I am disappointed that we didn't get to see Mike Chang at least rehearse as Frankenfurter.

Word.

Yes, Schuster is actively skeeving me out now. He was somewhat tolerable until the last 2-3 eps last season, but now I find him to be a creep. I'm glad he recognized he wasn't good for Emma. Wouldn't it be nice if the show left it at that for the rest of the year/tv season?

I still want to see Carl as Frankenfurter. I think it is really unfortunate that we didn't see that. It needs to be on the DVD extras.

Agreed on Will, though I did like the Touch me song as performed.

I loved that they got Barry Bostwick and Meatloaf in the ep, a lot.

Isn't it kind of freaky that Meatloaf looks so much better these days than Barry Bostwick?

Yes.

Also, why is transvestite okay, but not transexual?

I took it as being one doesn't mean that you're the other, so I really didn't mind them changing that lyric.

Also, why is transvestite okay, but not transexual?

Mike also said "trannie," didn't he? Maybe they couldn't use "transvestite" and "transexual" in the same chorus. I don't know -- my brain kept tripping over it, because Mercedes sang it perfectly fine (although geez, that elevator came down way too fast) but the altered lyric threw me.

Isn't it kind of freaky that Meatloaf looks so much better these days than Barry Bostwick?

I didn't watch Glee; was Bostwick in it? I saw him over the summer in person, he looked damn good. Tall, too.

You can say "pelvic thrust" but not "seat wetting"?

Fuck.

As I watched the episode I was going with it. I could see affection for RHPS and see how the censorship issues would crop up in the context of the school.

But it just...fucked it up so badly. By the end I wanted to smash Will and Ryan Murphy in the face with a ball-peen hammer.

Shit, Glee's got so many unexamined issues. It can freak out about objectifying the boys but it totally exploits the girl-on-girl of Santana and Brittany.

And they don't do "Don't Dream it Be it"? The rallying cry freak-song of all-time?

And they practically endorse Sue's argument about not leading the kids to this so-very risque material, when obviously the teen characters are completely sexualized, and RHPS functions as a gateway cultural experience for people to discover their non-normative sexualities?

Gah. Fuck you, Ryan Murphy. Fuck you, Glee.

I did like Emma's number though.

As much as I hated that episode more than any other episode of Glee, it was worth it for Emma's song.