# I've never seen Glee. What's up with that smoothie tossing thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463 "2010-09-20T21:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/1 "2010-09-20T21:07:31Z")
Every time I see a billboard for the show, it shows someone throwing a smoothie at me. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/2 "2010-09-20T21:11:47Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Every time I see a billboard for the show, it shows someone throwing a smoothie at me. What’s up with that? It’s somewhat bizarre. Basically, the Glee club kids are always low on the social strata of the high school, and one favorite act of bullying at this particular educational institution is throwing a smoothie in the face of somebody you want to make fun of. It’s become a running joke and even sometimes a plot point. Especially, whenever one of the main cast, doing a walk and talk scene in the hallway, sounds upbeat or mentions the thought that things are finally going their way, out comes a cheerleader (usually) with a surprise smoothie to the face. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/3 "2010-09-20T21:34:25Z")
Slushies. They’re slushies. Let’s get the terminology right, people! Does it make McKinley High cooler or more pathetic that they actually sell slushies during school? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/4 "2010-09-20T21:41:51Z")
My high school sold slush puppies and root beer floats! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/5 "2010-09-21T16:21:00Z")
Glad mine didn’t, or I’d still be there. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/6 "2010-09-21T16:27:31Z")
Truly perfect ad/thread combo on this one, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/7 "2010-09-21T16:36:55Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > Does it make McKinley High cooler or more pathetic that they actually sell slushies during school? Wait, they go to McKinley High? Does Judd Apatow know? ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/8 "2010-09-21T16:59:23Z")
I’m not into the show, but I find this “joke” very annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/9 "2010-09-21T17:15:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Does it make McKinley High cooler or more pathetic that they actually sell slushies during school? My high school was absolutely awesome, and they sold slushies (actually, Vita-Pups, which are the same thing with added vitamin supplements) in school. On the other hand, though, my school also would absolutely not have tolerated students throwing them at each other, and I doubt it would have even occurred to any of the students to try. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/10 "2010-09-21T17:17:28Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > > [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > > > Does it make McKinley High cooler or more pathetic that they actually sell slushies during school? > > Wait, they go to McKinley High? Does Judd Apatow know? That was my first thought, too. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/11 "2010-09-21T17:28:17Z")
Yeah, it’s entirely inauthentic. It might happen once, and the offender would get an in-school suspension or Saturday detention. Even if - unbelievably - no one reported it, the victims next teacher wouldn’t let them sit in class like that, and the offence would come out. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/12 "2010-09-21T18:26:14Z")
Dumping a slushie on someone? That’s so 1985 Robert Downey Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/13 "2010-09-21T18:29:22Z")
BTW reminder to everyone - new season starts tonight at 8pm! ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/14 "2010-09-21T18:53:17Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Yeah, it’s entirely inauthentic. It might happen once, and the offender would get an in-school suspension or Saturday detention. Even if - unbelievably - no one reported it, the victims next teacher wouldn’t let them sit in class like that, and the offence would come out. Exactly. Also, I wasn’t a very big guy in high school, but if someone had thrown a slushie in my face, I don’t care who it was, you can bet your ass I would have fought back, and fought back hard and dirty, even if it meant getting my own ass kicked in the process. That’s just the type of indignity no self-respecting person would take lightly. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/15 "2010-09-21T19:29:25Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Yeah, it’s entirely inauthentic. It might happen once, and the offender would get an in-school suspension or Saturday detention. Even if - unbelievably - no one reported it, the victims next teacher wouldn’t let them sit in class like that, and the offence would come out. In today’s environment and attitude towards such things the thrower would be lucky to not have the police called. Which, to be honest, I think is just fine. It’s assault. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/16 "2010-09-21T19:39:38Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Yeah, it’s entirely inauthentic. . Glee? Inauthentic??? How can it be??? ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/17 "2010-09-21T20:03:24Z")
What, you didn’t burst into song with accompaniment and cuts to full production numbers at random times during high school? What kind of loser school did you go to? Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/18 "2010-09-21T20:05:27Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > I’m not into the show, but I find this “joke” very annoying. Why? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/19 "2010-09-21T20:09:18Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] Why? [/QUOTE] I don’t know about **Hippy Hollow** , but for me, as a non-viewer, it doesn’t make me interested in the show. It doesn’t make me say “Hey, that looks like fun! Maybe I’ll check it out!” It just makes me go “Huh?” Of course the ads are probably more to let existing fans know that a new season is starting. They’re probably not targeting me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463/20 "2010-09-21T20:20:50Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > [QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] > Why? I don’t know… [/QUOTE] Well, I really wanted to slime Hippy, but since you said ["I don’t know’](http://0.tqn.com/d/chemistry/1/0/f/f/orlandobloomslime.jpg)… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-seen-glee-whats-up-with-that-smoothie-tossing-thing/554463.md?page=2)