AKA the mating episode.
Great duet between Jayma Mays and Matthew Morrison followed by predictable wedding walkout.
I was actually kind of surprised at how hot Blaine and Kurt were in the scene in the back of the car.
Marley is still a dufus no matter which side of the triangle she picks, and she’ll ultimately wind up in bed with Santana anyway.
Do you think Rachel’s boy in NYC was leaving the hotel room of a man or a woman?
He was counting money so I’m guessing it was a man.
I thought this episode really showed the best and worst of what Glee can be. “I’m not getting married today” was just a fantastic musical number, fit the plot perfectly, well performed, and brilliantly shot.
The musical montage with all the couples in the hallway switching into each other was also damn fine television.
In the same episode, there was a nearly uncountable number of moments of utterly bizarre idiocy, the tossed-aside revelation that Rachel’s new man is a male escort (WTF!?!?!?!?!), and, oh yeah, Rachel might be pregnant.
Glee certainly doesn’t lack for ambition…
Though her OCD would never have allowed her to let her dress trail; you should have seen the cab stop and her pull in the train, then proceed.
Well said. I do like it when glee swings for the fences though. Even when they miss, at least they are trying. It’s when they play it safe that the show becomes insufferable.
The marriage song was incredible and the montage with the couples was show wonderfully. One of the better musical eps in a while.
I think the male escort thing was interesting in the whole ‘Rachel isn’t going to be into the douchebag anymore’ type of way. Of course it depends on who Rachel is pregnant by. But are they really going to have Finn think he’s responsible for a child that is not his own again?
In the real world that would almost certainly be the case, but on Glee he might be doing the American Gigolo thing. (For those who don’t know, male escorts, whether they’re gay or straight in their own preference, are MANY MANY times more likely to have a male clientele than a female one, who statistically do not like to pay for it and do not feel comfortable doing so.)
While this episode’s bad points bordered on being a parody of Glee’s worst tendencies, there were some bright spots. Aside from those already mentioned, Santana and Quinn’s fake IDs made me laugh. And while I didn’t think this was a very good episode even by the low standards I have for season four, it did make me retroactively feel better about last week’s episode now that the cheap, predictable, and awful “Finn kisses Emma” and “Tina molests Blaine” plot points have been more or less laid to rest. I’m still sad that two talented actresses are having to waste their talents on these storylines, though.
Like others, I noticed that the Modern Family episode the night before had mildly racy scenes with Phil/Claire and Jay/Gloria but not even a Mitch/Cam kiss. Kurt and Blaine sure did their best to make up for it, though.
It’ll probably turn out to have been a woman – maybe even Kate Hudson’s character – but the real question for me is whether this will lead to the show’s first Flight of the Conchords number: “You Don’t Have to Be a Prostitute”.
Agreed. I did wonder if this episode was patched together from two scripts though, one for a wedding episode and one for a Valentine’s Day dance episode. It was weird how willing everyone was to party down at the “reception” after their favorite teacher was left at the altar.
I’m starting to suspect that the writer’s room at Glee headquarters has a big sign reading “ALWAYS END ON A CLIFFHANGER!” Based on previous episodes, when the show returns Rachel’s pregnancy won’t be mentioned until 20 minutes in, and then it will be revealed that she’s already had an abortion/miscarried/realized her pregnancy test was wrong.
I did briefly wonder if Rachel even knew who the father was, but she told her creepy boyfriend that she felt queasy pretty much as soon as she got back from Lima, which indicates she’s been pregnant for a few weeks already. And unless the pregnancy test scene was set a couple of weeks after the rest of the episode, it would be too soon for her to have missed a period if Finn was the father.
I don’t think anyone has brought up the Quinn thing yet, but wow, that seemed totally out of character for her (though not for Santana) and felt like they just did it for shock value.
There must be a chart in the writer’s room on which they keep track of who has been with who. Someone notices, Oh! Santana and Quinn haven’t been together yet, let’s make that happen.
I figured it was fanservice for the few straight men watching this show.
Speaking of unnecessary hookups, the subplot with Artie and Emma’s niece seemed obviously constructed just to allow for a special guest star but I didn’t recognize the actress at all. I learned from Google that she had been a contestant on the Glee Project reality show and is handicapped in real life. She didn’t win the competition (the winner is the guy playing Ryder), but the writers apparently wanted to work her in anyway…although they don’t seem to have put much thought into it, as the limited screen time Artie has received this season indicated that he was already dating Sugar.
Speaking of characters who don’t get much screen time, it sure was nice of Mercedes and Mike to show up to be glorified extras for another episode. I assume they wound up in bed together after all their other friends paired off.
I couldn’t disagree more; I thought their relationship escalated nice and smoothly in the episode. Quinn and Santana have both been through some shit, and they both have a tendency to feel like outsiders. Santana is still getting over losing Brittany, and who knows how long it’s been since Quinn had a healthy relationship (and neither time with either Puck or Finn counts). They were there for each other, and I was having a blast watching them hang out even before they started flirting with each other. I don’t think that “Quinntana” is going to become a thing, but I enjoyed it for what it was, and I thought that it was perfectly believable and in character.
Though I am one of “the few straight men watching this show,” I don’t think that what they did with it was gratuitous or titillating. I thought that it was based in friendship, character, and, of course, inhibition-loosening alcohol. And Dianna Agron and Naya Rivera actually did have some great chemistry together.
All that said, Emma and Will’s duet was easily the best part of the episode, and one of the best numbers of the season.
Help out one of the few straight guys watching the show - what was Will and Emma’s duet from?
It’s “Getting Married Today” from the musical Company. “Being Alive”, the song that finally got Kurt into NYADA in “Swan Song”, is also from Company.
Curious what Britney mouthed to Sue when she walked by.
Brian
“You look beautiful.”
Brittany was the only one unphased by the appearance of Sue in the role of the bride, although since Brittany is Brittany there’s no telling whether she thought that Emma had gone blonde for the occasion or that Will was actually marrying Sue. Or it may just be that Brittany lives moment to moment and doesn’t really question anything.