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Watch Season 2 Commentary for THE RESIDUALS- Episode 9, 'Conflict'
Nov 7, 2022
It's not too late to catch up on Season 2 of everyone's favorite web-comedy- THE RESIDUALS, which you can find exclusively here on BroadwayWorld. CLICK HERE to binge-watch all ten episodes! This season might be over, but we are continuing the fun with commentaries from the cast! Today, we are excited to take you back to Season 2, Episode 9, 'Conflict.'
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Welcome to the Residual Season 2 Episode 9 Commentary. I'm Michael Paul Smith. I play Pete
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Hi, I'm Jillian Pensavale. I play Valerie. And here we have a group of people that we adore
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Yes! We can say that, and I think we do say that with every episode
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Yes. We just love everybody. Well, I adore you. I stated it publicly on a... It's true. It's legal
0:21
So, yeah, there's that. Yeah. I'm going back. Yep. James Tabique in the middle, Mark Gessler on the right
0:27
and you're wearing not one of your t-shirts with words on it
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but your t-shirts get a lot of traction they got a lot of love on twitter and facebook
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yeah it's not why I did it but it happened I have to say I'm in that camp
0:44
because I'm disappointed to see you just in a plain black t-shirt wow okay I'll keep that in mind
0:49
yeah accordingly I just realized that that frame is crooked that's what happens
0:56
you can stare at footage for hours and hours and focus on little, little things
1:01
And that, I notice when we're doing the commentary. It's just like life, though, man. You know
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Frames are crooked in life, and thus they are crooked in our show. Oh, boy. Crooked Frames
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There's a band name for you, whoever wants it. Crooked Frames. Or an album title
1:15
It was so hard for me not to laugh at Patrick doing that. Just freaking out and dancing his little heart out
1:22
Yeah. I get Patrick singing, I like to go apple picking, in my head just randomly throughout my life
1:30
I think it's so funny. We had the best time. And then we have, you know, I love Patrick
1:35
We're very good friends. But it's funny to see Lance do his thing. And then have Benjamin Hay, Benjamin Damte, this like really, he's got some pipes, as you heard in season one
1:45
Tons of stuff on iTunes. Yeah, I mean, look at him. Are you sure? So it's just what an amazing contrast
1:50
And then we have Jeremy Redleaf just warming up, constantly warming up with those exercises
1:55
Yeah. Ben is a multi-talented guy. He's a producer. He's a professional sweetheart, I can say
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I was going to say, and just lovely. And, yeah, obviously he's an actor because he's doing this as well
2:09
And this is inspired by a real thing that happened to me. I had to go to an audition
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It wasn't this song, but I was supposed to do a pop song. We were supposed to sing a specific pop song that I had never heard of
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Yeah. And I It appropriate that I can remember it now either I think I remember it But I ran into it what was it Wasn it Lionel Richie Dancing on the Ceiling Yes yes Because I couldn believe that you didn at least have that you weren at least a little familiar with it
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Yeah, and I did run into a guy from college, so it was appropriate even. See, that part I didn't
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This dude, his name is Vlad. Hey, Vlad. And I was like, Vlad, do you know the song
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And he had it on his phone, so I asked to borrow his phone and I crammed it up against my ear
2:45
And it didn't work. Oh. Because I didn't book it. You didn't book it
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come even close not like that really matters as we've learned true it mattered in this case that's
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true and a rare scene with the two of us yeah which is important to do and you've heard it
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since it's our baby it is it is let's try it okay just slate real quick and then we'll just go right
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into it and this is also a song that i don't really know very well and i always do want to
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sing the line it was september for the to start the song right and that's not how the song begins
3:17
Right. Which we sort of did right here. Exactly. Yeah. But in real life, when you say that, I always correct you
3:27
I love this scene. Just strictly because of Pete. I just think, like, every episode, I think you just feel so much for Pete
3:36
Yeah. I think you feel a lot for Valerie, too. I think this shows that Valerie is in it, and she's willing to help if you're not that jerk
3:46
Yeah, like, she's not miserable. No. Like, this is what she likes
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This is... This isn't rough for her. Yeah, you probably don't see Valerie this engaged in an audition
3:58
except for somebody like Pete, maybe Keith. And Ellen, definitely with Ellen
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Yeah, that's true. Her now roommate. Yeah, Ellen's on a whole other level
4:07
They were like... Yeah. Like, for Pete right now, like, he's still..
4:12
We're still working a little bit. Yes. Yeah. And Kelly and I say too that our
4:17
Kelly Warren who plays Ellen O'Shea who's lovely and wonderful We just
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Joke about how our friendship in the show Is basically just our friendship in real life
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That's just There's not a lot of We're not digging deep in our acting
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No as ifs It's basically just us Deeply rooted character Biographies and sense memory No
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So I dug right down to the bottom of my soul. Oh my goodness Sometimes I like to surprise Jillian with musical theater references that she would never think that I had in my head Yeah But guess what Guess what I used to watch the Chorus Line movie all the time
4:56
I wanted to be Mike because he had my name. There you go. And then I grew up and realized that I had none of his dancing ability
5:01
Yeah, there's that. Speaking of dancing ability, wait for it. Wait, we're about to see your dancing ability
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There it is. Ta-da! That's the fullest extent of it. Little PSA called Cast American
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Very weird PSA. Hello, Nick. Hey, Nick. I love Pete and Keith
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I say that all the time. I'm sure you've heard me say it in several other episode commentaries
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but I like seeing this part of their relationship, too. Because this is real
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I mean, you get pangs of kind of like, no matter how much you love the person
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if you're waiting on something and your inner voice is telling you that you suck
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and then something great happens, I think that's totally normal and natural to be like
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Well, and really kind of have to muscle through and say, yeah, you know what? Good for you, man
5:47
That's all right. This is as true to my friendship with Nick as Valerie and Ellen is to you and Kelly, I'm sure
5:53
Especially back in the days when Nick and I lived together, which we did for a few years. Right
5:57
I think you saw a little bit of my crack there when I bent over to get the Snickers
6:01
Really? Yeah. I didn't notice. That's a screenshot that will hopefully never happen
6:05
Yeah. You guys rewind and see if it happens because we can't right now
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But please don't screenshot it. Yeah. I think you might have just gotten a flash of pale whiteness underneath the t-shirt
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Like, no actual coin slot, if you will. All right. Well, if it was blatant and I let it in, then that's it
6:23
Into the show, then that's my editing. Then that's on both of us, because we stared at this and rewatched
6:28
But I feel like if it was blatant, you would have known by now. You would have recognized it. That's true
6:34
This harkens back to season one. Nick drowning his sorrows and not getting a returned friend request from you. Yeah
6:42
Um, this time it's waiting to hear back from that audition. Yeah. That is, uh, our absinthe
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It's real absinthe. It's real. We got it super cheap. I find it to be disgusting. We have like the spoon, the official spoon and the sugar
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I know how to make, I know how to make professional. Yeah. We just never do. I know how to serve it. Uh
6:58
Which is why we've had that bottle for, for how many years? A while. Yeah. Uh, and the last time we had it, I think I was the only one who did
7:05
And from what I remember, it was a very, the night had a bit of a green hue to it
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Nick will do anything for that laugh I know I love him for it And he was really I mean everyone I remember like Ed you could hear him off camera going like oh I mean absinthe is not an easy taste
7:23
There's Nick once again. There it is. Doing anything for a laugh and I'm laughing right now. I've seen this a million times
7:27
Where are you going? Where are you going? We got him a lovely flesh colored dance belt
7:32
Yeah. Hopefully he still has it. Yeah. Shirts behind glass somewhere to commemorate the occasion
7:38
In the Smithsonian one day maybe. And there's J. Julian Christopher in a completely new outfit
7:44
We shot all of their stuff in the same day. Yes. You know, as a director or producer, you try to do that so that people don't have to leave and come back on other days
7:51
You know, it's hard enough getting their schedules together. And they just brought all of these, like, amazing outfits with them
7:56
It was always, it's always very surprising to me. Yeah. J. Julian Christopher especially got so creative with all of these different suits
8:03
I love it. Yeah. And it's another thing that I love, too, is that we've all been there
8:08
so they don't really need to rehearse that much because they're all so funny and so quick and so smart anyway
8:15
but they've all been there. They've all been in a situation as actors that makes them feel the way Keith is feeling right now
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so in a very odd way even though they're three of the nicest people I know
8:26
it comes kind of natural to them to be able to do this. And every time we called cut
8:32
Kathy Stirl would just hug Nick and apologize for being helped, for being so mean
8:36
Nick's ascot and smoking jacket courtesy of the costume department at my alma mater, Holy Trinity
8:44
Diocese High School. Thank you, Ian Sullivan who you'll see in you have seen in episode two of this season
8:50
Yes. Who teaches there and our friend Lenny Motsinger director and former teacher
8:56
now retired extraordinaire for going into the closet and getting all of these fun things for Nick. Yes
9:01
and trusting that we would get them back in wonderful condition And Michael Torpy's trench coat and fedora came from them also. Yes
9:09
It's nice, you know, nice to have friends. It is. Nice to have the hookup
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It is. But if we didn't have the hookup, we'd still want to hang out. True
9:19
It just makes me want to hang out with them more often. That's true. On a more regular basis. Yeah. Thank you guys so much
9:25
We stay tuned. The season finale, the season two finale commentary is coming up
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Thank you. Get after it, Forrest. So we'll have a couple of prunes and come on
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