Tonight is the senior prom at McKinley High. This is apparently much less of a deal to the New Directions students than was their junior prom, as it’s barely been mentioned while we had week after week of campaigning for junior prom queen last season.
Anyway, apparently it will be a dinosaur-themed prom, which I have to admit sounds like an unusually awesome prom theme.
Despite the conspicuous absence of 1987 hit “Walk the Dinosaur”, I was prepared to call this a more or less okay episode…until the ending.
We’re supposed to find it heartwarming that 1) Santana and Quinn fixed the prom queen election to prevent the girl who actually should have won (after they both forfeited) from being crowned, and 2) Rachel has regained her confidence now that she falsely believes she’s respected and admired by her peers? This is bad even for a show that regularly has mixed-at-best moral messages.
Thinking of which, the press release for this week had listed Dot-Marie Jones (Coach Beiste) as appearing in this episode, so I got my hopes up about the writers not totally abandoning her storyline. I was wrong – if she was in this episode at all, it must have been in the background at the prom. I’d feel better about both this episode and the last episode had the domestic abuse plot been omitted entirely and the Quinn-wants-to-be-prom-queen plot had been introduced last week (rather than Quinn being mysteriously absent from “Choke”).
I have to say I was also a little let down by the big reveal of Blaine’s gel-free hair; like everyone else familiar with Darren Criss’s pre-Glee work, I’ve already seen his hair unstyled and looking much sillier than it did tonight. The first time I saw the linked video, it was several minutes before I realized that, unlike the guy playing Ron, Criss wasn’t wearing a cheap Halloween wig.
Blaine’s unstyled hair was adorable. Loved the dinosaur theme and the photos at the end.
I was SO disappointed! 
It was playing in the background during one scene. I’d just been singing it to my bemused husband, so I especially noticed it.
It reminded me that I need to teach it to the four year-olds in dino camp this summer… Maybe with a dance break for different dino species…
I missed an episode a while back so my husband had to fill me in that it had already been established that
(A) Becky’s inner voice is British
(B) She has a thing with xylophones
This is the quirky stuff that makes Glee fun. The xylophone rage was fantastic.
Also, for a group that is supposedly super unpopular, having 4 of 6 nominations for prom king and queen seems a bit out of sorts.
The “Dinosaur” song that Britney performed was hands down the worst thing I’ve ever heard on Glee, ever. So it didn’t come as much of a surprise when I found out that it’s a Ke$ha “song!”
So last year, Kurt was humiliated by being named Prom Queen, while this year, one of the female students was nominated for Prom King, and no one blinked?
Kurt hadn’t run, Brittany had.
Yep, you were right. It wasn’t the finale. I sure hoped it was.
Still hated most everything about it.
Glee’s gone totally off its rocker. Its no longer following ITS OWN principles established in season 1. Suddenly, everyone doesn’t mind that Glee is singing all the songs at their prom. Everyone LIKES the Glee-sters now! Of COURSE Finn wins Prom King! He’s the loser leader of the loser football team! Not a single person flinches when a person that wasn’t nominated for Prom Queen wins - Despite anyone knowing anyone that voted for her. Of COURSE the Dinosaur prom theme works out great! EVERYONE has six tyrannosaurus heads suitable for dancing.
This show has done nothing but piss me off the last three episodes. They had SUCH a great start to the season. The storylines were well thought out in the first episodes, and the songs weren’t just sung for the sake of selling I-tunes things.
And Puck showed such great common sense - Giving alcohol to an underaged girl in both a motel room AND a public setting is in no way going to get him arrested. Why, its merely comical!
And next week - Body swapping! How much more real can you get! Why, not a day goes by that I don’t find myself mystically transported into the body of my friends.
Dammit, Glee. You’ve broken my heart again. I think I’m just going to pretend this season consisted of the Quinn-Rehab storyline, and Bert Hummel. With cameos by Tina and Mike.
It’s not just that her inner voice is British, it’s that it’s Helen Freakin’ Mirren.
And I thought the xylophone thing was an hommage to Grease, where the Principal’s assistant goes crazy with hers.
You watch GLEE for the occasional five second moments, like Puck in his underwear or Brittany saying “Drilling for babies isn’t the answer”.
Exactly, I don’t know why anyone would take this show seriously and then get upset when things don’t line up like they should.
I like it best when it does not take themselves seriously.
I don’t know why, but that DOES make it funnier.
Yes, while the episode didn’t devote much time to this, Brittany was apparently campaigning for Prom King with the intention that she and Santana would be crowned King and Queen as a couple. When Brittany didn’t win King, Santana said she didn’t want to be Queen.
The bigger mystery is why write-in candidates were even allowed after last year, but this is Glee.
I think everyone does, so it would be nice if Glee would just stop taking itself seriously/asking viewers to take it seriously. It’s really not very good at it. This entire season would have been much, much better if, instead of badly mishandling serious issues like adoption and domestic violence, it had instead stuck to things it can actually deal with in an entertaining manner like “Who will win the big show choir competition?” and “What will we do after graduation?”
Did anybody else notice that at the beginning, when they’re all rushing into the Glee room, Santana sits down and you see Tina sit down behind her (green dress) but in the next scene it shows Tina and Mike running towards the chairs hand-in-hand?
On a more positive note, I think my favorite recent joke on the show is that Brittany has repeatedly indicated that she thinks Dreadlocks Guy is a tall lesbian. He actually does look kind of like 1990s Ani DiFranco. I find this much more amusing than her thinking that Irish Guy was a leprechaun.
I was highly disappointed that they reverted Quinn’s character to the high school bitch she used to be just so she could find redemption again. That undermined everything this season has previously done with her, and, aside from the unnecessary cliffhanger car crash, Quinn has actually been one of the best things about the otherwise very weak third season.
Rachel “winning” prom queen was ridiculous. They really wanted that to feel like a big moment, but to feel like that it has to be believable. I was expecting a continued stunned silence more than applause from the other kids.
And I agree with amaguri, “Dinosaur” was one of the worst numbers the show has ever done.
I also agree with others above that Glee has been taking itself far too seriously lately. When it sets out to deliver some sort of “message,” it has pretty much automatically failed.
I thought Finn’s level of outrage at Quinn was unwarranted. It’s not like she was faking being a wheelchair- she still completely needs it, it’s just that due to therapy she can, with great effort, walk a few paces. As for choosing that to reveal upon winning, again, it’s not like she was going to claim Jesus just healed her, it was basically for dramatic effect, something that he should know all about being involved with Rachel and all. On a list of sins with “telling him you’re pregnant with his baby even though you’ve never had sex” being a D-, I’d put this omission at, maybe, a B. If that.
Speaking of the pregnancy thing. One of the things I didn’t like about last season was that he and Quinn were dating again. Now, I find it highly unlikely that Finn’s mother would have let him have anything whatsoever to do with the girl who lied to him about having a kid.