I always interpreted "what's in this drink" to mean that it was strong. I'm pretty sure that was a far more common meaning when the song was written.

Yeah, that's how I've interpreted it too.

There can also be a fine line between seduction and date rape . And agreed that if he drugged the drink , he falls on the wrong side of the line .

It's also worth mentioning that, when the song was written, date rape wasn't really recognized .

Oh, sure, I don't think it's literally true, but STILL.

I loved that episode of Glee just for singing the song from the Island of Misfit Toys. Oh and because Brittany can't tell the difference between elves and slaves. (Me either! I was just saying to someone the other day that Santa, as portrayed in that holiday Rankin Bass classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a total prick. He's abusive to the elves. He discriminates against the differently abled. He forces wanna-be dentists to stay in the closet and he runs a toy ghetto)

I also loved Becky as the reindeer dog. That whole Grinch storyline was weird, yes, but gloriously weird and Sue is my total hero for going full out with it.

My least favorite part (aside from Schue who is my least favorite part of every episode) was Baby, It's Cold Outside. Love the song and loved Kurt and Blaine singing it but it totally felt shoehorned in to the episode. The Finn/Rachel was OK only because Finn didn't get to say much and they broke up.

All in all, I really liked it. I wonder how a 13 year old would've reacted. This was a long way from A Very Shrek Christmas or whatever passes for X-mas specials these days.

I haven't watched Glee yet but omg The Office. I almost peed myself watching the opener.

Okay, so long-time lurker, first time poster...in this thread anyway...but I just finished watching Glee, and while I loved it for the reasons I always love it (schmaltzy ridiculousness--and the Grinch scene cracked me up), was no one else bothered by Rachel and Puck's wholehearted embrace of Christmas? I mean, aside from two throwaway lines, they were all Jews for Jesus-esque.

Coffee: I love "Baby It's Cold Outside" and have always read the "something in this drink line" as the woman playing the expected role of "lady who would never admit she actually wants to stay." YBICOMV.

(Why are we spoiler-fonting this? Triggery?)

It was written for the songwriter's wife in the 40s and she considered it their song,

True, but Joan doesn't think that her husband did anything wrong on the floor of Don's office, either.

Pix, I was whitefonting as not to "ruin" it for anyone else, since a random blog comment made me look at the song differently, so I didn't want to spoil it for anyone else.

Pix, I wasn't bothered. I teach at a Modern Orthodox Jewish School in Manhattan, and even for my students, who are almost all completely kosher and sabbath observant and interact with very fews non-Jews in their normal life, Christmas is seductive. Many of them celebrate it to some extent, and even those that don't are clearly kind of open to the idea as a secular holiday - like me, they mostly think of it as an extension of Thanksgiving. If they were in a normal public school surrounded by Christmas celebrators, I'm sure the majority of them would participate to some extent, especially since at school it would tend to avoid any of the religious meanings. Like Rachel, they would probably eat Chinese food and see a movie on the day itself, but that itself has become a tradition for many of them, as strong in its own way as my Christmas traditions. And Rachel and Puck are certainly less religiously observant than my students.