I’ve watched about half of this one so far. Is it completely Sue-less?
Speaking of Sam’s ass, Chord dropped trou to show his briefs on the Ellen Degeneres show (app. 2:00).
“I’m both repulsed and impressed by her Lady Macbethian actions. A Latina Eve Harrington.”
(Blank look from Karofsky)
“Look, if you’re going to be gay, you’re going to have to get these references.”
Interesting. The first time I heard the lebanese joke was from Ellen DeGeneres when she did her coming out episode on her sitcom in 1996. She went on Rosie O’Donnell and when Rosie asks her about what’s coming up on her show, Ellen says that it is revealed that she is lebanese. Interesting thing also here is that Rosie essentially comes out as well, saying that she must be lebanese also. I always wondered why no one bothered at that time to call Rosie on it (NTTAWWT), but once her show was canceled, it was all she talked about for a period of time.
Did anybody else notice (I think it was after the final song), when then panned out of the room, there was a red flyer on the wall with blurred letters? I tried to freeze-frame it, but even in HD, it was almost impossible to make out, but I’m fairly certain the phrase “High School Musical” was in there.
So, what would your shirt say? Let’s disallow “too heavy” shirts since that’s near universal (at least in America) and do something more challenging.
Since I got over any “likes boys” embarrassment decades ago I’d probably go with
LAZY AS A $2 DOG
Not much to say other than I liked this episode much better than last weeks despite the mostly awful music. I was baffled by the been-there-done that mall scene, and Kurt’s song seemed to go one forever. Agree that Quinn’s backstory was out of nowhere, (and how did Lauren make a poster with “Lucy Caboosey” on it before she knew the name?) though it was kinda fun to see a Lauren story that didn’t suck so much.
Born this way and Unpretty were the musical highlights. Lebanese and I’m with stoopid were the laugh highlights. Getting Kurt back without Karofsky coming out was some fancy writing footwork, and Santana seems to be getting hotter in every episode. she may explode before the end of the season.
Major problem with that (imo otherwise beautiful) song. It’s one of several ALW songs that inspired The Song That Goes Like This.
I figured out who played the shrink (she was Mrs. Lovell in Apollo 13), but who was the fellow that played the plastic surgeon - he looked familiar.
She was just playing dumb/along when she guessed “Juicy Lucy”. It amped up the reveal.
George Wyner- one of the big “That’s what’s his name” actors.
Any idea what the sound was when Quinn found the Lucy Caboosey poster? It sounded like a blend of fire alarms and crazed old women keening and I was wondering if it was an excerpt from a song or a soundtrack.
The “Lebanese” joke goes at least back to the 80’s with “The Golden Girls” Dorothy has a college friend who is attracted to Rose, tells Blanche that “Pat” is a lesbian and Blanche says (paraphrasing) “Thats OK, Isn’t Danny Thomas Lebanese?”
I clicked “hated it”. I thought there was extraordinary amount of commercials. No Sue Sylvester. No Coach Beiste, and (not their fault) the audio was out for half the episode because of ongoing Tornado warnings etc.
Thanks!
Yep. 90mins, and they couldn’t fit ANY Sue in. :rolleyes:
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GOD yes! It came back from a commercial right after Kurt came back, he did is song, and BAM, another commercial. Less than four minutes of show.
Look, Fox, you’re making money hand over fist off of iTunes and DVD sales, so can you at least cut the crap with so many commercials?
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That would be a great marketing tie-in. Really cheap and easy to make as well.
This seems to be a common complaint about certain shows. But I was under the impression that broadcast shows were regulated/standardized with regards to program length / commercial time. Do broadcast shows really have widely varying amount of commercial time? Or is this just an illusion by having say, more breaks but less commercials per break?
Yeah, it seems like the writers periodically make something up that is very important for one episode but has nothing to do with previous episodes and will probably never be mentioned again. This felt like one of those times.
I was looking at some old Glee clips on YouTube recently and was amazed by how much taller/older Chris Colfer looks now. I’d forgotten how young he looked early in season one. Anyway, he can apparently sing lower than he normally does on the show – check out this interview, where he talks about singing the “tear the roof off” bit in “Give Up the Funk” – so I would guess that his voice already changed as much as it’s going to change.
I didn’t get that either. It would have made more sense to have her embarrassed to admit that she does have a weave, although even that would be odd since IIRC there was a line in “Hell to the No” about her weave.
The business about Tina’s eye color was also pretty stupid, although it was nice to have an episode where Tina had actual lines.
My reaction to this song was also basically “WTF?” but Wikipedia tells me this song hit #1 on the US Dance Club chart, a Top Ten single in a number of foreign countries. So it may be that many viewers had/will have (when the episode airs overseas) a more positive “Hey, it’s that ‘Barbra Streisand’ song!” reaction.
I think another weak point was that “Born This Way” has, IMHO, terrible lyrics. Given the message of the song, and the fact that it’s by Lady Gaga and a recent hit single, it was probably inevitable that it would be featured on Glee, but I felt like the characters could have come up with better lyrics themselves in study hall.
Despite my complaints I think this was a good episode and I give the show a LOT of credit for not giving Karofsky easy redemption…or Santana for that matter. I’d heard rumors that Karofsky would be joining the glee club for the “Born This Way” number, but I think it worked a lot better to have both of them in the audience. I expect there will be hugs all around by the end of the season, but for now both characters have shown some growth while still being basically terrible people.
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I was looking at some old Glee clips on YouTube recently and was amazed by how much taller/older Chris Colfer looks now. I’d forgotten how young he looked early in season one. Anyway, he can apparently sing lower than he normally does on the show – check out this interview, where he talks about singing the “tear the roof off” bit in “Give Up the Funk” – so I would guess that his voice already changed as much as it’s going to change.
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He was ‘legal’ in his first episodes but I didn’t find him remotely attractive- he looked way too much like a 13 year old. Now there are times he’s actually kind of sexy- but not always. Depends on the lighting and angle I guess. Of course when he is he’s “pretty” rather than classically handsome (or, as Sue would say, “my sweet Porcelain…”).
Gave this episode a like because I liked some of the music but the plot was ‘eh’. On the one hand I’m glad they’re showing Emma as far more than just quirky but otoh “Crazy Emma” is time consuming for a character I don’t really care about. And I’m glad the Warblers should be gone- even in the Glee-verse it’s hard to believe that any Glee club would be willing to drink the lead- the only- soloists KoolAid like they do (not just in the way they always back him vocally without complaint but the “Hey, let’s go sexually harass a college guy at GAP for Blaine even though we’ve never left the school grounds before!” way- that’s an ATF siege and mass suicide waiting to happen. Plus the episode would have benefitted from Sue and from shirtless Sam, Puck, and or Mike.
90 minutes and loads of commercials? I don’t miss my TV.
I watched it on Hulu, with just seven 30 or 60 second commercial breaks. Runtime was 57 minutes without counting those commercials.
One of my coworkers has a 13 year old son, and I’d agree that early season one Kurt looked about that age. If he still looked the same this year then I think they would have needed to cast someone else as Blaine. Darren Criss is at 24 actually one of the younger “boys” on Glee, but even now he’s obviously older than Chris Colfer and a year ago the relationship between their characters would have looked like something that was about to be broken up by Chris Hanson.
I’ve enjoyed the Warblers in the sense that their numbers have been consistently good, but you’re right that the whole thing with them has been very weird. Their depiction hasn’t even been internally consistent, as Kurt was told early on that the Warblers value uniformity and that Kurt would need to learn not to stand out so much. Dalton was also seeming more and more like a sort of Lovely Bones fantasy version of high school, or a dream Kurt had when he fell asleep watching Dead Poet’s Society, with singing and dancing all the time and not only no faculty and no classes but no students with discernible personalities or significant dialogue aside from Kurt and Blaine.