The Reel Rejects - HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: The Series Season 4 FINALE REVIEW!!!!

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

THE END IS HERE!! High School Musical The Musical The Series Full Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelreject... Love You Forever, High School Musical (Finale), Cast Of High School Musical performs Now or Never, A Night to Remember, I Want It All, Walk Away, Scream, Right Here Right Now, Born To Be Brave, Post Credits Scene of Wicked Songs! After covering High School Musical 1, High School Musical 2, & High School Musical 3 with Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens, we have ventured into High SchooL Musical the Musical The Series starring Joshua Bassett as Ricky Bowen, Olivia Rodrigo as Nini Salazar-Roberts, Sofia Wylie as Gina Porter, Matt Cornett as E.J. Caswell, Julia Lester as Ashlyn Caswell, Dara Reneé as Kourtney Greene, Frankie A. Rodriguez as Carlos Rodriguez, Kate Reinders as Miss Jenn, Liamani Segura as Emmy, Adrian Lyles as Jet, Saylor Bell as Maddox, Larry Saperstein as Big Red, Joe Serafini as Seb, Ben Stillwell as Channing, and Mark St. Cyr as Mr. Mazzara. We are near the end so join us!! The Series featured Olivia Rodrigo as Nini Salazar-Roberts, Joshua Bassett as Ricky Bowen, Matt Cornett as E.J. Caswell, Sofia Wylie as Gina Porter, Larry Saperstein as Big Red, Julia Lester as Ashlyn Caswell, and Joe Serafini as Seb Matthew-Smith. Joining them this season are new characters, adding fresh dynamics to the cast, including Adrian Lyles as Jet, Saylor Bell Curda as Maddox, Prosper Uch as Ka'i, and Nini Frauscher as Kym. The series continues with Kate Reinders as Miss Jenn, Kym Whitley as Mrs. Jenn, and introduces Tim Federle in a recurring role. Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Citizens of the Reject Nation High. It is the ending of high school, musical, the musical, the series, the musical, the series, the high school that we have loved so, so much. We're coming to the end of it. Thank you guys so much for joining us here. Make sure, obvious in this video, like and comment, tell us, like, what your favorite moment, I think, from any of the seasons, I would love to see those comments. I'm ready. First show, we're completing together, Tara. Let's do it.

do it. Shake that ass. Watch yourself. Shake that ass. Show me what you're working with. Show me what you're looking with. Oh man, you guys. Wow.

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It doesn't matter. um i loved this finale so much um the post credit scene one of my faves i know i shouldn't say that but i did um i love how much they threw around the word i love you in this last episode it was so good and gina honestly was phenomenal in that last monologue it was so good and when um Miss Jen turned around and said, thank you to the stage. I almost started bawling, but I didn't. This show has such good writing. There were so many line, like one lines in here where I was like, wow, that's an amazing line.

I appreciate this show for everything it's done and the music and the really good writing. And I'm glad that we finally got to see Ashlyn and. Madison get together. Wait, it's not Maddie, right? Yes, it is. Them to get together. Finally, and then yeah, I like how Riki came in at the end

and like saying that song, that song gave me goosebumps, and I'm going to really miss the show. Your high school musical four pitch. Yeah, hold on. High school musical season four fun facts,

trivia what do we got okay i want to i want to know if anyone dated oh yeah who dated who i wonder if rickie dated oh uh actually jina in real life high school musical this series why did they end it let's find out then we will talk chose to wrap the show because he just felt it was the best time you any fun facts about the cast anyone date each other that's a good question let's find out let's find out let's find out let's find out let's find out yes yes okay oh yeah we know they dated frankie and jo are a real-life couple carlos and seb really yeah apparently oh my god that is so cute that's good to know i love that who plays

Gina, what happened to her career? I love talking to AI. Where is she? Where's Gina? Okay, so music and dance career. Okay, sweet. All right, whatever. Oh, she's releasing her music, it says.

Okay. Yeah, dude, that was great. That's how you end a show. Wow, so good. I thought they ended it quite nicely. There's like a couple of weird little things that happen in there, but you forgive it because it's finale and it's a little fantastical. Yeah, like the French guy who just, like, show.

up and just like, I'm not French. And that all pen chocolate was for you. We need something for Big Red here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's your little gay love that you could have you. All right, sure. Let's take it. Why not?

And then I like Carlos and Seb with the parents. Yeah. You know, him being able to come out of, because there's always been that thing with Seb of not feeling like he's truly comfortable on his own skin or has acceptance of who he truly is. So we get the acceptance there. but really like the big thing about it is it's high school musical and to end your C's series off riffing off the last high school musical movie giving us a big musical performance allowing most of the cast members to really perform yeah i feel like a part that kind of they held back on was like jet apparently was playing the corbin blue chag character and we didn't get to see any of his stuff and i was like he's such an amazing singer so i don't know why they i wish we got some of that maybe narratively wise because this was long this was like watching the two episodes back to back was like nine minutes long so it was very long yeah um but everything with like ricky and gina was truly

beautiful and heartfelt that speech god goodbye speech so good everyone was amazing so real i feel like there was like some improv in there because that that acting was so damn authentic so good it's kind of weird to hear about some of these guys uh boys and girls uh who are such amazing actors and whenever i look up stuff about them they're like yeah we're working on my music career right now but i'm like what are you acting career right you guys are such good actors uh you're such good actors And especially the one who plays Gina, like Sophia, she's, like, phenomenal. So good. And to end it on the high notes of, you know, Ricky coming out, saying, I love you, having

that romance wrap up, a little bit of a cute little package tie up on the whole, yeah, we're just going to film this in Salt Lake City now. Right. This is the most ridiculous part of high school musical series. Yeah. There's no way. No one. No way.

No way. But I was like, and I remember, we're getting what we want. give the audience what they want because there was a bit of a bullshit idea to me of going, well, that's kind of messed up if they just, like, leave New Zealand on this random note now. That's kind of weird. Yeah. Or it would have been also far-fetched if it was like, Ricky's going to star in this room, who and Julia thing now?

So there's either one, this is the least far-fetched of all the crazy ideas. Yeah. I could have done. I agree. But, yeah, I overall thought like it was really, I think the, in terms of, and a lot of it was musical numbers. And I think the way they tied into. Their lives.

The lives to the music numbers. Amazing. Like so good. Yeah. It had me kind of looking back going, damn, do they orchestrate the entire season? That's what I was thinking, too. Like, they kind of had to

to think through, like, this song and this script and, like, how does it relate back to all of them? Which is awesome. I love it. Yeah, Mack, actually having a bit of an art, too, being influenced by Ricky, who's always putting himself lower than others a lot of the time to elevate the person

who he felt intimidated by I thought was really cool. Gina's mommy. Yeah. I'm around. Yeah. That was great. That was really good.

I don't think we really missed anyone. Courtney's going to lose. Courtney's going to lose and it looked like Ricky's parents were like snuggling at the end where I was like,

I guess they're pitching us like they're getting back. Not back together, but they're like getting along and they might get back together. That's all you need. Which was sweet. And.

Okay. Maddie and and Ashland hooking up. Finally juiced it. So hot. And now Madeline's not leaving so they can really juice it.

Yeah, no. They're gonna really gonna juice all night. There's gonna be a lot of juicing in the in the next season which doesn't exist in which we won't see but we're gonna say. High school musical. A lot of juicent.

High school musical four is going to oh yeah, your pitch. Oh yeah, yeah. Hello? Okay, so high school musical four. I think I don't I don't think you should bring in the series cast I don't think you should do any of that I feel like it should be Troy Bolton is like has a down on his it's a Zach Afron he's back down his luck career everyone's kids are all going to East High everyone has kids and they're all going to East High that's so you get the parents in there and he's um even though like Troy is kind of like having a shitty life at the moment he he decides like ah you know what yeah i guess i'll get a job at like the at east high so he becomes like the drama department teacher oh yes so he's going to orchestrate the musical and get everyone involved again and then

it's about like recapturing that joy of youth and ambition because it's so easy to settle into adult life and forget about that youthful aspirational side and the wonders of that and so it's about recapturing that in your adulthood as well it's a who saved who story and the two Who's are theater and Troy. Yeah. Troy and the theater. But I want Troy to start off as like an alcoholic. Yes, I love that. Not being a good husband and not being the greatest dad.

But because him and Vanessa Hudgens dated in real life, and I'm sure there's a bit of contention with them in real life. It's sort of awkward. Her whole story is happening off-stream. She's married to like a billionaire, but she's a total drug addict. And I think that would be the great way to go with it. And everybody dies. Yes. Or what they could do is still kind of do that,

but semi-do the high school musical four that they had here. That way you can get the high school musical series kids to play characters in the movie. Oh, my God. So complicated what I'm going for. No. We need to keep their parents and it's a brand new kid. I think what people really want is like they would want Zach Ephron there, right? Yeah.

That's the main person you want. Zach Ephron. And I feel like Zach Ephron's Troy Bolton was always just so amazing. He was like the most skilled, gifted, good looking guy. And he never really had hurdles other than, I got to make a choice between being amazing at this thing or being amazing at this other thing. That's really what his conflicts always were in all three of those movies. I agree. Yeah. And so this would really allow him to like, you know, he's got a setback in life. And then maybe he doesn't have to be like his career is messed up or anything or maybe he just wants to like take a break from from the life or in some way like get back into reality find his roots again well i think it but the classic like disney thing to do would be like the drama department fell apart somehow his kid is going to that school

somehow it comes up that he was big in his high school musicals and he sings and somehow they they like beg him to do it he's like i don't want to do this like no but somehow how they get Troy to go and be the musical director. Yeah, I think, like, that would be so fun. I could start off with his dad's dad. Oh, that's what they do. His dad died, even though the actor's still alive in real life. The dad dies. And the dad actually looks really great for his age, too.

But the dad is dead. He's dead. Six feet under. That's right. He has to go back home to there. Oh, okay. And maybe he's not around for his kid who lives there because Gabriela and him. Split up.

Yeah, maybe they had a kid. Maybe they had a kid while they were in college and, like, we can't raise this child. So they put it up for adoption. It's about him finding. I was so on board before you went there. There has to be something. My God. And it should be a father and son's story.

Yes, it definitely should. The kid is not adopted, okay? He's just there with his mom. We got to, we got to as character assassinate Troy Bolton at first to rebuild him back up. That's what we should do. Yeah, I agree. This is a good plan. Write it up.

These aren't trivia. I want trivia. I want behind the scenes trivia. You dicks. Sorry, everyone. Sorry, everyone. Sorry. Sorry, everyone's fine.

Oh, my God. Terra, please. Because. Hi. know you because I know you Wow there's not much

trivia I knew you I have been When did this show end? Um, a long time ago When did high school musical This series And

Uh Uh cool wow okay so they're all like friends all close except for olivia rodrigo oh because she dated butts is nuts and she left that's why this ended in 2023 oh damn that's long ago august 2023 wow oh yeah because see that's why it's like just a year ago yeah because Olivia driver's license came out 22 and that made it huge so that makes sense why after season two and then she wasn't in three or four or she was only in a little bit of three it wouldn't make sense she had to leave because of that big blowup between her and like who he went with Sabrina carpenter

I don't know the story like who he dated after her that's fair hold on no we're just here guys i'm db high school musical why is it hard to find facts about this i don't know because we're going to imdb okay yeah go to trivia yeah we're going to go to season four damn 9.2 for its finals that's a great that's a really it's a great score it's really hard to end um on on a great note like that what it says wait oh seb was only supposed to appear in two episodes really expanded his character that's cool that's awesome at age five sophia won an online contest to attend the red carpet mirror of hs m3 long before she started acting professionally wow Gina wasn't ridden to be a dancer originally. Really, but she could... Okay, because Gina already showed up as a dancer.

That's great. Yeah, that's cool. What else do we got here? Okay, so if we just keep going a little further, not even that much on here. That's so weird. Damn. Okay, I thought there'd be so much more fun stuff to look up.

Yeah, trivia-wise? Yeah, but apparently not. Yeah, there's not much. Does Joshua Bassett still act? Oh, cool. He's in the Lethal Weapon Show for a little bit. He was in the cartoon night at the museum. Oh, okay.

Never saw it. Anyway, yeah, we should interview the whole cast. I think that would be really fun. It would be able to, it would force us to rewatch the entire series. The entire thing all over again. How great would it be to interview them? That would be so fun. We'd have so many great questions for them.

I would just say, can you? Sing us a song. Did Olivia Rodrigo ever perform, like, in between takes? Exactly. Did any of you guys ever have a crush on Olivia Rodrigo? What do you most know about Olivia Rodriguez? Did they ever fight on set? Oh, my God, that's what you should type in.

Joshua Bassett and Olivia Rodrigo fight on set. See if anything pops up. Fighting. On set. Fight on set. I don't think that's really. I mean, it's not, but like, maybe. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Joshua Bassett shuts down fan who yells F. Olivia during his show. Oh. Whoa, whoa, hold on the guy. Oh. So he actually turned to him. He looks like that was such disdain. Yeah, man. has her back anyway okay so they dated but they still have each other's back how would you rank

the seasons i would rank this as number two i would go um the second season would be the fourth yeah the worst yeah i agree then i would go one three four no one is still one is still my favorite maybe two three four one i would say this comes after okay one is my favorite this is my second favorite three and then the only season i don't really had some issues with was the second one yeah i agree that's why i was like i don't know three four one are all up there yeah they're all great i love this show oh who plays e j he's so good what's he doing yeah i want to know what he's doing is he acting terra up a storm i'm exhausted today me too i've yawn too much hold on guys Dara Matt Cornett is his name

Okay God I gotta find out of this eJ Oh he's in Zombies 3 Oh we watched the first one I know we gotta continue it Not many people watch our first one It wasn't like the best movie I mean it was fun though

It was fun oh you know what we We should watch Halloween Town That's what everyone keeps saying Okay literally Saperstein Where does he live Where does he live? I'm going to go talk to him if was that him is larry sapper scene it looked like he was with um a guy and i was like is this your friend or boyfriend i don't want to make assumptions

okay he's got a pretty big instagram let's see does he look like he's in l.a yeah let's see is that guy who was with him in any of these videos doesn't look that way he's in a pool you look what's this building click it i'm pretty sure this guy that's west hollywood I'm pretty sure that's the guy who was with him. Oh, man, it was him. Does that look like WeHo? I think it kind of does. Yeah, I know, a thousand percent.

That's totally the guy who was with him. Oh, my God. So you did see him at Ralph's. Yeah. Maybe he lives by you in the valley. Shit. I should have said something to him. Because then we could have gotten him all on blood.

I've seen that show you're on. And it would have ended there. I just wasn't sure if it was him. well now you know well now you just got to hang out at ralphs a lot see if he comes back in ralphs a lot some of you guys i know is king super but i was so close right there you got to go to ralphs way more often right there start to linger at ralphs just be a ralphs lingerer you know i think that was his boyfriend who he was with i wish i had a boyfriend yeah but i don't i don't know it might be hard for you to get one you know just with like your personality is that what's in the way yeah

yeah you know it's like ah you know like they get it they get it they get what i was saying i didn't have to say anything they were like yep we understand it yeah i'm gonna miss filming this show with you terrah um here you go Yeah, that was a great finale. That's how you end the show. That was a really strong way to end a show. Seriously. It was really easy to botch these, but they knew how to do it.

They knew how to do it. We love you guys. Thanks for joining us. Denny's, yeah. What was the Denny's thing? I don't know. I guess you go to Denny's like after. Denny's is the late night thing that you do.

So I haven't been there in a long time. Maybe I need to start going back to Denny's. They're mozzarella sticks. They're good. Underrated. Really? You like them that much? They are underrated.

Who gets mozzarella sticks at Denny's? You get like a grand slam. And that's why I'm saying they're underrated. Yeah, okay. I'm just saying, like, for you to say they're underrated means you went to Denny's and we're like, mozzarella sticks. You can still get the grand slam. A mozzarella sticks is an appetizer.

Right? That's weird to be slamming down mozzarella sticks. And then you get like eggs and bacon and pancakes. It's like weird. You get a sampler plate even. You can get like onion rings, mozzarella sticks, a cassidia in there. And then a grand salad. Chicken tenders, yeah, you get a grand slam.

Then a grind slam. You know, if you want to, like, get the taste of your mouth, you, like, drink a soda. Walk out, you have, like, 5,000 calories. And then you're like, I don't know why I'm so upset with my life. And you're done for the week. Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll go to Denny's and we'll figure it out.

That's where the next real rejects hangout's going to be. Denny's! Oh, my God. It should be. I'm going to be like, I'm going to sit in this booth here. You guys. You guys go over there and pretend like you don't know me. I'll take care of the bill, but act like you don't know me.

I'm cane to keep you away. He's the one with a big old sampler. His whole table's full. Like a sampler plate, please. The waiter walks by and he's like, no sodas for them, only water. And you see that loud one over there? I get her a mozzarella student. So loud.

Every time I come in here, I know when I'm being loud because number once I have been more self-aware, but also number two, Olivia just has to give me a look. And I'm like, oh my God, I'm so sorry, why am I yelling? I don't know. It's so bad. It's so bad. It's like nails on a chalkboard. I know it. Don't I know it. I'm buying with a dying baby. I know. Yeah.

They know it. I know it. You know it. You've said it out loud. And now they double know it. and I've already known it since forever. See, come in, give me the look, Olivia. Look, look at her, look at me. That's the look she was saying. This is the look she gives to me. Did you hear you being talked about?

Because I was too loud. She was literally just talking about you. I'd see. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Did you hear her talking about how you get mad at her for being loud? No, I know, but she doesn't get real. She doesn't actually get mad.

I said, I said, Olivia just has to give me. Sorry, she gets enraged. Olivia just has to give me a look and I know I'm being loud. But I am so loud. Sometimes I'm like, why am I yelling? Go, come here, show me the look. She doesn't want to.

Show him the look. There it is. He got it. He got the look. He got the look. Listen, can we get it? out of here i'm tired i have to go to bed gregory yeah i got like a bunch of editing yeah um i have to work on a thumbnail and go to bed um we love you okay like you have kept us here and alive and here's

my heart for you and i hope that we get to watch halloween town or another series together because it's oh so much fun november 2nd halloween town Woohoo. No, that's to know. There's no time on the schedule. Oh, my God. We can't. We can't. Okay. Suiting so much sleep. Just trying to keep. That's right, because we're like dropping. Should keep everything on track. That's right. That's right. Okay. Whatever, you guys, you'll love us anyway. Leave a like, leave a comment. I don't know. Go like all the videos. I'm also reacting to reality on my channel.

If you want to go check that, I would love the support and the likes and the comments and the views. What do you have to go follow us on the social media. Greg and Roxy do a great job with that. And happy spooky season. We love you. Bye.