June 23, 2025

Glee on the Rocks: 5x12 - "100", Part 1

Glee on the Rocks: 5x12 - "100", Part 1

Buckle up, Gleeks—it’s the 100th episode, which means Glee is throwing everything at the wall to see what sings. Sticks! To see what sticks. This is a no-pun zone (allegedly). We’ve got a chaotic double-feature recap for you because everyone showed up for this one and we talked too long, so you’re getting Part 1 and Part 2. The algorithm says no one wants 2.5-hour episodes 🤷‍♀️.

In Part 1 of this very special (read: unhinged) 100th episode, New Directions is being shut down for real this time (no, seriously—for real), and suddenly everyone who graduated three years ago but never emotionally left is back in the choir room. Quinn’s here, Puck’s lurking, Mercedes is glowing, and Santana is serving full sass-per-minute per SAG-AFTRA guidelines.

💥 Plot? Technically, yes:

  • Sue’s destroying the glee club because she hates joy. Or music. Or teenagers. It’s unclear.

  • Will is spiraling but trying to disguise it as leadership.

  • Everyone’s singing songs we’ve already heard, now with 50% more nostalgia filters and wistful glances. (Spoiler: the OG versions were better.)

  • Rachel wants to rewrite history (again), Mercedes isn’t having it (again), and a sing-off happens that is somehow both unnecessary and essential to our healing.

  • Puck and Quinn have tension—the kind that says “we’ve made questionable choices before and might again”—and everyone agrees to just look the other way.

🎭 In short: Everyone is reflecting on how far they’ve come by pretending they never left. It’s self-indulgent, over-the-top, and completely on brand.

The glee club is dying but not quietly. And neither are we.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we just keep talking.

xoxo,
FotR


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Hi, this is Emily from Phantom
on the Rocks.

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We got a little away with
ourselves recording this episode

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of Glee on the Rocks 512, and
that is because it's the 100th

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episode.
So we had to break it up into

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two parts so that you weren't
stuck listening to us for 97

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hours straight.
So there is going to be a Part 1

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and a Part 2.
You are currently going to be

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listening to Part 1 and then
hopefully you will stick around

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for Part 2 so that you won't
miss anything on Glee.

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She's not beating the
allegations that she writes

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Warblers fan fiction.
You're listening to Glee on the

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Rocks.
Well, welcome back to Glee on

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the Rocks, a Phantom on the
Rocks podcast.

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I'm Emily.
I'm Mandy.

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I'm Dee.
I'm Adriana.

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And I'm Allison.
And all five of us are here at

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the same time, finally.
We literally scheduled this a

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month in advance.
Not gonna explain.

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All of the goings on that just
happened trying to get this

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recording started.
Literally 40 minutes of it.

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But we're here, and we're
together. 3 generations of

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fandom on the rocks in one
place.

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Tell tell us why all all three
generations of podcasters are

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together today.
Well, it's a very special

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episode of Glee.
It's the 100th episode, yeah.

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Appropriately titled 100. 1100,
which you know for them means

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syndication, if that were still
a thing that happened.

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It's a, it's a thing that
happens in their contract.

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They're, you know, as a, as a
Fox Show.

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They are on a basic contract and
a basic television contract,

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which means that their residuals
are are are baked right into the

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text.
Do you know what's?

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Interesting not to completely
derail like talking about the

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plot of Glee.
Do you ever see reruns of Glee

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on TV?
Literally never.

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Can you imagine that we're just
playing at like 5:00 PM every

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day when kids got home from
school?

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But like, I see reruns of 911
and that's an actively running

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show.
Yeah, that was pretty normal

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though that and that that also
requires you to have like a

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cable subscription.
Yeah.

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Billy did get syndicated I think
on like oxygen y'all remember?

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That.
I don't know what I would do if

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I was just, like, flipping
through channels and Will

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Shuster just appeared on my
television.

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Like I don't think I'd be OK
you.

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Know.
What's crazy too is, well, first

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of all, a jail, jail stop.
What's crazy too is so a couple

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of weeks ago I saw this ad on
Facebook and the fact that, you

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know, that would have been
incomprehensible 10 years ago is

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insane.
But I saw this ad on Facebook

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and it was ABC advertising the
season 2 finale of Only Murders

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in the Building airing on ABC.
And I was like, first of all,

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this is a Hulu original.
Secondly, they finished their

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fourth season on Hulu like 6
months ago.

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So ABC, which is the actual TV
channel is boasting about the

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season 2 finale which came out
two years ago.

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So I would not be so like now
streaming originals are getting

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syndication they.
Are yeah, I saw, I caught it.

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I caught Only Murders on like, I
don't know, after Jeopardy.

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And I was like, but this is like
season 1.

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They're just airing it as if
it's brand new.

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That's because Disney, Hulu of
ABC, whatever is one of

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America's five companies, so.
But I would not be surprised now

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if like all of these older shows
that were like Fox shows that

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are now under the Disney
umbrella would eventually get

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back to syndication on one of
their 25 different channels that

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are just children to ABC, which
is Disney and like.

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The shitty thing about it is
that all of these shows that,

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and again, my union knowledge of
contracts is old at this point.

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It's many negotiations old at
this point.

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But to the best of my knowledge,
like the streaming contract

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programs that were developed and
filmed under streaming have a

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different contract because they
don't do Nielsen ratings.

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They don't have viewership
numbers, They don't have that

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kind of system.
So they can't really get

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syndicated.
It doesn't work that way.

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And so like if only murderers
was filmed on Hulu, they were

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filmed under a new media
contract.

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And now that they're getting
picked up and syndicated by ABC,

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they don't have any of the same
protections or like benefits

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necessarily of being a program
that was filmed on on a network

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contract, which just like grinds
my gears in a very particular

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way.
And like, none of the principals

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on that show need the rerun
money, but all of the like

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ensemble cast probably does.
Oh for sure.

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Anybody who's getting 12 cent
checks needs those 12 cent

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checks like Let it ride.
They're important.

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It's the only reason a lot of
people qualify for Healthcare is

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because their their residual
checks put them over the earning

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limit.
It does, yeah.

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So it's it just drives me crazy,
It grinds my gears and I hate

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it.
Support your unions.

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And that's the end of the
episode.

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Support your.
Unions goodbye.

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Goodbye I.
Guess we have to go back to the

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actual plot which does occur.
There is something of a plot in

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this episode.
The Glee club is still

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cancelled.
Somehow we have to begin this

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episode with Rachel coming back
to McKinley because it's always

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about her.
OK, but.

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Shoot To her credit, Rachel and
Mercedes start this episode in a

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very like old school Glee
fashion.

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It Yeah, yes, this is a tribute
to the show itself.

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And I did love it.
Yeah.

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Yeah, but starting with Rachel
narration.

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I literally wrote down we're
starting with Rachel narration

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of.
Course we.

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Are it's great.
It's.

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Like I was also like, they're
still feuding, Yeah.

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That was my thing.
I I wrote the fabricated

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rivalry, right?
It's fully fabricated.

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These two people have not been
in a room together in almost a

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year in Showtime.
Like they don't.

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I wish they had moved on.
Regular people would.

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Real human people would have
moved on.

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Yeah.
Real human people wouldn't be

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one year out of high school with
one of them having a recording

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contract and one on Broadway
there.

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Yeah.
Right, I can't just why women be

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successful.
It would have made more sense to

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have Santana feuding with
literally anyone.

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I mean, she does.
We just have to get there.

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Yeah, but like to.
Open it with Santana.

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That would have been like, Oh
yeah, OK.

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Well, of course she has beef
with everyone.

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Yeah, 'cause Santana has beef
with everyone like.

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Deservedly so.
The original beef is actually

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Rachel and Mercedes against
McKinley the school 'cause

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they're like, where's my
confetti?

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Where's my banner?
Right, You're literally you

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graduated 5 minutes ago.
Like you're a child, it's fine.

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Wanted one of them to get
slushied the way.

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But.
That would have been a good call

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back.
What a surprise that there

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actually were 0 slushies.
Correct.

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Like the whole thing was a love
letter to the first, like many

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seasons of Glee.
Like that beef intro should have

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been both of them storming down
the hallway and then like out of

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nowhere they come to face each
other and then boom slushy.

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Especially because has done a
slushy since like they won

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nationals and did like the
confetti slushies.

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It was like the symbolic end of
like them being slushied or.

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Whatever, now they're like.
So I feel like I remember

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somebody at the beginning of
season 4, like one of the

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newbies getting slushied.
And then of course, Tina in the

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sky with diamonds.
Tina gets.

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Oh, the ultimate slushy.
You're right.

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The ultimate Carrie slushied.
Fucking.

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Rough.
I just.

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Like the way they care so much
about high school.

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Right.
I rather.

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Graduated.
No one cares that you came back.

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Also none of these kids are
peaking in high school.

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That's for like people who were
like on the football team and

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like head cheerleader and shit
and didn't get pregnant and have

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a baby.
Like none of these people peaked

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in high school.
That's absolutely ridiculous.

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I mean, maybe Quinn.
She did.

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Get pregnant.
I was going to say.

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I was going to say puppy twin.
They they, yeah.

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But it's funny because they
portrayed them too specifically

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as like transcending high school
in this in this episode.

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So that's so true.
I really forgot how much of this

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episode was about people that
are not in the rest of the show

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ever.
Yeah.

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It was a little, it was a little
jump scare to be like, oh, so

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we're going back to all the
casting characters that I love

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and care about, who you've
developed with storylines and

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plot devices and personalities.
Oh, and now you're going to send

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them away again.
Yes, it was very farewell vibes,

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very much.
Like, oh, you're never going to

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see these people again.
Never.

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Yeah, I guess before we get to
the choir room, there is a line

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about Rachel saying that she is
the biggest Broadway star the

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school has ever produced, and
then we're going to run into

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April roads.
So it's just patent we.

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Well, on a technicality, because
like, technically April Rhodes

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did go to the school, but she
didn't graduate.

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And technically, I forgot about
Rachel hasn't been on Broadway

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yet.
Technically.

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She's still in rehearsals.
Battle of the technicalities so.

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Like fuck out, Rachel.
I beg Rachel every day that I

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think about her, which is
increasingly less and less, to

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like, get off her high horse.
One day which circles I mean.

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When she's dead.
It'll be the end of the episode.

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But when they do define gravity
and they vote and it's a tie

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between Rachel and Mercedes like
Kurt was in the song too.

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Assholes.
We'll get there.

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Yeah, no, yeah.
No mention.

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No mention of Kurt.
No.

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Mention I noticed I was pissed.
I was there.

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It was rare.
And no one hitting that high

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note.
Not one person.

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That was the, that was the part
of that.

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We'll get, we'll get there,
we'll get there.

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Like they, they spend like 20
minutes circling around like, oh

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man, that high note at the end.
And then the arrangement is that

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no one has to hit any high note
at all.

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Like what are you?
What are you doing?

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What are you doing to me?
Why I don't?

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Even like the song, I was like,
no one's gonna do it.

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Great cool.
You've done this now four times.

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OK, cool.
Thanks.

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So many times.
OK, anyway, the choir room.

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Everyone has to praise Rachel.
Rachel and Mercedes fight over

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the Rachel chair.
I didn't actually know there was

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a Rachel chair in the choir
room.

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They see it as this like status
symbol and they both rush

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towards it.
Rachel sits down 1st and then

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Mercedes like puts her little
like she puts her outfit to

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rights and then she says she's.
Going to the back of the bus.

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I actually really like that line
though that.

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Was the way.
I just wanted Mercedes to just

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sit on Rachel, on her, to be
like, get out of my chair.

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That's what should have
happened.

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Yes.
Also, why is Mercedes dressing

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like she's 45 years old?
I don't like that.

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The little people.
She's like, she weighs more than

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115 lbs and they don't know how
to dress her.

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It's not fair.
It's not, she looks.

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It's 2014 and that's what.
I guess Rachel was kind of

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conservatively dressed this
episode, too.

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We're going back to high school,
so it's like we gotta.

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Rain.
Everyone was conservatively

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dressed.
Yeah, I.

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Think the wardrobe.
Wardrobe really just wanted to

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make it seem like they were
older and there had been more

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separate.
Yeah, like these are adults.

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They weren't born the same
calendar year as some of the

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other students in the last.
Room, Yeah.

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We're the alumni like you're our
friends.

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We saw you 6 weeks ago.
Yeah, literally.

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Literally.
So stupid.

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Do you want to go by storyline
or do you want to go by like

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chronological order in the
episode?

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I first want someone to explain
to me what Mr. Shuster means by

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100 lessons in the timeline of
Glee I.

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Mean nothing.
It's a lie.

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He wrote 100 things on the
board.

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Not even.
Probably not.

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Though he says there's been 100
lessons and then the Wikipedia,

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the Glee, Apedia, whatever the
fuck is like, actually there's

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74 lessons.
Like, oh.

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Where did you get that number
from?

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You can't have her possibly be
true.

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Just like the number of times he
actually remembered he was a

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teacher in the run of that show.
Is Glee club not a daily

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occurrence?
Because if there's five days in

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the school week and you divide
that, there's 20 weeks that

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they've been in Glee club, That
can't be right.

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Or and then also.
Maybe.

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It's like so does a week.
It's like it's a, it's a one

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week, you know, they they meet
up all the time because they're

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like friends and that's what
they do when they hang out and

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whatever.
But that like the official Glee

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club block is only once a week
maybe.

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And if you know.
It's one lesson a week.

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And then one lesson a week.
Yeah.

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So the school week is what, 35
weeks?

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32 weeks.
I don't know how time works in

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Ohio. 4/9.
Yeah. 37 But then you also, you

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also have to divide up like OK,
how much of it was actually

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lessons?
How much of it was like

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railroaded by drama?
How much of it was like practice

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for?
Apparently the the Glee pedia

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says 74, so we'll shoot.
She said 74.

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And, and, and regardless of what
they said, that was not a line

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for the students.
That was a line for the

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audience, yes.
Right, that's true.

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It was bad math via plot device.
Well, he couldn't say 100

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episodes, so you gotta.
Do something 'cause that would

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be a little too bad important.
This must be important.

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It's the name of the episode.
Like aha, OK, it's the.

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Name of the episode?
It's like that kind of shit

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irritates me.
Like, this can't, can't possibly

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be true.
So the, OK, I guess our main

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storyline is that the alums have
come back.

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Some of them, not all of them,
have come back to celebrate the

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fact that the Glee club is
ending and they want to sing

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together one last time, but
they're going to perform a song

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they already did, but
reinvented.

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Not really reinvented, because
none of these songs are

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completely reinvented.
No.

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Some of them are sang by the
exact same people.

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Yeah, literally.
That's like not even half assing

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it.
No 1/4.

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It's a different set.
Yeah, not even actually.

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Right.
Some of the same choreography a.

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100% like they just did the same
little moves in the background.

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Like OK the wiki says do you
remember this happening?

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Because I don't remember this
happening.

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But the song selection was voted
on by fans through a poll.

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Don't.
Remember that, maybe?

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On Twitter.
The fans?

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No, it was a rap article.
Fans got to choose from 30

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classic Glee performances and
then ten of them would be in the

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episode.
But only 8 songs were released

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and seven of them were in the
episode.

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Well, maybe, maybe the 10 was
like between both episodes

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'cause they did do like the
slower loser like me and the.

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Oh yeah.
In the next episode, right?

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And then probably like another
one that I can't remember.

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I'm hoping it not that I need a
fourth version of Don't Stop

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Believing, but it would seem
really weird like for the plot

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to not do that song at the end.
Of I think they do that one at

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the end of the other one.
At the end of the next one,

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yeah.
Makes sense?

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Dog Days Are Over was supposed
to be one of the songs sung by

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Holly Holiday.
Oh thank God we didn't get that.

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Yeah.
No, thank you.

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But she did Happy instead 'cause
she doesn't have to do a rewind

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song, she gets to do her own
jam.

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I got it.
I was wondering how in the logic

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of the episode they were redoing
a song but like they start by

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redoing A warbler song.
That yes, thank you, Blaine for

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calling it out.
Yeah.

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So what April Rhodes was at that
competition?

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How does she know?
Yeah, because.

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She came on YouTube.
She's she's fucking clairvoyant

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because she literally says oh
the warblers did this.

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No wonder it didn't sound
annoying in my head.

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Every time I like.
Yeah.

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I'm sure they talked about it in
the Facebook group they're all

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in.
Yes.

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Cooper.
Yes, Cooper, because Cooper.

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Would Cooper have been at
Warblers Regionals in 2011?

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No, but Blaine recorded it and
sent it to his brother.

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Yeah, there are a lot of YouTube
videos of like show choir

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performances through the years.
That is true.

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My, my, my thoughts are, you
know, the show car forums and

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all that.
Like there's just like Warbler

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recordings.
Yeah, absolutely.

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Surely there's like a Warblers
fandom within the show choir

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community.
The same way that there was a

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Wiffen Poops fandom.
Right.

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Absolutely.
Apparently, April Rhodes is #1.

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Yeah, she just doesn't know that
it's the.

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She definitely bought the
Warbler sweater from Forever 21.

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I mean.
Oh, I'm sorry, was.

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That too deep fucking.
Cut.

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Wait, did anyone here have it?
I know someone in fandom who

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did, but I didn't.
Matt had it.

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Yeah, I was going to say it.
I feel like I know people who

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had it.
Yeah, I didn't have it, but I

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knew people who had it.
Yeah.

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OK.
So for each of these versions,

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we need to decide if the new
one's better or the old one's

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better.
So if he wears your glass.

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Is the new one better?
The old one.

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No, it's.
The old one, the old one.

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'S way better.
The old one is so the old one is

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so much better that they
recreated the old one's

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choreography.
It did, it was.

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No, no, no, no.
I'm not saying that the Warblers

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can do no wrong 'cause they do
do some wrong.

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There's some Warblers songs that
I'm not a not.

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I don't like candles.
Was it for me?

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That wasn't messed up.
You're right, it was.

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Just but you.
Can't be mad at it because it

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got Curd and Blaine together.
It's true, it did.

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But it's it got them together
and they never spoke again.

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But yeah, no, of course the of
course the original Warbler 1 is

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better.
This one was.

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I, I, I tuned it out.
It was not for me.

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It seemed like a reference to
Red Solo Cup a little bit too.

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It did.
They kept like with the

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champagne flutes.
They were like.

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I think I would have much rather
seen them do Red Solo Cup.

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Yeah.
That is a fandom favorite for

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me.
It would have been a good lead

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on that 1 I think.
My God, yes.

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OK, not to say anything negative
about Kristin Chenoweth.

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But.
She doesn't meld into a group

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song.
No.

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No, it's true.
And like.

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Stands out.
She stands out.

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So with Raise Your Glass, the
original is like a group and

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it's just her above everybody
else doing it.

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And I was like, it's not the
vibe of the song.

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No.
Yeah, it got into Kidz Bop

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territory a little bit.
It did.

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There we go.
It was.

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Too close to that, yeah.
You're very right.

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So negative on this one.
I do love how she's just

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flirting with Blaine the entire
time.

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Well, obviously somebody has to
because his fiance wasn't.

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I It's one of those episodes
when they're on opposite sides

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of the room, like the whole
time.

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Why?
Middle name Hummel.

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They weren't Elizabeth.
They were sitting.

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Like.
Two choir chairs 6 feet apart,

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no homo in the hot tub.
What the fuck?

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What the fuck?
It's very much homo, gentlemen.

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Yeah, Oh, no, not to worry.
April Rhodes gives them their

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wedding present, which is just
two flasks to, what is it, Dole,

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their wedding night sodomy and
the impending divorce.

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It was horrifying.
Horrifying.

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Do that to them.
Like not only should you just

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not be doing that to anybody at
all across the board, do not do

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that to like high school, barely
graduated college children.

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Are you kidding?
Are you kidding?

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I mean, she's not beating the
allegations that she writes

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Warbler's fan fiction.
She's not.

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In her sweater.
A tube of Lube would have been

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better in the situation.
Jesus Christ.

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Is that it would have been just
as off putting.

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But like supplying?
Alcohol to minors, but.

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Like stop.
But she's been doing that.

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I know I'm like, you're gonna
get arrested.

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It was funny in Season 1, it's
not as funny in Season 5.

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No, right, Right.
I feel like her character did

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feel too overblown for, like,
everybody else.

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Maybe not everybody.
Several of the other characters

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had some significant character
development in this episode.

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Yeah.
And she was still, like, such a

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caricature.
I wasn't really.

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Like I love Kristen Chenoweth
but never liked it trope the the

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trope word for the character
It's it's the opposite of the

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wubafication where a character's
traits just keep like ramping

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into.
Absurdity.

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I don't know.
They do that a lot though,

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especially with like the dumb
character, yeah or whatever and

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everything I feel like.
There's a word for that and I

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just can't think of it.
I'll think of it tomorrow when

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we're not talking.
Perfect.

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Drop out the show notes.
It'll be really useful.

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OK, well, do we want to, do we
have to talk about Puck and

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Quinn's storyline?
Like do we want to move into

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that and keep with them
throughout the the?

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Episode I I mean, if anything
else, Adriana and I can talk

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about it and the rest of you can
go like not talking about

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getting Drake cook us up a Drake
go to the bathroom goat might

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be.
Juice.

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I mean, I will say I have some
cred there because the first

436
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,480
Glee thick I ever wrote was in
season 1 and it was Puck and

437
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,520
Quinn.
Like before.

438
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,320
Blaine, like before Blaine
existed.

439
00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,800
I I I wrote a puck and Quinn
Thick.

440
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,160
And like, don't get me wrong, I
am.

441
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:07,040
I'm faberry for life like.
And this episode did provide me

442
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,560
with some Rachel and Quinn.
It did, but I like Puck and

443
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,240
Quinn.
I always kind of did.

444
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,520
It's not.
Puck's fault, his actor is

445
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,600
garbage.
Yes, yes.

446
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,960
It just doesn't help.
Yeah, the.

447
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,200
Character was also garbage.
Character was also garbage in

448
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,240
his own vibe.
Like, but he grew one season

449
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,360
ago.
Just one season ago.

450
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,240
Just one season ago, though, he
was hooking up with Kitty around

451
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,720
this time and then.
He.

452
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:42,200
Stopped hooking up with a
sophomore and then like I so I

453
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:49,800
also wrote this down because OK
so I said didn't puck like join

454
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:55,000
whatever army organization this
is like weeks ago because if

455
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,520
we're like I know the time
dilation, especially within this

456
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:04,080
season is like so so so bad.
But generously, we can say that

457
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:08,280
it's been two months between
regionals and nationals, and

458
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:14,760
this episode is taking place
right after nationals, which at

459
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:24,680
most would make it 3 months
between Puck leaving, crashing

460
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:29,120
with Finn at like Lima
University or whatever and

461
00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:34,320
joining whatever organization
this is and then being in full

462
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,160
uniform.
Wasn't there generously

463
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:42,000
generously 3 months?
Basic training is at the minimum

464
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,160
9 weeks.
I, I have I have like a, a

465
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,720
crackpot theory for this, which
occurred to me while I was just

466
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,760
like looking up stuff about the
episode because apparently if

467
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,080
you look in like the trivia like
goof section, he's wearing the

468
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,960
ranking of a full officer.
I'm like he, he, he dropped out.

469
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,720
He just stole that.
He showed up in someone's.

470
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,400
Uniform.
He showed up.

471
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:02,640
Yep.
Yeah, yeah.

472
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,720
It's the Air Force too, Yeah,
it's an Air Force.

473
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,200
He just showed up in an Air
Force officer's uniform and he

474
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:09,760
was like, no one is gonna know
the difference.

475
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,800
It'll impress me.
Yeah, it'll impress her.

476
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,440
It's fine.
Like, wasn't there a big, like a

477
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:21,400
canonical time jump between
Finn's death and like, something

478
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:22,800
else?
Wasn't there like a big.

479
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,360
Between the between the between
the death and it must have been

480
00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:30,480
the the memorial.
Yeah.

481
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,280
And then between the memorial
and the rest.

482
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,800
Of the season and the rest of
the season.

483
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,040
I don't know how how that
affects your timeline, but no,

484
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,400
no, no, no, no, no, I'm not
saying Puckerman is a good dude.

485
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,880
He is not a good dude.
He is better than he used to be.

486
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,960
So you know what?
He's not good enough.

487
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,280
I forgot that Chase Crawford was
in this.

488
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:53,480
Yes.
That's his name.

489
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:54,680
I'm like, I've launched in the
episode.

490
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,520
I'm like, Oh my God, it's Gossip
Girl.

491
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,680
I was.
Like, Oh my God, it's.

492
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,720
Nate.
It is.

493
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,720
It's Nate.
It's Nate.

494
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,480
'Cause he's playing the same
character.

495
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:04,920
Same guy.
Same fucking guy.

496
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,960
They had to make him that bad so
that puck looked pretty good,

497
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,360
like they had to make him the
worst ever.

498
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,360
And also because Chase Crawford
just looks like that.

499
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,000
He does.
Punchable.

500
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,000
Yeah.
He's got a very punchable face.

501
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,480
My only my only addition to this
is that I have met Chase

502
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,760
Crawford and he's kind of nice.
Good.

503
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:27,840
Oh, that's good.
I feel like you gotta be really

504
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,040
nice to play mean, yeah.
Yeah.

505
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,640
Like, unless you're.
Unless you're.

506
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,680
Michelle, like Michelle, I know.
That's what you're saying.

507
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,240
Yeah, it was a a, a movie that
we did in New York and it was

508
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:41,920
pretty professional and pretty
nice.

509
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,760
I love that he's a nice person.
Shout out shit.

510
00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,800
Movie but like.
I think Nate from Gossip Girl

511
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,160
and Biff from Glee are both
assholes.

512
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,560
Yes, so.
You're not incorrect, but I

513
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:02,040
think I also think when this was
airing, I I was watching Gossip

514
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,720
Girl for the first time and I
was in the era of like Nate not

515
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,400
being the worst.
So it's like, Oh my gosh, it's

516
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,280
Nate.
Well, like, it's the same

517
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,000
problem here, right?
In Gossip Girl you have Nate

518
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:21,000
being the good guy to Chuck who
is the worst, and here you have

519
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,560
to make.
Bill.

520
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:29,760
Chuck, in order to raise Puck to
like a Nate level like you have

521
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:34,040
to give him a foil who is strong
enough where we can, as the

522
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,640
audience can overlook Puck in
his decisions.

523
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,520
I know these are names, I've
just never seen Gossip Girl.

524
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,440
Would hate it you.
You actually actively would.

525
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,320
I hate it so much.
A pilot's worth watching like

526
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,880
from a television perspective,
but in the 1st.

527
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,720
Season's pretty good as a as a
like an as a capsule.

528
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:58,880
Yeah.
Don't watch anything else.

529
00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,440
Nope.
Perfect.

530
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,480
Great it is.
Married by Kristen Bell.

531
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,160
So that's that's a bonus.
All right, we have to talk about

532
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:10,800
Glee.
So Huck and Quinn are trying to

533
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,160
not get back together.
Well, Puck's trying desperately

534
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,200
to get back together with Quinn
because he sees her and

535
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,560
immediately goes like goo goo
Gaga eyes.

536
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,920
And Quinn is trying desperately
to fight off the Goo goo Gaga

537
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:26,080
eyes because she has brought
along her very appropriate rich

538
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,320
asshole New England boyfriend.
The Macintosh, Apple Fortune,

539
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,480
the.
Macintosh, Apple, Fortune.

540
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,560
He gets $0.05 every time you eat
an apple.

541
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,800
Hey, that's.
It's not nothing.

542
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,560
Yeah, it.
Is.

543
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:47,000
Yeah, it is so wild to me
because it I feel like it kills

544
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,280
all of Quinn's character
development from literally

545
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:55,520
anytime after she got pregnant
because this is like this was

546
00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:00,080
gonna be her trajectory is like
if she didn't marry someone from

547
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:04,320
high school and just like have a
house become like, you know, a

548
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,280
real estate agent or whatever.
She was going to go to an Ivy

549
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:14,040
League or something comparable
and marry into an old money

550
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:18,120
family.
And this is she just was like,

551
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,800
well, I'm at Yale, so I don't
have character development

552
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,480
anymore, even though my hair is
not being styled in the same way

553
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:29,120
that it was in 2009.
But I will say, as we like, you

554
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,840
know, 'cause we'll follow, we'll
follow Puck and Quinn at least

555
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,800
'cause it's not horribly long.
You know, Quinn is, you know,

556
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,400
thank you so much for coming
with me.

557
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,600
And she's just trying really
hard to live in the present.

558
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,680
She's thinking about her future,
and she is not focusing on her

559
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,200
past.
And, and we're all sitting here

560
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,800
going like we haven't seen you
in three seasons.

561
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,800
But your past is exciting and
it's gonna stick around with you

562
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,680
for a minute.
Including the Ryan Seacrest

563
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,680
tattoo, which God bless his
Canon.

564
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,760
And so they go out a little
later to Breadsticks.

565
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:04,400
And Biff, being the, you know,
networking Macintosh Apple

566
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,920
magnet that he is, decides to
invite all of Quinn's high

567
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,280
school friends to the table with
them, where they decide to drop

568
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:18,760
little sprinkles of Quinn's past
that made us all love her so

569
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,160
much.
Ladies and gentlemen and friends

570
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,400
of all genders, my beloved skank
Quinn.

571
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,120
The best Quinn the best The best
Quinn the.

572
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,960
Like funniest Quinn OH.
Piano Project has such a place

573
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,920
in my heart.
Oh my God.

574
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,840
Skank Quinn and yeah, my.
Favorite like season openers,

575
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,360
It's a good.
Yeah, I would also absolutely do

576
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,960
this to my friends though.
Like what do you what do you

577
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,480
mean?
Like when you're tattoos and

578
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,960
your pink hair like.
Like, don't you remember the

579
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,240
baby that we had?
Like, don't you remember like

580
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,120
that baby set a piano on fire?
Remember that time that you.

581
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,000
I had a great time.
You were there, remember?

582
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,440
When you and Mercedes were best
friends and you moved in with

583
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,040
into her house because her
parents no one remembers.

584
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,080
That no one remembers that.
I remember you don't remember

585
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,440
Han delivered your baby.
Pepper, Tom remembers.

586
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,160
Does remember Mandy?
It is criminal that we never get

587
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:26,760
any Mercedes Quinn interaction
after season 1 and realistically

588
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,760
even after that episode.
Right.

589
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,320
Yeah.
Like, because we'll get to it in

590
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,440
a little bit.
But like, Mercedes does a lot of

591
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,920
talking to Rachel Berry in this
episode for absolutely no

592
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,480
reason.
She should be reconciling with

593
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,440
Quinn.
Quinn should be reconciling

594
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,320
with, like, Brady and Santana.
Like, I hate it.

595
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:42,880
I hate this.
That whole bathroom

596
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,000
conversation, I wanted to from
existence correct.

597
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,680
I was so mad about it.
It shouldn't have been written,

598
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,560
it shouldn't have been filmed.
No, it was wrong.

599
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,680
Get to it, but.
We'll get there, maybe.

600
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,360
This is Quinn's time.
Not to put Rachel into Quinn's

601
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,640
time like everything else, but
yeah, I hated.

602
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,960
It I'll put Rachel into Quinn's
time.

603
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,640
Very cool.
Quinn deserves more than Rachel

604
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,240
or Biff.
Quinn deserves the world,

605
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:14,800
deserves the world Instead, what
she gets instead, what she gets

606
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,360
is Puck pulling everyone into
the auditorium so that he can

607
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,800
sing.
Keep holding on, keep holding

608
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:33,440
on, 'cause you know we'll make
it through.

609
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:41,640
We'll make it through just.
Stay strong, 'cause you know I'm

610
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,920
here for you, I'm here for you.
There's nothing you can say,

611
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,560
there's nothing you can do,
there's no other way when it

612
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:59,440
comes to the truth.
So keen holding on, 'cause you

613
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,960
know, we'll make it through,
we'll make it through.

614
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,920
Am I correct in remembering that
this is the song that they, the

615
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,120
Glee club, sings to her when
they figure out that she's

616
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,160
pregnant?
No, it's after she gets kicked

617
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,600
out.
Of her parents house.

618
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,840
Or of the parents house, I don't
remember.

619
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,600
OK.
It's the like the episode where

620
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,880
like she moves in with Mercedes
and when she does all that.

621
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,360
Yeah, no, no, no, no 'cause when
she moves into Mercedes's house

622
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:30,120
is like back half of the season,
'cause it's when Mercedes like,

623
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:36,720
joins the Cheerios.
I just season 1 episode 7 thank

624
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,520
you throw down.
Huh.

625
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,480
So then it's gotta be when she
gets kicked out of Cheerios.

626
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,880
Maybe.
Yeah, a single.

627
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,320
Kicker after Sue tells Jacob Ben
Israel to run the story of

628
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,680
Quinn's pregnancy on his blog.
There he goes.

629
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:55,040
So she gets outed.
So she gets, yeah, I'll just Ben

630
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:56,640
Israel.
Why wasn't he in this episode?

631
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,680
Do we need that?
I don't need that.

632
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,680
I didn't need a lot of this,
actually.

633
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,440
Yeah, only comments about this
actually have several.

634
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,880
But my biggest comment about
this is that Quinn's outfit.

635
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,480
I know Quinn's outfit is so
2014.

636
00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:16,520
My freshman year roommate wore
the same skirt for sorority

637
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,040
recruitment.
Oh my God.

638
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:23,719
I was like, I clocked in on that
skirt and I was like, huh, I

639
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,520
recognize that.
Hold on.

640
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,880
But no, so she's he's singing
acoustic guitar because what

641
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,560
else is Puck gonna do?
And like the original Glee club

642
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:41,360
members like so that they open
the the curtains on the stage

643
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,480
and then the risers are there.
And the original Glee club

644
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,719
members who would have sang this
to begin with go up and start

645
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,600
doing the choreo.
And then by the end of the song,

646
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,400
all of the Glee club members are
like, doing the choreo.

647
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,480
And Quinn is just sitting there,
like playing with her, like

648
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:05,720
Pearl necklace, like tearing up
a little bit.

649
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,400
And like, ah, if you remember
this moment and if you have an

650
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,960
emotional connection to this
moment, I understand why you

651
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,880
would be teary eyed.
And then he goes to talk to her

652
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,800
and he's like, you have to hold
on to your past.

653
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,360
And she says something to the
effect of like, oh, I was crying

654
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,360
because I didn't remember this
song until you started singing

655
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,320
it.
And that's fair.

656
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,840
She probably blocked out a lot
of her sophomore year due to a

657
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,280
trauma response.
So I believe that, and maybe

658
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:40,920
that's why she doesn't talk to
Mercedes anymore.

659
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:45,200
She forgot that she lived there.
But I have a big problem, and

660
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,080
this will go back to like what
we were talking about before.

661
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,520
I have a big problem with Puck's
whole stance of like, you have

662
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:55,400
to hold on to your past.
Like you don't have to hold on

663
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,640
to your past to be honest about
it and honor who you are, but

664
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,520
you should move on if you want
to have a life.

665
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:07,400
Life doesn't end at 25.
Your best years are most likely

666
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:13,240
not in high school.
You do not have to hold on to

667
00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:19,360
who we were and you don't have
to like constantly be around

668
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,800
those people and be in those
spaces to still be a whole

669
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,000
human.
You have to accept it to heal,

670
00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:30,320
and you probably should be
honest about it if you want to

671
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,920
have fulfilling relationships.
But this is like a completely

672
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,760
different extreme that we're
taking things to.

673
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:37,840
Yeah, I.
Don't.

674
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,600
Know that's the thesis of our
podcast.

675
00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,840
Yes.
Fuck high school.

676
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:49,120
I think especially, especially
considering Quinns like presumed

677
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,960
trajectory, it really just feels
like a high school boyfriend who

678
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,760
knows he's not going to get too
far away from town really wants

679
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,040
to keep her there too, and
that's not good.

680
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,800
Or wants to like, ride those
coattails to wherever she's

681
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,040
going to go.
Right.

682
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,560
Because like that seems like a
very much like a very puck

683
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,360
perspective.
Because of what he is going

684
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,560
through, he has no choice but to
hold on to his past because as a

685
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,000
kid or as a teenager, some of
the things that you hold closest

686
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,800
to are your immediate family,
your very close circle of

687
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,960
friends, and your significant
others.

688
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,280
He has never had a great
relationship super with his mom

689
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:32,720
or with his half brother.
His best friend died and his

690
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:38,360
like high school girlfriend kind
of sort of love child baby Mama

691
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,080
who he considers his soulmate is
like running away from him as

692
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:48,280
fast as he as fast as she can
like he has nothing and is

693
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,840
desperately trying to cling on
to this past because it it Puck

694
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,880
puck peaked in high school and
unless he decides to change the

695
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,360
trajectory of his life, he will
always have peaked in high

696
00:37:58,360 --> 00:37:59,800
school.
And so like, I can see this

697
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,120
coming from him now.
Is it relevant for her?

698
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:06,480
Probably not, although you
should really tell any kind of

699
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,560
significant partner that maybe
you had a love child in high

700
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,920
school.
Yeah, might come up.

701
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,560
Chase Crawford kind of had a
point there in terms of like,

702
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:20,240
like she like she with the the
skank past and the, you know,

703
00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:23,360
child at 16, all these things.
She does not have the background

704
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,360
of someone who's gonna marry
into an old money family.

705
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:31,240
She just doesn't.
But but I'm sure some families

706
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:35,040
with money would be willing to
overlook that if you were honest

707
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:36,200
about it.
Yes.

708
00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:40,880
Instead, you're paying your
roommate to spend hours or to

709
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:45,800
spend however long applying 3
layers of like, cover up makeup

710
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,320
on your body, on your lower
back.

711
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,920
And you've been dating this man
for three months.

712
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,680
Like hard pass.
Sweetie, this is not going to be

713
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,000
a successful relationship now.
I don't it's wild.

714
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,840
I think it's also the fact that
like Puck as a character is so

715
00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:06,280
like Puck and Quinn as a as a
pairing is also so interesting

716
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:11,600
to me because he's like, I love
you and clearly is like trying

717
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:17,760
to convince her to like the
subtext between all of it until

718
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,880
that last conversation is like,
come with me, be with me or I'll

719
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,200
I'll you know, let's try this.
You 2 have not been in a

720
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,000
relationship since your
sophomore year of high school.

721
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,960
Right.
Like in Season 2 she's was

722
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,880
dating Sam and then she was
dating Finn and then in season 3

723
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,160
she was not dating anybody and
then she tried to date Sam and

724
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,560
Sam was like I'm actually into
Mercedes and then she dated.

725
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:50,560
She got in a car accident and
then she dated teen Jesus bad.

726
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,320
I forgot which.
Why was T Jesus not back?

727
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,000
Or that Irish kid.
Their contracts were only for

728
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,320
like 10 episodes.
Bummer.

729
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,000
So they couldn't finish their
education.

730
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,520
Yeah, that's that's just how it
is in Ohio.

731
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,360
It's also wild watching this at
my big old age of like 28,

732
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,560
because watching this at like
17, I know watching this at 17,

733
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,520
I was like, oh, really rooting
for that.

734
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,280
And watching this at I was like,
Oh my gosh, yes.

735
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,600
And then watching this at 28,
I'm like, the way you're feeling

736
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:26,440
makes sense.
I need you 2 to have a

737
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,560
conversation that's like
actually realistic.

738
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:30,600
Yeah.
Like quickly.

739
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,920
Logic and reason in my Fox TV
show my.

740
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,920
Fox TV show, but it's Glee.
Just truly wild.

741
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,200
And then it doesn't get any
better because we close in on,

742
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:44,800
you know, so they have this big
emotional moment where where

743
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,760
Puck is like let go of your past
or no, like keep a hold of your

744
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,440
past, like hold on to it, never
let it go.

745
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,840
And Quinn's like, no, I want it
gone forever.

746
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,560
I'm going to move in with the
Apple King.

747
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:03,920
And so we find them.
You know, we find Puck staring

748
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,200
at the second Finn Hudson
Memorial at McKinley High

749
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:09,640
School.
Because there are two.

750
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:10,880
It must.
Be so far.

751
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,920
What about that tree?
Yeah, maybe the tree, too.

752
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,360
We come upon Finn's jersey and a
little Finn Hudson plaque in the

753
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,240
locker room, affectionately
known on other podcasts of ours

754
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:23,040
as the Locker Room of
Requirement.

755
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,120
And it's just.
Wherever you need it to be, it's

756
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,200
just literally.
It's.

757
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,760
Fine.
Any door you open happens to be

758
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,520
the the locker room.
It's great.

759
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:38,600
We find we come upon Puck in the
locker room staring at this like

760
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,680
memorial of Finn and he and and
he and Quinn have yet another

761
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:50,480
conversation kind of sorta, and
he just basically begs her like

762
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:56,800
I, I, I love you.
I want to be with you.

763
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,960
We belong together.
These are these are your

764
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,920
friends.
We know you come be with us.

765
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:11,200
And she's like, Nah, I have a
pathway to Yale and everything's

766
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,520
cool.
And then Puck's like, OK, I'm

767
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,360
going to go be with the rest of
our friends.

768
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,880
Shruggie emoji.
And he like, walks down the hall

769
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,600
in a very sad, emotional moment.
And then, of course, she runs up

770
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,160
behind him and runs him in a big
kiss.

771
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:29,520
And they have a very wemma foot
pop and the whole, the whole

772
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,280
thing.
So, you know, we've, we've ended

773
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,400
the episode with Puck and Quinn
having gotten back together, I

774
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,320
guess.
Sorry, I absolutely missed the

775
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:40,280
part where Puck beats the crap
out of Chase Crawford and throws

776
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,120
him in a dumpster.
Throw was like, I guess a nice

777
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,920
nod to what a jerk has been to
other characters over the years.

778
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000
Yeah, except you're rooting for
him to do it this time.

779
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,320
Kind of.
Yeah, except you're rooting for

780
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,120
him this time.
Pilot throwback.

781
00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:55,240
Yeah.
I've been surprised.

782
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,400
Or Artie.
About how much of this episode

783
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,240
was dedicated to Puck and Quinn.
Yeah.

784
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,600
Yeah, cuz they were like these
people are never gonna come

785
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,600
back.
I was just literally searching

786
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,120
the wiki to see if it was either
of their final episodes and it

787
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,720
doesn't say it is so.
No, because they come back in

788
00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:16,440
season 6 but I don't think that
the plan for season 6 had

789
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,840
happened was a was a thing in
their heads.

790
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,600
And I also don't think any of
these actor cause like this was

791
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:27,800
also Diana's first time coming
back since.

792
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:30,200
He sang love song that time,
yeah.

793
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:35,040
Yeah, so since since Rachel was
convinced not to show off her

794
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:36,760
boobs.
Naked.

795
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,080
Film.
Right.

796
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,160
But so this is so this is her
like third appearance since she

797
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:48,200
graduated, right?
But it was a whole big to do

798
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,600
outside of the show because she
didn't come back for the

799
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,360
quarterback.
And it was this whole he said,

800
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:58,160
she said because she said she
wasn't asked back, but Ryan

801
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,800
Murphy said that it was because
of scheduling problems.

802
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,600
And like he said that she said
no, I wasn't asked back And

803
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,080
like, I would have made it work
with my schedule.

804
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,240
So her being back for this was
like this massive deal.

805
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,760
And because there was like this
little bit of like bad blood

806
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,200
before there, I don't think that
they actually expected her to

807
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,120
say yes to come back for
anything else.

808
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,640
So this is like this massive
send off for this character

809
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,920
that, like, was very, very
beloved in the first three

810
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,560
seasons, even though, like in
Season 3, she's essentially

811
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,800
getting scraps.
And she knew that, 'cause I also

812
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:43,240
remember, we'll talk about
toxic, but I also remember one

813
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:46,120
of the big things, 'cause she
was doing a lot of film stuff

814
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,200
around this time.
And one of the things that she

815
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,840
said in an interview was that
she never wanted to put on a

816
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:56,880
cheerleading uniform ever again.
So then them doing toxic in the

817
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,720
Cheerios outfit, I was like how
much money did they give you

818
00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:03,320
Dee?
I hope it was enough.

819
00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:06,360
Must have been.
I hope, I hope it was enough to

820
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,360
erase the pain and.
The trauma.

821
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:15,560
This was one of the few episodes
written by all three of RIB.

822
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,560
Since how long?
It says the other three are

823
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,760
pilot, showmance and the
quarterback.

824
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,720
I'd seen that too, so.
Showmance is definitely the odd

825
00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:26,440
man out there.
Yeah, that's the one, right?

826
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,440
Yeah, what a weird like.
Yeah, one off to throw in there.

827
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,240
So I guess they felt the need to
be like, well it's a historic

828
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,120
episode, let's all get our names
on it and work together to write

829
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,400
Quinn fanfic.
Yeah.

830
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,880
I guess that's why it feels kind
of disjointed because like you

831
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,000
could say that the A plot is
like getting the Glee club back,

832
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,440
but that.
Except it's like over here.

833
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:56,320
Yeah, it's like every every.
So I divided my notes into the

834
00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:05,720
diva off Glee club.
Quick the two or like 3 Britana

835
00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:08,960
scenes and then miscellaneous
and miscellaneous is just like

836
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:13,720
April jokes.
I don't know where this fits

837
00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:19,160
'cause she's just been saying
shit and it's like the A plot is

838
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,120
like technically trying to get
the Glee club back but really

839
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,760
it's just singing these songs
and whatever plot they fit into

840
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:28,960
and so every scene is like
divided into these.

841
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,520
I would actually say the A plot
is the deva off.

842
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,280
Yeah, I think so.
It's the one that gets the most

843
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,600
time.
With the least amount of

844
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:42,560
consequence like.
Who cares literally Canon wise.

845
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,920
Like they literally say like
this.

846
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,440
Voting has no bearing on
literally anything, ever.

847
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,360
On literally anything.
You still don't.

848
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:50,920
You're not in this Glee club
anymore.

849
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:52,680
You are gonna go back to New
York.

850
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:56,400
You're gonna go back to LA.
You're still not friends because

851
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,480
you've never been friends, no
matter what your little bathroom

852
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,040
conversation says.
No matter how many duets you did

853
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,240
together.
Right.

854
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:04,880
What the fuck are we wasting our
time on here for?

855
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,360
So do we talk about the dev off?
Let's go do it.

856
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,640
So, you know, Mercedes and
Rachel have to argue and fight

857
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,720
because that's what they do on
the show, whether or not it

858
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,360
makes sense.
Yeah, the episode just makes

859
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:28,640
them clash together for reasons.
They're going to re sing.

860
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,360
Is this the third time they do
it?

861
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,640
I think so.
I think no, I think it's the

862
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,000
second time.
I don't think they've done

863
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,160
defying gravity since the first
D Boff.

864
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,280
I think it's been referenced a
lot.

865
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,360
OK, they sing for good on stage
at the Gershwin.

866
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:44,520
Maybe that's what you're
thinking of.

867
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,240
There is like another Wicked
episode, but I think this is the

868
00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:49,120
second time they do define
gravity.

869
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,360
Also, this is the version of
Defying Gravity that was like

870
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,600
outselling the Wicked movie
versions for a bit because it

871
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,520
was like the only version with
no dialogue.

872
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,040
You can just sing it straight
through.

873
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,760
Yeah, I don't know if it's still
out selling, but this is the one

874
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,360
with Rachel, Kurt and Mercedes.
That's so fucking iconic.

875
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:08,480
So funny.
Yeah.

876
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:09,360
That's.
Great.

877
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,160
So yeah, they're gonna, they're
gonna diva off with Defying

878
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:18,040
Gravity because that's not
boring, I guess.

879
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:23,920
Like, they still care so much
about the opinion of the Glee

880
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:28,400
club of who these like 10 people
thinks which one of them is

881
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:34,080
better at singing, not who's a
better person, not who's kinder,

882
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:38,360
not who's a better person in
general.

883
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,680
Who cares about that stuff?
Who cares about that stuff?

884
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,880
Who's a better singer?
Which is so subjective 'cause

885
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,600
they're so different, right?
Anybody can tell that they're

886
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:53,480
just different types of singers.
They're also just like I was, I

887
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,400
want to complain about them
acting so childish with the

888
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:02,080
rules of the sing off and then
who gets to sing the song and

889
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,520
then you know, all of these
other different stupid details.

890
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,480
But they're literally 19.
They don't have fully developed

891
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,680
brains yet and they were never
the most level headed people to

892
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,520
begin with.
They're also.

893
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,400
Remixing it.
No, it's the same fucking

894
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,640
arrangement.
I am still just annoyed.

895
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,280
Yeah, yeah, this is so stupid.
It's the same song but worse

896
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:31,000
because again, none of them hit
the like high note like that was

897
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,040
the whole.
Thing.

898
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:38,840
Yeah, I have to admit, I I think
it may be because I'm so sick of

899
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:43,720
the never ending wicked
propaganda that's been happening

900
00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:45,480
for the last like year and a
half.

901
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,800
But I fully was just like, I
just fast forwarded through the

902
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,080
entire thing.
I was just like, I don't need

903
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:50,680
it.
I don't need it.

904
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,280
I don't need it.
I have I have Idina Menzel and

905
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:58,080
Kristen Chenoweth on my like.
I don't need this however.

906
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,520
I did.
Really love April's comments of

907
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:04,360
that song.
Should be on the Broadway.

908
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:07,520
Yeah, that was great.
Because Queen.

909
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:14,360
Angel the nod.
I listened to it only to hear

910
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:18,960
Kurt to see what they were gonna
do differently with him, which I

911
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,720
guess was to have him sing like
2 lines in the beginning and

912
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:23,960
then leave him out of the rest
of it.

913
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,960
Entirely.
I feel I also didn't get the

914
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,440
little voice over right before
where both Mercedes and Rachel

915
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:34,640
were like all my self esteem.
Depends on how well this goes.

916
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,480
I was just happy to be there, I
started.

917
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:41,160
Singing and then Kurt singing.
I'm like, OK Kurt, self esteem

918
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,120
intact.
He didn't need a voice over to

919
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,840
let us know that.
He's fine because he didn't.

920
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,160
He beat Rachel with bring him
home like 3 weeks ago in

921
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,480
Showtime.
He's fine.

922
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:52,760
Yeah, they already had their
devo off.

923
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,600
He's like, that's settled.
Yeah, we're good.

924
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,920
Yeah, and then Shu pulls another
one of his bullshit maneuvers

925
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,600
where he's like, we're not
actually gonna vote.

926
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,000
Right now, we're gonna vote
tomorrow.

927
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,600
You guys are gonna sit on it.
Yeah.

928
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,360
And then they both have these
scenes of like, trying to

929
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,240
convince other people.
Why?

930
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:19,560
They should win.
And it's like, OK, then this

931
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,200
isn't about talent.
No, they're doing.

932
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:23,360
Which it never.
Won.

933
00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:27,200
Right.
Santana has a rant right before

934
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,160
they start.
Right at some point she has a

935
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,800
rant.
She's very mean.

936
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,360
Yes.
But is she wrong?

937
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:40,400
No, no.
She says you've sold half the

938
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,840
people in the room down the
river more times than I can

939
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:44,200
count.
True.

940
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,680
I'm like, no, that's that's
true.

941
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,480
And the other half, you don't
even know their names.

942
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:50,640
And she's like, I know.
So true.

943
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,000
She points to Ryder.
And she's like, what?

944
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:55,320
Who?
Who's he?

945
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:57,520
Rick.
No.

946
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:01,520
No, sweetie, no.
In her defense, I sometimes also

947
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,160
forget his name.
Yes.

948
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,320
Also, during Santana's rant, I
noticed that there's a shot of

949
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,600
shoe in the background just kind
of like shaking his head.

950
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,160
And I was like, you could have
prevented this.

951
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,240
You don't get to sit.
You could, you don't get to

952
00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:14,840
stand there and like shake your
head.

953
00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:19,400
I know they're not your students
anymore, but you could have cut

954
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,120
Santana off.
Yeah.

955
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:22,960
You.
You didn't.

956
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,880
Like he never cuts her off when
he was when she was his student.

957
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,640
Yes.
And but it's like, you don't get

958
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:37,320
to like be annoyed that somebody
is like actively being so

959
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:42,640
harmful if you're not doing
anything about it, Rachel says.

960
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:45,120
You're So go ahead.
You're so mean.

961
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:50,000
They do reveal that they stuffed
the ballot box at prom for prom

962
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,400
queen.
And you know what?

963
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,600
That.
Didn't surprise me at all.

964
00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:56,600
Not at all.
Which I guess I thought they

965
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:00,960
already knew, but it was because
it's so embedded in the lore

966
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,720
already.
Like, Oh yeah, she didn't win

967
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,880
like.
But we we as the audience know.

968
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,960
But Rachel thinks she actually
won.

969
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,320
And so.
This whole time.

970
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:13,080
So it's this thing of like, you
know, a couple weeks ago it was

971
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:16,880
revealed to her that Kurt threw
that high note for his dad.

972
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:21,240
And so this so this, this like
diva off that she has built her

973
00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:24,400
entire like self esteem on is
actually built on a lie.

974
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:29,120
And then this like other thing
that she built probably some

975
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,920
sort of like self esteem in
terms of like confidence or like

976
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:37,760
acceptance of, you know, the
school accepts her as a like

977
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,000
somebody who's worthy of winning
prom queen, even though she I

978
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,560
don't think she was running, but
also like as Finn's partner,

979
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:50,320
also a lie.
So it's like this like 1-2 punch

980
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,840
that have come within the same
like few months.

981
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:56,280
But then she says you're so
cruel Santana.

982
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,760
You're only doing this because
you're a lonely understudy and

983
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:05,360
I'm the lead.
I'm better than you lady like.

984
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:11,040
Being an understudy for a
Broadway opening is like dog

985
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,000
food.
Like what?

986
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,560
The understudies work harder,
the swings work harder.

987
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:21,480
Also, that comment by itself
would get you dropped from a

988
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:26,120
storefront show in Chicago, let
alone being a Broadway lead.

989
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,360
Like, you don't, you don't get
to talk to people like that.

990
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:36,800
You also don't get to disrespect
people like that and still be

991
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:40,640
employable.
Granted, Peter Facinelli wasn't

992
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:45,840
here to like, hear that.
Daddy Cullen wasn't here to say

993
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:50,800
oh, you're fired.
But she like, wants out crying.

994
00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:53,040
'Cause she's a victim.
Gosh.

995
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:58,360
She's a victim like, and then
Merced and then and then we go

996
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,640
to this bathroom scene.
Mercedes going to comfort her is

997
00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:03,960
crazy.
She's a better person than I.

998
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:10,440
I hated this so much like this.
No the scene was garbage.

999
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:13,880
Like talking to her like she
isn't the asshole in this is

1000
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,360
terrible.
Talking to her also then

1001
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:23,080
Mercedes like names all of the
people who like are the voices

1002
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:26,480
of her imposter syndrome.
And Rachel's like, oh, I would

1003
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,400
hate to think that I was one of
your tormentors.

1004
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:29,400
Oh, you.
Were.

1005
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,320
Oh, you.
So were you, So were.

1006
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:39,480
Like, I was this the show trying
to gaslight us using the term

1007
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,640
vaguely incorrectly, but like,
was the show retconning us?

1008
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,360
Are they, it was the show being
like, no, no, no, no, no.

1009
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:46,920
You just don't understand the
relationship.

1010
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:49,360
Like, no, I understand it.
I get it.

1011
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:53,040
I watched it.
What are you trying to do here?

1012
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,360
I I saw how Rachel talked to
everybody.

1013
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:59,880
I saw what she did.
And also like, why isn't

1014
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:04,440
Mercedes is like like nobody
else was, nobody else was

1015
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,640
pounding down the door to like
talk Rachel off this ledge.

1016
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:13,440
And then like, I don't remember
a lot of like, Kurt's stance

1017
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:17,080
within the Santana Rachel feud,
but I feel like I would

1018
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,600
understand him, A, not wanting
to get in the middle and B,

1019
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,200
having more important things to
do.

1020
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,840
Like if you don't see your dad
all that often but you live with

1021
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,760
Rachel, anytime you're not in
the choir room, I just assume

1022
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:29,840
you're hanging out with your
dad.

1023
00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:33,680
Or his fiance.
Or his fiance, I don't know.

1024
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,640
Yeah, sounds, you know what
sounds like not something that

1025
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:45,000
Rachel's butt monkey would do.
But nobody else was like on

1026
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,800
Rachel's side here.
Nobody else was, like, going to

1027
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:53,280
comfort her.
I would love to know if there

1028
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,640
was actually any reasoning for
why Mercedes would do it or if

1029
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,680
it was just like, no, this is
the Rachel show.

1030
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:05,520
I think it's the Rachel show and
I think it's another, I think

1031
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,960
it's a bit like Quinn where
we're not going to see Mercedes

1032
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,440
again.
So let's give her a scene,

1033
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,520
right?
And we've always used Mercedes

1034
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,040
to prop up Rachel.
So we have like, this is what we

1035
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:21,080
know how what to do with her.
Like the show is never going to

1036
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:25,720
put Mercedes above Rachel.
It was never going to end her

1037
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:29,760
time on screen with her
triumphing over Rachel.

1038
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,000
It's never going to end with
them voting for Mercedes over

1039
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,760
Rachel.
It was never going to end with

1040
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:39,000
Rachel running out in a huff and
Mercedes being like yeah she

1041
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,320
does suck ass like.
Sucks to suck.

1042
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,120
Sucks, which sucks.
I'm making it in LA without

1043
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:48,120
being a little bitch about it.
Which is.

1044
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:49,480
I wouldn't love to have seen
that.

1045
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:53,840
Though I am, I would have.
I know that watching TV is free,

1046
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:54,880
but I would have paid good
money.

1047
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,920
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1049
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