Season 1, Episode 16: HOME

Sue tells Kurt and Mercedes that a reporter from Splitz Magazine is coming to see a performance of the chirioes and write a column on it for the magazine. Sue tells Mercedes she has a week to lose 10 Pounds or she and Kurt will be out of the club. If Sue can't get any worse she uses her blackmail against Figgins to take up the auditorium time 24/7 so the glee club has nowhere to rehearse. Will goes to a roller-skating rink to ask the manager if he can rent the space. He is surprised to find the new manager is non other than APRIL RHODES. Together they sing "Fire." Afterwards April agrees to let Will use the space. She tells him how her new wealthy 80 year old boyfriend who is married to another women bought her the rink. He tells her he is getting a divorce and April seems interested to buy his apartment. Mercedes discovers half way through the week that she has gained 2 pounds. She struggles to not eat and after imagining everyone in the cafeteria as deserts she faints. She wakes up int the nurses office. The nurse tells her she had a low blood sugar level. Quinn talks to Mercedes about how Quinn knows how she feels. Now that Quinn is pregnant she has a whole new diet and Mercedes should not be ashamed of herself. She is Beautiful. MEANWHILE- Finn is Mortified to find that his mom Carole has begun dating Kurt's father, Burt. Finn asks Finn whats going on. Kurt reveals he hooked their parents up. But he doesn't say that it is because he wants to have a normal family and be closer to Finn. In glee club Kurt sings "A House Is Not A Home." Finn thinks his mother is cheating on his late father. Carole thinks Finn is being selfish and not realising that she is happy with a man for the first time in 16 years. Finn gets to know Burt and they have a lot (mainly sport interests) in common. This makes Kurt feel left out. April spends the night at Will's house and Will and April sing a mash up of "One Less Bell To Answer/ A House Is Not A Home." April is supposed to sleep on the couch but she crawls into Wills bed and holds his hand as they fall asleep. In the morning Will tells April she can't stay over again and she is better than to just be a mistress to her 80 year old boy friend. April goes to tell her boyfriend its over but he has a heart attack and dies. The old Tycoon's wife gives April 2 million dollars hush money. Kurt and Finn work together to try and break up their parents but it doesn't work and they both accept their parents are happy together for the first time in years. At the assembly where the reporter is Mercedes changes the performance without anybody knowing and sings "Beautiful" which makes the reporter happy and Sue takes all the credit. She lets Mercedes and Kurt stay on the chirioes. April uses some of her money to buy the auditorium for the glee kids to use. She tells Will she is going to go to Broadway with the rest of her money and use it to start her own production of The Wiz. Before she leaves she does one last performance with the glee club "Home."
SONGS: Fire
A House Is Not A Home
One Less Bell To Answer/ A House Is Not A Home
Beautiful
Home
NEXT EPISODE: Bad Reputation- A list is released amongst the school ranking who's hot and who's not in the glee club. this causes problems amongst the club. Sue sings "Physical" with Olivia Newton-John and Will has more problems with Emma.