The Daydreams

by Laura Hankin

the show’s creator changed the characters’ names so that they were the same as our own.

Okay Big Time Rush

Some might say that it sounds like I was a little depressed, to which I would say . . . touché.

Ha

My performing-obsessed cousin dragged me along with her to an open call in West Hollywood,

Its giving Starstruck

I should still be acting in my local community theater production of Bye Bye Birdie!”

Kaitlyn

He’s smiling along with everyone else, but the golden hair on his arm, where Summer touched him, stands up among raised bumps of gooseflesh, the sign of someone who has just seen a ghost.

I hate when people say gooseflesh instead of goose bumps

giving Summer a song to sing about her hopes and dreams while she walked down the school hallway unnoticed, or me a big showcase number in a shopping mall as I tried on clothes.

Ah, this is Glee

the girl I’d gotten to meet briefly when we filmed a promo with her.

I keep reading promo as porno

let’s do the fucking scene, shall we?”

I hate Michael

It looks too realistic. I feel like I’m seeing her as she was in all the years we didn’t speak, her as she has the potential to be again if this reunion doesn’t work out the way she hopes.

Its giving the glee writers using the actors' real life issues and putting them into the script

“Kat, I don’t have time to explain screenwriting to you right now,” Michael says.

Vomit

“Do you have a comment about the fact that Javier’s mistress is pregnant?”

Oh shit

“Having babies is overrated. They shit and cry and ruin your life.

fr

I didn’t leak Summer’s journal. I wrote it.

HUH. WAIT I DIDNT SEE THIS COMING

“To ruin his life the way he ruined mine.”

Slayyyyy

He’s like a shitty hometown sports team. He disappoints me over and over, and yet some strange intrinsic loyalty means I can’t stop rooting for him.

Soon enough a waiter comes in bearing a basket of chips and salsa,

GOD

The Jimmy team also films on the Atlas lot, so he pops over first thing in the morning, and we film a sketch where he plays “the fifth Daydream,” the Forgotten One, the joke being that he was there all along in the background, trying desperately to get anyone to pay attention to him.

Oh my god this is a saved by the bell reference

LIANA’S SOLILOQUY

Welp... She got her soliloquy

Noah is Trash with a capital T!

So true bestie

YES, MURDER HIM!

so true bestie

“Sometimes I wish The Daydreams had never come along, and I’d made a life where I had a nice family and, I don’t know, did regional theater. People would come see me in The Music Man, and afterward, they’d say, ‘You know who did a lovely job? Marian the librarian.’

Horizon core

“And, Javier, if you’re watching, I want a divorce.” That sets everyone off into a fresh round of hollering.

SLAY