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Danielle Fishel
This is an iHeart podcast. It's Danielle Fishel, Ryder Strong and Will.
Will Friedle
Friedle from Pod Meets World.
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Order now@shipt.com 360 terms apply foreign hello. Welcome to a very special Be Kind Rewind. We've surprised everyone in our Be Kind Rewind series as we usually bring back a cast member or a crew member to talk about one specific episode of Boy Meets World. Someone making a return appearance yet this week we have two very talented guests from a totally different Rewatch universe. It's a collaboration you definitely did not see coming. Welcome to the podcast. Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey of Office Ladies.
Will Friedle
We're very excited.
Danielle Fishel
Hi. We're so excited.
Will Friedle
Yes.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah, we are too.
Danielle Fishel
Are you okay? I was worried it was just going to be us.
Will Friedle
Yeah, we're pretty sure it was just going to be us the whole time. Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
My goodness, we are thrilled to have you here. So thank you for joining us. Did you guys have any backup names for the podcast before you came up with Office Ladies?
Jenna Fischer
Oh, did you guys? Did you have backup? Your name is.
Angela Kinsey
Your name is perfect. We had.
Ryder Strong
We had.
Will Friedle
We also had like Boy Meets Pod.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. Which my wife.
Will Friedle
The nostalgia couch was. At one point we had some where it was late night. It was like the 2 o' clock in the morning pitch where it's like, okay, that's obviously not a good one to go with, but. No, I think we just moved Pod around quite a bit until we hit Pod me twice.
Ryder Strong
But I remember we said pod me twirl. And we were like, well, that's what.
Angela Kinsey
It has to do.
Ryder Strong
It was like there was no other option.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah, well, we call each other Lady. Like, when we're talking to be like, lady, you will not believe what happened today, Lady.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah, we do.
Angela Kinsey
And then we were like, well, we are the Office Ladies. And then that just sort of stuck. We never had a backup.
Ryder Strong
When did you guys launch? Was it 2020?
Jenna Fischer
It was October of 2019.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah.
Ryder Strong
See, that's like we were talking about doing this back in 2018. 2019. And you guys really proved that the Rewatch thing was a thing.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. No one really gave you your flowers because as Ryder mentioned when we first started talking about doing this, there wasn't a Rewatch podcast out yet, and no one knew what it was. We were like, how do you. Do you do it? Do you watch the episode?
Ryder Strong
We were like, is it DVD commentary?
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Will Friedle
Do we Commentary? What's going on? I watched the show, know what to do. So thank you.
Danielle Fishel
You are leading the way and showed everybody truly what is possible.
Angela Kinsey
Thank you.
Danielle Fishel
And so the amount of times we said, if we can just do a fraction of what the Office Ladies do, we will have something there. So kudos to the two of you for being pioneers and trailblazers.
Jenna Fischer
It does mean a lot. And, you know, I don't know if you've noticed, but now, like, current television shows have, like, companion podcasts come out, like, in real time. That's sort of, I think, like a new iteration of the Rewatch.
Danielle Fishel
You're right. And if I may say, I think one of the reasons your podcast and now our podcasts work is because of the space and distance from the show. I think the companion piece, well, it is gonna be its own successful, wonderful thing.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
But one of the things I love about what we do is that there is, for us especially, we were children.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Ryder Strong
We're looking far back.
Danielle Fishel
Like, for us, it's like watching home movies and reliving, like, what was going on in our personal lives. And it's that for all of us.
Angela Kinsey
You can separate from it.
Danielle Fishel
Correct.
Angela Kinsey
I think the companion podcast with TV shows is sort of taking the place of what DVD commentaries were. It just feels a little bit like that.
Will Friedle
It's also another way to screw the actors, because now you sign the contract and it's also. The podcast is part of the contract.
Jenna Fischer
That's right.
Will Friedle
So it's like, hey, what else can we get from you?
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
Right.
Jenna Fischer
It's kind of true.
Will Friedle
It is.
Jenna Fischer
It's very true.
Angela Kinsey
It's true. Well, thank you for saying that, because Jen and I worked really hard at trying to figure out what our show was going to sound like. And, I mean, how many times did we do our, quote, our unofficial pilot?
Jenna Fischer
So, yeah, we actually started with Healthcare, which is not the first episode, but we were too afraid to start with the pilot, and we recorded Healthcare probably three times because we just thought it was cruddy the first couple times.
Angela Kinsey
Yes. And we just couldn't figure out really, like, okay, what's our top of show? What's it look like? And it just took us a beat to find it, and then we found it, and we also had to just.
Jenna Fischer
Figure out what were our roles, what were our jobs. And then we kind of figured out who does what what naturally.
Angela Kinsey
Just we both like to tackle. Yeah, yeah.
Danielle Fishel
No, but I mean, it is not. We are not being hyperbolic when we say that all that work you guys put into it, spare part we didn't.
Ryder Strong
Have to record three times.
Angela Kinsey
Exactly.
Will Friedle
You saved us all the work. Plus, when Ryder and I realized just put the bulk of the work on Danielle, Ye. It made everything a lot easier for Ryder and I.
Jenna Fischer
Well, I've listened to your podcast.
Angela Kinsey
Yes. You guys do a great job.
Jenna Fischer
I think you were right to put Danielle in charge and putting her as in charge.
Will Friedle
She is. She keeps us on charge.
Jenna Fischer
She has a wonderful structure.
Angela Kinsey
Yes. Also, your scene by scene, like, retelling is so good.
Danielle Fishel
Thank you.
Angela Kinsey
Like, you can follow the show. You really can.
Jenna Fischer
You can imagine it in your head.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
Thank you. I do really appreciate that they are honestly, the chemistry the same thing that you guys have. The stuff that you can't. You know, when you think about the three times you did the pilot or you did healthcare, it wasn't because your chemistry wasn't there. That's the part you can't fake. It's the part that is the real magic of it. And the rest of it's just kind of figuring out the nuts and bolts and that for us. Fake it pretty well once we figured.
Will Friedle
We fake it pretty well. Come on, be honest.
Jenna Fischer
Well, had you guys all still been in touch?
Ryder Strong
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
Yes.
Ryder Strong
It really came out of going to conventions together because we started and we were like, there's so many people that want to meet us and still talk about this show. You know, how do we, like, engage that audience?
Danielle Fishel
Well, it was a combination of doing the Q&As and hearing the questions the audience would ask of us in a Q and A. And then the face to face meet and greets where people would tell you how each episode impacted them or which character they felt the closest and most related to. And it was like one night, then after dinner, you know, everyone at these conventions goes to dinner together and we would sit around and have conversations and we'd think, how do we get this type of conversation to have the feeling at the Q and A? Like, how do we translate this to Q and A feeling? And how do we get their individual stories? And that's kind of what started it. What if we turned these conversations into a podcast? But you guys, seriously, we wouldn't have known even what to do at all without you.
Will Friedle
Yep. So thank you for doing that for us.
Angela Kinsey
I have to give a shout out to Jenna because Jenna's brain is so, like, able to see structure immediately. And really, the whole top of our show, like, the layout of it was Jenna's idea. And then I sort of would just share, you know, the things that, like, mean something to me. Like when I watch an episode or the things we clue into are very different. Like, I become obsessed with everyone's wardrobe.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
All the plants that cycled through front reception. And who's. Where are these plants coming from? Pam's not taking care of them. Yeah. And then. And then Jenna, what was Dwight.
Will Friedle
Because then when Dwight left during the salesman.
Angela Kinsey
The plants died. The plants died. Yeah. Yeah. Well, also, I think when Erin took over front reception, you saw a real dip in. Sorry. Sorry, Erin, but. And then Jenna would be like, well, I want to learn all about the location and, like, that production side of it. And. And then we're both just curious people in different ways.
Jenna Fischer
And we're also still in touch with our crew. And our crew has been such a big part of Office Ladies. Every single one of our production managers, they have. We had three different guys who had that job throughout the course of the nine years. We're in touch with all three of them. And for all of their seasons, they would give us behind the scenes tidbits. Like, they tell me, like, how much did it cost for Dwight to sing Ryan Started the Fire?
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
You know, how much was it? It was a lot.
Danielle Fishel
I don't remember.
Jenna Fischer
Off the top, you can go to this breakdown, and I tell you, it's.
Angela Kinsey
Always way more than you think. And then I would say, hey, can you tell me the cat actors that played, you know, Bandit and Sprinkles, I would get a whole, like, resume with photos.
Jenna Fischer
Did you know that cats have cat actors? They have little headshots.
Angela Kinsey
Yes.
Jenna Fischer
Not kidding.
Angela Kinsey
Yes. And it's.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. I had to cast a bunch of dogs for an episode of Lopez versus Lopez, and we got full dog resumes. I got the dog resumes. I got to go through and look at the app. It's pretty great.
Will Friedle
I want to be a cat agent. How awesome a job would that be?
Angela Kinsey
Career pivot.
Will Friedle
Just, like, sitting, like, I don't think you've got it. Kid. Little cat running away, all crying. Oh, that'd be the best.
Danielle Fishel
Well, something that's worth getting out of the way at the very beginning. Neither of you had seen an episode of Boy Meets World before we decided to do this little mashup. Right?
Jenna Fischer
This is true.
Angela Kinsey
This was not a full episode. I Don't think when you guys had.
Jenna Fischer
This show on the air, I was not in your demo.
Danielle Fishel
Okay?
Jenna Fischer
So I knew of the show and I knew of its popularity just in pop culture, but I had not seen it same.
Danielle Fishel
Okay, do you remember mentioning it on the Office?
Will Friedle
You know, you talk about Boy Meets World on the Office.
Angela Kinsey
What episode?
Danielle Fishel
Please explain this.
Jenna Fischer
Well, we do.
Will Friedle
You do. So last season, or second to last season, Dwight is now in charge of the Office, and he thinks that Jim and Pam can kind of read each other's minds. And he says, all right, so what are you thinking right now? And Pam says, thinking about the opening title sequence to Saved by the Bell. And you say, ooh, so close. Is the opening title sequence of Boy Meets World. So you. Do you actually met our show exists in your universe, which I think is kind of cool.
Jenna Fischer
So I remember watching.
Will Friedle
I was a huge fan. I remember watching you, like, ah, we got a shout out.
Angela Kinsey
That's so great. Yeah, I mean, I'm a smidge older than y' all.
Danielle Fishel
So you are familiar with TGIF because one of, if not your first acting gig was on Step by Step. Is this correct?
Angela Kinsey
That's right.
Danielle Fishel
Okay, what do you remember from that guest appearance?
Angela Kinsey
Oh, my goodness. So the lead gal is gonna. Her parents think she's going to elope, but she's not. And they show up at this church, and there is someone her size. I got cast just cause I was her size. And I auditioned for it. And it was one line, and I auditioned for it. And like three months later, it was like a really long time. They were like, oh, you got the part. And then I said, oh. And then I said, okay. And then I was like, did they give me any notes about it? And they said, oh. They said, just do exactly what you did in the audition. And I had no idea. And my scene is I'm at the altar and it was, oh, Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers. And I was like, oh, my God. I mean, I watch Dallas. I mean, reads Company, and they come running in this little chapel, and Suzanne Somers grabs my shoulder and whips me around and goes, you're not Simone. I still remember. This is so funny.
Danielle Fishel
I love this.
Angela Kinsey
She goes, you're not Simone. And I go, no, but thanks for ruining the best day of my life. And I did it so big. And the writer came over to me and goes, can you just kind of do it the way you did it? And I was like, I don't know. And I was too nervous to say, I don't remember. I Should have just said that. Can you tell me what I did?
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. Can you just give me a line?
Angela Kinsey
I will just do it exactly how you tell me to. But then I just was like. So then I just kind of started. Oh, I was so bad, y' all. I started saying it like, the. I would, like, hit a different word, you know, with the punch.
Ryder Strong
A different.
Will Friedle
Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
I would be like, oh, my God. Thanks for ruining the best day of our life. Like, it was.
Will Friedle
I mean, the best day of my life.
Angela Kinsey
And I just saw them over, like, you know how they sidebar in video game, the writers. Like, I saw him go like, oh, God. I was like, oh, no. It made it in, though. It's not good, but it made it in.
Danielle Fishel
I love you.
Ryder Strong
Over the top. Considering how subtle you guys are on the Office, like, that's like. Like, that's the greatest strength, right? Is like, it was a show that really brought, like, more realistic acting and, like, understated performances. And that's what struck me watching it. So it's hysterical that you can't.
Will Friedle
It's also kind of impressive to be over the top on tgif.
Danielle Fishel
I was too much.
Jenna Fischer
I know.
Will Friedle
That's amazing.
Angela Kinsey
I know. And I mean, I was doing sketch comedy, though, and I had all my characters, and honestly, I thought I was gonna get fired from the office. Cause my very first scene, and Jenna knows this story. All I had to say, you know, someone's gonna get fired. And all I had to say was, it'll probably be me. It's probably gonna be me. To Kevin.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
And Ken Kwapas came over to me, and I was like, it's probably gonna be me. And he goes, less. Just a half of that.
Danielle Fishel
Just.
Angela Kinsey
And so I was like, it'll probably be me. And he was a little bit less. By the time I said the line, I was like, like, it'll probably be me. And he was like, perfect.
Will Friedle
Perfect.
Angela Kinsey
And I was like, so that was my lesson 101. Right away, I was like, do nothing.
Danielle Fishel
Give us nothing, Queen.
Angela Kinsey
Yes. Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. Jenna, what did you watch as a kid?
Jenna Fischer
Oh, well, I loved Cheers.
Danielle Fishel
Oh, my gosh.
Jenna Fischer
That was a family favorite. I started rewatching it recently. And, man, the pilot of Cheers is a chef's kiss.
Will Friedle
It's one of the best pilots it's ever.
Danielle Fishel
I grudged it on a plane recently.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
And was like, this is beautiful.
Will Friedle
It really is.
Jenna Fischer
It's amazing. Shout out to the Breaking Bad pilot, which I think is also, like, one of the greatest news.
Will Friedle
Radio is another great one.
Jenna Fischer
Oh, I watched News Radio.
Will Friedle
News Radio is another great pilot.
Jenna Fischer
That was one that I loved. I also watched Wonder Years.
Danielle Fishel
Yes.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah. Golden Girls.
Will Friedle
Great show, Great show.
Jenna Fischer
So that was kind of. Those were the shows I watched growing up.
Danielle Fishel
Wow. You had good taste.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah, well, there, I don't know, it's what was on.
Ryder Strong
Yeah.
Will Friedle
There's also good TV showing. There was good choices.
Danielle Fishel
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Ryder Strong
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Danielle Fishel
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Will Friedle
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Danielle Fishel
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Ryder Strong
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Will Friedle
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Will Friedle
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Okay, so for this episode we have decided to pick an episode of our respective shows for the other podcast to watch, and then we're going to discuss it. The only real criteria was that we wanted an episode that was reflective of the show as a whole. So we chose one of our podcast favorite episodes, season four, episode two, which is called Hair Goon Tomorrow. Ryder, do you want to maybe break down why we chose this one?
Ryder Strong
I think it was a good one. It showed all of our strengths, I think, as characters. There's a lot of times on our show where it will be like one character's arc and everybody else is relegated to. I mean, Danielle isn't even in so many of the episodes. We realized watching back. So this was a good one for you. A good one for Will's story with the B story.
Will Friedle
Good A story. Good B story.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Will Friedle
Good balance.
Ryder Strong
And we actually got to talk to each other in this episode, which is kind of rare. They often sort of. It was, you know, me and Cory or Cory and Topanga, and this one integrated those two. So we just thought it was a good.
Will Friedle
Like, this could kind of be considered the start of the Sean Topanga friendship where you really see that the characters existed together, not just through Cory.
Angela Kinsey
They had that sweet moment in the bathroom. Where have you gone?
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. And it's really one of the first times we're season four of the show. It's one of the first times you understand that they know each other outside of just being related to Cory in some way.
Will Friedle
They really made Danielle feel like she was lucky to be there for, like. Like the first two or three seasons.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. Two or three.
Will Friedle
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
Oh, I felt pretty much the whole. The whole time. The whole time. Yeah, the. Pretty much the whole time I was there, they were like, well, yikes. We were going to say we were.
Jenna Fischer
Lucky to have you.
Will Friedle
That's what we say, too.
Danielle Fishel
Thank you very much.
Angela Kinsey
And she gave you a shoulder shrimp.
Danielle Fishel
So what would you guys say is the most valuable thing you have learned on your rewatch Journey of the Office?
Angela Kinsey
Oh, that's a good question. I mean, I mean, just right off the cuff for me, I would say I'm just thankful. Yeah, really, I'm just thankful that we got to be part of a show that means something to people and parents share it with their kids, and it's being passed down generations. And I'm thankful that I get to do this job with my best friend, who I love being creative with. And I was so worried when the show ended. There was that part of me that had this heartbreak that I would never get to be creative with Jenna again. So I Don't know. I don't know if that's what I learned, but I think I've learned a lot of gratitude, I guess.
Danielle Fishel
Yes.
Ryder Strong
That's great.
Jenna Fischer
So we've watched every episode now.
Danielle Fishel
Okay.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
And I think my biggest takeaway from that experience is that the show is really good the whole time. Yeah. So, like, I think as a cast or as, like, an Office family, there's maybe this little belief that earlier seasons were, quote, unquote, better or that, like, I don't know, like, I have some favorite episodes that are in season eight and season nine. And even after Steve left after season seven, there is still so much good in the show. And I think, of course, that was our fear when Steve left, was that the show would never be the same or not be as good or whatever. But in sitting and rewatching it, I just think there is so much growth in the different characters. And I think the other thing I learned is how fun it is to rewatch it, that there are all these little details in it that fans would talk to us about that I didn't remember. And I think getting to watch it with such separation from having done it, getting to watch it maybe through a fan's eyes, now I am a fan of what we did, and so I like to geek out with fans about it because I'm just as excited about little hidden stories storylines and deep cuts as they are.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah. And you have an appreciation for your other actors that, you know, there were a lot of scenes I wasn't in.
Will Friedle
Right.
Angela Kinsey
And so I wasn't there when they were filmed, and I didn't see how it played out. And then I get to go and watch it and be like, oh, my gosh, Phyllis, man, give her every line. She's so like. So we have this appreciation, too, I think, for other characters. And.
Will Friedle
Well, I was just gonna ask, who do you think is the most underappreciated character on the Office?
Danielle Fishel
Mm.
Jenna Fischer
Phyllis is a good choice. She's so solid and she's so funny, but then she'll break your heart.
Angela Kinsey
Break your heart. Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
When I was rewatching, I became completely tickled by Ryan DJ Novak, and he still has some line reads that are just some of my favorite.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah, I have a little bit of a. I mean, I also just. I'm so glad to hear it's apparently a universal experience, because your two answers are two of the things we have talked about so much. Like, one, recognizing that for us, especially as teenagers who were in so myopic and like, oh, my Life and my boyfriend. I've gotta really. My world should be high school and I'm being taken away from it. Like, I can look back on it now and have so much gratitude for the job, the show, the fact that I met my two best friends doing it, that we're still in touch, that we still get to talk about it. Like, we've talked about that so much. And then, exactly like you said, Jenna, we people for years would come up and talk to us about what the show meant to them and how certain episodes were important. They'd be like, you know that scene? And you're like, no, I don't know that scene. No, I'm sorry, I have no idea.
Ryder Strong
What you're talking about.
Danielle Fishel
I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember that. And now we see those little moments and we are fans of the show.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
And one thing that Will has brought up that I think is really is maybe the case for the Office as well. If you can recognize that there are sometimes many shows within the show, depending on which season you're in. It's like Boy Meets World started with a bunch of 12 year olds as the star. If you watch season one and two, you're gonna be looking at little kids experiencing junior high and then the beginning of high school. If you're watching in season four and five, you're seeing kids really well established in a high school dealing with real world problems, drinking, breakups, prom, all that kind of stuff. And then if you watch 6 and 7, you get, what the hell am.
Will Friedle
I watching right now? Which is where we are. We're in season six. We're like, that's just that what's going on, really, it's really crazy.
Danielle Fishel
But then it's college. And so if you can, if you, if you can eventually get to a place where you let go of like, well, what happened to the 12 year olds? Well, well, forget about that. This is season six and seven of Boy Meets World. It's kind of a new show within the show. It has its own. You take on your own appreciation.
Will Friedle
Well, that's what great TV does. And the Office is up there, I think, with rarefied television shows. MASH was like that, where again, you get people that are like the first four seasons best you'll ever get. And people are like, no, it's the middle ones. Well, no, the later seasons where they got dramatic are the best. The Office is just like that. People might have their version of the best version of the show, but you're always gonna Find other people that love something else about it. So that's what makes great tv. That's why it lasts. There's always something for someone. So, yeah, you guys are up there with very rarefied air with, yeah, your show.
Danielle Fishel
This is a bit of a niche podcast question, but I know for us, when people come up to us now and they were fans of Boy Meets World, but now they're fans of Pod Meets World, and they actually have. They know the inside jokes of the pod. They know the real people behind the characters now because they've gotten to know us as individual through the podcast. That has felt even more meaningful than any of the work we did on the show. Do you guys feel the same way?
Jenna Fischer
Yes. My husband will joke with me that if someone comes up and says, oh, my gosh, I love the Office, he's like, you're very polite. You'll take a picture. But if someone comes up and says, oh, my gosh, I love Office Ladies, he's like, you make them your new best friend in a way that is. You are. Are so proud of the podcast and the connections, but it's also the community. And I know you guys have a similarly, like. I don't know what you would call it, loyal community of listeners. And I mean, you guys know, I and Danielle, I mean, we have this in common. Like, I went through breast cancer and all last year, all the treatment. I mean, I can't tell you how the podcast helped carry me through that. But also our podcast listeners, the cards, the messages, the videos, like, it is a community that we've made that is separate from the office. There are office fans, and there's an office community, but there is an office ladies community that means so much to us and we're so proud to be a part of.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah, exactly. Couldn't agree with you more. The emails, the messages, the outpouring of support, the how funny they all are, too. Like, that they get it. The jokes they make when we post a picture of something and one of them makes a comment that's like, damn it, how did we not think to say that? You know, it's like they just. They understand us now in a way. We feel seen in a way that you don't normally feel when you're an actor.
Angela Kinsey
Well, a lot of people now talk to me and aren't afraid of me.
Jenna Fischer
That must be so nice to me.
Angela Kinsey
Because I'm very chatty. And for a long time, like, people would be like, oh, I would see someone say, oh, I saw you, and I wanted to say, Hi. But I was too afraid. And I'm like. And you know, if you come up and say hi to me, I'm going to talk your ear off. And at some point you're going to be like, I've got to go. And I'm like, no, we're still talking. So I think people now that this is true, like, know the podcast. They know that about me. And so we recently had some fan mail where someone said that her son, she introduced her mom to the show and the podcast and her son, this little kid, was like, oh, and Angela's not a bee in real life. And I was like, oh, thank you so much for writing in and saying.
Danielle Fishel
That Angela's not a bee in real life.
Angela Kinsey
I love it.
Danielle Fishel
Oh, my gosh. All right, let's jump into Hair today, goon tomorrow. So I would like to give our listeners a little synopsis before we jump in. So Topanga takes drastic measures to prove to Corey that looks aren't important. But when Topanga gets a stunning makeover, Cory starts to feel even more self conscious. So what were your overall thoughts on the episode? Jenna, let's start with you.
Jenna Fischer
My overall thought was that this was a beautiful episode of television.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
And surprising and touching and funny. And I just. I thought it was a pleasure.
Angela Kinsey
Thank you.
Jenna Fischer
That was my overall thought. And we did request, like, give us, like, a quintessential episode. And I have questions, but that was my overall.
Danielle Fishel
You'll lead with that. Okay, great. Angela, what about you?
Angela Kinsey
I just thought it touched on such real storylines, like, real things. I moved around a lot as a kid. I. Sometimes I wanted people to notice me. Sometimes I wanted to disappear as the new kid. And I just thought all of the things that the characters were going through about their own self image and how they fit in and the heart to hearts that the characters had. And also, I'm about to have two kids, hopefully in college, maybe not. So, like, what does that look like as a parent? And I also really related to your guest star actors. You had such great characters. Anyway, I just really loved it. I thought it was a great episode.
Danielle Fishel
We call those drive bys. When we get a guest star who comes in, is only there for one episode, has a handful of scenes, handful of lines, but they kill it. We're like, that's a perfect drive by.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah, you just cruise through, drop a comedy bomb, and so on, and you love it.
Jenna Fischer
I'll say it exceeded my expectations because the only thing I knew was that I was gonna watch a show, like, with teenagers kind of for Teenagers. And so it definitely was. I was like, oh, but this is also just a great episode of comedy television.
Angela Kinsey
Right.
Jenna Fischer
Like, it didn't feel like a kids show. Right. Like that.
Angela Kinsey
And the performances are really solid.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
Really good. They're very grounded.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah.
Will Friedle
Can we do this every week where just other shows come in and tell us we're awesome?
Jenna Fischer
Yeah.
Will Friedle
Cause that should be the new podcast.
Danielle Fishel
You have no real point of reference. Since you had never seen Boy Meets World, you had no real point of reference for the Cory and Topanga relationship.
Jenna Fischer
True.
Danielle Fishel
What were your first impressions of them as a couple?
Jenna Fischer
Oh, so sweet.
Danielle Fishel
So sweet. Okay. Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
And I also was like, are they always like that?
Will Friedle
No. Well, I was like a little red flaggy.
Angela Kinsey
Little red flag. My flight thought was, she's clearly crazy about you. Why are you constantly second guessing yourself? Was my one of my takeaways. I was like, this gal's crazy about me.
Danielle Fishel
Clearly loves you, by the way. That does continue to maintain that. Topanga very clearly loves Cory. Knows Cory. Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
Like, super hottie guy with the good locker. I love that he had a card for his locker. That's brilliant. But, yeah, she's like, no, thanks. I'm going out with Cory.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Will Friedle
Cory doesn't always reciprocate.
Danielle Fishel
We're not sure Cory knows anything about Tabernacle.
Will Friedle
He doesn't know anything about her, actually. They're just supposed to be together.
Danielle Fishel
That's what we know. He just feels like he has to be with her, but we're.
Will Friedle
But doesn't really like her all that much.
Jenna Fischer
That was, like, 90s, like, love stories, in an essence.
Danielle Fishel
You're right.
Jenna Fischer
You just tell me that it's true, and then. So we accept it.
Danielle Fishel
Correct. And Boy Meets World has a lot of that.
Will Friedle
Yes.
Danielle Fishel
Just tell me what the world is, and I have to buy into it.
Will Friedle
Yes.
Danielle Fishel
So growing up, did either of you want to act as a kid? Would you have wanted to be child actors?
Jenna Fischer
I wanted to not go to college.
Danielle Fishel
Okay. Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
So I was happy to finish high school. I actually loved my high school. I was in the theater club. Never got any lead roles, but I was itching to drive to Los Angeles when I graduated from high school.
Will Friedle
Okay.
Jenna Fischer
I knew what I wanted to do for a living, and my parents insisted that I go to college. And I'm really glad that they did because of just the emotional and social development of those four years. I think I would have probably been eaten alive if I had tried to come here. I graduated high school at 17, so if I had driven out to LA at 17 or 18. I just, I wouldn't have had the. I wouldn't have had the life skills because I would have been doing it on my own. I wouldn't have had the benefit of parents or anything. And so that was me. That was you?
Danielle Fishel
That's what Will did.
Will Friedle
Yeah, that was me. I moved out for Boy Meets World when I was 16, 17. I'm very close to my family.
Angela Kinsey
Yourself?
Will Friedle
Yeah. But, well, I, I had a legal guardian who was my oldest brother's fraternity brother who I'd met once before. We moved into the Oakwood together.
Angela Kinsey
Okay.
Will Friedle
And I didn't have those life skills. I mean it was one of those things where again, very close to my family, there's still around, thank God. And you know, they're great people but they, they're both lawyers so they knew. They're like, if you want to do this, you have to go. And I'm from Connecticut, so I moved out here and I would walk by a pile of wash and it was by the third time I go, that's right. I. I have to do it.
Danielle Fishel
I have to do it.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
Oh my gosh.
Will Friedle
So it was, yeah, I had that. I was in exactly that position and I didn't have the life skills. And they talk about it today where they're like, it's crazy. Some of the things that I mean. I started auditioning in New York and again my parents couldn't take me so they dropped me off of the bus and I take a three hour bus ride down in New York. I'd walk around the city, I'd do my audition. I was 12. And then I'd get back on the bus and I go back to Connecticut. So this was, it was that exact same thing where I didn't want to go to college. I knew what I wanted to do. I started working at 11, but I didn't have the. I have to cook for myself. I was eating fast food every night. It's like the things that aren't healthy because I didn't have the life skills to cope with it at the time.
Jenna Fischer
So, yeah, my parents were very supportive as well of me and they were like, as soon as I graduated college, they were like, let's pack up your car and you can head out. But also I think they had been saving for my college. My parents are just like very practical and they were like, we have saved this money and we don't want to buy more users. You will now use it.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
So yeah, yeah.
Danielle Fishel
So funny. Have either of you worked with a lot of Child actors.
Angela Kinsey
I mean. Well, on the show.
Danielle Fishel
Okay.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah. I mean, I worked. I mean, we had our babies. And you had a lot of work with the two little girls that played cece.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah, I also did a movie where I played a mother. I had a son. It was called A Little Help. And then I was on a TV show for two years on ABC called Splitting Up Together where I had three children.
Danielle Fishel
Wow. Three.
Jenna Fischer
And so two teenagers and then one little guy. Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
And I did a pilot or two and I've done. I mean, I play. I play Sabrina Carpenter's mom and Ava Michelle's mom in Tall Girl.
Danielle Fishel
That's right.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
Of course.
Angela Kinsey
I'm like more mom of teenagers or older kids than young.
Danielle Fishel
So funny. A Sabrina Carpenter connection between us. So Corey's big reveal that he looks the exact same, trying at least to convey a message of beauty comes from within. Did that message work for you in Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow.
Jenna Fischer
You know what, Danielle, you were. Were so beautiful before you cut your hair.
Danielle Fishel
Thank you.
Jenna Fischer
You were so beautiful. When your hair was uneven, I was.
Will Friedle
Like, that's one of the things we talk about where it's like, it doesn't kind of work.
Angela Kinsey
So beautiful.
Jenna Fischer
After.
Ryder Strong
I was like, what's the point?
Danielle Fishel
Does it really?
Ryder Strong
And we set it all up where, like, me and Ben are like, oh, look at her when she comes.
Will Friedle
Your hair is 4 inches shorter.
Angela Kinsey
You're completely different.
Danielle Fishel
Date you.
Ryder Strong
It's like, come on.
Danielle Fishel
I know.
Jenna Fischer
Yes, it was. So that part, I was a little bit like. It was part of that thing where it's like, okay, tell me what I have to buy into and I'll just go, I'll roll with it.
Angela Kinsey
I'm very stressed out. Because when you cut your hair off, I thought, oh, no, the next scene is she's gonna really, like, be like, well, then here's this, right?
Danielle Fishel
You thought it was gonna go.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah, I thought you were about to really, really cut it. Like a buzz cut or something.
Danielle Fishel
Right.
Will Friedle
That was the. Didn't you have to negotiate even to cut that much off?
Danielle Fishel
Yes. So the haircut, you know, I really did cut my hair. It was.
Jenna Fischer
That seemed clear.
Danielle Fishel
It was definitely my hair.
Angela Kinsey
You had your artist bag.
Danielle Fishel
I had my artist bag. So very clever. That's what I said.
Will Friedle
Gotta justify the scissors.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
That was a director move.
Angela Kinsey
So smart.
Danielle Fishel
Jeff McCracken.
Angela Kinsey
It's a nice heart bag.
Danielle Fishel
Uh huh. So that in the day, you know, I had asked to cut my hair during the hiatus. Can I cut my hair?
Jenna Fischer
So this was my question, like, how did this Come about.
Danielle Fishel
I was.
Jenna Fischer
I'm sure you talked about this on your original breakdown, but.
Angela Kinsey
Right.
Danielle Fishel
I threw you in. Yes.
Jenna Fischer
I didn't want to listen to it. I wanted to come into this.
Angela Kinsey
I feel like it was so nice that you asked that because there. Sometimes you've heard the stories. Like Felicity, remember, like, she cut her hair.
Danielle Fishel
We had a situation.
Jenna Fischer
Where was the storyline?
Angela Kinsey
I heard, uh, oh, hot goss. I heard she cut her hair over the summer.
Jenna Fischer
No.
Angela Kinsey
Yes.
Danielle Fishel
They were mad.
Ryder Strong
That's the version I always heard, too.
Danielle Fishel
And they were upset and they were.
Ryder Strong
Like, oh, my God.
Angela Kinsey
Yes. And they were freaking out. I had have nothing to back this up other than, I don't know.
Will Friedle
She was Feeny's niece on Boy Meets World. In my first on screen kiss with all the big hair.
Angela Kinsey
Oh, my gosh.
Ryder Strong
So I think the deep background that you guys should probably know before Danielle tells about this. Our show had a hair obsession.
Danielle Fishel
Complete hair obsession.
Jenna Fischer
Well, that's cool. Episode.
Ryder Strong
I think that part of the reason we were all cast was for our hair. Probably at that time. The real breakout episode of Boy Meets World was the fifth episode that we. Of the first season where we introduced the character of Topanga, was about Cory straightening his hair. And it goes disastrously wrong. And that was based on our executive producer's childhood. He had actually done that as a kid because he had Cory's hair in real life. And so he cast a bunch of, you know, people with big hair. And hair was always a big topic of conversation backstage how we. And whether. Whether we were allowed to cut her hair. Big conversation.
Will Friedle
So that was all going into being a kid, too. On a show, you just want to please the adults. So everything we did, we asked, can we cut our hair? Can I get a tattoo? Can I do this? Can I do whatever you want?
Danielle Fishel
We never thought there was a possibility we could get away with not asking.
Angela Kinsey
Right, right, right.
Danielle Fishel
So we. I had really wanted to cut my hair. I had only had one haircut in my entire life, and it was when I was 2. I had hair down to my butt from the time I was 2. And my hair at the end had little ringlet curls. And my mom at one point decided I needed a trim. And they just cut off those ringlet curls. And then I never had another haircut until that time I cut my hair on tv.
Angela Kinsey
Oh, you must have been so excited.
Danielle Fishel
I was so excited. I was really ready to get rid of it. I felt like I was gonna be, you know, I wanted to feel like an adult. It was gonna be my first adult haircut. And I asked. And Michael said, at first, no, absolutely not. No, no, no. And I continued. I persisted. And then he said, okay, at least let me write an episode about it. And I thought, okay. And of course, I was a little bummed. Cause here I'm asking in, like, June, and we don't go back to production. All right. I have to wait. And who knows when in the season it'll be? But then we get pretty early on in the season, we get this haircutting episode. And that day, right before I cut, Michael, our executive producer, said to me, show me where. Show me where you're planning on cutting. And I was like, here? Nope. Mm. Mm. Longer. Needs to be longer. And it was an actual negotiation. And there was a lot of stress about whether or not I was gonna listen. Cause he knew I had all the power with the scissors in my hand.
Will Friedle
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
I mean, you could just accidentally.
Danielle Fishel
Accidentally do whatever I want.
Will Friedle
That never crossed your mind, though?
Danielle Fishel
I was such a rule follower. I was.
Ryder Strong
Now, though. Now you would have.
Danielle Fishel
Now what?
Ryder Strong
If you want it down here, shaved.
Will Friedle
Your head the entire time.
Danielle Fishel
But, yeah, I was like, no, I think I erred on the side of. I think also my hairdresser had said to me, if you leave it longer, I can do more with the layers. You know, like, I need some room to play. So. So, yes, we definitely took it a little. A little safe.
Jenna Fischer
What was the audience reaction to you cutting your hair?
Danielle Fishel
Big gasp. Also, you'll be surprised to know we gave out pieces of my hair.
Angela Kinsey
What?
Danielle Fishel
Of course. In the audience, sure.
Angela Kinsey
No, I'm. I'm sorry. What are they, ebay? Is this a thing that. Would you give things to the audience?
Danielle Fishel
Oh, yeah, all the time. Signed scripts, hair, chunks of hair, sure. Props.
Will Friedle
Ben would throw his shirt into the crowd. Like, he'd take. We'd do this dance later in the. The guys would do a Backstreet Boys dance in front of the crowd for the. The later seasons. And Ben would always take his shirt off and throw it. Throw it in.
Ryder Strong
It was kind of a.
Will Friedle
It was like a big mock Backstreet Boy.
Angela Kinsey
So there was a show behind the show that was, like, your interactions with the audience.
Will Friedle
We had audience members. We had one family we lovingly, to their face, called the Stalkers, the Shear Family, who came to every episode for six seasons.
Ryder Strong
Six seasons, yeah.
Will Friedle
To the point where we put every episode. There was one episode where they're like, their grandmother had died, and they're like, she wanted us to be here. So they didn't. This One to the point where when Topanga and Cory get married, they're in the audience of the wedding to be there when they get married.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
But we.
Will Friedle
The other reason we never would have said anything about where we can cut. Where we can do is, is we were. Had a notorious executive producer who would fire people a lot.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Will Friedle
So the first season of the show we had, there were actors just getting dinged everywhere.
Angela Kinsey
Is this the hair guy?
Will Friedle
This. Is this the hair guy? Yes.
Angela Kinsey
Okay.
Will Friedle
And so we never really felt like we had job security.
Danielle Fishel
I mean, I was a replacement for someone who had gotten fired. Topanga was originally booked from some, you know, had a job.
Will Friedle
Someone else was the only original one. The rest of us replaced an actor. So the idea of, like, no, we're gonna do something without permission was.
Ryder Strong
It was always supposed to be Corey and his two best friends. So we had a revolving. We call it the death chair in the cafeteria.
Jenna Fischer
Because a kid would get fired up.
Ryder Strong
Third friend, and they just could not find somebody.
Will Friedle
So one day they just. Literally, that same episode, they just gave all of the best friends lines to Ryder and then they went, we're not getting another friend.
Ryder Strong
Yeah, yeah.
Will Friedle
It was a little crazy.
Ryder Strong
Terrifying.
Danielle Fishel
Another reason we chose this episode is because we have an incredible B story with our friend Will. Some kind of a famous good looking detective. Good looking guy.
Will Friedle
Yes.
Danielle Fishel
One big thing we have learned while rewatching is how you can give Will anything in a script and he's going to make it better than whatever was on the page. Just he could turn any simple line into a catchphrase, any simple line into a memorable thing, any scene into something that, you know, mildly funny, and it's massively funny. Do you have people. Are you those people from the office who are the cast members that whatever was on the script, you could just guarantee they're gonna make it better?
Jenna Fischer
Oh, well, Steve Rain, I would say.
Angela Kinsey
I think everybody, honestly, like, I felt like the whole ensemble could like take a line and just like absolutely tear it up.
Danielle Fishel
Right.
Angela Kinsey
And there would be table reads where their creed would just destroy all of us.
Jenna Fischer
You know, this is true.
Angela Kinsey
Or whoever had that storyline. And you would just be like, oh, man. And there was such a creative sort of celebration of those other characters in those moments, and especially as I was number eight on the call sheet. And when you saw your whole cast, like, just take in your moment and root for you, it meant so much because, you know, you held onto those storylines when you weren't in the A story as much. But. But yeah, we had a Good. We had a deep bench.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Will Friedle
Very deep bench.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah. That's a. That's a basketball.
Jenna Fischer
And we didn't. Thank you.
Ryder Strong
I needed that, too, I guess.
Will Friedle
Yeah. Writer needs sports ball metaphor.
Jenna Fischer
So we tended over our nine season to do the opposite, which was. We never fired anyone. We just kept adding people. So, like, by season nine, we had, like, 22 cast members.
Angela Kinsey
We had so many. I always felt so bad for our set PA because she was just, like, constantly running, like, where is everyone? We were a lot of. A lot of people to keep track of.
Ryder Strong
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
So never having seen the show before, you watched this one episode, a lot of fans give us a lot of praise for the show being a good mix of comedy and heart. How do you two feel? Would you ever watch another episode? How did, like, did you want to watch more? I would.
Jenna Fischer
I really appreciated this episode and its message. But the scene that got me. That is, like, just.
Danielle Fishel
Just.
Jenna Fischer
Is your scene with the townie.
Will Friedle
Oh, yeah.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
I did not know where that was going. And I was like, please don't make fun of her. Please don't make fun of her. Please don't make fun of her. And. Cause I'm like, this is a comedy. It's a sitcom. Where are we going with it?
Danielle Fishel
Easy joke.
Will Friedle
Easy joke.
Jenna Fischer
It was so beautiful. Thank you. It was just really great. And it was also your reaction. It was the way your eyes had this moment of realization where you had this compassion and kindness, and yet also like, oh, boy, I'm sitting across the table from the real world and I'm realizing what I have, and.
Will Friedle
Ooh.
Jenna Fischer
Yeah, it was. It was really powerful.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
I loved it. Oh, thank you.
Danielle Fishel
I also loved it and sang her praises when we did our original.
Will Friedle
That's another drive by where it's just like, she came in and she did that all week. She just kept finding these little moments, and by the end, we were like. I mean, she. You. You had her whole life right there in that. That one.
Angela Kinsey
And I. She broke my heart when she was like, you. Your parents help you, or. Yeah, that's how she said it. Yeah. And I was like, where is her family?
Danielle Fishel
Right?
Will Friedle
Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah. It's a great scene.
Danielle Fishel
What do you think of when you hear Amazon prime delivery trucks outside your home?
Ryder Strong
Your favorite streaming shows, of course, but.
Danielle Fishel
There is so much more. Whatever you love, that's what prime is.
Will Friedle
Prime helps you get more out of whatever passions you're into, and it helps you discover new ones.
Danielle Fishel
Just today, I bought a new makeup remover for my brushes and a few collagen masks that I sleep in. And Amazon prime is perfect for my never ending obsession with beauty products. Not only do I get what I need incredibly fast, I can find myself going down a rabbit hole for all new items I didn't even know existed. Nail Brightening treatment? Yes please. Green tea clay mask? Yes, add it to the haul.
Ryder Strong
And the fact that Amazon prime also puts hundreds of movies and TV shows right at your fingertips.
Will Friedle
It's more than just same day delivery. It's a place to explore your passions.
Danielle Fishel
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Will Friedle
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Danielle Fishel
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Will Friedle
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Ryder Strong
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Danielle Fishel
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Will Friedle
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Ryder Strong
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Danielle Fishel
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Will Friedle
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Ryder Strong
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Danielle Fishel
This is Danielle Fishel, Ryder Strong and.
Will Friedle
Will Friedle from Pod Meets World.
Danielle Fishel
For many, the American dream means starting your own business and working for yourself.
Ryder Strong
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Danielle Fishel
In every episode, hosts Austin Hankwitz and Janice Torres talk to small business owners about how they've grown and maintained their business and tackled the hurdles and challenges that come with being your own boss.
Will Friedle
From tracking money in and out to.
Danielle Fishel
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Ryder Strong
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Danielle Fishel
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Will Friedle
Barbecues Sunny days by the pool with my shirt on.
Danielle Fishel
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Danielle Fishel
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Will Friedle
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Ryder Strong
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Danielle Fishel
We all have that piece. You know the one, the thing that's so you. You've basically become known for it.
Will Friedle
And if you don't have yours yet, you'll find it on ebay.
Danielle Fishel
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Ryder Strong
Ebay is where you'll find those. One of a kind. Can't stop researching. Stay up. Dreaming about pieces again and again. Again.
Danielle Fishel
I'm talking that mew mew off the Runway. Red leather bomber, the Cousteau Barcelona top.
Will Friedle
With the cowboy on it, or that.
Ryder Strong
Patagonia fleece in the 2017 colorway.
Will Friedle
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Danielle Fishel
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Ryder Strong
Ebay is the place for pre loved and vintage fashion.
Will Friedle
EBay, things people love.
Danielle Fishel
Well, one of the things we thought would be fun is to play a little game.
Angela Kinsey
Oh, gosh, okay.
Danielle Fishel
I love it. Since this is your first Boy Meets World episode ever, you know nothing about our characters, pasts or future. So what we're going to do is list our three characters and for each we will give you some multiple choice options. And you have to decide which is true as something that does happen to our characters at some point. So does Sean A steal Corey's dad's watch to buy tickets to a Counting Crows concert only to learn that lying isn't worth it? Straight from lead singer Adam Dervitz's mouth.
Angela Kinsey
I mean, I feel like that's a yes.
Jenna Fischer
That feels like a yes to me.
Danielle Fishel
You think that or is it B? He joins a cult looking for unconditional acceptance and a sense of purpose. A cult joins a cult. Possibly.
Jenna Fischer
Okay.
Danielle Fishel
Or C, does he sign up for the school's student exchange program and is sent to Denver, where he meets a new girl and contemplates staying forever?
Jenna Fischer
So now all three of these actually happened, but I just have to. Oh, no, no.
Will Friedle
Only one of them.
Jenna Fischer
Only one of them really matters.
Will Friedle
True.
Ryder Strong
So where did. Where did I end up?
Jenna Fischer
So two of these are fake story.
Angela Kinsey
Correct.
Danielle Fishel
This is two truths and a lie. Or two lies and a truth.
Angela Kinsey
Whoever wrote them did a really good job.
Will Friedle
I know exactly who wrote them. He does them all the time, and it's his favorite thing in the world. That'd be producer Jensen over there.
Angela Kinsey
Way to go.
Will Friedle
Jensen loves this stuff.
Jenna Fischer
Okay, I think now. I think A is a trick. Okay, I think you're tricking me.
Angela Kinsey
I also don't know when Counting Crows was popular.
Danielle Fishel
It was in the 90s.
Will Friedle
Yeah, right around this time. The 90s.
Jenna Fischer
Okay, I'm going with the cult.
Danielle Fishel
You're going with Cult? I'm not gonna go with cult.
Jenna Fischer
Is that too big of a swing?
Angela Kinsey
No, I think that's too dark for tgif. Cult. Really?
Jenna Fischer
I don't know. I think we want to make cults funny in tgif. Maybe I can see it.
Angela Kinsey
I also like the foreign exchange student exchange.
Jenna Fischer
That's a good one.
Angela Kinsey
I see.
Danielle Fishel
New girl contemplates staying there forever.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah, but then did they have to build a set for that?
Danielle Fishel
For Denmark?
Jenna Fischer
Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
Yeah.
Jenna Fischer
I'm going with C. C is the one is the cult.
Danielle Fishel
No, B is the cult.
Angela Kinsey
No, B is the cult.
Jenna Fischer
Oh, I'm so sorry. B. The cult.
Danielle Fishel
I'm going C. You're going C. All right. Jenna's right. He joins a cult. He joins a cult.
Ryder Strong
Join a cult.
Will Friedle
Yes, he does.
Ryder Strong
First meet girls, and then, you know, I find life's purpose. And then my teacher gets into a motorcycle accident and I have a got a log and cry, come back into the floor.
Jenna Fischer
You know what? It is, too. Knowing you, I think you'd be very funny in that, and I think that.
Danielle Fishel
They would.
Angela Kinsey
Be very dramatic.
Danielle Fishel
All drama.
Ryder Strong
It is me breaking down. It is.
Jenna Fischer
What season?
Ryder Strong
This season. Right.
Will Friedle
Four.
Angela Kinsey
Season four.
Will Friedle
It's called Cult Fiction. Yeah, it's one of our more famous episodes.
Angela Kinsey
Cult Fiction. Okay, that's a good title.
Danielle Fishel
All right, does Topanga, A, join a rebellious rock band after feeling too boxed in by her perfect reputation? B, find out the great grandmother she believed was a civil rights activist was actually very problematic? Or C, get called out for gaining weight after her boyfriend seized the extra pound and suspects she might be pregnant.
Angela Kinsey
Good Lord. What is happening with the show?
Jenna Fischer
I know what it is. I know what it is.
Danielle Fishel
You do?
Jenna Fischer
It's C. I think it's C. Oh, that's so sad.
Angela Kinsey
I don't like any of my choices. Yeah, I'll go with Jenna.
Danielle Fishel
You're correct. Yes.
Angela Kinsey
Jenna's badass.
Will Friedle
And it was both of us. We both put on weight, and the producers called us to the office and said, we're writing an episode how you both got fat. We went, okay, that'll be great.
Danielle Fishel
Totally fine with that.
Will Friedle
Can you believe.
Angela Kinsey
And how old were you at that time?
Danielle Fishel
I was 23, 16 or 17.
Angela Kinsey
Oh, good night.
Will Friedle
Yeah.
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
Will Friedle
It's really funny, though.
Danielle Fishel
Okay. Three, does Eric, A, believe he's developed psychic abilities after hitting his head and predicting the future, like sneezing out lottery numbers? B, become a very popular life coach after motivating Corey's mom to take her real estate test? Test. Or C, open a pizza shop in Philadelphia called Crust the Process.
Jenna Fischer
This is too different. This is the hardest one.
Danielle Fishel
This is so funny.
Angela Kinsey
You're right.
Danielle Fishel
This is the hardest part.
Angela Kinsey
I could see you doing all of that, right?
Jenna Fischer
Like, you're my favorite.
Angela Kinsey
One of my favorite lines of yours in this episode is what you were like, I'm going to go out and get a job at night. In a row. The way. The way you sit in a room at night. Okay, okay. What is he. You know what. What's the name of the pizza place again?
Danielle Fishel
Crust the Process.
Angela Kinsey
Oh, man.
Jenna Fischer
I'm going a.
Danielle Fishel
You're going a. Believe he's developed psychic abilities after hitting his head and predicting the future. Like sneezing out lottery numbers.
Jenna Fischer
I think the sneezing out lottery numbers happened.
Angela Kinsey
Okay, that sounds so messy. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Crush Crust the Crest place. Press the process.
Danielle Fishel
Jenna is on fire.
Ryder Strong
You are a secret poems world fan.
Will Friedle
You've seen every episode, haven't you?
Danielle Fishel
You watched one and you know this show.
Will Friedle
Got it.
Jenna Fischer
I feel like I got. I have my finger on the pole.
Angela Kinsey
I have no idea. I am, like, all over the place.
Danielle Fishel
Well, before we wrap up our little rewind episode, do you have any other questions for us about the episode?
Angela Kinsey
Episode we do.
Danielle Fishel
Okay.
Angela Kinsey
All right. What do you want to bring up here, lady?
Jenna Fischer
I had a really silly question. We've sort of gone past this moment, but I. I wanted to know, how long did the audience have to wait while you got your hair evened out.
Danielle Fishel
So they didn't have to Wait, how did it work? We pre shot such a practical question. We pre shot on Wednesday. So our tape days, we started our week started on Friday, and then we had the live studio audience on Thursday. So Wednesday we pre taped my haircut episode. The haircut scene. I had to go home because, remember.
Ryder Strong
We had a Wednesday audience.
Danielle Fishel
We did have a Wednesday.
Ryder Strong
We had an audience for Wednesday.
Will Friedle
For big moments too.
Ryder Strong
It's gonna be a smaller audience so.
Danielle Fishel
We could have the audible gasp and all that. So we did have an audience there. And then that audience got let go. I went home that night. I remember going to Ruby's Diner with my family with my mismatched haircut. And then Thursday came in, got my haircut Thursday morning, and there was some stuff we had to do with me with the uneven hair first. Then in between the pre tape of Thursday and the audience show, I got my full haircut.
Angela Kinsey
Nice.
Will Friedle
I didn't hear anything after Ruby's. How good were those burgers?
Danielle Fishel
So good.
Will Friedle
Oh, God, I missed it.
Danielle Fishel
Rubies and fried milkshakes.
Angela Kinsey
Well, I have two things.
Jenna Fischer
One.
Angela Kinsey
I worked with Dom Marrera, and so I thought that was so great. The minute he came on the screen, I was like, oh, my gosh, isn't he the best? He's the best. He directed a sketch comedy show I did called Hot Towel.
Danielle Fishel
Oh, I love that. Yeah.
Angela Kinsey
And then I have to tell you my favorite line of the whole episode.
Danielle Fishel
Yes, please.
Angela Kinsey
This outfit with this hair.
Danielle Fishel
Hello.
Angela Kinsey
Hello.
Danielle Fishel
Bye.
Angela Kinsey
Bye. I am so at the mall.
Ryder Strong
I'm famous off coded.
Angela Kinsey
I want to, like, say, I want, like, my daughter and I to start saying that now because it's so good.
Danielle Fishel
People will love you for it. They'll know what it's from. It's a famous line.
Angela Kinsey
It's a famous line. And then I just love the little, little touches. Jenna and I always love a background catch. And I love what they wrote under your pictures in the yearbook.
Will Friedle
I'm not an animal under Queen of the Hotties. I'm a human being.
Angela Kinsey
And then. Wait, wait. There's enough for everybody. Yes.
Danielle Fishel
Well, this was so incredibly fun. If you've enjoyed part one of the collaboration you never saw coming between Office Ladies and Pod Meets World, then you will definitely enjoy part two. In part one, we talked about Boy Meets World. In part two, we talk about the Office. So if you want to listen to part two, you're gonna have to head over to Office Ladies feed and listen to that on June 11th. Pod Meets World is an iHeart podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fishel. Will Friedle and Ryder Strong, executive producers Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman, executive in charge of production Danielle Romo, producer and editor Tara Sudba, producer Matty Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World super fan Easton Allen. Our theme song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon. Follow us on Instagram odmeatsworldshow or email us at podmeatsworldshowmail.com I already love Same.
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Podcast Summary: Pod Meets World – Special Episode with Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey of Office Ladies
Podcast Information:
In this special episode of Pod Meets World, hosts Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Ryder Strong welcome Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey from the popular Office Ladies podcast. This unexpected collaboration bridges two beloved rewatch communities, offering fans a unique blend of insights from both "Boy Meets World" and "The Office."
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The hosts express their excitement about the collaboration, highlighting the synergy between Pod Meets World and Office Ladies. Danielle shares how surprising and delightful it was to bring together two different but equally passionate fan bases.
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Jenna and Angela discuss the origins and evolution of rewatch podcasts. They reflect on how Office Ladies pioneered the format back in 2019, inspiring others like Pod Meets World to explore similar avenues with different shows.
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The conversation delves into the nuances of rewatching different shows. Jenna and Angela share their experiences with The Office, emphasizing character development and the show's enduring appeal. They draw parallels to Boy Meets World, discussing how revisiting episodes brings new insights and appreciation.
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Guests share personal anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories from The Office, highlighting the importance of cast chemistry and character relationships. They discuss how these elements contribute to the success of rewatch podcasts and enhance fan engagement.
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Both podcasts emphasize the strong sense of community among their listeners. Jenna and Angela express gratitude for the support and interaction from their audience, similar to Pod Meets World, fostering a loyal and engaged listener base.
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The hosts and guests analyze the "Boy Meets World" episode "Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow." They discuss the episode's themes of self-image, personal growth, and the message that beauty comes from within. Jenna and Angela share their interpretations and emotional reactions to key scenes.
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Adding a fun twist, the hosts and guests engage in a trivia game about "Boy Meets World." Despite their primary focus on different shows, Jenna and Angela reveal surprising knowledge about Boy Meets World, leading to entertaining moments and laughter.
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The discussion highlights specific memorable moments and quotes from both "The Office" and "Boy Meets World." Jenna and Angela reflect on impactful scenes, character developments, and lines that resonate with fans, underscoring the timelessness of these shows.
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As the episode wraps up, the hosts and guests reflect on the joy of revisiting beloved shows and the importance of community in sustaining these rewatch podcasts. They tease future collaborations and encourage listeners to tune into upcoming episodes for more engaging discussions.
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Key Takeaways:
Recommended For: Fans of "Boy Meets World" and "The Office" looking to delve deeper into their favorite shows, discover behind-the-scenes insights, and enjoy engaging conversations between beloved podcast hosts.