3 things.

1) I want a Sue-o-lantern.

2) Finn is an excellent Brad.

3) I want to be a peanut allergy for Halloween.

Okay, I confess: I turned Glee on about halfway through. And in reading people's comments here, I assume we're supposed to think glee-club teacher guy was being an inappropriate creep? Because, EW.

Also, John Stamos has aged very, VERY well. Sweet Jesus.

The kid who played Brad was cute and dead-on.

Still not the show for me, though, but I'm glad I caught the part of it that I did. (Seriously, why would a teacher ever think it's going to be cool for a high school in -- did they say *Ohio*??? -- to perform RHPS is beyond me.)

Did someone already point out how making Frank a woman removes all gay from the play?

Well, if the high-school version would have been allowed to hew closely to the original RHPS (you know, not that they *could* in any universe where the school administration hopes to stay employed), Frank *does* hook up with Brad and Janet. So a female Frank hooking up with Janet qualifies as at least bisexual in my book.

But I get what you're saying. It's not gay for a female Frank to have built a Rocky.

I assume we're supposed to think glee-club teacher guy was being an inappropriate creep? Because, EW.

I'm fairly certain that's not actually the case. Even more EW.

I assume we're supposed to think glee-club teacher guy was being an inappropriate creep? Because, EW.

I'm fairly certain that's not actually the case. Even more EW.

I think I said that wrong. What I meant was not whether the *show* wants the viewers to be skeeved out by creepy teacher guy, but whether the reaction that I (and several other people here) had was a not uncommon reaction.

Er, that is, I was afraid I was the only one going "Ew! Ack! Stop!" Whether the show wanted me to or not is irrelevant to my question. I just wondered if I was the only one, and I see that I wasn't.

I haven't seen the last 15 minutes, but if I may steal a line from A Chorus Line, the ep was "Dance 10, Book 3." Some brilliant musical numbers, especially by characters (Carl, Emma) that don't usually sing. And as much as a female Frank removes the gay, Mercedes slammed the lid down and nailed it on "Sweet Transvestite."

But the ep's story line seemed to shy away from the implications of RHPS. Inevitably, perhaps -- Glee is about nudging the envelope, not pushing it. And much of RHPS would never, never fly in a high school without, at a very minimum, substantial controversy. Much less tearing it to itty bitty pieces, like RHPS does. Still, the ep seems to become annoying every time the music stops.

2) Finn is an excellent Brad.

Agreed. I'm beginning to think his niche is the mainstream pop singer of the kind that disappeared with the '80s. Maybe Phil Collins, but more like Glenn Frey's solo career.

Ah, yes. In that case you're in good company.

The effect of all this, though, is that now I have this urge to dig out my RHPS soundtrack.

At least Mercedes still referred to herself as a transvestite in-character during her song, so I think Frankenfurter was still intended to be male even if played by an actress. Did they do anything in the last 10 minutes that contradicts that interpretation?

Emma's song was probably the best part of the night, but that was after all being sung between two adults in an otherwise empty room, not between a bikini-clad adult teacher and his 16-year-old student on stage in front of an auditorium full of parents. If they'd gone that far, I think a snapshot of the audience would have looked like the one from the school play in The Addams Family.

Agreed that Will was a douche, but at least recognized his doucheness by the end of it. And frankly, I thought Carl was as much of a douche in his own way. The two of them were like a pair of alley cats, taking turns pissing in the corner.

I was able to enjoy the episode from the standpoint of I never went into it expecting it to hew exactly to RHPS, but rather around what would happen should a teacher try to put that show on. Frankly, the one thing that annoyed me the most was the fact that Mercedes lobbied for the role of Frank because as she put it [paraphrased] it's the only way she was going to get a lead part.

Gripe aside, I did love "Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch Me" because it was the one number that stayed as true to the original, with Santana and Brittany eavesdropping.

Emma's song was probably the best part of the night, but that was after all being sung between two adults in an otherwise empty room, not between a bikini-clad adult teacher and his 16-year-old student on stage in front of an auditorium full of parents. If they'd gone that far, I think a snapshot of the audience would have looked like the one from the school play in The Addams Family.

But that was the point though, right? That he was doing this incredibly wrong, stupid thing for wrong, stupid reasons that was about to put him in that position so he dropped it.