Watched it last night for the first time. Had been aware of the hype, and my 18 y-o said it was “the funniest TV” she had ever seen.
Was kinda cute, but this ep didn’t win me over enough to put it in my regular rotation. Reminded me very much of Pushing Daisies, and Ugly Betty.
Wasn’t sure who I should really care about, every character was so cartoon-ish. My wife and I had been watching too much TV this fall anyway, so I was probably predisposed against getting into another show.
Web voting is running about 500000-1 in favor of the guys. The girls’ mashup was completely incoherent. (IMO) But it did have ANGELS!
I loved the Cheerios coach writing in her journal, and mentioning how she was 30. ROFL!!!
(And in what world does decongestant make you hyper? I can barely stay awake when I take any?!)
I think it’s clear from the Andrew Cunanan reference, to the picking of the songs such as “Alone” and “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Walking on Sunshine” that the show is appealing to teens and forty-somethings.
(Who me?)
Once I only had 1 TBSP (vs the 2 TBSP dosage) of Nyquil left, back when it had the good stuff in it. So I took it. It made me go like this all night: :eek:
I believe it was the stuff with pseudophedrine in it. (Cursor down to side effects.)
Yep. And it’s no joke that the stuff is used in the preparation of methamphetamine; that’s why it’s kept behind the prescription counters now and all purchases are logged (you don’t need a prescription, but you must show ID and your name and address are recorded by the store). There was even a mini-scandal in the NHL a few years ago when some players admitted they would take a handful of Sudafed before games for the added energy. From personal experience, I can say I find it hard to sleep when I’ve been taking pseudoephedrine for more than a couple of days; does wonders for nasal congestion, but it does keep you up (unfortunately, I find the alternative, phenylephrine, less effective).
Heh. I was just discussing this with a friend today. And how that would have been me, in high school, breaking his window. I had a hard time taking “I’m really confused about my sexuality” for an answer when I was a teen, and spent a really long time mooning over the wrong guys. The, in retrospect, pretty obviously gay guys.
I think it’s one of those things that affect people differently. I always thought the joke with Nyquil was it comes with a plastic cup so it doesn’t shatter when it falls out of your hand as you pass out after dosing yourself.
I remember taking Comtrex back in the day (which I don’t think they even make anymore since they made psuedoephedrine so hard to get) and all it did was make me totally spaced out and woozy. It was all I could do to remain standing upright and waving my fingers in front of my face in slow motion.
I know you can dose some kids with Benedryl on planes to make them fall asleep but supposedly it makes some hyper. What a bad time to find that out, lol.
Indeed. Stuff like that always knocks me out. Think Finn before he took anything, yeah, that’s me after taking such meds. The reformulated stuff (reformulated so they can’t make meth out of it, and thus can keep it on the regular shelves), on the other hand, neither knocks me out nor energizes me. Nor does it do a damn thing to relieve any symptoms. Might as well take a tic tac.
It would’ve been funny if it had made some of the kids energetic, but others groggy. Especially Rachel. She’s already too energetic. Of course, it was still really funny how she got even more energetic.
I totally thought that’s where it was going!!
But the guy getting arrested for buying all the boxes at the same store was telegraphed a mile away. Poor schlub. :smack:
Funny from /frankenteen’s twitter:
“‘Glee’ star happy to be mistaken for someone else”
(Also funny that his “handle” is “frankenteen” LOL)
Okay, so we’re behind in our TV-watching–we jusssst watched this episode last night.
The journal was the best part of the show. “Here I am…about to turn 30…” I heard nothing after that–we had to rewind that whole scene and rewatch it a few times as our laughter kept drowning her out. Jane Lynch has been a favorite of mine forever, and I’m thrilled to get a weekly dose of her. Awesome.
Will’s wife needs to be killed off. Seriously. Hubby and I agreed–she is AWFUL and does NOTHING of worth anytime she’s on screen. The whole fake-pregnancy plot is cheap and unnecessary; this show is too good to resort to such silliness. Honestly, lose that whole plot line. The WHOLE plot line–all things relating to wifey–and the show is near perfect. Quinn can stay pregnant, but knock it off with the wife. Just have her get hit by a bus and move on. (Shame, because the actress is doing a good job–problem is, she’s doing a good job being a completely unredeemable, deplorable, distracting, thoroughly hateable character.)
Pseudophedrine has never done the make-me-hyper thing. Even a decade ago, when I took it for my frequent sinus infections, I accidentally would double-dose before I realized a dose was only one pill. Only thing I noticed was it gave me cotton mouth.
That was my favorite line as well, and my enjoyment was only enhanced by the confusion of the two 18 year olds I was watching with, who couldn’t seem to decide if that was true. Apparently 30 and 50 don’t look that different when you’re 18. 
Has anyone else had a Glee related dream yet? And guess which Glee guy this involved (it wasn’t any of the obvious choices).
It was Artie, the guy in the wheelchair. I was back in high school and apparently we both undergoing a physical in prep for going to Australia as exchange students. Nurse Terri was doing the physical, but she had platium blonde hair and really bad perm. She warned us that in Australia disabled people and international students must always use the bathrooms on the 3rd floor because of swine flu. She then applied barcodes to our upper thighs for some reason. We then left her office (apparently it was in the middle of a department store) and started getting dressed in the fabric section. Artie got out of his wheelchair and stood up to get dressed at which point I realized he was really hot for a cripple (really nice cock & balls).
I’m torn. I agree that the character is a despicable waste of air and a time sink, but I’m looking forward to her hopefully getting hosed (or better, EXPOSED) by Quinn in an obvious blackmail scheme. (Please please PLEASE let Quinn be smart enough to figure this out!)
Yes! This is what I’m waiting for, too. Nail her!
It seems like they jacked up the casting on the wife, too. She does a good job, but I’m assuming Will is supposed to be about 32ish years old and he and the wife were high school sweethearts. That woman is 40 if she’s a day.
You’re good. Acc to imdb, she was born in '71, making her 37 or 38. The guy who plays Will was born in '78, making his 30 (he’ll be 31 on 10/30).
Have you considered getting a job at one of those carnival “Guess Your Age” booths?
My favorite line of hers was in the pilot, as she’s berating the “Cheerios” at practice: “And I want the agony out of your eyes!” Jane Lynch was always one of the best participants in Chris Guest’s movies, and stole damn near every scene in which she appeared in The 40 Year Old Virgin. She’s a comic genius.
Like voguevixen, I’m torn - the character doesn’t have any redeeming characteristics as written, and unless there’s some cosmically uproarious comeuppance in store, seems kind of out of place. Though maybe the whole point of her character is to provide some tension in respect to his budding relationship with Emma, and so we don’t feel he’s the bad guy when he ultimately ends the marriage. Or something.
Your mileage evidently varies, but as stated above, it’s a well-known and documented side effect.
Spot on, apparently. According to IMDB, Matthew Morrison is about to turn 31, and Jessalyn Gilsig is 38. Not a huge difference, but definitely not high school classmates. I hadn’t noticed, myself - I think she’s quite attractive.
Terri really, really, needs to die, really, really slowly yet absurdly. It was nice to see Quinn’s little world collapse as Sue found casually revealed she knew about the pregnancy. Was it just me or was Sue’s drive to win everything overshadowing her desire to destroy Glee Club? She does want Will to fail, but as much as she want’s Glee gone she can’t let them not win as long as her name is attached.
That was a pretty great episode tonight. I wonder how much Jane Lynch improvises on this show. She was perfect tonight. I think after tonight, Glee has become my favorite new show (although there hasn’t been much competition). There needs to be more one hour comedy-dramas on Broadcast TV, like Glee and Chuck.
Also, I have a feeling things will end very badly for Terri, especially after how Will acted at the sonogram.
Well those complaining about overproduced numbers got a very natual sounding song (must be the money) - echos and everything.
In general I liked tonight’s (Oct 14) song selection. Though I wasn’t sure of the point of the cheerios song alternating between all cheerleeders outside to inside with half dressed sort of like football players
Some things are funnier the more you think about them - “Drizzle” - “it’s the smell of rain but you don’t have use an umbrella” (or something like that)
Brian