The most irritating thing about it is that Sue is usually a broad parody of right wing extremists in terms of gun control or corporal punishment as well as the singularly most selfish human being on Earth and proud of it, but now she’s promoting a liberal platform.
Yeah, if they’re going to have Sue promote something liberal then she needs to go far left-wing extremist. Ideally while remaining a right-wing extremist on other issues in the most bizarre combination possible.
I wonder if at Nationals Kurt will finally have a more prominent role in a New Directions competitive performance. He was stuck as a backup singer last year, and of course this year he was with the Warblers for both Sectionals and Regionals.
Any theories on what Quinn has planned for NYC?
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Sure, while they wait in the American Airlines first class lounge!
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Have you been on an American Airlines plane? They’re immaculate!
(Not the most subtle product placement I’ve ever seen.)
Sure, they look clean, but monkeypox!!!
Apparently the NYC ep cost $6 million – I’m cool with them trying to offset some of those costs.
Cover story in The Hollywood Reporter (which I have a free subscription to, for reasons that aren’t completely clear to me). Per Ryan Murphy:
Q: More tribute shows next year?
Q: How will the show evolve in season 3?
This is probably at their webiste (thr.com), but I’ll let someone else find the link.
Okay, since this and the Hollywood Reporter story reference the “school ages” of the cast … am I remembering the first episode incorrectly? I’m at work and I can’t do the research right now, but I seem to recall there was much disdain for Rachel in the first episode because she was just a “sophomore.” Which implies the other characters were older than she was.
Not to mention, Finn and Puck were football stars, with Finn the captain of the team, and Quinn was captain of the Cheerios. If they’re just juniors this year (which seems to be pretty obvious) … then this all happened when they were sophomores? Really?
I’m almost positive I remember the Rachel/different class thing correctly, as I was paying attention to see what grades these kids were supposed to be in. If I’m remembering it right, Rachel has apparently magically transformed into the same class as everyone else … and everyone was hugely talented and special to be able to be football team/cheerleading squad captains as sophomores.
At least I’m glad to see Ryan Murphy isn’t intending to keep these kids in high school for multiple years. Once they made it clear this year they were only JUNIORS, I was fairly certain we’d never see any of the Glee club kids graduate. Ever.
We have a funeral to attend tomorrow, so this wasn’t actually the best choice of viewing material last night. Needed something lightweight and fun that would take our minds off death and loss. Not what we got!
That said …
… we paused the DVR and literally stared in awe at Kurt’s ass, jaws slowly dropping.
I didn’t see this addressed here yet, but apologies if I missed it: was this all written because the woman who played Sue’s sister died IRL and they needed a way to gracefully write her out? The tributes were so moving. 
That was my thought as well, and was expecting a 19XX-2011 placard at the end, but didn’t see one. Does anybody have any information about this?
It’s a pretty standard conceit of high school based shows. All the stars are sophomores, because that gives the show the most time to figure out what to do and still start with an established social structure based on standard high school tropes. Just go with it.
I thought the same thing, but it doesn’t look like it.
I saw that quote and a bunch of people smacked her down about it; either she’s doing some backpedaling, she was taken out of context or the quote not printed in its entirety. Apparently she “meant to say” that when Trocki was born, people with Down rarely lived past 30; those born now they have a much higher life expectancy.
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I thought his butt was more prominently featured than usual, glad somebody else noticed. It’s very broad for a slim guy- birthin’ hips.
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I didn’t see this addressed here yet, but apologies if I missed it: was this all written because the woman who played Sue’s sister died IRL and they needed a way to gracefully write her out? The tributes were so moving.
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I don’t think so. I’m guessing that the video of Sue and Jean together was shot for this episode. However the actress is very old for someone with Down Syndrome (I’m guessing 50s) which may have prompted the decision- do it now rather than have to figure it in later.
A friend of mine works in a home for the retarded and one of his former residents has Down Syndrome and is 62. Another one who lived at a different home is 60. That was unheard of even when I was a kid, but it should be noted that both have recently had to be transferred to nursing homes as they have the health problems of octogenarians.
Last year I was convinced that Finn & Puck were juniors and everyone else was a sophomore. Obivously that wasn’t the case. I could also buy either of them failing (especially Puck who could probally flunk based on his truancy alone), but something like that would’ve almost certainly been mentioned. And speaking of age errors; Kurt was driving his own vechicle in the pilot so he had to have been at least 16 in September of '09, but just 2 or 3 episodes ago he was refered to as being only 16 (he sould be 17 by now).
Prior to the junior prom storyline, or even the “Prom Queen” episode, I think they could still have made some of the New Directions members sophomores as of season 2 without much retconning. I don’t think there was anything to clearly establish Mercedes or Artie’s ages before they attended the junior prom. If nothing else then the new choir members this season, Sam and Lauren, could easily have been made a year younger than everyone else, but Lauren was running for prom queen and Santana did briefly consider Sam as a running mate so they must both be juniors too.
I have a lot of doubts as to how well the show is going to handle the addition of four younger choir members, since even this season there seemed to be more characters than the writers could deal with.
Are you sure? I don’t remember his age coming up recently. I have been wondering how old Blaine is supposed to be, since he sure seems older than Kurt but he’s considered a “junior member” of the Warblers and he didn’t deny being jailbait when the guy at the Gap turned him down. So I guess he, like every other significant teenage character on the show except Jesse St. James, is in the same grade as the New Directions members. (The three members of the Warblers Council are presumably seniors, but they’re basically scenery.) IIRC then even the one black guy who was in New Directions last year but disappeared this year didn’t graduate, he moved away.
Blaine was 17 in that episode (BTW the age of consent in Ohio is only 16, not 18 like in California). I think Blaine was orginaly supposed to be a senior, but the writers changed their minds in order to have him transfer to WMHS next year.
Has anybody from the show ever said why they chose Lima? It’s an odd choice: a city of 40,000 that’s not particularly convenient to any large city (Toledo, Dayton and Columbus are within a 100 mile radius but they’re all on the further end of the radius), yet the kids are frequently at a very large shopping mall (for a town of 40,000- not for a big city) and there have been references to its airport and zoo, there’s a city-state of Sparta style show choir (Vocal Adrenoline) and a “really top drawer” boy’s [boarding?] school both within a short drive.
I’m sure there’s a relative TV trope (small town with all big city offerings). Anyone know what it is?
Re: age, Finn was 16 in the episode when he and Puck worked for Terri at Sheets & Things, but I can’t remember if that was earlier this season or late last season.
ETA: The episode was Funk, the episode where Quinn had the Third Trimester Dancers, so it was late last year.
I don’t know. They could’ve just as easily either made up a fake city or gone the “Anytown, USA” route and not even mention the state (ie just a generic midwestern town).
I think there are places where the age of consent for sex with a same-sex partner is higher than for with an opposite-sex partner, but I don’t know if Ohio ever had such a law or if any are still on the books in the US since Lawrence v. Texas.
Has Blaine’s transfer been confirmed? I’ve only heard it as a rumor.
They do seem to have only one restaurant, though. 
Wikipedia tells me there actually is a Lima airport, although it seems like it isn’t served by any of the major airlines. I can think of no good explanation for the seemingly short distance between Lima and Dalton Academy, supposedly in Westerville, or the apparent size of the Lima mall. I’m not sure where Vocal Adrenaline is supposed to be based, but their school is within an easy drive yet still far enough from Lima that they were apparently counted as a different region for Regionals this year. (Or are they so good they just got to skip straight to Nationals? 
) Anyway, I figure Lima was chosen just because it’s seems like it would be a boring middle American city, the sort of place people come from but don’t go to. I know almost nothing about the real Lima, but the name evokes lima beans and so seems bland.
I don’t think TV writers care much about geography in general, and especially not when “flyover land” is concerned. I was living in Wisconsin for a good part of the time That '70s Show was on the air, and although that show was set in a fictional town it seemed to float around the state. Early on it was pretty consistently depicted as being in the Kenosha area, but some promotional material claimed the show was set outside Green Bay and one episodes even had the characters making a casual trip across the Canadian border. They also tended to be underdressed for Wisconsin winters!
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Hasn’t Sue commented on his pear-shaped figure before?