Oh, my gosh, it seems like a lifetime ago.
Hey, guys, I'm Jack Griffo from The Thundermans.
And today, we're gonna be looking back
on some classic moments from the show, reacting
and telling some stories. This is gonna be fun.
I'm excited.
I remember being really nervous.
I remember, um, you know, I had worked before
and done some stuff on- on Nickelodeon,
but this was a big day, you know?
Obviously, we- we got in our- in our wardrobe.
And we rehearsed a bit.
We always rehearsed a lot in season one.
I remember being super nervous, and I had a lot of jokes
in this first scene and- and I want them to land.
I always took my job like super seriously.
I was just looking to do a good job
and, uh, hopefully get a season two at that point.
That that is never not funny.
[laughing]
Oh, my gosh. It seems like a lifetime ago.
Yeah, so there was a whole process
in the special effects.
So, for me in that scene,
I was levitating the- the bread or whatever it was.
We would do it with no prop in a scene.
So if I'm levitating, like bread,
we would do it without the bread.
So I kind of, like, imagine that I'm doing it,
and then they'll do a plate shot.
And that means everyone, like, gets out of the set
and they do, like, just the set itself.
And then we come back and do the same shot
with the bread wi-- on a fishing pole,
like on a line. And me and this guy, Omar,
he- he ran the special effects on the show.
We were always kind of, like in sync with that kind of stuff
'cause I kind of had to go off him,
and he kind of had to go off me
in those kinds of-, uh, those kinds of scenes.
Okay. Oh, this is a good one.
Thank you, everyone.
We're all here
- to welcome proper nutrition - The smoothie.
to Hiddenville High.
She looks so little.
[laughing]
Jace is so little.
No, no, no, she can't--
And then the whole other part,
I'm- I'm in this, like, body cast.
I remember getting in that, and all the-- my, um,
all my wardrobe friends were helping me get in it.
And, uh, and I remember I couldn't, like,
I couldn't drink or anything. I couldn't eat or drink.
And so people would, like, come and feed me.
There's so much that goes into making TV and making shows
that you don't realize when you're sitting at home.
But like this, this whole gag of him,
you know, being pushed off of the ledge
with the smoothie is probably, like,
three seconds of- of- of the episode,
and it probably took, like, a whole afternoon.
Oh, man. That was such a fun scene to shoot.
That was one of our first, like big gags, like big stunts.
And we had one of the stunt guys for Jeff Mitchum
who plays Principal Bradford, all harnessed up
in, like, a system and a pulley and a rope.
And it was one of our first experiences
of, like, oh, this takes- this takes a while, you know.
But this was definitely
one of the first, uh, fun things we did. Yeah.
Umm.
Alright, fast forward.
Alright, Phoebe, our whole lives has led up to this moment. Ow!
[laughing]
This- this scene was great.
I mean, it still holds up. It's awesome.
You know, I-I can, uh I can think in my own little,
you know, 13, 14 year old mind
watching the show how cool it looks.
And it really d-- It still looks cool to me
as a 23 year old. But, um, that was fun.
I remember jumping up on the ledge
about in the middle of the fight.
There was a lot of, uh, uh, stunt double work in- in, uh,
in this scene. Not- not all of it.
Me and Kira did a lot of the close hand to hand stuff,
as you can see, like, you can see our face.
But, um, the flips and the-
the jumping to the rail,
our- our doubles, Jaren and Amanda,
were- were all, uh, strapped up in harnesses.
And we had a really fun day shooting this scene.
You know, every season we'd have a few different fights going on,
and it would take all week to rehearse, you know.
I'd usually come in before rehearsal to kind of get
a better grip of it on Tuesday. And just keep running the fight
until run through and then run through again
on Wednesday. Aw, I look so sad.
[laughing]
That was a fun scene. That was, um, probably the culmination
of a lot of things we learned on the show,
as far as the physicality of it.
It was just the foundation for our- our life going forward,
you know, even when I'm- even when I'm old, I'll-
I'll look back at Thundermans and- and really view it
as this, uh, this awesome foundation
in what I want to do.
I just feel so awesome.
That's a- like, it's- it's crazy watching this.
I haven't seen this in so long.
Man, it was, uh, it was such a full circle scene.
They just did a really good job with this episode.
It's kind of what we were all hoping for.
Like, throughout the whole show,
we all were thinking about the Z Force, you know.
I think they introduced the Z Force
in season two or three with a kind of idea
that it would be where we ended up in the show.
I mean, the first couple of seasons
were really about school and family,
and then season three was a lot about our characters changing
and- and going through kind of the-
the growing up years and- and when you're a teenager.
And, you know, for Max
it was, he wanted to rule the world and- and be evil.
And, um, in season three, you know, he had a girlfriend.
He had a-- these other-- He had a band.
He had other-- he had these other priorities, kind of,
um, come in place of being evil and-
and taking over the world, and his heart
was just slowly softened.
I literally couldn't have dreamt a better end to- to the show.
It's- It's such- It was such a rewarding ending.
Ah.
Full circle.
I remember reading it over the weekend
before the week of shooting and like tearing up
just 'cause it was- it's so much of our lives,
you know? It's not only the cast,
but hundreds of people have invested so much time.
After 103 episodes,
like, a lot of my friends had come through on the show,
a lot of new people I hadn't met, um,
amazing, amazing comedians, some people
that we really picked up a lot from.
And, uh, I just feel really grateful
to have been on the show, honestly.