You Wish!

Summary

Podcast Summary: Pod Meets World – Episode "You Wish!"

Podcast Information:

• Title: Pod Meets World
• Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts
• Episode: You Wish!
• Release Date: April 23, 2025

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I. Introduction

In the "You Wish!" episode of Pod Meets World, hosts Sabrina and Will delve into their review of the 2003 fantasy comedy film You Wish!. Drawing parallels to the beloved Disney Channel Original Movies (DCOMs), Sabrina and Will dissect the film's plot, production choices, cast performances, and overall execution. Throughout the episode, they intersperse their analysis with engaging segments, including a Latin quiz and a unique movie rating system, all while maintaining a conversational and humorous tone.

II. Movie Review: You Wish!

a. Plot Summary

You Wish! centers around Alex Lansing, a high school athlete who, frustrated with his annoying little brother Stevie, wishes for Stevie to disappear. Overnight, Alex awakens in an alternate reality where Stevie never existed, only to discover that life without his brother isn't as perfect as he imagined. The film explores themes of family, responsibility, and the unintended consequences of one's wishes.

Notable Quote:

"Alex thinks his wish has granted him a perfect life, but soon realizes he's lost something invaluable."
(Sabrina, 09:24)

b. Production Notes

One of the standout points Sabrina and Will discuss is the film's unconventional filming location. Unlike many DCOMs filmed in familiar settings like Utah or Canada, You Wish! was shot in West Auckland, New Zealand. This choice led to noticeable discrepancies in the film's backdrop, such as snowy mountaintops and urban streets that confused both hosts.

Notable Quote:

"Why did they cast so many foreigners? And then realize they're shooting in New Zealand. It just threw everything off."
(Will, 06:05)

c. Acting & Cast Performance

The hosts commend the talented young cast, highlighting AJ Trout's portrayal of Alex Lansing and Spencer Breslin's role as Stevie. They appreciate the chemistry between the actors but note that certain character developments felt forced or unexplained within the storyline.

Notable Quote:

"The little sibling friction is normal, but the way Stevie ruins Alex's life was just messed up."
(Sabrina, 23:05)

d. Criticisms & Script Concerns

Sabrina and Will express significant frustrations with the film's scripting and plot coherence. They point out numerous scenes that seemed out of place or lacked proper explanation, such as random character actions and inconsistent plot devices. The transition to Stevie becoming a TV star named Terrence Russell McCormick further muddled the storyline, leaving both hosts perplexed.

Notable Quote:

"This script was very muddled. There were scenes that made no sense, just unexplained stuff happening."
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III. Special Segments

a. I Saved Latin Quiz

In a lighthearted break from their review, Sabrina and Will engage in the "I Saved Latin" segment, testing their knowledge of Latin phrases. Questions like "Amor vincit omnia" and "Tempus fugit" add an educational twist, though Sabrina and Will find themselves struggling with some translations.

Notable Quote:

"Amor vincit omnia means love conquers all."
(Sabrina, 78:27)

b. Movie Rating: Sloozy Magoozies

Adopting their unique rating system, Sabrina and Will critique You Wish! using "Sloozy Magoozies," a playful metric they've developed for their assessments. Despite the film's shortcomings, they acknowledge the effort behind its creation, ultimately assigning it a middling score.

Notable Quote:

"This movie should just be called Confusion. It was so strange."
(Sabrina, 88:12)

Final Rating:

• Sabrina: 5.5 Sloozy Magoozies
• Will: 6 Sloozy Magoozies

IV. Conclusion

In wrapping up the episode, Sabrina and Will reflect on the importance of coherent storytelling and character development in creating engaging and meaningful films. While You Wish! boasts a talented cast and ambitious themes, its execution leaves much to be desired. The hosts advocate for more thoughtful scriptwriting to fully realize the potential of such narratives.

Notable Quote:

"You have to appreciate what you have because one day it might not be there."
(Sabrina, 46:14)

Sabrina and Will invite listeners to stay tuned for future episodes, promising more reviews, interviews, and entertaining segments that celebrate iconic storytelling and behind-the-scenes insights.

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Key Takeaways:

• You Wish! attempts to blend family dynamics with fantasy elements but falters due to inconsistent scripting and plot inconsistencies.
• The choice of filming location in New Zealand introduced unintended visual discrepancies that detracted from the film's setting.
• Despite its flaws, the film features a commendable young cast whose performances add depth to the narrative.
• Sabrina and Will emphasize the significance of well-constructed scripts in delivering impactful and relatable stories.

Overall Rating: 5.5 - 6 Sloozy Magoozies

End of Summary

Transcript

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[Sabrina]

All right, Sabrina, old school drinking game. You have one wish. What is it? Go.

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Old school drinking?

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Yeah, you know, because it's just your. Your friends are sitting around drinking and it's always ends up with the. All right, you got one wish and it can't be for 50 more wishes. What do you wish for?

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Oh, I don't know. I'm so bad at stuff like that. I really don't have, like a have.

[Sabrina]

You don't have something that you really thought you could wish for? Like, if you had what you. I wish I could fly. I wish I could. It's like, nothing like that. Money? No, no. I wish I was six feet tall. Nothing.

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No. Oh, my gosh. No, no. I really. I mean, no, I wish I.

[Sabrina]

There's a fun game.

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So many memories. I know. This is terrible. I'm the worst I have. So I would go down more like my memory. I wish I could relive, like, meeting my kids for the first time. Being in that first, like, couple of months with Jordan, being on the road with the Cheetah Girls. Like, I would relive. That would be my wish, to be able to, like, relive.

[Sabrina]

Can that be like a do over life?

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Not a do over, just like to just go back and see it again and see if I would see it differently or whatever. I wouldn't want to change anything. Just, like, kind of relive that again. I. I love those memories that I have. I. I feel like I've had such incredible experiences so far that it'd be amazing. I don't know what else I could do to top off some of my.

[Sabrina]

That's okay, that's fair. That's a good one. I like that. I like that.

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What about you? Oh, God.

[Sabrina]

I would want to relive the first time I meet your kids. That would be what I would pick. No, I would break my own rules and wish for 100 more wishes. Everybody knows that. So. Yeah. Come on. Duh. Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab your friends, your PJs and your popcorn and go back to a time when all the houses were smart. The wave tsunamis. And there Are exclamation points at the end of movies. Yes, we've got another one. It's another week of magical rewind and your wish has been granted. We're covering 2003's fantasy comedy you wish. And yes, we're back with an exclamation point. A tradition we've celebrated a few times before with DCOM's Brink bring jump in and let it shine. All movies we'd enjoy to some degree. I got some ish, as the kids say, for my brink recap, but that's okay. So we're gonna see if we can keep the streak of exclamation points alive. You Wish first aired on January 10, 2003. And once again, it's based on a novel. This time it's Jackie French. Caller's if I had a wish, first released in 1991. This is Caller's best selling book and the only one that was turned into a movie. And even though of course we're seeing some similarities, there is one big glaring difference with you wish. It was not filmed in Utah. It was not filmed in Canada.

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It wasn't.

[Sabrina]

It wasn't even filmed in the United States. You wish was filmed in Ready? New Zealand. Why, Sabrina, did you notice the massive shift here? I mean, I'm nervous if it threw you off not to see the snowy mountaintops of Salt Lake City or the streets that are quite clearly somewhere in Canada.

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Oh, I thought that the city life looked like it was Toronto. That looks like Toronto to me. When he was. When the two of them. Okay, anyway, all right.

[Sabrina]

I noticed several. I noticed several of the actors hiding accents. I was like, why did they cast so many foreigners? And then I realized they're shooting in New Zealand. And then I thought to myself, wow, they're moving an entire production to New Zealand. That. Where New Zealand isn't necessary. Know what I mean? It's not like Lord of the Rings where New Zealand is a character. This could have been shot anywhere.

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[Sabrina]

It's called Johnny's back on the board.

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Is it called that?

[Sabrina]

Isn't that what it is like, John? Like is. No. Isn't it like Johnny back on the board or something?

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I do sometimes. Will. I don't. I don't just instantly agree with you anymore.

[Sabrina]

I thought that's what it's called.

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It's like Johnny Kapahala back on board. Okay. Anyway, that one, I think Brandon told us was filmed in New Zealand.

[Sabrina]

But that's like, you need exactly this one. You didn't need New Zealand. And it makes you wonder why. Maybe they save money by filming it there, but then you have to fly everybody over. It was strange, but no. Maybe they just like this movie. They couldn't find their coin to flip to find out where to go, so they ended up in New Zealand. See what? I brought it right back around. In addition to Studio west in West Auckland, New Zealand, they also shot scenes at Takapuna Grammar School. Now, this specific movie genre of a kid making a wish that doesn't come true is very common. Some notable examples include Big Freaky Friday, which did get a DCOM version 13 going on 30. Liar, liar. And Disney's the Kid, which. Spoiler alert. Which will come up later. Are you a fan of this kind of movie? The kid makes a wish, it comes true, and he finds out his life isn't exactly what he wished for.

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Yeah, I mean, I'll get on board with it. It's not something that you're like, oh, I wonder what's gonna happen when he goes to sleep.

[Sabrina]

There's a twist.

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Yeah, it is a little, you know, predictable, but I'm on board with it. Why not? If you can have a wish and wake up and it actually comes true, that'd be crazy.

[Sabrina]

I agree. I think it's. What? There's a reason why movies like, they make 15 versions of movies like this. It's because it works. You can play within the trope. You know, you've got an outline for, you mix up how you're going to do it. Hey, I'm want to be a kid. I want to be an adult. It's cool. I like it.

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[Sabrina]

Yeah. Now, once again, the question we always ask, did you know anything about this movie before we started our wonderful podcast?

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Not anything. But I did recognize, at least, well, the three of the main actors in it. So I was kind of right away they came onto the screen and was like, oh, cool. So I knew nothing about the movie. I had no idea what it was going to be about. About. But I definitely recognize the actors from the channel.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, same. I knew nothing of this movie, and I recognized two of the actors, but yeah, well, here we go. So get your coin collections out. It's time for the synopsis. After a teenager makes a wish that his annoying little brother would disappear, he wakes up in a world where his brother never existed. But he quickly realizes that life without his family isn't as perfect as it seems. Now, before we go any farther, you of course, can check out yout Wish on Disney plus, where it's currently available to stream. You can watch now or watch it later. No skin off our back. But that's because we both have a medical condition where we have no skin on our back. It makes decisions like these very easy, but generally it's excruciatingly painful. Sabrina, what were your thoughts on you wish?

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Like I said, okay, I see where we're going. This, you know, wish type thing. Okay. So I kind of felt like I already knew what to expect without throughout the movie. And my early thoughts were just kind of the relationship. I was really intrigued on the relationship between the. The two characters that seemed like they had a love interest, but then not because he was kind of being douchey and wanted to go towards the, like, cooler cheerleader.

[Sabrina]

Sure.

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So it's kind of like I was interested. I guess that's what I say. I was really actually interested as it first started happening and then my interest started to dive a little bit. What about you, Will?

[Sabrina]

I had just started to die a little bit. I didn't get this movie. This was a weird, weird movie. Like, again, we've said this now a number of times where we look at young actors that are good. There was a lot of very strong actors in this cast. I thought the main guy was personable. The little brother plays a great little brother. He's kind of played that in a number of different things. He's very good at that. The love interest, she was great. I just didn't get the movie. The movie itself was really, really weird. Yeah. So. And. And just some of the choices that were made with. With the script was kind of like, this is. It was weird. And we'll get into it. My first thoughts were, huh? And then it went to. And then it went to what? So, all right, yeah, that's what I was thinking. But. Well, just when we thought we were out, they keep pulling us back in. We've returned to our comfort. Director Paul Hoen. Another Paul Hoen movie. This man directs everything. At this point, our podcast should just be called Hoenn. Sweet Hoenn. He is the king of the medium. He really is. So once again, as if we even have to keep saying this, he started his career directing TV shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and the Secret World of Alex Mack. And then just lined up dcom after dcom. Luck of the Irish True Confessions. I'm just gonna keep quiet while our audience continues the list. Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off. Read it and weep. Just for Kicks Jump in, Cheetah Girls One World, Camp Rock 2, Let It Shine. And of course, the greatest film of all time, Dadnapped. He is now the man running the successful zombies franchise, which is about to get its fourth movie very soon. I can't wait to do the second one. We here at Magical Rewind are true. Hoenn Bodies. I was gonna say Hoenn heads. That sounds weird. We're Hoennators. There's plenty of ways. We're Paul Hoenn.

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[Sabrina]

Hoenn Bodies.

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I don't know. I think we need it. I think we're still workshopping that one.

[Sabrina]

We're workshopping the name. That's fair. That's a. That's a fair workshop. You can hear our interview with the master himself right now in the dedicated Magical Rewind feed. Really? Go check it out. The man has been at the helm of just banger after banger, and it was a really fun interview and we'll hopefully get him on. We'd love to have him on for every movie, but then we wouldn't have another guest.

[Will]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Ever. So. Yeah. Speaking of stars and hopeful guests, the movie stars AJ Trout as Alex Lansing. AJ Is best known as Alan Twitty from the hit Disney show Even Stevens with my old friend Christy Carlson, a role he reprised for the spinoff DCOM. Of course, he also appeared on 7th Heaven Kin Possible. I don't know why I did Drakken's voice when that's not who I played House and Franklin and Bash. And back in 2002, he formed a band with his brothers called Maven, and they could be heard on the Herbie Fully Loaded soundtrack. Man, I wish my brothers were musical, even slightly, because it would have been cool to have a band with them. And of course, Spencer Breslin plays that little brother, Stevie. Spencer's first big role was in the Disney movie the Kid. Told you it was coming back that alongside with Bruce Willis. But then Spencer would appear in some big movies, including Meet the Parents, The Santa Clause 2 and 3, the cat in the Hat, and the Happening. And he is the brother of actress Abigail Breslin, best known for Little Miss Sunshine, which was one of my favorite movies ever. It was a great movie. Lalaine plays Abby, known by just one name, like Shara Zendaya. Oh, God, I love that. Lalanne or Blippi, of course. She is best known to our audience as miranda on Lizzie McGuire and from the movie Easy A. She also had a record deal at Warner Music and played bass in the band Vanity theater. Everybody that works on the channel is multi talented. It's crazy.

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[Sabrina]

And we've got quite the actor in the Dabney Reynolds chair for this movie this week. Tim Reed is Larry Pendragon. Reed is best known from a string of big TV shows. First as Venus Flytrap. Ugh. Great character, great show. On the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati. Sorry, had to do the theme song. Then as Downtown Brown and Simon. And Simon. Then as Ray Campbell on the TGIF hit Sister Sister. You might also recognize him from Stephen King's it that was the TV movie version. And that 70s show or another dcom we have recently. Well, I guess it wasn't too recent ago, was it? Reviewed Alley Cat Strike where he played the mayor. He has a ton of credits over the years and is still a working actor today. He's a great, hey, that guy. Kind of actor. He's been and everything. Also worth noting, like we see in Canada, there are a lot of great New Zealand local hires in the movie and that's where you could hear a lot of accents kind of being pulled back a little bit. Yeah. Now we get into some unfortunates. The movie is, wait for it a hundred minutes. Ooh, tough start there as that's 10 minutes past the bullseye. And I think we all know by this point the perfect runtime is 90 minutes. That is not an opinion. That is fact, people. So 10 minutes later. True fact. Truly a nightmare here. But we have to say it. This movie is officially. Say it with me, Sabrina. Too long.

[Will]

It's too long.

[Sabrina]

The writing credit is split up once again, starting with the writer of the book, of course, Jackie French Kohler. This is her only TV or movie credit. Then we've got the writing team of Christopher Reed and Cynthia Carle in charge of the screenplay. They are best known for writing the supernatural basketball movie of 1997, the Sixth man, which they wrote together. But Carl was also an actress who appeared on Family Ties, Benson and the Client. Three great shows.

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[Sabrina]

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No. You know, okay, I tried so many times. It wasn't coins like this, like, cool. Different coins. It was just quarters.

[Sabrina]

Tried to have a coin collection?

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Yes.

[Sabrina]

But then I'd always one fail to have a coin collection.

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I would just like end up wanting to buy something and I would use them and Can I, can I just.

[Sabrina]

Let you know if you're just collecting quarters to spend on stuff, that's not a coin collection.

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I know, it's a piggy bank. No, no. I would try to get quarters. I would always like look at quarters to see the dates on them. I was trying to get like different years and like line them up and whatever. But then like something would come up and I'd need to get something and buy something and you know, me and my friends would like have it and we'd like go up to like, the Vons and buy something or whatever.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, Not. Not a coin collection.

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That's just quarters. I would try. That's what I was laughing like. I would always kind of try and I would always fail. Like, I was never good at that. I'm still not good at that, guys. Still, saving money is not my thing. It's my. Luckily, it's my husband's thing.

[Sabrina]

So I love. Yeah, I love coin collections. I ha. I have a very small one. None of them worth anything. It's more like the history of stuff. And fans have sent me. Knew that I loved, like, ancient Roman stuff, so they'd send me Roman coins. So I've got a couple cool things, but I can't ever remember looking at my bros going, hey, man, this weekend, you, me, right. Coin shop.

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Like, I think the only coins I would have is, like, a collection. Or when I've traveled out of the country and forgot to, like, put my.

[Sabrina]

Again, not a collection. That's just you not changing in your coins. You and I are gonna. Are gonna start working on the word collection. Eventually, Alex and Stevie get home and are greeted by their parents. They explain there is a pet adoption at the park and they're thinking about getting a pet. The kids are obviously very excited. Going back and forth between a rabbit or a dog. All smiles. And for the first time in a while, the family seems fully functional. There doesn't seem to be any dcom trope going on. Both the parents are together. It seems like a close family. You have a little brother friction. But that's totally normal in every family. So it seems like they're setting up. This is a completely normal, functional family. We now find ourselves at the county park Pet Day. And there are a lot of options. Some very strange. It's almost like a farm. There's birds and hamsters and a bounce house. Alex stumbles on a bulldog and runs to his family to have them check it out. But Stevie has already picked a turkey.

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I don't get it. I.

[Sabrina]

A turkey.

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This is when I went, oh, no. Are we gonna do oh, no?

[Sabrina]

Like, it just if this started. Like, no one picks a turkey.

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[Sabrina]

Even a little kid's not gonna pick turkey.

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Well, okay, okay. That.

[Sabrina]

Okay, okay.

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So my cousin lives on a farm. She might pick a turkey. She might pick. She lives on a farm. She has a chicken coop. Like a rooster is needed to. You know, there's a turkey that they have and she. That's what they. Thanksgiving like, Right? It's like that kind of. Look, these kids, these people Live in the suburbs. Like, there's zero reason. Where is this turkey? Like, turkeys don't. They don't live in a house, which is what they tried to do.

[Sabrina]

They.

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They have to have, like, a pen. Like, turkeys are aggressive also, by the way. They cannot be trusted.

[Sabrina]

And I'm guessing Stevie's gonna cry when they slaughter this thing for dinner.

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Exactly.

[Sabrina]

Which is what. What having a pet turkey should be about. And. And I also. Alex gets no say. They're setting up that this kid gets no say in his life whatsoever. That's no say with the pets. The kid is always getting him into trouble. It was starting to be like, did you have. You had pets growing up? What was your turkey's name growing up?

[Will]

I should.

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My turkey's name. No, I didn't have a turkey. I had nothing like that. There's no way my parents would have ever gotten something like that. I. Okay, that's not.

[Sabrina]

What did you get? What, did you grow up with pets your whole life?

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Yes, I had. Well, yes, I think my first pet was when I was probably six or seven. It was my dog Bandit. We've talked about him, how he used to roam around. He was, you know, the pimp of the. The neighborhood. And the dog. Sure. And then I had a little kitten I got. After I did a movie with Angela Lansbury, and my character's name was Fritzi, and I loved that name, so I named her Fritzi. And since then. Yeah. So then I got. When I moved out, I got my first dog, Rocky. I've got another dog, Emily, and I probably won't ever.

[Sabrina]

I thought you were gonna say you named your cat Angela Lansbury, which would have been.

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That would have been awesome. I was a junior. I was, like, in sixth or seventh grade. I wasn't cool like that. To think of something.

[Sabrina]

Now that makes sense. Makes sense. My first pet was named Charcoal, and he was a gerbil, and he was killed by my second pets who were cats. Yeah, see, I don't want to get into it.

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Gerbils are.

[Sabrina]

Don't start with me in charcoal. I don't want to get into it. I can't. I haven't. I haven't put the pain behind me, and I don't want.

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Oh, my gosh. Well, that. That will never happen. Gerbils or hamsters or anything of the sort in the house will not happen with me.

[Sabrina]

I know what I'm getting you for Christmas. You're now back at home, and the brothers are getting to know their new. And Alex thinks of Course, it's the grossest thing he's ever seen because it is disgusting. And so do the high school athlete jocks who happen to stroll by. They're wearing their letterman jackets, which is how we know we hate them. They're a bunch of douche. I mean, like, they're just the douche team. They're holding a giant pizza and they're led by a jerk named Gary.

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Gary.

[Sabrina]

Shout out to my older brother Gary. But anyway, the jocks who are Alex's football teammates apparently, so it's not like he's the total lame o he's also on the team. Ridicule him about the turkey, as I would too. And I don't like to bully people. And I still would ridicule you about your pet turkey. Stevie decides to not only stand up for his animal, but for his brother too, which of course infuriates the jocks. Alex sends Stevie back into the house just in time to miss Gary dump a full pizza. The pizza they're carrying on his big brother's head all in front of the turkey, who's obviously judging them, but who wastes a perfectly good pizza that you've obviously gone out to get?

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Thoughts? Exactly.

[Sabrina]

I like, now you all have to turn around and go by like, hey, thanks, Gary. We're all starving.

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Yeah, if they had multiple pizzas, maybe that would have made me feel better.

[Sabrina]

Or take a slice and smack it in his face. But you just ruined your whole pizza, Gary.

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This is like the weirdest way to, like, bully someone. Bully somebody is so strange. I don't know.

[Sabrina]

I also thought about how hot the cheese and the. And the sauce would have been on his head and he could have burned his face. Yeah, this was weird.

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And it was just rude all around.

[Sabrina]

This is where the weirdness started. Yeah, we find out. Of course, this is not the first time Stevie has gotten Alex in trouble. We see home videos of their childhood where Stevie barfed up milk on his brother as a baby, knocked over his blocks on Christmas Day. Stevie always takes center stage and he feels like he's wrecking Alex's life. And this turkey, who seems to be farting a lot. Again, we're doing farting animals in this episode is the last straw. This is what, two movies in a row with farting animals? Okay, can we do a quick early 2000s hunk check on the guy who plays Alex? Sabrina is it was a cute kid, right?

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Yeah, he was cute.

[Sabrina]

Is this somebody you would have had a poster of on your wall back in the day? No, no, not Your type. We're gonna find your type.

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We're gonna go through 855. My type. Like, I mean, I.

[Sabrina]

We're gonna find it. We're in this together.

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All right?

[Sabrina]

Later that night, Alex is eating guacamole with his parents when he realizes his brother has been upstairs for a little too long, so he knows something's wrong. And, of course, he was right. Stevie is playing with Alex's coin collection, one of the three things he's told him never to touch. The other two things, FYI, are his skates and his bike. What. What were you going to say?

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This is. It's happening in my house right now with. With Monroe and Ledger. This is like, I was just dying.

[Sabrina]

They're taking each other's coin collections.

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No, not that. But it's like Monroe is at an age where she knows to pick up her room and do things like that, you know, pick up toys and stuff. And then Ledger comes in and just bulldozes everything. And then I'm not going to ask him to do it, because he's not going to pick it up. He's just going to throw it even more. So she gets kind of in trouble a little bit, and she'll like, ledger did that. I'm like, I don't care. You need to pick up the toys. And then Monroe just did it last week. It was quiet, and she went, where's Ledger? And I went, I don't know. I. I think he's in the. He's in the. The cave. And she goes. And she goes. And he had gotten in her makeup, and he put it all over her, and he, like. And he, like, doesn't, like, do it nicely, you know, he, like, gets the gel stuff out, and he ruined it. And I was cracking up during this part, going, oh, my gosh. I.

[Sabrina]

So wait a second. I want to get. I have a question about Monroe. So if she cleans up her whole room and then Ledger comes in and wrecks something, she gets in trouble and has to clean it up again.

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Well. Well, to be fair, I don't know that she was playing in the room with Ledger, so he might be making it more of a mess, but she's gotcha there with him.

[Sabrina]

All right, fair enough. Because I was gonna say I was gonna be team Monroe all the way there.

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I'm sure he does make it, like, messier. You know what I mean?

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Of course.

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You know, she's kind of probably playing nicely with what she picked out to play, and he's taking everything and just bus you know, whatever. Anyway, it just was funny, this part of I was like, oh, my gosh, I feel so bad.

[Sabrina]

Very real.

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I feel bad.

[Sabrina]

It seems very real. Alex is, of course, furious. His room is his room and his stuff is his stuff. Stevie responds by yelling for his dad, screaming that Alex is hurting him. That little turns out to be a liar, too, because that never happened.

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Yeah, that's not cool.

[Sabrina]

Yikes. But that's such a little brother thing to do. Hi. Youngest in the family. I know what I'm talking about. In turn, their dad punishes Alex, despite his older son swearing he didn't do anything, which of course, he didn't. Alex also bars Stevie from his room for two weeks. Now, despite the declaration, Stevie still tries to sneak into his brother's room, but Alex catches him. What is he doing? He's been banned for two weeks. But of course, Alex's heart melts a little bit and he gives up inviting Stevie in to watch a black and white horror movie together and play fight. He's a really good big brother, right?

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So super cute.

[Sabrina]

Yep. The next day, it's breakfast, and Alex's dad warns him he may be a little late for today's game. Alex says, don't worry, it doesn't matter. He only warms up the bench anyway. And he hates when Stevie cheers for him at the game. So please don't cheer for him. Alex's parents do wish they could send him to football camp, but they can't afford it. Okay, I'm now back to thinking it's a weird relationship. I mean, he can't root on his brother at the game. Stevie seems awful, but also, this is really messed up. This is where everything just got kind of muddled, where it was like, wait, what is. It's like, don't be in my room. I get. But don't cheer for me at the game or I'm gonna yell at you. I didn't. I didn't get.

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I mean, I think it's like he. See, it seems like. And we don't know up to this point, but that he puts on, like, big spectacles or he, like, he's embarrassing about it. He' yeah. He's not just, like, saying, yeah, yeah, or anything like that. It's like he's, like, embarrassing, and it's always, like, very upfront and in front of everyone and it's big and loud. What? I get it.

[Sabrina]

What?

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Weirded me out. And I can't believe you didn't say it. Why are they acting like they don't have Any money when they live in a really nice house. We're back to that Disney trope of like, oh, we're so poor except for our kids. Bedrooms are the size of some people's apartment.

[Sabrina]

Million dollar house. Yeah, it's true. I wonder though, they need to find.

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Better sets if they're going to keep going on this.

[Sabrina]

Football camp expensive. Maybe football camp is really expensive. I don't know.

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I mean, I don't. I wouldn't know. I don't know, but I wouldn't think. And the whole they say it again because it comes out back later is like they're acting like they're poor because they have a second child.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Which again, you probably have less money. But it's not like that. Kids in college right now.

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No, right. This is. Yeah.

[Sabrina]

So, yeah.

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So it just was a little like. Okay.

[Sabrina]

Yep, I get it. Upstairs, Alex makes Stevie swear he won't cheer his name, but oh no. Alex notices something. Stevie is wearing his rollerblades. One of the three things he said, do not touch. An angry Alex tackles his little brother and tugs the skates off his feet, only to notice he got jelly on him. So to make him pay, Alex chases his brother downstairs, only to be reprimanded by his mom. Once again, Stevie gets away with everything. And now Alex has been forced to babysit him for the next weekend. The same weekend he's supposed to hang out with his friends to go to the coin shop.

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Coin hangout.

[Sabrina]

Coin hangout. Saturday, Mom. His mom suggests he take Stevie along. And all Alex can do is just shake his head. And it does seem like this kid gets away with murder and Alex can't do anything about it. To let off some steam, Alex goes rollerblading with his frosted tip friend James and complains about how his 10 year old brother rules the house. James reminds him Alex does care about Stevie, but Alex isn't hearing it right now. And I thought this was a fun scene where he's like, you really care about your brother. He's like, dude, I'm trying to bash my brother right now. He's like, no, you're right. I'm sorry.

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Just give me a second. Let me have a look.

[Sabrina]

Give me a second. And he's like, you're right. You're right. Now we are back at Harbor High's football game. Alex indeed is riding the bench, but catches the eye of Fiona, a beautiful cheerleader. She approaches him and it feels like she's about to go flirt, but instead points out that Stevie has handed out. Go, Alex, go. Signs and is yelling into a bullhorn. She calls it so embarrassing for a benchwarmer and laughs at him. And then Alex gets called into the game. The only person on the entire team with a bright white uniform. He looks nervous. And on his way out of the field, he accidentally pushes Fiona into the mud. Good, that deserved it. Smooth move.

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Kind of happy about it, but I was too.

[Sabrina]

You know what?

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Probably not the best thing for you, Alex.

[Sabrina]

No. But she went out of her way to make fun of him. You belong in the mud, lady.

[Cheekies]

Yes.

[Sabrina]

We are now on the field. Alex takes a spot in the offensive line, and just as the ball is hiked, Alex gets absolutely crushed. And the quarterback gets sacked. The crowd goes silent as Alex is just laying on the ground. It's possible he's dead. Back at school, Abby is trying to console Alex about the game, but he's distracted when Fiona, now no longer covered in mud, drops paper in the hallway. He rushes over to get it for her and apologizes for the accident. But as a result, she totally insults him and walks away. Abby sees it all and does what you always do. Admits out loud to yourself. Sometimes you like someone and they don't even know you're alive. Didn't really need that spelled out. We could have just had it doing that. But hey, I know it's a kid's movie, but it was like, why are you saying this out? Like, she should have just looked at the camera and been like, I really like Alex, but he doesn't like me. So it's like, yeah, we get it. Now we are at lunch with Abby and James. Alex thinks Jock Gary has the best life ever. He's all city in every sport, he dates Fiona, and he doesn't even have a pest for little brother. Abby invites him to skate with her on Saturday, but he already has those awesome Coin World plans. And for this bunch of coin collectors listening now like, why do you keep on us? We're just trying to collect coins. We're not hurting anybody here. What's your problem? And you're right, and I apologize. It's a double eagle for all of you. We'll get into that later too. And when she asked about after awesome Coin World, he says he has to clean the turkey Coop. Uh huh. So he just doesn't want to hang out with her. She gets the hint and she leaves. Which doesn't make any sense because she's adorable and a skate girl and super cool and it's like, how do you not want to hang out with her?

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He's so Cute, but.

[Sabrina]

But. But you're also an idiot when you're in. In. I look back at the girls I had a crush on in middle school and high school, and it was always the popular girls. I look back now and go, like, man, that art girl, she would have been the one you want to hang out with. Or that, you know, those are the cool ones. So anyway, it is now the weekend. Alex and James are in an elevator at the very, Very Neon mall. Alex has maybe a dozen bags of French fries and $5 worth of quarters for Stevie to stay busy. I was like, like, what are they doing with all these French fries? So they're just giving them to the kid. Like 40 bags of French fries.

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I know it was a lot. I mean, it is like an easy thing. If you're taking a kid anywhere, it's just keep them loaded with food.

[Sabrina]

Right? But why you can't throw a burger in there or something else. It's just gotta be French fries, I guess.

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I don't know. Not sure.

[Sabrina]

Maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. Meanwhile, Stevie is waiting for his brother on a bench when he spots a man wearing a beret and a winter coat, carrying and struggling with a ton of boxes. Eventually, this man is accidentally pushed into a store, dropping everything onto the floor. Stevie jumps up to help without even thinking, which is very nice, and the man appreciates the good deed. Alex and James arrive, and they know this dude. This is Larry from Coin World, obviously. Larry praises Stevie and invites them into his shop to see his new shipment of Romans. Did you know what Romans were at the time? No, I. I like. I like Roman stuff. So I kind knew what Roman coins are like. That's just Roman coins? Yeah, it's coins with different. Because, you know, every emperor would, like, have their face stamped on it. So it was like, oh, here's a Julius Caesar, here's a. An Augustus Caesar. I mean, there's some that are more rare than others. It's like if. If a emperor was only emperor for a year or two, it's like being able to find his coin is. There's some cool stuff. See?

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You are kind. Come on.

[Sabrina]

I have. Yeah, I was, but you are kind of. I also didn't have.

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You were not just getting the dates.

[Sabrina]

No, that's what. I didn't have that. What is the word? Friends. But before they dive into their new coins, Alex places Stevie back at the bench and tells him to eat his fries and not to move. He promises they'll go to the arcade soon and leaves him with some quarters to prove it. But Larry isn't done with Stevie. He gives the boy a very special coin. He's heard it's good for one wish and warns him to be careful, but to do something big with it a little later. Now, done with all the fries and surrounded by empty fry bags, Stevie's bored. Obviously. He's 10 and he's been sitting on this bench for God knows how long. Ignores his brother's instructions and disappears off the bench, running straight to the arcade. Inside, he quickly loses a pinball and searches his pockets for another quarter, eventually rediscovering Larry's supposed wish coin. He's about to put it in the machine, but then remembers he has to do something big with it. Meanwhile, back at the coin shop, Larry's getting ready to close. It's already 6pm and you know what they say. Time flies when you're looking at coins. So he opens the store and closes the store. So they have been standing at that bench looking at coins for like eight.

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Hours, expecting Stevie to sit.

[Sabrina]

To just sit there. Not Stevie's fault.

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No, not at all.

[Sabrina]

Who looks at coins for eight straight hours?

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I mean, there are definitely other things in the store.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, but they weren't sitting there do working the accordion like the other guy was. They're all about the coin. It was just. It was like, wow, we've been here the whole time. Time. Really?

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Yeah, it was a long time.

[Sabrina]

Anyway, Alex still can't he. He can't believe that he's been in there that long. Neither can we. It's been way too long. He turns to find his brother and of course, Stevie is gone. Nobody could sit there for eight hours. He ditches James at Coin World and sprints to the arcade, but Stevie isn't there. It is officially time to freak out. Actually, though, Stevie is roaming the mall himself, trying to find his brother. He notices that Coin World is closed too. So he asks the mall security guard if he'll call his mom. And now Alex is definitely in massive trouble. We are now back at their house. The brothers are reunited, but Alex has been grounded for a month, which means no more Coin World or Rollerblades or whatever kids do. Both brothers are sent off to bed, and Alex believes his little brother has ruined his life. In all fairness, you left your brother at a mall and the kid freaked out. Kind of your fault. In his bedroom, Alex is still stewing when an envelope is delivered under the door. It's a sorry note from Stevie, and it includes the wish coin coin. It's engraved with an owl and reads one wish in Latin. So apparently Alex knows Latin, which, again, if you are big into Romans, you might know. He doesn't believe it has powers, but still wishes he didn't have a little brother and goes to sleep. We see the coin spin and spin and spin, and eventually it comes to a stop. The next morning, Alex is awoken by an alarm clock, something he's never had to do before, but assumes it's part of his new grounding. And then slimy drool falls onto his face. It's a bulldog hovering over him. Wait a second. What dog is this? Also worth noting, the dog farts, which now has become a trope. Suddenly, we hadn't. We'd gone 25, 30 movies, 50 movies without seeing that. Now all of a sudden, we've seen two or three in a row where this is a thing. Hopefully it won't be a thing that sticks around. He surveys the room and notices player of the year trophies and celebratory football photos that he's never seen before. Also, his coin collection includes Double Eagles. Double Eagles, Not Double Eagle. These are actually. Look them up. Up can be very expensive.

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Really?

[Sabrina]

Yeah, very expensive. Sometimes I think like thousands of dollars.

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My gosh.

[Sabrina]

By the way, bashing the out of coin collecting the entire time. It seems like I know a lot more about it than I thought I.

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Actually did for the recording quite a bit.

[Sabrina]

Here I am trying to throw everybody off the scent that I actually love coins. I really do. You know what I also have? I have Harry Potter coins behind me in the other room. I have the galleon and all the other stuff. Not going to get into that. Oh, I married a woman. I have a wife. I'm all set.

[Will]

Okay, good.

[Sabrina]

Alex runs through a now blue hallway. Everything looks different. They have a game room with a pinball machine, air hockey, a big screen tv, and a drum set. In the kitchen, his dad is wearing a very sharp suit, reading the Wall Street Journal. His mom is also in a business casual look. And everything in the house just looks more expensive. So now they're rich? Apparently.

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Apparently.

[Sabrina]

Okay. Alex tells his parents he's onto them. He assumes this is a prank. And it was Stevie's idea. Very elaborate prank. They have no idea what he's talking about and don't know who Stevie is. His dad leaves, promising he'll see Alex at the game. So what's going on? Whose dog is this? Why is his coin collection all of a sudden so cool? Alex even has a totally different haircut. His parents are concerned with their Son's behavior. They think he might be sick. Alex runs upstairs. We get a glimpse of the family picture. It's now just two parents and just one kid. Just Alex. Alex storms into what was his brother's room. It's now a home gym. He swears he had a little brother, but his mom wonders if he's just lonely. Is he wishing he had a brother? And then hearing the word wish, Alex figures it out. It was the wish coin. He's living his wish, and the coin is now nowhere to be found. Now, okay, stick with me here, because this is where it goes. In the house, the TV is playing a newscast where the reporter is about to interview the star of a new TV show called Where's Stevie? The young actor's name is Terrence Russell McCormick. And who is Terrence? Well, it's Stevie. At least it's the Stevie we knew, but now being called Terrence, and he's a big celebrity. And that's when I said, what the is going on?

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And I heard you all the way from la, say what? Say that exact question.

[Sabrina]

Say what, Sabrina? I can't remember what I said. What was it again?

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I'm like, oh, God, we've lost Will somebody.

[Sabrina]

Well, I mean, were you tripping out at this point? What did you think of this?

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I think he said, what's happening? Like, right. I can't even remember. I'm looking at my notes and I still can't remember what. But it's in my notes twice. And I'm like, I wish I would have said, had given like a. A little note of what I meant. But, yeah, what is happening? What's happening? A little bit later. What's happening?

[Sabrina]

Yes, it just. It. At this point, I'm going, wait, what?

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So now he's. And so, yeah, so he's.

[Sabrina]

He's a famous actor.

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So it's to not take him out of the story completely to keep him in. He's just living a different life.

[Sabrina]

Right. That he loves.

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And they already remembered. They did mention something about him acting earlier on.

[Sabrina]

Right. But I. I mean, I also get the idea. I get the basic premise of you. They're trying to show that, okay, he. Alex, isn't gonna care that his little brother's gone, because actually, in this new world, his little brother is living this amazing.

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That he always wanted.

[Sabrina]

Right. So I get doing that as opposed to just disappearing the character, but it was just so nutty that it was kind of. It was very, very strange. So Alex, by the way, who now has the nickname Bling as In Bling, Bling watches his mom and dad leave for work. And Alex realizes his little brother, like I just said, is living the life. He's a TV star. So maybe the wish wasn't so bad after all. Especially because he's now stoked that he is an only child. Alex or Bling. No, I can't do it. Alex.

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I didn't understand Bling at all. At all.

[Sabrina]

No. Just to show that he's so cool in this new world.

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But dad calls him.

[Sabrina]

Why is dad calling him that? Weird.

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Like weird, you know? I don't know.

[Sabrina]

Yes, weird. So Alex or Bling drives to school in his dad's Viper, which again, when you've got three people in a family and it's their only two seater car, is really stupid. But he's very, very popular. He's wearing, it's like, hey, I gotta go now. Pick up your mom and bring her back to work. We have two seats, he's wearing one of those purple letterman jackets and the girls love him. He eventually passes Fiona, the hot cheerleader that had pushed in the mud before, and she grabs and kisses him on the cheek. What? She is his girlfriend and Gary is his best friend. Bling quickly goes with the new situ. No, I can't. I'm sorry. Alex quickly goes through the new situation and learns he's throwing a party at his house after tonight's game. Alex just can't take it. He sneaks into the bathroom to give himself a pep talk and finds the courage to go to class. He sits next to Abby, who looks very surprised. Fiona calls out to him, that's not his seat. And he says he just wanted to say hi to Abby, which confuses everyone, including her. He's just too popular to be talking to her anymore even. The teacher asks Alex to take his assigned seat, which is right next to Fiona. Okay, again, I'm going to need you to stay with me here. He then does a full on flip and perform splits to land in the chair, eliciting applause from the class. And this never happens again? No, it never comes up again. It doesn't happen on the football field. He has superhuman powers for this one.

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Moment, literally 15 seconds. Don't blink.

[Sabrina]

And then never happen. What did you think of this?

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Well, I thought it looked great. I actually thought it looked pretty cool.

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I did.

[Sabrina]

Looked fine. It was cool, but what the hell?

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But another time that I'm like, wait, wait, what is this? What is this like? Okay, I guess it's just showing he's like super athletic, but.

[Sabrina]

Right.

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Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Which I thought they'd bring back then. Okay, now we're gonna see him on the football field. Wow.

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I thought he'd be doing tumbling tricks. Like all that was like his like little thing like, I'm Bling, here I go with my little. But no, we don't see it ever again. Ever again. It was so strange.

[Sabrina]

Never happens again. Never even an inkling of it. It happening again. The teacher passes out some test grades. Alex gets a B plus. He's proud. But Abby quickly calls out that king Bling got that grade only because he's an athlete. And even the teacher comes up and goes, hey, great game last weekend. So he kind of did. Well, now we are at that game. It is game time. In the locker room, Coach is going over the game plan. All offense runs through Alex, who he finds out is the quarterback. Oh, boy. We are now on the field. His parents and cheerleading Fiona watch on as a very frightened Alex is literally picked up and driven back 10 yards for a sack. The crowd is shocked. His dad thinks something is wrong, makes his way to the field, and Alex is carried off. So his dad comes up to him and says, son, don't let those big guys psych you out. And he mentions football camp, which really surprises Alex. Oh, that's right. They can afford camp now because he's an only child. So without his brother, he's rich. Okay. Coach sends Alex back into the game. Now he's got a little more pep in his step. He's completing passes, rushing for first downs, not flipping over anybody, not twisting like he. He could do, not doing any of those superhuman things. Eventually scoring the winning touchdown. The crowd goes wild, and Alex is propped up on his teammate's shoulders and carried off the field. That night, Alex's house party is going off. All the popular kids are there and some girls are checking out the newest issue of Women's Quarterly. To his surprise, his brother Stevie. Now Terrence, the biggest TV star in the world, is on its cover. So Women's Quarterly is highlighting a six year old. Yeah. A ten year old television star is on the COVID of Women's Quarterly. They couldn't have made it. TV Guide.

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That was just such a weird pick. And I feel like there was.

[Sabrina]

This is where just everything's off the rails at this point. Yeah, it's just like what's happening?

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It was a. There was a line somewhere because this little magazine comes up again. There was a line somewhere where he tries to like it was part of his. The reason why he was looking at it or something. Like there was a line that, that, that they said that tried to make it make sense. Why? It was a woman.

[Sabrina]

Explain it.

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It was a women's magazine.

[Sabrina]

Well, he just said it was my mom's. I think he said my mom liked it. She's a big Terrence fan.

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[Sabrina]

Mom be a big fan of a 10 year old, right? Which he says later too, is like, my mom's a big fan. Like, really? It's really strange.

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[Sabrina]

Wow. Yeah. So Alex can only shake his head at what used to be his little brother. He is pulled away by Fiona, who wants to know why he seems so different. At the start of the football game, he casually says it's because he's from an alternate reality, but she doesn't take him seriously. He sees Abby arrive with another dude and asks Fiona if she wants to rollerblade tomorrow. She says, no way. Rollerblading is for freaks. And tomorrow they're supposed to be taking pictures in their matching T shirts. Well, okay, so that's interesting. Obviously, Alex knows nothing about this because this is his first day in this reality. But his attention is diverted when a fellow jock announces that the chicken geek is there. The party is chanting chicken Boy and wrestling with someone dressed as a chicken delivering food. They take off his helmet and it's his friend from his other reality, James. Alex is instructed to drop a pizza on James's head. They're gonna waste another piece pie on this guy.

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I can't.

[Sabrina]

I, I, I, I, I. And announce the I, I can't. Okay. Alex doesn't know what to do, so one of the other jerks gets impatient and does it himself, forcing James to run out of the house and back into his delivery bike. Alex tries to stop him, but can't catch up. So did somebody else deliver a pizza that they had the full pizza, but they also had the chicken guy come? Yes. You couldn't.

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I was confused because when we do see him later, I'm thinking, why does he. Why see, have a chicken costume? He's called Chicken Boy, but he delivers pizzas. I didn't, I didn't pick up on that. No, it was like a chicken place. I don't know. It was weird.

[Will]

I don't know if I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I rewound the whole movie to figure that out. Okay, this place must serve pizza and chicken, because later when he delivers to Food Deterrence, he has chicken. So he's still the chicken geek, but I assume this chicken place also has pizza. Which I guess some do.

[Sabrina]

I so did he then have the pizza delivered right to the party just to then dump it on whoever delivered it to them?

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What? It seemed like, yeah, but it's Chicken.

[Sabrina]

Geek delivering the pizza, right?

[Will]

But they know Chicken Geek from dropping a pizza earlier in the other reality. So like, this must be something he does a lot.

[Sabrina]

Oh, this is the why Order the pizza, throw something else at him and save the money. I don't get it. I don't get it.

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[Sabrina]

The next day, we're at the school library. Alex does try to apologize to James, but his old friend is just not interested. Also, Fiona is now jealous that Alex talked to Abby at all and that her boyfriend is coming off as a real loser. Now, I could be wrong. Did she misspell losers?

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Absolutely did.

[Sabrina]

Thank God I was right.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

She. She misspelled losers, right? Says anything about it. So I got on my phone and typed it out just to make sure I knew how to spell it.

[Sabrina]

Thank you. She does a double S, doesn't she?

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And no one blinks an eye about it. No one does. No one says, okay. Like, I couldn't tell if it was.

[Sabrina]

A joke or nobody picked up the fact that she missed. I'm so glad that you got it too.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

I think it was like a missed, like, joke. I think it was supposed to be a joke and like. But someone needed to react to the fact that she felt it and nobody did. So I literally was like, wait.

[Sabrina]

I thought he was gonna say, like, loss or something.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

Okay, wait, no, it is. She did add an S. Okay.

[Sabrina]

God, that. You picked that up too. Because she added. Because, oh man, that was a missed opportunity for a joke. So I was like, what are they doing? Very. Oh God. That was funny. Okay. At Lunch. Alex is still trying, and he goes to sit with Abby again, who thinks it's a prank. Why would the star quarterback want to sit with her? So if she does what everybody does and she pours milk on his head and leaves every lot of food on heads. Back at home, Alex's dad notices his son is back into coin collecting, something he abandoned years ago. He also notices his son has the Woman's Quarterly with Steve Terrence on the COVID This makes him even more suspicious of his recent behavior. But Alex just wants to sleep. I guess catching your teenage son with Women's Quarterly can mean a number of reasons.

[Will]

I think it's gay panic, Will.

[Sabrina]

Is that what it's supposed to be? Yeah. Oh, my God. Is that really what I thought it was?

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Maybe that I went to the dark side. I went to the. What are you doing with that Women's magazine?

[Will]

Oh, I mean, women's Courtly. I guess that's also a take.

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Neither one makes sense for the Disney Channel. Am I right? Like, this is kind of.

[Sabrina]

Well, that's what I meant. That the one you're thinking of, Sabrina, I think you're thinking of. It rhymes with master.

[Will]

Right, Right, right. I mean, I don't want to like, show our hand here, but it rhymes with jerking off off, right?

[Sabrina]

Correct. Yeah. Is that what you. Is that what you thought it was, Sabrina? So wait.

[Will]

So wait, I have a question.

[Sabrina]

I'm guessing by the red that that's.

[Will]

Wait, I have a question. Will. Will.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Will]

So we see gay panic a lot on our POD meets World show. Like, it's very common, but on decoms. Wouldn't this reaction sort of happen in this movie about a football player if he wanted to do ballet? Wouldn't we also get the gay panic there?

[Sabrina]

Yes, I would think that would be.

[Will]

I think this is a poorly executed gay panic lot. Gay panic where ballet is turned it with women's quarter.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

Well, he does have. There's. I. I put it in my Sabrina note. Sabrina sees. But there was like a moment that I went, oh, the football player. When he said he was trying out for the musical or theater show or whatever, it was like, oh, we got a little bit of a high school.

[Sabrina]

A little high school musical. Little high. Okay.

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But that didn't seem like it had the same situation.

[Sabrina]

No, no, they didn't. They didn't go gay panic.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

I was just like. No, you're, like talking.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, this is.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

So what did you think he was doing, Sabrina?

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I don't remember. I don't know. I kind of skipped Past this part.

[Sabrina]

I'm gonna get some.

[Will]

Maybe he was choking the chick. Maybe he was choking the chicken geek.

[Sabrina]

Or the door choking the pet turkey.

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[Sabrina]

Sheesh.

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The leash. Okay.

[Sabrina]

The next. She's like, okay. The next day at school, we get. I love how I just want to see the shades of red that we can. We can get Sabrina. The next day at school, we get a mon. And you know I love a montage. And everyone is still celebrating. Bling threw up my mouth. But Abby is with another guy and James won't even acknowledge him. We see Alex and Fiona at the mall wearing those matching shirts, and Alex looks very aggravated. He also runs into Abby, who's busy selling raffle tickets to feed the homeless. And alternate reality, Larry is there buying a few of the tickets, but he's now in a wheelchair because he fell outside of his store. Obviously, he would have fallen had. In the first reality, it would have fallen had Stevie not been there. So Stevie wasn't there. So he did fall down, but decided to then close down the entire store to retire, which technically was also his wish. So that's a good thing. It was. I couldn't tell if he made a wish for that, but anyway, Larry apparently wanted to get out of the cutthroat coin collecting business. Alex buys three raffle tickets and asks Abby to skate with him one day. She thinks he's lost a bet or something. He asked if. Is that really my reputation? Then why is she even talking to him in the first place? The answer is obvious, that he's buying raffle tickets from her. But she says she doesn't know. Gary and the jocks arrive, chanting about their upcoming game and punching wrapped hamburgers. Not kidding. They're just punching hamburgers over and over again like jocks do. The next morning, his parents are off to work again. Alex doesn't get it. It's Saturday. Isn't it supposed to be Pancake day day? But his dad kind of smiles and says he hasn't made pancakes like that in years. They rush out the door, but he says he'll see him at 8pm for his athletic award dinner. He realizes he doesn't have the dedicated and loving parents that he used to have. Alex is wasting time until the ceremony watching old horror movies and smiling. He misses Stevie. He even made a Stevie doll, which I also thought was a little creepy. He goes into the home gym, remembering this is where his little brother should be. We get some sad music and he eventually finds a box of giveaway items for charity. That his mom wanted him to bring to school. But as he's bringing the box downstairs, he trips on a football cleat that the dog's been chewing on and falls down a flight of stairs. Alex lays on his back covered in stuff. This scene doesn't make any sense with the movie. It's another one that has nothing to do with anything. Just there's a bunch of unexplained scenes in this movie. Why couldn't he have just looked at the box and say, oh man, he really wanted to. There was no point in him falling down the stairs or any of that stuff. He's just. That's it. That night at the Harbor High Youth Awards, which is is packed with people, including all of our main characters. Alex wins the big final award of the night. And in his speech he says he doesn't deserve this award because he's not the real Alex Lansing. This is an Alex Lansing from another reality. And that catches the interest of Abby, who as she's sitting there, she drove herself there, went to the entire award show, but then is reading a book the entire time about UFO conspiracy. During all the speeches, everyone is confused. He says his Alex Lansing is a loser. He can't play football. He explains that he made his little brother disappear and now the audience thinks he's on bath salts. But he quickly covers that up by pretending he was just joking. And the crowd is once again at ease. But he explains that there's more to life than just winning awards. You have to appreciate what you have because one day it might not be there. The crowd feverishly applauds, but still looks a little disturbed. Now once the Lansings get home, they notice now that Alex still seems down. His mom offers him a pop up waffle, but he just wants his life back. And that's an Eggo, right? They just can't say Eggo. It's a pop up waffle. Gotcha upstairs. I didn't know if that was a New Zealand waffle. It's like a pop up waffle. I'm not even gonna attempt a New Zealand accent. Upstairs, he paces, trying to figure out a way to fix this, when he notices a newspaper headline. TV star Terrance Russell McCormick, also known as his little brother Stevie, is coming to town to film a TV show. Stevie is filming on the tv. Maybe that's the way to fix this. How have you not made that rhyme to this point? I don't know. We're 38 minutes into this, whatever it is. Stevie and TV. So Alex travels to the big city and hides in an alleyway garbage can, preparing to dart for an unmanned stage entrance door. But then, boom, he's hit by a bike. It is chicken James again with another food delivery. They tumble to the floor before Alex admits he's just there to get Terrence's autograph. Coincidentally, James says the chicken order is for Terrence, but he has no idea who the actor is. So Alex pays him to change places to deliver the food so he can meet Terrence. It's also worth noting James just leaves his bike in the alleyway, saying, I need my bike and the outfit back. By editing O'clock Tonight, we are now inside the studio. Alex sneaks around until he eventually gets to Terence's dressing room. He overhears the actor complaining about his brother, the reason his entire reality was altered. So this is Alex's big chance. He thinks maybe he's talking about him, but when he barges in, he realizes the actor is just reading a script. Terence starts complaining about the special sauce and throws the chicken out immediately, which, frankly, I don't blame him for, since his chicken was on the ground after the bike.

[Will]

Sorry, I need to stand it. I need to ask you a question.

[Sabrina]

Question? Yeah.

[Will]

So he, in this reality, is in a movie about the thing that happened to him in the other reality?

[Sabrina]

Well, yes, because his show is called Where's Steve?

[Will]

The entire show is based on the other reality.

[Sabrina]

Correct. So I think that's what they were going for. Okay, but where's.

[Will]

Where's Stevie after all? Right. But I mean, the family obviously knows what. Where Stevie's about because she's a big fan and has him on the COVID of Women's Quarterly. So as soon as starts to say this situation, wouldn't she then say, like, the show, where's Stevie?

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Yeah, her maybe acknowledgment of the show makes it very, very confusing.

[Sabrina]

That's what the. I mean, this whole thing is confusing. I still don't get what they.

[Will]

A lot going on.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

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So much.

[Will]

At some point, I really do wish Thanos would have snapped his fingers.

[Sabrina]

I do as well. But at the same time, it also made me wish for I could just call a chicken guy. And there's chicken or pizza or pizza or pizza or pizza. Either way, it's. That's not the same. I want the guy in the chicken outfit.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

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[Sabrina]

Yeah. So anyway, here Terrence doesn't recognize his brother, and we're quickly realizing this version of Stevie is a little a hole. Alex is about to leave, but Terrence invites him back to watch Bad magic tricks. Alex asks if he likes his family, and he says, of course. But he never really sees them, just his wrangler, who then barges in to tell her boss he's not smiling enough and to prep for playing a normal, ordinary kid. But once she's gone, he admits he has no idea how he's gonna be a normal kid. Alex then invites Terrence to stop by his house before he goes back to LA and tell him all the nice things that they used to do together. And just when he thinks it's sinking in, Terrence screams for security. Which makes sense.

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[Sabrina]

One of the few things that makes sense. Alex is then kicked out of the building. Now, with the knowledge that Stevie's life isn't as happy as he thought, he finds himself just walking through downtown by himself. Means he left his friend's bike in the alley. Not gonna return that. This poor chicken guy. He has visions of his childhood home movies and the past scenes from the movie while Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles plays. Great song. Big fan of Vanessa Carlton. It's the weirdest song to have here. It's, like, about love interests.

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And it belongs to a different movie.

[Sabrina]

Totally different movie.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

Isn't that in White Chicken?

[Sabrina]

Is it? I don't know. I have no idea.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

I think it is.

[Sabrina]

But it just. It's about. He's like. He can't find his. It's about I'd walk a thousand miles to see my love interest again. Yes. It's what Terry Crews sings, apparently, according to producer Lisa. But it's now about his brother. It's a good song, but it was just so out of place.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

Yeah. And it. By the way, this is one of my Sabrina Cs. This, at this point, had been, like, one of the worst. We could put it on the list of one of the worst soundtracks of a dude because the music was kind of just garbage up to this. And then all of a sudden. You're kidding me. We've got this great song, You Got a Banger, which is like one of the songs that was just like a top 40 hit for weeks and weeks and weeks.

[Sabrina]

Well, you know, this is the. All they spent their money on. They couldn't afford any other song after this.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

Yeah, I was just like. It just hits you out of absolutely nowhere.

[Sabrina]

It does. And it's just. It's just weird. It's a weird song. And anyway, Alex eventually spots a turkey being loaded into a truck and chases after it. Just missing out as it pulls away. Another completely unexplained scene. What what was he gonna do with the turkey? Then the ch. Okay, moving on. Terrence's work for the day is done, and he is in a limo driving back to his hotel when he sees Alex walking home. Terrence has the car pull over, and now, without any explanation, wants to hang out with the guy he recently just called a lunatic and had security call out. Right now, they're friends. They walk together with the limo flying close behind. But Alex crafts a plan to ditch it. They sprint through the city, eventually shaking limo driver Ron and getting some time alone. Poor Ron. Just trying to do his job. That guy was fired. Terrence gets recognized a few times, but wants to do some ordinary kid stuff like ride a little spaceship outside of a store. Alex lets him borrow a quarter and sees the coin. And that makes him realize in this reality, Stevie never got the wish coin, so it's probably still with Larry. Larry. And so, even though Stevie has no idea what Alex is talking about, they rush to find Larry. Once at the mall, Alex sees that Larry's coin world is out of business. Now, we know this because it's in huge giant letters on the window. This was his big chance. So what is he gonna do now? He scans them all, eventually spotting a movie theater usher taking tickets. And that reminds him. Wait. Raffle tickets. Abby sold Larry some raffle tickets. Alex and Steve Terrance continue to run through the streets of New Zealand, getting in their. Getting in their steps for the day, certainly now ending up at Abby's front door. She obviously isn't thrilled to see them and is hardly impressed by the celebrity accompaniment. Alex says that his speech at the awards ceremony was true and he needs her help, but she doesn't believe that they would be best friends in any world. But Stevie is starting to listen, and eventually, Abby caves and says it's time to get busy. They search through the hundreds of raffle tickets, trying to find Larry's entry while Abby quizzes him on her life, like, okay, what's my favorite food? And it turns out to be a mustard and sugar sandwich. Sorry. Choking back some bile. Eventually, Terrence. Stevie finds it. Wait, this is it. This is. It's Larry. They have his address now, ready to go find him, they decide to disguise Terrence so he isn't as recognizable, which ends up being just a hat that they put him in great disguise, kids. Here's a hat. Although, in all fairness, Danielle Fishel puts on a hat, and everybody still recognizes her everywhere she goes. Once at Larry's building, they climoster going, hey, Danielle, that's topanga Cute hat. Once at Larry's building, they climb flights and flights of stairs to his door. How much exercise they actually getting in today? This is a 30,000 step day, but it is empty and being painted. A neighbor tells them that he just moved. The stairs were too much. No people. He was in a wheelchair. Luckily, though, the neighbors know that he moved to a place on Beeler Street. It was a retirement home, so the adventure isn't quite over yet. They take a trolley to Beeler. And Terrence loves feeling so pedestrian. He's playing with the knobs on the thing and just enjoying being a regular person. Also, Abby and Alex are starting to really connect, which is nice. He admits that the closest thing he had to a girlfriend in his world was her. And it made me go, why can't the movie have just been these two connecting? It's like, that's what I want to see. This was. This was cute and fun and they were great. Why can't this be the movie? He's got to go back and make her fall in love with him again in his new world. Let's do that. Now it's nighttime and they arrive at the Sunnyville Retirement Manor. They sneak in and appears empty and kind of creepy. They eventually pick a door and enter a music class filled with old people poorly playing the accordion. And one of them is Larry, who, I'm sorry, is way too young to.

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Be in a retirement home. Made no sense at all.

[Sabrina]

No, none at all. All. Add it to the no sense list. He thinks he won the raffle, but Alex explains he actually needs a very special coin. Larry reminds him the coin shop is closed. There's nothing he can do to help. But once they explain their interdimensional lives depend on it, they retreat to his room. I love that he explained to him and he's just like, okay, got it. But he doesn't have the owl coin, but does remember that he sold a coin just like that before he closed, but has no record of who he sold it to. We are now back in the street. What hour is this? How long have these people been on the road? They drop Abby off at her house before she can end up on a milk carton and they say goodnight. The brothers spotted dad in double denim carrying ice cream cones for the kids and finally taking a break to be sad, each wanting a traditional family. And as they long for normalcy, they're confronted by police and brought back to the Lansings. Terrence's handler comes in to get him out and the two new friends hug goodbye. But Terrence is quickly ushered out. The next morning, Alex wakes up and still can't shake the depressed feeling about his brother. His dad enters to invite him to a brunch, but he's not hungry at all. His dad, hoping to cheer him up and to get him off of those women quarterly magazines, gives him a gift he's been saving for his birthday. Alex unwraps it, and it's a handful of ancient coins. Alex barely acknowledges the gift, and once his dad leaves, he throws the box across the room, spraying currency everywhere. But then we see a coin. One of his dad's gifts was the wish coin. It's got an owl on it. Ooh, they found it. Alex's dad is the one who bought the coins from Larry. Alex can't believe it. He slowly approaches the coin, but fumbles it, dropping it to the ground. Now teetering on a grate, inches away from falling into whatever strange cavernous hole his room has. He successfully grabs it and runs downstairs to lock himself in the bathroom and finally put an end to all this madness. His parents knock on the door, but he's able to finally wish that he never made the first wish. He's instantly transported back into his bed, now in his normal room. He rushes through the house, seeing the tan and green hallways have returned. He's got the same hair. He barges into what should have been Stevie's room and no gym equipment. It's back to how he likes it. He even sees that turkey in the backyard and a four person family photo. His parents are their normal, apparently poor selves. And Stevie is outside playing in the pouring rain. For some reason, Stevie apologizes for crashing Alex's bike, but his big brother doesn't even notice. He just gives his little bro a big bear hug. He's so thankful to see him. Stevie explains, but I didn't go anywhere. And Alex agrees. That's right, you didn't go anywhere. And then of course, like you do when it's pouring rain outside, all your friends arrive. Abby and James arrive. Alex embraces them too, immediately asking Abby to go skating with them. She's shocked, but says yes just as a yellow Volkswagen Bug passes by. It's Fiona. Alex yells out to her, I'm not your boyfriend. Which of course makes sense to her or anybody else in the scene. The movie then ends with Alex being taken away to a mental institution as everyone shakes their head and sadness. I'm kidding. That didn't happen at all. Alex's parents invite everyone in for his famous pancakes, and all is right in the world. We pull out to reveal a rainbow has just appeared just as the sun peaks through the storm. Then we're in the park. Abby and Alex are teaching Stevie how to rollerblade. And then James pulls up on his bike, the one that was obviously stolen in the other world. Stevie takes a seat as the other kids catch up nearby and he already seems bored. Stevie reaches into his pocket and finds the wish coin. He sees Larry nearby talking to his own dog and then wishes for something. And just like that, Alex jumps over the park bench, performs a 180 and is now the best rollerblader who has ever lived. And that is our movie.

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[H]

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[Sabrina]

And now it's time for our real review. Sabrina, you have got the five star this week. Can you read us through this one?

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I do, and I've got a very excited Trevor Sanchez with lots of exclamation points.

[Sabrina]

Wanna like the title of the film? Like the title of the film?

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Exactly. There you go. One of, if not the best Disney Channel movies. So funny with great acting. Take that, haters. Booyah.

[Sabrina]

Boom. Love that. Yeah, you can't go wrong with a good booyah. I of course have the one star and our friend's back. Sabrina Unamit is back. Once again. It is unnamed and it simply says if my sibling wish me away, I'd hate him forever. One star. Fair enough. Okay, so here's our favorite part of the podcast. And by our favorite, I mean Sabrina's favorite. I can take it or leave it, but she calls me about this 50 times a week. I cannot wait to do our feature. And this one, of course, once again done by producer Jensen, is called I Saved Latin. In the movie, Alice can apparently read Latin or some type of ancient scroll and then it's never Mentioned again. So we are going to be given some introductory Latin phrases and we have to guess what they mean with a couple of multiple choice answers. If we get three out of five, we win. In all fairness, Sabrina, I took six years of laugh. Oh, God. Okay, here we go. Our first question. Now, I'm not gonna be able to pronounce anything anymore because I haven't taken it in years, but here we go. It's amor vincit omnia. Is that A, hold love close. B, love is blind. C love conquers all. Or D, love is never having to say it.

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I'm gonna go with B. Love is blind.

[Sabrina]

Ooh. Oh, for one. The answer is C, Love conquers all. Am I right there, producer Jensen?

[Will]

You're absolutely right. This is gonna be tough. This is gonna be tough.

[Sabrina]

This one's gonna be hard.

[Will]

Absolutely right.

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I mean, it wasn't hard enough. Now we're just like pulling out random freaking languages. So cool. All right, cool. Keep going.

[Sabrina]

That I actually know. Number two, we've got tempus fugit, which is either you're gonna hear some people say fugit and other people say fugate. Both are actually correct, but we're gonna say tempus fugit. Is it A, pain is temporary. B time flies. C time waits for no one Or D, time passes slowly.

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D, time passes slowly.

[Sabrina]

Sabrina's over 2. That is B, time flies.

[Will]

It is time flies.

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B.

[Will]

Yes.

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Great.

[Sabrina]

Number three, we've got men. Sana incorpore sano. Is that A, a healthy mind is a healthy body. B, a man is measured by his power. C a man is but what he knows, or D the measure of a man is what he does with power. Sabrina.

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Ugh. A man. B, a man is measured by his power.

[Sabrina]

I believe it's A, a healthy mind is a healthy body, is it not?

[Will]

You've got the beliefs that bring home the bacon, buddy. It' dying. Dying. We gotta go over.

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Oh, my God.

[Sabrina]

Number four.

[Will]

Five or five versus zero five. Love it.

[Sabrina]

Number four. Per aspera ad astra. Is it A, inside the heart rests love. B, through hardships to the stars. C in the eye of the beholder or D, the inside is out. Sabrina, what do you got?

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B, hardship to the stars through hardship.

[Sabrina]

That is correct.

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It is B, I recognize Astra.

[Sabrina]

That is me. Sabrina got one right. And number five, labor omnia vincit. Or Vincent, depending on how you want to say it. Is it A, work builds strength. B, work is the ultimate victory. C work conquers all. Or D, work overcomes obstacles. Sabrina, what do you got.

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C. Work conquers all.

[Sabrina]

That is correct.

[Will]

It is C. Broken clock is correct twice a day. Unbelievable.

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To be fair, though, I just looked back up because Vincent and Omnia were in question.

[Sabrina]

That works. That works. You're allowed to do that. Go back to the older SAT questions to learn the newer one.

[Will]

That's what we do here. That's what we do here.

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Thank you for being educational. Thank you, producer Jensen, as always. You. You hunk of love. I love it.

[Sabrina]

Can we please do a Sabrina Seas?

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We can. So I feel like we did. I kind of gave up a few of them. I didn't have a ton of them because it was more so just confusion happening so much.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, I think that's pretty. That's.

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This is the giant. Giant confusion movie. We basically popped over all of that. Them. One little thing. I don't know if you caught, but she. When. When. When I say she, it's the cheerleader and her. Her name Fiona. When Fiona actually goes up to Alex to give him a kiss when he's trying to figure out what's going on and he doesn't really see what his, like, new reality is. She doesn't even really kiss him. She just, like, pushes her lips on his cheek and, like, it's not even a kiss. I was like. So I kind of got confused at that moment going, wait, are like, what? Hold on. Is it. No. And then it was just like, no, it just was a bad kiss.

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That's all it was.

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And then I'm. I'm glad you pointed out the spelling because I had to tell you that I was so embarrassed.

[Sabrina]

I so thought I got it wrong.

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I was so embarrassed that I actually. It made me think I was dumb and, like, had to, like, look it up myself because I'm like, that's not how you spell loser.

[Sabrina]

That's. I thought the same thing. I'm like, is she spelling loser?

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But nobody responded to it. That was the worst part. So it didn't make me think twice about it. The locker room that they had for the. The football game. This. And this is one of those things where you just know that there they must be pulling, like, just a room to try to make it look into something. And it's kind of frustrating because I just feel like, how much in their budget would it have been to actually have lockers? Like, it was weird to be in a locker room where there were, like, no lockers. Their stuff was hung up on the wall. Walls. Like their. Their helmets and their jerseys were hung up on a hook. Like on the wall it was.

[Sabrina]

Could that maybe be how they do it in New Zealand? I mean, maybe that's a locker room in New Zealand. Maybe because there's no American football, so you wouldn't. You wouldn't have pads.

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Okay.

[Sabrina]

Because they just played. They're from New Zealand. They play rugby. You grab a ball and you go slam into somebody.

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There's like a track. They have track in New Zealand, right?

[Sabrina]

Oh, yeah, sure. I just feel like.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

I don't know, it just was strange. But that's a good point. I didn't think about the fact that they were filming in New Zeal, tried to make it into a locker, and it just wasn't a locker at all. The next one is the matching shirts. Did you think that the matching shirts would be, like, a picture of him on her and her on him? Like, that's what I was thinking or something.

[Sabrina]

Like, I thought they were just going to have different shirts. I didn't think it was going to be photos of them.

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I saw one of them first and then I looked. It took me, like, a second to realize they were both wearing pictures of her face on him, which I just was like, that is the way. I mean, it makes sense.

[Sabrina]

That's on brand for Fiona.

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It makes sense for Fiona. I get it. But I also made me think of when I. When I. My senior year of high school, when I went to Sadie's. Sadie Hawkins is where you match with your. With your date. And I've heard about it. I. Our whole group, by the way, it wasn't just me. Our whole group. We made these, like, super cute shirts at Knott's Berry Farm with our boyfriend's names on them. And then we made them matching shirts, but they had, like, just black T shirts or a button down. But we put our names on them. And I was like, oh, I feel bad now.

[Sabrina]

Way to go. Way to go.

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It was a really cute idea. The pictures are adorable, but, like, for the dudes, it feels, like, super sad. I felt bad now. So sorry, guys. We definitely forced you to do that. My bad. Did you see this was over one of the many pores of food overhead. She says, got milk?

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

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Isn't that, like a. Like, a trademark thing? Got milk? Milk?

[Sabrina]

No, I think anybody can say can, because you can't. It's just words.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

Yeah, but it was like, their slogan.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, but I don't think you can necessarily trademark it.

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Got milk.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, but I don't. I mean, it's not like they're going like, you know, cherry Coke.

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Okay.

[Sabrina]

I don't know. I don't know. Maybe you're right. I don't know because I think it's.

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You can't really, you know, being on the channel or like being on Disney.

[Sabrina]

Oh yeah.

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They Greek out everything about making sure.

[Will]

Sure.

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So you have to be right because Disney's so big on that.

[Sabrina]

Oh, wait. Yes. The phrase got milk is a trademark slogan owned by the California Milk Processor Board.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

So they say it in the producer say it in the the movie. She pours it over. So I was like, wait, that seems kind of like that's. That seems. It's like a brand very, very rebel ish of our, our friends at the channel.

[Sabrina]

Rebels the Disney Channel shade.

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I also said the soundtrack was just awful and so my.

[Sabrina]

That wasn't great.

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The that I love that song. So that song.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, me too. It just was used wrong.

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Yeah. And then the last one was, dude, she's a little sloozy. Our agent friend who comes back in the house and is like, give me a call if you're ever in an la. I was like, are you hitting on his dad in front of his mom? What is going on? Somebody get this girl out of here.

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You're out. You're. You're done.

[Sabrina]

Can I ask, is sloozy the combination of sleazy and floozy? Cuz I love it. Okay now, from now on they're sleazy. I dig it. I feel like you're just making up words. Thank you, Sabrina. It's now time to rate our movie. Sabrina. That's what we're going to be doing. By the way, we just found out the trademark for Got Milk was registered in 1993. So our options for rating our film this week are farting turkeys. First of all, I'm sorry I jumped the gun. Should we do one out of ten? Let's do one out of ten.

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Yes. Yeah. Thank you for explaining that. I wasn't sure what we were doing. I was confused.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Let's do one as the lowest and ten is the highest. So are we going to do one out of ten farting turkeys? I hope not. One out of ten frosted tipped friends, Romans and double eagles. One out of ten dozens of fry bags. One out of ten scenes that never come back into play. One out of ten punches to wrapped hamburgers. Hang out with lunatics or one out of ten mustard and sugar sandwiches. I'd also like to add one out of ten sloozies. I'm going to let you pick Sabrina. Which one would you like, to do sluzy sloozy magazine. 1 out of 10 sloozy magoozies. I think you go first this time.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

Okay.

[Sabrina]

How many Sloozy magazis you're going to give this one.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

All right.

[Sabrina]

Gosh.

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Man.

[Dove Men Plus Care Ad]

I. This one was not one that I really jumped into. I never. I. Like I said I was interested because as you brought it to talking later on, I was really excited about their chemistry and the friendship.

[Will]

Right.

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And, yeah, this movie was what I feel like another opportunity for those actors that are on the channel that don't have the full leap need in their shows to get an opportunity to star. So I was really excited thinking she was gonna have this driving force in this movie. And I don't feel like her character was in it really enough for me.

[Sabrina]

I agree.

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And I agree. I saw the storyline going definitely towards them and their journey, not necessarily about the little brother and stuff. So there were just too many choppiness and too many what's going on? I'm confused. And like I said, I'm at the point. Point with. With us watching so many of these. My favorite part about watching them is literally just getting lost and, like, being like, I'm not even. I forgot. Oh, God, I gotta. I gotta rewind because I'm just not even, like, picking it apart. I'm just enjoying this movie, and this movie just wasn't that for me.

[Sabrina]

I agree.

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So I am going to give it six Sloozy Magoozies.

[Sabrina]

Wow. You scored it higher than I did. I agree with every. I agree with everything you said. Said. I think this movie should just, instead of, you know, be called you wish should just be called Confusion. It was. It was strange. Good young cast, you know, a good young cast, which. Which is. Which is great. None of it was their fault at all. I thought the script was very muddled. There were scenes that made no sense. I'm gonna give it five and a half. Sloozy Magoozies. And the half is just for the Vanessa Carlton song, which was used wrong, but at least we got to listen to it. So there you go. There's you wish. That's what we got. Our next movie will mesh the world of dcom fantasy with real life when we take on 2000's Miracle in Lane 2, a movie about soapbox racing starring Frankie Muniz, who is now a professional race car driver. Very cool. Make sure to subscribe to your dedicated Magical rewind feed today and take a gander at all the interviews we have in our archives and for More info, you can follow us at magicalrewindpod Pod on the Instagram machine. You can go and do that now. Bye everybody.

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[Sabrina]

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