I was far more outraged that Schue told Beiste what the kids were doing than I was about the kiss. The kiss felt like a little intimate moment between friends--and I could sort of buy it. Telling her was horrible and cruel and unneeded but, of course, it was so they could have the boys sing the make-up song. Glee is like old movie musicals in that characters act in erratic and stupid ways all the time, just to set up the next number. Make for bad storytelling in most episodes, but I still like good numbers enough that I hand-wave the rest...like I do with old musicals.

Make for bad storytelling in most episodes, but I still like good numbers enough that I hand-wave the rest...like I do with old musicals.

As long as the music works. Which it frequently does, on Glee. Although I'd still like to see them explore different genres, eras, etc.

Glee is like old movie musicals in that characters act in erratic and stupid ways all the time, just to set up the next number.

Unrelated to Glee, Oklahoma cracks me up, with the whole killing-Jud/let's-go-on-our-honeymoon! transition. And the "trial," where Curly's defense was "I just got married! Let me go on my honeymoon and get it on with Laurie!" And everyone is basically, "Well, we shouldn't, but...okay!"

Oklahoma also has Ado "I've been sleeping with the traveling salesman, but now you want to get married so, okay I'll marry you, even though I don't seem to like you more than him and you're fine with that" Annie.

I actually LOVE that character--she has Teh Sex and STILL gets the nice guy--but Will's reactions are leetle far-fetched.

I kind of can't stand most of the mash ups on Glee.

I think the only mash-up I really liked on GLEE was "It's My Life/Confessions" which oddly, worked.

I kind of can't stand most of the mash ups on Glee.

It would've been better if they just stuck to En Vogue and Bon Jovi. And had Amber sing the Bon Jovi. Because Lea can't rock that shit.

I also like the girls' one from last time, but I really like Walking on Sunshine.

I really enjoyed the Living on a Prayer/Start Me Up mash up. It was fun. The boys mash up was kind of weird, but I appreciate any time Artie gets to break out the old school soul voice.

I also liked that bad boy Puck realized that he wasn't so tough in juvie, even though I saw it coming. And I like the emerging Puck/Artie friendship. Artie needs more non-Finn friends.

I assume they have a quidditch team, too?

Hahaha!

I've been avoiding this thread for days because I watch on Hulu and I haven't had time to catch up.

- Yes, Will's been a jerk this season.

- I think schools really vary in how they handle bullying. I went to a private Catholic girls HS. Something outrageous happened on a field trip and I KNOW the teacher heard it and did nothing. OTOH, if someone had shoved me and a teacher had witnessed it, I'm sure they would have been disciplined. Still, that's a girls school. My brothers went to an all-boys school and I'm sure things were considerably rougher there. The other thing to keep in mind is that litigiousness and helicopter parents are things that weren't around in such numbers when I went to HS in the '80s. Now public school teachers are held back from a lot of discipline stuff because they've got to be afraid of being slapped with a lawsuit.

- The pity kiss didn't upset me. I cringed a bit but mostly because I think it's a bad idea to kiss someone in that way if you're not prepared to follow through and when they might take it very seriously. I agree with JZ that Schue should have figured out a way to summarize what the problem was without getting nitty-gritty, even though Bieste was saying she wanted it straight.

- While one doesn't like to be thought of as a "cooler", it's not really appropriate for a teacher to aspire to be what their students fantasize about, either. And no one brought up that point.

- I was also more thrown out of the moment by how easily Kurt and Blaine could visit each other's campuses than by the fantasy nature of the private school. But my HS campus was a closed campus. Only seniors could go off-campus. And visitors had to check in with the office.

- Musically, this was one of the better eps this season, though that's not saying much. Glee hasn't kicked my ass since the first half of the first season. They've lost their groove (not just musically), though I haven't given up entirely. I actually thought the boys' mash-up was the best number. But I'm unfamiliar with the 2nd tune in the mash-up so I don't have any purist problems with it. I liked the prep school number as well, if only because it had a little bit of choreography and got back to showing a pretty realistic performance a school glee club would give. It looked like a lot of acapella performances I've seen.

Overall, I give it a 3 out of 5. I really liked the Kurt stuff and some of the other stuff as well. It was a relief from the Britney, Madonna, Gaga theme show crap. I just hope this show gets its groove back. I still have fond memories of an ep like "Preggers" where the football team breaking into fantastic choreography on the field made my jaw literally drop when I first saw it broadcast.