But would I always help each other for high I mean this one time I
got scared of hair, so he shaved all the dogs for us. It
was really sweet. Welcome to cloud Night, a Superstore podcast. I'm Jason
and I'm BB and we're talking about Superstore Season six, episode eleven, Deep
Cleaning. Yes. This aired on March fourth, twenty twenty one, written
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I don't know. We're getting close to the end here. Oh no,
how many more episodes still? They're over. This is episode eleven, and
there's gonna be twelve and thirteen, and then the last two will air together.
Oh so they're going to have a special fine finale. Yeah. I
don't know if it's just like the last two episodes that they're putting together,
if it's like an actual two part hour long episode. This one is a
lot of stuff happening, Like a lot of really good development happened. I
think this is one of my favorite episodes so far. Yeah, it really
feels like they're moving all the characters around to have like a good finale,
good closure. Yeah. I just really enjoyed Matteo's story arc in this.
They're giving us a lot of the things that we were asking for. Yes,
they were, And it was interesting to see Jonah kind of intertwined into
that because they did, like they have a dating family in common. They've
dated into this family. Yeah, the Sosas, and it was cool to
see the parents come back. Shoot, an order just came in for Ron
and Connie Sosa. I mean, they didn't even really like me when we
were together, so this is going to be really awkward. Yeah, that
was interesting. I didn't even think about the fact that they could come back
without Amy. Yeah, they're independent people outside of her, And that's what
I love about her not being here is that you can get other characters to
develop without her because they didn't really Like I said, I've always felt that
they never really did justice to the Amy character in her development. She was
very like girl Boss energy and it just was disappointing to see that. Yeah,
and it's kind of cool that she still has a presence on the show
without actually being there. Like that whole situation with their parents, you know,
it revolved around her character and her and Jonah's relationship and her brother and
all that. Yeah, I mean people have impact, which is real.
And like, considering her history at the store, I'm surprised not more people
recognize the parents and said, Hi, you're bumped into them somehow. It
would have been interesting to see how they interact with like Sandra or you know,
other parents. I'd love to see Matteo's parents come back too, like
his aunts. I think he had like a couple of aunts and cousins that
came in. Yeah, and I would love to see that and them with
Marcus. Oh for Marcus's interaction with the family, Yeah, because he used
to live with them and now Marcus is living with Jonah. That's still true,
right? Or did Jonah move out? Implied Jonah is moving out and
that Eric and Mateo were going to move into that place. Did that happen
already? They never really kind of tied that together, did they Did we
just assume stuff happens in the background. Yeah, I know, they never
show things that happen outside of the store. It was really funny to watch
Mateo quip about that with with Carol's lawyer. Hannah followed me on Instagram last
week, and we've been kind of dming. Oh my god, you're dating
outside a store. I'm so proud of you. I think we were giving
him shit for that too. It's still a woman that he met in the
store, but I guess it's okay. She don't work for Cloud nine,
she's working to sue them. Yeah, you're either with or against them.
Oh that's funny. What do you think about his new romantic interests? Maybe
want to get dinner this weekend? Yeah? I would all right. Now
my dad only eats to tell you you and my mom is gonna want it
early, like five ish. I still think like Amy's coming back in the
finale and that this is just like a sidetrack for him. Really I want
that. I think she's really cute. I love this actress. I've seen
her in other things and she's a really funny and strong like actress. So
I would love to see more of her. And I would love to see
Jonah develop outside of Amy and a relationship that's not weird or toxic to some
degree. I would like it if they could grow apart and maybe they come
back from Atao's wedding and it's like, uh, they're just good friends now
because they've experienced each other. But she's always going to be a California girl
now because I don't I wouldn't want to come back no offense Missouri, you
know what I mean? Yeah, I just think that because they have fat
Yeah, and that's kind of thing, like the show has been too much
like a rom com at heart that has centered this relationship of Jonah and Amy.
But don't they have to change the format a little bit to introduce or
at least trans transition into Cheyenne's show. I would try to do that.
I would try to do that a lot, Like I don't know, this
one didn't do a lot for Cheyenne, like she was basically trip sitting.
Yeah, but I don't know. Yeah, I would. I would say,
like as a writing group, you know where you have to kind of
tie up some loose ends you can give characters like redemption arcs and like,
it'd be really cool if we found out more about Brett in an episode or
he said words, what do you mean Brett's He's icon? Right. I
love this episode because there was a lot of Brett in this episode. Did
you notice that, I mean they pointed it out. Yeah, no,
but like it was more than once that Brett was like a little bit of
a feature. He was cleaning the the conveyor belt. Yeah, so that
was like Brett just being a boss doing like a job the machine. But
he was basically standing there like holding the rag to the conveyor belt. Right.
It was good. It was good to see Brett doing like menial task
as he does. And then he was dressed as a fucking pilgrim. People
seem to really like the party. Yeah, I know, look at the
look of childlike wonder on Brett's face. It was fun to see Sandra and
her son in this episode two. They had a lot of good chemistry happening
because she is being a little too honest. But her edible underwear. Yeah,
Jerry and I never even got to go on our honeymoon. I had
to freeze my edible lingerie. Mom, that's great. And then they were
both confused about how to use that floor cleaner. Yep. Do you think
they were assigned to work together. I think they choose, or it might
be Sandra being overprotective mom because last time he worked with other people, Jonah
like stabbed him or whatever. I don't remember. He was bleeding. I
don't remember. There was blood involved and Jonah was standing over him, so
I can't remember everything. You were not a reliable narry. Yeah. So,
like, I mean, what we were talking about with Mateo kind of
came the fruition and it's like he's gonna be getting married and trying not to
think about my future just because it's so up in the air with my status
and you know, everything being held. But I'm just sick of putting everything
on hold. So yeah, I whant to marry you someday. Not not
that even know if that's something you want, but I'm just it is.
Yes, I love a wedding, oh my god, but I'm so tired
of shows ending with weddings between the traditional heteronormative like man woman, and this
show has set it up like in one of the first couple of seasons,
Mateo and Glenn work together to put make a whole gay wedding like display.
Yeah, and for me, that's like full arc for the show where it's
like this store has always been about this, and we're going to be about
this, And I'm like really excited for Matayo to fucking get a green card
at least because it's true, like you know it, I've seen people like
really have to make a decision that normally they would be allowed to think on
more, but they have to hurry up and do it in terms of marriage
because there's real fear of being detained and deported. And then with COVID,
this is something that was very prominent in this episode. They acknowledged the existence
of COVID and the fact that we've been in a lockdown for a whole year.
That was like, yeah, the theme of the episode that tied everything
together in terms of like everybody's experience, Oh, how has it been a
year already? But also how has it only been a year? Oh?
Year wasted? Yeah, the way they were talking about how they missed all
the holidays, I think there's also a part of that is, like we
missed those holiday ups episodes of the show, Like we didn't get a Halloween
episode. It's going to be so nice, it almost makes I wish we
could celebrate the other holidays amiss too. Yeah, like Halloween, I was
dressed in full headed tost Shrek makeup in my living room for no one,
so we got a bunch of costumes at the end. Yeah, it was
fun to see that because that's like one of my favorite episodes. I think
I've talked about this in past Halloween episodes where I'd love to see characters in
costumes because they're people in costumes in costumes, so it's like double costume.
But it's also really I don't know how many other shows have come out where
they're dealing with COVID. Not many, not that I've seen, right,
And it's I don't know, what do you say, Like I want to
know what other people think about like having COVID in television, Like do you
want to see that? Because I've heard people say they don't want to see
that because it's like I don't know, escapism, yeah, and television can
be that. But like I think I've said this in the past about this
picular show. This show takes place today and it's tackling current events, like
it's always try to stay current to the capacity of how writing works in show
running, and it's done that for the most part, and I think COVID
has to be part of it, especially considering that it's in a place that
was very front line facing with the workers. Yeah. I don't know.
I've kind of been on both sides. I know, I said on this
podcast, I don't really like seeing COVID on TV shows. Part of that
is like it's going to like really date these shows, like cement that this
is twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, maybe twenty twenty two. Yeah,
well, you can watch earlier seasons of Superstore and there's topical stuff on there
that relates to current events. But it's also in some ways a little like
fluid. It's timeless and you know it clearly happens, you know, in
this decade or whatever, but it's not so like that like this year,
this era, and the fact that the show was ending in the COVID arc
is, I don't know, it's kind of distracting in some ways. It's
like an added thing to kind of keep track of. Yeah, what if
they did like a full fantasy and they're like, no more COVID, We're
all vaccinated, and it's okay, But I'm glad the show is does take
it seriously like other shows have like did a little bit with masks masks and
then kind of abandoned it. Yeah. Well, like I've been watching RuPaul's
Drag Race. I missed the last episode because I don't have access to like
shows like that all the time. But they they're a reality show and they
had to deal with COVID and they even had like a COVID special and some
people didn't like that too much because they don't want to see like the struggle.
And I think that's fair because we're living in it and reality is really
really harsh. But I think when you're looking at scripted shows, it's like
a whole nother like type of tension and aesthetic, and I think it's important
and I can see how it dates things. But I feel like all documented
media is dated, whether we like it or not. Whether you want it
to be timeless or not, there's going to be something about it that's gonna
be of its time. Yeah, it's just like this like really like specifically
nails it in at this point in time. I think that's exciting because like
not everything that is done in that way, where like this is specifically done
in this time while it's happening is done in a way that includes so many
voices like what was the name of the director and the writer? Like those
people like I've never you know, if we're talking about a show in the
nineties about things that were happening in the nineties, it was all white dudes
talking about it, you know what I mean. So it's just like this
perspective of this time is so unique and telling. I don't know, I
really want to know, Like I hope that they do a special series of
like anybody who does consultating for this show, like who are they consulting through
this time about like how these places these workers are actually spending their time,
because I feel like it's accurate in a lot of ways, and I think
it'd be really cool to spotlight the consultants and the people who are inspiring these
stories in real life. I don't know, I would like to see more
of like the background because this show is so unique and diverse. Yeah,
do kind of pick up on the patterns of how they're filming now, Like
you know, obviously they wear masks when they're out on the floor, but
then they're setting so many scenes in that eating area so that they can have
their masks off and have something to drink or eat. Yeah. I was
a little, uh, I want to say, a little weirded out when
the lawyer came up without a mask. Oh yeah she did. Uh huh.
I caught that, mm hmm. And she's a stranger and those people
are older, Like I kind of got why Mateo might have been without a
mask with them, because they might be in the same COVID bubble because like
maybe well, no, that's the first time being in person together. Yeah,
but maybe like they're all tested. I don't know, like, you
know, there's no explanation and it sucks. But when the strange lawyer woman
comes up, that kind of freaked me out. And jonah, yeah,
seeing those two white people without masks really freaked me out. I don't know.
I was just like, where's your mask, lady? Anyway, Yeah
he has legs, he sure does. You're going to move on to Dina.
Oh you want to talk about Stone or Dina. Yeah. So she
was just like creating chemical baths and huffing. Yeah in that closet, pouring
all these chemicals. Whoa, it reeks of chemicals in here. We shouldn't
air this out. Oh yeah, good idea. Oh, that fresh air
feels nice on my face and eyebrows. And she was super awkward with Garrett
right before that. Yeah, and I think there wasn't much to her little
story here, but I think it's that awkward interaction with Garrett and then at
the end when I I think Cheyenne's face really shows it that, like how
Garrett is genuinely interested in her experience. Oh uh, Yeah, everything was
great. Dina was especially normal. It's okay, it's Garrett. I was
high today. What are you serious? Well, I want to everything contexts,
embarrassing, anecdotes, the whole nine yards. Okay, so it all
started first thing in the morning. Yeah. I love how they're like letting
Cheyenne be us a little bit where we recognize what's happened, Like she's kind
of our reaction. Like m and Hianne looked really good in this episode too.
I really loved that little sweater that she was wearing with her like acid
washed jeans. She's always looking so iconic, a little referential to the eighties
to YEA love it. Yeah, that's all I really had to say about
Dina. Yeah, do you want to talk about that deep clean? So
what now we have to do a deep clean like every year. Yeah,
one deep clean a year during a pandemic does sound a little excessive. You
ever done a deep cleaning in a store? So the way we used to
do it, yes, a little bit, but I specifically chose jobs that
were like not as scary, but eventually you had to do it. So
we worked. I'm just having to flashbacks. So the way we had to
do it was we had to take everything off of the shelves and clean,
and you start from the top all the way to the bottom, and once
you get to the bottom, everything you accidentally pushed back too far would just
fall down all the way down. Because our shelf systems were just racks and
there was like a little like dead space in between the two racks, and
they were put together with like two by sixes that we would just cut in
house, because I worked at a hardware store that's like a big box hardware
store. So we would just move the boards and clean them. Sometimes we
would also check if the boards were like warped or messed up, and we
would or if they had knots, we would replace them. And everything was
always so dusty and dirty. The worst ones were in hardware and electrical and
then the kill wall, which is what we called the pest control wall.
Yeah, there have been animals that have been dead found in there, and
you had to make sure to wear long sleeves and gloves because you never knew
what you were going to find. It was just yeah, terrible dusty work,
you like, and they didn't provide a lot of ppe, like you
had to be smart and bring your own. Yeah, So it was nice,
Like it was nice to see everybody kind of geared up, and it
was weird to just see them do superficial things because it would have taken them
like taking out all of the product and doing everything one by one to do
a deep clean. So that's where I would be like, I don't know,
it's like half clean to be but that's just because again in my experience,
we'd pull everything off the shelf and then but we were also doing inventory,
like we were double duty. We were cleaning and doing inventory, and
every department had to count every single item in the store and that was done
yearly. Yeah, I think that would be just difficult for stores to do
during a pandemic, but it would be nice if they could do it at
least once a month and hire a special crew, not people who already worked
there, but literally, like unless you want to pay them hazard pay.
I don't know. That's what I would wish to see where I would think
would work in a perfect world. Have you ever done a deep clean?
Well, I was. I worked at a custodian where in a dormitory,
so like when students left for the summer, we had to clean this whole
building of almost a thousand rooms, and yeah, so they'd be pretty gross.
Sometimes it's like, oh, here's a year's supply of their fingernail clippings
and paired. Oh that wasn't fun. It's like on a personal level,
but right, like you would hope not to find that in a grocery store,
right. Yeah, this is people living on their own for the first
time and then more recently working at a pizza place. Like after just a
few weeks of working there, kept hearing that we have this corporate cleaning inspection
coming up, so we have to do extra cleaning stuff. And that was
just annoying, especially because they kept saying like it's this week. So every
time I'd go in the work, I'd assume like, oh, I'm glad
that's finally over and not to hear about that. And then but it's like
it's still coming, it's still coming up. Yeah, And then it turns
out it was like Friday at seven pm. I'm like, that's the worst
time you could come in, Like that's the busiest time for us. Yeah,
And why is a corporate person coming in like after hours on Friday?
Like that sounds like the least corporate thing. That is weird. They would
do that to us too. Corporate would always be on their way to do
a walk. Oh my god, corporate's doing a walk and we would have
to end. Like if you were doing everything perfect, then your stiles should
look open day ready is what they would call it. And that's like nearly
impossible when customers are actually present, Like there's so like to have the cut,
that's like to me, that was like the coolest thing to see that
they redirected everybody to do curbside and that they got to be there without customers.
That is a dream. Like how many times have you ever had that
moment where you're like, my job would be perfect if there weren't no fucking
customers here at the theater all the time. If we can just do this
show without having Yeah, yeah, that's that's the life of a retail worker.
Like I would have this place looking great, but people were fucking bitches.
Like you know when you go to the grocery store and you're walking down
an aisle and it's like a regular like maybe it's appliances or it's like clothing
or something, and you find like a tub of ice cream unrefrigerated, just
sitting there. That's somebody's job to find that and like deal with that whatever
it does, because some asshole grabbed it from place and brought it to the
other and didn't take the time to just at least put it in a cold
place right or you know, even like stupid shit like you might find batteries
in like the grocery aisle or something like that, and it's just like,
you know, that person took hours taking all of the batteries from a box
and finding where the little hook is and putting them all there, and now
they're like here, why why returns suck? That's all I'm saying. One
day did not deal with returns lovely, But then you have to deal with
all the dust and dirt and relics of the past. Okay, so that
POGs magazine from nineteen ninety four. I feel like they're forgetting that this store
was destroyed by a tornado a few years ago. Maybe, you know,
tornadoes are weird, Jason. Maybe maybe they left the floor that one that
one shelf was like, you know, bolted down with like ten inch bowl
bolts, and tornadoes sometimes they only knock out like one side of the store.
Maybe that side of the store was untouched. So I feel like they
would have gutted the whole store to rebuild. No, I mean, corporate
would not want to spend more than they need to to rebuild if they have
a good foundation and they're still shit available. Plus, I would love to
see another image of what the supposed store looks like, like how big?
Is it really? Like a floor planner yes, or like a drone shot
a little bit where you can see above the aisles to give an illusion of
like height, because we know that they would have to use CGI. Yeah,
I want I want them to do that. Spend the money on that,
please, because I feel like we haven't had that in a long time
since they had the tornado. I think was the last time that we saw
the scope the with and the like vastness of the superstore. I would love
to see, like get a better idea of it from like a bird's eye
view. Remember when the birds flew through the store, Uh, like a
shit ton of them? Were they blackbirds? Oh, Dina's birds. We
also saw more raccoons than we ever had. Yes, yes, I think
employees have a better relationship and love for animals then they do the customers.
But we did have a lot of customers who would bring their dogs, and
that was there were people who would keep dog treats in their work clothes,
and the dogs knew who they were and they would look for them. That's
like how dedicated people were to the pets and not the people. I never
saw nobody keep a fucking lollipop or treat for no kids, dog treats.
Yes, So the fact that they had the way that Glen was trying to
reason with the raccoons gave me the energy of like, oh my god,
Glenn loves the raccoons. No, come on, guys, that foods for
us. No. I mean it, seriously, guys, guys, guys
like he doesn't want to like upset them or really like make them feel like
they should really leave. But they should definitely stop what they're doing. He's
accepted the raccoons and knows that there's a balance to maintain, even shared cake
with them in a way. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm eating raccoon fur
and I don't know. Oh my god. Glenn was really losing it in
this episode. Yeah. I kind of liked how I mean, Garrett was
very negative through most of it, but then he really came to see how
much Glenn has been trying to keep people happy always. That's been not even
whole career here, Yeah, but specifically during this pandemic. You guys have
to do the people pleasing because Glenn has been doing it all day, all
year, you know what, He's been doing it since he started working here.
So here's what's going to happen. You guys are going to enjoy this
weird ass little party because that's what Glenn wants. Got it, I'll put
back in the punch now, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I
think Glenn is one of those people that forces themselves into presenting happiness, like
you fake it till you make it type of people, but like a whole
year of it without you know, that guy goes to a mega church.
Now he goes to Facebook live. I don't know how he would handle that,
and then like his I don't know how the pandemic would have affected him
and his foster children too. That would have been a really interesting storyline to
kind of dig into, because we don't really get those types of stories.
And I'm pretty sure that a lot of social services were affected or impacted by
the pandemic, and he's kind of like a social service case himself in a
lot of ways. But yeah, I really liked seeing his vulnerability in a
lot of ways because they were like he was putting on his mask of happiness,
but it cracked. Just get over it. There's nothing you can do
to make people happy. That's just the way it is. The pandemic happened,
and everybody had a fear. You don't think I know that, but
I got to try to give them something. I mean, people have been
working NonStop for so long, risking their health, and I was glad that
Garrett got to be the one to kind of see it. I like that
Garrett signed up for the party because he thought it was going to be less
work, and then it ended up being a party about all of the fucking
holidays. Don't forget about Thanksgiving? So on with the turkey. Don't forget
about Thanksgiving? Man, you know the one with the Pilgrims and a turkey.
Yep, No, I know what Thanksgiving is. Motherfucker wanted Maud.
I love that guy so much. I think i'm him. That's why I
aspire to be at work. That was fun. I really enjoyed that.
And then at the end, it's like, it's snowing. It's been snowing
for months. Motherfucker. Yeah, it was cold. That was so relevant.
I thought that was like, yes, this is what this is twenty
twenty one, we are here like that. I love that. It's I
don't know you, I don't see this in other television shows at all.
Like you can almost put the day on it. Yeah, and that's that's
fucking iconic in my opinion. Hey, everybody, it's snowing. It's an
all a day miracle. Close the door, Jesus Flynn, what do you
got for for us next week? Or we done with this episode? What's
going on? I just want to mention that Garfield float what the hell is
that? Oh that's Garfield. I made him. Cassandra was really missing seeing
him in the Thanksgiving Day parade. Well, now she'll see him every time
she closed her eyes. Dina thought she was fucking stoned. And who saw
it first? Was it Garrett? Yeah? Garrett, he was like horrified
by it. I kind of thought it was cute. What was your opinion
on that, Garfield? I think it was kind of terrifying. Really.
I think it's the way that balloons like that just kind of like drift in.
I think they're fucking balloons. I don't know, maybe I haven't watched
enough it. It's when they have like the perfect amount of helium where they
don't like drift away that it's kind of hover and no, I know what
you're talking about. I understand they're creepy. Yeah, and then has a
face on it. I thought it was funny. I thought it was cute
too, and I thought it was clever that it did look like Garfield.
So you can't hit with like copyright if there is any on that motherfucker.
Yeah. So Glenn fucking did that like he was doing that party, like
he made fucking cast roles and pies and all the shits and the raccoons aid
it all they had a feast. Is that it. Are we good next
episode? I think that's it. One thing I saw in the news was
that they'd filmed the final episode, so it's in the can yep. Wow.
And there were a lot of a lot of like tweets or Instagram posts
from the cast members being all nostalgic. Yeah, they've worked on the show
for so long now yeah. And there was one from America Ferrera that was
like congratulating them on their last day of filming, and it was kind of
implying that she wasn't there. Thank god. It just means she might not
have been there on the final day. She might have still filmed the episode,
she just couldn't deal with all the cleanup. Did you hear about her
directing some movie now? Yeah? Yeah, Yeah, that's pretty exciting.
I'm glad she's doing other projects. I want to see what other projects come
out from all of the talented people that are involved in the show, and
maybe we can kind of keep up with that in a way if we see
updates, we'll keep y'all updated. So next week, on March eleventh,
the episode Customer Satisfaction will air. That term you saw that a fucking customer
satisfaction such bullshit. You know what, the only people who ever do those
customer satisfaction surveys are people who are fucking assholes and who want to rant about
some quote unquote shitty experience they had. You probably caught somebody on a shitty
day, or they had a shitty customer, or you're the shitty custom to
her, or you know, somebody really fucking sucked your dick at that fucking
store and they told you to do the survey at the bottom of your receipt,
and you're like, you know what, Jessica, I'm gonna do that.
Thank you, You're so nice. Like nine times out of ten,
they never do it even when you do all that. Yeah, but every
once in a while you'll get somebody who said, Jessica was really great.
She helped me a lot in this department. What a great person. Five
stars, And if you don't give five stars, it doesn't count for shit.
Just an fyi, anything below a five star rating is technically a fail
for that person. So fuck customer satisfaction, go to another store. Leave
sorry, Yeah, have a heavenly day, asshole. Attention Cloud nine shoppers.
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I did, yes, I'm sorry. How do you think that helps?
You're the lawyer.