Gilmore Girls Gazette: Parenthood: The Vibes Are Not Vibing (Season 5 E4 & E5)

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0:03 Again!

0:10 Gilmore Girls Gazette with Amy Sugarman and Danielle Romo.

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0:24 We are here for what may be our last parenthood up for a minute just for.

0:30 A minute yeah for a minute for a minute.

0:32 We'll be back in the new year with more parenthood.

0:34 Correct exactly correct there's so much it's gilmore fall i feel like we want we're still going to do a saturday episode we are expanding gazette i love it and i think the people want they're going to be happy about it i think they want their gilmore fix right now and then they're like yeah come back to parenthood.

0:53 Later So in this episode, we'll do season five, episode four, and five, and then we'll come back.

0:57 We're going to go out with a bang.

0:58 To finish season five in the new year.

1:00 Did you notice something important in one of these episodes?

1:04 Oh, you're putting me on the spot.

1:06 I don't remember which of the two episodes it was, but let me give you an example. Let me give you a little detail. There is a scene where Crosby, it's at the record.

1:12 Okay. What's it called?

1:14 A record. Studio? Recording studio. Recording studio. Crosby is sitting at his board or whatever, and Adam Braverman comes in. Dax Shepard's makeup is so.

1:26 It was atrocious.

1:28 Really bad. Like it was so overdone in this one scene that I'm like, I don't know if it's the lighting. He literally looks caked. And I'm like, what's happening?

1:37 I didn't notice that.

1:39 No.

1:41 Yeah. And it's not his fault because he doesn't do that.

1:43 No, no, no, no, no.

1:46 The groomer overdid it.

1:51 Yeah.

1:52 Anyway.

1:52 Sad day. Can we talk about Julia and Joel first? Because I'm getting annoyed.

1:56 Yeah.

1:57 Well, Pete. Pete is a big old problem.

2:01 What show do we know Pete from? She's on some show. I keep wanting it to be Lost, but it's not.

2:06 It's not Lost.

2:08 Do you think Pete was inappropriate having Joel go to dinner and drink all those martinis?

2:12 I don't think she was inappropriate to ask him to dinner to talk about business. But then it got really awkward when she was like, you need to have another one. And then it got even more awkward when Joel just got trashed.

2:24 That was awkward.

2:26 Yeah.

2:26 And he got a whole cake. Although, respect. Went to Safeway.

2:30 Yeah.

2:31 And got a full cake.

2:32 It's just so out of character for him.

2:33 Safeway, because he's in Berkeley. And then how was he going to get home? It kept going through my mind. I was like, how's he going to get home?

2:39 Right.

2:40 And the whole thing was to talk about boundaries with Pete and to establish that. And he just like flushed that down the toilet.

2:46 I don't like Julia sticking her nose into Joel's business so much, though. Right, but I think— Whoa, did I just make a noise? Whoa, I just heard a big whistle.

2:57 Pete was on the catch.

2:58 I don't know. That's not what I know her from, but anyway. I don't know. I think Julia's getting— she gets up in Joel's grill a lot, and I don't love it.

3:07 I would agree with that, but I also think she's— Look, it's never ideal for your significant other to work with somebody so closely so much when you don't like that person.

3:23 Does she not like pete or does she just yeah.

3:26 I think she doesn't like her too much like you can tell just based off of all the the times that they've tried to do dinner together that like pete is just i.

3:34 Mean we have to work closely with people we don't like it's just part of life.

3:39 No i i understand that but like they have to really work closely together.

3:45 But she's a huge gig for joel No, I know.

3:48 I get that.

3:48 I'm not worried about Pete and Joel, let me tell you. I'm not.

3:53 I am.

3:54 You are? I'm not.

3:55 After this, yeah.

3:56 Like, she's making Pete do things he doesn't want to do.

3:59 I did like how Julia did not get kind of pissy about the drinking, though.

4:03 That was going to be annoying. She kind of was just like, okay, whatever.

4:08 She kind of gave like a little snark, but then it was fine.

4:11 Yeah.

4:12 So I liked that.

4:13 What do you think about the whole, you know, Victor working on his reading skills?

4:17 I love the Zeke thing. Oh my gosh.

4:19 Zeke, again, just goes right back to what we talked about before.

4:22 Always for the win.

4:23 He is the backbone of this entire series.

4:25 Totally.

4:26 I agree. I mean, because he is, I feel like Julia is trying to like force him to read and Zeke is like, no, you got to make him want to read. Totally.

4:37 You said it so well.

4:38 Give him the project where he has to read to do what he wants to do.

4:42 And I love how he was like, yeah, Sydney's not good at cars. You are.

4:46 Oh my God, right. He handled that so like a freaking king. He handled that so well. He's like, you know what? I need somebody who is good at this. And you're good at this.

4:59 I don't care for the realtor coming for the house though.

5:02 Right, right.

5:03 But back to the whole Zeke thing, when Victor was like, But I'm going to be so slow.

5:08 And he's like, I got all the time in the world.

5:11 Nothing to do.

5:12 Oh, he handled that so great. I love it.

5:14 Although then Julia goes to Mrs. Braverman about the car. And then she's like, Dad, you got to talk to Mom. I don't know. Some of that I could do without.

5:25 Yeah.

5:26 Yeah.

5:26 Do they sell this house?

5:28 No.

5:29 Yeah.

5:30 I figured that much. The one thing I don't like is, well, but I get it. I get it. If I was Zeke, I'd be like, we're not selling this house. This is our house.

5:39 We're selling this. It does need some work, though. That house does need work.

5:43 I agree.

5:43 But he gives Camille the cold shoulder, which I'm not, I don't really like too much.

5:48 Yeah.

5:49 He shuts her down real fast.

5:50 He should have a conversation about it. It's interesting how they had money problems and now they have none. That was interesting, too, though. Remember the money problems?

5:57 Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that. That was like a whole storyline.

5:59 Yeah.

6:01 They realized it didn't work.

6:03 And then the whole, okay, first of all, again, there's the first of all, everyone take a drink. Sarah and the plumbing.

6:13 Yes.

6:14 Kind of amusing, kind of not. I do like that neighbor. He is hot. He does seem kind of ewy.

6:24 Yeah, he seems sleazy.

6:25 Kind of gives the ick.

6:26 He's definitely a boy toy.

6:28 Brian comes to fix the plumbing.

6:30 Yeah.

6:30 Finds out about the issue with Amber.

6:34 What did you think of that?

6:35 Because the whole reason why that happened is because Sarah went to Amber and was like, he's not going to have any of his family at the wedding.

6:43 Don't you think that's weird?

6:44 I'm not worried about that. I don't care about that. I do think they're rushing into the marriage.

6:50 Right.

6:51 But that was the whole conversation that Sarah had with Amber. And, you know, it seemed as if Amber had told Ryan that that my family is skeptical about this.

7:04 So when, you know, he comes.

7:06 Off Sarah and she goes, you know, I'm so sorry I told Amber that, yada, yada, yada, you know, whatever.

7:12 Then it got awkward, right?

7:14 Oh, where are we having the wedding, the weird climb up to the spot, Tilden Park, I don't know where he is. And then, no, we got to do it here. Oh, no, we're doing it here. It's sort of like, I don't care.

7:26 Yeah, I don't care either. Just get married or don't.

7:29 I don't Yeah. This one meanders a little bit. It's finding its way, I think. Like, where's Hank? I need Hank back.

7:47 I know.

7:47 We need Ray Romano back.

7:50 I'm not feeling the campaign manager.

7:52 Oh, I'm not feeling the campaign.

7:55 I'm not feeling any of that, right? I'm like, It's too random. Suddenly out of nowhere, we're running for mayor. Although I did like when Max gave the 20 bucks. That was legit.

8:05 Right. I don't like Adam asking Mr. Ray for the donation.

8:09 It's like bringing back Mr.

8:10 Ray.

8:11 It just feels like.

8:11 And being like, hey, can you give me money? And then that whole thing. I didn't like that.

8:18 No. She's a little too pushy for me. Campaign manager gal who's a good actress. Journey Smollett.

8:25 But....

8:27 Yeah.

8:29 That's my problem and maybe why we're taking a break from parenthood.

8:32 The stories aren't vibing.

8:33 It's just like, oh. Yeah. The old label.

8:36 I know.

8:36 Had a Tyson Ritter from All-American Rejects being the jerk. It's just like, oh. I just feel like we're season eight, 90210 in it right now. We're just trying crap.

8:48 We're trying just to get out of it.

8:50 It's just like, oh.

8:51 Yeah.

8:51 No, you know, them starting their own label, I was just like, can we just stick to the Luncheonette?

8:58 Right. We just did the Luncheonette. Yeah.

9:01 We don't need to start our own label again with two guys that don't know one lick of how to run a label.

9:07 And I don't even know how we're making money off the label. We're just making songs and doing what with them? Trying to sell records?

9:13 I don't know.

9:14 Yeah.

9:14 No, I feel that.

9:16 It's kind of a wah-wah, which look, The wah-wah of Parenthood is still 10 times better than most shows, but it's a little wah-wah-y. Even like, Drew likes the girl and then the Joni Mitchell.

9:29 I kind of liked that storyline.

9:31 Did she like him?

9:32 I don't even know what happened.

9:33 I don't know.

9:33 It's a little unclear.

9:34 She obviously does like him, I think. But I did think it was hilarious that he went to Adam and Crosby and was like, Joni Mitchell, I need to know everything.

9:42 And they were like, track six, we'll get you later.

9:44 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

9:45 I thought that was so funny.

9:47 It's all amusing. But then the girl, who's also from something else, he's like, I like you. And then she's just like, Nothing? I don't know.

9:56 It's weird.

9:56 Yeah, but that just shows you that she likes him. I guess.

10:00 Max in the yearbook. That was kind of interesting. Yeah. Because I did, that actually was probably my most interesting storyline because he gets in trouble for taking the picture of the girl, rightfully so. But then Hank's like, it's a really good photo. And he ain't got no time for the, you know, whole, he's like, this is a good photo. Right. That's all he cares about. That's a good storyline. Right, right, right, right.

10:24 But, you know, obviously he gets demoted and it sucks. But then you're like, yeah, we can't have pictures of girls crying in the yearbook.

10:35 So, yeah, yeah. You can tell that he's like trying.

10:39 He's so talented at being a photographer, but it's not for the right subject.

10:43 Right, right.

10:44 It's just like, right, he shouldn't be the yearbook photographer anymore. Also, I look back on my yearbook. I was on yearbook and I look back at it.

10:52 You would be on yearbook.

10:53 Thank you. It's so bad, our yearbook. I look back and I'm like, first of all, there's like a page of article that no one wants to read. And like one picture that's so small, you need a magnifying glass to be able to see the people's faces. I'm like, who's running the yearbook? If I had to do over, I'd be like, All photos. Just do photo, photo, photo, photo, photo.

11:15 Make the people's faces, take big photos.

11:19 Yeah.

11:19 So you can see people. And stop with all this article writing that no one wants.

11:24 We never had articles in our photos. Oh, it's so dumb.

11:26 Our yearbook. Let me shout out to our bad yearbook. It was so bad. I'm like, oh my gosh, what were we thinking? The yearbook teacher. Yeah, you know what kids want 30 years later is to read an article.

11:41 Yeah, no, for sure.

11:43 Tiniest print, tiniest print you could ever see too. I'm like, this thing's so dumb. But anyway, I don't know. What am I? I mean, look, it's still great. It was very great when I watched it. I'm giving it an eight, but I'm just kind of like, and sorry, by the way, to want one on our big finale for parenthood right now.

12:03 But look, we're going to, Next week, you're going to hear Gazette Part 2 here, and you're going to love every minute of it.

12:08 You're going to love it. We've got a lot of Gilmore stuff coming your way.

12:11 Yeah, so write us your thoughts. But I do think fall is a time for Gilmore, and we can put a pin in paranoid.

12:19 I can't believe it's fall.

12:21 It's not actually fall.

12:22 It is.

12:23 Alexa, when is the first day of fall? The first day of fall this year lands on Tuesday, September 22nd. September 22nd. We're still a month from fall.

12:31 It doesn't matter. We're in September. We're in September. That's weird.

12:36 I don't know what happened to summer. And everybody feels the same way, so I don't even need to say it.

12:40 I have a child that is turning one in September. That is crazy.

12:45 That is crazy. Yeah.

12:48 Wow.

12:49 I know.

12:49 Happy birthday to everybody.

12:51 Happy birthday. Happy birthday to everybody. If you had a birthday this.

12:59 Year, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. All right. Well, Parenthood out. I don't know what we say. Braverman's out?

13:06 Braverman's out. We'll be back in 2027.

13:08 Maybe. Bye.

13:09 Bye.

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