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[0:00] Andrew: We've got a mission to find the best song that's ever been on Glee.

[0:09] Abby: There's no remorse until it so don't get mad at me.

[0:17] Claudia: Glacket by Glacket.

[0:19] Andrew: We'll rank everyone to see which someone move closer to spot number one.

[0:26] Abby: Glick of the week.

[0:28] Claudia: Glick, click, click of the week.

[0:32] Andrew: It's Gleek.

[0:33] Abby: Glick of the week.

[0:34] Claudia: Can we just please talk about Glee?

[0:36] Andrew: Seriously.

[0:38] Abby: I don't want to talk about Glee.

[0:39] Claudia: Have you ever decided?

[0:40] Abby: Maybe I'm here to maybe I'm maybe I don't want to talk about Glee more.

[0:44] Claudia: Maybe maybe we've actually already talked about all these songs once.

[0:49] Abby: Maybe it's time to just put them all to bed.

[0:52] Andrew: Can I offer another idea, which is maybe we should talk about them two to seven more times.

[0:57] Claudia: Two topics.

[0:58] Abby: Depending on how good they are.

[1:02] Andrew: Right, because some of them sometimes sometimes you only talk about them once.

[1:05] Claudia: Sometimes some songs you don't even talk about them at all.

[1:07] Abby: Some of them didn't even make the bracket.

[1:09] Andrew: I know it is it is unfortunate.

[1:11] Abby: We're in the episode right now. Um but but let's do some introductions real quick.

[1:14] Andrew: Um uh returning gleeks, gleek glicky girls who like to gab. Um we got we got Claudia.

[1:19] Claudia: Hey.

[1:23] Abby: And Abby.

[1:25] Claudia: Hello.

[1:26] Abby: Woo woo woo woo.

[1:29] Andrew: It is unfortunate with the Glackett setup that it's like we can't continue to talk about I mean we can bring up like a baby got back if we want to, but it's like baby got back was dead on episode one, you know.

[1:42] Claudia: So like tough.

[1:43] Abby: Yeah, so it's like the the this course of baby got back naturally will not come up again, you know?

[1:50] Claudia: We can we could bring it up. Like I I'll be the first to bring it up if it needs to be if it needs to be done.

[1:56] Abby: Do you have thoughts on baby got back?

[1:58] Claudia: Yeah, I think it's fun it's fun for like the first 30 seconds like and I cannot lie you brothers I get that first part stuck in my head a lot and it takes me a few seconds to figure out what it is like that it's Glee yeah I just I feel like I probably think about that version of the melody more than the original just in my general life yeah it is it is wild to hear them back to back and it's like whoa this is technically the same song technically it's like that it's like the shoes song everybody in the bog and tipsy I love that song it's good um that would be uh Artolo we feel comfortable saying that yeah it should be but I'm comparing it oh my god uh that's so true yeah but it's like how it's the same version it's the same song as um everybody in the club can tipsy why did I when that never like that literally never hit my the central that's why I I need to make part of my brain wait wait Abby are you discovering this right now in this moment no right now in the audio that's awesome putting three and three together oh I'm finally and it's six finally getting it it's six I didn't know I was at five before nobody called a doctor um oh wait also speaking speaking of Abby um doctor lore um me and Claudia were well we're little sneaky gleaks before this recording and the homework that we did before this recording was re-listen to your episode of and that's what you really miss and baby you know, I mean it's only a month old, but it holds up.

[3:34] Claudia: It really it doesn't matter.

[3:37] Abby: It doesn't.

[3:38] Claudia: It's awesome.

[3:39] Abby: Stop.

[3:39] Claudia: Thank you, guys.

[3:40] Abby: What if we like assault you with compliments the way you did to Kevin McClellan?

[3:45] Claudia: I won Oshkowitz.

[3:47] Abby: Guys, no, let's let's take a step back for a second.

[3:51] Claudia: I don't know, Doctor.

[3:53] Abby: No, hey guys.

[3:54] Claudia: Oh, that's not me.

[3:55] Abby: I don't even know who was who that was.

[3:57] Claudia: That was no, you were naturally.

[4:01] Abby: I loved listening to you gab.

[4:03] Claudia: Is that what you said earlier, Andrew?

[4:04] Andrew: Yeah, yeah.

[4:07] Abby: Yeah, I prefer the yap.

[4:09] Claudia: Yapish.

[4:10] Abby: Yeah.

[4:11] Claudia: I want to show you my notes app, which I also texted this to Andrew.

[4:14] Abby: I love to see a girl slay and be ethnic.

[4:18] Claudia: And I just am gonna keep that in my notes app as its own little header because it's so true.

[4:24] Abby: And it's so great.

[4:26] Claudia: There's a lot that happened in that record.

[4:28] Abby: The thing is that the recording's actually longer.

[4:30] Claudia: I don't know if you guys can tell, but there's like a there's a there's a sudden like change in conversation.

[4:35] Abby: Um talking about like being on Glee Twitter, and then it just cuts to them being like, yeah, like um the women of the show are like really inspiring, and like how uh nine amber did it in between.

[4:47] Claudia: There's like a section I don't even remember what I talked about.

[4:50] Abby: Uh huh.

[4:50] Claudia: All I remember is that I I cursed, I said a curse that definitely it's not even it's not even it's like we gotta cut that one out.

[4:58] Abby: It's gotta be it's gotta get out there.

[5:00] Claudia: Right, right, right.

[5:01] Abby: And and and now I don't remember what I said, but it was really funny because I remember like I said it.

[5:07] Claudia: Yeah, I said it and every the world stood still, I swear to god.

[5:10] Abby: We all went, oop.

[5:13] Claudia: And we're like, I was like, we can cut that.

[5:14] Abby: But I was like, yeah, well, look at that, we'll cut that.

[5:16] Claudia: But it was a very funny moment.

[5:17] Abby: Oh my god.

[5:18] Claudia: That's you think not in curse, I guess Dara.

[5:21] Abby: No, no, no.

[5:22] Claudia: I think you're talking about a specific word, and I I think I know which one.

[5:25] Abby: Yeah, yeah.

[5:27] Claudia: I yeah.

[5:29] Abby: Do you use sign language?

[5:31] Claudia: No, I did not use sign language.

[5:32] Abby: It's an N-word.

[5:33] Claudia: I don't know.

[5:34] Abby: But that's the end.

[5:36] Claudia: Yeah, I guess.

[5:37] Abby: I can see why they wouldn't do that.

[5:39] Claudia: I can see why they wouldn't do that.

[5:41] Abby: Um that's awesome.

[5:44] Claudia: I was getting into my saying that.

[5:49] Abby: I can't think of it.

[5:53] Claudia: It's like, wow, you said the N-word on that's what you really miss.

[5:56] Abby: That's awesome.

[6:00] Claudia: I like to say that's awesome.

[6:02] Abby: It's always true.

[6:03] Claudia: Um almost.

[6:05] Abby: Well, Abby, it really is a beautiful episode.

[6:08] Claudia: If I if I said it before, I'll say it again.

[6:10] Abby: You and you know, as soon as you're done, listen to this episode, go re-listen to that episode.

[6:15] Claudia: And the Connor one while you're at it.

[6:18] Abby: Friggin' iconic.

[6:19] Claudia: Yeah, again, listen there too.

[6:22] Abby: Oh, yeah.

[6:22] Claudia: Don't forget it.

[6:23] Abby: Um those are all my good friends.

[6:25] Claudia: Exactly.

[6:26] Abby: We all met at Gleek of the Week pod.

[6:28] Claudia: Yeah.

[6:29] Abby: What was that thing that you said?

[6:31] Claudia: The wedding thing.

[6:32] Abby: That oh, that has to actually be the carousel because I was really happy about that.

[6:36] Claudia: I referenced it in my my own brain a lot.

[6:38] Abby: It's it's the Instagram meme where it's like, mom.

[6:42] Claudia: Where did you meet all these people?

[6:44] Abby: Like, I'm not I'm not framing this right.

[6:46] Claudia: It's like me at my wedding.

[6:47] Abby: My mom says, Where did you meet all these people?

[6:49] Claudia: And then I say, We all went to Instagram together is the original meme.

[6:53] Abby: And I said, and I made it, we all went to Gleek of the Week pod together.

[6:59] Claudia: It's formatted really insanely though.

[7:01] Abby: It like the text goes off of the screen.

[7:05] Claudia: It's pretty good.

[7:06] Abby: No, that's really beautiful.

[7:07] Claudia: Thank you for um carousel edition number one this week.

[7:11] Abby: Um okay, wait.

[7:13] Claudia: So speaking of things that may not be awesome, uh I'm talking about Glacet grievances.

[7:20] Abby: Um it's been a minute since you both have um made an appearance glacketing.

[7:26] Claudia: Um who wants to open up that that can of worms.

[7:31] Abby: Low key, like I looked at like I did my little research, did like look back as to what happened since the last time I was here, and I there's nothing that made me feel like I got a gunshot to the chest.

[7:41] Claudia: Okay.

[7:42] Abby: I was upset.

[7:43] Claudia: I was upset a little bit at the loss of take on me.

[7:47] Abby: However, I understand why she had to go.

[7:50] Claudia: I agree, I love that song.

[7:53] Abby: Um, but nasty rhythm they should just have to take it.

[7:56] Claudia: I understand that.

[7:57] Abby: So I'm okay.

[7:58] Claudia: So I was I I got every competition.

[8:00] Abby: I think I would have gone, I lived instead of teenage dream, but I understand why teenage dream made it.

[8:07] Claudia: But something like I lived just like you know, I lived in Teenage Dream is like teenage dream.

[8:13] Abby: That's that's actually true.

[8:20] Claudia: I've always kept saying that.

[8:22] Abby: I thought I heard you say that yesterday.

[8:24] Claudia: I heard um wait, Claudia, what do you want to open up?

[8:30] Abby: I I feel similarly.

[8:31] Claudia: I don't have anything really like that I really violently disagree with.

[8:36] Abby: No, not coming in too hot.

[8:38] Claudia: Um I mean, I am upset about uninvited.

[8:41] Abby: I just would not, I just wouldn't have voted that way.

[8:43] Claudia: And I think everyone is everyone is saying that.

[8:45] Abby: I mean, it's a fun mashup, and I I really like Matt Bomer being himself on silly goofy the show.

[8:55] Claudia: Like, like yeah, just being a freak.

[8:57] Abby: Um, but I love uninvited, I love Alanis.

[9:00] Claudia: It's kind of weird how much it's like Ryan Murphy or Adam Anders or someone just like discovered Alanis Morissette in the year whatever 2015 season six came out.

[9:10] Abby: It's like okay, let's put it all here.

[9:12] Claudia: I'm so glad that you brought that up because like I feel that way, but I also feel like what is the explanation within universe too?

[9:19] Abby: Because like Rachel sings uninvited in this like very tragic moment that it's like wow, this is like um top five worst like anime deaths for her, you know.

[9:29] Claudia: Yeah, totally.

[9:30] Abby: And it's it's so like rooted so deeply in her that like two weeks later she's like we gotta do Alanis Morissette in the Glee Club, and it's like we can't shut this bitch up about Alanis Morissette.

[9:43] Claudia: I think addicted, uh I um I'm trying to think of a uh uh I mean maybe wishing and hoping.

[9:55] Abby: I was just gonna say, I was that one was a little bit tough.

[9:58] Claudia: I like Maryu, I think it's very cute.

[10:02] Abby: Obviously, MP4 has a lot going for it.

[10:04] Claudia: Everyone's being adorable.

[10:05] Abby: I also really enjoyed like listening to you guys talk about it.

[10:08] Claudia: It made me be like, oh yeah, that was so sweet.

[10:11] Abby: In between, that's sweet, but I don't I don't know if I really like the song itself that much.

[10:20] Claudia: Kind of very literal Bruno Mars, I guess is he's just up to that.

[10:25] Abby: Um, so I don't I don't I don't really stream it too too frequently to be honest, but it's fun.

[10:30] Claudia: I like just that we throw everybody in there, yeah.

[10:34] Abby: But yeah, but a wishing and hoping, yeah, I get it.

[10:38] Claudia: Yeah.

[10:39] Abby: She's nice.

[10:40] Claudia: I like her.

[10:44] Abby: I I also lastly, I also would have voted for what it feels like for a girl because I feel like that's very underrated.

[10:50] Claudia: And are you kidding me?

[10:51] Abby: I'm sorry.

[10:52] Claudia: What it feels like for a girl lost to it's not right, but it's okay.

[10:52] Abby: But it's okay.

[10:56] Claudia: Yeah.

[10:57] Abby: And I would have voted for it.

[10:59] Claudia: I don't care.

[10:59] Abby: You're not gonna you're not gonna what is that song doing for you?

[11:02] Claudia: Yeah.

[11:04] Abby: Okay, pause, pause.

[11:05] Claudia: Wait a minute, wait a minute.

[11:06] Abby: Literally, I do not hear the runs.

[11:08] Claudia: Hello.

[11:09] Abby: The run, like this one.

[11:10] Claudia: I hear the runs and it's not right, but it's okay.

[11:13] Abby: Um those are half those are that's like half a okay.

[11:17] Claudia: Well, I mean, I feel like I feel like I mean I wouldn't put them on top as like, oh, this is a crazy run.

[11:24] Abby: Like this is a run of this.

[11:25] Claudia: I once put up uh this is a tangent, but I once put on on Reddit once I was like, uh, who do you guys think had like the best runs and out of the males?

[11:33] Abby: And I put like Blaine on the list.

[11:34] Claudia: And everybody was like, Why is Blaine even on the list?

[11:37] Abby: That's how I Oh you were like a Blaine run truther until everybody like No.

[11:44] Claudia: It's not that I was a Blaine run truther, but it's like out of I I can just put Artie on there.

[11:48] Abby: There had to be a second guy that like it would just be the next possible bet would be Blaine.

[11:55] Claudia: But I uh I I think I mean he does run in the song, obviously, but the runs and for whatever the girl would have that one, those are a lot better to me, I think.

[12:05] Abby: I just like the feel of it more.

[12:06] Claudia: It's not right, it's okay.

[12:08] Abby: It's a good song, but I don't know.

[12:09] Claudia: I feel like the boys ate in in uh what it feels like for a girl.

[12:14] Abby: I don't know.

[12:15] Claudia: I'm sorry.

[12:15] Abby: You're really brave.

[12:16] Claudia: You're really brave to say that.

[12:18] Abby: You are very brave.

[12:19] Claudia: I'm brave.

[12:20] Abby: I'm gonna stand ten toes down.

[12:20] Claudia: And even though I like it's not right, it's okay.

[12:23] Abby: I enjoy that song a lot, but just to be a you know, be different.

[12:28] Claudia: Just be a little fun.

[12:30] Abby: I wouldn't think for it's not no what it feels like for a girl.

[12:32] Claudia: Because I I like it.

[12:33] Abby: Yeah.

[12:34] Claudia: No, no, no, not the truth.

[12:35] Abby: Not the truth.

[12:36] Claudia: Not the truth.

[12:37] Abby: I I will I'll tell you this.

[12:40] Claudia: What makes it not right, but it's okay, better than uh what it feels like for a girl is not even the vocals, but the vocals are much better in it's not right, but it's okay.

[12:51] Abby: Say that.

[12:53] Claudia: Wait, why am I like blanking on what the what the big Blaine run is toward the end?

[12:59] Abby: It's like I I all I'm hearing is Oh wait, no, I'm thinking of You were making a phone.

[13:11] Claudia: That's not even him.

[13:12] Abby: That's not even him.

[13:13] Claudia: I don't get it's all in the movie.

[13:14] Abby: It's in a blow.

[13:16] Claudia: That's that's but that's not a run.

[13:18] Abby: I know that's that's okay.

[13:20] Claudia: Okay, if we're talking runs, sure, but who's got the runs?

[13:27] Abby: Who who put them put them against each other?

[13:30] Claudia: Who's got the runs?

[13:32] Abby: Who's got the runs?

[13:33] Claudia: Well debate you who better runs or whatever.

[13:37] Abby: We they can also be put in like a stupid off, like that's our favorite thing.

[13:40] Claudia: Yeah, that's true.

[13:42] Abby: That's true.

[13:42] Claudia: They're both being pretty stupid.

[13:44] Abby: But I don't think the boys are trying to be stupid.

[13:47] Claudia: Like I really don't think do you think that that was intentional?

[13:51] Andrew: Like, I feel like that whole thing was not supposed to be. I don't know. It's I don't think that that was a little sharp. I think that that was like no, it did not seem like satire.

[14:01] Abby: What does it feel like to be a girl? Seriously.

[14:03] Claudia: What does it feel like to be a girl? Seriously.

[14:04] Abby: Anyone's like eyes. Who can we ask?

[14:06] Claudia: Who can we ask?

[14:10] Andrew: Williams, Dr. William Schuster.

[14:12] Abby: Bill.

[14:13] Claudia: He's a PSD, don't do him like that.

[14:14] Andrew: Okay. He knows what it looks like to be a girl.

[14:17] Abby: I do say I do think the performance is better for it's not right, but it's okay. It's fun. I like it. But just go a little going a little off the way across against the grain. It's awesome.

[14:27] Claudia: Awesome.

[14:27] Abby: I'm gonna stop.

[14:33] Claudia: Oh my gosh. I've like could have really stumbled over my words trying to not say the word awesome.

[14:39] Abby: No, I think that you should fall into it. Fall into it.

[14:41] Claudia: I had one. I had one more um like minor grievance just because I was just listening to the early released episode.

[14:50] Abby: Um a plug for the Patreon, everybody. I'm always doing that.

[14:54] Claudia: Um I don't I don't hate Wrecking Ball. I don't hate it.

[14:59] Abby: Why?

[15:00] Claudia: I don't know. Don't this is my one. I think it's I think it's because I was the target audience when that was on live.

[15:09] Abby: Oops, I just dropped my diet coke.

[15:13] Claudia: Uh oh.

[15:13] Abby: Do you need to oh oh just the cap?

[15:16] Claudia: Just the cat.

[15:17] Abby: No, if I spell it, I would have I would have been reacting way more.

[15:20] Claudia: Yeah, not awesome.

[15:21] Abby: Um I was a target audience for that, like being dramatic and like singing a loud song. Like, you know, when you're in I wasn't, I think I I was in high school by then, but I was gonna say being in middle school when you're home alone and all you want to do is sing a song really loud in your house.

[15:39] Claudia: You don't do this, Andrew? This is I know this is a universal experience because everybody that I know has told me that they also would do this.

[15:46] Abby: Like get on the like the what was that game on an iPad? It was like mule.

[15:51] Claudia: I fucking love karaoke song giving Smule is before me okay or after my time, I don't know.

[15:59] Abby: Yeah, maybe after what not before I'm younger than I'm I would definitely yeah you're so baby interesting 20 yeah yeah it's just my little brother that I brought to the glee up oh to the glee up plug for the glee up that happened in the past up it happened already I brought my 20 year old brother he was really confused by why we were looking at who are all these people we all exactly don't you know wait wait I need to say something about wrecking ball yeah wait what it go against if I can wrecking ball was against I already forgot it was just a layout oh what was wrecking ball against I literally have it up in a tab where is it oh gone wrecking ball one oh lost sorry loss to are you ready this is a jump scare and I am telling you I'm not going oh yeah that's what I thought that's what I thought I mean yeah sorry going home yeah it's going home I did not mean that I have any problem with the decision that was made I definitely don't have a problem with that um I would say like Mercedes on her worst day beats out Marley on her best day but obviously and I'm telling you it wasn't my worst day anyway I just like I think wrecking ball is fine it's funny it's dramatic I think no I do they also weren't trying to be stupid but it was it was very stupid I am so sorry poor girl I felt so bad for laughing when it it came up on hourly glee the other day and I watched it and I was like, let me just take this girl seriously.

[17:31] Claudia: Take her serious.

[17:32] Abby: Yeah.

[17:33] Claudia: I couldn't do it.

[17:35] Abby: I can't. I tried my best.

[17:36] Claudia: I tried my best, but it was like, oh my god, like these bricks aren't even giving real.

[17:40] Abby: It's giving it's giving two styrofoam, it's giving two things.

[17:43] Claudia: Yeah.

[17:43] Abby: It's giving like I don't know. It was it wasn't, it was like I think I felt so bad for laughing, but I was like, go be serious.

[17:50] Claudia: Like, I can't take so good.

[17:52] Abby: Are you showing up? This was like a very old bit that I'm I'm dusting off and putting back up on the shelf.

[17:57] Claudia: I feel like from round one. But are you going to the funeral of wrecking ball glee cast version by Glee Cast when it's out?

[18:03] Abby: Like, like, are you going to that, Claudia?

[18:06] Claudia: No.

[18:06] Abby: No, probably not.

[18:07] Claudia: No, you're not going out of your way.

[18:09] Abby: No, I may hate it like after, maybe.

[18:12] Claudia: Yeah.

[18:13] Abby: Camaradery.

[18:14] Claudia: It's near a food uh restaurant that I like, a food restaurant.

[18:18] Abby: Yeah, like you know the meme of like if you know the meme of like funeral of food always tastes good.

[18:23] Claudia: Like what are they serving at the wrecking ball funeral?

[18:28] Abby: No, it's like the after, it's not an after party, but like you know, the after party.

[18:32] Claudia: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[18:33] Abby: The food the food always it eats.

[18:35] Claudia: Oh but doesn't it's like the reception, it's the reception.

[18:39] Abby: Yeah, the reception.

[18:40] Claudia: I don't know.

[18:41] Abby: That's what I call it.

[18:42] Claudia: Is that called?

[18:42] Abby: I thought that was a wedding.

[18:43] Claudia: No, I think they're wake up.

[18:47] Abby: Reception.

[18:47] Claudia: Uh oh.

[18:48] Abby: All these event heads are gonna come out of the woodwork now.

[18:52] Claudia: A funeral reception is a post-funeral gathering where family members come to celebrate.

[18:56] Abby: Yeah, so and there's food, and the foods, the food always eats.

[18:59] Claudia: It's a big event.

[19:00] Abby: I mean, the black people and probably other ethnic people.

[19:04] Claudia: But the food is always good, it always busts.

[19:06] Abby: There's a meme. You guys haven't seen the meme?

[19:09] Claudia: God, I just don't know how to do it.

[19:10] Abby: You haven't even seen this meme?

[19:13] Claudia: We gotta see this.

[19:17] Abby: No, wait, no, stop.

[19:18] Claudia: Wait, I'll figure this out.

[19:20] Abby: Okay.

[19:21] Claudia: Okay, wait.

[19:23] Abby: So are we are we done with our our grievances?

[19:26] Claudia: Is this a portion of the podcast?

[19:28] Abby: Can we can we lay this one?

[19:30] Claudia: Can we have a funeral for that?

[19:31] Abby: Yeah, and I'll go to it.

[19:35] Claudia: I'll show up.

[19:36] Abby: Uh um okay. When it comes to this episode, this this uh episode of the Gleek of the Week podcast.

[19:42] Claudia: Um, what are we manifesting today? Are we feeling fight? Are we feeling a certain soloist? What are we thinking?

[19:52] Abby: Brother, uh all I know is that I can't begin any writer songs at all. Like it just keeps happening. He keeps visiting, he comes to me in my dream. I'm so scared.

[20:01] Claudia: I we still have like closer left. Do you count closer?

[20:05] Abby: I like that.

[20:05] Claudia: I don't know.

[20:06] Abby: The closer closer is fine.

[20:07] Claudia: Closer's fine.

[20:08] Abby: Um it's it's good.

[20:10] Claudia: It's good.

[20:11] Abby: I need I need some early day stuff, and I want to fight.

[20:15] Claudia: Yeah, I do I do want to argue.

[20:18] Abby: Um I you know, I'm down for anything.

[20:18] Claudia: I'm down for anything.

[20:23] Abby: I'm I just want to see something I haven't seen before.

[20:26] Claudia: Because I'd spend a lot of season four for me, or like later half.

[20:30] Abby: Give me season one. Let me have fun.

[20:32] Claudia: Okay.

[20:33] Abby: Give me that number what number wa.

[20:35] Claudia: Number wa.

[20:36] Abby: I thought it was crazy on the the live stream episode that the season six lovers got two season six against each other.

[20:43] Claudia: That was two season six against each other and another season six later on in that same episode.

[20:47] Abby: Three half the episode the songs in that in the last episode, season six.

[20:51] Claudia: Wild.

[20:52] Abby: That's really wild.

[20:52] Claudia: What are they wild?

[20:54] Abby: What are the odds?

[20:54] Claudia: Not good. I can tell you that much.

[20:56] Abby: Um I didn't manifest anything yet.

[21:02] Claudia: I already forgot what I was gonna say though.

[21:04] Abby: I also don't want writer because he's haunting me in a really distinctive way.

[21:09] Claudia: Um, because oh yeah.

[21:11] Abby: Wait, Abby had an episode where it was like all writer all the time, and then Claudia had an episode where she was wearing a number one rider fan t-shirt in the Zoom call.

[21:25] Claudia: So maybe this will like negate each other.

[21:27] Abby: I hope or it'll be squared, and I just really can't.

[21:31] Claudia: I don't I don't want it, I don't want it, but I don't have been making my really really slow rewatch through season five, and they're keeping songs that I like swear to god I have never seen this before in my life.

[21:43] Abby: So if I get something like that that I haven't gone to yet, that would be a thrill.

[21:43] Claudia: A thrill.

[21:49] Abby: So the opposite of what you said.

[21:51] Claudia: If we see Innocent Man, I will no Innocent Man's gone.

[21:54] Abby: It has to be gone, right?

[21:56] Claudia: Innocent Man is dead on on site.

[21:59] Abby: Um I actually do remember that one.

[22:01] Claudia: That's funny.

[22:02] Abby: Okay.

[22:03] Claudia: I saw Innocent Man the other day and I cried.

[22:05] Abby: I was like, I think we're gonna be able to do it.

[22:07] Claudia: On our glee.

[22:10] Abby: I'm pretty sure I do have a season five song.

[22:15] Claudia: Lots of talk about season five.

[22:17] Abby: Um this trinkets.

[22:24] Claudia: Ooh.

[22:24] Abby: Yeah.

[22:26] Claudia: It's a a trio number from season five.

[22:29] Abby: Not from the episode trio, but oh, I was gonna say jump and jump.

[22:34] Claudia: Oh, classic.

[22:36] Abby: I think can I I'll show you the first frame and you're gonna know what it is. Ready?

[22:39] Claudia: Okay.

[22:40] Abby: Let's see. You're gonna know it. You're gonna know it.

[22:42] Claudia: I trust.

[22:43] Abby: What if I don't?

[22:44] Claudia: That'd be so embarrassing.

[22:46] Abby: Oh my god.

[22:49] Claudia: It's okay.

[22:50] Abby: Mary's little boy child.

[22:51] Claudia: Oh my god, I'm so excited.

[22:53] Abby: Mary's boy child, Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day.

[23:10] ♪ Musical number: "Mary's Little Boy Child" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

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[24:55] Claudia: Yeah. I was ready to, I was like, wow, I forgot that we were in a recording. I was just watching. I was like, I what's gonna happen next?

[25:01] Abby: Anyway.

[25:02] Claudia: Yeah.

[25:02] Abby: Murray's little boy child.

[25:04] Claudia: Who wants to start the discourse on that?

[25:08] Abby: I um, you can go.

[25:11] Claudia: You go.

[25:11] Abby: Oh.

[25:12] Claudia: Oh.

[25:13] Abby: Okay, I'll go.

[25:15] Claudia: I have my notes here are this song reminds me of uh my old Catholic middle school because that's the first time I've heard that song.

[25:24] Abby: And when I heard it, I said, Saint insert name.

[25:27] Claudia: And I was like, I can't it's haunting me. They're haunting me. Why is this here?

[25:30] Abby: Second, I just love it so much. First of all, we need to talk about um how um why am I blanking?

[25:40] Claudia: Coach Beast says that this song makes them really emotional because of their Jamaican roots.

[25:47] Abby: They have a little Jamaican in mind.

[25:50] Claudia: Oh my god.

[25:52] Abby: I think it's just very funny that we have two characters because as soon as she has Trinidadian in season four, which we should later it's lied.

[26:00] Claudia: She lied.

[26:01] Abby: He bumped.

[26:02] Claudia: But I love this, I love this song.

[26:04] Abby: I love this episode. I mean, there are a lot of things that are wrong, morally wrong in this episode, but I it gets a it gets a gag and a giggle and a chortle and a cackle out of me every time.

[26:16] Claudia: And this song is just so good.

[26:28] Abby: Everybody's just like, it just I mean, that whole season just feels like someone slipped hallucinogens into the writer's room and into the actors' rooms, and they just went on.

[26:28] Claudia: It's like they read the script the day before not even the day like the 10 minutes before and then they got on stage I said just do it yeah go and that's how the whole season feels and you feel like it's boring and it's like okay now what's going on but for the most part this this stuff I mean the vocals are there the scenery is the scenery is there everybody's slaying everybody being hunty I mean what more could you really ask for I feel that's all that's all I have

[26:28] Abby: I agree with all those things except for in terms of the vocals being there. The vocals that are not there are those of Jenna Ushkowitz. Where is she? Erasure! You hear her, I'm not in there. I agree, and I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna say at least like 40% of the time that we see her mouth moving, she is not saying the words that they're singing, so that gives me more evidence that she's not on that track.

[27:15] Abby: She's not in the track they just put on a stage and she like had to figure it out.

[27:19] Abby: I'm so it's great they pause I'm bringing up the Glee Wiki on there. Yeah, so like no, I was just she does, does she have a single? Okay, she does have like one. I like I had to scroll to get like a solo line from Tina and then they found a little nook in a stable all forlorn and that's it.

[27:40] Abby: And then do we did we get anything else?

[27:43] Claudia: I that's literally it that's all she gets herself I was trying to even hear her in the background vocals and I couldn't because it seems like if it was like Marley doing the lead all I was hearing was Unique in the background and vice versa.

[27:59] Abby: So I have qualms with that. A plus about this performance though is that their outfits look like um American Girl doll outfits that you would buy for the winter time.

[28:10] Claudia: Bring it back where you're just like me doll.

[28:11] Abby: It's very very much that.

[28:13] Claudia: Oh, I didn't even mean to bring back like that.

[28:15] Abby: Yeah. Um, but I was thinking also that I think you said this one time, Andrew, about like when Melissa gets to be silly goofy Melissa in a song and not Marley.

[28:28] Claudia: Like, that's not Marley, that's Melissa.

[28:29] Abby: Right. It's kind of like almost like welcome back, Dianna Agron, where it's like the character is like so different from the actress when that actress is the silliest goofy girl alive.

[28:43] Claudia: But we get the like sugar.

[28:48] Abby: We get like little hints, and like she does like the yeah, that's like literally one of two notes that I wrote down.

[28:53] Claudia: The Marley Goofy Walk.

[28:54] Abby: It's like the it's the Grinch walk that she does where it's like she's about to steal Christmas.

[28:59] Claudia: Yeah, she did.

[29:01] Abby: She kind of did, yeah.

[29:04] Claudia: She did from Kitty from Kitty.

[29:06] Abby: Wait, like what is okay.

[29:08] Claudia: So, like, why doesn't Kitty? I it's been a minute since I watched this episode.

[29:12] Abby: So, like they let me explain this.

[29:14] Claudia: Oh, you can you please explain it?

[29:16] Abby: Please, because I was I wrote down how I'm obsessed with this like plot line that does like is so random and insane.

[29:23] Claudia: Yeah.

[29:23] Abby: So they're they're putting on the you know living nativity, which is I don't know, something you can do at a public school.

[29:29] Claudia: I mean, that one doesn't make too much sense there.

[29:34] Abby: And the Glee Club is going to be cast as the roles of the people in the Bible or in the in the previous story.

[29:42] Claudia: And the rest of the gang.

[29:44] Abby: Yeah. Marley's like, hey Kitty, um, us girlies are gonna audition together, and do you wanna you wanna do it too?

[29:50] Claudia: And Kitty's like, no, fuck you.

[29:52] Abby: And then we find out that she's like that because she doesn't think that she's worthy of playing the Virgin Mary.

[29:58] Claudia: Because she wait, isn't that really in the text?

[30:01] Abby: Yes, yes, yes, it's amazing.

[30:03] Claudia: It's so funny.

[30:04] Abby: It's at first, they're just like, why is she being a bitch about this? And then she literally like tears up and is like, I know like what the values of the Virgin Mary are, and I see her and and not that.

[30:17] Claudia: It's crazy.

[30:19] Abby: Wait. So then they have to force her to take the role because they know how much it means to her.

[30:23] Claudia: So then they do um what's the other one?

[30:27] Abby: Love Child.

[30:27] Claudia: Yeah.

[30:28] Abby: Love Child, so that she can say that is the greatest abomination she's ever seen and take the role for herself.

[30:33] Claudia: It's awesome.

[30:34] Abby: I love it so much.

[30:36] Claudia: That plot line makes me shit my pants.

[30:39] Abby: It's so funny.

[30:39] Claudia: I can't believe that I'm learning Glee lore live, right?

[30:43] Abby: It's just for me.

[30:43] Claudia: It's very like reminiscent of like season one to me, but like even more, like it just doesn't even make any, it just doesn't make any sense.

[30:51] Abby: But it's like it's so good. Cause it's like, oh y'all brought y'all literally wrote this last night.

[30:57] Claudia: Like audio.

[31:00] Abby: You're like, you you put Ian Brennan, you locked him in a closet, you said, right, like right, and he that's this way he came up with and they said you're like Christmas story, yeah.

[31:11] Claudia: Characters from Glee.

[31:13] Abby: I can't believe it.

[31:16] Claudia: I'm sure that maybe this is the part that's also taking y'all out.

[31:19] Abby: I'm just like stuck on the fact that Kitty considers herself unworthy to play.

[31:25] Claudia: Like that's like where that's her that's her flag in the in the in the ground that that's where she's standing, that she's like not worthy of that's I need to rewatch the case.

[31:35] Abby: That's why it's insane.

[31:37] Claudia: It's so crazy.

[31:38] Abby: It's crazy because also, like at first when she's still putting on like the bitch card, she's like, oh yeah, you'd be great to play Mary because you're a virgin to Marley, but that's like more kind of insecurity for her.

[31:52] Claudia: Does she morally say um, like, oh, I have bigger views than you in the same episode, or is it oh my god, yes, yes.

[31:59] Abby: Okay, I think in that same line.

[32:01] Claudia: Well, I wear a bigger bra size in you.

[32:04] Abby: So good.

[32:04] Claudia: I was like, oh, I just it's a good reaction, it's a good shift reaction.

[32:07] Abby: But also, speaking of the okay, so you brought up Love Child, and that's kind of what I was thinking about during this performance.

[32:14] Claudia: And I hate to be the I hate to be like a little stinker about this song, but I'd be I'd rather watch Love Child, who is not in the Glacka anymore.

[32:22] Abby: Wait, do we agree?

[32:23] Claudia: Wait, do we in when we compare these two girls against each other?

[32:27] Abby: The Love Child versus Mary's Little Boy Child.

[32:31] Claudia: Who's who's the who's winning that that child beat down?

[32:36] Abby: It's a favorite child.

[32:37] Claudia: Who's exclusive child?

[32:39] Abby: I I fear like okay, Love Child, the visuals, everything is it's I I'd rather watch it, but I'd rather listen to Mary's Little Boy Child.

[32:48] Claudia: Oh no, uh Love Child is winning both MP3 and MP4.

[32:54] Abby: I'm happy.

[32:54] Claudia: Yeah, I'm happy.

[32:55] Abby: I would say, like, literally always a big swing that will always win for me is the stupid points.

[33:00] Claudia: It's so funny and insane.

[33:03] Abby: And Melissa and Jenna are the three wise bones.

[33:10] Claudia: Well, yeah, beards on, is that right?

[33:13] Abby: They have beards, yeah.

[33:14] Claudia: I think so.

[33:14] Abby: Yeah, I love it.

[33:15] Claudia: So yeah, it's good.

[33:19] Abby: And I think I also like the the MB three more for Love Child.

[33:25] Claudia: Okay.

[33:25] Abby: Sorry.

[33:25] Claudia: Sorry to, you know, be so divisive on this Glee podcast, which is kind of built on being divisive.

[33:31] Abby: They're not wise men.

[33:32] Claudia: Who are they?

[33:33] Abby: They're in they're in blue dresses.

[33:35] Claudia: They're in the blue dresses.

[33:36] Abby: Kind of like everything wearing.

[33:37] Claudia: Supremes.

[33:38] Abby: Yeah, the Supremes.

[33:39] Claudia: Aren't they wearing beards or no?

[33:41] Abby: They have no beards.

[33:43] Claudia: What am I thinking about then?

[33:44] Abby: I think you might be confusing.

[33:45] Claudia: Jake's got some beards.

[33:47] Abby: He's got some some beard.

[33:48] Claudia: Marley and Tina for Jake and Ryder.

[33:52] Abby: Probably.

[33:53] Claudia: I thought they all had.

[33:54] Abby: No, yeah, no, that's they all have beards in the end, I think.

[33:54] Claudia: They all have beards in the end.

[34:00] Abby: Wait, do they really all have beards at the end?

[34:03] Claudia: Yeah, I don't think they do.

[34:04] Abby: In the end.

[34:06] Claudia: And um away in a major.

[34:07] Abby: I love that song, by the way.

[34:09] Claudia: Oh, okay.

[34:10] Abby: Okay, because my my visual is specifically Marley and Tina are the three wise men, and then Jake and Ryder are the shepherds, like distinctive.

[34:21] Claudia: I don't know why that I just made that up.

[34:23] Abby: Okay.

[34:27] Claudia: Can you see me in my glasses?

[34:29] Abby: Like you're like that uh Edna mode looking at her like screaming like why is it?

[34:37] Claudia: Okay, yes.

[34:38] Abby: Okay.

[34:39] Claudia: Well, how do we feel about this?

[34:41] Abby: This song.

[34:44] Claudia: Are we feeling good?

[34:46] Abby: I like her, but I feel like she could go home at the same time.

[34:48] Claudia: I don't really have any strong Yeah.

[34:51] Abby: Like I don't I don't I don't think she secures her spot just yet.

[34:54] Claudia: Like I feel like she could go home, but I feel like she's also a good candidate to send four.

[34:59] Abby: So we have kind of like this is fun when we have like two like not particularly like wow, give them the whole razzle dazzle songs.

[35:10] Claudia: Um so this might be anybody's game.

[35:13] Abby: Oh my time.

[35:16] Claudia: Can we get a season?

[35:17] Abby: Uh it's a season one.

[35:19] Claudia: That's what you wanted.

[35:20] Abby: Oh shit.

[35:21] Claudia: I'm surprised that this is so long.

[35:23] Abby: It's two minutes thirty.

[35:25] Claudia: And I always thought that was so much shorter.

[35:29] Abby: Is this um it's this is um this is the do it with Will and Rachel?

[35:33] Claudia: That's crazy.

[35:34] Abby: Audio medium.

[35:36] Claudia: We're looking at a freeze frame.

[35:38] Abby: The opening shot is Artie like looking down.

[35:42] Claudia: That's all Abby was given.

[35:44] Abby: Thank you laughing.

[35:45] Claudia: That's really good, Abby.

[35:46] Abby: That's really impressive.

[35:47] Claudia: It's because Finn and Quinn in the background.

[35:50] Abby: Oh yeah.

[35:55] Claudia: I could totally sing the song with Finn.

[35:58] Abby: But screw him if he thinks he's taking the Diana Ross part from me.

[36:01] Claudia: The only thing that's right.

[36:05] Abby: I love the days when I don't wear underwear.

[36:07] Claudia: Full commando.

[36:09] Abby: I never noticed how nice Rachel's butt is.

[36:12] Claudia: Oh crap.

[36:12] Abby: I think Quinn knows I'm staring at it.

[36:23] ♪ Musical number: "Endless Love" — performed by Abby and Claudia ♪

[36:57] Abby: Wow.

[36:57] Claudia: I've never noticed this before because he's always trying to destroy my career.

[37:01] Claudia: My love.

[37:01] Abby: My endless love.

[37:01] Abby: But Mr. Shu has really pretty eyes.

[37:06] Claudia: And really nice teeth.

[37:07] Andrew: He's obviously invested in good oral hygiene, and that's important to me.

[37:10] Abby: It shows wonderful self-esteem.

[37:13] ♪ Musical number: "Endless Love" — performed by Abby & Claudia ♪

[37:41] Andrew: No one can deny the heavens.

[37:57] Claudia: My love.

[37:58] Abby: My endless love.

[38:04] Claudia: Okay, this is amazing.

[38:05] Abby: When I'm singing with him, it's like I'm seeing him for the first time.

[38:07] Abby: He's obviously invested in good oral hygiene, and that's important to me.

[38:10] Claudia: It shows wonderful self-esteem.

[38:10] Claudia: And what I'm seeing is super, super cute.

[38:13] Abby: I'll be that fool for you.

[38:14] Abby: Classic.

[38:15] Claudia: That's classic.

[38:16] Abby: Of course, that's cool.

[38:18] Claudia: It makes me want to rewatch.

[38:19] Abby: It makes me want to turn on my computer.

[38:21] Claudia: I don't like the way she's looking at me.

[38:21] Claudia: And just press the pilot.

[38:24] Abby: Oh, I shouldn't have sung this song to her.

[38:24] Abby: I listen.

[38:25] Claudia: I listened to this.

[38:26] Claudia: Crap, she looks crazy right now.

[38:26] Abby: It came up on shuffle, like last week while I was on the train, and I listened to it maybe for the first time all the way through.

[38:28] Abby: I know this look.

[38:33] Claudia: You'll be the only one.

[38:33] Claudia: I was like, wait a minute.

[38:35] Abby: That's really nice for me.

[38:38] Claudia: Wait.

[38:38] Abby: Well, I mean, like the come on, the the i iTunes MP3 full all the way through.

[38:41] Abby: No one can deny the heavens.

[38:43] Claudia: I'm still saying the first time, really.

[38:45] Abby: Yeah.

[38:45] Claudia: I mean, like, I'm not Are you going out of your way to stream this?

[38:49] Abby: Yeah, sometimes, yeah.

[38:50] Claudia: Really?

[38:50] Abby: I forget.

[38:51] Claudia: I forget that it exists.

[38:52] Abby: I'm I'm I'm a huge uh purporter in word.

[38:56] Claudia: I'm a huge supporter of I made that up.

[38:59] Abby: I'm a huge supporter of season one ballads.

[39:01] Claudia: I love them.

[39:02] Abby: And this is it might be on that green album that's like kind of like wicked color green.

[39:06] Claudia: It's like the the showstoppers or like something like that.

[39:09] Abby: I don't know.

[39:09] Claudia: Either way, it might be on that album.

[39:11] Abby: And I like that it's like I would listen to that totally eclipse of a heart and also dream a dream, like and alone, like back to back to back because they all give that same like ballad vibe.

[39:20] Claudia: I like that song a lot.

[39:22] Abby: I like it.

[39:23] Claudia: Hey, I I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.

[39:26] Abby: I as soon as it came on, I was kind of like, yeah, in the mid off, it still is a little too mid, but it is very classically season one and all the little like pieces of dialogue and when you say too mid, you're saying too like uh uh uh a little bit above mid or a little bit below mid.

[39:46] Claudia: Below mid.

[39:48] Abby: Oh.

[39:48] Claudia: I think like less I don't like I was thinking when it started that I would just go with um with our girlies, but I'm not sure now.

[39:59] Abby: It really is anybody's game.

[40:00] Claudia: It's anybody's game.

[40:01] Abby: I like when they add in little people having weird little thoughts and Quinn looking suspicious and like a bitch, which is awesome.

[40:11] Claudia: So I I love that the no, wait, stop.

[40:16] Abby: You need to keep saying awesome.

[40:18] Claudia: Don't be don't be goes kid so awesome, it's awesome.

[40:20] Abby: Hello.

[40:23] Claudia: I I have these past few weeks, I've been thinking, wow, like I love Finn and Quinn.

[40:29] Abby: Not necessarily like the relationship or them being together but I like their dynamic I think I like the dynamic that like Cory Monteith and Dianna like Agron have yeah like there's just some things in the background that they do that I think are very funny and I think that like they're very like comedic together which I enjoy and then like a way that's underrated with what like potential I think also have like a comedic aspect about them that it's a little just a little bit more edgy.

[40:53] Claudia: Oh I totally agree.

[40:55] Abby: I mean I do too I'm thinking about that like when they when um Corey and Dianna went to like the Fox whatever what when they what was like the oh when they're dancing around and when they're dancing on the green screen they're having a hooting hoot.

[41:10] Claudia: Yeah I'm filming you filming me it's giving a lot yeah yeah I agree with that I hate when they try to make Fwyn like sexual tension sexiness it makes me like really ill I really dislike that like all of the whatever it was with the the mono and the kissing room I really I really hate that but I agree with you like when they have their um when there were sunglasses in the hallway to make the reputation better.

[41:41] Abby: It's like they're kind of stupid, like they're kind of really dumb.

[41:44] Claudia: Yeah, it's awesome. It's fun. There's actually good awesome. I again like attaching myself to the back, but I feel like this is the beginning of Glee writers being a little bit messy and, you know, blurring the lines of real life.

[42:00] Andrew: Yeah, because let's talk about it.

[42:02] Abby: We gotta talk about the Matthew Leah of it all.

[42:04] Claudia: That it's like Malia.

[42:07] Abby: This was like, this was purposeful, right?

[42:11] Claudia: This was like, hey, we know what happened.

[42:13] Abby: And we're writing to make it a little bit more uncomfy.

[42:17] Claudia: Uh-huh.

[42:18] Abby: A little bit close to home for y'all.

[42:20] Claudia: Yeah.

[42:21] Abby: So we heard you guys dated and we wrote it into the episode. Is that okay?

[42:25] Claudia: Okay, well, you don't really have a choice.

[42:26] Abby: And we're making it painfully unrequited.

[42:33] Claudia: I hope that's not what it was like in real life. I have no idea what it was like between them, but like if they add that in, I feel like that's really awkward. Like that makes it way more awkward.

[42:41] Abby: And we're bringing up the fact that there is a major age gap between y'all.

[42:45] Claudia: In real life, we're making it clear that it's inappropriate.

[42:48] Abby: Right. We're making it clear.

[42:49] Claudia: Wait a minute.

[42:50] Abby: Wait a minute.

[42:51] Claudia: Yeah.

[42:52] Abby: Um, I do want to bring up legal net legal legal note. This one against "Story of My Life" in round one.

[43:01] Claudia: Deserved.

[43:02] Abby: I had to look that up.

[43:03] Claudia: Yeah, deserved. I was gonna say. I was wondering who else was looking at because I can see if like other people are in the Galactica, and I was like, I wonder if it's one of these two girls.

[43:14] Abby: Um, but "Story of My Life," R.A.P. And then also "Mary's Little Boy Child" won against "Dance the Night Away" from season six vocal adrenaline.

[43:23] Claudia: So just bring that up.

[43:25] Abby: By Dua Lipa.

[43:27] Claudia: Yes.

[43:28] Abby: Dance.

[43:30] Claudia: No.

[43:30] Abby: That's the night away.

[43:31] Claudia: How does the other one go?

[43:33] Abby: Dance the night away.

[43:35] Claudia: That one. You know.

[43:40] Abby: Okay. Well, maybe, maybe, maybe the vocal was a little off.

[43:46] Claudia: Maybe the, maybe if I was a little bit more on pitch, it would have landed.

[43:50] Abby: Yeah.

[43:50] Claudia: Yeah, I would have gotten it. Um, anybody have anything else to add for "Endless Love"?

[43:59] Abby: I'm getting on my soapbox.

[44:01] Claudia: I love it.

[44:01] Abby: So good, hilarious.

[44:03] Claudia: So good, very good.

[44:05] Abby: I wrote, I think it's just I just love when a number has so many reactionary reactions from the background. Like everybody's confused, everybody's a little bit disgusted. They're doing the phone flashlights in the back. Like there's just so much going on.

[44:20] Claudia: And I love that. I love that aspect. It's just it makes me feel like a like a warm little season one Glee hug, a glug.

[44:22] Abby: A glug?

[44:31] Claudia: I don't know.

[44:32] Abby: I'm the really good. Like they eat like the hello.

[44:35] Claudia: Yeah.

[44:36] Abby: We're singing down. That's what I was thinking. Like, I was on the train, I was looking around. I was like, y'all are, are y'all hearing this? Anyone hear this?

[44:45] Claudia: Oh.

[44:46] Abby: You should just unplug the earbuds, play it out loud. Everyone's doing it. You're welcome.

[44:52] Claudia: Like subway rats are like bouncing shit.

[44:56] Abby: Um, I was on the subway last night and a guy started playing heavy metal like in my ear sitting right next to me. So you should do that. You balance it out with "Endless Love," Glee casters might test.

[45:05] Claudia: Yeah. But tell them about Matt Malia Lore.

[45:08] Abby: And then it's all set. I literally, because like okay, listening to On the Train like a week ago inspired me to like look up what the actual lore between Matthew and Leah is. There is very little there. Like you can't find hardly anything. But like Leah was like, yeah, we dated, and like we're adults.

[45:31] Claudia: Girl. Anyway.

[45:31] Abby: Can you talk about speak? On Ray with no thumbs. Wasn't she a date that guy?

[45:37] Claudia: Wait, oh my god.

[45:39] Abby: Oh, on Ray?

[45:42] Claudia: Right?

[45:43] Abby: Yeah.

[45:43] Claudia: Henri, yeah.

[45:44] Abby: From the Akafellas.

[45:46] Claudia: And then oh my god.

[45:48] Abby: Yeah.

[45:48] Claudia: I remember finding that out from, I don't know, he's a little old. He's a little old at the time too. I was like I live, oh this girl loves a showmance. She loves it. Classic.

[45:56] Abby: Jonathan Groff.

[45:58] Claudia: Jonathan Groff.

[45:59] Abby: Unrequited.

[46:02] Claudia: Um, do we have any final notes before voting?

[46:06] Abby: I love you both, but one of you has to go.

[46:08] Claudia: I feel that it's like you were saying that to us.

[46:13] Abby: I love you both. One of you has to leave the call.

[46:16] Claudia: Um, anybody feel confident in casting the first vote?

[46:20] Abby: I do.

[46:22] Claudia: Okay.

[46:24] Abby: "Endless Love," I love you so much. And I have to say that you will be if you were, if I could grade this bracket alone, you'd be going forth and you have my vote.

[46:37] Claudia: "Mary's Little Boy" whatever chop I love you, but you can go. You can go. I'll listen to you later tonight. And remembrance "Mary's Little Boy Child," you don't even have a name. You're just, it's almost like Jack's like Friday.

[46:50] Abby: Yeah.

[46:51] Claudia: It's like no, you're kind of defined by your mother. Your mother anyway.

[46:56] Abby: Yeah.

[46:56] Claudia: I think I'm gonna agree. I think I'm gonna go "Endless Love" for all of the aforementioned reasons of like the vocals are good. The context surrounding it is classic stupid season one Glee. You get all the good background moments.

[47:19] Abby: And yeah, I think it just has more going for it than that guy who was the baby of Mary and he was a little one and he's a kid and he's a boy.

[47:31] Claudia: Um, who is Mary? Who's that? Who is she?

[47:35] Abby: Also, part of that decision is being swayed by the fact that I think.

[47:39] Claudia: Oh no, just kidding. "Love Child" is dead already. But "Love Child" is the better of the two. And so we don't need.

[47:46] Abby: I guess they're both gone now. Whatever. We don't need either of them. Bye.

[47:49] Claudia: I don't, I'm not on the, I was thinking about doing a little pity one. I don't think I will. I think I will vote for Will and Rachel singing "Endless Love," Glee Caster with Mike Lee Cass. Because you know what? Recency bias. It happened to come on shuffle on the train, and it was like that was Glaude being like, we need you to know this song slaps before it shows up on Sunday, August 11th at 6:44:54.

[48:18] Abby: Jesus.

[48:19] Claudia: 6:54 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Um, and you know what does hit? And I think it's funny that both songs of this plot line, "Endless Love" and "Crush," both going forward to round three. Who would have thought? Not me.

[48:37] Abby: Not me.

[48:39] Claudia: We love Malia.

[48:41] Abby: Malia, we ride it on.

[48:44] Claudia: Where are you?

[48:47] Abby: Uh, shoe berry.

[48:48] Claudia: Barry Shoe.

[48:49] Abby: Uh, Wachel.

[48:51] Claudia: How do we feel about that competition?

[48:53] Abby: Was that good for us?

[48:54] Claudia: That was fun.

[48:54] Abby: Oh, I think so, yeah.

[48:57] Claudia: It was a good match.

[48:57] Abby: It was a good matching, I think.

[48:58] Claudia: Yeah.

[48:59] Abby: Do we want to do two more matchups?

[49:01] Claudia: Maybe.

[49:04] Abby: Oh please, please, please, please.

[49:08] Claudia: Okay, great. Whatever.

[49:11] Abby: Cool. Okay, we got a season two number.

[49:15] Claudia: I feel like this might be.

[49:18] Abby: I don't know. I feel like I talk shit about this song for no reason. And then people, every time that I talk shit about it, people are like, what are you talking about? So I'm just gonna stop.

[49:30] Claudia: Okay.

[49:30] Abby: And I'm just gonna let the song speak for itself.

[49:33] Claudia: Oh, let me see if I can guess.

[49:35] Abby: Abby, you got it.

[49:36] Claudia: This is season two episode, uh, it's "I Look to You," you got it.

[49:42] Abby: Oh my god.

[49:44] Claudia: Yup.

[49:45] Abby: Yup, talk shit about this.

[49:47] Claudia: Wow.

[49:48] Abby: It doesn't hit for me.

[49:50] Claudia: Where's the Tana?

[49:50] Abby: I get that the word wait, but you're, I get it though.

[49:55] Claudia: Where are they?

[49:56] Abby: No, because usually Tina and Brittany.

[49:58] Claudia: Right.

[49:59] Abby: Tina and Quinn.

[50:00] Claudia: As I lay me down, have me now.

[50:09] Abby: I'm lost without a card after giving in my all winter storms have come and dock in my son after all that I've been through.

[50:33] Claudia: Who on earth can I turn to?

[50:36] Abby: I look to you.

[50:41] Claudia: I love to you after all my strength is gone.

[50:52] Abby: Do I can be strong?

[50:55] Claudia: I love Zuya.

[51:00] Abby: I love the you.

[51:06] Claudia: And when Melodin.

[51:14] Abby: I love see you.

[51:23] Claudia: I love to you.

[51:26] Abby: Eye contact.

[51:27] Claudia: Eye contact.

[51:28] Abby: Is so scary.

[51:30] Claudia: Every time I feel like audio medium at the end of that song, these crazy close-ups of Chris and Amber looking at each other.

[51:41] Abby: Claudia's down.

[51:43] Claudia: I'm down, I'm sorry.

[51:45] Abby: Oh my god.

[51:46] Claudia: Oh my god.

[51:47] Abby: My laptop tried to unplug itself.

[51:49] Claudia: And then I like.

[51:50] Abby: Uh oh.

[51:51] Claudia: She's doing hair business. Don't mind it.

[51:53] Abby: Don't mind it.

[51:54] Claudia: I'm sorry for calling out. My computer like flashes on and off sometimes when I plug it in.

[51:59] Abby: Um, go ahead.

[52:01] Claudia: Yeah. Oh, I just like in my notes there. I just wrote Quinn, what are you doing? Like, like with a lot of exclamation points and question marks because she just looks so unhappy to be there.

[52:12] Abby: And is the connection because she's, are she and Tina having like a like a Christian thing? Like, is that why she's the back or the backup? I don't understand.

[52:20] Claudia: Do we know anything about Tina's religion?

[52:24] Abby: No, we don't really know quite much, do we?

[52:27] Claudia: American are Jewish in some way? One of them.

[52:30] Abby: Oh, that's, oh my gosh. I always forget about that.

[52:31] Claudia: Yeah. Because she specifically because I watched where she applied to some college and was rejected because she wasn't Jewish enough.

[52:41] Abby: Yeah, yeah.

[52:42] Claudia: Right. But I don't, they don't really. I mean, I, we'd have to sit down here and analyze the reaction to the whole thing. Because I feel like you can tell like what characters are religious versus not religious based on like the conversations that they have in that episode.

[52:56] Abby: But yeah, I mean word. She's up there, but I don't, I don't necessarily, I don't know how to do it.

[53:04] Claudia: What was the Tina line in this episode? What was the one? Like because she around this, I mean like for a very long period of the, uh, the series, she gets, she gets one per episode, and it's always like kind of like a hey, um, I'm just moving the plot along, Tina. And I'm like curious what her.

[53:19] Abby: Oh, I know it.

[53:24] Claudia: That's great.

[53:27] Abby: It's um, she's setting up Brittany. She's saying, um, last week we were too sexy, this week we're too religious, we can't win. Now I know how Miley feels.

[53:40] Claudia: Brittany taking the, she's doing that slam dunk. That's yeah, that's a good one. That's a good memory right there.

[53:45] Abby: Yeah, what am I gonna pull something out like that? You're able to identify all the songs, Abby.

[53:50] Claudia: No, wait, no, this gave us the whole plot. You can just plot of the thing.

[53:53] Abby: Yeah, you should give us the entire previously unerred Christmas plot.

[53:57] Claudia: That's something I just wish I was thinking about my glitch talent was no, I think okay. To be fair, to be fair, maybe Tina didn't have if she's not religious, because it's not technically a Christian song.

[54:08] Abby: It's yeah, um, so technically it's like it's like fine.

[54:12] Claudia: I googled it, it's not like religious.

[54:15] Abby: It's yeah, I, it's like the climb where like the climb could like if you sing it at sure, people wouldn't bat an eye because it's like the lyrics from there. But um, yeah, I think I also think it's funny that they sound like a full choir, like they love doing this where they have two people sound like a group full of women. It's just not possible, babe.

[54:31] Claudia: So I, that's why I feel like they just shouldn't have had them up there. Like what, what are they, what are they doing?

[54:38] Abby: What are we happening to pressing a CD player so that it can be holistic? You know, that'd be nice.

[54:44] Claudia: One thing about this show that I would like is that it would be more realistic. Just kidding. I like when they have dream sequences, can't be and are insane.

[54:53] Abby: One last thing, Artina. That red lip. It's really crazy to me.

[54:59] Claudia: Yeah, it's really, it's really, it's kind of like I'm so sorry. I think it's, it's negating points for me.

[55:06] Abby: Um, I'm doing, I'm doing a boo, I'm doing a his. I don't like it.

[55:11] Claudia: Wow, I'll balance it out with saying that I think Mercedes's fit is awesome.

[55:16] Andrew: Fuck Jesus Christ.

[55:19] Abby: Can we do it?

[55:20] Claudia: Can we do an awesome counter?

[55:21] Abby: We got a good one.

[55:21] Claudia: Every time she says gross shot.

[55:24] Abby: Every time there's an awesome said, take a shot, please.

[55:27] Claudia: That's end it's brilliant.

[55:30] Abby: Oh I swear I'm not an idiot.

[55:33] Claudia: I know I'm not an idiot.

[55:34] Abby: The thing is, I went through a very similar phase of saying awesome because my sister kept saying awesome, so I started saying awesome a lot.

[55:39] Claudia: I really resonate with your struggle right now.

[55:43] Abby: You're making me feel really held.

[55:47] Claudia: Wait, what about Mercedes' fit?

[55:50] Abby: Is awesome. I like the cropped party situation.

[55:54] Claudia: I like the frill on the edges.

[55:54] Abby: I like the statement necklace.

[55:58] Claudia: Yep.

[55:59] Abby: It's like the best parts of the late 2000s to early 2010s fashion.

[56:07] Claudia: I think. Like all of the pieces are put together well, where you wouldn't see someone necessarily dressing like this before or after that, like it's very clearly of that time, but it's not like a, I don't know, Pretty Little Liars Aria fit where you have like the skull skirt over the tights and the denim jacket up with something like it's like a perfect balance of it in my opinion.

[56:30] Abby: I feel like especially that this area of the series around like early season two, they're dressing Mercedes authentically, yeah, into the crazy graphic tees, right?

[56:44] Claudia: Like this is a teen girl, and I kind of believe it what she's wearing.

[56:47] Abby: Yeah, it looks good.

[56:49] Claudia: She's a girly teen girl. And when do they like make it a plot point or just a personality trait that she's like the fashionista?

[56:56] Abby: Is that retroactively in 2009 or something? Because I feel like there's some point where they say that she and Mercedes will style everyone.

[57:03] Claudia: That's in the pilot.

[57:04] Abby: And it's like that carries off through like season one. Like her fits are supposed to be fire.

[57:09] Claudia: And I feel like, I don't know, I wasn't really there for to really be saying, "Oh yeah, I wanted to wear that." I mean, looking at it now, it's like, what are you wearing, girl? But like probably at the time people were probably like, "Oh shit, this eats."

[57:22] Abby: So I can't really, I can't, I feel like possibly potentially like it's like I think it depends on the purple, it's in the way I think it's like there are probably a demographic of people who were really into that clothing, but probably it is canon for most of season one that she's creating like designing her own clothing.

[57:42] Claudia: Yeah, right. I thought like that was like I feel like I saw that in like a fat like discussing the fashion with like the costume designer that it's like with Amber, we wanted to like have it so like Mercedes is designing her own clothing, and like that was early season one, like they got rid of that quick but is that part of the...

[57:44] Abby: I remember seeing on Instagram or something this is insane some Glee account was like assessing what the different New Directions members' socioeconomic status is. Mercedes, Mercedes did we? I want to see this, I need to see and like, oh and then like, was it? Yeah, maybe it was someone else but I feel like maybe it was you that like brought up and it was like Puck was really like at the bottom or maybe this was on an episode and I wasn't on it but like I just remember why this is connecting.

[57:44] Claudia: Yeah, I don't know. I feel like I read it because I remember the, I remember reading like the explanations because Mercedes' dad is canonically a dentist.

[57:44] Abby: A dentist? Yeah.

[57:44] Claudia: No, like she has money.

[57:44] Abby: Yeah, so she that would make sense because those outfits are crazy.

[57:44] Claudia: They are and she's, you see her shoes, like come on, pull up the right. But I mean like I don't think that we can like even use the, we can't use the costumes as like forms of like it to test where what like tax bracket they're in because like with Marley it's like she's dressing crazy and like her entire bit is that she's poor.

[59:18] Abby: Well it's like my thought was not that route it was that like she has the, I don't know, like the time and materials and like sewing machine to just like be making clothes like there's a difference between, there's a difference between putting J. Crew labels on thrifted sweaters and sewing your own clothes if she's a, if she's designing her own clothes allegedly.

[59:40] Claudia: That's what my thought process was there.

[59:42] Abby: But I like that. And she had room to bring Quinn in her house.

[59:46] Claudia: That's good.

[59:47] Abby: Or maybe, I don't know, just be generous.

[59:50] Claudia: I think it's an interesting factor of it. I feel like this is all that's coming up with "I Look to You," Glycesser to Mike Licus.

[59:57] Abby: Is this the discourse?

[59:58] Claudia: This is very important.

[59:59] Abby: I don't know what everyone's thinking about that.

[1:00:01] Claudia: Everyone was thinking I was.

[1:00:03] Abby: Gowns, beautiful gowns.

[1:00:05] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:00:09] Abby: Um yeah, I don't really have much to say. I know I brought this up before. Sorry. Gotta talk.

[1:00:16] Claudia: If we're talking about the session, we kind of shocked that the hair.

[1:00:19] Abby: The hair looks really good. That's all I gotta say.

[1:00:21] Claudia: Like my hair's out of place. Sorry, guys, the set design in this performance.

[1:00:27] Abby: This is fucked up. She sounds good, but I think also the song is like below her vocal abilities almost.

[1:00:36] Claudia: Like in the beginning especially, like it sounds like she's really just, I don't know. It sounds like she's kind of, she took the day off because it's like, and she just sings a pretty, like, I don't know, fine. Her voice is great.

[1:00:52] Abby: Her worst days.

[1:00:53] Claudia: I hate to put like two beautiful girls against each other again.

[1:00:58] Abby: Always doing it.

[1:00:59] Claudia: But like it's coming up, it's coming up because like okay, with this episode, we get two more solos, which is a very rare occurrence.

[1:01:06] Abby: Right.

[1:01:07] Claudia: We get this, and we get "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Classic.

[1:01:10] Abby: For me, I'm while I'm watching this, same thing with "Mary's Little Boy Child." I'm like, I want that "Bridge Over Troubled Water," you know.

[1:01:14] Claudia: You know?

[1:01:18] Abby: I do, yeah, I do.

[1:01:19] Claudia: I get that one.

[1:01:21] Abby: So I don't know.

[1:01:25] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:01:28] Abby: She ate.

[1:01:29] Claudia: Keep going.

[1:01:30] Abby: Yeah.

[1:01:31] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:01:32] Abby: And she's just getting ready for that with this performance.

[1:01:34] Claudia: This is just a warm-up.

[1:01:35] Abby: I think that's true.

[1:01:36] Claudia: It really is just a warm-up for her, isn't it?

[1:01:38] Abby: Yeah.

[1:01:39] Claudia: Why do I feel like this?

[1:01:41] Abby: Go ahead.

[1:01:41] Claudia: Oh no. I was gonna say I'm liking these songs with religious context around the one time I requested that or manifested that or something.

[1:01:52] Abby: It's like we had Kitty's thing for religious identity.

[1:01:58] Claudia: They do that like a bunch.

[1:01:59] Abby: I like it.

[1:02:01] Claudia: Um legal note with this performance. Regality we got one against "Leaving on a Jet Plane."

[1:02:09] Abby: Wolo from the pilot.

[1:02:11] Claudia: Oh no, just context for that one doesn't really move me.

[1:02:15] Abby: What's going on?

[1:02:16] Claudia: No.

[1:02:18] Abby: Um it's about "I Look to You." Uh it's towards the lower side of my solo choices.

[1:02:29] Claudia: I'm never really like, oh, let me look, let me listen to "I Look to You." And we're like, let me listen to "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

[1:02:36] Abby: That's exactly what I'm saying.

[1:02:39] Claudia: Where I'm like before we even watch this performance, I'm like, I feel like I bring up this as a Mercello that I'm like not reaching for.

[1:02:47] Abby: Like this is a Mercella just top of mind of like meh, I'm sorry, meh solo.

[1:02:54] Claudia: Um but I don't, yeah, it kind of, I feel validated.

[1:03:00] Abby: I also think I feel like that's okay. Like, you know, it's okay to have a beautiful girl who has certain moments that are more wowza than others.

[1:03:09] Claudia: I think that's valid.

[1:03:11] Abby: Thanks. I think in general it's like good, but it's not the best of her work. But like it still sounds good, but what's the...

[1:03:14] Claudia: No one?

[1:03:18] Abby: What I feel so sorry to y'all. Because I feel like this is now like the fourth song where it's like no one's thinking about these.

[1:03:29] Claudia: I definitely sometimes, but let's see.

[1:03:34] Abby: What season?

[1:03:35] Claudia: Yeah, what season?

[1:03:36] Abby: Season six.

[1:03:38] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:03:39] Abby: I don't know why I'm kind of like feeling the love for season six after listening to the most recent episode.

[1:03:45] Claudia: Because again, as I'm actively watching the back half of season five, I'm like, it's all over. We're not coming back from this.

[1:03:54] Abby: And six is not original, like that's good. It's not juice of the original, but it of the original like three seasons, but it's insane in a way that I love.

[1:04:05] Claudia: Like it's all crazy batshit. Like the writers are doing something insane.

[1:04:10] Abby: They give, they in the will again, which what the, what they should have done.

[1:04:14] Claudia: That half of season five makes me want to pull my eyes out. I swear to god.

[1:04:18] Abby: So they're just those, it's so bad. And some people enjoy it, but yeah, it's like I don't know, like it's not gagging me, it's not gagging me at all.

[1:04:25] Claudia: It's giving like, it's giving ABC Family derogatory, derogatory, like, where's the drama?

[1:04:31] Abby: I'm sorry to you, Andrew. Too many boys, not enough girlies.

[1:04:33] Claudia: Too many boys.

[1:04:34] Abby: Sorry, Andrew.

[1:04:35] Claudia: Oh, I'm so sorry, Andrew.

[1:04:36] Abby: I, yeah, you because I really rise from my own gender, you know me.

[1:04:42] Claudia: Like it's too like where are the baddies?

[1:04:44] Abby: Whoa.

[1:04:45] Claudia: Um this performance you're talking about cuckoo crazy um season six. This is probably cuckoo crazy, the most cuckoo crazy episode of the entire damn series.

[1:04:57] Abby: We're talking Hurt Locker.

[1:04:59] Claudia: I'm thinking Hurt Locker. And we already know what this is.

[1:05:03] Abby: I could have sworn we've killed this one already, but guys.

[1:05:07] Claudia: You would think but here she is.

[1:05:10] Abby: Wait, stop. Love her a little bit.

[1:05:12] Claudia: I love this song.

[1:05:13] Abby: Wait, I've already, I already love this.

[1:05:22] ♪ Musical number: "A Thousand Miles" — performed by Abby ♪

[1:07:39] Claudia: Okay. Right, right.

[1:07:41] Abby: Right, right.

[1:07:42] Claudia: Questions. I have a few questions.

[1:07:43] Abby: She has questions.

[1:07:45] Claudia: Ask 'em.

[1:07:45] Abby: Right.

[1:07:46] Claudia: One. Do they get kicked off the Paramount lot? Because why are they filming in such random locations for all these random ass songs?

[1:07:55] Abby: Were they on Paramount?

[1:07:57] Claudia: No, that's just LA.

[1:07:59] Abby: But like that's the music video.

[1:08:02] Claudia: I don't care. Because I was just thinking about the like suddenly see more video also. Where it's just this is part of why some elements of season six don't feel as much like Glee because they're on all these weird locations to me.

[1:08:13] Abby: Yeah, it's like so.

[1:08:14] Claudia: This has been Lima the entire time.

[1:08:16] Abby: Yeah, exactly.

[1:08:17] Claudia: They have beautiful green parkour lakes.

[1:08:21] Abby: Yeah.

[1:08:22] Claudia: Ugh.

[1:08:22] Abby: Hmm.

[1:08:23] Claudia: This is Scenic Lima, Ohio.

[1:08:26] Abby: My other question is um, did they dye Cord Overstreet's hair just to make me uncomfortable with this brunette on brunette pairing because I previously was uncomfortable with the blonde on blonde pairings?

[1:08:41] Claudia: And so I'm wondering if they did this on purpose to piss you off specifically.

[1:08:45] Abby: Yeah, to me.

[1:08:46] Claudia: Personal attack.

[1:08:47] Abby: That's personally feel a little weird.

[1:08:49] Claudia: It's terrible.

[1:08:49] Abby: Um good. Those are my questions, really.

[1:08:53] Claudia: Do you not like when people of the same hair color date each other?

[1:08:58] Abby: No, I find specifically, I specifically have problem with blonde on blonde heterosexual couples.

[1:09:03] Abby: There's something deeply wrong with that.

[1:09:06] Claudia: Or blonde, to be honest.

[1:09:08] Abby: Yeah, mostly blonde and blonde. There's just something really eerie about it to me.

[1:09:11] Claudia: Um not like a it's not like I don't have a real value judgment about it besides the fact that it's a little bit off.

[1:09:19] Abby: Like there's just something not right about that.

[1:09:20] Claudia: Yeah, I think I I I am I'm right behind you. Blonde people, there's something about them that just really gets me like I'm so confused.

[1:09:29] Abby: Yeah, blonde hair confuses me in general because some parts are like a darker blonde, but then other parts are like a lighter blonde, but like it's all apparently like natural and from their head, and it's like, oh, the sun changes the color of my hair. You fucking liar. Stop fucking lying to me.

[1:09:42] Claudia: Guess what? A lot of time things are not true.

[1:09:43] Abby: Yeah, yeah. Something's off here, and I don't get it.

[1:09:47] Claudia: I don't understand it. And then on top of that, it's just like they always give like in any in any type of um form, whether it's two guys, two girls, uh the head of road, whatever what it is, whatever it is.

[1:09:58] Abby: I'm so scared, and I turn the other way. So scared, and then I'm so scared.

[1:10:02] Claudia: No, I was gonna say it's probably also an element of like siblings or dating, but like that's not even the issue to me. I don't know what it is. There's just I don't know.

[1:10:10] Abby: How do you find each other in this way?

[1:10:11] Claudia: Right. Because I feel like, yeah, I don't who like I feel like I don't even know that many blonde people. So it's like if you're finding another blonde person that you're compatible with, you're looking for that a little bit.

[1:10:23] Abby: Yeah, it's like, oh, you're trying to like and let's not get into that.

[1:10:25] Claudia: Yeah, right, right. Because like it kind of like brings up like the um, I'm looking for a guy in finance, six five blue eyes that I'm like, oh, I understand what it is. I know what it's about. I know what we're talking about. I know I'm clocking your tea tea clog.

[1:10:43] Abby: And mind you, oh I I'm gonna say I don't know if this is scientifically true or not, but I'm pretty sure blonde hair and like blue eyes, like and like in the genetic code is a mutation, like it's a mutation that has just like this, like it's just a big thing.

[1:10:55] Claudia: Wait, now you're calling them mutants.

[1:11:01] Abby: It wasn't part of the it wasn't part of the original plot. That's all I'm saying. It just came out of the way.

[1:11:05] Claudia: These blonde hair, blue eyed leaks are gonna be like, what?

[1:11:11] Abby: I'm really excited to have this platform to s to say this. I actually also okay, nitty gritty of it all. I don't have a problem with blonde women, I don't find that as disturbing. Blonde men, I'm sorry, like it doesn't matter what your pairing is. If you're a blonde man, I don't trust you.

[1:11:25] Claudia: I don't there's something that's really wrong. Like, I have more issue with a man being blonde, even more issue than two blondes together. Like, I don't know, it's just something it's just not right.

[1:11:36] Abby: It's not right. It's not right, but it's okay.

[1:11:39] Claudia: But it's it's also not okay.

[1:11:42] Abby: It's not super okay. It's fine, I guess.

[1:11:44] Claudia: For legal reasons, it's uh it's okay.

[1:11:45] Abby: For legal reasons, are is Samchel okay? How do we feel about them?

[1:11:48] Claudia: You don't even I don't even know why you just asked me that question because now because now because now I gotta really get into it because I just gotta get mad.

[1:11:56] Abby: Uh oh I'll leave we don't have to we don't have to no talk about it I didn't talk about the Leona Glee podcast for once no because I don't want to I don't want to I want to talk about blog like listen same will have the opportunity to be cute you know it had the opportunity if they hadn't made it be like a Mercedes is giving up like Sam like if it was just like Sam is pursuing like even if if they left out the Mercedes of that storyline where San Mercedes is trying to like you know like fix Rachel's life for her and the romantic department and the and the work department and the this that and like ah oh they're good friends like that's what friends do but point like period when has Rachel really ever done that for Mercedes it's literally just plot device I don't like the show I'm doing that you could have picked somebody else bring Quinn back I don't care but I don't like that it's Mercedes because Rachel would rather throw her down the door in front of a bus than spend her down the door in front of a bus.

[1:12:56] Claudia: Right in front of a bus than do that.

[1:12:58] Abby: Wait what are you quoting when you say that I I I made that up I don't even you immediately quoted it back okay yeah because I thought it was funny oh I thought that was outside of an in-joke okay okay sorry sorry sorry no I just find Abby to be funny and quotable.

[1:12:58] Claudia: Oh thank you I think the same for the record wait more more compliment battle compliment battle um and so like listen I think it was a bit of a drag I don't think Rachel would at that point throw her in front of a bus at that point of season six but I do think Rachel would not have really spent as much time and care for multiple episodes being like you have to get your groove back and like literally like Mercedes sitting down telling Sam I need you to fix her heart well what are you talking like that's like it's just it's insulting to me that they would even put this into like just have Sue manipulate and hypnotize this boy yeah being into Rachel like that would be just as fun that part's funny like that part's funny that part's fun but like it's always some it's always it's always getting on my soapbox there's always somebody else giving something up for Rachel.

[1:14:02] Abby: It's always about her benefit and like whatever main character this that and the third but personally I don't give a fuck I don't care because it happens too much and I'm over it by that time I'm literally it's it's making me dry heave derogatory because sometimes I dry heave in like a good complimentary way but this it it makes me feel so uncomfortable it makes me like I love baby it's you but it should not have been used in that context and it frustrates me baby it's you is oh I just want to quickly say baby it's you is kind of like on the same level of I look to you when a Marcello being like okay are we are we doing this right now this is no I have trouble with baby too because I think I do like it but I don't care about the context so but the dresses the dresses are so yes and the bee no I learned the movements because the movings are easy to follow like it's a supreme moment like hello and then like hello no but yeah that's my qualm about Sam show because I feel like and also just something makes me feel icky icky because I just feel like Sam becomes like a fin 2.0 to me and because so that makes my stomach like growl in like a derogatory way as well.

[1:15:16] Claudia: Sometimes it grows in a good way.

[1:15:18] Abby: I don't know. And you know because you know that's dinner time.

[1:15:22] Claudia: It's not dinner time this is not eating, and I'm not eating it up so no I think it's not dinner time.

[1:15:28] Abby: I do think that Sam Sam and like I don't think they're like because I know there are some people who enjoy them a lot, but I think that if I was to enjoy them, it'd only be in like a like a he's there to like fix her. Like he's never gonna be a permanent man in her life. He's just there as like a they like help heal each other, but like they're never meant to be, you know.

[1:15:48] Claudia: That's how I feel about Sam Chill.

[1:15:50] Abby: Thank you for those things. I'm gonna say something quick about um the the Sam Chill Sam Sadies of it all. Okay, bringing it back to season three into season four. New Rachel, they completely forget that Sam Sadies even happened for like literally that entire season.

[1:16:07] Claudia: Right.

[1:16:08] Abby: I almost would like if they did a callback to not referencing Sam Sadies the season before in season six, where it's like, oh we already did this before. Where it's like we had this big Sam Sadies plot the the season prior, but then when the new season starts, it's like these characters are not interacting, you know.

[1:16:30] Claudia: They've never met it, they never met to bring Mercedes in, and it's just like the industry.

[1:16:37] Abby: Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Ugh, yeah. It's they're so annoying.

[1:16:43] Claudia: It grinds like years, times two.

[1:16:43] Abby: Grinds them and it's grinded, they're being grinded.

[1:16:48] Claudia: There are no years left. It's just two circles now.

[1:16:51] Abby: They ground down, yeah.

[1:16:53] Claudia: They ground down.

[1:16:54] Abby: They ground down. That being said, this song is the song's kind of cute.

[1:16:59] Claudia: Yeah, cute.

[1:17:01] Abby: She's not touching me, she's not playing any of those keys at all.

[1:17:04] Claudia: No.

[1:17:05] Abby: So her face, she would not neither neither of their faces to me look like they could play the piano.

[1:17:10] Claudia: I don't know. Like, I just know I believe it. I don't think Sam could play the piano at all.

[1:17:16] Abby: Rachel definitely can't. She doesn't even know the difference between a white and a black key.

[1:17:20] Andrew: Okay, this is me, the host of a Glee podcast again asking the context of an episode of Glee that I should know. But the context is does Sam Chill learn piano in this episode from Blaine?

[1:17:35] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:17:35] Abby: Yeah. Well, is it I think Sam Rachel?

[1:17:38] Claudia: Yeah, I think Rachel has like oh my she's a tiny bit of bad.

[1:17:44] Abby: I thought that Rachel has like a goal. Like she's orienting herself towards some goals, and one of them is to learn how to play the piano or something.

[1:17:52] Claudia: Okay.

[1:17:53] Abby: I don't know. I might have made that up. Something that's something really significant.

[1:17:56] Claudia: I think it's just to like move the Sanchel a bit all forward.

[1:17:59] Abby: Boo. I'm tired. They're like, we really gotta sing thousand miles. Come on, we haven't gotten this in yet next to each other.

[1:19:00] Abby: I thought heroes. You like a hero.

[1:19:00] Claudia: We haven't got this in.

[1:19:00] Abby: We got thousand years, but we didn't get thousand miles. Come on.

[1:19:00] Claudia: Come on, done. Who's working here?

[1:19:00] Abby: I would.

[1:19:00] Claudia: Right.

[1:19:00] Abby: I would. I mean, I would.

[1:19:00] Claudia: I would not done.

[1:19:00] Abby: Not for those two. I'm not walking anywhere with those hoes.

[1:19:00] Claudia: Oh, sorry. Oh, I don't know what came out of here.

[1:19:00] Abby: Whoa. Whoa.

[1:19:00] Claudia: Um Little No again. I feel like this is where we're we're getting some. Again, I feel really bad about these the song selections this episode. I'm looking, I'm looking at them right now, and it's it's grim.

[1:19:00] Abby: Um and just to bring up what this uh won against in round one, it was in the Josh Sussman episode of round one. And this one against heroes by Blam.

[1:19:00] Claudia: Oh my god, you're just that just broke my heart.

[1:19:03] Claudia: I also would have voted for that over this. Oops.

[1:19:07] Abby: Listen, the best the best Samuel at the end of the day, even though I have my qualms with Samuel, they have some good duets. This not being the one that I go for because I'm watching this and I'm thinking of time after time, period. Time after time.

[1:19:17] Claudia: Time after time eats, time after slate. But I think Heroes was was Sam's better song there. I don't know.

[1:19:23] Abby: Sorry about that.

[1:19:27] Claudia: That's okay. Sorry, boy. Um do we have anything else to add to Thousand Miles before we vote?

[1:19:35] Abby: I kind of don't know what I'm gonna vote. This is kind of scary, you guys.

[1:19:47] Claudia: Um you know like that video of that the little girl that farts, and then she's like, did you guys hear that? I think that was a ghost. I'm getting really scared, you guys.

[1:20:01] Abby: That's kind of how I feel right now with I look to you versus a thousand miles. That's like kind of an stupid pairing, but also maybe good because it's hard.

[1:20:14] Claudia: Anybody feel confident?

[1:20:15] Abby: No. I mean I'll do the first one.

[1:20:19] Claudia: Go go go ahead.

[1:20:21] Abby: It's gonna be thousand miles for me.

[1:20:23] Claudia: I'll do the second one. It's gonna be I look to you for me.

[1:20:26] Abby: Oh no, yeah.

[1:20:28] Claudia: Oh no, boom, Claudia.

[1:20:31] Abby: Uh I was gonna I was gonna think it like talk it out a little bit. Uh in terms of interesting glee numbers, neither of them really are particularly memorable. Maybe the Sam Chuel has like kind of points for at least representing some major part of season six, but otherwise it could just kind of I mean like that the Sam Chill plot line happens.

[1:20:58] Claudia: But I look to you as kind of just what I don't know, just thrown in there.

[1:21:03] Abby: Uh this is hard. Does anyone want to convince me?

[1:21:08] Claudia: Um listen, you said you don't like two brunettes together. Why would you push your vote towards two brunettes?

[1:21:15] Abby: Um I my the reason I'm voting for I look to you is um I do I think that I think that on like if I had I would listen to a thousand miles, not the Glee Cuts version, but like the originals, I'd listen to a thousand miles more. It's just more fun to me.

[1:21:32] Claudia: I like to use a little a little more somber.

[1:21:34] Abby: Yeah. Talking about the Sam Chuel of it all and how they did Mercedes, it really just really just put the put I look to you on top. This is my revenge for what they've done to season in season six with Samchel. This is what they're doing.

[1:21:47] Claudia: Oh, this is Mercedes. This is getting my look back.

[1:21:50] Abby: And I'm gonna get my look back by voting for I look to you.

[1:21:53] Claudia: That was really good.

[1:21:54] Abby: That was really good, Doctor.

[1:21:56] Claudia: Thank you.

[1:21:58] Abby: When the doctor comes with good news.

[1:22:04] Claudia: Um I really I I feel like there's gonna be some thousanders uh that are gonna be really upset with me because I feel like I don't even have like a rallying cry that I can even like say for a thousand miles. Like it's kind of just like you get it or you don't, and I can't convince you otherwise, unfortunately.

[1:22:23] Abby: And you do get it?

[1:22:24] Claudia: And like I no, that is crazy because I feel like I also don't get it. But like it's like um because like what Abby just said what one of the things I feel like maybe I understood this correctly, Abby, like a thousand miles is is um a little bit more fun, it's a little bit more streamable, right?

[1:22:42] Abby: Um yeah, it's more I mean the originals, the originals. Like I'd reach for the original a thousand miles. I feel like a thousand miles has that like the factor of like, oh, everybody knows a thousand miles, you know?

[1:22:52] Abby: Yeah, so it's like a fun song to choose. So you just choose it because like it brings your function. When it plays in the club, everyone's going crazy. No one's going crazy for I Look to You in the club. Oh, and we go and play in the club. But what about it? Suddenly we're at the club. But what if we put it in the church? If you're in the church, you can't exactly go pretty hard to A Thousand Miles in church. Right. You'd be the only one, but maybe no, I don't think so. I don't think so. When you go to a Hillsong church, they're going crazy for I am not I'm not saying that I'm part of Hillsong. I understand that that's culty vibes. Some good vibes though. I might be able to go like sometimes the Hillsong maybe get me the Hillsong baddies. Like, oh, that's a good song. They tried to get me once, and I was like, Oh, wait, it kind of looks good on paper, but then I did my research.

[1:23:48] Claudia: Yeah, that's good to do that. Can we wait if you indulge actually in try to get no? This is crazy. Okay, because they came up to I this was like during college, and I was like eating alone at a Shake Shack, and these two girls came up to me, and like they were like, they were like, There's something about your vibe right now. Would love for you to come to our church on Sunday. And this is the first time that I ever heard of Hillsong. And I was like, wow, that's so nice. And I was like, I was really considering, and then I looked it up and then I understood the ramifications.

[1:24:21] Abby: That's awesome. That's awesome. Understanding the ramifications is awesome.

[1:24:25] Andrew: It is, it is. I unfortunately actually made my decision before you both started giving your excellent defenses. I vote Hillsong. I just remember what I had to say about each song.

[1:24:40] Claudia: Do you want to keep doing your defenses? I'm sorry.

[1:24:42] Abby: Uh, I again I really don't have one. Don't go. I don't think I have one. Someone might hate me for this, but I'm gonna go what I had to say about each song net positive for I Look to You because I'm talking about the outfits versus net negative about the brunettes. So I'm gonna go and cast a stupid decision, but it's actually rooted in not being that stupid because I want to do anything I can to preserve Mer Solos in round three, and that's just a strategic move. And maybe people will hate me for that, but that's what my heart's telling me.

[1:25:21] Claudia: No, because that little green little sweater, that little green jacket is like yeah, come on, and that statement necklace. Please don't forget about it. Don't forget about the hair.

[1:25:29] Abby: Yeah, it looks nice. Forget about it. Like, I'm gonna be look at the short machines. I saw some extras walking around in the hallway, and they were they look like they were having a really good time on set. I like that.

[1:25:46] Claudia: Um two really dumb competitions. I feel like maybe are we looking at maybe one final competition that is going to be weath projectile vomit is so hard. Yeah, or just at least a song that's really good and exciting to hear and watch.

[1:26:03] Andrew: Oh my, when you think of the most exciting song to watch from this series. Can we think about it? Exciting. Exciting. I have to see what's been happening. It's also. I mean, this would give it away. No, it's season one. It's also.

[1:26:25] Abby: Yeah. It's the longest song of the series.

[1:26:29] Claudia: Bo Rhapso?

[1:26:30] Abby: It is Bo Rhapso.

[1:26:32] Claudia: Oh, that's exciting.

[1:26:34] Andrew: Oh god. Here we go. Five minutes and fifty-two seconds. Everyone is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide. No escape from reality. Open your eyes. Look up to the skies and see. I'm just a poor boy. I need no sympathy.

[1:27:34] ♪ Musical number: "Bo Rhapso" — performed by Glee Cast ♪

[1:32:31] Andrew: Okay. Okay. Wow. That was a journey to reach. Wow. Whoa. Lots to unpack here.

[1:32:43] Abby: So much. Um Beth debut. Who has first note here?

[1:32:49] Claudia: Uh I I listen. Oh how do we even start with this? I don't even know.

[1:32:56] Andrew: Claudia, take it away.

[1:32:58] Claudia: Claudia has a notebook in front of her. I got my this is my journal. This is my personal diary journal, and that's where I'm taking these notes. Uh-huh. This is serious business.

[1:33:05] Abby: I can get it.

[1:33:07] Claudia: Um first I titled my note Bo Rhapso.

[1:33:12] Abby: That's a front runner for Title of App.

[1:33:15] Claudia: Yes. Bo Rhapso is really good. I'm contributing a lot. Um I think that's the best choreography in the series. I just like in every way. Like the way that the performers move is amazing, the way that they integrate Jesse as a soloist to all of the both the dance moves and having him do his own thing while there's also like more complicated choreo going on outside of I don't know, just like the vocal performance, then the just the choreo, the choreography of the scene of the way that the scene itself is integrated into the performance, and vice versa. I want to know who was the director of this episode because I don't know off the top of my head.

[1:34:00] Abby: Ooh, that's a great question. It might be Ryan.

[1:34:04] Claudia: I feel like this does feel like a Ryan.

[1:34:06] Abby: Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Let me see really quick. Um, do we have Jesus Christ? Oh, this episode was written and directed by Brad Falchuk.

[1:34:20] Claudia: Brad Falch. I guess this is Mr. Gwyneth, Mr. Goopy.

[1:34:26] Abby: Um while you're talking about the choreography, because I went to the I I'm on the Glee Wiki right now. Hey guys, I'm on the Glee Wiki right now.

[1:34:33] Claudia: He's on it.

[1:34:34] Abby: And I'm logged in. Because I went to the Bo Rhapso page because I knew that there would be some fun facts here. And sure enough, these facts are fun. Oh, this first one actually isn't fun, but it's connected to the choreography note that you were saying. The choreography was very grueling for the dancers. One sprained her ankle, one got a concussion, one broke her finger, one did a head whip into the steady cam, and Jonathan Groff was injured during rehearsal, receiving a five-inch scar on his bicep from his dance partner's stiletto.

[1:35:09] Claudia: Holy fuck. That's crazy.

[1:35:10] Abby: That adds up.

[1:35:12] Claudia: Wow. It does add up. I mean, I I guys, I think it was worth it.

[1:35:16] Abby: I mean, I second that. I'm like, I don't know anything for art question mark. Just kidding. He lost 10 pounds during this performance.

[1:35:22] Claudia: Um I this, I mean, I forgot what I was gonna say. I'm just so flabbergasted by it all. I mean, so good. What did she say? I forgot what she said.

[1:35:34] Abby: Maybe about because like just the story is so smart, the writing is so smart, the directing is so smart. I think it's also like a major because I know Claudia, you're a big fan of the stupid points. I feel as though Bo Rhapso has the biggest stupid points of the entire series without looking at a list of stupid points. But like doing Bo Rhapso, which is like on paper, one of like that's like biggest song of all time. To do that intertwined with the climax of this season long pregnancy plot line. She's giving birth during Bo Rhapso questions about that. The choreography is mimicking crowning birth, like you suck, you suck, you suck. Let me go while she's giving birth. What context would she be saying that? I've never given birth, but why would what would compel you to say that?

[1:36:35] Claudia: No, because look, and like I don't want to be doing it anymore. Let me go.

[1:36:41] Abby: I'm done.

[1:36:42] Claudia: She's done.

[1:36:43] Abby: No, because I this spoke to me specifically because I'm on like Gyne OB rotation. So I've seen some births. I've seen them. Oh my lord. And it's like the let me go. Like, I mean, sometimes some people are alone, some people like, and don't have family. Some people have family there, and their family is just like, I mean, imagine like they would have like the pressure of the world literally coming out of you. And people are like, just breathe, just breathe. And you're just like, Oh my god, oh, but you're not giving birth to this child, like, and you're getting so annoyed. And so when they're trying to hold your hand or hold you back, you're like, let me go. Like, don't fucking touch me. And it's also just like it's so it's so such a tiring, like it's such a tiring process.

And like this, and here you have dirty Puck in the background, just like licky in the room. He's both me personally, I don't know. And so I'm like, everything like the crowning part, and then it's like Jesse's like crowning the like the let me go, um, the like the climax of like rushing, we're rushing, we're rushing. She's quite I mean, uh realistically, um, her label would have been a lot longer. Um, than what we're seeing. Like, I don't think that's the club. You know, five minutes and 55 seconds, I think. Yeah, oh take a lot longer to have a baby to have a baby. I don't think it takes 10 minutes.

[1:38:00] Claudia: Also, it's always bothered me when is regionals in season one? Because if it's in like what?

[1:38:10] Abby: Yes.

[1:38:11] Claudia: When is it? Because it's at the end of the year, which would make sense because that would be nine months, I would hope, or eight months at least. At least 37 weeks. But if we're doing it by but the other seasons where it's like in January, February, she's like five months. She's not a healthy baby. It looks like she's at least like seven. That's not a healthy baby. That's a creamy. That baby's not a preview. That baby's baked. That baby's fully baked. So when when is regionals in season one? She's done the up. She's out the uh she's ready. Right. She's ready for the oven.

[1:38:42] Abby: I think that like Brad, Mr. Goopy, Mr. Koopy himself has responded to that exact fact before. Where like he was like, hey, the other day, like people were tweeting me. Um like happy birthday to Beth, and like it's not actually her birthday. Her birthday is actually ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. And I'm just like the the the answer that he gave, I need to look it up because I don't even know the facts what he said and what he was saying. I know for certain didn't make any sense though. The cliques are a little bit more tuned in. I can tell you that much. The cliques are talking nonsense. I know that you can know what he said. 100%. The cliques are always a few steps ahead of that guy.

[1:39:22] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:39:22] Abby: Right.

[1:39:23] Claudia: Oh, yeah.

[1:39:27] Abby: I know when Beth's birthday is.

[1:39:29] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:39:30] Abby: I'm keeping it close to my chest.

[1:39:34] Claudia: Nunya.

[1:39:35] Abby: Nunya, Brad Salchuck. I'm not gonna let you know. Do your damn job, Brad.

[1:39:42] Claudia: That's an ultimatum.

[1:39:43] Abby: Yeah. Um, yeah. This is this is there's so many moments. Quinn Sadies. I mean, they're married. Hello. She's always reached for her hand, not for dirty Puck's. She's saying she's like puzzling. Dirty Puck. I want you to wash those hands. I need you to wash those damn hands. They made him scrub in like three times, like a still dirty, try again. Still dirty. Do it one more time. Right. I wonder, like, I'm like, did I don't know if Diana ever submitted for like an Emmy at any point. But like she's saying, you know what's so funny Go Let me go. I have a legal note in response. Is that I feel like I learned this through Recovering Gleek is that they talked about how both Leah and Diana submitted themselves for lead actress during season one.

[1:40:32] Claudia: Oh fuck.

[1:40:33] Abby: Which I think is so funny to consider that Diana was like crazy. Well, I mean, like it really was Diana Heavy, obviously during season one, but she wasn't the lead. Hell no. I mean when I'm losing in my university. You could have been the best actor on the show, the best actress on the show, but you were not the lead. Like supporting supporting girl. I mean that's why it didn't work out, but I mean that that performance alone is like it's like really good. I can really like I really get the vibe of I'm giving birth. Like yeah, it's really giving birth.

[1:41:08] Claudia: It's giving me giving birth.

[1:41:10] Abby: It's getting no epidural. Like it's like she's uh she's she's she's really I don't know, where's her reward? I mean, I mean it's her own fault. Why would you you in what world are you lead? Well sorry. I'll let you I'll let you believe that. Um figure it out. Yeah. I think this should be considered this is cinema though. It is this should be a a considered a Quessie duet. We can guys like that.

[1:41:34] Claudia: I agree.

[1:41:35] Abby: Not questy.

[1:41:41] Claudia: It sounds so insane when you say it for some reason.

[1:41:44] Abby: It sounds like um you're saying like croissant.

[1:41:51] Claudia: Um but is no one I feel like we're really obviously talking mad praise about this song, which it deserves. Um, but have we considered that we haven't pulled the last song of the episode and is anybody scared? Because I'm scared. Um I literally thought the other day that I was like, I don't know what came over me. But I was like, what if the competition was Bo Rhapso versus my man? And honestly, I don't know what I'm voting for there.

[1:42:20] Abby: I do.

[1:42:20] Claudia: I'm deaf to five day. She eats that song. She eats that song up. But I'm sorry, Bo Rhapso is is a task that and he he ate the task up.

[1:42:33] Abby: Yeah.

[1:42:34] Claudia: He did. Six minutes versus two. I don't know.

[1:42:36] Abby: Sure. I wrote in my damn journal that this might actually like be the best song on Glee. Like we can get into that after this competition happens, but like no, let's talk about it. I mean, like, what what do we think? Like, how far is Bo Rhapso going and what would it take to bring this girl down?

[1:42:54] Claudia: Honestly, I don't I think listen, I think I think I feel like she'll get close to to winning. I feel like she'll be in the top and top 20. But I think that I think I don't know. It could win it all. It could win it all, or it could come really quick.

[1:43:17] Abby: Oh, I'm sorry. I think sentimental value is very happy. Oh, sorry, sentimental value is like like it's really important to me. Yeah. Like if I had to choose between somebody that loves season one versus Bo Rhapso, even though technically like Bo Rhapso season one is a better performance. My heart strings are pulling towards the the somebody to love.

[1:43:35] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:43:36] Abby: I I think that's what it misses and also it having like a I mean not that Jesse isn't like a lot of people's I don't know I actually don't know it's a lot of who's a lot of people's fan favorites but I feel like the lackers yeah I feel like that there's a lot of lack of um representation of like people's favorites in this song and the and the sentimentality points takes it away but like in terms of I I really had I think especially recently have more of an appreciation for songs that have like pieces of story woven into it whether that be dialogue or something like this which isn't even dialogue but I think that helps a lot in terms of I don't know just making it stick out in these competitions but and it has Quinn representation like if it was like another rando character being like giving an Oscar Ruby performance that would be less points but since it's her it's more points even though it's not like one of my favorites singing anything.

[1:44:38] Claudia: Because we love that girl we love that we love Quinn for Bray.

[1:44:42] Abby: Yeah even if she says I think Quinn for Bray is a complex character. Quinn is so comp Quinfui sorry Quinn for Quincy Quay Say Quise. I'm giving you a lot of good title material. I know wait I feel like you said something earlier that I was like, we didn't acknowledge.

[1:45:03] Claudia: Oh, really?

[1:45:03] Abby: I thought I had like there was technology three things.

[1:45:06] Claudia: Yeah, there was you're you're yeah thank you so much. Um are we are we ready to pull the last song? I'm excited. This is I'm I'm excited. I feel vindicated from the first four. The first looking at it right now, just in case you're you're tuning in right now. Um the first four songs of this episode. Well, the all the songs in order were Mary's Little Boy Child, Endless Love, I Look to You, Thousand Miles, and then Bo Rhapso. Just to call the score right now.

[1:45:43] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:45:44] Abby: I almost feel like people are gonna be mad about our decisions on the mid-offs. Like, I feel like since they're so mid, people might be like, no. Yeah, those those songs seem to have shooters. I would feel like they have those one shooters that would be a little perplexed by our decisions, but I'm sorry. I think I get it out.

[1:46:00] Claudia: No, I'm waiting for like one.

[1:46:05] Abby: Oh which one did you really grab?

[1:46:08] Claudia: Oh, well, I mean, like, two came out. I chose one without looking at either. And it's another season one song.

[1:46:16] Abby: Okay, okay, but your reaction's giving out a yeah, he's not seeming excited.

[1:46:21] Claudia: I know, I'm trying to I try to play cool. I try to play close to my chest, and then it's okay.

[1:46:26] Abby: It's okay. Um, I know you're you're not gonna get this. We're looking at uh we're looking at John Locke uh on the drums. Yes, it's this do you have it, Abby?

[1:46:37] Claudia: Is it is it?

[1:46:39] Abby: Is this give you wait oh give you hell?

[1:46:42] Claudia: It is gives you hell.

[1:46:43] Abby: How crazy I don't know how I'm gonna include it in the carousel, but I need like a suit. I I'll do it like a little super cut. This is crazy. That'd be insane, Alright. Uh wake up every evening with a big smile on my face, and it never feels out of place. When you see my face, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell. And where's that shiny car? You never seem so tense, love. I never seen you fall so hard. And truth be told, I miss you. And truth be told, I'm lying. When you see my face, hope it gives you hell, it gives you hell. When you walk my way, hope it gives you hell, but gives you hell. If you find a man that's worth the damn and treats you well, then he's a fool. You're just as well for gives you hell.

No, you'll never see what you've done to me. You can take back your memories that now go to me. And here's all your lies. You can look me in the eyes with that sad, sad look that you wear so when you see my face, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell. When you walk my way, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell. Maybe the damn best worth the day I've seen you well that needs a food up just as well that gives you hell you see my face, hope it gives you hell, but gives you hell. When you walk my well but gives you hell up it gives you hell when you hear this song and say along you never tell you a fool I'm just as well if it gives you hell when you hear this song I hope that it will give you hell You can sing along I hope that it will see you well Yup that's family that's family This is my family like that's that's family right there.

[1:49:14] Claudia: That's family, even quick quit and puffy and gross. I'm so glad I'm so glad they got rid of that deleted scene where Puck is supposed to be like or Puck and Quinn are like announcing to the club like yeah, we're the officially we're officially an item. I'm so glad they deleted that. I would have had to swallow like nail clippers if I oh yeah, you'd have to be it was like that scene would play in the episode and then like it would become like a little pop-up would come up and be like, please swallow your nail clipper. We just have to have like a piss me off, like oh my god, it's disgusting gross. But this is the song is so fun, it's so fun. And the behind the scenes are even funner. You guys see in the behind the scenes.

Wait, what's the behind the scenes with us? The behind they're they're shooting the song, and like um Dejan and like uh Amber and like I think people like Jenna and Heather and maybe not are like are like in the corner and they're like dancing and they're like, I forgot what they're what they're singing, and like in the corner, uh Oliah and Diane are just looking at them like what are you doing? Um but it's very fun, it's very cute.

[1:50:28] Abby: It's uh it's a b-roll, it's not even a behind the scenes, it's like a ball, it's like one of the b-rolls. I'll send it to you.

[1:50:33] Claudia: Yeah, I think it's sweet. I the song makes me feel like oh man, season one and family. I miss them, I miss my children.

[1:50:40] Abby: Um, but also like they're all so pretty.

[1:50:42] Claudia: How's that?

[1:50:43] Abby: Um well, I mean, that was really like a couple of people, but but you know, they're all so pretty.

[1:50:49] Claudia: Dirty puck.

[1:50:49] Abby: Also, none of them can stand on business.

[1:50:51] Claudia: None of them can stand on business because they were dirty looks, and now all of a sudden you're dancing with them.

[1:50:58] Abby: Like, can you stand on like what do you really feel? Can you just stand on business?

[1:51:01] Claudia: I don't even know what that means.

[1:51:02] Abby: Can you be for real?

[1:51:03] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:51:03] Abby: I agree. They shouldn't, they it's not believable that they would all be hyping her up that hard specifically.

[1:51:10] Claudia: Britanna providing the background backing vocals.

[1:51:15] Abby: Let me let me speak a little bit on that because there was a drag queen that I saw perform maybe like two weeks ago.

[1:51:25] Abby: This song.

[1:51:31] Claudia: During your brat summer during your breath during during my brat summer.

[1:51:34] Abby: This is wild. I don't like when drag queens do this when they they sing.

[1:51:41] Claudia: They have a back for real.

[1:51:43] Abby: They have yeah, there's there's one drag queen that has done this with a few different songs where they'll have like the the backtrack playing and then they'll sing it live, and I'm like, oh, I didn't I didn't come here for this.

[1:51:59] Abby: But it was this song, and the backtrack, I was like, I was like really listening.

[1:52:08] Abby: And I was like, this isn't the backtrack of all American rejects. This I know you.

[1:52:13] Abby: This is I'm I'm hearing, I mean, the not Bertana, whoever they are, doing it the choir from Say a Little Prayer.

[1:52:13] Claudia: Right.

[1:52:13] Abby: The choir.

[1:52:22] Claudia: That's the choir from Say a Little Prayer doing the backing the backing vocals here.

[1:52:27] Abby: Um that's the first thing that I did when I when I left that uh that show that I was like, I need to listen to the uh the instrumental, you know, to ensure this.

[1:52:38] Abby: And surely enough, I was correct.

[1:52:39] Claudia: So right.

[1:52:41] Abby: So that's that's an ear.

[1:52:42] Claudia: He has an ear on him.

[1:52:43] Abby: But I gotta say, this song doesn't really do much for me.

[1:52:46] Claudia: Uh take about clears, take about clears.

[1:52:50] Abby: Why are you comparing Take A Bow?

[1:52:51] Claudia: Well, because they're both songs that I think that Rachel should have never done.

[1:52:56] Abby: But like Take A Bow. I mean, I have my I I think I've talked about it. I it's one of my guilty pleasure songs.

[1:53:01] Abby: It's so bad that it's I love her.

[1:53:06] Claudia: So dumb right now.

[1:53:08] Abby: In the same in the same overpronunciation way she does this with Gives You Hell.

[1:53:13] Abby: I'm never really, really, ever gonna really stream it because the original is just too much, it's just so good that all American rejects having they're they're really eating it.

[1:53:24] Claudia: And I'm I'm sorry, Rachel. I'm only watching for the the the stalk factor having fun, but like I'm not really here for her vocals.

[1:53:34] Abby: I don't really get too much about that part.

[1:53:36] Claudia: Um Gives You Hell, All American Rejects version is the first song that I ever downloaded on my iTunes library.

[1:53:42] Abby: It's so beautiful.

[1:53:44] Claudia: So it does have like a little bit of sentimentality, but the original version, yeah.

[1:53:49] Abby: Yeah, I when I I okay.

[1:53:52] Abby: In all transparency. I started and almost completed the Rolo exercise.

[1:53:57] Claudia: Uh-huh.

[1:53:58] Abby: But then I got Rolo fatigue.

[1:54:00] Claudia: Right.

[1:54:01] Abby: A little bit after Let It Go in the playlist. I was like, I don't know if I can keep doing it.

[1:54:05] Claudia: You have a little bit more to go.

[1:54:07] Abby: I'm really close.

[1:54:09] Abby: But when I was doing the exercise, uh, gives you hell is pretty high up.

[1:54:12] Abby: And I think a big part of it is the nostalgia factor and the fact that the original song is so fun.

[1:54:17] Claudia: Um but I like Gives You Hell as one of my like token choir room rollos from an early season.

[1:54:26] Abby: So I'm she carries more weight for me than for you two.

[1:54:31] Claudia: Do you can we can we put a number on her yet?

[1:54:34] Abby: I mean, where yeah, where is she on the phone?

[1:54:37] Claudia: Can we guess what a number is?

[1:54:38] Abby: Oh you can you can guess.

[1:54:39] Claudia: I think that's this might be inaccurate, but is it top?

[1:54:43] Abby: It's not top ten.

[1:54:44] Claudia: Um it is.

[1:54:46] Abby: Oh.

[1:54:47] Claudia: What?

[1:54:48] Abby: It is top ten.

[1:54:50] Claudia: You're saying it is right now?

[1:54:51] Abby: I have her insanely at four, but that's not right.

[1:54:55] Claudia: Four?

[1:54:55] Abby: Oh yeah, it's not right.

[1:54:56] Claudia: It's not right, guys.

[1:54:58] Abby: It's not possible because it I see that it's already at five and six should be higher than four.

[1:55:03] Claudia: So like five and six should be higher than uh maybe feel my love and to love you more.

[1:55:09] Abby: Whoa.

[1:55:10] Claudia: Crazy.

[1:55:10] Abby: It's crazy pants.

[1:55:13] Claudia: This isn't right.

[1:55:13] Abby: I have to finish the Rolo exercise despite the fatigue.

[1:55:20] Claudia: I don't know.

[1:55:21] Abby: Like literally put it as number four.

[1:55:23] Claudia: I don't really know.

[1:55:24] Abby: I I mean the nostalgia was working for me.

[1:55:26] Claudia: I'm I don't know.

[1:55:27] Abby: I really liked it, but I think that's that's just not right.

[1:55:30] Claudia: It's not right, nor okay.

[1:55:31] Abby: Nor.

[1:55:32] Claudia: I'll I'll adjust, but it it carries weight for me.

[1:55:36] Abby: I don't like it.

[1:55:36] Claudia: It's fun, it's fun.

[1:55:37] Abby: Despite the metrics that are obviously off.

[1:55:40] Claudia: Ignore the metrics, please.

[1:55:41] Abby: Look past it.

[1:55:42] Claudia: I'm not a doctor.

[1:55:43] Abby: I'm not wait, neither am I.

[1:55:44] Claudia: Who is?

[1:55:45] Abby: Who's Dr.

[1:55:46] Claudia: Will Schuster?

[1:55:48] Abby: Um Bill Schuster.

[1:55:49] Claudia: Dr.

[1:55:50] Abby: Bill.

[1:55:51] Claudia: Okay.

[1:55:52] Abby: Um, I don't know.

[1:55:56] Claudia: When I think of Hello, Hello is not an episode that really stands out to me.

[1:56:01] Abby: Hello, I feel, and this is like weird because like I watched season one when it was all complete.

[1:56:08] Abby: Like I watched the season one box set, like whatever.

[1:56:11] Abby: That was all in one go.

[1:56:12] Claudia: But I remember feeling after watching sectionals, I was like, whoa, I love that episode.

[1:56:16] Abby: We're going right into hello.

[1:56:18] Claudia: And hello doesn't like there's something weird.

[1:56:22] Abby: It doesn't taste right.

[1:56:23] Claudia: That like it's introducing Jesse kind of out of nowhere.

[1:56:27] Abby: I don't know.

[1:56:28] Claudia: Maybe.

[1:56:29] Abby: I don't I don't even think it's that.

[1:56:31] Claudia: There's just like something weird about it.

[1:56:32] Abby: There's something something shifted.

[1:56:34] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:56:35] Abby: And maybe it's something shift.

[1:56:37] Claudia: I think something shifts from like that first 1A to one to one B.

[1:56:41] Abby: Yeah.

[1:56:42] Claudia: And it's like it's hard because I like 1B a lot, but like that, like it's like kind of you gotta collect your bearings with hello, you know, and be like, whoa.

[1:56:50] Abby: Yeah.

[1:56:50] Claudia: Is this what we're doing now?

[1:56:51] Abby: Yeah.

[1:56:52] Claudia: Yeah, there's a there's a tonal shift.

[1:56:53] Abby: Tonal shift.

[1:56:55] Claudia: And also like I think that this is like they're finally allowed to do.

[1:57:00] Abby: I might be I might be like not correct with this, but they're finally allowed to do current songs, and gives you hell was a current song at the time.

[1:57:11] Claudia: That it's like they weren't filming the first 13 in a vacuum, you know?

[1:57:16] Abby: Oh yeah.

[1:57:18] Claudia: So like when you know, the the back half is like they're able to be like, oh, what's the hits?

[1:57:23] Abby: Because we're we're producing these episodes a little bit closer to release, you know.

[1:57:27] Claudia: Yeah, yeah.

[1:57:27] Abby: And gives you hell was that?

[1:57:29] Claudia: We care about the money streams, like we care about the music streams now.

[1:57:32] Abby: Let's get like what's the most positive.

[1:57:34] Claudia: We want to give you hell so you can give us money.

[1:57:37] Abby: Right.

[1:57:38] Claudia: Yes.

[1:57:39] Abby: Gives us.

[1:57:42] Claudia: We want to give us.

[1:57:43] Abby: We want you to give us money.

[1:57:48] Claudia: But yeah, I don't this does not do much for me.

[1:57:51] Abby: And I already know obviously how this competition's gonna end.

[1:57:53] Claudia: Yeah, but sorry.

[1:57:55] Abby: No, not even a pity vote.

[1:57:56] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:57:57] Abby: Are we doing the vote?

[1:57:59] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:58:00] Abby: Okay, we're doing the vote.

[1:58:01] Claudia: Yeah, I was gonna say last note about gives you.

[1:58:03] Abby: Oh, I was gonna say if I was Finn, I literally would have like, I would have ate shock.

[1:58:06] Claudia: Like, why are you singing this in front of the whole club?

[1:58:08] Abby: But they love doing that to each other, just like airing at each other's business.

[1:58:11] Claudia: Making it everybody's problem.

[1:58:12] Abby: Yeah.

[1:58:13] Claudia: I I personally I personally understand Finn in that episode where he's like, oh well, it's like kind of like Tucson, like I get it.

[1:58:19] Abby: Yeah.

[1:58:19] Claudia: Oh, like he just got out of a relationship.

[1:58:22] Abby: He he just got lied to about who he like he's not the father of this baby.

[1:58:26] Claudia: We thought he was the father of the baby that he got someone pride three via how he's going through some stuff.

[1:58:32] Abby: Understand, like, I don't think he's a bad guy for being like LOL.

[1:58:35] Claudia: No, I do think he's a little shady for them to be like, oh yes, I do want to be with you.

[1:58:39] Abby: But you know, like what's going on?

[1:58:41] Claudia: But I think I think like I don't know, I get Finn Hudson sometimes.

[1:58:45] Abby: And yeah, that's just all I have to say.

[1:58:47] Claudia: He's just a guy, he's just a guy sometimes, so to speak.

[1:58:51] Abby: Allegedly.

[1:58:52] Claudia: Allegedly.

[1:58:53] Abby: I think that's fact at this point.

[1:58:55] Claudia: Um canon.

[1:58:57] Abby: It's canon.

[1:58:57] Claudia: Finn is just a guy.

[1:59:00] Abby: Um I don't mean that in a gender way, I just mean that in like a value.

[1:59:03] Claudia: Like he's just he's just a guy.

[1:59:04] Abby: He's simply like literally the defin like the definition of just a guy.

[1:59:10] Claudia: Well, when it comes down to this damn vote, I'm going bo rap, so I'm going bo rapso.

[1:59:10] Abby: I'm going bo.

[1:59:16] Claudia: I'm about to go so bo rapso.

[1:59:19] Abby: It's not even funny.

[1:59:21] Claudia: Um okay, so that was fun.

[1:59:24] Abby: Uh we really did it.

[1:59:27] Claudia: Um two hours later.

[1:59:29] Abby: Um okay, so in conclusion in this episode.

[1:59:33] Claudia: Ooh.

[1:59:34] Abby: Um, Mary's little boy child.

[1:59:37] Claudia: Uh this is maybe is this a bad joke?

[1:59:41] Abby: Mary's little boy child. I'm giving up for adoption.

[1:59:44] Claudia: Yeah.

[1:59:45] Abby: I thought you were gonna say something else.

[1:59:46] Claudia: Me too.

[1:59:46] Abby: I also thought you were going somewhere else.

[1:59:48] Claudia: What did you think I was gonna say?

[1:59:52] Abby: Oh, thyroid.

[1:59:55] Claudia: That's why I don't know.

[1:59:56] Abby: Very quick job.

[1:59:57] Claudia: Religious overtones.

[1:59:59] Abby: Claudia, what did you think?

[2:00:00] Claudia: Yeah, same.

[2:00:03] Abby: Everyone was on the abortion track, got it.

[2:00:05] Claudia: Yeah.

[2:00:06] Abby: Uh-huh.

[2:00:06] Claudia: Yeah.

[2:00:06] Abby: Um, endless love.

[2:00:08] Claudia: I mean, that's that's what you're getting, babe, because you're going to round three.

[2:00:11] Abby: You're getting it.

[2:00:12] Claudia: It's never gonna end.

[2:00:13] Abby: It's never gonna end.

[2:00:14] Claudia: It's never gonna end for you, this love.

[2:00:16] Abby: Um I oh, I like forgot what the what the who the winner was in the second competition.

[2:00:23] Claudia: Um that's how made it his.

[2:00:25] Abby: Yeah, I was like, whoa, what even happened here?

[2:00:28] Claudia: It was need you now.

[2:00:29] Abby: It was need you now.

[2:00:31] Claudia: Um I I look to you as you climb that ladder.

[2:00:36] Abby: Yep.

[2:00:36] Claudia: To round three.

[2:00:38] Abby: Exactly.

[2:00:38] Claudia: And you can walk a thousand miles back to hell.

[2:00:42] Abby: Hell of a funeral.

[2:00:46] Claudia: Um Bohemian rhapsody.

[2:00:50] Abby: Ooh.

[2:00:51] Claudia: I'm about to wait, no.

[2:00:53] Abby: No, I was gonna go, I don't know.

[2:00:55] Claudia: I'm just like coined like the term to go bo go bo rhapsou, right?

[2:00:59] Abby: You're really trying to make this work.

[2:01:00] Claudia: Yeah, I think it's working.

[2:01:02] Abby: Copyrighted, trademark it, so level t shirt.

[2:01:05] Claudia: Oh wrap so all the way to round three.

[2:01:09] Abby: Oh, oh my god!

[2:01:10] Claudia: This is so perfect.

[2:01:12] Abby: Gives you hell, you're going.

[2:01:15] Claudia: Wait, no, how do I clean this up?

[2:01:16] Abby: It's giving hell.

[2:01:17] Claudia: It's giving that you're going to hell.

[2:01:20] Abby: It's anything that you're going.

[2:01:23] Claudia: It's giving hell.

[2:01:24] Abby: It's giving hell.

[2:01:26] Claudia: That's a good one.

[2:01:27] Abby: Great.

[2:01:28] Claudia: Perfect.

[2:01:29] Abby: Well, that's awesome.

[2:01:30] Claudia: Another another I realized recently, and this is maybe it took way too long with doing the Glackett for over three years.

[2:01:37] Abby: That it's it I realized that every week it's just getting rid of three songs until we're left with one.

[2:01:45] Claudia: I don't know if anybody else put that together.

[2:01:49] Abby: I didn't.

[2:01:49] Claudia: I'm always saying that in like, oh wow.

[2:01:53] Abby: It's always getting rid of three until I get to one.

[2:01:57] Claudia: Just getting on a weekly basis, getting rid of three songs until we're left with one.

[2:02:01] Abby: And so now we're three songs closer to finding out the best song on Glee.

[2:02:06] Claudia: Um it's awesome.

[2:02:09] Abby: And it was really awesome talking with both of y'all.

[2:02:12] Claudia: And um uh I would love for all the Greeks to, you know, find you what the things that you're doing.

[2:02:20] Abby: Um, Abby, where do you do that?

[2:02:23] Abby: You can find me at Sans Breadsticks on on Twitter and Santana's Red Sticks on Instagram.

[2:02:28] Claudia: Hell yeah.

[2:02:30] Abby: Oh, wake up every evening.

[2:02:32] Claudia: Yup.

[2:02:36] Abby: Go do that because you know, Abby's K and J approved.

[2:02:40] Claudia: So you know it's you know it's real.

[2:02:43] Abby: I love it.

[2:02:43] Claudia: It's real.

[2:02:44] Abby: Claudia, where can they find you?

[2:02:46] Claudia: Um, you can find me on Instagram at Claudia Gets Crafty.

[2:02:51] Abby: That's what I don't know.

[2:02:51] Claudia: I keep plugging that.

[2:02:52] Abby: I don't think anyone's finding me there.

[2:02:54] Claudia: They're finding me elsewhere, but that's fine.

[2:02:56] Abby: Go follow Claudia gets crafty because she really dear god, please, dear God.

[2:03:01] Claudia: I need to make glee content there.

[2:03:02] Abby: I don't really know.

[2:03:03] Claudia: Yeah.

[2:03:04] Abby: Maybe that will get them.

[2:03:05] Claudia: One of these days I'll I'll start tweeting.

[2:03:08] Abby: I'm not today.

[2:03:11] Claudia: I feel like you have like such like your brain is very powerful.

[2:03:14] Abby: I feel like oh my god, thank you.

[2:03:16] Claudia: Like I truly mean it.

[2:03:18] Abby: That was so kind.

[2:03:19] Claudia: When you said you weren't on Twitter, I was like, uh uh.

[2:03:21] Abby: I was like, you sound like the with that mind of yours.

[2:03:25] Claudia: It's all in here.

[2:03:25] Abby: It's all in the journal.

[2:03:27] Claudia: Every day she like flips to her journal like post today.

[2:03:32] Abby: Really iconic.

[2:03:33] Claudia: Two hours of glantent.

[2:03:35] Abby: Um thank you both again.

[2:03:37] Claudia: And if you want to support the podcast, you can go to patreon.com slash gliek the week pod for those monthly live streams.

[2:03:45] Abby: Also, those monthly uh glee project recaps.

[2:03:49] Claudia: We're still me and Alice and Dodge, we're we're recapping the the hell out of the that damn series.

[2:03:56] Abby: It's true.

[2:03:56] Claudia: Um and uh yeah, and also I feel like the Apple Podcast reviews have been kind of light lately.

[2:04:03] Abby: So leave a cute one and um it would really make my glad damn day.

[2:04:08] Claudia: Okay, see you next week.

[2:04:10] Abby: Okay, bye.

[2:04:11] Claudia: Bye.

[2:04:13] Abby: It's Glick, click of the week.