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[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.]
[Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Videogum.]
Surprisegum of the century: I have a different opinion about Gwyneth Paltrow than Hard Gabe and most of the intelligent world. You may think she’s a self-obsessed, out-of-touch, no-talent, over-credited brat; I think she’s FAHNCY, beautiful, great at her job, and Sliding Doors. For me, one of the best kinds of cred to have is late ‘90’s cred, and Gwyneth uses that shit to condition her hair and scent her self-help emails. Duh, I don’t subscribe to GOOP, I don’t listen to Coldplay, I don’t care what her kids are named; but you KNOW I’m seeing Country Strong the second it comes out (go to bed Crazy <3), and in the meantime, if she’s going to come to me and jump around on Glee with the other assholes I stare at, then she’s more than welcome. In fact, after this week’s Gleeformance, I fucking hope she comes back at some point. Yeah, I said it. If she wants to “help” people “choose” chic trenchcoats and unaffordable wines and excrutiatingly long and effective workout regimens in the meantime, then she’s welcome to do that, too. I Tweet about what I eat and see and do all the time, and no one’s ever given me a prize for doing ANYTHING. Minus the resources and confidence, we’re all GOOP, in a way, non? Non. But Glee was pretty good last night, right guyz?! It got PRETTY FUCKING RACIST and actually-offensive in other ways, which is uncool times a million. If last week’s episode was a return to plotline and a unique spin on teenagerdom, then this week was a return to snappy dialogue, nasty jokes, and Glee being a marvelous piece-of-shit fireworks display worth watching every second of (with weed, wine, takeout, or whatever else you love that’s killing you).
And what to say about Gwyneth’s voice? I like it? I mean—it’s not as special or vibrant or cool or … anything … as the pop stars she’s covering. Or the rest of the cast. Or Renee Zellweger. But, for me it’s fine—it’s good even. I don’t know why, I can’t defend it. Sliding Doors again? Se7en? Fucking The Royal Tenenbaums?! Or The Talented Mr. Ripley? Or the flashback parts of Hook? Yeah, actually, that one might be it. Ugh, who knows—so many things brainwash me.
Episode! Principal Figgins is home sick with Monkey Flu, which Sue gave to him on purpose by making an overweight student sneeze on him. While he’s gone, SHE’S THE PRINCIPAL, and Will’s enemy again (?), and then Will gets the flu too from the same sneezing student. As the flu penetrates his Garnier Fructis helmet of protection and begins crawling into his douche snarl of expressiveness, he begins to hallucinate that all the Gleetards are baby versions of themselves: yaaaaaaaaaaay.
Schue goes home to lay around in his flu-filth; his ex-wife Terri the YouKnowWhat comes over to nurse him back to health using very gross baby-roleplay sex-talk and light butt play (a rectal thermometer with half a pound of Vaseline (like he’ll even FEEL that, hunny)).
In a very funny 2-second scene, Rachel declares herself in charge of Glee Club, and Santana needs to be restrained from beating her to death. Then we cut to the lunchroom, where we learn that Mercedes is jealous of how much time Kurt is spending with Blaine these days, and we also learn that she loves TaterTots as much as one of the Gwyneth Paltrows loved getting to know herself and feeling free from the shackles of a cheating lover in Sliding Doors. ZOMG do you guys think Jeanne Tripplehorn will ever be on Glee?! “SHE is LYDIA.” Remember that line?! LOLOLOL. RIGHT, but Mercedes fucking loves TaterTots, they’re very important to her. Doyoyoy.
Then we meet Gwyneth Paltrow, who is playing Holly Holliday (two L’s in both? thanks IMDB), a whacky substitute teacher who’s taken over Schue’s Spanish class, and is super coooooool because she’s speaking in Spanish to the kids about Lindsay Lohan being back in rehab. OY. She’s also a cooooool substitute teacher because last week Kurt had her for English and she sang “Conjunction Junction” from Schoolhouse Rock in the middle of class. No one’s put that clip online, so here’s the original (Gwyneth sang it well):
Kurt asks her to take over Glee while Schue’s at home sitting on bigger and bigger thermometers. She’s into it, but when she shows up for Gleehearsal, the rest of the non-Kurt Gleetards are ready to prank her to death: they butter the floor so she’ll fall over and break her expensive head off, and when that doesn’t work (everyone falls but her, she glides like Nancy Kerrigan to the bank), they introduce themselves with the wrong names—Brittany the Perfect introduces herself as Mike Chang, LOLz, and that doesn’t work either. Then Gwyneth proves once again to be a coooooool substitute teacher because she says she wants to smoke weed and go to Taco Bell (these kids DO NOT smoke weed); then she does the cooooolest thing, which Schue never did, which is ask them what they want to sing. They want to sing “Fuck You” RADIO EDIT by Cee-Lo, so she sings it for them:
Gwyneth Paltrow is not Cee-Lo, and when I read in April of 2002 that she was going to sing this song on TV, I convulsed with preparatory second-hand embarrassment. Even when the clip leaked online of her actually doing it in February 2006, I was like: oh, no, yiiiikes. But, somehow, embedded in a scene with really funny dialogue which Gwyneth handles with skill of a Hollywood A-lister (did everyone just turn their computers off?), I have to say I totally liked it. I mean, she was trying to be good, but also acknowledging that it was totally goofy, and it was really fun to watch. Yikes, the end. All the Gleetards fucking loved it, except for Rachel who h8’d it, duh.
Principal Sue interrupts Coach Biete’s football meeting to tell her she’s disbanding the football team. Then Bieste is like “then who are your Cheerios going to cheer for?” and Sue is all embarrassed and enraged. She decides she needs a “cause,” at which point she looks down the hallway and sees a couple obese students, so she vows once and for all to remove fatty garbage like TaterTots from the cafeteria.
Schue’s at home Robo-Tripping and hallucinates that he goes to school and hangs out privately with Mike Chang (SO HOT), and that while they’re hanging out, they Gleeform “Make ‘Em Laugh” from Singin’ in the Rain (NOT HOT, FREEZING COLD). This number was full of old-fashioned dance comedy—the kind of high-class clownery that might have been cool in Paris 100 years ago but now is very “shut the fuck up.” You know? Basically: just another bone thrown to the Broadway Superstars in waiting (waiting in Voorhees, NJ, in the basement, who don’t notice they just dropped a huge wad of guac on their pajama bottoms).
Rachel wakes Schue up from his fantasy-date to tattle on Gwyneth and Kurt’s fun-making, and to alert Schue to the fact that Principal Sue can replace him with Gwyneth if she so decides. Meanwhile, Gwyneth and Sue are becoming fast friends—we see them highlighting their hair together, getting drunk, and watching Animal Hoarders on TV. Lolz.
Kurt cancels his plans with Mercedes again because he and Blaine are going to see Rent, and then all the Cheerios show up in the lunchroom and confiscate all the TaterTots. This is all too much for Mercedes, but instead of screaming an amazing fucking song about it, she stomps over to Principal Sue’s office and is like “WTF?!” Sue’s like “you’re unhealthy” (she’s bullied Mercedes about her weight before) and holds up a stalk of broccoli and is like “what is this?” and Mercedes thinks it’s a toilet brush. Wow.
Then there was a commercial for the new season of American Idol with all these past winners describing the show as … like … a charity? And then—was this just regional, or did everyone see the Lanvin for H&M ad with the insane models in the creepy haunted hotel? I can’t find the exact version I saw online that bragged that every dress was a measly 200 bucks, but here’s the gist:
I thought to myself: this ad is a lot like this Gwyneth Paltrow, and I bet people’s opinion about it will split along the same kind of line. Duh, I enjoyed myself.
Anyjiz, back to Glee, Gwyneth decides to win Rachel’s affection, but Rachel’s not having any of Gwyneth’s cooooooolness. This throws Gwyneth for a loop and she gets deliciously honest: “Rachel, you suck.” YEP! Then she asks Rachel what would make HER happy (after saying “righteous” and high-fiving Puck LOLOLOLOLZZZZ), and Rachel says all she wants to do is sing something upbeat, “glamorous,” with a dance beat. May I suggest:
No I may not. Then Rachel asks Gwyneth to duet with her, and Gwyneth says “thought you’d never ask,” and then says “that’s kind of my catchphrase.” LOLOLOL, awesome catchphrase.
Back at Maison du Schue, Terri the YouKnowWhat tells Schue that’s she’s on brain medicine, so Schue starts baby-roleplay sex-talking with her in earnest. Ugh, Jesus, I KNOW. Then Terri gives him a topless Vicks Vapo massage and they end up French kissing the Flu back and forth and back and forth, and then maybe they fuck?
Kurt is worried about Mercedes, so he sets her up on a date with a smokin’ hot football player, but Mercedes is offended because Kurt chose one of the only five black people at McKinley for her, and all his afterschool activities are “black.” Then she makes a protest sign that says “Tots” and starts a fucking riot in the lunchroom.
Then it’s time for Gwyneth and Rachel’s upbeat, glamorous, dance number, which turns out to be “Nowadays,” “Hot Honey Rag,” and a line of “All That Jazz” from Chicago staged identically to the Renee Zellweger movie version. Ssssnnnooooorrrrreeee:
Rachel WOULD find that glamorous.
Schue comes to school so that he doesn’t lose his job, but Sue’s not having that shit. She fires him on the spot, and also (thank the lord) rails on his hairdon’t, likening it to a tiny full-length shearling coat.
Then Mercedes is out on a friend date with Kurt and Blaine, jonesing HARD for TaterTots. The boys chat about gay politics, DUH, and Mercedes starts passing out and hears Kurt and Blaine just say “gay, gay, gay, gay” over and over, and then a tiny pink purse falls out of Kurt’s mouth. WOAH. What?! Wait, what?! WOAH. Uh… what? Then Mercedes finally gets an order of TaterTots and comes back to life, but I’m like “wait, what?!” still.
Schue’s pissed about getting fired (duh) and tries to talk to Gwyneth about it; but, she gives him a long sanctimonious speech about how she’s a better teacher than him because of social networking technology. Someone’s grandmother wrote a really hip chunk of dialogue! Then Gwyneth has to go to Principal Sue’s office because Mercedes is in major trouble for stuffing TaterTots up the tailpipe of Sue’s Le Car. Sue and her attourney, Gloria Allred (LOLOL) are pissed. CHECK OUT THIS COMMERCIAL FOR LE CAR!
Gwyneth comes crying to Schue’s house because she’s a terrible teacher and couldn’t handle herself in a meeting with Principal Sue. Gwyneth shares with Schue a NIGHTMARISHLY racist-feeling flashback to explain why she wants to be so cooooool as a substitute teacher: one time she was teaching a classroom with a black student in it (OH NO!) and the girl, named Cameo, beats the shit out of her for knowing “math tricks” which is anti-Christian devil shit. Then she steals her Air Jordans while she’s passed out? WHAT?! WHAT THE FUCK?! WWWWHHHAAAAATTTT.
Terri the YouKnowWhat pops by SexBaby’s house with a vibrating rattle, only to find Schue conducting a Klan meeting with Shakespeare in Love. Terri the YouKnowWhat is infuriated that they would do evil shit without her (she’s the best at it!), but Schue tells her that what they did last night was a big mistake and that she should never come back again. BURN.
Kurt tells Mercedes that she’s substituting food for <3, and him for a boyfriend. Harshness. Then he goes on and on about how gr8 Blaine is, so DUH, Blaine’s never going to be his boyfriend NOW, great. Mercedes decides she’ll go out on a date with the smoking hot football player after all (even if he IS black…). Then FOOTBALLBUYLL #3, who’d bullied Kurt earlier in the episode, walks by and threatens TO KILL KURT if he tells anyone about their big scary kiss. WOW WHAT THE FUCK GLEE?! Typing this all out I’m thinking that this, and the racism, and the obesity messaging, are so fucking INTENSE in this episode! More intense than it seemed like when I was watching it, and maybe more intense than it seemed like when they wrote and shot it, but how many fucking brain-minutes were poured into this thing by how many well-paid TV adults?! And this all flew?! As only seems fair, or something, here’s the “It Gets Better” video by Max Adler, the actor who plays FOOTBALLBULLY #3:
I’m scared to pick a video from YouTube that “counteracts” racism and fat-hatred, so I won’t!
Sue rehires Schue because she hates Gwyneth Paltrow now and his kids all want him back for some reason. Then Sue rants about how rehiring Schue makes the underside of her breast-flaps burn, refers to the students as inmates, tells Schue to “shut [his] gash, Nancy,” and post an M4M ad on Craigslist for men looking for men with butt chins. YAAAAAAAAY.
Schue’s back in Gleehearsal now, and he fucking h8z it that his kids miss Gwyneth Paltrow at all. Luckily, she’s subbing in some History class, being a coooooool Mary Todd Lincoln; so, Schue asks her to help him convince the Gleetards to scream his favorite song “Singin’ in the Rain” at Sectionalz. She says her “catchphrase” and then the two duet a mash-up of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Umbrella” by Rihanna, with all the Gleetards doing their best as back-up dancers on a flooded stage. This number was pretty terrible, like the rest of them on this episode I guess? Eh, kill me, I liked the Cee-Lo one after all. But, like, come on—setting this up as a Sectionalz thing when the only people who are singing are Schue and Gwyneth Paltrow? I’d hope the Sectionalz Jury or whatever would throw Schue in jail for that, it makes no sense. And, everyone knows, I literally don’t give a shit if shit makes sense, and that even seemed weird to me. Enjoy:
Next week is wedding week on Glee, where Sue’s going to marry herself and the guest star is Carol Burnett, playing her Nazi-hunter mom? How do you spell “YES!!!!!!” again?
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My favorite part of the episode was when the high school teacher had a vivid dream about dancing with one of his students. My least favorite part was considering other things I could have done with that hour.
You had me at the disclaimer.
I’m still shocked that she wasn’t The Worst. She was actually pretty fun. Bi-Polar Mary Todd Lincoln for President.
One thing not mentioned: Sue comparing herself to Nixon, then referring to herself as the President later on. This was a good Sue ep.
At first I thought, Oh, that’s nice, they’re showing Terri growing as a person, trying to better herself. Nope! Not on Glee! Instead of character development, flu sex. And the thing with the little purse was just bizarre.
Please tell me you talk about Lindsay Lohan to your students en espanol!
You know it!
Also, about the Spanish: her accent is fabulous. Very Thpanish.
it’s from all her summers in spain. yeesh.
People who take brain pills are still bad people, DUH. The brain pills mitigate the badness, they can’t eliminate it.
Sorry Soft Gabe, but I still want to make pancakes on Gwyneth Paltrow’s griddlehead.
You can call them Palcakes. Or Goop Jacks!
Waitress, I’d like two poached eggs and a GOOP stack.
And make them with psyllium husk, egg whites and self satisfaction. Plus a touch of vanilla.
I would absolutely watch Glee Babies.
Soft Gabe, can we stand on our desks together shouting “Oh Gwyneth, my Gwyneth”?
FINE! I admit it! I’m a fan too (of a few select works)!
I HATE INTERVENTIONS.
Oh you are so not alone….I fell in love with margot a long time ago
I like Gwyneth way more when she’s playing manic depressive and unhappy. It’s weird, but whenever she plays a character in a good mood, I just hate her.
I think that probably makes me a bitch.
She did alright as Sylvia Plath. Also, Proof. But forget Shakespeare in Love! That Oscar belonged to Cate Blanchett.
Regarding Gwyneth: I’m mad at other Gabe for making me (somewhat) agree with him.
Yay! Good recap Soft Gabe!
This whole scene was just bizarre. I assumed that the pink bag coming out of Kurt’s mouth was one of Mercedes’ tot-withdrawal hallucinations, but seriously … their entire conversation really was all about stereotypical gay stuff. Even the “way to break stereotype” bit. What? Thinking back on it, I guess I just really hated this scene? This scene was so much worse than any of the Gwyneth stuff.
I understand what you mean, Superglue, but have also witnessed (and maybe been a part of) this phenomenon in real life. Especially as a babygay, having that connection is really special and empowering and it tends to amp up the gay. Instead of double the gay you get gay squared. Once you’ve grown out of that, though, I can completely sympathize with Mercedes in the scene.
You’re so right (both of you).
But ugh. Did they really have to IMMEDIATELY make Kurt’s newly supported teenage gayness into somebody else’s problem?* And did the only scene my new boyfriend Darren Criss was in have to be so weird and unpleasant? One more episode of “omg I met a cute boy and it made me feel like an actual normal kid for a day” would have been nice.
* And for that matter, this somehow being “A Mercedes episode” was SUCH bullshit. Way to give her completely two-dimensional problems, and then slap her with a one-dimensional solution…or something…
I’m sorry I’m making not-a-whole-lot-of-sense, it’s been a long week already. But you get it.
Ugh. This played out more like Gwyneth Paltrow’s mary sue fanfiction than an actual episode of a television show. I’m about done with this show. Off topic, I finally was able to watch last week’s Community and Sarcastic Abed made me sad. When he was talking about all the feelings flying around that he can neither understand nor reciprocate it was like watching a robot whose only emotion is sadness from wanting to be human and knowing he never will be. I’m gonna go cry now.
Please interpret my upvote as an “awwwww” and a gentle pat on the back. It was really sad, Fajita. But we all know Abed’s the best.
I’ve been wanting Glee to a Singin’ in the Rain episode for probably a hundred years by now, what with it being my favorite musical and all. Like Mr. Schue, it is my go-to-movie for when I’m feeling sick. And yet this episode comes around and I am soooo disappointed! WHAT WAS THAT? I mean, the mash-ups on this show are never particularly good, but that Singin’ in the Rain/Umbrella song was AWFUL.
And Make ‘Em Laugh? Yeah, I appreciate the homage, but it definitely didn’t work. It’s like when Brittany did the Brittney episode and she just did a bunch of Brittney video spoofs, but at least those kinda got the point across. The original intention of those videos was to be sexy and Brittany’s interpretation was certainly sexy. But the original intention of Make ‘Em Laugh was to be funny, and was Schue’s cover funny? No. Definitely no. Positively no. Decidedly no. Nuh-uh.
That said, I pretty much thought that the Cee-Lo cover was the best song of the night.
Make ‘Em Laugh was so irritating! They didn’t have to do exactly the same gags as the movie, did they? I mean, they didn’t even do them that well! Mike Chang has a lot of talent, but Donald O’Conner he ain’t. I think they could’ve come up with some sight gags that were actually funny and well delivered, but they just didn’t and it was disappointing.
RIGHT? I think I liked JGL’s attempt on SNL better. Even though he did mostly the same gags as the movie, at least then they were kinda funny? Or am I misremembering?
Yeah, something was so off about “Make ‘Em Laugh”, even though if I remember correctly they did it all in one take, which I can appreciate. It just didn’t have the same spark.
It is my “Glee” pipe dream that someday they will cast a dancer who is as good as Mike Chang so they can do a killer version of “Moses Supposes”.
I wish there was a contest where Hard Gabe and Soft Gabe trailed the winner for a day, and then recapped that day. I would love it the most.
Can someone please fill me in on what the fuck has happened in this season? ANYTHING? I realized last night that we haven’t seen much Sue, Rachel, Emma, Puck, or Quinn. Who the hell HAVE we seen? More Mike Chang than last season (as if that’s an accomplishment), plus a lot of Kurt. Is that really it? Weeeaaaaak, Glee!
Here here. Great episode, reminded me why I really do love Gwyneth (as much as it, at times, pains me). Also, she’s very pretty, no? I had forgotten how pretty.
Here you go, Teach. Something for you to carry around in your wallet:
Consider it walletted.
“Yeah, well that’s just like, your opinion man…” -The Dude
Wait why were they learning about conjunctions in highshool? Oh right…its Ohio…
People of all ages love Schoolhouse Rock
True story: My American Lit teacher played School House Rock for us earlier this year. We also watched The Simpsons at one point. And I’m getting college credits for this class!
A long time ago, my high school government teacher played us the “How a Bill Becomes a Law” episode, with the “I’m Just a Bill on Capitol Hill” song. She also made/let us watch Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, which was excruciating.
That’s the exact one we watched! My whole class was singing I’m Just a Bill the rest of the day.
I studied for (and passed) my test on Constitutional Amendments by learning the song that Melanie Griffith sings in Born Yesterday. It is the only thing I remember from high school Econ/Govt.
Which Simpsons episode?
Dont get me wrong, i love it. I have all the cds, the videos, and school house rock rocks (the covers by real bands), just saying…they should know would a conjunction is
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Believe me when I say that the average high schooler could not tell you what a conjunction is even if one were sexting them.
I want to retweet this? oh no, I’ve become that person
I have never hated a fictional character as much as I hate Mr. Schue. I watch True Blood.
Toilet Brush. Best Worst joke ever.
That said, I think they need to work a little harder to find that middle ground between “this show is a ridiculous musical revue” and “this is a show. It has a plot, a narrative arc, etc.” Because I found last night, overall, to be kind of a ridiculous mess. And GOOP and the old-timey dance numbers were NOT the low point of the evening for me.
Glee doesn’t care about black people and also fat people. (And many other people.) The offensiveness used to be funny, but between this and the God episode, I can’t help but feel like it’s not satirical enough for millions of teenagers to get the difference. You can’t be serious half the time (like with Kurt’s experiences) and then have a fat girl stand on a table demanding tots. Actually, you can do that. But it’s sort of sad…? Ugh, I’ll still watch next week. I hate myself.
In other news, I barely recognized Paltrow without shiny legs. Keep ‘em oiled, Gwyneth–there was butter right there.
I think Glee’s been the Worst about Coach Bieste. How shitty to be that actress and be told, OK your character is going to be a bonerkiller fantasy this week, so you’ll dress up in lingerie and stuff and everyone will talk about how disgusting and ugly you are, and then later you’ll get a pity-kiss from the molesty teacher. Comedy!
Does that make her a stronger woman, or something? Or mean she has a “good sense of humor,” or “lacks dignity”? Because all that is so gross.
QUESTION:
How many times did Gwyneth cry while learning her choreography? Inquiring minds!
Dear Glee,
Please do not let Kurt ‘get with’ his bully. I can see that coming. SURE, the bully has the potential to be a very sympathetic character! You could even chalk up his abuses to poor selfesteem and once he get’s over himself (with Kurt’s help. *project!!*) and comes to terms with who he really is (which will be a great story i’m sureugh) he’ll be a great guy. It’s like that Buffy where Xander’s bully turned out to be gay and then turned out to be nice and then turned out to want to help Xander come out and even his grandma was setting him up on dates! lolz! But just….don’t do that. I can’t say WHY (like i said that whole abusive thing can be danced over) i just…don’t want it to happen. Let him be happy with the pretty prep school kid who talks about boring things…they can be like ever other boring couple on Glee!
Thanks.
♥
RIP Larry
Oh god, that didn’t even occur to me until I read your comment. If that happens, I will stuff tater tots up the tailpipes of every man, woman and child who works on this show, so help me.
So….this means that Terri is going to end up for real pregnant, right?
I didn’t think of that. Hah, they totally would bring back the most reviled season 1 story too.
“Can we do a storyline about something new?”
“Uhhh, no. Come on guys, think, there has to be a Terri pregnancy story we haven’t done yet.”
i would bet on it…or fake pregnant again? or she’ll get pregnant from someone else and TELL Shue it is his but he turns out to be a black baby? …wait i’ve seen that before… #recycledNipTuckplotlines
I just came back to say that this season has made me very happy in a sad kind of way that Freaks and Geeks was canceled after only one season before it could start sucking (and deep down we all know it would have).
LET’S GO GET SOME TACOS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8FveMamf8Y
Meant in reply to Miss Bromberg, but I think it stands on its own.
Countdown until Thisismynightmare sees this and eFaints…
It’s all a part of my ploy to get the Videogum community to like me more.
Forget Glee, and forget Glee more.
Homogenization of popular song is not a good thing.
What’s with the Gwyneth hate? Isn’t she too boring to care about?
https://sites.google.com/site/leedsdigitalmarketing/course-pages/greatest-albums-of-all-time
Kurt to Mercedes: You are fat and lonely. You should try to be less fat so you can get a man, k?
Mercedes to Kurt: Good point.
Really?!!!!
I’ve never really took a stand on the all important gwyneth paltrow debate but now I must:
Just judging from this episode, I thought she was weird and awkward. I just don’t think she did the fun character she had to play any justice.
Also, who really cares about her? She seems very has-been-ish and her agent probably made a deal with the devil to get her this high-profile gig.
hmm, okay katydid needs to go to bed.
see this is why I need to read more during the light of day cause when I comment late at night I become a meanie.
i have only ever seen the 1st episode of glee, but still read these recaps sometimes so this may have been mentioned before:
FOOTBALL GUY #3′s head is alarmingly large.
I kept being startled by not hating Gwyneth in this episode. Like I would get distracted from watching the episode as I frantically tried to make it compute: “I know I hate this woman, so why don’t I hate her?”
I think it helps that we know that her character is here for a one-episode storyline that has to end with her leaving, and I at least was watching her and thinking, heheheh, they all think she’s so cool now, but she’s loathsome and they’ll realize she is loathsome and she is going to have to leave glee club because she is loathsome! Also, as a teacher I couldn’t help it… I’m sorry, but her “cool teacher” shtick was classic, and GOOP delivered it pretty much perfectly. I’m going to dress up as Bipolar Mary Todd Lincoln the first chance I get and tweet all of my students their next round of paper grades.
BUT: can we please let Kurt have a kiss that isn’t a self-loathing hate-kiss from Football Guy #3?
The entire Chicago thing was terrible too (barf).