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Ed. note: Gabe Liedman is a stand-up comedian, and one half of the Gabe and Jenny comedy team with Jenny Slate. But at the top of that resume it states that he is Videogum’s Official Expert on this season of Glee.
Joss fucking Whedon you guys, right?! Ugh, wow. Remember when Willow’s girlfriend gets shot by a stray bullet while they’re getting dressed in Buffy’s dead mom’s bedroom and she goes fucking psycho and skins the teenaged killer alive? Glee was so good last night. Maybe it’s the fact that I’d eat cold cat food out of Joss’s mouth just to say I met him, but I actually think he did a sick job of directing last night’s episode. He has a certain touch—this is was very authentically Glee, but with Whedon at the wheel, all the camp, all the archetypically inhuman characters, all the soap opera storylines and saccharine fart dialogue was dialed up and down in perfect balance. It felt real, and fake, and stupid and genius, it fit right in and stood out, and ugh, you guys, I’m cumming?
The episode started out with a new member of the school board coming to McKinley to make some budget cuts—Brian Ryan, Schue’s old Glee Club idol and nemesis, played by Neil Patrick Harris. Brian was the MVP of McKinley’s old Glee Club, with big dreams of becoming a star; but his life derailed somewhere along the cruise ship circuit and he became addicted to crack. Now he’s a born-again global warming denier who spends his time “curing” aspiring singers … GET IT?! (George Rekers is spinning in his fuck sling). He’s gonna cut the Glee Club funding to save some cash, and dash some dreams along the way.
Brian tells all the Gleetards to write down their life’s dream on a piece of paper, then crumple it up and throw it away forever. Tina’s ska-rebellious side fishes Artie’s paper out of the trash, and the poor cripple’s dream is to be a dancer. 
. She’s a sweet girlfriend, plus she knows some tricks from watching The Craft on her Droid every time someone tries to talk to her, so she’s like “honey, let’s do a dance number this week,” and Artie’s like “m’okay!!!!!!!!”
Jesse’s back from his vacation, and Rachel tells him her dream is to learn about her mystery mom—her dads never told her who she was, and she never asked because she was waiting for this episode about dreams (so many songs have the word ‘dream’ in them!). Jesse agrees to do some research with her, without her dads finding out.
Artie and Tina begin rehearsing their tap routine—Tina with tap shoes, and Artie with taps on his wheelchair wheels. Then Artie gets all brave, and wants to dance using a pair of Forrest Gump crutches he borrowed from a kid with Cerebral Palsy, but he falls right over and is super ashamed of himself. He takes it out on Tina, which is sad, but she’s watching Charmed on her Zune so it’s no big.
Schue asks Brian out on a date to try and convince him not to cut the Glee Club, and get him back in touch with the fairy that lives inside him, behind his abs. Schue takes him to the bar at their local T.G.I.HoulihanBee’s to chew up this hilarious line, and feed it to Brian like a bird feeding her baby:
“Glee Club is not about expressing yourself to everyone else, it’s about expressing yourself to yourself.”
That gay-ass shit reminds me—where the fuck was Kurt this week? I didn’t even see her in the background of any of the numbers! Brittany was at least in the background, even though they didn’t give her a goddamn line or song or any of that shit. See—Kurt’s not even in the background of the final number!
Wait—what’s going on?! Is Kurt okay?! I mean Puck is missing too, but, KURT!!!! NO MORE VIDEOGUM UNTIL I HAVE AN ANSWER.
Oh, right, so Schue is on a date with Brian, and he’s like “express yourself to yourself,” and then they sing “Piano Man” by Billy Joel, karaoke-style, as if they’re just two dudez hangin’ 10.
Brian is so moved by his own masturkaraokeing that he breaks down and realizes he can’t keep living a lie, the way he has been ever since he stopped smoking crack and started being a homophobe. Schue’s finally made a difference in someone’s life—someone other than the houseboy he bought off Craigslist to straight-curl his helmet every morning with a handheld cake mixer. The two decide to get their Glee back by trying out for a community production of Lay Miz.
Jesse and Rachel snoop through Rachel’s dads’ extensive files on her, looking for clues about her mom. While her back is turned, Jesse slips a cassette called “From Mother to Daughter” into the files, and then is like “wha? wha is dis?” and Rachel’s like “OMG!!!” but then is too much of a pussy to listen to it.
It’s Lay Miz audition time, and Brian tries to sabotage Schue by choosing the same audition song as him. But, the lard-ass director doesn’t have time to hear them both Glee, so he makes them sing “Dream On” by Aerosmith as a duet. It’s pretty fucking great, even though we had to wait 20 minutes to get to the first fucking number. That’s so Raven. The two queens tear it up, rock ‘n roll style, and Schue shows off her literally humongous guns, lugging that microphone around like it’s a gallon of Muscle Milk.
Tina and Artie go shopping at the mall to buy him tap shoes, because she read on her minidisc player that stem cell therapy is probably going to be able to let his dead legs dance super soon (George Rekers just fell out of the crib in his sex-baby roleplay set). She wanders away for a second to check out the novelty female condoms at Spencer’s Gifts or some shit, and while he’s alone, Artie has an amazing imagination-number to “The Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats.
Artie (Kevin McHale), a real-life member of the real-life boyband NLT, is an awesome dancer, and the whole fucking mall joins in, including Brittany the Perfect, who obvsnodoy kills it with her perfectness moves. Some asshole filmed it off his/her TV last night. Check it out:
And here’s the audio, because nothing’s perfect am I right? Good thing we’re all reading this on two, side-by-side computers!
Brian’s all reformed now, so instead of cutting Glee Club, he’s gonna cut The Cherrios. He goes and tells Sue all about it, and the two of them go toe-to-twinkle-toe spewing educational statistics into each other’s gender-neutral mugs. They get so horny being mean to each other (literally) that they decide to go to Sue’s secret room in the school (literally) and fuck (literally). Sci-fi.
Jesse meets up with MILF Rachel in her sedan in a rainstorm, and tells her he’s delivered the cassette. We “learn” doyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoy that MILF Rachel is Rachel’s mom, but because of the contract Rachel’s dads made her sign when they knocked her up, she’s not allowed to make direct contact with her until she’s 18. So, Jesse hasn’t been trying to sabotage the Gleetards this whole time, he’s just been MILF Rachel’s tool to get in touch with her daughter—kinda cute, very weird. He tells MILF Rachel that he actually like-likes Rachel Rachel, and that’s kinda nice. Just wait ‘til he finds out she’s Jewish…
Artie goes to talk to Emma about the mental preparation he needs to do to get ready for his inevitable walking career. Emma’s like “uhm…” and does her best to break it to him gently that those dead legs of his are gonna stay dead for a loooong time (unlike Buffy, who dies A LOT but not permanently, it’s just an awesome way to introduce other Slayers like Faith “The Fonz” (ugh she was the worst) and my personal fave Kendra the Reggae Slayer, mon)). This scene between Artie and Emma made me cry pretty hard, thanks in no small part to Emma’s highly-awesome acting skillz. I’ll give Joss Whedon some credit for toning down some of the insane characterizations we’ve seen jazzing their fingers onscreen for 19 episodes so far. Emma, as well dressed and adorable as she is (in person, too—she walked right past me at the Betty White SNL party and I SBD’d pure joy bubbles into my khakis!), is usually all over the damn road—but in this scene, in particular, I was like wow: so, that’s why she’s so famous. Good job Emma, all the devils in your brain can take the day off!
Schue gets cast as Jean Valjean in Lay Miz, and Brian gets cast as Fantine. JK, he gets “Townsperson,” and only has one line. He gets so pissed off that he decides to ruin everyone else’s day too by shutting down the Glee Club once and for all. But, then Schue gives him a talking-to about how when stars die they create Black Holes (he knows all about that, check his browser cookies), and then sacrifices the role of Valjean to Brian to make her happy. Brian IS happy about it, and flits off into the sunset to steal a loaf of bread and scream about it for 3 hours wearing all the makeup in Ohio.
Jesse finally gets Rachel to listen to MILF Rachel’s cassette single. It’s “I Dreamed a Dream,” and Rachel’s like “my mom is Susan Boyle?! No wonder I’m so pretty!” Not really, but that woulda been pretty gr8. Rachel’s so moved by MILF Rachel’s rendition that she sings along, and then they imagination-duet in clingy black dresses—their loose curly brunette layers framing their faces like the masterpieces of flesh art that they are.
MILF Rachel and Rachel are so identical, so talented, the song is so cheesy and perfect—this sequence ruled. No holds barred Glee, unashamed of being cheap fondue, just fucking flooring it before it hardens.
Artie gets real with Tina—he’s not going to walk, or dance, any time soon. Sure, maybe one day, but c’mon. He’s made his peace with his situation, like Lost’s John Locke in alterna-future-present when he and Peg Bundy are like “thanks but no thanks, Dr. Jack, you can keep your experimental surgery and suck a dick.” One thing Artie’s good at is singing, so he sings “Dream a Little Dream” while Tina tap dances with Mike, as the rest of the Gleetards (sans Kurt) look on with meaningful expressions and baby blue shirts.
I sobbed out loud when this happened:
<3 <3 <3 QUINN, why are you so fucking wise, lately?! First you make Mercedes feel so good about her body, and then you comfort Artie with your hand while he watches some stud tap [with] his ska girlfriend?! You’re gonna be a good secret mom from afar—like MILF Rachel, with her perfect pitch and sexual charisma. Aw, remember Charisma Carpenter? Hi, Cordelia!!!! Finding out that you’re poor only made me <3 you more!
Joss Whedon did a bang-up job with this episode of Glee, no surprise. It’s a real shame he didn’t bring back newly-single Miss Emma Caulfield for a cameo—she tore it up in “Once More with Feeling.”
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
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I love hanging out in TGIFridays in conservative Ohio towns, belting Billy Joel Songs at the top of my lungs wit my friends. Nobody even tells us to shut up becasue they are trying to enjoy their Jack Daniel’s chicken fingers or are on a very special date. Joss Whedon has his finger on the pulse of reality.
Best Buffy reference ever, yes/yes?
I mean in reference to your opening paragraph…. (read full post before commenting, dummy)
When Piano Man happened I was thinking ‘alright I guess I’ll be gay for these two.’
Then during Dream On I blacked out and woke up this morning with a loop of performances by Lizza Minnelli playing simultaneously on my computer and TV.
I’m always upset when they do something like ask the entire Glee Club to come up with something and only give us some responses, yes Puck saying he wants a threesome was amazing but what is Britt the perfect’s dream? I’m sure whatever it is it was magical
Did you see Britt’s face when Schue said he gave up his part so that Glee could keep going? They made her look like she cared, which seems like that’s kind of breaking character…?
I’m surprised at how much I liked this episode, even if there was only ONE scene with Sue in it.
When Bryan and Sue went to have sex, Ramin Setoodeh’s head exploded. Presumably.
Fuck that guy. What a douchehammer. Cha. *flips hair*
During the whole Safety Dance improv mall mob number I couldn’t help but stare at Brittany-the perfect the entire time. I mean she makes lame dance moves like the MC Hammer dance look just awesome.
So I’m watching Buffy for the first time ever thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, and I would have been SO PISSED if I weren’t already finished with season six. I know I’m like a million years late, but whoa.
Anyway, I loved this episode. Joss Whedon knows what he’s doing. You should direct Glee more, Joss Whedon!
We are very close in our buffy wathching, Kateness. I’m trying to get through the season 6 finale (Welcome back Giles!) and was pretty excited that Soft Gabe referenced episodes I had watched this week! Its like I’m reading a recap of my own life.
Buffy on Instant Netflix is like crack. Sometimes I want to call in sick to work and just watch it all day.
Thanks to Netflix, I watched all 7 seasons of Buffy in a month and a half. That’s 144 episodes at 43 minutes each in about 45 days, which equals CRAZY.
WHAT — I’m only on season four, because I’ve been borrowing the actual, real life DVDs from the bartender at my old work. NO ONE told me it was an instant watch. alkjhsdfkjhsretaksdfad. So much time wasted!
I’ve got like 6 episodes of the last season left. Man. What a show, right? I cried like a small child when (SPOILER ALERT) was shot. And at all of the things Mr. Hausfrau mentioned below. I also laugh a lot.
uh, season 6 is the best fucking shit i’ve ever even seen. i know that’s kind of blasphemous for a buffy fan to say, but i’ll say it. i’ll type it out. when they bring buffy back from the dead because they’re scared she’s in hell but really she’s in heaven, and she’s soooo resentful that her scoobie pals took her OUT OF HEAVEN to be back in sunnydale, but she’s also like ‘oh, they’re trying so hard to be good friends, i shouldn’t scream in their ugly faces about it’–it’s so intense and amazing.
you guys are going to love the last season too, hopefs. god, i want to spoil it SO BAD. but i won’t.
thoughts on riley? have you seen him lately, lol???
Yeah, season six was really, really great. I loved it. And I’m really enjoying season seven (hey Miranda from Lizzy McGuire, you were so tragic! And what’s her name from Freaks and Geeks!)
Please don’t spoil it for me! I’ve given so much of my life to this show! And I’m so close to the end! As for Riley, what I wouldn’t give to punch him in his douche face.
I heard a lot about season 6 being terrible, and I almost didn’t watch it because I liked the whole sacrifice thing as a series finale. However, after watching it I totally agree with you Gabe. its the best season so far. The drama and tragedy is cranked to 11 and the comic relief of the 3 nerds mixed well for a really outstanding season.
Also, Riley got married, and that was weird. As for Marc Blucas?
Lookin’ cool captain mustache.
Yeah, Evil Willow is by far my favorite bad guy. The whole thing is just so tragic and heartbreaking. Also, if it weren’t for season six we wouldn’t have the musical episode, and I for one do not want to live in a world devoid of “Once More, With Feeling.”
Season 6 also had Tabula Rasas (the one where they all lose their memory) which is one of my favs.
Season 7 was a SUPER great season too! OH YOU GUYS!! The problem i have with buffy is that no matter where I start I tend to not stop until the last episode and then i’m like, where did those six days go? Shit. I think I got fired.
As for seeing Buffy peeps in other things: good for them! Good job on getting work Marc Blucas! You were/are good at being pretty.
Tabula Rasa is one of my favs too! I laughed so many times!
“No wonder Joan’s the boss.”
Nope, no blasphemo, Season 6 is awesome. Also when I found out that James Marsters (Spike) is not only an old man but an American I was like, “huh.”
I loved the ending, but a lot of people had problems with it. In my eyes, Joss can do no wrong.
OH, and one last thing: Drusilla’s in ‘Ed Wood,’ i watched it over the weekend and was delighted.
Oh. My. God. I just finished my semester, which means I just went from having too little time to make a bowl of instant oatmeal or bathe myself or wash my clothes to having ALL THE TIME. And what I am doing with all the time is Buffy. But it’s taken me a year and a half just to get to season 4, and so this post ruined some things for me! Willow is a lesbian????? I’m just a Buffy toddler!
WHOOPS. I meant to put *Spoiler Alert* on all my posts… let’s just pretend I did. ♥
Don’t worry, kgh! It will still be enjoyable. I just finished watching Buffy recently and the interwebs are a minefield of spoilers–I knew about lots of things (i.e. Willow) before they happened and I was still just as glued to the screen.
Gotta say, not at all a fan of Glee, but… Joss’ involvement almost made me watch this one. Almost.
I LOOOOOOOOOVED THIS EPISODE! I could feel the sexual tension between NPH and Schue all the way down to my boner.
But fuck this recap. Now I’m jonesing for some serious Buff. Like, stat! UGH! DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN ANYA SAID BUFFY’S MOM WOULD NEVER DRINK JUICE ANYMORE? THAT IS MAKING ME CRY AND TALK IN CAPITOL LETTERS RIGHT NOW! AND SPIKE? WASN’T HE SUPER HOT? OR WHEN XANDER TOLD DAWN HIS SUPER POWER?? I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU MISS KITTY FANTASTICO!
and yes, i am a big dumb gay nerd. Buffy Pajama Party @ my house tonight? (bring booze)
Seriously.
Giles singing ‘Behind Blue Eyes.’ Tara going full retard (What?! She did!). Riley’s big chest being the only good thing about season 4. Anya’s thing with bunnies. “The hardest thing in this world is…to live in it.”
Stop it! Both of you! You’re making me cry and I’m at work!
Be brave. Live. For me.
I’m there. REMEMBER WHEN BUFFY AND ANGEL DANCED TO “WILD HORSES” AT PROM, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD JUST BROKEN UP? AND BUFFY MADE THE SLAYING GESTURE DURING THE HUSH EPISODE, AND XANDER THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO KILL THE GENTLEMEN BY GIVING THEM HAND JOBS? Good times.
REMEMBER HOW THEY RETAINED CERTAIN SKILLS AND MEMORIES FROM THE HALLOWEEN EPISODE WHERE THEY BECAME THEIR COSTUMES?!
Like how Xander was the military guy forever!
I was about to suggest you doing a series of Buffy recaps, but then realized that it would be way too much all-caps sheer joy. For the internet; for all of us.
REMEMBER THAT TIME GILES AND BUFFY’S MOM DID IT ON THE HOOD OF A CAR…TWICE?
I am so happy about the direction this thread has taken…
(Anya and the juice kills me every time I think about it. Xander and Dawn as well).
Yeah that must be why all the bad guys looked so cheap. All of the budget went towards leather coats and overalls.
I don’t have much to add other than BUFFY IS THE BEST TIMES TEN THOUSAND. My mom used to make fun of me for watching it [based on the name alone --- geez she watched Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and wouldn't watch Buffy? (okay I did too, but still)], and I always told her, if you ever sit down to watch it you’ll love it.
Flashforward like millions of years later, and she calls me in the morning and says, “I’m just not sure how I feel about Buffy and Spike being together. I miss Angel.”
Oh moms. Love them!
I could play this game all day: ANYA? REMEMBER HOW SHE WAS THE BEST? AND ONCE SHE WAS A CHARLIE’S ANGEL? AND LITTLE JOHNOTHAN? HE WAS SOOOO CUTE! AND WAS THERE FROM THE BEGINNING! AND ANDREW? SO GAY! AND REMEMBER HOW JOSS WOULD GIVE US THIS CHARACTER TO LOVE AND EMPATHIZE WITH AND THEN THEY’D BE KILLED OR GO EVIL OR JENNY CALENDAR? AND XANDER? IN HIS LITTLE RED SPEEDOS? AND HOW CORDY WOULD LOVE HIM EVEN IF HE WAS A CREATURE FROM THE BLUE LAGOON? SHE SAID SHE’D BUY HIM TUB TOYS! AND HOW SARAH MCLACHLAN WOULD SING AT THE MOST GUT WRENCHING TIMES? BUFFY! DON’T GET ON THAT BUS! YOU’RE FRIENDS ARE WAITING FOR YOU AT SCHOOL? WILLOW IS THERE! IN A WHEELCHAIR! *SOB*YELLOW CRAYON*SOB*
OH MAN, COMBINED SEASON 2 AND SEASON 6 FINALE FLASHBACKS! SO MANY TEARS!
REMEMBER HOW AMY’S MOM WAS AMY?! REMEMBER HOW PROTECTIVE ANYA WAS OF THE MONEY AT THE WITCH STORE?! REMEMBER HOW THE SILENT CREEPY MEN FLOATED INSTEAD OF WALKING IN ‘HUSH’?! REMEMBER DEPRESSED OUT OF WORK GILES AND HIS BOUDOIR-Y BACHELOR PAD? REMEMBER WHEN SPIKE TRIES TO RAPE BUFFY IN HER BATHROOM?! REMEMBER HOW BUFFY WAS AAAAALWAYS WEARING A COAT, EVEN WHEN NO ONE ELSE WAS–LIKE A WEIRD MAROON LEATHER TRENCH COAT AND EVERYONE AROUND HER WAS DRESSED FOR SUMMERTIME EXCEPT FOR WILLOW WHO DRESSED LIKE ANGELICA FROM ‘THE RUGRATS’???!!!
UGH! WILLOW! SHE WORE UGLY HATS! AND CORDY MADE THAT CUNTY JOKE ABOUT SEARS. THAT WAS SWEET. AND REMEMBER SPIKE AND JOYCE? THEY WERE SO CUTE TOGETHER! AND THEY BONDED OVER PASSIONS! AND WHAT ABOUT LESBIAN VAMPIRE WILLOW?? AWW! I WANT TO SAY “BORED NOW” BUT I’M NOT AT ALL BECAUSE BUFFY 4 LIFE! EVEN THOUGH SHE KEPT DYING!
REMEMBER SPIKE’S TERRIBLE LOVE POETRY AND HOW HE IS AN ADORABLE LOSER IN THE 19TH CENTURY?
I’m gonna stop there, but so excited to see all the Buffy love!!
REMEMBER WHEN ANDREW AND ANYA HAD THAT WHEELCHAIR FIGHT IN THE ABANDONED HOSPITAL?
OH MY GOD REMEMBER WILLOW COMMENTING ON VAMP WILLOW: “I THINK I’M KINDA GAY” AND WHEN SPIKE SAYS TO BUFFY: “I SAVE YOU EVERY NIGHT IN MY DREAMS” AND WHEN ANYA SAYS TO XANDER: “THE ONLY THING WE HAVE IN COMMON IS WE BOTH LIKE YOUR PENIS” AND EEEEEE!!!!
Well that’s in the wrong place. Whoops.
In response to Mr. Hausfrau, I always think “BORED NOW” whenever I’m bored at work or wherever. REMEMBER WHEN GILES WENT TO KILL ANGEL AFTER HE KILLED JENNY AND BUFFY RESCUED HIM AND THEN PUNCHED HIM IN THE FACE AND STARTED CRYING BECAUSE BUFFY AND GILES HAD THE BEST FATHER/DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP EVER EVEN THOUGH HE WAS JUST HER WATCHER?
BUFFY NERDS 4 LIFE!
Remember all the words Anya and Andrew said out loud? Especially the words they said to each other?
REMEMBER GILES KILLING BEN BECAUSE HE KNEW GLORY WOULD BE BACK AND HE KNEW BUFFY COULDN’T?! OMG MISS CALENDAR. “UPSTAIRS.” OR HOW XANDER GOT TOTALLY GAY FOR DRACULA. OR WHEN DAWN TAZED XANDER (BRO!) AFTER BUFFY HAD HIM KIDNAP HER TO SAFETY!! OR GILES’(seriously between him and Anya for my favorite character) LOVE OF SCOTCH! “ARE YOU DRUNK??” “YES QUITE A BIT ACTUALLY…”
I could never stand Joyce, but that episode made me sob my head off.
REMEMBER WHEN I UPVOTED EVERY SINGLE THING BUFFY MEMORY IN THIS AWESOME THREAD BECAUSE OF HOW BUFFY FUCKING RULED AND SO DO ALL THE MONSTERS WHO LOVE IT?
I think we need some Gabe and/or Max Buffy features, STAT
I don’t know how Max got involved in my mind (I meant Gabe #1 and/or Gabe #2) but Max can do it, too!
OMG! AHHH I’ve seen that episode like 50 times and it never fails. Waterworks. OR REMEMBER WHEN FRED WAS BEING TAKEN OVER BY ILLYRA ON ANGE: AND ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO FIND FIGGENBALM BUT THEN DIDN’T REMEMBER WHO FIGGENBALM WAS…. Ugh. Sad. I Love Whedon.
So, I was at a friend’s house and watched this show for the first time even though I didn’t know anything about it because I don’t have a TV (I know, I know, “I don’t even watch TV. I’m READING, faggot.” – me), and I enjoyed it even though I felt like I was very explicitly not in any of this show’s target demographics. First of all, since I know more about the Videogum meta-happenings than I do about this show, it was like seeing my e-friends on TV. “Hey! There’s that girl from that one gif that skinny tie posted out of context that some people got mad about that one time! And Hey! There’s Mr. Hausfrau! I know him/her!” were some of the things that I thought. Second of all, I didn’t even know this show was a musical? And it was weird to realize this because there weren’t any songs for a big chunk of the show and when they started to happen they seemed to take place within the plot’s reality but then they started to be fantasies and I was like, “Hey, this is a musical TV show.” Good for this show to be able to do that, I say. The creators of Cop Rock are finally vindicated. I also liked the fact that the show hits all the right beats for solid mainstream appeal but is also filled with subtle cleverness such as the post-ironically PC makeup of the cast, or the fact that all the actors look like they were born within a decade of each other, even though they’re playing each other’s students and teachers and mothers and daughters (Haha OF COURSE that girl was born in 1994! Whatever you say, Glee!), or the idea that a high school library somewhere in Ohio would have a copy of Godard On Godard and a microfiche collection, or the way the teacher and the jock were tossing the football around three feet apart before class (a nod to The Room?). But most of all, I like the fact that I can enjoy and participate in this Glee recap because it is very funny, other Gabe! I should watch TV shows that are recapped on Videogum that I don’t know anything about more often.
I loved this recap almost as much as I loved this episode.
Tina chooses Mike Chang to dance with her, and HE DOESN’T GET TO SING? He is acknowledged by name–as though there are any other “Mike”s in Nude Erections, although what is the black football player’s name? I don’t know!–and he is neither allowed to speak nor sing? Such a fucking TRAVESTY.
I don’t think he’s supposed to. I really think they brought him because, as was his one line for about nineteen episodes, he can “pop and lock.”
Quiet, you. He’s good-looking and I want to see more of him on the television.
Black football player is Matt. #tmyk
This episode was probably the best in season 1.5. It was very sad and very real in many ways, which is ironic considering that it was an episode about dreams and that it’s, you know, Glee.
Next week Idina Menzel is singing Poker Face, so I’m really wondering what’s actually going on about her being Rachel’s mom. At first I thought Idina being her mother was a bunch of bullshit and that they were going to do the meanest thing that could have possibly been done on the show. Then when she met Jesse in the car and then while singing “I Dreamed a Dream,” I was like, “I think I believe her…?” But I don’t know now listening to the tracks from next week.
All in all a great episode.
Oh, and SG – Kurt was in that last number – he was just far stage right. He also got a jean jacket torn away from him when NPH got pissy about Will getting the part.
That’s the only part of the episode I didn’t like – Kurt would never be so psyched to grab a tacky jean jacket!
Excellent observation! Man, Glee was breaking character all over the place.
But..but it was bejewelled!
i cant believe everyone liked this episode so much. i thought it was a total dud. i mean, i knew it would have to work hard to even compete with last week, but it just did not cut it for me. obviously, we all love nph, but he was a little too winking in his performance. i like my glee actors to be painfully sincere about their cartoonish dialogue. the songs were lame, they didnt even start until midway through, and why is everyone so ok with artie’s dream sequence dancing??? i could see something like that coming from day one, and i could see myself hating it when it did.
I’m not going to lie. I completely thought that the writers were shallow enough to cure Artie just so he could do a dance number. When he started dancing, I was like, “Oh, this is a dream.” But there was a beat of doubt.
Same. When it started I thought, “Okay, fantasy sequence, whatever” but then as it went on I became convinced they had actually tried to pull this shit and may or may not have yelled at the tv, “NO GLEE, THAT IS NOT HOW STEMCELLS WORK!”
I did not like Artie’s dream dance. I mean, I DID, and he’s a great dancer, but I think it really took us out of Artie as a character and now it will be harder to go back to believing KMcH in his wheelchair.
I agree, too, about NPH’s hamminess. I appreciate full-tilt melodrama much more than a nudge and a wink.
This is the first time I haven’t downloaded a single song from an episode, although I am sure that I will download I Dreamed a Dream eventually (meaning, like, probably after I hit “submit”) but I didn’t like it in the episode. I will just watch that song again without the scene leading in and will probably appreciate it more.
I’m just gonna go ahead and call the best on the safety dance dance. Called! everyone else be quiet.
When I saw that scene with Artie dancing, I was all like “Sorry, dawg, that’s unrealistic.” Because clearly having so many people in such a crammed space just has to be a violation of some kind of fire code.
Best job Gabe, all of the devils in your brain can take the day off. (Welcome to my new favorite sentence.)
First time posting… (mainly because I’m intimidated by all the clever GIF-making. You monsters are sharp!)
Did anyone else notice ska girl wearing a spoon necklace? Isn’t that usually some sort of drug tipoff?
Or maybe a reference to The Room?
Did anyone see NPH’s pained face of sexual desire when Sue came into the Gleeroom? I <3 NPH's face so much, you guys.
…thought I did keep expecting him to don his goggles and practise his evil laugh.
*les mis!
OMG!!!
Been FAR too busy with college work to read this week – just read it now, and HAD to sign up…
How do people exist who haven’t seen all of Buffy?!?!?!?!?
I grew up on Buffy! Started watching it when it first came out when I was 8, it finished when I was about 16. What a show. I would seriously be a different person if I didn’t have Buffy in my life.
<3 Joss Whedon far too much for it be normal, he's such a hero of mine!
also, I know I’m late… but I wanna join in on the Buffy love in!!
REMEMBER WHEN WILLOW AND XANDER KISS WHEN CORDELIA AND OZ WALK IN ON THEM?? ALSO, REMEMBER WHEN MY SISTER WENT TO AMERICA AND SAW LOADS OF BUFFY BEFORE IT MADE IT TO IRELAND AND THEN SAID WITHOUT THINKING WHEN SARAH MCLACHLAN CAME ON THE RADIO “OH THAT’S THE SONG THEY PLAY WHEN BUFFY KILLS ANGEL” AND THERE WAS JUST THIS SILENCE AS I PROCESSED WHAT I’D JUST HEARD.
Good times.