Ricky Martin guest stars tonight as a night school Spanish teacher.
I would actually like to see him in EVITA. (And playing Che on stage is the only way he’ll ever be likely to say “I’ve been in Evita”.)
Ricky. Martin.
That is all.
Okay, so I have totally been slacking on the TV front lately, and have no idea what’s going on anymore. What’s the deal with Mercedes and blondie? I thought he was gay?
Well, I thought this was a lot better than last week, despite the odd fixation on the health of people’s genitals. I didn’t like some of the storylines and none of the musical numbers really wowed me, but all in all a reasonably entertaining episode.
I wonder if Ricky Martin will be reappearing, like Gwyneth Paltrow did last year, and whether the fact that Kurt is obviously Hot for Teacher is going to lead to problems.
Speaking of Kurt, I’m not sure what to make of his shifty-eyed look when Rachel asked him if he’d marry Blaine. Maybe he was just thinking about his crush on Ricky Martin, but I had noticed even before this episode that Kurt hasn’t mentioned any long-term plans with Blaine since the NYC episode at the end of last season. *This *season Kurt’s talked a lot about going to NY/attending NYADA and has said nothing about continuing his relationship with Blaine. I wonder if he’s been expecting all along that they’d just go their separate ways once Kurt graduates.
In other news, we made progress on the ever-mysterious living situations of the McKinley kids. Unless Rachel redecorated that must have been Mercedes’s room for the Twilight-viewing party, and we finally found out where Sam has been living. He’s “bunking with Finn and Kurt”, a line that will no doubt launch a thousand fanfics.
Not gay, that was just Kurt’s wishful thinking early last season. He and Mercedes started dating at the end of the last school year, but Sam’s family moved away and she started dating the football player. Once Sam returned, love triangle ensued.
Sue is going to get pregnant by one of the boys from her school donating sperm? Am I completely out of touch, or is that so far over the line that the line is a dot from there?
I was very surprised when it was revealed that the complaint filed against Sue was from Becky because she was afraid Sue wasn’t focusing as much on the Cheerios anymore, and not from any of the male students who she was encouraging to become sperm donors…or the ones she was insulting because she considered them unfit donors.
IIRC she didn’t explain to the glee club guys why she really wanted them to become donors, but even without that it was extremely inappropriate.
Did Rachel say she was a finalist for NYADA or not? Last week’s ep ended on that cliffhanger, but I didn’t hear it get resolved or even mentioned.
It was resolved last week when she got the letter saying she was a finalist. Maybe you missed part of the last episode?
SOOOO disappointed in Ricky Martin and Santana’s number - that was the lamest salsa I have EVER seen. Poor Ricky - that must have killed him to have to dance that.
Shut up! Santana. Featured. Just! Shut! Up! La la la la la.
I know character consistency isn’t the strong point of this show, but has Mr. Shu EVER been so culturally stupid in the entire run? Mariachi bands? Bullfighting?
And I thought the theme was supposed to be “songs written or sung by Latin-Americans”. “La Isla Bonita”? “A Little Less Conversation”? The only connection with those (and the latter connection was plot-forced) is that they had some Spanish lyrics.
And can a guidance counselor get tenure? Does Emma actually teach a subject? What’s going on there?
I was kind of disappointed…all of the clumsy stuff kept tripping me up and I just couldn’t suspend disbelief that much. The best things about this ep were Sue, Ricky Martin, Santana’s entirely justified anger, and Emma’s pamphlets.
I thought the best thing about the ep was the Synchonized Swimming coach.
StG
Music - blah (If I never hear “I’m sexy and I know it” again, I’ll die happy)
Story - blah (amused by Sue’s baby quest, but that’s about it)
Characters - out of character as usual (so is that actually in character?) Does Will learn nothing at all each week?
Funny lines - hilarious.
so… 1 out of 4 things I used to watch glee for. 
Ricky Martin was surprisingly funny. Brittany, Sue, and Figgins had their requisite awesome one-liners… and that was about it. meh. Oh, and Becky dances surprisingly well. (Guidance Counselors can get tenure? And compete with teachers for it? whah?)
He said “or songs with bilingual lyrics”.
So when he’s not teaching the Glee club it turns out Will is Peggy Hill, teacher de Espanoll. Luckily they’re moving him into being a history teacher. No passion, enthusiasm, or knowledge is required for teaching that.:dubious: (Admittedly I went to a couple of schools that would have agreed.)
Next week: Rory sings the Chaplin composed/MJ and Nat King Cole covered classic Smile in one of his scenes.
Wait, sorry, misread that- next week Rory will smile in one of his scenes. (Point: why have that Glee project thing and bring him on the show if he’s going to have a smaller role than Becky?)
And there’s no way that Sue wouldn’t have tenure by now.
No more/less so than a night school teacher singing “I’m sexy and I know it” to a bunch of high-schoolers. One thing Glee does consistently is conveniently forget that the kids are supposed to be kids.
My high school Spanish teacher was horrible. Exchange students would laugh at her.
Although this is glee, the musical fantasy…honestly, I suspect the writers are regretting some first season decisions - Will as a Spanish teacher being one of them.
(I’d buy him as the choir teacher, or an english teacher)
Do high school teachers even have Tenure? I thought that was a university thing, and while they might have tenure-in-the-job, just based on union rules, they don’t have Tenure in the same way.
If so, why? As I understand it, the point of having Tenure in universities is so that teachers can focus on publishing and research without having to worry if the content of their work displeases the University. High school teachers focus on teaching, not publishing/research, so why would they give them Tenure?