Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you. Come on, that's a jam. For the younger listeners,

listen to me. This is from the classic film, The King and I. And probably your grandmother made you

watching on VHS. That's how old this is. What made you bust out in his own? Well, I mean,

you got to be the grandma, guys, dog. But yeah, probably, you're going to see, it is old.

Well, make you sing this?

Well, when Deborah Kerr, who plays their teacher, the great actress and singer Deborah Kerr,

she's singing getting to know you because she's warning them.

She's warning them in this movie because she's traveled a long way to go to Siam to be their teacher

and that they really don't know each other, but there's

going to be moments when things are a bit unfamiliar and that there's going to be times where

they have to learn how to adapt to each other. And their students need to understand that there's

going to be a period of self-discovery and growing pains, you know? I understand. And for our younger

people who may not understand, that means I don't know y'all.

I'm just trying to figure y'all out.

Yeah, in the first season of living single, that's like that.

I mean, we meet all the characters.

They already know each other from their childhood or college or family, like in the case of

Sinclair and Kedija, because they're family.

But all that information is new to the audience. So the writers

end up front-loading the series with the same details over and over again to teach the audience

who the characters are. And the same goes for the actors. Right. That actor has to find their own way

into the character one episode at a time, which is not always easy.

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