We are just coming home from a looooong trip to Milwaukee for Passover. It was a lovely trip, full of lots of family and matzo and, well, a tremendous amount of Las Vegas. Yes. The show. I had never seen it before, and yet, here I was, watching episode after episode on two different televisions. To say that my parents are obsessed with this show is an understatement. The biggest problem with this, for me, was that while we were watching Las Vegas after Las Vegas after Las Vegas was that I missed more than an entire week of my regular TV watching. My DVR is bursting at the seams and I can barely keep up.
I did manage to catch last night’s Glee. I still haven’t watched last week’s episode yet, but I caught this week’s. And I am ridiculously glad that I did, because I absolutely LOVED it. I am super thankful that this Gaga-themed episode was more BARBRA than GAGA.
This week’s theme is about self-acceptance; about embracing the things you were born with. Mr. Schue wants each member of the Glee club to embrace a unique thing that they may not like about each one of them via t-shirt. His shirt? BUTT CHIN.
Rachel’s shirt, in the end, is NOSE. When Finn breaks Rachel’s nose with his bad dancing (which prompts his shirt: CAN’T DANCE), her doctor tells her that she now has the perfect opportunity to correct her Jewish Schnozz and make her look a little bit more, well, Quinn-like and could potentially improve her pipes. In the end, though, she decides to go the way of the Barbra Streisand and keep her nose. Babs redefined beauty. Rachel’s nose gives her character, it makes her who she is, it makes her beautiful. (Even Finn says so. Also, Finn still totally loves Rachel.)
Tina embraces her BROWN EYES, while Mike Chang is all CAN’T SING.
Mercedes is NO WEAVE, while Sam is – obviously – TROUTY MOUTH.
Puck’s downward-pointing arrow says I’M WITH STUPID, while Brittany’s upwards-pointing arrow says I’M WITH STOOPID.
Kurt, obviously, LIKES BOYS, and he wears is proudly as a member of New Directions once again. I am so happy that they decided to drop the Warblers storyline. As much as I adore Blaine (and I do. I REALLY do), Kurt belongs at McKinley and nowhere else.
Quinn is LUCY CABOOSEY, which is the plot of an interesting plot-twist. Lauren does some digging on Quinn when they compete for Prom Queen and finds out that perfect Quinn wasn’t so perfect once upon a time. She was once a different-nosed, a bigger-bootied Lucy Q. Febray, and had to lose weight and get a nose-job to finally feel good about herself.
Mr. Schuester tries to get Emma to eat unwashed fruit AND to admit that she should put OCD on her shirt, but Emma denies, denies, denies. Until she spends an entire therapy session disinfecting her chair. She cries and admits to feeling ashamed. And eventually ditches her GINGER shirt for an OCD one.
The music was good, the storylines were good (with the exception of the Dave/Santana beard one…I’m not sure how I feel about that…), and KURT IS BACK, it was all good.
And now I am off to watch it again.
Glee never seems to disappoint and they spent a considerable amount of time working on the plot for this episode. I wonder what they are working towards because usually the characters reset to their bad selves by the end. I would rather Kurt stay at the private school though so the Warblers are featured more often. I wonder how they will work them in now since they are so popular with fans. I don’t know how it happened (my kids deny any mischief) but my timers for “Glee” were deleted and I missed the last 2 weeks since I was so busy lately I didn’t notice. I didn’t even have to log into my employee account to watch and then I found out that there are hundreds of free shows on http://bit.ly/dJzWgo. DISH has HBO Go now too which is awesome.