Transcript
Speaker: Well, hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Purple Door Podcast, a friend's rewatch pod, and one of your hosts, Alistair, alongside, as always, Deanne. Deanne, how are you today?
Speaker: Just awesome, Al. Just awesome. Fantastic. A beautiful day in North Texas. Our microphones, our cameras, they all appear to be working. Life is good over here. Technology is not my strong suit.
Speaker: It's just not. I'm, oh Yeah, for the last few months, I was telling Al before we got started, the last few months I've been going, but like seriously, it's probably been eight months. The majority of the time that we've been recording because I knew i was able to do everything on my laptop at the beginning.
Speaker: And then all of a sudden my camera stopped working and today was the day i was going to figure it out. I was uninstalling, reinstalling, doing all the things. Al was watching me go in and out of the waiting room. And it turns out there's just a little flip, just a little switch up here.
Speaker: That's right. And, but you know what? Now I'm excited because I'm slowed down and figured it out. You did. And you got there in the end. what I feel like. There's a life lesson here about just, is you were like, it's always the easiest answer. It's always the easiest thing. Right. But it's,
Speaker: flowing down and, and figuring it out. And, uh, yeah, life lessons here. Exactly. Life lessons here on the purple door podcast. There you go. Not just talking friends. I tell you what, but we'll figure out a way to, to, to,
Speaker: integrated I am positive. I have no doubt. Well, let's see. This week is the one with the screamer. We have a special guest star this week.
Speaker: Although, and we got to talk about this off the bat because I thought this, and then Kate mentioned it too, um he doesn't scream. He shouts, he yells, but he doesn't scream in the whole episode.
Speaker: Yeah, which is funny, which is why... I got really excited whenever I realized what episode this was, because that's not the first thing that comes to your mind whenever, but then it's like, oh, and I feel like I'm curious, ah like, ah you know how words kind of evolve over time, meanings evolve over time. And um I'll often have kids like in in my job every day and they'll be like, yeah, they were, They were mad. or They were yelling at me. They were yelling at me.
Speaker: And it's like, were they yelling at you or were they like speaking in a stern tone? Right. Right. And so I wonder if just over the last 30 years, there's been an evolution in the word scream.
Speaker: Like, because if you think about it, 20 years ago, your mom would scream at you. And I can say, like, with 100% accuracy that my mom yelled at me a lot, but I don't know that she ever screamed at me. Absolutely. It's a very good point. But, like, and then you think of, like, the the like the scream movies, like, that's related to, like, horror genre. Right. where 30 years ago, screaming probably meant the same thing as yelling memes.
Speaker: You know? I'd be interested to hear if any listeners out there want to give us their perspective. I like that. I think you're onto something. that The evolution of the word scream. Yeah.
Speaker: e yeah If it was made today, would it be... i did think it could have been the one with the yeller, but we had the one with old yeller. But Old Yeller was the book.
Speaker: Right. So that's different. It is different. It is different. It would have been, yeah, like if it was the one, like today, if we were naming this episode, it wouldn't be the one with the screamer. It would be the one the one with the the mean date or the the psycho.
Speaker: i mean Right. You know? yeah absolutely. The two-faced. I don't know. ah But I feel like it wouldn't be called The Screamer today. i agree with you. It would be a different thing.
Speaker: Yeah. Huh. Definitely. Well, tell me who is going, I feel like I'm going first. Am I making that up or is it you this week? No, you aren't. It's an every numbered episode. You're going first. You got it. Fantastic. Well, Kate has gone through all the questions. I believe we didn't have to change any. So this is good news. Yeah. i'm interested though, and quite nervous to be honest with you because I shared with you, I have recently watched it like within the last hour. But there is a lot there's always a lot going on whenever everybody's awake at my house.
Speaker: And so um I don't know that my focus was all that great. I have faith in you. i've got I think you're going to be fine. Let's start off with question one. And what color is the sweater that Phoebe gets stuck in?
Speaker: Oh, it's green. it'y It is indeed. Yeah, which I thought was so weird because... Why did she take that sweater? Because she was wearing a very pretty blue sheer shirt and then Monica didn't have a jacket so it's not like it was cold outside.
Speaker: Right. I was very confused by the whole sweater thing. I think it was just to have that scene that was so funny. I think i think you're right. Okay.
Speaker: So what seat number does the man have that's sitting in Ross and Tommy's seat?
Speaker: That's a great question. And I don't know the answer.
Speaker: I know it's this it's all to do with odd and even numbers. I'm going with, I feel like it's an odd. I'm 15F. Oh, man. You're right. It was an odd number. Right. It was D13.
Speaker: d thirty eight All right. Well, you've gone off to an early lead. Let's see what happens in this second question. What's the name of Ross's date that he brings to the theater?
Speaker: It's either Kaylee or Kalen.
Speaker: You have a 50-50 chance. I know. I feel like it's Kalen.
Speaker: Because I interviewed a lady named Kaylee yesterday and she spelled it just like the my friend Christy's daughter. And it's not often you see it spelled that way.
Speaker: But I feel like it's the most the correct way to spell it. And I don't remember writing that down. Which way will you go?
Speaker: ah Okay. oh I'm going to go ahead and say Kaylin because I don't remember writing Kaylee. And I talk about life lessons learned on the Powerful Drone podcast. This is why you trust your gut because it is Kaylin.
Speaker: It is Kaylin? It is Kaylin. Yes. All right. right. Awesome. Yeah. It's awesome because I wrote down Kaylee yesterday and I spelled it how I would spell it. was Right. It was like Like Kaylee.
Speaker: And, um, that was correct and I well I was typing my notes I don't remember typing kit and that would be why there you go well done all right you have are two for two let's see if I can catch up a little bit all right what color mug does the lady at the bar send to Chandler that Gunther immediately takes back because I am 90% sure this is in my notes so I'm not looking but ah
Speaker: I'm going with blue or brown, but going with blue. Oh, it's yellow. It's yellow. I will discover this in about 30 minutes when we get through my notes.
Speaker: Of course. All right, off to a bad start here. Let's see if you can go three for three, though. What word does the newspaper use to describe Joey's performance in the play?
Speaker: He gives a something performance. Not worst. It's not the worst thing. okay And I know they say it's laughable, but I don't remember if that was about Joey or Kate.
Speaker: I feel like it was Kate.
Speaker: I'll tell you, yeah, laughable is not the not the answer. Okay. So that is about Kate.
Speaker: Shallow. you're You're in the right kind of area. It is uneven. It gives an uneven performance. Okay, whatever that means. Yes.
Speaker: But I mean, ah critics are just actors who couldn't make it, right? Maybe maybe Kate should become a critic, yes. yeah No, she... Okay, what's the name of the play?
Speaker: Because I was very confused. Boxing Day. Yes. Yes. And looking at all of what we saw of the play, I cannot understand. boxing figure it just happened on Boxing Day.
Speaker: that's that's I think you're right. it's It was a peculiar name for what ended up happening in the in the play. Right. Absolutely.
Speaker: I'm on the board, so I'm glad. Let's see if I can play catch up here. with you Your question four. What did the director's mother make for the cast to eat? oh Crab cake. Yes, she did. Gross.
Speaker: I don't know, a man. Like for an after party, that's disgusting. See, that's I'm assuming food that's had to sit around for a while. Right. Yeah. Everybody's going to get sick.
Speaker: Right. right top you Right. You are three for four. You are flying. Okay. So how long has everyone gone to the play?
Speaker: Okay, it was longer than I thought, and I feel it's either three hours or five hours. I'm going with five hours. Correct. All right. ah Nice job. And I assume that, of course, the play, don't know, two, two and a bit hours, but then maybe the after party and all of that.
Speaker: Yeah, and travel time, of course. All right. I want to switch out my last question for one of my extras, but I'm not going to. I'll still give those to you afterwards. Question five is, what job did Joey turn down for this play?
Speaker: um a cat declaw he yes declawing cats nicely done you are four for five i cannot catch up so once again as most weeks you are demolishing me in this but i'll take my final question and see what happens okay so what do we know about kate's family
Speaker: uh two brothers one died Yes, sir. Yes. All right. Nice. All right. Well, you come away with a 4-3 victory, but I do have three extra questions for you. Okay. So do i Awesome.
Speaker: All right. Why don't you go first? All right. What soap opera does Kate go to work on?
Speaker: is it All My Children's General Hospital? that's correct all right fifty fifty show that gunther was on yes or he was uh bryce was he bryce brian yes yeah um chandler's watch stops what time does it stop on 7 15. nicely done yes it does nice all right so why is phoebe on the phone in the first place because her phone is broken yes and yes Oh, and the warranty expires like the next day. sorry you the Yeah. So she's got to god to get through to them.
Speaker: This one I thought was just a fun catch by myself, even if I do say it so myself. When Tommy picks up the chick, there's a retro electronic device in the pen.
Speaker: Yeah, I thought you might spot it. I had it. It was a Game Boy. It was indeed. And then a Game Boy. Yes. Yes, and what else was in there?
Speaker: Okay, it's in, you know, I can look at my notes. I think I wrote them down. Yeah, you can. Yeah, can now. This isn't one of my questions. Yes. I, see, wasn't sure, but I had a Pez dispenser and then some sort of toy horse with a soldier on it. I couldn't really tell.
Speaker: Yeah, okay. And, okay, was there, was it the guy that was sitting on, was it a guy sitting on a horse or was he sitting on the fence?
Speaker: Not sure. Not sure. I couldn't quite, wasn't quite sure. I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking at it, but I, like, it popped in my brain whenever you said that because I saw the Game Boy and there was guy that was sitting there with a gun, right?
Speaker: I think so. And I was like, dang. Yeah. All right. What color are the playbills?
Speaker: In my head, they're black and yellow. No, no. poster outside black and yellow. The tickets are black and yellow, but they're like a dark pink.
Speaker: Interesting. Uh-huh. Like, i would I mean, I wouldn't have disagreed with you if you had said red. Right. Which makes sense for Boxing Day. True.
Speaker: But, I don't know. Whatever. They're crazy. Yeah, the whole play's a little weird. My last one for you is what three word alliterative alliterative term does Tommy yell at the duck?
Speaker: Oh, you're what? Donald dude Dodo? You've got the second. Dumb Donald Dodo. Dumb Donald Dodo it is. You've got all three. nice Yes.
Speaker: Excellent. but You did really, really. Yeah, he's crazy. Yeah, you did fantastic there. i't of it Yeah, I feel a little guilty now because I did just watch it. No, that's sometimes I do that. It comes with the territory.
Speaker: Let's see. We start in the girls apartment. Phoebe is on the on hold with the phone company. I'm sure I'm 99% sure we've discussed if and when we last had ah a home phone.
Speaker: um in our houses yeah that's almost a ah relic uh these days rachel's dad called but phoebe says to call him at flimby's because that's the word she makes up uh which you can't remember the real place where somebody is so i quite like that flimby's Let's see, Joey comes in, he needs he needs a head count for the tickets and it starts to get confusing because ah Ross is bringing a date.
Speaker: You know, he needs two. Rachel said she needs, now needs two, but she'd said one because she tried to pretend like it was her plus one.
Speaker: um Obviously scrambling and panicking to get a date. Do we find out where she meets Tommy? Is that mentioned? No, I don't think so. Yeah, I didn't think it was. Because something about him doesn't tell me he's necessarily in the fashion world. I don't know.
Speaker: just somebody random. A peculiar guy. Joey's very excited that they're going to get to meet Kate. He even put on some cologne.
Speaker: or what he thinks is cologne. dont Wart medicine for the duck is what it is. Oh, yeah I didn't hear it was wart medicine. I just heard medicine for the duck. Ah, wart medicine for the duck. Yes.
Speaker: Yes. I do think there's you do have one or two scenes that I didn't have. Again, I saw something on IMDb earlier. um and see Phoebe tries to put on a sweater. She gets stuck. It's quite quite funny.
Speaker: The reason she needs the sweater, like you said, it doesn't appear to be cold, but it's a build-up for the gag. They're about to leave, and Phoebe is the next caller. she she She believes that she is going to get through imminently.
Speaker: uh we let's see stop me i feel like i'm running through these scenes quickly but don't know how much more there is there's not a whole lot like my notes are super short like i've gotten there you know that she brings the green sweater orange dress and then they say you're the next caller and then chandler comes in and it's just a quick little thing with the duck and the chick where he wants them to tell the chick and the duck that they can't go.
Speaker: That's right. Yeah, feel like it's almost like an obligatory scene at the beginning before because we can't just go straight to the theater. And we have to set up the fact that Ross and Rachel both have dates that they're bringing.
Speaker: And we have to have a story for Phoebe, which is that she can be on the phone non-stop, you know? Yes. and It's just, it seems like everything right there at the beginning is quick and you Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: Just to set up set up these storylines. Ross and Kaelin meet Rachel and Tommy. They're the first ones there at the theatre. The girls decide that they're going to go to the bathroom together.
Speaker: Ross, again, kind of being a little weird, I think immediately trying to talk about the fact it's going to be awkward because he and Rachel used to date. um Not the time or the place, I think, for that. i think he is just deliberately trying to make things awkward.
Speaker: Well, and, okay, you know, he's so awkward anyway, and I would never stick up for him, but I feel like maybe he was just trying to clear the air from the before and things got weird.
Speaker: Right. But that's true. Yes. But the same time, like, don't be, he's just so socially stupid. Like he is because it seems, you know, in that situation, you're going to kind of let the the new person kind of drive that conversation. That's what I would think.
Speaker: and But whatever. Yeah. yeah and Well, he doesn't drive the conversation, he does ah drive these other people out of their seats. There's an elderly. Well, elderly is a bit strong. That was a nice little too segue. we're We're working on it. There's a senior couple sitting in the seats, and apparently they are in the wrong seats, even though the usher told them to sit there.
Speaker: Ross kind of gently is trying to point out that these are not the correct seats and Tommy takes a different approach and and just goes off on him. He's not screaming. He's still not screaming.
Speaker: But he's yelling. here's my question now. Yeah. Here's my question. And I can, you know, turn, remove my ears. But if you were going to scream at somebody...
Speaker: what would you do? Like, what would that sound like? So it's funny you bring that up because I was thinking when I was watching this, when did I last scream? And I don't know, I'm not going to scream as we record the podcast and and lose all of our listeners, but... I did it!
Speaker: Yeah, despite you trying, but I can't remember the last time if ever, I'm not saying I've never screamed, but I can't think when it last happened. Like an actual...
Speaker: An actual scream. i don't know if you heard that. that that I did hear that. And that's exactly. See, okay. And if you were going to ask me when was the last time that I screamed, I could tell you. could tell you exactly when it was. i think you should tell all of us.
Speaker: Oh, okay. Great. Share with the group. Yes. um I screamed the other day whenever I was coming into the house because my son was hiding and he jumped out and i screamed because he scared me.
Speaker: Good for him. Yes. and so Yes. But this is something that they regularly do. so um And then I would tell you before that, i screamed.
Speaker: whenever I was at Six Flags working in the haunted house, I screamed then. So like for me, screaming is, it always, it's it's tied to being scared.
Speaker: That's right. And i don't think I, I just, I think that the, the meaning of the word scream has evolved. I think you're onto something with that.
Speaker: I really, really do because I would say he's not screaming at him, but then, but he kind of is Like, if you think about the literal, like, if you were to scream at someone, it naturally, i would think of being scared, but like, this is probably screaming, like screaming. You see it raising your voice, being aggressive, like,
Speaker: yeah Yeah, I think you're definitely on to something. um He certainly lost his cool over yeah nothing, nothing at all. And would you say he's yelling at them?
Speaker: At least, at least yelling. Perhaps even it's like a slightly stronger one. I'm not quite sure exactly. So would be the word? What would be the word you would for stronger than yelling?
Speaker: I might have to add an adjective. You know, he's yelling aggressively. He is, um,
Speaker: yeah, I suppose you're right. though that we're We're digging into this. Maybe he is screaming at them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah and definitely definitely so i'm gonna think about this as we talk through the episode because you're you're onto something here you are really really do i think i think you're right i i don't find it odd but we don't really get to see any of the playing we immediately jump to the after party and do you know why i love this scene so much because of the crab cake no because of because of
Speaker: Man, i don't know because I love Pete and Monica in this like scene. I like Chandler in this scene. I like Ross and I like that that chick like says no thank you.
Speaker: Well, I like all of those things, but any scene with Estelle in it is just. course. do love Estelle. And I love the fact that in this theater with, I don't know how many people are on there, let's say 50, she's the deliberately, I think, the only one smoking because there's this huge cloud of smoke wherever she goes.
Speaker: I just love the exaggerated character that is yeah Estelle. Yeah. ah But you're right. and I think a little bit of this scene might have been cut out of mind because we do see Pete and Monica, but it it is pretty short. It's just, maybe it's the same for you. just where Pete tells- The short version and the long Yes. I don't, yeah. We just see the, that's right. Pete tells Lauren the short version, and the long version. And then Monica says the short one is where I kill him or something. I can't quite remember.
Speaker: Oh, okay. Yeah, no, I, that's the thing that I saw. Okay. It's just, it's a short, it's it's such a chaotic, I guess, I don't know, I put it all in one scene, like in my notes.
Speaker: But it's so many different shots. And it's so chaotic that there's so much that happens in yeah that short amount of time. Because they get all excited to see Kate.
Speaker: Kate walks up. He just gets to tell them, like, this is Kate. And then Marshall in his psychoness pops in, kisses her, come.
Speaker: and And off they go. And then it's like, And then, yeah, Lauren is sitting there with um and Monica and Pete are sitting. And I love, I just, I like them. They're a good couple.
Speaker: History is so good. and she's so excited. And he just, you know, swoons over her. And it's just, it's sweet and believable and cute. Yeah. But yeah, he's like, the short version is that I pursued her, that I gave her a check for $20,000 and now she's mine. And she's like, and in the long version, i break up with him for telling people that, you know? That's right. that's They're they're a great couple.
Speaker: Yeah. And then she gets up and comes over there and then Estelle comes in and is wanting to know about their representation. And she's so ridiculous because it's like, why? What what are you talking about? i would take her her face. yes that What are you talking about? She's so crazy. She is. but It's a great setup for just Chandler's little, could I borrow it? Yeah. Line, which yeah it it's it's funny because he's their friends.
Speaker: You know, if he was just a stranger, it'd be creepy. But I think he can get away with that. Yeah. And then, yeah. And then like, and then before that though, was whenever Ross is, um
Speaker: it wasn't Lauren. that they were talking to, was it? ah Pete and Monica, it wasn't Lauren. Oh, that's right. It was Katelyn. That's right. hey Yeah.
Speaker: Because then she walks over there and he's watching. Oh, but before that was whenever Chandler said the line because Joey's like, or Ross is like, yeah, he's, he doesn't, he doesn't like Ben Stiller's character. He doesn't like Tommy. And but Chandler's so funny because he's like, oh, what?
Speaker: you don't like the guy that Rachel's dating? Right. How weird. Yeah, there was so much going on. Yes. Yeah, but it was. It was so much in such a short amount of time.
Speaker: Yeah, because Lauren did show up for a second because she met Rachel and said, oh, I've seen you before. That was after she and Joey got together and then he dumped me the next day. know, just very quick.
Speaker: and Yeah, lots of people coming and going. Yeah, it was just a very quick, chaotic, And it wasn't like quick, but just very quick interactions all over the place.
Speaker: Yeah. Speaking of quick, no, you're fine. Marshall comes in with a newspaper that has somehow been printed in the last, I don't know, 90 minutes. um Seems incredibly quick that they could still be having an after party. and Here comes a copy of the New York Times with a review of the show. I think it was the Times.
Speaker: it was It's not good. And he has a minor meltdown. Joey is uneven. And then Kate is laughable. Is that what it says? And then I'm guessing the ah the direction, which what he was focused on, is equally bad because he sort of bundles up the paper, throws it down. And does he storm out? think he does storm out, doesn't he, when he throws it down? Yeah, because he throws the paper down and then he's and all the people are standing there and then he's like...
Speaker: with his hands. That's right. And then Joey asks if he could save the paper, doesn't he? Because it's only uneven. So he's he's pretty happy about that. Yeah. Well, he wasn't the worst thing. So heck yeah. That's right. That's right.
Speaker: We just, we jumped back over to the girl's apartment for just a minute, right? Baby's been on a hold for five hours. um And it's such a, it's a, it's an easy joke. And but I do love the fact that she's just switched everyone's furniture for no reason. Oh, you know yes.
Speaker: Yes. It was. it was hilarious because, um, Yeah, she's like, no, she's doing the yarn thing with her hands and foot. And so you're thinking that's what she was doing to keep herself busy. And no, that's not it. No, she has completely rearranged the bedrooms, which is which would take an awful lot of work, of you know disassembling and reassembling beds and such. But she had nothing better to do, i suppose.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. We go right back over to the theater. This is where Joey is trying to console Kate. um Marshall has dumped her in addition to getting a terrible review for the play. Trying to remember what else happens in that scene. um Because that's all I wrote down before they go to Kate's apartment.
Speaker: Well, that's whenever they talk about the other jobs that they could have done. And then ah that's whenever the line about um about and being a drama critic comes in.
Speaker: Right. And that she should be a drama critic. And then Marshall walks in a plague upon both your houses. That's right. hello Gross.
Speaker: And then that's whenever we find out that one that they read was in the Times. because then he's like, oh, you didn't see the post? And she's like, and then he's confused and it's okay.
Speaker: Yeah, they get there. Well, evidently, did well, at least Kate starts drinking because they end up at Kate's apartment. And Joey, to his credit, I think his his heart is involved a bit.
Speaker: He's like, we need to, kind of like, we need to talk because Kate keeps going back and forth and back and forth. And She's into him, then she's not, then she is again, then she's not. And he just needs to know where he stands.
Speaker: But he's it's a very sweet moment because she's obviously had a bit to drink. He just puts her to sleep on the couch. I do love that this kind of tender, kind moment is... There's also this line of I'm going to put the trash can here in case you need to hurl.
Speaker: It's real life. It's real life. And it's just it's a great throwback in my head to like 90s language, you know, saying to hurl. oh yeah you don't hear van roll right exactly with spew you're gonna spew spew into here and then they take out the little dixie cup yeah have not seen wings i know we've done that before but that's one of the lines here at the woolison house where yes still on the list but i i love that in case you need to have a little line
Speaker: yeah It's the next morning, right? It's the girls' apartment. Joey has a remarkable five o'clock shadow for having been completely clean shaven about six or seven hours, I'm guessing, before.
Speaker: Who? Joey, when he walks in. Oh, wow. I didn't even notice. Yeah, it's ah is days and days worth of stubble on his face. I'm sure it's to indicate that he didn't go home.
Speaker: But so I did rewind it just to check. And he's completely clean shaven, puts Kate to sleep on the couch, and is at the girl's apartment hours later. Looks quite different. um Phoebe is still on hold.
Speaker: when joey comes in and he explains that you know he stayed kate's but nothing nothing really or nothing happened at all um well nothing in a physical sense but they had the night yeah where they set up and talked for hours and it's just it's just super sweet to see joey like this yes and i thought it was sweet though how monica She was such a good friend right then, right? Like so excited for him and pointing out that you had the night.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Did you talk about his family? And he's like, yeah, but two brothers, one night. And she's like, yes. And then they're all excited, you know? I thought it was sweet.
Speaker: Yeah. it It very much was. Phoebe's still on the couch. I just wrote that she was delusionally tired. Oh, yeah. Yeah. she sees she I don't remember quite what she said, but she was kind of out of it.
Speaker: About the riboflavin. That's right. Yeah. Which made me laugh. Because that, do you, I don't know if you, I don't know, but that was a big deal.
Speaker: That the riboflavin. It was on commercials. like Never heard of it. See, I don't even know what it is. But I know that I heard that on commercials because there was a lot of commercials that would brag about the riboflavin.
Speaker: rival I thought riboflavin was a made-up one. Oh, no. nope nope Kate just went, nope. She knows. She knows like you do. I've never heard of it.
Speaker: um We go to Central Park. Yeah, Gunther has an orange shirt. Can't tell what's on his tie. The mug was yellow. Ross has a to-go cup. I did look at all these things. The mug was yellow. There it is. yeah And Ross, again, for the second episode in a row. and Again, maybe somebody, some someone thats somewhere out there has looked at this. But we have to-go cups now for two episodes in a row, having never noticed them before.
Speaker: But this is where the and the woman buys Chandler the coffee by mistake. Let's see. Is it in this scene? I'm just having a quick look through my notes. It might not be. um where there' It's quite a sweet moment. Monica and Chandler kind of cuddled up.
Speaker: Yes. yeah It's weird. But yes, it is this same scene. It's like the very next, because Ross walks out, right? Because he gets all mad. Because he's trying to stop Rachel from from going on the date with him.
Speaker: Because he finds out that she's waiting for Tommy. This is the 1 o'clock at 7.15 thing. That's right. She's like, oh, Tommy will be here any minute. We're going to lunch.
Speaker: And um Ross starts saying that he's mean. Like, he's mean. He yelled at the people. And it's not just because I'm jealous.
Speaker: That's right. And then he tells about, you know, them yelling at the thing. And then Chandler does the whole thing about, you know. And then at the end of the play, he just started banging his hands. Very funny. Very funny. So funny.
Speaker: and um yeah And then Ross you know gets mad and leaves because he's Ross and he pouts. That's what he does. um Yeah, I thought it was interesting that Chandler and Monica are sitting side by side and then a stranger buys Chandler a drink.
Speaker: It's a bold move because you would assume that they're together just the way they were sitting. But then the way they are cuddled up, it's not foreshadowing because we don't know what's going happen at this point at all. But even though it was so sweet with Pete, it was equally as just...
Speaker: sweet in a different way and like a friendship way with Chandler. Yeah. Um, they're just, it was it just, I thought it was just a a nice little touch. Um, and an equally nice touch. They're talking about what was it? The favorite things about summer.
Speaker: Yeah. And then Tommy having gone nuts outside comes in and, What you say? The there's smell of freshly cut grass? that one yeah what it Yes. Yes. Yes. Which was so crazy because like he was losing his mind on Ross.
Speaker: Like losing his mind. And then did you see Ross like tapping the window? Yes. Gently just trying scare or trying to get their attention. And I was and so funny.
Speaker: Yeah. it was ah It was very well done. We go back to the theatre. Kate is not performing. Lauren, the understudy, has taken the lead role because she got a job and in L.A. according to... i can't remember. it' said I remember seeing his job title. was on a chair or a table, but it was like, you know, stage manager or stagehand or something.
Speaker: And Joey's acting is completely thrown off. um He pretty much just stops acting at at points because he's trying to find out where Kate's gone. Okay, so I have a question. Yes.
Speaker: um Do you know, or was it in there why Joey was late?
Speaker: No, it was not. Like, did you get to see him run up and was running late? We just saw, we oh, did he say there was it there was ah ah the chick and the duck had to fight? Yes.
Speaker: yes Yes. Okay, i just I didn't know if they cut that or not. Because, yeah, it I felt, I was like, I wonder if they cut that because you had to have that to make it make sense as to why he was shocked whenever Lauren was the one standing there.
Speaker: Yes. Yes, um and he goes on stage and he's trying to talk to Lauren and Lauren's visibly irritated because he's breaking character.
Speaker: I do quite like the way he quote unquote goes downstairs or something and then his head just comes flying at the side of the window. Yes, I did i did like that bit a lot.
Speaker: And I think, yeah, she says that Kate's gone and they kind of go back into acting a little bit. We end up back at the girl's apartment and Tommy asked to borrow the phone.
Speaker: Phoebe's still on hold. And then Ross has is set this up well to try and bump into Tommy with a black mug that has a sun on the moon on it. That wasn't black.
Speaker: those Those mugs are not black, Al. Oh, it's the same one from last week. It's the same ones that we've had for weeks now. It's like that dark blue. It's like an like a navy almost.
Speaker: I'm going to check the color resolution on my television. Yes. Yes. It is not black. Blue, navy, it's in. It's definitely blue. yeah Yeah. But he tries to spill the coffee and Tommy just brushes it off, but you didn't.
Speaker: so So no problem at all. Now, why Rachel couldn't use Chandler's phone earlier in the episode to call her dad back, we'll never know. Yeah. Because clearly another phone is available. He goes over to the boy's apartment the first time we're there this episode.
Speaker: And he picks up the chick who's in the little pen to keep the chick safe, perhaps, from the duck. And the chick has an accident on his hand.
Speaker: Yeah, I think he just picked the chick up because he thought it was cute. Oh, I just thought maybe the chick is in the pen to keep it away from the duck. Oh! like ah Because of the fight the night before or whenever it was. Yes, absolutely.
Speaker: And this where he flips out at the chick and the duck. They're stupid. They are a dumb Dodo Donald. What was it? I asked you and you got it. Dumb Donald Dodo. Yeah. I said a Donald duck. Yes.
Speaker: And... this I think, yeah, the door opens and one of the best lines of the episode from Chandler. Yes. Step away from duck. Step away from the duck.
Speaker: And it's like I can see Tommy, you know, he's he's an unhinged character with anger issues. But then the way he, like, basically yells at Rachel too, you know, like I guess we're broken up now with that same level of anger, like takes his craziness to another level.
Speaker: Yeah, he's nuts. Tim and Eddie should be friends. They should be. A little spin-off show with Tommy and Eddie. And we'll name it Unhinged Psycho.
Speaker: Yes. I'd have to watch at least a couple of episodes. We end up back at the, was it the we haven't said the name of this episode, Lucille Laureate Theatre.
Speaker: Is that it? Kate comes to say goodbye. She got the job on General Hospital, so she's flying out to Los Angeles that evening. And yeah, Joey goes on the set for what I assume is the final scene of the of this play. I don't know where you would go from there, to be honest with you, Al. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. and We're going to go. I think play is a strong one because Joey is leaving. He's getting on a spaceship to go to, I believe it's a blog on seven. Yes. And to search for alternative fuel.
Speaker: Yeah. Do you know when he'll be back? ah I know that it's great great granddaughter time. yeah That's right, that which is going to be about 200 years. He won't have aged at all.
Speaker: Yes. this long gone i remember that and then yeah your great great granddaughter to look me up because i'm gonna want to meet her yeah slightly creepy again yep uh what a bizarre bizarre thing the boxing day is we do finish in the girls apartment um and phoebe realizes she used the area code 801 and not 800 so it's a long distance call instead of a free free call she tries to give up and just hang up and ends up breaking monica's phone but thankfully she does know who to call in these situations are you interested and how much hu a long distance phone call in 1993 would have costs
Speaker: Not only am I interested, I did the mathematics of all of this myself and worked out what that call would have cost. Okay. And what did you get?
Speaker: So I got varying numbers for how much, because it would have depended on the plan you have and this, that, the other. So I just went with 10 cents because that was in the middle, 10 cents a minute. Okay.
Speaker: What did you see? Okay. I saw 60 cents a minute. Okay. And it could be there was there was a huge range because there was all, you know sort of nights and evenings plans or what if you don't have a plan and and all of these things. So yeah, the numbers were all over the place.
Speaker: Yeah, because it said, because what I had gotten, the reason that I did 60 cents a minute was in 1993, long distance calls are often priced about 60 to 80 cents per minute for direct dial residential service.
Speaker: Premium rates during peak hours, a 10-minute operator assisted call could cost $2.40 to over or to per a one to two dollars per minute And so I was like, okay, so like on average about 60 cents per minute.
Speaker: That's crazy. So did you work out how much that money that would be over two days? 1,728 cents. mean, dollars, 1,728 dollars.
Speaker: i mean dollars one thousand seven hundred in the eight dollars That's, I mean, it's just a crazy amount. I did it, what, 10 cents? Let me make sure i've added this up right. Yeah, how did you get 10 cents?
Speaker: Just from Googling it. at somewhere ways you know there was i just Googled. I wasn't time. And it was long distance? Or did what is did you Google from calling from New York?
Speaker: to Utah. I thought I did long distance, but you know, I think I just did in the 90s. So it could have drawn, you know, that number could have come from several years later.
Speaker: um So I think that was it. Regardless, it was it was going to be even 10 cents. It came in, I think, at about $480. So that's on the incredibly cheap side of things.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't think you did a long distance phone call. Okay. In 1993, a long distance phone call from New York to Utah costs between 50 cents to over a dollar per minute, depending on the time of day.
Speaker: So that's just, yeah, and of course, so there'll be a nice little blend. So let's just call it, what you say, 50 to 60 cents? said 50 cents to a dollar.
Speaker: Okay, so I'm just, I'm going to see if I can do this quickly. So call it 75 cents a minute. So that'd be times 60 for an hour. Why is it doing that? 75 times 60. This is great podcasting. So that's one hour and then times 48. Math, math, math, math, math. math I think and i think i've not I've not quite got this. well game are Is it $4,500? It's a lot of money.
Speaker: It is. and that Okay, so then how much how much was $1,000? We'll call it $600 because we're going to pretend like they've got a great phone plan.
Speaker: Yeah, $2,160 it was 75 cents. Today. Yes. So that is an awful lot. Oh my gosh That is approximately $3,656 in our time. Yeah. a huge amount of money we're talking that Phoebe is now running up on Monica's bill. It's on hold.
Speaker: i wonder I wonder if i have Pete took care of that. i could see it I can see Monica saying you wouldn't believe what Phoebe did and he he got how much was it. It was a mistake.
Speaker: Because we still don't we don't know if Monica's working at this point. We assume she is in Pete's kitchen but we haven't haven't had any confirmation of that. No, we haven't at all. cause Now all they we've seen them do is go to the play.
Speaker: That's it. Well, that was the final scene. it likes and It's a funny episode because I quite like this episode, but there's no there's not a lot of meat on the bone, I don't think. There's not a lot in it. i did you Yeah. it's ah It's like one of those episodes where it doesn't really move anything forward. like nothing really It's just a whole lot of chaos. But I will tell you, okay, so that last scene...
Speaker: Whenever they're all standing there, and not the last scene, because it's the next to the last scene, but whenever they're all standing at the door, and Chandler's like, step away from the duck. Yeah.
Speaker: And did you notice Phoebe in that scene? i feel like she was just kind of almost in the back. Like, I didn't really notice. but she but And she had the phone in her hand, and her hair is, I mean, she just looks a mess.
Speaker: And she's just standing there and she looks exhausted like she has spent two days awake listening to that recording. And it it cracked me up because, you know, everybody just has all these different varying looks of shock Ross-like verification, like just or um reassurance that and now everybody sees what I see.
Speaker: and then you and that made me laugh um and then the very last scene whenever they threw or she throws the phone yes and breaks rachel and monica's phone and she's like i've got the number that you can call i was just thinking i know i know it's happened and it will continue to happen but there's not too many times Because all all six of them were there, right, when Tommy yells at the chick and the duck? Yeah. Yeah. There's not too many. All six are standing there looking in one direction. Because usually they're looking at each other.
Speaker: Right. All of them together in a group like that. It's quite symbolic, actually. It's quite nice. Yeah. Absolutely. and And, you know, yeah, it kind of, i would like to see a screenshot of that picture.
Speaker: Yeah. i think that would be a good one. a good one. Well, let's think our Gunther Central Park for the week. um who would you Who would you go with? This is a bit of a tough one, but who are you going with?
Speaker: Okay, I had a hard time because everybody, like, I don't know. For me, nobody, like, stood out character-wise, right? So I went with Chandler.
Speaker: Because it's just funny. He's got some really good little one-liners in there all episode long. And I feel like that really ah helped the episode along and made me laugh.
Speaker: Yeah, that he was my second favorite, definitely. I agree with you with his one line of just fantastic. I am very much, and and it's ending now, but very much enjoyed this story arc of Joey growing from a serial one night stand guy. That's who he has been and will continue to be in many ways. But seeing this other side of him, I quite like.
Speaker: Yeah. Seeing and being a a little vulnerable and having the night with Kate and all these kinds of things. So, yeah, I've decided to go Joey. Let's think this. way When we're so you're rating this episode, what could we do? We could do bottles of alternative fuel. We could do something like that. I don't know. What do you think?
Speaker: We could do cups of nice hot coffee. I think that's the wood that's the one Cups of particularly hot coffee. What are you going with this week?
Speaker: I am going to Seven. It's just a five episode. Yeah. For me. yeah hi hi me um you know I'm kind of going to go with seven. was going between six and a half and seven. but Six and a half feels a little mean, so I'm going with seven because there are great great bits in this. But it is it's nothing huge. Nothing huge happens in this episode.
Speaker: Like you said, and you didn't progress too much you know bigger stories other than Joey and Kate, I suppose. But yeah, it was fine.
Speaker: It was a fine episode. Next week we are the one with Ross's thing. Yeah. Yes. So it it's a very Ross heavy episode.
Speaker: We'll see how do you let's see how you get along with that. Any final thoughts before we wrap it up this week? I don't think so. Except that ah Utah or Salt Lake City, Utah's area code is 801.
Speaker: And so that's the area of Utah because 801 is obviously not the entire state, but it's Salt Lake City. Well, it's nice because the one without the ski trip, they talked about area codes and had the wrong area code for where they were.
Speaker: So it's nice. Which is why I had to double check, you see. Indeed. Indeed. Well, fantastic. Well, we will be back next week with the one with Ross's thing. But as always, everybody, thank you so much for listening to the Purple Door Podcast.
