Ok, folks, the bad news first: Glee is not going to be on again with new episodes for four months. FOUR months!! It’s not coming back ‘til April 13, 2010. Agony!
The good news: the fall finale was pretty damn awesome.
The day we’ve been waiting for all season is finally here—it’s time for sectionals! Will is banned, so Emma steps in as glee club director and brings the kids to the big competition. She had to reschedule her wedding to Ken by a few hours in order to make it work, but she pulls through. (more…)
Sue comes back from getting an eyelift to announce that the glee club doesn’t get a photo in this year’s yearbook because the glee photo is always vandalized. Well, Will isn’t standing for this. Even though the glee kids are perfectly happy with not having a picture, Will buys ad space in the back of the yearbook in which to put the glee club photo. But since the space is really small, there’s only enough room for two people in the picture—the two captains. (more…)
Sue is back this week! And she’s back to her old tricks. She wants the glee club’s set list for sectionals. Why? Well, Will has a sneaking suspicion that Sue is leaking their set list to the competing schools to ensure that New Directions will lose. So Will goes to Jane Adams Academy (aka. the ghetto school for girls) to ask their glee club director, played by Eve of all people, if it’s true. Eve swears it’s not. Yeah, sure. (more…)
“Ballads are stories set to music.” Ah, right you are, Mr. Schue. And a fair portion of this week’s story is told through ballads.
Will tells the glee kids that they’ll be pairing up in order to practice singing ballads. Since Matt has a spider in his ear (ew) and is out of school, the glee club is one student short, and therefore Rachel is paired up with Will. And when they sing “Endless Love” to each other, something happens. Rachel develops the biggest crush on her super cute teacher. (more…)
Quinn needs money. She owes $685 for the sonogram, plus she needs money for future expenses. Therefore, Finn needs a job. Even though it’s not his kid. He doesn’t know that yet. Why is Quinn so insistent on keeping up this whole “Finn fathered this baby by prematurely ejaculating in the hot tub” charade? (more…)
Ahhh, Glee, you’re getting so metaphorical on us. As this episode goes on, we learn that the title, “Mash-Up,” does not only refer to the combining of two unrelated songs. It also refers to other unlikely combinations, such as being on both the football team and in the glee club, or falling in love with the “wrong” person. As Will so wisely says, it’s the difference between them that makes them great. Ah ha! (more…)
According to Broadway.com, Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele’s co-star in the original Broadway cast of Spring Awakening, will be joining the cast of Glee for five or six episodes. He’ll be the star of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline, and a possible love interest for Michele’s charcter, Rachel Berry. But what about Finn??? Read full article here.
Sue and Will have been co-heads of the glee club, and have been at each other’s throats, for a week now. They’re even fighting in their voice-overs. Ha!
Sue is still trying to take the glee club down, only now she’s working from the inside. She splits up the club and hand-picks who she wants on her team. “Sue’s Kids” now consist of “Santana, Wheels, Gay Kid, Asian, Other Asian, Aretha, and Shaft.” As an angle for her news segment, Sue is trying to appear pro-minority. Pretty soon Sue also takes Puck, who is Jewish, and Brittany, who is Dutch. I don’t quite get how being Dutch equals being a minority, but ok. They sing an R&B song (Jill Scott’s “Hate On Me”) with Mercedes at the helm, and Mike pop locks. Nothing more hilarious that watching a bunch of musical theater kids try to act “street.”
Will is left with just Rachel, Finn, and Quinn. Making the long-overdue decision to play dirty, he flunks a bunch of the Cheerios from his Spanish class, so they are academically ineligible to participate in cheerleading. You go, Mr. Schuester! (more…)
The glee kids are becoming complacent. You probably would, too, if your only competition for sectionals was a halfway house and a school for the deaf. Sue tells Will to get the kids’ attention by kicking someone out at random—that’s what she does with the Cheerios. Will does sort of take her advice and gets the kids’ attention by pitting the boys against the girls. Ah, a battle of the sexes. Works every time. They have each come up with a mash-up routine (two songs mashed together) and Emma will choose the winner.
But… Finn is really tired. More on that in a sec.
Sue notices Quinn is not her usual hyper self. Ummm, maybe that’s because pregnant women should not be spending half their time on top of the cheerleading pyramid? Sue, however, thinks it’s because Quinn has been overextending herself and spending too much time at glee. Ah, yet another reason for Sue to want to take the glee club down. So Sue goes right to the source and messes with Will. She gets Will’s wife Terri to take a job as the school nurse by telling Terri that Will is sleeping with Emma. Which isn’t exactly true… yet. (more…)
Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth (shout out to the late, great “Pushing Daisies!” Holla!) guest stars this week as washed up, boxed-wine-drinking, alcoholic, thirty-something former glee club star April Rhodes. Will convinces her to come back and finish high school so she can be the female star of glee, now that Rachel’s jumped ship to be in Cabaret. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think it actually works this way. High school dropouts who want to finish up school usually go to a community college or take online courses or something in order to get their GED. I don’t think high schools let older people come back and go to class and join extra-curricular activities with all the teenagers. But we’ll overlook this minor detail, because Kristin Chenoweth is freaking awesome and I love her on this show. (more…)
Best episode yet. For the entire hour this episode was on, I was sitting on my couch with a stupid grin on my face, clapping and cheering.
We begin with Kurt, along with Tina and Brittany, doing a spot-on recreation of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” video. Pure genius. Kurt’s dad (Mike O’Malley) walks in on them and Kurt explains by saying he’s a kicker on the football team and this is what the team does to practice. His dad, unbelievably, buys it, but poor Kurt now actually has to try to get on the football team. During football rehearsal— practice!— with Finn, Kurt does his Beyonce dance to warm up, and then insists on keeping that routine during tryouts (“Hi, I’m Kurt Hummel and I’ll be auditioning for the role of kicker.”) and games. It actually works, and Kurt turns out to be a really good kicker. This gives Finn an idea: he asks Will to teach the football team to dance, in hopes that that will make them better players. (more…)
Horray for awesome guest stars! The fabulous Victor Garber and Debra Monk play Will’s parents. How fun. At dinner with the fam, Will announces that Terri’s gonna have a baby. Except for the fact that she’s not, but he doesn’t know that. (more…)
Sue Sylvester has stepped up her attack on the glee club by informing Will Schuester that he needs 12 kids in glee club in order to qualify for regionals. Currently, he only has 5 ½ (cripple in the wheelchair).
Meanwhile, Finn reeeeaaallly wants to have sex with Quinn, but she is all about the celibacy. Rachel, however, is more than willing to hand her V-card over to Finn and isn’t afraid to let it be known, so she joins the celibacy club (Do these actually exist? My high school sure as hell didn’t have one. There was no time- –everyone was too busy having sex.) and announces to all the horny teenage boys that girls actually want sex, too! What a novel idea! (more…)
Aw, man. This show was created for me. I am self-proclaimed musical theater nerd who loves nothing more than a cheesy musical number. Add a bunch of Broadway veterans and the awesome Jane Lynch, and I’m happy as a clam. This is a show about high school outcasts who get together to sing and dance without caring what anyone else says. We never had a glee club in our high school, but you can bet your ass if we had, I would have been their captain. Do glee clubs have captains? Anyway… (more…)
