cozy up on some other television shows with us, it's so cute where you could really feel the
warmbth over here. The show's called Spacing Out with BB and Jason. Yeah, we're watching Battlestar Galactica right now, but we're open to suggestion science fiction, genre television. Yeah, so we've been working on those episodes. That's been a lot of fun. Yeah, it's been good times. Have you seen this show? It's the two thousand and three version, so it's the good one. There's a reboot, but we don't know her yet, right, but it's follow that if you really want to watch more TV and have
access to this kind of entertainment. Yeah, So I guess if we'd think of anything else to put out on this channel, we will, But otherwise it'll be January and send us memes. Is there Mateo memes, because I'm sure there are. We did. Moe also send us this video that NBC put together as a like a super cut of Dina and Dwight. Oh really, yeah they are. Yeah, I could see them being like related. Yeah, she's definitely a shrew. I think a little bit of a Ron
Swanson as well. Yeah, she's definitely an amalgamation of these, like traditionally masculine characters. That's why I like Dina, because she's like overtly masculine femme. Yeah, because she's also like animal lover and vegan and these other aspects that are unique to her. She has a truck with how to speak with how the stereo extra? That's Dina, And she's also in a relationship with
a fucking veterinarian. Yes, and what is going on in there? I hear screaming Hill, so I don't be careful that lady sounds like bad news. That would be fun if they did, like an episode like that, like you would see a community. They would do that a lot, where there's like a theme to an episode. It'd be cool if the theme was whatever the fuck was in the electronics center. Well, Glenn was on the phone. What was going on? It was like a tunnel and some lights.
It was creepy. It was like dungeon porn, but at the superstore. And he was really concerned, but he kept his distance, and I was proud of Gleunn. Anyway, I like the show without Amy, and they need to cut Jonah out. Just cut it out, whatever he's got, cut his lines in half and give him, like, divide him equally between everyone else, give him to say and and you know the other Amy, Cheyenne new Amy. Yeah and then just yeah, the show will be
great. I'm excited for twenty twenty one. We'll see. All right, Well that's it, so have a heavenly day. Have a heavenly day. Attention Cloud nine shoppers. You can support us by subscribing to the podcast and leaving a rating or review. Find us on Facebook and Twitter at Superstore Pod. You can also email us at Superstore Podcast at gmail dot com. Have a heavenly day. There's some ten thousand steps already. Oh my god, what's the max? There's no just keep on walking like unlimited