For all that they go on about the superhot and attractive Glee clubbers being horrible geeks they sure spend a lot of time making sure there are geekier and fatter kids for them to be superior to.

It's a problematic show. I'm going to lose patience if Finn finds Jesus in his grilled cheese next week.

I did enjoy Brittany's stuff, and John Stamos was funny and hot. Will's just pathetic. There's no reason for Terri to be on the show anymore.

I don't know what it is, but I can't watch Glee this season.

But it's going to be a Very Special Episode next week!

There's no reason for Terri to be on the show anymore.

Double, triple amen to that. I absolutely cannot stand the character at all.

I miss Craxy Terri, kind of. At least she spawned passionate reactions. Will is getting worse and worse. And this episode was... boring. I liked some of the musical numbers, but the framing technique of fantasies at the dentist was, quite frankly, horribly stupid. And I normally love Brit-Brit more than anything, but her one-liners work better as, well, one-liners. Last week's "People though I went on vacation, but really I just spent the summer lost in the sewers" was brilliant. Nothing this week made me that happy. Though her constant statements of how hot Britney is were pretty funny especially since, according to an inside source, they're pretty much true - Heather Morris is a gigantic Britney Spears fan (as you might expect from somebody her age who has always wanted to be a pop music dancer) and has actually had "Brittany S. Piers" as her on-paper character backstory since the very beginning of the show, even before they ever intended to make her a major character.

I know I shouldn't be thinking about it at all -- the musical numbers were great! -- but WTF was up with Will's characterization? He's going to break out of his rut by performing with the kids? It's not like that's the first time he's done it. And as much as I laughed when he said it, "Sailing" is his jam?? What about BBD, etc.

For all that they go on about the superhot and attractive Glee clubbers being horrible geeks they sure spend a lot of time making sure there are geekier and fatter kids for them to be superior to.

Word. The kid with the Jewfro and the "unattractive" girl next to him, that whole scene just horrified me.

WTF was up with Will's characterization?

I just... can't watch this show any more. The characterization is horrendously sloppy - the characters are static or completely OOC as required by the plot, but they don't seem to grow or evolve. It's gone from camp to grotesque and I won't give them a pass for being a comedy.

With that, I shall focus on Community squee and STFU about Glee.

The episode just felt... off, to me.

It's like the production numbers were good, as independent entities. I enjoyed them for what they were, in and of themselves. With respect to their position within the narrative? NSM.

Mostly because there wasn't much of a narrative and what was there was piss poor. Which is a huge problem, since such a large amount of GLEE's charm has to do with its ability to incorporate the musical numbers into the fabric of the storyline.

I'm currently feeling as if I want to smack the shit out of Ryan Murphy.

since such a large amount of GLEE's charm has to do with its ability to incorporate the musical numbers into the fabric of the storyline.

Which they really didn't do with this ep, it's why I found the first half so disappointing. The first three numbers were just revamps of Britney vids (side note: Lea Michele is not much of a dancer is she?). Well done revamps, but still (and had to love Me Against the Music with Santana). It didn't get entertaining until Artie's "Stronger". I liked the group "Toxic", and I think that it's the first time that Will has officially performed with the kids, he's done it in classroom and impromptu numbers in the halls, but I think that this is the first time he's done it with an "audience"

Lea Michele is not much of a dancer is she?

No. She never had or was offered a dancing role in the theater scene. As far as I know, she never even auditioned for such roles. She is more the balladeer type, Eponine in Les Mis, and her originated Wendla in Spring Awakening being her most memorable and important roles.

She also really needs to eat a sandwich. She was skinny before she went on TV, but now it's starting to worry me.

She also really needs to eat a sandwich.

Can we not engage in body policing, please?