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.

I need to thank P-C again for having me give Outsourced another chance. It's not kickass but it's better than it was for the pilot. And I really have become fond of the actors and characters. Rizwan Manji as Rajiv in particular cracks me up.

"Nobody quits paan cold chicken."
"Cold turkey."
"Cold lentil. I do not understand this game."

Madhuri is probably the most consistently funny character on the show, and she and Rajiv play off each other well. Rajiv was annoying in the early episodes, but I do like the actor, and he's much funnier when he's outside his stock undermine-the-boss role. (Although the blackmail video was pretty great. Especially when he tried to shut himself up by covering Video!Rajiv's mouth.)

They should ditch the white characters and make the whole show about the Indian characters. They're the entertaining ones.

Hey, don't be getting rid of my hot preppy eye candy! Though I would be perfectly cool with scaling back Todd's role to spend more screentime on Madhuri and Rajiv.

No comments on last week's Office? I was wondering what Glee fans thought of it.

I think The Office is back in form this year, although Michael's outrageousness may have gone up a notch too far. His conflict with Gabe is good for the show.

I didn't think last week's episode was so much about Glee as about socializing outside work. Some good moments. Michael acting in ways that a 2-year-old would consider immature. Dwight (!) being able to calm CeCe. Jim as go-between for Dwight and Angela.

Is anyone else's dislike of Gwyneth Paltrow being fanned into a blazing inferno by this episode of Glee? I think I'd be bothered by this obviously Mary Sue-esque character if she were played by an actress I like; depicted by a pretentious overprivileged twit she's insufferable.

I was still scrubbing my brain from the insight into Schue and Terri's sex life so really, there was not much getting through.

I do love Becky as Sue's minion.

I know I am in a TINY minority, but I kinda like Gwyneth Paltrow. She is great in two of my fave movies, Shakespeare in Love and Sliding Doors, and she has some singing pipes. She has a realy dopey website, but seems to be a good mom and a loving daughter, so she ranks low in the scale of celeb horribleness to me.