Original Air Date—12 October 2010
The glee club works on a duet assignment, and Finn and Rachel plan to throw the competition so that Sam can have a shot at winning. Meanwhile, a love triangle between Mike, Tina and Artie develops.
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or iTunes"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - Rachel Berry & Finn Hudson - originally by Elton John and Kiki Dee
"River Deep – Mountain High" - Mercedes Jones and Santana Lopez - originally by Ike & Tina Turner
"Get Happy" / "Happy Days Are Here Again" - Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel - originally by Judy Garland Barbra Streisand
"Le Jazz Hot" - Kurt Hummel - originally by Victor/Victoria
"Lucky" - Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) and Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet) originally by Jason Mraz and Colbie Calliat
"Sing!" - Mike Chang and Tina Cohen-Chang - originally by A Chorus Line
Cory Monteith, Bruce Springsteen Glee's done Madonna, they've conquered Britney. But can McKinley High's New Directions take on The Boss? Multiple reports say the hit musical comedy is mulling a Bruce Springsteen-themed episode to air immediately following the Super Bowl, which Fox is televising come Feb. 6. And now the word is Springsteen himself may guest-star — not as himself but as Finn Hudson's uncle. Check out five reasons Springsteen and Glee should unite:
1. The Garden State needs an image rehabilitation via TV, and The Boss can deliver it
We love GTL and table-flipping as much as the next person. But between The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Jersey Shore, Jerseylicious and Jersey Couture, reality TV has now painted New Jersey locals as a bunch of overly tanned, overly dramatic guidos and guidettes with accents as thick as their hair. (It's really not that bad depending on where you're from.) It's time for Springsteen to step up and help out his neighbors with a quality program (one that doesn't take place 80 years ago, sorry Boardwalk Empire). Who wouldn't want to hear Mr. Schu belt out "Thunder Road" as he continues to pine over Emma.
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2. Glee did such a good job with "Born to Run" ... why not take it all the way?
In August, Jimmy Fallon recruited much of the Glee club (and a slushy-happy Jane Lynch!) to help perform an upbeat and uproarious rendition of Springsteen's "Born to Run." The performance not only earned Fallon high praise from critics, and not since "Don't Stop Believing" have they show-choir'd up a song like that. It's about time the cast got back into the Glee mode and took The Boss to the next level.
3. Between "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and "The Rising," Springsteen's catalog is full of possibilities
Although Heather Morris completely killed it last week in her performances of both "I'm a Slave 4 U" and "Me Against the Music," the Britney Spears episode, let's be real, they were all a bunch of hallucinations. Puck, lost without Quinn, could so rip up "Hungry Heart." The whole club could use a crowd-pleaser like "The Rising" as an inspiring way to win over the judges at sectionals.
Glee plans episode responding to gay teen's suicide
4. Both Springsteen and Glee aren't afraid to stand — and sing — for something
Springsteen has always prided himself as being the voice of the working man. In recent years, he's publicly opposed the war in Iraq and campaigned for Democratic candidates such as John Kerry and President Barack Obama. The Rising was one of the first records to address the 9/11 attacks. Glee has tackled social issues such as abortion, disabilities and religion. The show also plans to dedicate an upcoming episode on the day-to-day fear and isolation some gay teens face.
5. Because Cory Monteith is the spitting image of The Boss
OK, dimwitted but still completely lovable Finn Hudson (Monteith) doesn't really bear that much of a resemblance to the aging rocker. But after Kurt's dad had a heart attack, Finn needs a father figure now more than ever. Plus, some of Monteith's best series performances have been covers of classic rock songs like Van Morrison's "Hello, I Love You" and the Pretenders' "I'll Stand By You," which means he's completely capable of handling The Boss. Our dream pick? "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)," which he'll sing to his neurotic love Rachel, of course.
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The actor who plays blue-collar Burt Hummel is coy about this week's cliffhanger that left his character in a hospital bed on the brink of death, but in real life O'Malley is doing just fine.
He has another project as a writer/producer on Shameless, a Showtime series set to air in January starring William H. Macy, and keeps busy as a playwright and coach to his son's baseball, basketball and soccer team.
O'Malley caught up with PEOPLE to dish on the emotional episode that had everyone talking:
1. No Burt Ghost
"There's been some conversation about whether or not at the end of that episode, I did indeed move my finger," O'Malley says. "I did move my finger. But it doesn't necessarily mean – Okay, I'll put it this way – I'm not dead at the end of last week's episode." He won't elaborate on what viewers can expect next week, but says, "I doubt very much that there's going to be a ghost character."
2. Method Acting as a Near-Corpse
"They told me, 'You know what, Mike? You don't need any makeup. You're fine as is,' " he says. "I thought they were going to try to make me look somewhat deathly. I was like, 'Don't you need to add anything to this?' So, I'm walking around in my normal life, looking like I just had a heart-attack. That's what that notion is telling you when they tell you that you don't need any makeup."
3. A Big Post-Coma Number?
"I think it would be awesome if Burt lives, if part of his moment is him picking up the guitar," O'Malley says. "There doesn't seem to be any clamor for a song from Burt, but I would love if it happens. Is there an actor who wouldn't want to sing on one of the top-rated shows in the country? Of course I want to sing!"
4. His Family Didn't Watch
"My kids are 3, 5, and 7, so they don't have any notion of me as an actor, really," O'Malley says. "The kids don't really watch Glee. We try to follow the TV ratings guidelines, and I think Glee is 12-plus, and it deals with some of the cruelty that people in high school perpetuate on one another. My kids have plenty of time before they have to be introduced to the cruelty of the world."
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Most of the cast, sans Lea Michele and Jane Lynch, hosted a benefit Sunday to raise money for The Rape Treatment Center. And many of them talked to us about an upcoming episode that will address another unfortunate, but prevalent social issue: gay suicide.
So what's the plan?
"[Show creator] Ryan [Murphy] wants to do an episode about it, which I think is very smart of him," the delectable Matthew Morrison told us. "As a cast I don't know much we can do. That's why I think an episode would be great... Ryan is very current with staying on the times, so I think it would be this season if it were to happen."
Anything to get the word out quickly about this terrible trend, right?
"I just found out today about the episode, and I think that's amazing," chimed in one of our fave Glee gals, Heather Morris. "I just saw the tragedies on the news the other night. I think people need to be aware of what the internet is doing for so many people. Yeah it's good, but people are putting up other people's private movies? It's disgusting."
Heather is referring to Tyler Clementi, a student who jumped from the George Washington Bridge after a video of him with another man was put online without his knowledge.
"It's sad that it's taken these past few weeks and horrible tragedies to really let people know what's going on," added Kevin McHale. "I think being in our position and Ryan taking that on is great."
"Hopefully we can move the general public and let the kids and the parents watching the show know that everybody deserves to be loved," McHale 'fessed.
Jessalyn Gilsig took Kevin's sentiment one step further saying it's the parents who really need to listen up:
"What's unique about Glee is we have this audience of kids and adults. Just as it's important to send this message to the kids about bullying and the effect in can have, we have to send it to the parents. We have to send it to the teachers.
"It's the adults who have to start taking responsibility and managing this behavior and educating youth on acceptance, empathy, and compassion," J. continued rather sternly. "In a sense, I can't even demonize the children as much as I do the families that need to know. Parents and the administration need to take responsibility."
Bravo to Ryan and the entire cast for what they do. Glee truly is a unique platform to address social issues.
Sunday alone the cast in attendance raised enough money to support The Rape Treatment Center for an entire year!
Talk about using star power for good.
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In last week’s episode, Emma really gave Will a talking-to that he needed, to the point that many of us thought he seemed kind of lame by the end of the episode. How do you think Emma views Will right now?
For Emma, she’s always going to have that attraction to Will — I don’t want to lead people to believe that she doesn’t have feelings for him anymore. But I think she could sense in him that he was becoming detached from who he really was. Right now, I think, she’s just focusing hard on trying to be a better Emma and wanted to see that in Will, too, and instead she saw someone else entirely. So I just think she thought, Oh Will, you’re just trying too hard. At the end of the episode they always give Emma these great moments of clarity, which I really appreciate for the character. It’s one thing to see a girl who just has OCD and germophobia, but to see that other side of her and that she can pull it together — it shows she’s well-rounded.
So, does John Stamos have the power to make even ladies feel less pretty than himself?
Yeah, I definitely feel like there was some drooling from both men and women the first day he was on set. You don’t understand how someone can get better looking with age, but he does. But he’s wonderful to work with; I admired him before, I knew he’d done Broadway, and I actually think he’s a wonderful actor. I love that he’s always trying to come up with nicknames for us all. What is he calling me now? Maybe "Jaymamazing." He calls Matthew Morrison "Matty Fresh."
Now that Emma has a boyfriend, will we be seeing any differences in the way she dresses? Fewer sweater clips, perhaps?
Well, I definitely don’t think the sweater clips are ever going away. That may be attributed to an illness — it’s always going to be a part of her life. But in our first fitting back for the second season, I felt like a bit of the quirkiness is being toned down. For instance, she never had anything black in the first season, and I will be wearing a black, fitted pencil skirt and a black-patent-leather belt coming up. A little more sophistication.
In season one, one of Sue’s best insults was calling Emma “a mentally ill ginger-pygmy with eyes like a bush baby.” So, how’d you take that?
It’s one of my favorite lines, too! My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I’m completely used to it, and I’ve come to see it as a term of endearment. But it’s so funny, I was like, what exactly is a bush baby? So I looked online and the first image that popped up was a cute little creature, but a creature nonetheless, hanging in a tree, and I’m thinking, Oh my gosh, that’s what people think I look like?! But I love that [the writers] pick on us. I applaud it whenever they can come up with anything funny about me.
Emma’s OCD has been treated pretty gracefully thus far, though it’s a thin line to walk for both you and the writers, I’d imagine …
Obviously I would hate to feel that someone who has OCD would feel I was making fun of them, that would absolutely destroy me. But I think we all have some sort of issue they’re dealing with, and I think it’s okay to make fun of that sometimes. In last week’s show, there’s the scene where she’s neatly organizing the pamphlets on her desk, and I feel that’s just what she would do. I understand that it adds comically to the scene sometimes, but I think it’s a wonderful part of her. I hope she can relax a bit, but it’s part of Emma Pillsbury being Emma Pillsbury.
Have you noticed any of Emma’s habits trickling into your real life?
You know, I do keep Purell in my purse now. But if anything, I think it’s made me be more messy at home. If I catch myself straightening things I’m like, Aaah, I’m being Emma! And I’ll stop. And when I put on cardigans now, my husband tells me, "You look too much like Emma." So no more cardigans for Jayma Mays.
You sang a lovely rendition of “I Could Have Danced All Night” last season. What kind of musical background do you have?
I don’t really have one. That’s why it’s always very exciting and nerve-racking for me to do a number on the show. Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home. And that was really it until I came out here. To be honest, I kind of winged it. You get the script and you’re told you have to sing a song, and you literally have to do it the next day. But Adam Anders, our kind of musical director, he made me feel so comfortable and worked with me for a little while while we were recording that song.
Will we hear Emma sing again anytime soon?
I do sing in the Rocky Horror episode. It’s a very Janet song. I don’t know what I’m allowed to give away, so I’ll just say that.
Please explain the experience of working on a Smurfs movie. Do you interact with actual Smurfs?
I will give you the rundown. Most of my stuff was either with a metal stick or Neil Patrick Harris. I’m not even going to say which was better. I think my first two or three weeks were alone, just my scenes with the Smurfs, and the first day Neil got there I was so excited another actor was going to be there and that I’d have a scene with a person, I just remember hugging him really tightly and thinking he’d think I was a crazy person. But it was definitely a challenge in a different way for me; I’d never had to do CGI work before. They had little kind of gelatinous Smurfs they could move around for you to rehearse with, and also wonderful voice actors reading the Smurf lines to delineate between the different Smurfs. Though the little Smurfs got a little grubby by the end; things started to stick to them.
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Bizarre, right? And brilliant!
Unfortunately, according to an Office source, no Glee actors will actually appear in the episode. Which means that no, Dwight will not get pantsed by Puck. (Curses!)
Thoughts? You can express them in the form of song quotes below if you feel that would be more apropos.
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Finn has an existential crisis when he believes he sees the face of Jesus in his grilled cheese sandwich. Meanwhile, the rest of the kids rally around Kurt after he has a crisis of his own that leads to a larger discussion among the group about their own theology.
When Brittany and the gang try to convince Mr. Schuester to let them do a Britney Spears number, he is reluctant to go that edgy. Meanwhile, an insecure Will is curious about Emma's new beau, Dr. Carl Howell, so he convinces her to bring him in to talk to the kids about dental hygiene. While the dreamy doc inspires the girls to take their dental health more seriously, Will is left feeling worse than before.
After a tough loss at Regionals, the glee club is back as the underdogs of McKinley High. When the school is faced with even more budget cuts, Mr. Schuester pushes the kids to help recruit new members for the club. Rachel and Finn disagree on new recruits, and aren't sure they will be able to come together in perfect harmony.
* More Musical Tributes: “The Madonna episode was so popular, I think I’m gonna do two tribute episodes — one in the fall and one in the spring — and we’re figuring out who those artists are.”
* New Characters: Murphy already let it slip that Susan Boyle might be appearing but he and producers are also looking to add some new members to the club, including a boyfriend for Kurt. “I just want him to be an everyday dude,” says Murphy. “And I want him to be sort of struggling [with his sexuality] and Kurt helps him deal with it and in the process they fall for each other.” Also look for a potential love interest for Mercedes and a Carrie Underwood-esque, Christian country singer who will be a rival to Rachel. “When people hear we’re going to do that, they will expect that we’re making fun of her,” says Murphy. “We’re not. The show is about inclusiveness and about giving voices to a lot of people.”
* A Major Season Finale: “I know that season two ends with Nationals in New York. I don’t know if they’ll make it — we haven’t figured that out.”
Here’s what the show’s stars had to share:
Jane Lynch, on Sue Sylvester: “There’s a real person beneath the bravado who wants to be accepted and loved although she would never show that. In her narcissistic view of the world, everything’s about one-upping and victory. I had an acting teacher in college we called the Dragon Lady. She taught through shame and humiliation, and when she walked down the hall, people would part like the Red Sea.”
Lea Michele, on why she’s drawn to playing Rachel: “The minute I read Rachel Berry, I felt such a connection to her. Her drive and passion for singing and performing – that’s my therapy in life. It helps me learn who I am. Rachel’s on that same journey.”
Chris Colfer, on mastering the “Single Ladies” dance: “Being told to dance one of the most iconic dances in pop culture when you can barely tap your shoes? Yes, I was proud of myself.”
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