3×20 Props

Helloooooo! 🙂 Last night was Glee’s double episode event. I was so excited and I must say, it was pretty good. Because the episodes are 2 separate episodes, this post will be specifically about the first of the two, ‘Props’. It was a good episode and had some dramatic moments. The music was also pretty sweet. So episode 3×20 gets a 7 out of 10 on my scale. So here’s what went down…

In Sue’s office, she tells Kurt and Mercedes how Unique is now a star and a show choir icon. Even Jesse St James, who was against the idea, has taken credit for the sensation. So Sue’s new plan is for Kurt to do the exact same thing: perform in a dress. And right away Kurt refuses. Then Mercedes reminds him about Halloween where he wore a dress and went out as Snookie and Blaine went out as Mike (The Situation) from Jersey Shore. We see a clip.

I know it doesn’t look like it, but that is Kurt (left) and Blaine (right)…HILAR!

Despite this hilarious fact, Kurt still refuses.

On the stage, Rachel, by herself, sings Jason Mraz’s ‘I Won’t Give Up’. It is technically a relationship song, but Glee has a way with changing relationship songs to work for other situations so Rachel sings it to herself. Anyways, it’s a good song for Rachel because after her Prom Queen win, she is telling herself how she won’t give up on her NYADA dream. Plus, the song is great and Rachel does fabulous with it! After the song, she pulls out her phone and calls NYADA judge Carmen (played by Whoopie Goldberg) and leaves the 14th message. She invites her to the Nationals in Chicago because she really, really wants this. Poor Rachel…

In the Choir room, Sue’s big idea for Nationals, aside from Kurt dressing in drag, is props. We all know from her Cheerio performances that Sue likes to go overboard (stilts, motorbikes, fire…) so her idea for ND now is welding. Like welding metal with sparks and masks and stuff…really ridiculous for a show choir. Will doesn’t like the idea but is willing to try and says that they all need to give their best effort. And that must snap something for Tina because she gets really mad and storms out, but not before saying how she wants to more than be costume designer and how she’s sick of Rachel getting ALL the spotlight. That’s true…and costume designer? Really? You’d think that be up Mercedes’ alley. Mike goes racing after her and says he’s disappointed in her because she knows that next year, she’ll be a star and they need Rachel to win for them now. Even Rachel talks to her…and offers her $50 to stop complaining. Typical Rachel. Then she tells Tina how hard it is being her. But Tina is still mad and says that for once, she’d like to be Rachel.

At the mall, Kurt and Blaine are testing massage chairs and eating food and discussing how it’s perfectly okay for Kurt to refuse Sue’s dress offer. And along strolls Tina, carrying lots of fabric for ND’s Nationals outfits. She tells them how busy she is and how Mike has been texting her and saying how important and one-of-a-kind Rachel is to ND. And as she walks away, Mike texts her again and as Tina furiously tries to reply, she trips over the edge of the mall fountain, falls in and hits her head. Kurt and Blaine come running. When Tina stands up, she sees Puck and Finn DRESSED as Blaine and Kurt. They’re acting like Klaine but the real problem is that they keep calling her Rachel. Tina woke up as Rachel. Back at school, Tina (as Rachel) sees everyone like everyone else. Artie and Santana switch, Brittany and Mercedes switch, Mike and Joe switch, Quinn and Sugar switch, Will and Sue switch, Sam and Rory switch…it was really quite funny.

So Sue (as Will) makes Tina (as Rachel) come up and show them a solo. At first, Tina is a bit reluctant, but Kurt (as Finn) talks to her and says he loves her and believes in her and wants to make out with her…. So Tina (as Rachel) goes up and sings ‘Because You Loved Me’ by Celine Dion. It’s great and Tina has an amazing voice. At the end, all of ND give her a standing ovation (her first one) and she was thrilled. I must say, that during this song I was laughing so hard because they showed all the ND people as each other and it was hilarious to see them act like each other. Finn played a great Kurt and Sam played a great Rory and Joe played a great Mike and Quinn played a great Sugar. It was so funny! 😀

In the hall, Tina (as Rachel) decides to do what the real Rachel would never do. She goes and finds Rachel (as Tina) and thanks her for all her great work and support in the background, even if it’s not preferable. Then Rachel (as Tina) tells Tina (as Rachel) that she must keep trying to get into NYADA and she should drive down to where Carmen is and talk to her again in person. 

Finally, Tina re-wakes up from her fountain fall and this time, everything and everyone is normal. Which is good, because as I re-read the above few paragraphs, it’s very confusing….LOL.

The ND tries to perform ‘Flashdance…What A Feeling’ with Sue’s props. As much as it’s crazy and different, it’s not good or safe. So Will stops it and trashes the idea. Even Sue agrees to that.

Santana, Brittany and Mercedes burst into the staff room to talk to Beiste. They saw her with Cooter and she still has on her ring. But Beiste says she can handle herself and she thanks them for their concern. They invite her to chaperone Nationals, but she isn’t too keen on the idea.

Kurt apparently went to a Vocal Adrenaline rehearsal and took some secret videos that he shows ND in the locker room. Sue points out how in sync VA is and Will tells them that the dance move they are doing is called The Human Centipede. Turns out, it’s a cool dance and a creepy horror movie.

On the stage, as Rachel practises some scales, Tina comes up and tells her about her crazy dream where everyone was switched. She also says that the advice dream-Tina gave dream-Rachel (Tina) about driving to Carmen. So Tina offers to go with Rachel to do that. Rachel hugs Tina and says she’s sorry for hogging the spotlight and they agree to go to find Carmen.

For the next ND meeting, Sue tells the group that she ordered 13 little people for the show (she’s still all about the props) but no one in ND likes the idea. But before they could get in a large argument, Puck walks into the room, in drag.

That’s Lola, Puck’s girly stage name. You see, Puck is so determined to win that if Kurt won’t dress up to win, then he will. Admirable, but creepy. Will finally stands up and puts a stop to ‘Lola’ and Sue’s crazy ideas. He says that they will win the only way they know how: talent. 🙂

In the hallways afterwards, Rick and his mullet-wearing hockey guys find Puck and taunt/tease him for wearing a dress and failing school. Puck tries to stand up for himself and he and Rick agree to fight afterschool near Puck’s old dumpster.

Tina and Rachel are in Tina’s car, driving to find Carmen. Along the way, they talk about Rachel’s planned wedding (which, sadly, we won’t see this season). Tina also says Rachel has an amazing gift so she will do fine with Carmen. She also asks Rachel to sing a song with her before she graduates. Aww, they are cute friends.

Puck and Rick start fighting. It’s brutal and violent and bloody. In the end, Puck loses and Rick’s boys toss Puck in the dumpster. But as all the people witnessing this fight start cheering for Rick and calling Puck a loser, Puck hops out of the dumpster with a deranged look in his eyes and then pulls out a knife. I was shocked. I know Puck can be mean and all that, but a knife? Really? :O But luckily, before he can do anything, Beiste comes in and takes Puck and his knife away. She takes him to the locker room where he admits that the knife is a fake prop from West Side Story (did he really carry that around?). Beiste tells him that he could be suspended or get in trouble with the police. But Puck doesn’t care. He gets really mad and upset and starts yelling about how he’s already failing school and everything else so he’s such a failure at everything , which is exactly what his fail of a father always said he was. It’s sad because it’s true. Then Bieste, who’s in tears too, pulls him into a large hug. As they are hugging, she tells him that they are the toughest people she knows and they gotta help each other out.

Tina and Rachel arrive at some place to see Carmen giving some singing tips to some random dude. As she gets up to leave, Rachel stops her. Carmen asks her what makes Rachel so special that she should get another chance and take time away from others as she leaves messages. Rachel says it because she wants it so much and is willing to do anything to get it. Even Tina steps up and says that Rachel is the best singer ever and the fact that she wants it more than anyone should be enough to get her in, despite her choke. Rachel says she won’t give up and invites Carmen to see their Nationals because she knows Carmen will be in town then. As they’re about to leave, she tells Carmen that she will audition again and again and again until she gets in because that’s how much she wants her dream. Then she says that she once read that Carmen had to audition 4 times to get into Julliard. Oooooh…. very clever how she’s using Carmen’s past against her. That’ll probs make her come to watch!

Beiste arrives at her house to see Cooter waiting with several pizzas. I guess things are still awkward between them because right away Beiste starts giving him a wordless glare and he starts apologizing for everything. He tries to awkwardly make conversation but she just keeps on giving him a hard stare. Then she pulls out Puck’s fake knife and sets it on the table. He makes an awkward joke about her stabbing him but she says that knife is fake…unlike the real one she’s been sleeping with. Cooter first gets a bit scared then tries to apologize to her but before he can, she says she’s leaving him for good. Good for her! But he then gets mad again and says that if she does, no on will ever love her again. That’s why she stayed in the first place so for him to bring that up, it was cruel. But she says that someone will love her: herself. Then she leaves and I wanted to cheer and throw a pillow at Cooter really hard. You who else will love her? All of New Directions!

On the stage, Puck is playing his guitar and he starts singing Taylor Swift’s ‘Mean’. As he sings, Beiste comes and sings with him. They do a really good job and I’m glad they finally do a T-Swizzle song (LOL). After the song ends, Beiste says she convinced his geography teacher to let him retake the exam when she told her about his determination for ND by wearing a dress. Beiste also volunteers to help him study.  Then Puck ask her why she’s helping him and she says it’s because he already helped her so much. I guess Puck’s sob-story gave her the courage to break it off with Cooter and be strong.

In some classroom, Tina, Joe, Rory and Sugar are sewing costumes for Nationals. Sugar complains about it because apparently, Joe, Rory and her aren’t there by choice. Apparently, because they are the newest members to ND, they have to do this to get status. Like an initiation. But Tina, in a surprisingly good mood, says that if they continue to work and do their best, they in time, will get their own solos. Tina even says that being Rachel is hard because she is always singing and practising and it gets tiresome. But she’s glad to do her part for the team. Tina sees Mike in the hall and I guess things are okay between them now too.

Beiste goes to Will and Sue, who are going over ND’s set list for Nationals, and asks to come chaperone with them for Nationals. Will says she’s welcomed and can room with him and Emma (because Sue refuses to share). Then she tells them that she left Cooter and the first person to react is Sue, who gets up and hugs her. How sweet. Sue has lately had a huge heart. Maybe being pregnant does that to people?

In the hall, Rachel talks to Finn and tells him about her adventure with Tina and Carmen. She also says that they absolutely MUST win Nationals. But as they see some ND members in the hall laughing and talking, she realizes that they don’t need drag outfits or crazy props to win. They’ll do fine just because they love each other and know each other so well.

Then, keeping her promise, Rachel and Tina sing ‘Flashdance…What A Feeling’ on stage and also in the bus. They do a good job with it and they are both great singers. This episode was really Tina’s chance to shine. The episode ends with all of ND on a bus, going to Nationals. 🙂

Overall, the music was pretty good. I liked Rachel’s solo and Puck and Beiste’s song. The episode itself was funnier than most episodes have been lately. I was a bit upset because I thought this episode was going to be mostly about Tina but it was still about Rachel and Puck a lot too. Also, Tina’s dream sequence (which was the best and funniest part) was really short and I had assumed it would be the majority of the episode  but it was really only one bit between commercial breaks.

The next episode of the night, 3×21, was called ‘Nationals’. Read my other post to find out about that one. https://gleerificnewsstop.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/3×21-nationals/

3×05 The First Time

This was the one episode that Klaine and Finnchel lovers everywhere were waiting for for a while. It was also the most awkward episode to watch with your parents at home. This episode dealt with hookups….straight and gay. Cutesy couple Kurt and Blaine finally had some bumps on the road of love 😦 and WSS was in full swing. This episode, for me, however awkward, was cute in some parts and on my scale of 1-10 got a 6.5. The episode lost points for its awkwardness and not-family friendly content.

It starts off with Artie expressing his love for power while directing WSS. I’m glad Artie, even for such a short time, got a bit of spotlight. Rachel and Blaine do one more quick practice of ‘Tonight’ in front of Emma, Artie and Beiste (who, btw, cried again). I liked their version better than Tina’s version in season 1. But Artie says that if they are going to sing about being ‘sexually awoken’ they gotta use their own experiences to play the part. At that time, Emma and Beiste rapidly left to avoid the awkward teen talk. Rachel and Blaine quietly explain that they are both still virgins and Artie seems to disapprove.

As for Finnchel, Finn is helping Rachel put up posters (well, actually, Finn is putting them up and Rachel is pointing out where) and Finn invites Rachel over for dinner. Rachel obvs accepts (who wouldn’t?) and their scene ends with a cute kiss.

Now for the first REALLY awkward scene. Kurt and Blaine are in Kurt’s (I think) room and Blaine is dancing to old music, while Kurt sits on the bed. Then Kurt asks a series of questions ending with ‘getting the urge to rip off their clothes and just do IT’. But Blaine, who always seems to know what to say, says he just want Kurt to be comfortable so he can be comfortable. It also ends with a joke, by saying that ripping off the clothes would be extremely time consuming….because of ‘all the layers’. Glad to know that even the awkward convos end with a laugh.

Artie gets another short scene when he approaches Coach Beiste (who is welding and loves it) and asks her why she left the sexual talk earlier. Why he asked an adult that, boggles me but I guess because they are working together on WSS, they sorta grew close. But Beiste tells Artie (when he asks her if she has found someone special yet), says she has met a guy (Cooter the football recruiter) but he isn’t interested in her. Sadness….But conseidering her first kiss was with Will about a year ago in season 2, I’m not surprised she hasn’t moved forward yet.

Eric Bruskotter who plays Beiste’s love, Cooter

Finally we see Blaine visit his old buddies, The Warblers when he goes to Dalton (and sticks out by wearing gray in the sea of navy and red) and hears them sing Billy Joel’s ‘Uptown Girl’. And naturally, they do amazing with it even without  Blaine on lead vocals. We also meet Sebastian, the new Warbler who has his eyes on Blaine.

Sebastian meeting Blaine

After the Warblers song (which you can watch in my older post, Super Shocking Sneak Peek Video From ‘The First Time’ It’s the second video), Blaine gives his old pals tickets to WSS and sadly, tells them that he is not back to come to Dalton again. If he wasn’t with Kurt, then I’d be all for it but Klaine sorta overrides Warblers. But Sebastian doesn’t leave the room like the rest of the boys, as he heads straight for Blaine. You know, to introduce himself…and stuff… But then they sit down with a coffee and it becomes TOTALLY obvs he likes Blaine. But Blaine stays strong and even when Sebastian asks him why he left, Blaine says it’s because his heart (KURT!!!<33333) is at McKinley. And while they have this chat, in between sentences, Santana and Rachel practice for WSS and sing ‘A Boy Like That’. I love Santana’s voice! She does such a good job…And Rachel does too… So then Sebastian has to go to lacrosse practice (oooh!) so he leaves but not before asking Blaine to meet again…you know, to exchange Warbler tips….

 

Back at McKinley (in the locker room, to be exact), Finn asks Puck to recommend a good brand of condoms, but Puck doesn’t use them and is proud to admit it works 99% of the time. So Quinn is the 1%. Nice. Their convo is interrupted by Coach Beiste and Cooter who makes a brief announcement then get distracted when Cooter complement’s Beiste’s new tube socks. They are soooo perfect for each other!

 

Here is another Klaine scene, this one less awkward than the first. Blaine wants to be adventurous every day, and do the best every day in life…. cheesy! But Kurt, being all supportive and stuff agrees and shares his bucket list, that includes things like ‘arrive to school in a hot air balloon, get into Julliard’….. and do it in a lilac field with Taylor Lautner before he gets fat. Blaine finds THAT hot? But in Kurt’s defence he apparently wrote that before he met Blaine, so….. (Btw I would SOOOOO love to arrive to school in an air balloon too!)

 

 

 

Artie (what is this boy thinking????) approaches Cooter and tells him to ask out Beiste really obviously after he admits he likes her but SHE seems not interested.

 

For those new Sebastian lovers, here is the coffee shop scene with Blaine. (You can also watch this in Super Shocking Sneak Peek Video From ‘The First Time’. It’s video number 3 :)) For those who missed it, Sebastian hits on Blaine who tells him about Kurt who just so happens to come in at that moment, and they agree to go to the gay bar with Sebastian the next night.

 

The next Finnchel scene is at Finn’s house when he makes dinner for Rachel (who is a vegan, but Finn forgot…. lol!). After dinner, Rachel suggests to ‘cuddle’ by the fire, but what they do (or begin to do) is NOT cuddling. Then Rachel makes the mistake of telling Finn she is doing it now just to enhance her performance in WSS. Not a good move, and Finn gets a bit angry and gets up to…make dessert.

 

We haven’t heard much from Mike and his parents since 3×03 ‘Asian F’ but here we go! Mike’s dad finds out about his dancing and the musical from his mom secretly (ummm, weren’t Mike and his mom going to tell him together when he got the part?) and gets MAD. But Mike doesn’t back down and refuses to stop dancing. So his dad sorta ‘dis-owns’ him. That’s immature and sad. Luckily, Mike still has his mom on his side!

 

So Cooter follows Artie’s instructions and asks Beiste out on a real date. At first Beiste uses sarcasm as a way to hide that she really like him too, but when he gives her flowers and sits down with her, she loses the tough girl act and cries. She says that he could have any pretty girl so why her? But Cooter says he want’s her. Awwww! Too bad we don’t see the date…. But I don’t understand why Beiste was crying. It wasn’t a cute or charming act. Not a turn on, but I guess Cooter sees through it. ❤

 

Rachel needs her girl’s advice and calls a girl’s meeting (consisting of Tina, Quinn, Brittany and Santana) to ask if she and Finn should wait or not. Mercedes wasn’t there so she is probs still mad at Rachel :(. Anyways, everyone tells Rachel to wait so she was going to until Tina pipes up and says that when she did it with Mike it was great because they loved each other. In the background, Rachel sings ‘I Had A Love’ with Santana as another rehearsal for WSS.

 

Now for the anticipated gay bar scene! Kurt and Blaine have their fake ID’s (which are soooo not realistic and not even close to correct) and get in. Sebastian meets with them and gives Blaine a beer and Kurt a Shirley Temple. Because he is the driver. I think when Sebastian said that, he was hinting that Kurt is never drunk and no fun at all, which is really rude. So Blaine, just like in season 2 at Rachel’s party, goes all out and is dancing with Sebastian. That’s when Kurt talks to Karofski who comes in.

 

 

Karofski has switched schools (Who knew that???) and enjoys going to the bar because he feels accepted. This was very touching and I’m glad Karofski found a happy place. But for the record, I do NOT think that Kurt and Karofski should ever date, even though there are people on team Kurtofski. I am not one of them!

Kurt, motivated by his chat with his old bully, goes out on the dance floor and pushes Sebastian out of the way to dance with his bf. Hahah it was good to see Sebastian lose!

So when Kurt and Blaine leave, Blaine is so obvs drunk and pulls Kurt into the car and wants to do it right then and there. But Kurt (Go Kurt!) stops him and they get into their first fight. In the end, Blaine gets mad because Kurt yelled at him and Kurt is mad because he didn’t want their first time to be when Blaine was too drunk. So Blaine walks home and Kurt looks all depressed. Awwwwwwwwww….. D:

 

It’s finally WSS time! It is opening night, and Blaine and Rachel confess to each other that they are still virgins. I kinda half expected THEM to do it right there just before the show, but that would be sooooo weird and not realistic.

Artie gets before-show jitters and thinks everything is wrong. But when the cast give him flowers and thank him for all his work, he feels better and gives a nice speech.

The cast (minus Rachel and Tony) sing America, which is very well done! Rory is in this scene and gets one line too. I’m sad he didn’t get a bigger role this episode. In the audience is Mike’s mom, the Warblers and Mercedes. She is smiling too. Hopefully she is not too mad anymore!

Rachel and Blaine then get nervous too but Rachel re-assures him and herself and they go on.

 

Now for the cutest scene of all. It’s after the show and everyone has left….except for Blaine. He is practicing a dance step by himself on stage when Kurt comes in. They clearly haven’t spoken since their fight so it was a bit awkward at first. Kurt congratulates Blaine on his performance (and vice versa too). But finally, Blaine takes ahold of Kurt’s hand and tells him that Sebastian means nothing and he is really sorry for being drunk and wanting to almost ruin their first time. In the end, Kurt tells Blaine that he will always be ‘silly romantic’ and Blaine kisses him. It was (dare I say it?) even cuter than their first kiss.

 

Then Kurt says “You take my breath away…” IT WAS SO CUTE. <3333

Then Kurt expresses how proud he is of Blaine (Blaine was crying…of joy) and Blaine invites Kurt to the cast after party at Breadstix buuuut Kurt says he’d rather go to Blaine’s house. Hmmmmm…… ❤

 

As for Finnchel <3, Rachel goes to Finn’s house. Coincidently, Burt and Carol are gone for the night and Kurt is out too. Thank goodness because that would have been awkward, right? Anyways, Finn was really upset because Cooter the football recruiter offered a scholarship to Shane and told Finn that his football career is probably over. Finn loses it and almost cries that he will be stuck in Ohio for ever because he isn’t good enough for anywhere else, nevermind New York! But Rachel tells him that he just need new dreams and he is special. Then she wants to give him ‘something that no one else will ever get’. But when Finn asks why, Rachel says she loves him and apologizes for acting stupid before. Yay all my fave couples are on good terms with each other!

So then in the background we hear (and see a few scenes) of Rachel and Blaine singing ‘One Hand One Heart’ at a showing of WSS while Klaine and Finnchel do IT. actually the scenes were not graphic at all (it IS 8 o’clock prime time TV after all) and really cute. 

What I don’t understand is, we see Finn and Rachel suck face like everywhere (the choir room, the hall way, the locker room, each other’s houses……), I mean, they make their relationship QUITE obvious. As for Kurt and Blaine. They had one kiss last season and it was THE kiss. It was so cute but it was the only one. This season, we got 2 more kisses this episode only. So 3 kisses we see in total. And next thing we know they have gone all the way. Glee shouldn’t be promoting that at all…. Who agrees?

And that is all that happened in episode 3×05 The First Time. Overall, I’m glad it was not all ‘hands on’ and more cuteness. And it probably wouldn’t have been such a big deal if it was just Finnchel but Klaine raised all the attention really.

 

Anyways, next episode, 3×06, called Mash Off. The promo (click here to see it!!!) is pretty good. It could have been better, and that mistake might cost some viewers, but I for one can’t wait to see it! Mostly for the super intense dodge ball scene and we know that Finn outs Santana and Santana hits Rory in the face! Glee violence it kinda hilarious…. I’m not sure why, but Will and Shelby sing ‘You And I/Just You And I’. They have never had a song together so this should be cool! We also see young Sue! Plus we see Puck totally admit he LOVES Shelby. Does she love HIM, though? We also know that Puck tells Shelby everything about Quinn’s plan. But does he do it to get with Shelby or for Beth? Tune in to see!!!! Btw, the other day, Taye Diggs (he is married to Idina Menzel who plays Shelby) was on The Ellen Show (which I watch everyday, faithfully :)) and they put up a pic of Shelby kissing Puck. It was funny beacuase Ellen was like “Your wife is kissing young students!”

 

Sorry this is so long and sorry it wasn’t posted yesterday…I had math homework to do 😉