Glee: Dream On
November 22nd 2010 21:11
Will’s (Matthew Morrison) old high school rival, Bryan Ryan (guest star Neil Patrick Harris), shows up at school as a member of the school board there to do an audit of their curriculum. “We may need to cut some of our district’s art programs,” he tells Will, who can’t believe he’d think about cutting Glee, when Glee was Bryan Ryan’s life in high school. He got all the solos, all the girls, everyone loved him. Why would he want to cut it?
Well it turns out Mr. Bryan Ryan’s life hasn’t exactly gone like he’d planned. He’s now hosting a showchoir survival group and lying to himself. He’s miserable! He misses it so much he sneaks away every year to go see a bunch of Broadway shows. He makes the kids take out a piece of paper and right their dream on it. He then proceeds to snatch Artie’s up, crumple it up, and toss it in the trash, telling them that Mr. Shuester’s dream never came true, “And neither will yours!” Tina starts to cry.
In an effort to help out Bryan Ryan and save the Glee Club from his cuts, Will gets him to sing “Piano Man” to a bar jukebox, then talks him into trying out for Les Miserable with him. When the tryouts come, however, Bryan Ryan steals every song Will was going to sing, so the director (who also runs the Laundromat that does all the Cheerio’s uniforms) tells them to sing their song (“Dream On”) as a duet. Thus, one of the greatest duets ever begins.
Finding his renewed love of all things show choir, Bryan Ryan does the exact opposite of cutting the club. He buys them jean jackets and all the sheet music they could want. This is great! The greatness is short-lived, however, when Sue shows up to “congratulate” Will for getting the lead in Les Miserable. Bryan Ryan has one line. Dreams crushed again, he grabs the jean jackets and storms out.
Meanwhile, Jesse tries to get Rachel to meet her mom, who just so happens to be the director of rival Glee Club, Vocal Adrenaline. After getting her to go through all the boxes of baby stuff her dads have in the basement, he slips in a tape and presses play…
Tina, having found that Artie wrote “dancer” on his paper before Bryan Ryan threw it away, researches ways that could maybe help Artie walk again. When he reads it, Artie is optimistic. He dreams about getting up out of his chair and dancing in the mall. When he goes to visit Emma, telling her that he’s going to need help adjusting to his new life with legs, she gently reminds him that it takes a really long time for medical trials to go through. She has no doubt that one day he’ll walk, but it’s not going to be while he’s in high school. Sad, Artie leaves her office, leaving his research behind. He finds Tina and tells her to find someone else to dance with. He’s not going to be walking, he needs to be realistic and focus on dreams that can really happen. Tina does their tap routine with Mike.
Will finds Bryan Ryan at the theatre and gives him the lead role. He’s giving up his dream in hopes that all of his kids will one day get theirs.
Bryan Ryan: Show biz dreams are the most unrealistic of them all.
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Bryan Ryan: We'll probably cut the glee club.
Will: What? But you were in the glee club. Show choir was your life!
Bryan Ryan: It was, Will. And after I graduated, I hit the big time. I was a featured soloist at King's Island in the Dooble-dee-doo Musical Revue; we were a smash. Then, for three years I did the cruise ship circuit. When that dried up, I realized I had been sold a bill of goods. Nine years later, I woke up on a urine-stained mattress in the West Lima crack district. Then, something amazing happened: I was introduced to Jesus; he was my Honduran social worker. I straightened up, put down the pipe, met the love of my life Wilma, and now I run a successful used Hummer dealership. Don't make that face — global warming's a theory.
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Bryan Ryan: Show choir kills.
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Bryan Ryan: I've grown weary of your insults, Will. They sting, and they make me want to punch your face.
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Will: Glee club... it's about expressing yourself to yourself.
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Bryan Ryan: You can’t feed a child sheet music, Will. I suppose you could, but they'd be dead in a month.
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Russell: Uh, my name is Russell, and I'm a glee club survivor. Whenever anything bad would happen, I would just say, "Let's put on a show!" Well, guess what? Puttin' on a show about your father's prostate cancer will actually just make him more depressed about the situation.
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Sue: Is it a tad over-the-top to bill the district for sky-diving lessons to have the Cheerios parachuted onto the football field? Perhaps.
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Bryan Ryan: Should I lock the door?
Sue: No, I've got a secret room upstairs. Like Letterman.
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Rachel: I came in first place.
Jesse St. James: A You were eight months old.
Rachel: I was very musically verbal.
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Rachel: What if she's singing on the tape? What if she's terrible? Or worse — what if she's better than me?
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Jesse St. James: A dream is something that fills up the emptiness inside. The one thing that, you know if it came true, all of the hurt would go away.
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Artie: I sound like someone put tap shoes on a horse and shot it.
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Artie: I'm never gonna dunk a basketball or kill a lion. I need to focus on dreams I can make come true.
1. Mitch Leigh - The Impossible Dream
2. The Monkees - Daydream Believer
3. Billy Joel - Piano Man
4. Aerosmith - Dream On
5. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
6. Cast of "Les Miserables" - I Dreamed a Dream
7. Mamas and Papas - Dream a Little Dream
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