How did Jess Transform into Elvis?
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I mean, that's what I'm saying. I don't know what's happening. I want everybody to gather round now. Gather round. I like that. Yeah. Yes. Mess around. Mess around. That's what we're talking about. Uh-huh. Mess around. Oh, that's it. Look at that. Mess around. Mess around. Laughed meeting. Laughed.

It's only the greatest city in the world.

And that's like, if you go in and look up like those surveys and it says greatest cities in the world, Chicago is always number one. So I'm just putting it out there. Survey one person named Lamorne Morris. Survey says. I would, by the way, that's my dream to host that show. You want to host that show? I would love to host that show. Ask Steve if you could guest host. I know you guys are friends. Steve and I have never met. Steve, if you ever retire.

He eating too good. He eating too good. I know. But one day, look, I can host in 20 years. I'm a longtime fan. Longtime fan. Longtime watcher. Longtime listener. Same here. I love the family feud. And I love it for Steve. So if you would never host it, I don't know.

I would. I mean, you kidding me? Yeah, absolutely. Can you imagine if Steve ever retired, but we did a two host format and then we would be like on each side to go like down, you know, it'd be great. Yeah, you could host. I'll be like the audience correspondent. I'll just, the camera will just pan to me every once in a while and I'll go, that ain't right.

Ha ha, y'all crazy. That's what I would do. Yeah, the reinvention. Okay, well, call us in 20 years. Yeah. Chicago. Let's dive right in. You want to take this one?

Yes. How did Jess somehow get a, I thought this when I watched this, how did Jess somehow get a perfectly fitting Elvis costume in Chicago? The one they had for the other guy would have been ginormous on her from Ellie. That's just movie magic. That's just movie magic because you had to sell it. You had to sell it. You know, maybe she put some clothespins in the back or something, but yes, that's a totally different suit made for Zoey.

100%. That's the answer. 100%. Or what we could do, what we could say is, you know, backstory wise that she knew. Oh. So what she did was she went out. That's a very Jessica Day thing. And prepped it and said, just in case, I'm going to have a backup Elvis costume. Oh.

I like this. But that's not what happened. That's not what happened. But I like that theory in terms of like in the story. Yeah. But Deborah Maguire made two costumes. For sure. One big, one small. That's it. All right. Next one. Okay. Hi. I have a question for the pod. Episode 220, Chicago. Was it really Dennis Farina in the casket or a fake body? Thanks so much. Love the podcast.

Rivka. Is it Rivka? Rivka. Rivka. No, that was... I'm just going to say Dennis did not sign up to lie in a casket. Yeah, I'm going to say no too. No, it wasn't him. A doppelganger? A lookalike? Yeah, 100%. Yeah, no, I'm going to go ahead and say that was not Dennis lying in that casket. In fact, I remember we were from a distance when you were looking at it.

Like when I got there, I was like, oh man, that's whoever that's, whoever's in there. It looks exactly like him, you know? And I think even at one point from wide shots, it's just a fake. It's like a, it's a mannequin body mannequin that's in there. Yeah. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Okay. Next question. Hi. Yeah. Big, big letters. Hi from Chicago. B T W.

Was the Chicago episode actually filmed in Chicago? I know, Lamorne, you're from there and so is Jake. So was Curious or was it filmed in LA slash somewhere else from Samantha? No, not in Chicago. In fact, we shot that in Altadena, California.

And I remember it because as we were driving through, we just kept talking about how beautiful the houses were. You know, Jake, Zoe. And at one point, I want to say, Jake said, oh, man, this is a great neighborhood. Like, I could see myself living over here. And I want to say he ended up... Near-ish. Near, yeah, near. He's on that part of LA, that town, that part of...

you know, the city. I mean, a real fact is that new girl never shot out of L.A.,

Yeah. Like in the surrounding communities, like we never traveled. I remember that. I remember like the year before, didn't Modern Family do an episode in Hawaii or something? Like it used to be in like literally just like the small previous generation of sitcoms. There was always like a destination episode where they would shoot somewhere else. I don't know why. Maybe they show it done well enough and they gave like a little treat or

And they said, go shoot in a fun place. But New Girl never shot outside of LA. Never. Ever. But...

boy did we hope we did yeah we really thought because i think it was modern family went to hawaii the year before and then our show came out and then it hit and it was doing really well we thought like oh i wonder where they're gonna send us it almost felt like a given that we were gonna get to go somewhere and then it just never happened like just things change and economies changed and it just i guess switched and we never got to go and shoot somewhere else

- Yeah, now I know we could have went to Kenya. We would have got some love in Kenya or Cape Town.

A little Johannesburg action, but no. No. No. The fans were there, but no. All right. Next one is the baggie. I cannot wait to hear you guys talk about the Chicago opener. Peak comedy. That juxtaposition between Nick's news and the gang's voices gets me every time. The helium. By far some of the best lines and scenes in this one. I know CeCe isn't in it, but between Winston pretending to be dead and then Schmidt calling him a ghoul.

to Schmidt hiding behind the door when Nick comes in after having one dozen beers. Winston saying, am I right in looking at Nick just right when he does it to Schmidt and the casket scene? Perfection. Oddly enough, though, I always fast forward through the part where Jess sings. I don't know if it's just that I don't particularly like that Elvis song, but I cringe every time that part starts.

How many of the scenes I mentioned actually were scripted or were they more ad-libbed? How many takes did you all have to go through on some of those hilarious scenes? Love the inside look at the show on the podcast. I'm so happy I can stream it because watching it when it was on the six seasons just wasn't enough. Six seasons? Seven seasons? I guess we did six in a bit. Six in a bit. Love the show. From...

Katie. Katie. Katie. What if this is interesting, Hannah? What if Katie just didn't know about the seventh season and hasn't seen it?

Katie. Katie. I got news for you. Wow. Hidden Eight. This is the seventh season. Hidden Eight episodes just laying around. Oh my gosh. You should find them, Katie. If you haven't found them, you should find them. Yeah, they're great. Wow. Yeah. Let's talk. Okay. So how many of the scenes I mentioned actually scripted or were they just ad-libbed? How many takes did you have to go through on some of those hilarious scenes? So

When I was sitting in bed and I was pretending to be dead with Schmidt, a lot of stuff didn't make the cut. And because Max was just improvising a ton. Because I'm just lying there and he's doing all this stuff. And, you know, he's being Max, full Max. And a lot of times I'm laughing. So we have to, when it's on my coverage, we have to keep redoing it and retaking it.

So on that, I can't tell you exactly how many takes, but we went through a lot. That was true for and typical for our show, period.

And in general, we would go through a lot of different takes because honestly, it's just a cast of a bunch of funny people. And when we get together, our goal on the day, yes, is to get the scene done, but it's also to make each other laugh and to have fun. And I think we all do a great job of kind of messing with each other. So on that scene, I could tell you it took a lot. That opening moment.

When we're talking with the helium balloons and you got Bill Burr going in on, you know, not the opening one, but the opening one once he gets to Chicago. I mean, it was like an all-star stand-up comedy cast. Like, they let him go. They let him go and improv and ad-lib and get – and it's supposed to be a family dynamic, right? And you want that to feel authentic. Yeah.

So a lot of improv. Yeah. I had the most fun just kind of being around that environment and being a part of people who are considered legends. You know what I mean? Like those actors are considered legends in the comedy realm. And to say you were a part of something like that is fantastic. And then Jake was there too. Yeah.

Yeah, and that opening scene with the helium, it does get me. I really love that moment. It does make me laugh because it's just all the nightmares. Your friend comes fully vulnerable and like pours their heart out with the most terrible news to you. And what can you do? Saying nothing makes you look like a jerk. You got to say something, but saying something with a helium voice. Yeah. There's no way out. Yes.

No way out. Yeah. Chicago. That would have been cool if you guys had got to shoot it in Chicago. You know what's crazy? I wanted to, and obviously I wanted to, and I thought when we read it, that's what was going to happen. I remember that. I remember when we read it, I remember you asking, you were like, do we get to go? Yeah. And, you know, and obviously that didn't happen. But what they did was they brought in, so they have these snow machines and

that will shoot fake snow all over the trees and over the ground. And then they would take these blankets of cotton and just like wrap certain trees in it and wrap like certain lawns in this to make it look like it was the dead of winter in Chicago. And some of the houses, like I said, in that Altadena area do resemble certain parts, especially like the north side of Chicago.

certain parts of that area. And yeah, I think they did a great job of making it feel that way and look that way. Even when they cast, like Nick Kroll doing his Chicago accent. So funny. So, so funny. But yeah, it was great.

Great episode. What a great episode. Thank you for these great questions. We love holding these laugh meetings with you. All right, that's the show. Join us on Tuesday to recap season two, episode 21. First...

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