# Glee on FOX **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-on-fox/509540 "2009-09-10T10:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 41
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-on-fox/509540/41 "2009-09-12T06:01:20Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Uh, seriously? So you thought the shock about how he could bring it was in reference to his dancing? You’d think that people wouldn’t be shocked that a Broadway actor could dance. I said dancing _motions_ as in how “hip” he was in the scene, not his general dancing skill, and his _synching_ abilities as in lip synching - in other words, his ability to act so cool. And I agree it’s a stretch for that particular actor, but the description of the video as being very demonstrative of the entire process for that scene was also a stretch. The only bits we saw of the scene were the final edited version. We didn’t see any behind the scenes footage that involved singing for that scene. > [@The dpr Appreciation Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dpr-appreciation-thread/55648/21): > > The “wheelchair kid” has had the same voice for every single song. I hadn’t noticed him sounding like an older black soul singer before, but I’ll rewatch some of the other scenes and see… > [@The dpr Appreciation Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dpr-appreciation-thread/55648/21): > > And why exactly would they hire a singer (he’s apparently in the boy band NLT) for the role if they just wanted an actor who could lip sync? Why hire a Broadway actor for the role of the teacher if they were just going to dub his voice? While some of the other scenes this episode seemed a little overly polished vocally, this was the only one that seemed really really out of place. It really sounded like they decided they didn’t like the way some of the white characters did ‘black’ music for this one particular number, and decided to have them lip synch to some black singers. I’m not saying they can’t sing or are usually dubbed, I’m saying that for this one particular scene the two actors sound very different from how they usually do, in a way that gives the appearance of voice doubles for getting a particular quality of voice for a particular style of singing. > [@The dpr Appreciation Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dpr-appreciation-thread/55648/21): > > It’s a Musical. Musicals tend to have very polished songs. There is a reason ‘showtunes’ has the reputation it has. Meh. They managed to strike the right balance in the other episode. I don’t see any good reason for the quality to go down over time. But I’ll reserve judgement, maybe next episode will be back to snuff. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-on-fox/509540)._