Glee: Mash-up
November 10th 2010 23:11
The slushie war has commenced! And when even Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Finn (Cory Monteith) are being hit, the rest of the club knows they’re not safe. When Finn gets hit by his first slushie in the history of his high school popularity, he and Quinn are horrified. So much for being the “It” couple. In a desperate attempt to reclaim their status, they visit Emma (Jayma Mays), who, while momentarily distracted by Will passing in the hallway, mutters, “Sunglasses are so sexy…” Um, what? She quickly recovers, telling the kids that she always sees celebrities wearing them, even inside or at night, so why don’t they try that? Awesome idea! She reminds them that the most important thing is just to be themselves, “and if people don’t like you for that, then I’m sorry, but who needs them?” Quinn and Finn put on the sunglasses and feel their statuses being rightly restored…for about two seconds. The plan doesn’t work, and they’re quickly back to being slushied yet again.
Meanwhile, Emma and Ken approach Will in the teacher’s lounge to ask them if 1. He can come up with a mash-up of the two songs they each want on their first dance at their, far-from-home-so-no-one-will- know Hawaii wedding (she wants “I Could Have Danced All Night”, he wants…”The Thong Song”, and 2. If he’ll give them dance lessons. Ken tells his friend that he’s not the one he needs to worry about, it’s Emma, because he had a monster case of athlete’s foot a while back and lost all his toe nails, so if she steps on his feet during the dance, he might pass out. Will slowly lowers his uneaten cookie and agrees to give them dance lessons and a mash-up for free, insisting he wants this to be their wedding present. Great!
In the choir room, Will passes out this week’s assignment—try to come up with a good song to mash-up with “Bust a Move”. When Finn can’t sing the lead because he’s still got corn syrup in his eyes from the slushie to the face, and Puck (Mark Salling) refuses to sing, Rachel is shocked at the lack of leading men in the room. Will is too, but shrugs it off and says he’ll just have to show ‘em how it’s done. He busts out his own moves, taking on the lead himself, and soon the whole room is rockin’ out with him. Now there’s a leading man!
After school, Emma walks down the hallway in her wedding dress, a dress that was her cousin Betty’s and involves a super long train. She comes into Will’s classroom as he finishes moving the desks out of the way and he’s surprised to see her in her dress. She explains that there is a reason she has it on now. Her cousin didn’t wear it to the rehearsal, so when she and her husband danced at the wedding, it was a disaster. He kept stepping on her train, “the priest cried, they were divorced three months later.” As the words sink in, she realizes, “Actually, maybe I shouldn’t—“ No, no, Will stops her. It’s fine. They’ll start with Ken’s song and try to work hers in and see how she moves in it. She adjusts her dress as he finishes with the chairs. “I’m really excited about t his.” He pressed the button on the CD player and the music to “The Thong Song” starts. He starts to sing.
Emma suddenly doesn’t seem to care that it’s the worst wedding song ever, as Will sings to her and dances around her. “Let me see that thoooong...” She grins, falling in love with him all over again as he takes her hand, dancing out Ken’s part. Suddenly Will trips over her train and they both fall to the floor, her landing on top of them. Will laughs as they both ask if they’re okay, and Emma grins down at him. “It’s the darn Thong Song.” He laughs again. “I don’t think it’s the song. I think you need a new dress.” They laugh again.
Outside the door, Ken watches grimly. This was not what he imagined when he said he wanted dance classes.
Will helps Emma up.
At football practice the guys start in on Finn for joining Glee, and when a fight breaks out, Ken rushes in to stop it. “Football is war,” he shouts, “and not one single man can win that war even if they strap nukes on him!” He orders them all to start acting like a team again, start hanging out more, and starting next Thursday, he’s adding an extra practice at 3:30. Wait, Finn peaks up, that’s when Glee practices. Well Ken’s had enough of Will and Glee and tells Finn to tell Puck, who missed practice because he was working on his Glee assignment with Rachel, that come Thursday they have to make a choice: Football or Glee.
In Rachel’s room, Puck puts down his guitar and asks if they can stop practicing for a while, his ears hurt. “Wanna makeout?” he asks, and Rachel is momentarily surprised, before answering a cheerful, “Sure!” So, how did this all happen? Puck flashes back to the annual watching of “Shindler’s List” over Chinese food with his mom and sister, who runs screaming from the room, horrified. He remembers his mom commenting that he was no better than the people in the movie, and tearfully asking why he couldn’t date a nice Jewish girl. That night Puck had a dream about Rachel, realizing they’re both a couple of nice-looking Jews, and thus, the make-out session in Rachel’s room. She, however, is picturing Finn the entire time she’s kissing him, and suddenly pulls back. “I can’t do this.” When he asks her why not, she stats to say that she can’t give herself to someone who’s not—“brave enough to sing a solo,” she quickly finishes, and tells him she doesn’t think they’re going to work out. To prove her wrong, Puck steps up at the next Glee rehearsal and sings his own rendition of “Sweet Caroline.” Rachel, along with everyone else including Quinn, see a whole new side of Puck.
Sue’s Corner: “I hear people say, “That’s not how I define marriage, well to them, I say love knows no bounds. Why can’t people marry dogs? I’m certainly not advocating intimacy with pets, I for one think intimacy has no place in a marriage. Walked in on my parents once and it was like seeing two walruses wrestling. So “woof” on Prop 15 Ohio. And that’s how Sue, C’s it.” Sue finishes her bit and is asked out by Rod, the head News Anchorman. Surprised, Sue accepts.
Enlisting the help of her rival, Sue asks Will for swing dance lessons, and after an impressive number, they’re both happy, and *gasp*, getting along? This is a side of Sue few have had the privilege of seeing. Out of breath from the dance number, Will walks over to grab them both a bottle of water and admits that he was a little hesitant at first when she asked him for dance lessons, because, “you know, of how horrible you were to me and the Glee kids when Figgins made you co-director.” “Well live and let live,” she answers, accepting the water, and admits that she’s in love. Really? Yep. “After one date, Sue Sylvester is in love.”
Cut to the date: Rod looks over his Battleship board. “E9.” Sue puts her piece on the board, staring over her board at him. “You sunk my battleship Rod,” she tells him, “And you sunk it hard.” She makes an explosion noise. “You know Sue,” he tells her. “I like to swing.”
Sue tells Will Rod invited her to the annual swing benefit for sickle cell anemia, and Will tells her that he’s impressed. She seems so much happier, so much nicer. Plus she’s been really cool with Quinn. They continue to talk for a minute, and Sue lets slip the fact that Coach Tanaka is “finally putting his foot down”. Will is confused. What?
After finding out that Ken is making the guys choose between football and Glee, Will goes to talk to him, reminding him that they sat down and worked out a schedule back when some of his guys joined the club. Ken isn’t going to back down, claiming he has a serious moral issue with his team.
“Your commitment to football is about as long as your pants,” Will reminds. “Let’s get to what this is really about. You’re upset that I don’t like your song for your wedding dance, and you’re right, it’s not my place to have an opinion.”
“Why don’t you just cut the crap, Will,” Ken interrupts. “You’re not that naïve.” He leaves the towels and walks over. “This is not about a song, it’s my fiancé. You and I, the whole world, knows I’m just a consolation prize, how do you think that makes me feel?”
Will really did think I was about the song, and is confused. “Emma’s totally into you,” he assures, but Ken tells him that she’s just settling for him. “And I love her so much,” he says, “I don’t care. But that doesn’t mean I appreciate you coming in with your Gene Kelley charm and getting high off of her fawning over you.”
“I have never intentionally encouraged Emma.” Will is truly sorry. He hadn’t realized it before now. “But I haven’t discouraged her either,” he says more to himself then Ken. He assures his friend that it won’t happen again. “So we cool?” Can he have his guys back? Ken still won’t back down. He’s keeping his practice, Will can keep his. “We’ll see who’s first prize,” he grumbles, “and who’s a consolation prize.”
In the hallway, Rachel tells Puck how proud she is to have him on her arm in front of the whole high school. Puck is blasted with a slushie. As Rachel washes out his hair, what little there is of it, in the bathroom, Puck apologizes for ever having given anyone a slushie facial. He regrettably tells Rachel that he’s sorry, but when Thursday comes, he’s picking football. She understands. He feels “like such a bad Jew.”
Over their lunch break, Will waits outside the dressing room for Emma to try on her new wedding dress. He tells her they don’t have much time, that it doesn’t have to be perfect, they just have to see if she can dance in it. He absently plays with a garter, which flies off his fingers when she suddenly appears in front of him in her new dress.
“Fits okay?” she asks shyly and he stands up.
“Yeah, fits great…”
She walks over to take a look in the mirror and he steps up next to her. The dress is perfect, sweet, and very Emma. “Yeah,” Will says, smiling. “Perfect…So,” he quickly adds, “should we see if you can dance in it?” Emma nods and he walks over to start the instrumental version of her song. “You can sing along,” he tells her. “It’ll help with your footwork.”
“I Could Have Danced All Night” begins and he rejoins her, bowing as she curtseys. He takes her in his arms and dips her. They start to dance and Emma sings. “I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more…” He spins her. “I could have spread my wings, and done a thousand things, I’ve never done before…” They continue to dance, they’re very good together.
“I only know when he began to dance with me, I could have danced, danced, daaaanced, all night.” He lifts her up and dips her again. The songs ends. They stare at each other. “Yeah,” he says, absently stroking her hand. She’s still in his arms. “You can dance in it.”
He quickly stands her up and let’s go, heading for his bag and saying, “I’ve got to get goin’.” Emma is still a little breathless. He tells her about the big show-down he has and how he wants to support the kids. Emma is confused, didn’t he work things out with Sue already? It’s not Sue, he tells her, it’s Ken. If all the guys don’t pick Glee, they won’t have enough members for Sectionals. “Wish me luck.”
Back at school everyone stares up at the clock. It clicks to 3:30. Nothing. “I guess they’re not coming.” Will apologizes to his kids. They can’t understand how they could just abandon them—suddenly Mike and Matt wander in, followed by…Puck. Rachel runs over to hug him. Is he sure? If he’s in Glee he’s going to keep getting slushied. He smirks. “Bring it.” They all look around. “Where’s Finn?”
“OK let’s huddle up!” Finn choose football.
The next Glee kids jump out of the way of an oncoming slushie-carrier, who turns out to be…Finn? He stops in front of Kurt and Rachel, and admits that he doesn’t want to do this. Kurt grabs the cup. “What are you doing?” Finn asks, and Kurt answers, “It’s called taking one for the team.” He slushies himself, tells Finn to think whether any of his “friends” on the football team would have done that for him, then announces, “Someone get me to a day spa, stat!” The girls rush him off to the bathroom.
Later that night, all dressed up in her new zoot suit, Sue stops by the News station as a surprise for Rod. She finds him making out with his fellow anchor on the desk and stops dead in her tracks.
“Sue.”
“Rod.” She glares at the other woman. “Andrea.”
Rod is surprised to see her since she wasn’t scheduled to tape another Sue’s Corner, and she tells him she stopped by to show him her new zoot suit. “I had it made special for our dance competition.”
“But, uh, only the men wear those,” he tells her, to which she answers, “I’m further embarrassed.”
Andrea tells Sue that Rod took her to the dance last year and he tells Sue, “You didn’t think we were exclusive, did you?” “Only way I do it, Rod,” she tells him, and he tells her that he can’t be caged in, that even his wife knew that. “That’s why I got my tiger tattoo.” Sue doesn’t answer, and silently turns around.
“Are we still on for Saturday night?” Rod asks, and the old Sue is back with a curt, “No.” She leaves.
Rachel finds Puck sitting in the bleachers watching football practice and asks if he misses it. He says he doesn’t. She tells him she hopes he didn’t choose Glee over football for her, because she doesn’t think they’re going to work out, and he assures her that he didn’t, that he was going to break up with her anyway. Rachel realizes he likes Quinn and Puck grumbles about Finn and Quinn never breaking up and wonders why girls don’t like him. “Because you’re kind of a jerk,” Rachel answers, and can relate to the fact that he just wants it too much. Neither of them are going to have the one they want. She hopes they can still be friends. “We weren’t friends before,” Puck grumbles, and gets up and leaves.
Will shows up on the field and tosses the ball around with Finn. Finn tells him he’s not coming back, and Will answers, “these are the moments Finn, the crossroads…the ones you look back on when you get older and wonder, “what if?” Finn doesn’t buy it (unless of course you invent some kind of zombie virus or something).
“No, you’re right,” Will answers, tossing the ball back. “Life is a series of choices, a big combination of moments…Little ones that add up to big ones that culminate in who you are. You’re letting other people make those choices for you, Finn,” he says, catching the ball and walking towards him. “People you’re not even gonna know in three years, people whose names your gonna forget when you run into them at the hardware store.”
“You don’t understand the kind of pressure I’m under,” Finn tells his teacher, but Will does.
“Yes I do,” he tells him. “Because of all the students I’ve ever had, you remind me the most of me.” Finn looks up. “Come back to Glee Finn,” Mr. Schue tells him, handing back the football. “It’s where you belong.” He pats Finn on the shoulder and leaves.
Back in his normal clothes, Finn goes to talk to Coach Tanaka and tells him that he’s the quarterback, the leader, right? But lately he hasn’t felt very much like a leader. “I see a future where it’s cool to be in Glee club,” he says. “Where you can play football and sing and dance and no one gets down on you for it.” After a long pause, he finally admits, “I guess what I’m tryin’ to say is, I don’t want to have to choose between them anymore…It’s not cool.”
Ken stands up with a sigh, goes to the board, then finally tells him that Thursday practices have been cancelled indefinitely. He’s got other things to do then, stuff like laundry. “Oh.” Finn is relieved. “Cool.” Ken tells him to tell the other guys in Glee too.
Sue finds Will in the hall, telling him she’s going to need that set list after all. She demands it on her desk fresh from the laminator at 5 pm. And if it is one minute late, “I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty-cat. I will let you fall in love with that kitty-cat. And then some dark cold night I will steal away and steal away into your home and punch you in the face!” She starts to leave, and feeling sorry for her, he calls, “Hey Sue?”
“What?”
“Didn’t work out with Rod?”
“No it did not,” she answers curtly, and huffs off. She takes out her anger on Quinn, who she stops in the hall, kicks her off the team and calls her a disgrace.
Will finds Emma in her office and regretfully tells her that, as hard as he’s tried, he just can’t seem to get the two songs for her and Ken’s wedding mash-up to go together. “Yeah, that’s because they don’t,” she answers softly…we both know that. They’re both good songs though…”
“Great ones.”
They stare at each other a moment longer, and she clears his throat, thanking him for the dance lessons. He smiles sadly at her and leaves, she watches him go and lowers her head, trying not to cry.
Back in the choir room, Finn’s brought everyone slushies (to drink) as a gift for his return. He proposes a toast, “To Mr. Schue. You were right about football and Glee Club being a killer combination.” Everyone “whoo-hooos”, lifting their cups, and Artie apologizes for no one finishing their assignment this week. “I personally, feel like a failure,” he admits ruefully, and Mr. Schuester tells them that it’s okay, because he feels like the lesson landed anyway. He spots Quinn sitting by herself and asks if she’s okay.
“Do I look okay?” she answers. “I’m devastated. Now that I’m off the Cheerios, I’ll start every day with a slushie facial.”
“That’s okay if that happens,” Mr. Schue assures her, “because there are eleven of your friends right here who are gonna be more than happy to help clean you off.” They all happily agree. He takes another drink and winces. “Man, brainfreeze. I can’t imagine getting hit in the face with one of these.”
Sideways looks are shot around the room.
“You’ve never been hit with a slushie before Mr. Schue?”
He looks up. “Um…” They all start heading for him. “Alright guys, we’re a team.” He opens his arms. “Bring it on, give it your best shot.”
They all grin at each other and Rachel counts it down. “1…2…3!”
“Ahhhhh!”
Everyone throws their slushie at Mr. Schuester. He’s now thoroughly covered in icy purple goop. He sighs with a smile. “Alright, from the top.” He takes a sip out of his slushie. Everyone laughs.
1. Young MC - Bust a Move
2. Sisqo - Thong Song
3. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
4. "My Fair Lady" - I Could Have Danced All Night
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