Kurt seems to occupy a different reality than the rest of the show.

Yeah, I don't get why Karovsky won. Except maybe that Finn was gone? But there was no hint of a joke on Kurt. That just seemed so left field.

Kurt seems to occupy a different reality than the rest of the show.

I'm actually convinced the entire show is actually being told by Kurt many years later, while tripping on acid in college.

I mean this as a compliment.

But there was no hint of a joke on Kurt. That just seemed so left field.

My suspicion is that everyone thought they were being clever. Which actually is the sort of thing teenagers do. (Which I can vouch for, having spent much time on student government committees and having the discretion to skip the obvious joke entries. Figgens.)

But speaking of Karovsky: that actor is nailing it. He's found something believable and human in a character that could be a cartoon (and indeed, started as one.) I know a lot of people were mad at "Glee" for trying to deepen the character, when really, they just wanted to see him punished. But I like the idea -- one it shares with the Harry Potter books, actually -- that the kids aren't beyond saving. They don't need to be locked into the silly patterns inflicted on them. That's a message that's really at the show's core, and it always fires best when it stays true to it.

Glee: I figured that the vote was held school-wide, rather than that evening? I found it interesting that they didn't actually explain whether it was a prank, or intended to be a compliment? I mean, teenagers are often not smart. Kurt's feeling about it is indisputable, though, and that's what's more important than how they intended it.

I didn't see the twist coming with Karovsky but I enjoyed it. Characters that grow! Now if Glee could just have more than a few of them.

I'm an episode behind in Glee. Did Sue as Bowie actually have different colored contact(s)?

But speaking of Karovsky

I think they did a decent job of humanizing Karofsky. The scene in the hallway, after his apology, telling Kurt to wait for him was touching. Max Adler did a great job.

The thing I had trouble with was the look on Figgens' face after he announced Kurt's name, he looked pissed but didn't act it and went ahead and announced Kurt's name instead of someone else's.

At least last night Sue was back to normal. I love that Artie was spiking the punch with lemonade.

Oh! My friend torturing me with the song this morning reminded me: When they opened the prom with "Friday," I really thought it was going to be a terrible-songs theme, especially after Sue's mandate. Then I wasn't so sure when they did "Jar of Hearts" next.....

Right there with you.

Jar of Hearts did nothing to dispel the terrible song theme as far as I was concerned.

I spent a minute trying to decide if they would actually go there like that, given that it's a commercially successful current song, good or not. ("You're gonna catch a cold/from the ice inside your soul"??? Seriously???)