Season 2, Episode 1: AUDITION

Summer is over and its back to a new school year at McKinley high. Jacob is doing his video blog on Glee's Big Gay Summer! and talks to all the glee club members about how they feel. He reveals that Tina has dumped Artie and is now dating Mike Chang. Will watches as nobody signs up for glee club. Sue tells him it is because he is letting anybody in without auditioning. Sue and Will then go to Principle Figgins office where he tells them Ken Tanaka had a nervous breakdown and has been replaced by Shannon Beiste who has demanded that if the school cuts 10% of both the cheerios and the glee clubs budget. This makes both Sue and Will angry. Will talks to the glee club about how much the school thinks they are losers. The kids all don't care but with the news that Matt has transferred schools the club, they need more members if they wont to go to Nationals which is in New York this year. To get new members they perform "Empire State Of Mind" at lunch time in front of the school while they eat but nobody notices them except for Sunshine Corazon (a forren exchange student) and Sam Evans (the new jock in school). Sue convinces Will to join her in her quest to get rid of Beiste and he agrees. While Fin is sticking up glee sign up sheets in the locker he over hears Sam singing in the shower and Sam sounds great. Rachel sticks up sign up sheets in the girls bathroom where she talks to Sunshine about joining the club. Sunshine begins to sing "Telephone" and Rachel joins in trying to be better than her. Sue interrupts them and tells them to shut up. Sunshine agrees to join the club. Rachel tells her she will let her know when Auditions are. Artie asks Finn to get him a try out on the football team. Artie wants to be pushed really fast so the force can make the ball sore into the sky. He wants to join because Tina dumped Artie after she ad Mike were councillors at Asian Camp and Tina became attracted to his abs. Finn agrees to help. He also convinces Sam to consider joining glee. Sam sings "Billionaire" with the other boys and they ask him to audition and he says yes. Rachel tells Kurt and Mercedes they shouldn't let Sunshine near the club because it would make them lose solos. Mercedes and Kurt say all they want is to win. Rachel gives Sunshine a fake address to a crack house where Sunshine is to go for auditions. Sue and Will don't let Beiste sit with them and make her feel left out. She then cries. When Finn tries to get Artie into the team she kicks Finn out which upsets Finn deeply. Sue holds auditions for cheerios. Quinn shows up and immediately is rejected. Quinn then tells her to consider it because now that Sue has lost money, the churches might be interested and donating money if a teenage mother talks about teen pregnancy. Then Finn auditions. He does this because he wants to be a part of something sporty and be popular. Will defends Finn against Beiste but she refuses to let him back in. Sue gets mad at Santana for getting a boob job over the summer and demotes her to bottom of the pyramid and no longer head cheerleader. She then lets Quinn back in as head cheerleader. Quinn puts her uniform back on and struts down the hallway letting everybody know she is once again the queen bee. Santana then attacks her and they have a cat fight because Santana accuses Quinn of dobbing on the boob job which turns out to be true. Will breaks up the fight. Sue gets Britney to lie and say beiste touched her private ares. Will comes in at the right time and convinces Britney to tell the truth. She does and Sue gets mad. Tina and Mike find out about what Rachel did and dob her in. Rachel apologises to Sunshine and then lets Sunshine audition for real. Sunshine auditions with the song "Listen" and everybody loves it ecxept for Rachel. They welcome her into the club but Sam failed to show up for auditions. Will apologises to Beiste and they become good friends. This make Sue angry and she declares war on both of them. Finn asks Sam why he didn't audition. Sam said he doesn't want to be the loser. He is already the new kid at school and doesn't want things to be worse. He then tells Finn he made the team and has taken Finn's place as quarter-back. Will gives Sunshine a timetable for the fall glee club rehearsals but she doesn't need it because she is moving schools. Sue tipped Vocal Adrenalins new coach Dunkin about Sunshine and they bribed her by giving her mum a green card. Sunshine said she would have loved to be in New Directions but Rachel would have made life for Sunshine miserable. She apologises to Will and leaves. Everybody is mad at Rachel. She asks why Finn hasn't broken up with her and he wonders why now that he isn't popular she hasn't broken up with him. They both promise that they will never break up with each other and Finn forgives her. Before she apologises to the club, Rachel goes to the auditorium to be alone where she sings "What I Did For Love." This reflects over Artie's jealousy and how Quinn may be back on the cheerios but she lost a friend to do it and that Rachel betrayed New Directions.
SONGS: Empire State Of Mind
Telephone
Billionaire
Listen
What I Did For Love
NEXT EPISODE: Brittany/ Britney- The glee club wishes to sing songs by Brittany Spears but Will does not allow it. Until they perform at a pep-assembly to get new members to join. Meanwhile Will wants to know more about Emma's new boyfriend Carl and gets him to talk to the glee girls about dental hygiene so he can meet him.
Please not that the review for the next episode will be posted a few days late as I will be on holidays where there is no computer.