Glee

[Jennifer Walters]

Yep. He's singing with Tina in Episode 4. Just read it from E's Ausiello.

 

[ComicChick]

Styx.

Come Sail Away

 

[flash13]

This scene made me laugh more than anything else on the show so far Finn is so funny here!

 

[DACrowe]

That'd be awesome.

AGain, nice avy, JustABill.

But out of curiosity as I didn't really remember the videos, I rewatched Britney's original "Me Against the Music" and "I'm A Slave 4 U" music videos on youtube.

And wow. It is no contest that HeMo is far and away the better dancer. She blows the roof off and I think she is also a slightly, slightly better singer. I also think the video Glee did for "Me Against the Music" has a lot more energy and "coolness" than the original.

 

[JP]

Well, yes. Heather Morris is an actual dancer! People over rate Singers who can dance (Britney, Michael, Timberlake, Usher) as if they're the most amazing dancers in the world. But, those people haven't seen real dancers dance.

 

[ComicChick]

i've seen her dance with Beyonce

not in person

 

[DACrowe]

Yeah saw her on the AMAs. I just was kind of surprised Britney, who is to be honest more respected as a dancer (or should I say performer?) than a through-and-through singer was so upstaged.

I mean a dancer dancing better than singer? With this one that is a bit surprising, but not really.

However, what excuse does Britney have for the dancer singing better than the singer?

The episode was still a bit iffy. But it worked for two reasons. The main one being HeMo's performances. Brittany's stock just blew past a lot of characters on the show.


The other was the plethora of razor sharp one-liners delivered by Brittany, Sue, and even Santana, this episode:

"You're the hottest dentist I've ever seen. You can drill me anytime..."

"Leave Brittany alone."

"This looks like the room on that spaceship where I got probed."

"Like ruffees?"

"Are you a cat?"

"It's Brittany...(b)itch."

"It looks like a Jewish cloud."

"If you stare into that buttsweat stain you'll see everything good in the world disappear into darkness."

"Rachel, you usually dress like a prostitute who only appeals to a Japanese businessman with a very, very dark and unusual fetish, but I'm digging your new look. Yay." [Claps]

"And it's all thanks to Britney Spears."
-Brittany: "Thank you."

"It's a Britney Spears sex riot."

"That's what Hubert Humphrey said about the 1968 Democratic National Convention..."

"Seriously, you wear more vests than the cast of Blossom."

"Wait I thought I did all the solos? Next week, I will be performing a musical number by Ke$ha."

The plot may have been terrible this week, but the dialogue was brilliantly satirical. I suppose fitting for a Brittany episode. Well that is in all the non-Finachel scenes. It was much better the second viewing.

 

[flash13]

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Britney Spears may have high-kicked Glee to its highest ratings of all time this week, but a little-known secret is this:

This coming Tuesday, Glee has someone even bigger appearing on the show—Shhhh!—in what many are calling the best episode yet of the entire series.

I just spoke with Glee mastermind Ryan Murphy and here's the huge, supersecret guest-star reveal:

GOD.

Yes, the big G-man is front and center in Glee's "Grilled Cheesus" episode, which is a provocative, emotional (you will cry) and sometimes hilarious look at faith and spirituality—representing multiple points of view with heart and humor. (The catalyst is that Finn discovers the face of Jesus burned into his grilled cheese sandwich.)

It's arguably Glee's most controversial episode yet—and according to Murphy, brings this season's major story arc front and center.

"The core of the show is really about tolerance," Murphy explains. "I think that's the legacy of Glee more than anything else. So as we began the year we were very conscious of that. Last year the throughline was about teenage pregnancy. And the throughline this year is really about Kurt (Chris Colfer) and his feelings about tolerance, not only in high school and in the world, but also the ripple effect it has on everybody around him."

In this Tuesday's episode, Kurt struggles to accept the religious beliefs of those around him while dealing with some serious issues of his own. "[Tolerance] is a very powerful thing to write about," Murphy adds, "because this week alone three gay teenagers have killed themselves and committed suicide, and we just got asked today to do a PSA on it because it's becoming such an epidemic because of the bullying."

Passionate discussion of dueling religious beliefs is not exactly common fare for prime time, and Murphy credits Fox for believing in this "throwback." "When I was growing up," he says, "I was very inspired by all of the Norman Lear episodes. Like on Maude and All in the Family, which were comedies, he would write about socially relevant issues, be it rape or abortion, and suddenly they don't do that anymore...Everybody at Fox that I've spoken to says this is their favorite episode that we've ever done, and they're all very moved by it and proud of it...It's an odd episode where I think that both Democrats and Republicans could watch together, and at the end of it say 'I agree with it.'"

So now that we know Kurt's story arc is the major throughline for the new season, how about we clear up the conflicting rumors that either Chord Overstreet (Sam) or newcomer Darren Everett Criss (Blaine) will play his new love interest?

Hope you're on your knees because...Praise "Grilled Cheesus!" Finally, an answer!

"It's definitely not Chord," Ryan tells me of Kurt's love interest. "It's not Chord. And the new character [Darren Criss] is certainly an option. I'm not sure how soon I want to [reveal] that information because it's such a big storyline of the year—I want there to be some surprises. But Darren has a major, major arc. He sort of becomes Kurt's mentor and then maybe love—he had to leave his own school because of bullying and goes to an all-boys academy and finds acceptance because that school has a no-bullying, zero-tolerance policy. So Kurt really admires him and respects him. He plays someone who's one year older than Chris' character, so he's the old pro."

And in case you hadn't heard, Darren's now a clean-cut pro, too! When I (jokingly) asked if Darren Criss recently chopped off all his long, moppy locks because the budget couldn't support enough hair gel for him and Matthew Morrison, Ryan gasped:

"What?! I have not heard this! Did he really cut off all his hair? He did not do that for the show! But we cast Darren for his exceptional voice and talent, so if he shows up with a bald head, I guess I'll have to make it work…As for Matthew, you know, he just uses Lubriderm, so that won't break the bank." Love. It.

This was part one of my interview with Ryan. Stand by for part deux, with more scoop on the relationships, returning guest stars and more—and don't forget to tune in this Tuesday for Glee's most emotional episode yet. Let it be said now ('cause everyone will be saying it then): Chris Colfer's performance will knock the wind out of you.

 

[Sawyer]

"... That's what one Hubert Humphrey said back in 1968 at the start of the Democratic National Convention. But then hippies put acid in everyone's bourbon and when an updraft revealed Lady Bird Johnson's tramp stamp and tattoos above her ovaries, Mayor Richard J. Daley became so incensed with sexual rage that he punched his own wife in the face and spent the next hour screaming "sex party" in the microphones of all three major networks."

Quite possibly my favorite Sue line made all that much more hilarious by Will's reaction.

 

[Prison Mike]

I loved Will's reaction to that line.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

It's Brittany...(b)itch."

"Wait I thought I did all the solos? Next week, I will be performing a musical number by Ke$ha."

My two favorites of the episode.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

BTW Dot Jones (Coach Beiste) will also be singing in a later episode.

BTW, I don't believe a word out of Ryan Murphy's mouth that man is such a liar.

 

[JP]

Yeah, last season he was all Nononononononononononno, Idina isn't playing Lea's mom!

 

[Sawyer]

As long as Jacob Ben Isreal doesn't sing, I'm good. I can barely tolerate his speaking voice, I dont want to imagine what him singing would sound like...... it would be like a vocal holocaust.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I can't wait for Rachel to get entirely fed up with him or someone to really just tell him off, because he was at his most obnoxiously annoying ever.

 

[Sawyer]

He ruined the Toxic scene for me.

 

[John Locke]

I liked the episode but one thing that bothered me was Kurt and Shue. I mean we cut to commerical with Kurt exploding at Shue and being sent to the principal's office but nothing happened. That storyline didn't really go anywhere.

 

[Donut]

This scene made me laugh more than anything else on the show so far Finn is so funny here!

 

[Red Cherry Lips]

Apparently Mike Chang will duet with Tina in Episode 4.

Sweet!!!!! t:

 

[Jennifer Walters]

They're such a cute couple. I know end game is probably Artie/Tina, but I really really really think Artie's become too much of a *****e. Mike and Tina really seem into one another.

 

[JP]

Mike Chang

 

[Sawyer]

I wonder how long they plan on having Tina and Mike together. Like, are they a long haul couple or are Tina and Artie eventually getting back together. I actually hope she and Mike stay together and Artie finds a new girl, just for fear that when she and Mike break up, he just ends up a nothing again or worse (Matt "transfered", huh? Right...)

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Artie/Brittany
Artie/Sunshine

For some reason I can see both happening.

 

[Sawyer]

Sunshine more so than Brittany. I cant see Brittany ever being a longterm love interest for anyone.

 

[Ipodman]

Lol true. Brittany falling in actual love seems hard to believe.