I really wanted to like Mercedes as Frank but I couldn't. Maybe she wasn't trying to play the character, she was just playing, "the lead".

Vocally it's awesome but there's no connection to the lyrics at all. Zero.

David, yes that is it exactly. I really wanted to love her doing it because I generally love anything that Amber sings but she just sang it, instead of meaning it.

I think that's pretty typical of today's R&B singing. The focus is on melisma, on virtuosic technique, and not upon lyrical interpretation. And I agree that's a bad thing (in Glee and in the music world in general).

I really really loved Glee for its first half season. But since then it has become less interesting. I still watch it, but I'm no longer bowled over by it. The theme episodes have been driving me nuts because things are done mostly to find a way to shoehorn some artist's songs in rather than writing a good story and choosing the music to fit. I enjoyed the Rocky ep more than the others but that's probably because I enjoy the RHPS music more than I enjoy Madonna or Britney or whoever. Even so, the music is produced so squeaky clean that it has become annoying as well.

The songs I've liked best from Glee are things like their cover of "Dancin' With Myself" which was a significant reimagining of the song.

But wasn't that based on an already-existing cover of the song?

Quick poll: on Big Bang Theory tonight, who else had one of those Snoopy Snow-Cone Makers as a kid? I did!

(Also, was Sheldon's hair darker? It sure looked that way.)

I haven't watched it yet, but I still have one at my mom's house.

I don't know, Kathy. If true, then I would reassess how I feel about it.

We didn't have a Snoopy sno cone maker but the kids around the corner did and I was sooooo jealous!

What was the shirt Sheldon had on in the first scene? His hair does seem a bit darker.

I thought it might be Lady Blackhawk's logo: [link] but I don't think so. That was the closest thing I could think of, though.

Oh, it wasn't Hawkman? I just assumed it was.