Glee: Home
November 14th 2010 23:44
When Sue (Jane Lynch) calls Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Mercedes (Amber Riley) into her office and demands that Mercedes start wearing her Cheerios skirt instead of her pants (she’s not embarrassed about her body, just worried of showing too much skin “and causin’ a sex riot”. She fist-bumps Kurt, and Sue sarcastically asks, “How do you two not have a show on Bravo?”) Sue orders Mercedes to lose ten pounds by the end of the week when a reporter is coming to do his bit on how she (Sue) is the greatest cheerleading coach of the last 2000 years. Kurt stands up for Mercedes and Sue just tells him he could stand to lose a few pounds too. Now, if they’ll excuse her she has to make a call to inform the Ohio Secretary of State that she’ll no longer be carrying photo ID. Why? Sue leans across her desk. “People should know who I am.”
When Sue takes over the auditorium, Will (Matthew Morrison) is forced to find somewhere else for his kids to practice. He ends up at a roller-skating rink. A rink that, is owned by none other than April? “No way.” April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth) spots him at the same moment. “Will Schuester? As I live and breathe!” She shouts into the mic, “Oh isn’t he smokin’?” and Will rushes over to get her to stop. “I smell a duet coming on,” she tells him, and before he can stop her, she’s already singing “Fire” by Springsteen”. He reluctantly grabs a mic and sings with her while they skate.
After the song he asks her what happened. The last time he saw her she was headed off to Branson. She tells him that she’s the new mistress of an incredibly wealthy strip mall tycoon. He feels bad for her, but she tells him it’s no problem, she’s happy. She also happily tells him that he can bring his Glee kids to the roller-skating rink any time. When he says he’s got to run, he’s trying to sublet his apartment, and when she finds out about his divorce, she perks up. She’s gonna go get herself a bikini wax, and then see him tomorrow at his apartment, because she’d like to sublet it.
The mid-week weigh-ins arrive for the Cheerios, and Mercedes steps on the scale. She’s been eating right and exercising and—“Well look at that, you gained two pounds,” Sue tells her. Mercedes is horrified. What’s she going to do?
Meanwhile, Kurt hooks his dad up with Finn’s mom, and when Finn stops his mom from selling his dad’s chair (how could she do that? It’s his Dad’s chair!) along with all their other furniture, Finn is furious to find out that Kurt’s behind it all. He likes his house. He is NOT moving into Kurt’s house, he’s not letting his mom sell the only chair he has a picture of him and his dad in, and he’s not letting his mother forget about his father. At school, Kurt sings “A House Is Not A Home”. Finn sings to his father’s urn in the chair at his home.
And the song continues into a duet mash-up with “One Less Bell to Answer” between Will and April, when she comes to check out his apartment and asks if she can sleep there. Just sleep, nothing more. She doesn’t like being alone, and if she’s going to rent his apartment, she likes to get the feel of it first. Although he doesn’t think it’s a good idea, Will takes pity on her and lets her sleep over. But she’s staying on the couch. And the liquor cabinet is off limits. “Don’t worry,” she tells him, pulling out a bottle. “Brought my own.” Wearily, he tells her goodnight and goes into his room. April starts to sing, and he hears her and comes out to help her make her bed. He tucks her in, kisses her cheek, and goes back to bed. She sneaks in mid-song because she feels safer sleeping next to someone, and feeling bad for her and a little alone himself, he lets her.
“Since he went away…” she sings sadly, and he echoes, “Since she went way…”
“All I do is cry,” they both finish singing.
They stare at the ceiling, each lost to their own melancholy thoughts.
“Goodnight Will.”
“Goodnight April.”
Kurt, Finn, and their parents go out to eat. Kurt toasts their new family, to which Finn grumbles, “we’re not a family.” Kurt’s dad assures him that he’s not expecting them to be. Right now he and Finn’s mom are just enjoying each other’s company. Changing the subject, he starts talking sports with Finn, and Kurt starts to feel left out. Suddenly his plan doesn’t seem to be going at all like he wanted it to. When his dad sees that it’s bothering him, he assure Kurt later on that, “You are my son. And a little guy talk with some other kid isn’t gonna change that.” “Guy talk?” Kurt whispers. “I’m a guy.” Maybe he was wrong. Maybe it is too soon for his dad to start dating someone. His dad reminds him that his mom’s been dead 8 years, and Kurt asks him to leave.
At the skating rink, Will watches his kids skate around and fall down. There’s no singing going on. Frowning, he tells April that he doesn’t think this is going to work out. She tells him she’s thinking about closing up early. What does he say to getting a pizza and maybe snuggling up to watch a movie? “I don’t think we should make it a habit of spending the night together,” he says, and she answers, “All we did was sleep.” “No,” he corrects, “all YOU did was sleep. I was up all night with you kicking me.” She apologizes, “thems the night terrors”, and he convinces her that she deserves more than being a millionaire’s mistress. “Listen, if you need a place to stay tonight—“ “No,” she interrupts. He’s right. She’s going to go over to Buddy’s tonight and tell him it’s over. “Turns our roller rinks? Not so profitable.” She hugs him. “You always give me the right advice Mr. Schuester.” She smiles. “See you around.”
In the hallway at school, Kurt tells Finn that he made a mistake. They need to break up their parents right away. Kurt admits he feels left out when Finn talks sports with his dad, and Finn admits he doesn’t like that his mom is moving on from his dad. They agree to try and break them up. At home, Finn grabs his dad’s urn and heads into the bathroom. His mom stops him. Is he insane? What’s he doing? Oh, just what she was doing. “I mean what’s the point of keeping his remains around if you’re just gonna dump ‘em out like an old ash tray?” She takes the urn. “Fine.” She sets the urn on the chair, and when he asks her what she’s doing, she tells him just what they’ve been doing the last 15 years. “Pretending.”
She flips on the TV and suggests he comes over to watch something with the family. He thinks she’s being crazy, and she tells him he’s being selfish. He argues that this family works, and she says it just gets by because he doesn’t know any better. She really likes Burt. Breaking down, Finn’s mom tells him that she’s spent the last 16 years talking to his father, asking for advice and getting no answer. “And waiting to hear his laugh, and for him to tell me that he loves me…And he never does.” Tearfully she adds, “And he never will.” He tells her that he’s not ready to move, and his dad wouldn’t want him to do anything he wasn’t ready for. She tells him she loves him so much, but they don’t need any more ghosts. “We need a family, a home.” She cups his cheek.
After starting to see her friends as food, and talking to Quinn, who knows exactly how she feels, Mercedes realizes that she’s proud of her body, and that she doesn’t need to change. But only after she admits to Quinn, “I’m so embarrassed, this isn’t me. How did I become this person?” “You are beautiful,” Quinn answers. “You know that.” When the big Cheerios number comes up, Sue, the reporter sent to write about her, and the rest of the school, watch as Mercedes changes it up and says she thinks being a Cheerio should be about more than looking hot and being popular. She’s hear to sing about something else. And “if you like what we have to say, come down here and sing it with us.” Mercedes sings from her heart. “You are beautiful, no matter what they say, words can’t bring me down.” She welcomes the rest of the kids who feel like losers to join her. Quinn gets up. The rest of the Glee club follows. Will stands up along with the rest of the audience, very proud of his kids. When the song’s over, Kurt turns to Mercedes and hugs her, thanking her.
Later on in Sue’s office, the reporter admits that he only came here to write up something to expose her “as a cowards and a cheat. I couldn’t have been more wrong.” Sue does a double-take. “You’ve got every sized Cheerio up their singing about empowerment and inclusion,” he tells her. “Telling everyone it’s okay to be exactly the person you are. You’re a visionary, and, I think, redefining cheerleading. Bravo.” Recovering quickly, Sue tells him that she’s not surprised, she works hard to get her girls to realize it’s what’s inside that counts. He tells her it’s an honor and leaves. Sue is left in her office to think about his words.
Kurt’s dad goes to Finn, who wants to talk to him, and tells him he understands. “No way can I feel his shoes,” he says of Finn’s dad, and he tells him that he loves his mom. “I can’t be your dad, but I’ll be her hero. As long as she’ll let me.” OK, what was it Finn wanted to tell him? Finn says he was just wondering if he wanted to watch the game. “Sure.” Kurt’s dad starts to sit down, but Finn tells him to “hold up.” He moves his dad’s urn. “You can sit here.” As they watch the game, Kurt sadly watches them from the doorway.
Back at school, April tells Will that she took his advice. She went home, told Buddy’s it over, and then he died! Feeling awful, Will apologizes and asks if she’s okay, and she’s more than okay. Buddy’s wife gave her some hush-money and now she’s rich! She’s going to take that money, get sober, and start over again. She’s headed to Broadway!
“Did you tell him yet?” Rachel asks, grinning, and when Will asks why, April says, “That I bought y’all the auditorium.” As the kids clap, Will is touched, he doesn’t know what to say. “We’ve got that covered.” Dressed up and on stage, April takes to the mic and sings in the spotlight. “Maybe there’s a chance for me to go back now that I have some direction…” The kids back her up. Will watches in the audience, proud of April, and his kids. April finishes the song on a great note and Will smiles, swallowing hard. April’s gonna do just fine.
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