Anyway, his arc for this episode is that finding himself
without Kurt around, and so decides to run for student council president
against our special Brit-Brit. She has
chosen Artie as her running mate, and encourages Blaine to choose Sam as his
running mate. He does, so we have a full
glee club ticket for the student council president position. Both Blaine and Artie decide they need to fix
their running mates a bit, and they do a musical montage to makeover Brit and
Sam. Brittany looks terribly sharp in
her new ‘do and dress, and Sam is a handsome little trouty mouth, for
sure. The four decide to have a debate,
and Artie and Sam go first. Artie give a
long winded introduction, and as a rebuttal, Sam reminds everyone he was a
stripper for like, a day, and started a striptease. We then cut to Blaine and Brittany, and
Blaine has a good opener, while Brittany calls for year-round school, including
Saturdays and Sundays.
So, it’s no surprise the winner is Blaine, but we get a cute
little thing with Sam and Brit telegraphing a romance in future episodes.
Also at McKinley, Mr. Shue is in a rut. He is bored, and has no ideas for the glee
club, beyond rehashing old ideas from previous years. He has a meeting with the regional planning
committee, which include an old bird named Birdie, the deaf school glee club director,
and KURT(!) from Gilmore Girls, sans stupid goatee he was sporting in
Bunheads. It’s here that he has the
brilliant idea to apply for the ‘Blue Ribbon Panel,’ which is some sort of
national committee, maybe? I’m not
really sure, they glossed over it pretty quickly. Anyway, the only obstacle in his way is Emma,
but she is nothing but supportive, and Mr. Shue send in his application.
But of course, we can’t forget New York, because the one thing
we really want out of a show named Glee is a solo performer and friend act
based in New York City. Kurt has decided
he needs a job, amazingly enough, and applies for one at Vogue.com. He interviews with none other than Sarah
Jessica Parker playing SJP(not really), and he hardcore brownnoses, and manages
to get hired on the spot, because that’s obviously how interviews work.
Anyway, Kurt and SJP hit it off right away, and she continuously
overshares her entire life with Kurt, including her suffocating lack of
confidence, and asks Kurt to be more involved than just getting coffee. Of course.
Meanwhile, Rachel gets rightfully mocked for her terrible wardrobe, and
Kurt suggests a makeover. They go into
the Vogue vault, and just as they are about to start, SJP comes in all
angry-like. They tell her what they are
doing, and per SJP, they ‘had her at makeover.’
They do a musical montage makeover(anyone sensing a theme?) and make a
music video of it as well.
Kurt suggests SJP use the music video as a thing on the
website, and she loves it. They even
send it to ‘Anna,’ who loves it as well.
I think I’m supposed to be impressed, but I have no clue who that is, so
no dice. Rachel meets her little boytoy
Brody, and they have ANOTHER musical montage of them having a fun time around
town, and Rachel invites him over for her to cook dinner.
Rachel fails at the cooking, and so they have to order
pizza. They sit on the floor, eat pizza
and drink what I hope is sparkling wine, SHOW!
Anyway, they flirt, and are terribly twee, and then they kiss as there
is a knock on the door. And it’s none
other than our favorite FINN! Dun dun
DUUUN!
So this was a decent episode. The NYC parts didn’t overwhelm the stuff at
McKinley as it has been, and the character arcs were (mostly) believable. I like that they are finally setting up a
change to the status quo for the next bit of the season, even if it really
should have happened in the first or second episode. We really didn’t need a full episode of
Brittany having a breakdown and pretending she would still be president before
tonight.
To end, I give this show a C+ for effort.
Featuring:
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” as sung by Blaine
“Celebrity Skin” as sung by Brittany and Sam
“The Way You Look Tonight”/“You’re Never Fully Dressed” as sung
by Rachel, Kurt and SJP
“A Change Would Do You Good” as sung by Rachel and Brody
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