Saturday, April 9, 2011

Season 2, Episode 18: BORN THIS WAY

While the glee club are rehearsing for Nationals, Finn accidentally whacks Rachel in the nose, breaking it. The doctor suggests that Rachel can get a nose job so she looks better and it may make her able to belt even higher notes when singing. The rest of the glee club tries to convince Rachel not too saying you shouldn't change who you are. Santana protests saying that everybody in the glee club has something they would like to change about themselves and they just should because it will make them happy. Will is worried that this will cause them to not believe in themselves. He talks to Emma who is still struggling with her OCD. She refuses to see a phyciotrist because she was born this way and she has to deal with it. That gives will an idea. In glee club (which Emma sits in), he explains this weeks assignment is too perform a song expressing the things you don't like about yourself and at the ends of the week they will all perform Lady Gaga's Born This Way together. Emma explains their costumes will be a white shirt with a word or phrase printed on it expressing what they don't like about themselves. Emma shows them an example where her shirt says GINGER. Will later tells her it should have said OCD. Emma says it is something she just has to live with. Quinn agrees to go to the doctors with Rachel as long as Rachel votes for her as prom queen. Rachel asks the doctor to take some photos to see what her nose would look like if it was exactly like Quinn's. They sing a duet of "I Feel Pretty/ Unpretty." Rachel shows the photos to the glee club. Finn speaks out and says she is beautiful and she shouldn't get a nose job. Rachel says she has made up her mind and will get a nose job. Lauren confesses to Puck her desire to be prom queen. Puck promises that they will be king and queen. They then start their campaign. Quinn is worried that Lauren will win because the school wants a prom queen that is different and not pretty because it is inspiring to be yourself. Quinn and Lauren argue where Quinn says Lauren doesn't know anything about her. In glee club Finn performs "I've Gotta Be Me" where his dancing has improves thanks to Mike. Santana also wants to be prom queen and knows Sam isn't cool enough to help her get votes. She then spots Karofsky and thinks he might be use full. She then see him checking out Sam. Santana realises he is gay and comes up with a killer plan to get votes: by getting Kurt to come back to the school. She's knows that Kurt won't come back until Karofsky changes or leaves. Santana talk to Karofsky and says she knows about him. She opens up to him and confesses she is a lesbian. She explains that he has 2 choices: to go out with her and run for prom king and queen and apologise to the glee club or she will tell everybody he is gay. He agrees and apologises to the glee club who don't accept it. Kaorfsky and Santana announce their relationship which disgusts everybody. They also announce they have started a club that watches the hallways for bullies. Principle Figgins, Will, Karofsky, His Dad Paul, Kurt and Burt have a meeting where Karofsky apologises and asks Kurt to come back. Burt gets mad saying that karofsky is making it up. Will asks for Kurt's opinion. Kurt wishes to speak to Karofsky alone. The others leave and Kurt asks Karofsky what he is playing at. Karofsky explains everything about what Santana did. Kurt agrees to come back as long as Karofsky goes with him to gay group meeting. The glee club all gather in the lunch area where Kurt shows up claiming he is back at McKinley. Blaine and the Warblers how up. Blaine says he still has Kurt after school and on the weekends but the others don;t and will miss him. They sing his "Somewhere Only We Know" to say goodbye. Lauren walks past Quinn in the hallway and calls her Lucy. Quinn and Lauren go into a class room where Lauren explains she did research on Quinn and discovered she didn't do her junior year at McKinley. Lauren tries to find her file from her old school but there is no Quinn Fabrey, however she finds Lucy Fabray. Lauren looked up the photo in the year book and found a girl who looks a lot like Quinn but fat with red hair, pimples, a large nose and glasses. Quinn admits that her real name is Lucy and her middle name is Quinn. She explains that she used to look like that and everybody called her Lucy Caboosy. When she started to do ballet she lost some weight and did many other sports including cheer leading and became skinny. She died her hair blonde and go pro active for her pimples and got contacts. When her Dad got a new job and they moved she asked for a nose job and he said yes and she asked her parents to call her Quinn. Lauren tells Quinn she better check the ballot board. Quinn races to it to see a poster of her when she looked like that. Everybody laughs at her and she runs off crying. In glee club Kurt performs "As If We Never Said Goodbye." Puck tries to convince Rachel not to get a nose job and asks her to go to the mall. Rachel goes with Puck where Kurt is and explains Barbra Streisand has a nose like Rachel's and Barbra wouldn't be proud that Rachel got a nose job. He takes her down stairs where a flash mob happens, dancing to Duck Sauces "Barbra Streisand." Quinn tells Finn the campaign is off. Finn tells her she shouldn't matter about it because its in the past and the two of them share a lovely moment in each others arms. Quinn walks past some girls looking at her Lucy poster. The girls tell Quinn they are going to vote for her and Quinn decides she is still going to run for prom queen. Lauren apologises for doing it to her and the two of them start talking and become friends. Britney shows Santana her shirt and gives Santana one that says LEBANESE. Santana realises it is meant to say Lesbian and Santana refuses to wear it and takes it and walks away. Will convinces Emma to go to a session with a phyciotrist. Emma goes and spends almost the full hour cleaning a table. The phyciotrist tells her it is series and she needs help. Emma confesses she is scared. Emma is told it is okay to be scared and she needs to come in every week and start taking medication everyday. Later on Emma takes the medication. The glee club gather in the auditorium wearing their shirts. Will shows them one he made which says BUT CHIN. Nobody knows where Santana and Rachel are. Rachel shows up saying she isn't going to get the nose job but she can't perform the song because she can't dance heavily. The glee club then perform "Born This Way." Santana and Karofsky watch where Santana is wearing the Lebanese shirt. During the song, Emma shows up to show will her new shirt which says OCD. Will, Emma and Rachel all run out on stage at the end to join in.
SONGS: I Feel Pretty/ Unpretty
I've Gotta Be Me
Somewhere Only We Know
As If We Never Said Goodbye
Born This Way
NEXT EPISODE: Rumours- Sue's plans to take down the glee club continue with the help of Terri. As Rumours go around the school that Quinn and Sam are hooking up, Rachel and Finn have a steak out near a motel and discover a much more shocking secret. Meanwhile April Rhodes returns to convince Will to go on the road with her and be in her new musical.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Season 2, Episode 17: A NIGHT OF NEGLECT

The episode opens in glee club where Will tell the kids they are going to sell salt water Taffy to pay for plane tickets to Nationals in New York City. They must sell 25,000 pieces. Mike, Tina, Artie and Britney complain about how nobody has cared about raising money so they can go to their scholastic decathlon competition in Detroit. Will says they need to sell even more Taffy. Holly Holiday and Will who are now dating have pizza. Holly tells Will a better way to make money is to have a benefit concert called A Night Of Neglect where the glee club sings songs by neglected artists. Will agrees with the idea and New Directions start preparing for it. While planning, they discover Sunshine Corozon from Vocal Adrenalin in the school and accuse her of spying. She says she wants to help because she knows how scholastic decathlon students are neglected. She said she can get all 600 of her twitter fans to come. She then performs "All By Myself" for the group. Rachel does not want her to perform because she still believes she is a spy. The others convince her to let Sunshine perform. Meanwhile Sue organises a group consisting of Dustin Goolsby (coach of Vocal Adrenalin), Sandy Rhyerson (ex-coach of McKinley glee club), Terri Shcuster (Wills ex-wife) and herself. She calls the group THE LEAGUE OF DOOM! And their mission is to destroy New Directions before they get to Nationals. They all agree and Sue gives them the following nicknames: Zod (herself), Sargent Hansom (Dustin), The Pink Dagger (Sandy) and The Honey Badger (Terri). She gets Dustin to seduce Holly to break her and Will up. His plan fails but Will gets jealous. Holly also gets jealous when he sees Will talking to Emma. Emma tells Will that Carl has left her for good and her OCD has become worse. Will comforts her. Lauren becomes Mercedes' manager and convinces her to become a mega diva. Mercedes demands many things and refuses to perform unless she gets them all. Sue calls in Sandy to gather a group of hecklers consisting of Azimio, Jacob and Becky. On the night of the performance, Blaine and Kurt show up to support the glee club. Karofsky shows up Blaine tells him to back off. Santana shows up and almost finds out that Karofsky is gay. She defends Blaine and Kurt and chases Karofsky off. She then receives a text message and tells the other glee club members that Sunshine isn't going to show up and neither is her 600 fans. Puck says there is only 6 people in the audience. Finn says the show must go on. Tina goes out first and performs "I Follow Rivers" where she is insulted by the hecklers. She cries and runs off stage. Holly speaks to the hecklers and tells them that tearing people down isn't a good thing. The three of them leave the school. Sue gets mad at Sandy for failing but he says he will fix it by tearing down the rest of the performance. Holly goes on stage and performs "Turning Tables" which Will watches. Mercedes disappears because her demands were not attended to the way she wanted. Everybody goes in search for her. Rachel finds Mercedes in her car and tells her that to earn respect she shouldn't be a diva. Mercedes is sad because she is just a good of singer as Rachel and everybody likes her MORE but, Rachel always gets the spotlight. Rachel doesn't know why but says being liked pulls you away from being a star. Rachel gives Mercedes the spot as the closing performance. Mercedes goes out and performs "Ain't No Way" which instead of booing, Sandy applauds it. Holly gets a job teaching in Cleveland for 4 months. Will doesn't want her to go but she says her leaving is her way of saying they have to break up because she is always on the move and isn't ready for a committed relationship. She reminds Will he still loves Emma and that Emma still loves him. Holly tells Will not to give up on Emma before she leaves. Sandy pays for the scholastic decathlon to go to their competition where they win thanks to something they learnt in Holly's class. Sue gets mad at Sandy and Dustin for failing and turns to Terri in her time of need. Terri is prepared for whats Sue has planned.
SONGS: All By Myself
I Follow Rivers
Turning Tables
Ain't No Way
NEXT EPISODE: Born This Way- In Glee's 90 minute special episode, Will gets the kids to express and love who they truly are through the music of Lady Gaga. Kurt returns to McKinley where he must once again face Karofsky and help him come to terms with his own sexuality. Lauren and Quinn compete for Prom Queen and Sue's League of Doom continues.

Glee: The Music- Presents The Warblers

A brand new album is to be released this month. Glee: The Music- Presents The Warblers has all 10 Warblers songs plus 3 songs to be sung on the show in the future. The album will be released on April 19 and this is the tracklist....










1. Teenage Dream
2. Hey, Soul Sister
3. Bills, Bills, Bills
4. Silly Love Songs
5. When I Get You Alone
6. Animal
7. Misery
8. Blackbird
9. Candles
10. Raise Your Glass
11. Somewhere Only We Know
12. What Kind Of A Fool
13. Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
GLEE: THE MUSIC- PRESENTS THE WARBLERS IS IN STORES APRIL 19, 2011!