August 16, 2024 • 53 mins
Google searches for twerking peaked in August of 2013. So of course Glee dedicated an episode to it that aired in October of that year. This is S5E5, "The End of Twerk." Blaine gets caught throwing it back in the choir room, inspiring Mr. Schuester to attempt to incorporate the dance into The New Directions' repertoire. It goes just as well as you can imagine.
Unique struggles to to use the McKinley High bathroom that aligns with her gender identity, facing bullying and discrimination, a storyline that is remarkably (and sadly) timely even now. Despite the jarring tonal shifts, the plot line is handled with a surprising amount of sensitivity for a show known for...not doing that.
Rachel tries to convince Kurt to get tattoos in order to...be rebellious?
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Sorry, I'm so salty towards themtoday.
I don't know why I think this, Iwas just annoyed having to watch
this episode. You're listening to Glee on the
Rocks. Hello.
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Welcome back to Glee on the Rocks.
I am Emily. And I'm Mandy.
And this is season five, episode5, the end of Twerk.
Yeah, yeah. It's another in this little line
of episodes that's a little. Weird.
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Definitely weird. Yeah, I think I blocked a lot of
this out of my memory just because I was like this is not
something I need any recall for.No, I mean, this is, this is
like a standard Glee episode where there's a really stupid
plot line of kids twerking coupled with like a really
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emotional plot line of someone wanting to use the bathroom that
aligns with their gender identity and.
It's it's very Ryan Murphy to combine those things.
Just staple of a Ryan Murphy show to combine those things.
But it is boring when I've been in the world of not watching
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that for a while. Yeah, it's.
It's like pure candy puff Glee. Yeah.
You're like, yeah, let's combinethese two things together and
and somehow pretend like they'reon equal footing and.
Then throw some controversial songs in there, too.
Oh God, yeah, yeah, I guess we'll we'll talk about that when
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we get there. Yeah, so the the breakdown is
the Glee club learns to learns the dance of the hour, which is
also inappropriate. As if people haven't been
twerking for fucking. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, Marley
discovers Jake's relationship with Bree, and Rachel strides to
convince Kurt that they should both get tattoos because New
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York needed a storyline. They could have been left out of
this. I think they should have been
left out of this. Yes they didn't need like.
I would have preferred more timespent on not the Tareq
storyline, but at least maybe unique storyline.
Yes, New York. We didn't need New York this
time. Like so sorry, Curt and Rachel,
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but like, you were not integral to this episode.
You didn't need to be here. This is one of those like Lima.
OH, only episodes. I mean they clearly felt they
didn't need Santana in it since she doesn't appear at all.
No Santana, no star child, no Danny, no new band.
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Just two idiots, some him wrangling tattoos and wigs, so I
guess we'll get to them at some point.
So this episode opens with Blaine putting the choir room
chairs away while dancing his little butt off to a song called
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Came to Party by the Canary Diamonds.
Let this man throw it back in peace.
Yeah. Like he is having a great time
and Tina has to fucking record him like an asshole.
Justice for Blaine and his twerking.
Like he's just having a delightful time cleaning up the
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choir room, which no one else ishelping him do.
That's true. Why, why, Why is it falling on
him? But like one why are you
recording him? I'm so tired of people being
recorded without their consent in public.
Though I guess if we're talking about things Tina has done
without consent to blame, maybe that's a little on the list.
Yeah, Tina, she's this man alone.
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Give him his bodily autonomy. Good.
Lord, and I mean, I'm going to come back to this at some point.
I I'm going to have to say like nice things about Darren Criss
in this episode. Yeah, which I don't enjoy
always, but he is a good dancer.He is, yeah.
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Whether or not he's a, I don't know what the steps to twerking
are, I'm not going to pretend toknow how to do it.
Is this correct? Twerking?
I don't know. Whatever he's he's a good
dancer. He's incredibly flexible.
He moves very well. He's he's got the right level of
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confidence in what he's doing, whether it's technically correct
or not. He sells it like he's having fun
doing it. Yes he does.
He gets low very easily for a dude.
I mean, I guess he doesn't have far to go to get to the ground,
but you know, he he moves well, it's great.
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He seems to have a good time doing it.
He does it throughout the episode and frankly he looks
great in tight pair of pants. So like, yeah, there's not a lot
to complain about when he's dancing.
And later on near the end of theepisode when they're doing the
different kinds of dance, a little history dance and they're
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doing like the Mashed potato, like clearly he can do different
styles. He's he's, he's.
Pretty good. He's good at it and we hate to
say nice things, but he is a good dancer.
So. But Tina has recorded him like
an asshole and then has chosen to show the rest of the Glee
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club, which embarrasses the fuckout of Blaine for his twerk
fail. Gawker Nightmare Shoe, however,
is riveted by a video of a teenage boy dancing.
Oh shoe, be less creepy. Be less creepy, please.
Like did not need any of that, no.
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And he's like, this is what I want from the judges at
nationals to like one up throat explosion.
They need to edge up our shit with teenagers twerking on
stage. Like no.
Like counterpoint, you don't need to do that.
Counterpoint, none of this needsto happen, no whatsoever.
And Marley is clearly like, whatif some of us don't know how to
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twerk? So they're going to, they're
going to have a twerk Toriel. They really are in this season.
I forgot how much they drive home Marley's pureness and
innocence. Yes, sweet, sweet.
Marley recurring theme. It is as if she hasn't had
enough to deal with and I know on this show now she's just
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like. Like.
Trad wifing it up. Let her, let her have a little
more personality. I know, and I like Marley.
Yeah, and that's I think that's why I keep noticing it.
I'm like, oh, this is like this is not a character.
Beats that I would generally like, but I still like her as a
character, which is, I said, something about the acting
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maybe. Yeah, definitely.
And she like it's such a weird. I don't think it's a compliment.
I don't know. But her like her face goes with
it. Yeah, like you totally buy.
Yeah. That Melissa fits this moment of
hey, maybe like I don't feel like twerking on stage and maybe
I don't feel like putting on a Lady Gaga skin suit.
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Like I don't. Maybe I just want to like sing
and dance for the choir. Like can't we just do that and
not? Not in Mr. Shoes Glee Club.
It's 40 year old man, so yeah. So Jake and Kitty are going to
hold a twerk toriel to teach these kiddos how to.
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How many times are we going to have to say twerk?
Let's just try to keep it to a minimum of a couple of dozen.
OK, we're going to try. I don't know why Blaine is in
this class when he already got an A.
Yeah, yeah, he could have sat that one out.
He didn't need to be there. Could have Facetimed his fiance
for a while. Right, He's got other things to
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do. He could maybe go to a real
class so that he can graduate. No, they they were just going to
keep him there forever. He didn't.
He didn't need this. He already got it.
But Sue obviously is watching from afar because there needs to
be a plot and a villain and sometension around this dancing.
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As if they haven't done inappropriate dancing on Glee
before. Pretty often.
Like we've had them get in trouble for doing inappropriate
dancing on stage before, yeah. We really like this is well into
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the point where they were just recycling different beats.
Yeah. Like different character arcs.
Probably because they forgot they'd already done it.
Yeah, I probably, yeah. Not their strongest point, It's.
It really never has been, although once in a while they
bring something up. You're like, oh, you remembered
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what you did. I'm so proud of you.
Good job. Yeah.
So we've our our other. I think we should just skip New
York and then just come back to it at the end.
Yeah, we can do that. OK, so our other main storyline
here is unique and she needs to use the restroom and opts for
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the women's restroom, which fine, but runs into Bree who
just seems to lurk everywhere atall times.
Really not not not a fan of Bree?
No, I really dislike this character.
It's not a fun villain character, no.
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It's really bad, yeah. Is it this?
It's not this moment. It comes later where Bree says
has like a a rant. I think, oh, it's the rant to
Marley later that when Bree confronts Marley about Jake then
I'm like, this isn't even interesting.
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It's just mean. Yeah, it's just mean.
That's that's really it. Like Santana was mean but
interesting. Even Kitty.
Yeah, it's. Funny like, I mean, I I don't, I
mean Kitty was, I think a step down from Santana, but Kitty
still had like some humor to it,whereas Bree is just like one
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note cruelty. Every Xerox copy of Santana is
worse, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it really is.
Why stop remaking this character?
Santana was perfect. You don't.
Every time you make a new one, it's bad.
It's like they're changing the wrong things to try and
differentiate. Mm, Hmm.
And they never. They keep trying to recreate
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Santana, and they can't do it. So Bree confronts Unique about
using the women's restroom, and Unique confesses that she's
afraid to use the boys room at school.
And Bree's like, your secret is safe with me.
Like, obviously it's not. Have they not learned that Bree
sucks? Yeah.
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They shouldn't know that by now.We know you should know.
They're kind of stupid. Just don't say any.
Actually, if you saw Bree just turn around and leave, she'd be
like whoops, gotta go by E Actually, I didn't need to use
the bathroom by E, but this turns into the great McKinley
bathroom gender riot of 2013. But it's not.
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And, and this is actually kind of I, it's not interesting, but
like Unique says this as a voiceover which this doesn't actually
happen that often where Unique is like talking to the audience.
Yeah, yeah, you're right. She's like narrating this to the
audience because she's not talking to anybody else.
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It's like the hallway voice overfrom the first season.
Yeah, yeah. No, that's exactly what it is.
And they really don't like. I didn't realize how they
dropped that. Yeah, it just comes back for
this for OK, cool, but it's a little jarring I.
Feel like Britney might have hada few moments.
Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
But it they haven't done this inquite some time.
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But this isn't like a gender riot.
It's Bree goes to make out with Jake in the men's room, causing
Stoner Brett to use the girls room because it's cleaner.
And then the girls want to use the boys room because they don't
want to wait in line. That's not a gender riot.
That's just like. Not yeah.
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Students being weird. Also just maybe a sign that you
need gender neutral restrooms? Yeah.
Or like, clean them more often, Yeah.
Or that yeah, like. Maybe up your cleaning rotations
here. So this is an interesting
storyline because this is stuff that actually happens, like
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students wanting to use the bathroom that corresponds to
their gender identity. Interesting storyline.
Totally, absolutely relevant today, right?
Yeah, I mean, I was a little bitsurprised.
I mean like obviously I'm familiar with Glee doing the
unique storyline, but so many other parts of Glee feel kind of
dated and I was like, this feelslike a now topic.
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Yeah, totally. It's it's a now topic and
somehow it's gotten worse. Like the the problem that they
were discussing is worse. It hasn't gotten better.
Sorry, Kurt to your tattoo, but it it did not get it did not get
Bette Midler. Yeah, so we also have Sue's
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Corner as our our villain arc. And I guess Sue's Corner is one
of our recurring themes that do happen to come back.
But she wants to discuss the nation's insidious foe, Miley
Cyrus and twerking. And for anyone re watching the
show or maybe watching it for some reason for the first time
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in 2024, if you weren't around for Miley Cyrus dancing with
Robin Thicke at the VM as this doesn't make any sense.
This is the dated reference where.
You're like. What are you talking about?
It's definitely like very dated.Yeah.
Like Glee sometimes can capture a little bit of a timeless feel
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because the music isn't always new.
But this, yeah, this, this storyline, No, this is
transported back in time. Like when people were mad at
Miley Cyrus, like, oh, OK, so Sue wants to end the pandemic.
And I was like, no, don't say that word.
Oh yeah. By outlawing it at McKinley,
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because whenever she makes a bigproclamation, it's definitely
going to go well. Oh yeah.
So the Glee club is pissed aboutthis because they it's their
God-given right to twerk, a thing that they have never done
as a Glee club, but now? Still can't even do.
They're literally trying to learn how to.
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Do it. They're trying so hard.
This thing that they've never done for their competitions will
never do again. But it is so important to them
right now. And will goes who someone goes
on this rant about like twerkingis about blurring lines.
It's just a speech that will cueWill Schuster into singing
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Blurred Lines. Which didn't need to happen.
This didn't need to happen. This song is so gross.
Robin Thicke is so gross. Like including this in the
episode is blah. Yeah, I like, I skipped it.
I mean, I've heard it before. Yeah, I saw.
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I, I was, I was there. I was there when it was written.
I was there. I I saw this when it happened.
Yeah, I don't need that that. Song.
In my head again, because it is an earworm and I fucking hate
it. It is, yes.
It has been a while since Mr. Shuster had a song.
That's true. Yeah.
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We had peace for a while. We knew peace and honestly I was
kind of with Sue on this one. I was like, this is honestly
very disruptive for the school to have these idiots running
around into the classrooms. I mean, Sue makes some points
sometimes. Like this is a place of
learning, not a place of dancingand.
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Twerking is it? Is it a place of learning for
any of them? No, I think their SAD scores
have got to be the lowest in thecountry.
Absolutely. The feds are about to roll in
and take over and Sue rightfullycalls the song out for being
about date rape. Like this is not an appropriate
song. It's a bad song.
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Yeah, it's, it's like, I like the the bit of acknowledgement
from the show, the Oh yeah, we actually know what this is
about, but we're gonna have these teenagers like.
We know it's a bad song. We're gonna do it anyway, like,
but you don't have to. You don't have.
There's so many other songs. Just because Miley Cyrus danced
to this song at the VMAs and you're doing an episode about
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like you don't, you could still twerk to a different song?
Yeah, there are like so many songs you could twerk to.
Like you any like anything, anything I.
Mean you know Blaine has a playlist.
Blaine has got a bootylicious. Playlist.
Absolutely. Blaine has an entire he He is
ready to go. He's been waiting months for
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this to come up. He's been stretching.
He's got stretchy pants just forthis.
Because those, you know, if he were trying to do this in jeans,
it would never happen. No.
But yeah. And Sue tries to fire him
because she's always trying to fire him.
Except when they're friends for,like, an episode.
And then they go back to being enemies, because the Glee club
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needs an enemy to survive. And they, they are.
I mean, to be fair, I guess if Ihad Jane Lynch as an enemy, like
acting it, I would want to milk that too.
Oh, totally. Yeah, they could.
Just leave them enemies. I know, I mean if I were ever.
I mean I'm more into Shu and Sooas enemies to lovers.
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Oh. So so we've you know, we have to
go back to unique storyline because this episode bounces
around these three. We have twerking, we have New
York and we have unique. One of them is very private and
personal and sad and like important, and the other two are
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silly and it's your good old classic Glee episode sandwiching
an important storyline between nonsense some.
Emotional whiplash and music. Yeah, it's great.
Yeah. So unique goes to use this time.
She's going to use the men's room because she's getting told
off from the women's room and ofcourse gets bullied by a bunch
of dudes who are there who are just being absolute garbage.
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Not sure if these were football or whatever.
Doesn't actually matter what they're all like wearing
Letterman jackets. Finn Hudson would not have put
up with this. No season one.
Season one probably would have just looked the other way, yeah.
Past that, no. Yeah, would not have.
But this, this cues up our second song of the episode,
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which is If I Were a Boy. If I were a boy, I think I could
understand how it feels to everygirl.
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I swear I'd be a better man, which does makes sense for the
show. Yeah, it does, yeah.
It's like a nice, accurate song.I, I, I feel like the accuracy
is good. It's not, it's not my favorite
song, but the the emotional impact, they get points for
that. Yeah, it's like, oh, this one.
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It fits. Yeah, this one.
Fits. I love it.
And I did. Like when she goes back to the
choir room, Jake, Writer and Samare going to go kick ass.
Yeah, but rightfully unique is like, that's not going to fix
anything. Like, it's a systemic problem to
to solve this. And there's so there's like a, a
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McKinley school board meeting. And so one, the joke of it opens
with the motion approved to dig up the school parking lot and
move the Indian bones. Incredible.
Yeah. I did think this was gonna the
school board meeting was gonna include the bathroom situation,
and it's not. It's simply Schuster protesting
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the twerking ban. You would think that maybe one
of those would be equally as important as the other in the
eyes of the school board, but no.
I was like, oh, we're going to talk about the the bathroom
situation at the school board. That's going to be kind of
fraught and interesting. Like, no, it's just the the
twerking band. The second joke that came really
quickly was. Teacher of the.
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Year What is this? A typo.
William Schuster. Incredible.
But Will is there to protest andthey run through different types
of controversial dances at the time, the waltz, jazz, Elvis,
the twist and the kids get to dolittle dances and I thought that
was cute. But then we have to go back to
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the bathroom where Unique has requested a unisex bathroom,
which, OK, great unisex bathrooms.
We all use them all over the place in airplanes and all sorts
of situations. In your home.
Your home. Your home is a unisex bathroom.
Yeah, it's not that hard. Sue grants this request by
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installing a purple porta potty bolted to the choir choir room.
Floor. That kind of made me laugh.
It made me laugh. Also, Tina immediately using it,
Yeah. Yeah.
I was like, all right. That was that was a good one.
She's like, it's not that bad. Like you got me.
That was. That's so stupid.
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You got me. Yeah.
I hate this show. Yeah.
Why is this funny? Who did this and why am I
laughing? You, Ryan Murphy?
Yeah, fuck you. When you get it wrong and when
you get it right. Yep, Yep.
I don't actually know who wrote this episode.
I'm just in a cursing out Ryan mood apparently.
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I wonder if he even saw these episodes by this point in the
5th. Season.
Probably not. This one was he.
Was well on to season 73 of American Horror Story by Dan
Lesney. Probably this one was written.
The credit goes to Michael Hitchcock.
OK. So he did Big Brother, he did
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MASH off the role. You were born to play girls and
boys on film. I mean some of those.
He seems like a bit of a mixed bag.
Yeah. 'Cause yeah, I don't know.
I I feel like there are definitely points of this
episode that are good but not, Idon't know, not put together the
best way. I know it's just, yeah, I know,
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'cause we ought 'cause then we have to go to Marley, who's
confronted by Bree, showing her a vine, rip vine of her.
Another throwback. I know of her dancing during
Blurred Lines. Just to be a bitch like this is
just simply to be an asshole, and it's like mocking her dance
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moves because she's not quite asgood at twerking as everyone
else. And that's when Bree tells
Marley that she and Jake had sexafter Marley decided that she
didn't want to again, just to behurtful.
Just cruelty. Just cruelty.
And the way she says it, too, isthis whole thing about, like,
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Jake having a mole on his hip and all of this, like, just like
that. Is neat little like that.
That was unnecessary. Yeah, and not, not funny.
Not that the scene should be funny, but there were ways that
Santana would break bad news or or be mean in clever ways.
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Like the dialogue was clever. I mean it's the dialogue was
clever and Naya also just had a talent for being emotionally
like just like impactful when changing would be but also
fucking hilarious while delivering the lines.
Totally. Like you got the multiple layers
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there. There's only one layer with
three. No offense to whoever the
actress is, I have no idea what her name is, but.
No offense to you, whoever you are.
Yeah, so sorry you were not not bringing it the way Naya.
And like, so sorry that your character was just like a third
copy. Yeah, no.
And I'm, I'm sure you know what,I think probably there were
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plenty of times when Naya was given absolute cardboard to redo
and made something of it. So yeah, not entirely the
actresses fault there. Like, you can only do so much
with this dialogue. So Marley rightfully goes to
confront Jake about what Bree told her.
And it's like, cheating on me goodbye.
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And she walks off to go sing Wrecking Ball.
Yes. This is her.
This is her stand up auditorium song.
Yeah. She gets the the spotlight in
the auditorium. Did did you like Wrecking Ball?
It seemed it looked so cheap. It really did.
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Like I it wasn't my favorite. It was OK.
Like the the Wrecking Ball was OK.
Like I really like Melissa's voice and I don't know, just
this. The set looked so cheap and it
was just them copy pasting the video.
Yeah. Yeah, it it was pretty much just
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a recreation. Yeah.
So considering what we got with What does the fox say, maybe,
maybe they just stick stick to recreating I.
Know. Sorry, I'm so salty towards them
today. I don't know why.
I think 'cause I was just annoyed having to watch this
episode. What's this show?
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Yeah, I think, I don't know. I don't know.
Sometimes you're just like, why did you do this?
Yeah. 'Cause I don't dislike the song
itself, but like putting her on the the ball.
It just looks. It just looks so silly.
It also like undercuts a moment where I was genuinely feeling so
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bad for Marley. And it was just.
Like well, this is distracting. It yes, you're like, oh, here's
like an emotional moment where her boyfriend's cheating on her
and she already feels like shit and and now she's swinging on a
cardboard ball. Poor Marley.
Like don't Melissa her, yeah, don't do this to Melissa.
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She doesn't need this shit from you.
No. Yeah.
I will say I was just I I am increasingly happy with any
episode where I don't have to see Ryder a ton.
This is true. You're so right.
That might be part of it too, where you're like, what was
going on? Yeah, yeah.
And. That's like obviously not
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something I was judging anyone on at the time it aired, but
it's it's impossible to not rewatch with that perspective.
Mm hmm, yeah, gotta love a retrospective where you're like,
look at this now. Yeah.
In hindsight, what was she thinking?
Yeah. So we have a a final, a final
bathroom moment where it's during choir practice.
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This is maybe the most choir practice they've done.
Yeah, in a lot like they're actually.
Yeah. Practicing unique.
So they're like the cameras, like looking at that stupid ass
porta potty and Unique is like asking to use the the bathroom
and she's gonna use that fuckingporta potty.
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And she's like, no, I've got something better 'cause I'm the
savior. And offers to take Unique to the
faculty bathroom. And he has this like speech.
It's like a aren't I awesome? Yeah, it's very.
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Self congratulatory vibes there.It was a self congratulatory and
all I was thinking of is like Unique is already doing all of
the hard work to be herself in this situation.
And like you're stepping in and being like, I'll give you a key
like. Yeah, you.
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You don't have to. You shouldn't have to do this
like Nah, yeah, I don't. I found it an I think it was
supposed to be very like, here'sa teacher stepping up for a
student and trying to help when no one else is helping and
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encouraging someone to do like be yourself.
You know, you keep fighting the good fight, but she's like, she
already has to. She has to fight everything all
the time. She has no option but to fight
that fight. There, there's nothing else she
can do. It felt a little patronizing to
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me. Yes, yeah, totally.
And maybe the best thing that hesaid was this.
Like, no one needs to know how you identify yourself, but like,
you force her to by having heardit come to you to ask to use the
bathroom. Yeah.
That's a good point. Like everyone, Like yeah.
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Everyone's going to know becauseshe has to come to a teacher.
So Sue sees this whole interaction, goes down and
apparently thinks it's degradingto have to ask for the key, and
offers to give Unique a key to the faculty bathroom, but only
if the student stopped working because somehow twerking is so
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important to Sue. And I think this is honestly, we
all know that this is just a a Sue plot to fuck with the Glee
club, but it's up against something as important as a
student's identity. Yeah.
I mean, it's it's safety insinuating some equivalency
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there that is definitely not. Like like, your health and
safety in this school is up against dancing.
Yeah. And I'm gonna pit them against
each other, like or not. Yeah, or you could just not you
just you just give unique the key.
Yeah, you you could just give Unique the key and fight this
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battle another way. You don't have, you don't have
to potentially put her in a dangerous situation because you
wanna get back at Shoe for something again.
Yeah. And I sometimes I don't know if
the writers of the show realize they're making that equivalency
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or if they do and they're tryingto show that it's absurd.
Yeah, like. Like you guys know that this is
stupid right? Like these two things are not
equal. I feel like I might give them
the benefit of the doubt if it were this situation alone, but I
have a feeling I don't remember it very well, but I have a
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feeling as we get into the beaststuff.
Oh God. We're gonna see that this was a
conscious decision being made. Yeah, that's going to be awkward
to talk about. I.
Think yes, yes. I don't.
Work I do, I know. Anyway, she says no and then
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throws a suicide rebellion as heleaves the office throwing
furniture all over the place. And I actually really enjoyed
that. I was like, OK, that's funny,
that's throwing shit all over the place, good for you.
And it seemed like he had a goodtime doing it, so I had no
complaints there. Appropriate.
That was appropriate. And you know, the the end of the
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Glee club storyline is, you know, talking about they shoe
kind of is like, hey, we're not going to twerk anymore because
we're not gonna twerk anymore because uniques safe.
You know, safety is more important.
Rebelling is one thing, but betraying who we are is
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something else. Like, didn't you realize that at
the beginning? Like we're not gonna twerk
during nationals. We all know this God.
I hope not. I hope that wasn't the shoe
plan. There is no shoe plan.
They picked their songs the day before.
That's true. That's true there.
Is no plan an? Actual plan.
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I, however, could not stop looking at Blaine's outfit.
Yeah. Lavender Plants plants lavender
pants, a rainbow Plaid shirt, and a yellow bow tie.
Who hurt you? I mean, I, I do feel like at
some point Darren Chris, just like I don't know if he like
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fucked him and ran or what, but he hurt someone in that
costuming department. He's like.
Why like? He pissed someone off.
He complained about the hair gelone too many times.
And they were like, OK, it's over now, baby.
They were like, oh, you want to see how much worse it can get?
You thought this was bad, Just you wait, motherfucker.
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And then they sing a song I had never heard before called On Our
Way as the group number at the very end.
I had also never heard this and to be honest watching it back I
was like I'm still not sure I'veever heard this.
I was. Like, did this happen before?
Yeah. Or is this new?
Is this new to the rewatch? OK.
Can't believe they inserted entire songs.
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Damn Hulu streaming version. Like, OK, I guess this didn't
hit the charts. Yeah.
All right, OK, so I guess we have to go all the way back to
New York. Yes, Rachel and her fucking
funny girl shit. Yeah.
She is going to get a haircut and wants to do a
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transformation. She wants to look completely
different. And I was like yeah OK whatever.
She goes to rehearsal where she has gotten a fuck ass Bob and
everyone's pissed about this. Like the director's going off
about how he controls absolutelyeverything about the production,
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and all I could think was she's going to wear a wig for the show
anyway. Everybody in the production
wears a wig, so. What does it matter then?
What does it fucking matter? Like that's that's what happens
on stage. Everyone wears wigs.
Would will you wear wigs? When will you wear wigs?
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When will you wear wigs? Will you wear wigs?
Maybe. When will you wear wigs like
they're? Yeah.
It they're gonna wear wig, What does it matter?
She could shave her fucking head.
It won't matter. She and whatever his name is the
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guy who's playing the lead across from her saying you are
woman. I am man.
I hate this song. I this performance to me is like
kitsch. I just don't enjoy it.
I don't really like the the musical anyway.
Sorry. I just, I just not for me, it's
it I it doesn't spark joy. So this performance, I was like,
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OK, yeah, I don't care. So the director comes around to
the haircut, but it doesn't matter anyway because when she
gets home to the loft, she reveals that it was a wig
anyway. Plot twist.
We all cried. And I was like, as if Lea
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Michele would have cut her hair.Yeah, really.
You know, like, whatever. And then she feels the need to
tell Kurt that he is boring. I mean, this man is just living
his life. Like he's going to work, he
comes home, he's got a boyfriend.
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Like it's just fucking living his life.
Let him do him. I don't think he's he's not even
boring. Like he's literally a student
who has a job and extracurriculars.
Yeah, you're right. He's got a he's got a band, he's
got a fiance, and he goes to school and to work.
He ain't got no other hours in his day.
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Like what does she expect him tobe doing to liven up his
personality for her entertainment?
Apparently they're going to go out and do something crazy of
getting tattoos. I, as someone with tattoos, I
like other things. When you're not an expert, like
when you have the thing that people depict on TV, you're
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like, that's not how that works.Yeah.
So the scene is just stupid. What the the tattoo realism not
hidden for you the. Tattoo realism is not hidden for
me. Because it's non existent.
It's it's just non existent. Don't drink before you get a
tattoo. One, they probably won't do it
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if they catch you drinking. Even this place, they're like,
oh, it's a sketchy place. Like, no, yeah.
So Kurt gets something that he says is both personal and
political, and it's supposed to say it gets better.
But what he has gotten is it it's get better.
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And so the idea is that they, like, went out and just got
tattoos. But then he says that he got a
printing of it so the artist would know what font he'd like.
So that's not like, a random decision.
Yeah. So like.
There was some premeditation there.
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A little premeditation. Apparently not premeditated
enough because he was the one who spelled it wrong.
I mean, that's the kind of dumb bleeping that I'm like, all
right, that's fine. That's that's funny.
Yeah, he he and he also chose really dumb font like what it
hurt you work at Conde Nast like.
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Yeah. Stop it.
Did you not ask Sarah Michelle? Like what is happening so.
If you have her at your disposal, run everything by her
verse. You ask her what the appropriate
font for a tattoo is. And also like he had no bandage
on it. There was no swelling, it wasn't
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red at all. Very pretty tattoo.
Someone just took a fine pen to his back.
It's like, give it an attempt. Would you give it a fucking
attempt? Rachel claims she went through
with it, but or claims that she didn't go through with it, but
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we find out later. So.
Oh, so Kurt goes back to the tattoo parlor because it's
misspelled and he talks to this artist and he's like, I wanted
to rebel and shake off my doldrums.
Like, again, what doldrums are you talking about?
You are in school, you have a job, you're in a band with a
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really cool dude and a really cool chick.
Also, your dad's a senator. Your dad's a senator.
You're engaged. Worker you've lived a lot of
life in 1920 years Kurt like. You've.
Won mine the. Glee Club Championship.
You've been in New York for six weeks.
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This. Show.
What, so the artist is like, yeah, I'm gonna fix it, but you
gotta go more nuts. And by going more nuts, I mean,
you gotta get your tongue pierced.
Not a nose, not an eyebrow, not your ear.
Which would make more sense. Your tongue.
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Yeah. Fucking stupid, stupid, stupid.
So he gets his tattoo fixed to say it's got Bette Midler, which
I don't hate 'cause it's so I. Know it's It's stupid enough
that it works. It's funny.
It's stupid enough that it works.
I love Bette Midler, I can't be mad about it.
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I remember people being a littleupset that it had nothing to do
with Blaine. Oh well, that's.
But also like they're 19, their wedding is stupid anyway.
Everything about them getting engaged at 19 is dumb.
They don't mean to add. Like.
Body modification to it. Like let them get married and
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figure out if this is going to last anyway and then they can
talk about bad idea tattoos. But it's got Bette Midler is
funny. The tongue piercing.
It's really. Tall and she's never seen again,
right? Never seen again.
Which is probably why it wasn't an earring because they could
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just be like, oh we took it out.I just think Kurt Hummel with an
earring is funny. That would have been funnier I.
Think I think that would have been kind of cute.
It's the Nicholas Gallatzin era.You just rock an earring all the
time. But yeah, so it it turns out the
the Rachel did get a tattoo and it's Finn's name up on her her
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ribs, which is very cute. Yeah.
It's hard to make fun of even though like.
Yeah, I have nothing for that one.
Nothing. Nothing to say about that one.
Yeah, we'll take a pass on that.Yeah, that that's the thing that
Rachel gets the excuse on this episode, nothing else.
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But like but also like where wasSantana?
She would have gotten a tattoo. Santana would have been like
probably the responsible one to check like Yelp reviews or call
up her heavily tattooed friend and be like recommend me a good
place. Like recommend me somewhere that
spells it right the first time. That's why she couldn't be in
the episode 'cause she actually would have been too responsible,
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yeah, for the storyline to to work.
Yeah, that's you're so right. Like not you guys.
Yeah. We're going to the good place,
not the bad place. So yeah, those are our very our
three. I guess everyone was, well, no,
not even everyone was letting loose with the twerking and the
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tattoos. But then Unique had a very
serious storyline and. Yeah, just a disjointed set of
storylines. Mishmash.
Yeah. I wonder what Naya was doing.
Like why wasn't? I miss her in the episode.
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I know. I know I I, I definitely, again
with the retrospect, I enjoy Santana so much and I'm always
watching her when she's on screen.
Yeah, me too. The the trivia attached to this
episode is apparently this is the 4th episode to have a viewer
discretion advised. Really.
(45:39):
Content reading? And it was like, for what?
What was it? Yeah, what?
I guess. Quirking gender.
Gender require. I don't, I don't know.
I mean. No gender.
Unique is in many more episodes.I'm not sure if they're aware of
that. And she is always herself.
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Beware gender. Yeah, scary, scary.
And it's the it's the first episode of Season 5 to not be a
tribute episode. OK, Yeah, thank God.
Yeah. It's too many tribute episodes.
I remember that being an issue in the like, hey, we get it.
No more. No more, no more tributes.
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Thank you very much. OK, well that that is the
episode. Do you got anything else to add?
Not really it wasn't. I mean the unique storyline
wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either.
Which again, is for Glee. For a storyline like that, not
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bad. Probably is the high bar that
they have reached. Yeah, like.
Offensive. They didn't, yeah, they didn't
do anything horrifically wrong in it.
So I'm like, good job. Yeah, totally.
Yeah. It just again, it's like to
sandwich it between like silly stuff.
I I guess is how you make it, not I don't know.
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I mean, this is what Glee does though, so it's not like it's
surprising. I mean it, I don't know what
else was airing on Fox at the time, but it also might have
been how do we get this on air thing.
That is very true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just, I hate when those kind of storylines feel diminished
because they're next to twerking.
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You're like, actually, this is something really important that
people should talk about. But also dancing.
Like, all right, that's fine. Oh my.
God, I just saw that the next episode is also silly.
A tribute episode. It is the the next two episodes
are they're fine. Yeah.
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Season 5 is buck wild. I don't.
I don't know how high the writers room was, but it's not
great. Yeah, pretty high, I'm guessing.
Do you have a favorite song? Not really.
I mean, just in terms of the song, like she'd like.
Melissa did a good job with Wrecking Ball, but I.
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Don't know the. Song I always want to.
I came. In like a regular I never hit so
hard. All I wanted was to break.
All you ever did was, yeah, I was going to say Wrecking Ball
(48:40):
because I like Marley and Melissa.
Yeah, like unique song, like it,it, it fit, but I still didn't
enjoy it. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, I'm going to go with Wrecking Ball.
Do you have any favorite lines or anything that stood out I.
Don't think much stood out to mein this one.
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The only thing I really wrote down what the the teacher of the
year? What is this a typo?
OK, that was good. Yeah.
I like that. I was like, thank you.
That is for. Us yeah OK I'm going to steal
that in just a second it. And then because we're supposed
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to end these episodes on something positive, what is that
thing you like? Oh, let's see, I mean I I like
Sue stepping in for unique, evenif it was a like leverage thing.
I like the Vine reference. Vine.
(49:44):
Yeah. We miss you.
And oh, I, I like that they pointed out that Blurred Lines
is about Dave, right? Yeah.
Like, yeah, at least some self-awareness.
Just a a smidgen of it. And I, I, I will say I think
that even if I didn't like all the storylines, I think that
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Unique and Marley's scenes were well acted.
I love their friendship, yes. Yeah.
And I like that that continues. I love their best, their
besties. I don't know if they're besties,
but I'm gonna say it. They seem like they should have
been besties. Yeah, yeah, I like them.
There's So what about you? What?
What's the thing you like? Aw.
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Man, I don't know. You know, I I like that in the
beginning, Blaine was just chilling.
Yeah. Taking care of business.
Like I don't know if he stayed late to put chairs away but like
I appreciate someone cleaning upafter themselves.
Yeah. So I'm going to say Blaine
dancing on his own, just having a good time.
(50:50):
Tidying. Tidying up like a good boy, yes.
Not something I'm going to say. That's a good one.
Yeah, 'cause you know, you don'thave to leave that to other
people to take care of. You should do that.
All right. Well, this is the the end of the
end, the the end of the end of twerking.
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It's a a bit of a skip, I would say.
In the Canon, yeah. Of not not a necessary rewatch
if you're doing the best of there.
Yeah, you know, if I don't thinkit's gonna crack your top 20,
No, but you know, thanks for forlistening.
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Welcome back to Glee on the Rocks.
I am Emily. And I'm Mandy.
And this is season five, episode5, the end of Twerk.
Yeah, yeah. It's another in this little line
of episodes that's a little. Weird.
(00:42):
Definitely weird. Yeah, I think I blocked a lot of
this out of my memory just because I was like this is not
something I need any recall for.No, I mean, this is, this is
like a standard Glee episode where there's a really stupid
plot line of kids twerking coupled with like a really
(01:04):
emotional plot line of someone wanting to use the bathroom that
aligns with their gender identity and.
It's it's very Ryan Murphy to combine those things.
Just staple of a Ryan Murphy show to combine those things.
But it is boring when I've been in the world of not watching
(01:25):
that for a while. Yeah, it's.
It's like pure candy puff Glee. Yeah.
You're like, yeah, let's combinethese two things together and
and somehow pretend like they'reon equal footing and.
Then throw some controversial songs in there, too.
Oh God, yeah, yeah, I guess we'll we'll talk about that when
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we get there. Yeah, so the the breakdown is
the Glee club learns to learns the dance of the hour, which is
also inappropriate. As if people haven't been
twerking for fucking. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, Marley
discovers Jake's relationship with Bree, and Rachel strides to
convince Kurt that they should both get tattoos because New
(02:10):
York needed a storyline. They could have been left out of
this. I think they should have been
left out of this. Yes they didn't need like.
I would have preferred more timespent on not the Tareq
storyline, but at least maybe unique storyline.
Yes, New York. We didn't need New York this
time. Like so sorry, Curt and Rachel,
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but like, you were not integral to this episode.
You didn't need to be here. This is one of those like Lima.
OH, only episodes. I mean they clearly felt they
didn't need Santana in it since she doesn't appear at all.
No Santana, no star child, no Danny, no new band.
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Just two idiots, some him wrangling tattoos and wigs, so I
guess we'll get to them at some point.
So this episode opens with Blaine putting the choir room
chairs away while dancing his little butt off to a song called
(03:15):
Came to Party by the Canary Diamonds.
Let this man throw it back in peace.
Yeah. Like he is having a great time
and Tina has to fucking record him like an asshole.
Justice for Blaine and his twerking.
Like he's just having a delightful time cleaning up the
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choir room, which no one else ishelping him do.
That's true. Why, why, Why is it falling on
him? But like one why are you
recording him? I'm so tired of people being
recorded without their consent in public.
Though I guess if we're talking about things Tina has done
without consent to blame, maybe that's a little on the list.
Yeah, Tina, she's this man alone.
(04:00):
Give him his bodily autonomy. Good.
Lord, and I mean, I'm going to come back to this at some point.
I I'm going to have to say like nice things about Darren Criss
in this episode. Yeah, which I don't enjoy
always, but he is a good dancer.He is, yeah.
(04:24):
Whether or not he's a, I don't know what the steps to twerking
are, I'm not going to pretend toknow how to do it.
Is this correct? Twerking?
I don't know. Whatever he's he's a good
dancer. He's incredibly flexible.
He moves very well. He's he's got the right level of
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confidence in what he's doing, whether it's technically correct
or not. He sells it like he's having fun
doing it. Yes he does.
He gets low very easily for a dude.
I mean, I guess he doesn't have far to go to get to the ground,
but you know, he he moves well, it's great.
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He seems to have a good time doing it.
He does it throughout the episode and frankly he looks
great in tight pair of pants. So like, yeah, there's not a lot
to complain about when he's dancing.
And later on near the end of theepisode when they're doing the
different kinds of dance, a little history dance and they're
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doing like the Mashed potato, like clearly he can do different
styles. He's he's, he's.
Pretty good. He's good at it and we hate to
say nice things, but he is a good dancer.
So. But Tina has recorded him like
an asshole and then has chosen to show the rest of the Glee
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club, which embarrasses the fuckout of Blaine for his twerk
fail. Gawker Nightmare Shoe, however,
is riveted by a video of a teenage boy dancing.
Oh shoe, be less creepy. Be less creepy, please.
Like did not need any of that, no.
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And he's like, this is what I want from the judges at
nationals to like one up throat explosion.
They need to edge up our shit with teenagers twerking on
stage. Like no.
Like counterpoint, you don't need to do that.
Counterpoint, none of this needsto happen, no whatsoever.
And Marley is clearly like, whatif some of us don't know how to
(06:30):
twerk? So they're going to, they're
going to have a twerk Toriel. They really are in this season.
I forgot how much they drive home Marley's pureness and
innocence. Yes, sweet, sweet.
Marley recurring theme. It is as if she hasn't had
enough to deal with and I know on this show now she's just
(06:52):
like. Like.
Trad wifing it up. Let her, let her have a little
more personality. I know, and I like Marley.
Yeah, and that's I think that's why I keep noticing it.
I'm like, oh, this is like this is not a character.
Beats that I would generally like, but I still like her as a
character, which is, I said, something about the acting
(07:12):
maybe. Yeah, definitely.
And she like it's such a weird. I don't think it's a compliment.
I don't know. But her like her face goes with
it. Yeah, like you totally buy.
Yeah. That Melissa fits this moment of
hey, maybe like I don't feel like twerking on stage and maybe
I don't feel like putting on a Lady Gaga skin suit.
(07:36):
Like I don't. Maybe I just want to like sing
and dance for the choir. Like can't we just do that and
not? Not in Mr. Shoes Glee Club.
It's 40 year old man, so yeah. So Jake and Kitty are going to
hold a twerk toriel to teach these kiddos how to.
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How many times are we going to have to say twerk?
Let's just try to keep it to a minimum of a couple of dozen.
OK, we're going to try. I don't know why Blaine is in
this class when he already got an A.
Yeah, yeah, he could have sat that one out.
He didn't need to be there. Could have Facetimed his fiance
for a while. Right, He's got other things to
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do. He could maybe go to a real
class so that he can graduate. No, they they were just going to
keep him there forever. He didn't.
He didn't need this. He already got it.
But Sue obviously is watching from afar because there needs to
be a plot and a villain and sometension around this dancing.
(08:44):
As if they haven't done inappropriate dancing on Glee
before. Pretty often.
Like we've had them get in trouble for doing inappropriate
dancing on stage before, yeah. We really like this is well into
(09:05):
the point where they were just recycling different beats.
Yeah. Like different character arcs.
Probably because they forgot they'd already done it.
Yeah, I probably, yeah. Not their strongest point, It's.
It really never has been, although once in a while they
bring something up. You're like, oh, you remembered
(09:27):
what you did. I'm so proud of you.
Good job. Yeah.
So we've our our other. I think we should just skip New
York and then just come back to it at the end.
Yeah, we can do that. OK, so our other main storyline
here is unique and she needs to use the restroom and opts for
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the women's restroom, which fine, but runs into Bree who
just seems to lurk everywhere atall times.
Really not not not a fan of Bree?
No, I really dislike this character.
It's not a fun villain character, no.
(10:12):
It's really bad, yeah. Is it this?
It's not this moment. It comes later where Bree says
has like a a rant. I think, oh, it's the rant to
Marley later that when Bree confronts Marley about Jake then
I'm like, this isn't even interesting.
(10:33):
It's just mean. Yeah, it's just mean.
That's that's really it. Like Santana was mean but
interesting. Even Kitty.
Yeah, it's. Funny like, I mean, I I don't, I
mean Kitty was, I think a step down from Santana, but Kitty
still had like some humor to it,whereas Bree is just like one
(10:53):
note cruelty. Every Xerox copy of Santana is
worse, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it really is.
Why stop remaking this character?
Santana was perfect. You don't.
Every time you make a new one, it's bad.
It's like they're changing the wrong things to try and
differentiate. Mm, Hmm.
And they never. They keep trying to recreate
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Santana, and they can't do it. So Bree confronts Unique about
using the women's restroom, and Unique confesses that she's
afraid to use the boys room at school.
And Bree's like, your secret is safe with me.
Like, obviously it's not. Have they not learned that Bree
sucks? Yeah.
(11:35):
They shouldn't know that by now.We know you should know.
They're kind of stupid. Just don't say any.
Actually, if you saw Bree just turn around and leave, she'd be
like whoops, gotta go by E Actually, I didn't need to use
the bathroom by E, but this turns into the great McKinley
bathroom gender riot of 2013. But it's not.
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And, and this is actually kind of I, it's not interesting, but
like Unique says this as a voiceover which this doesn't actually
happen that often where Unique is like talking to the audience.
Yeah, yeah, you're right. She's like narrating this to the
audience because she's not talking to anybody else.
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It's like the hallway voice overfrom the first season.
Yeah, yeah. No, that's exactly what it is.
And they really don't like. I didn't realize how they
dropped that. Yeah, it just comes back for
this for OK, cool, but it's a little jarring I.
Feel like Britney might have hada few moments.
Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
But it they haven't done this inquite some time.
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But this isn't like a gender riot.
It's Bree goes to make out with Jake in the men's room, causing
Stoner Brett to use the girls room because it's cleaner.
And then the girls want to use the boys room because they don't
want to wait in line. That's not a gender riot.
That's just like. Not yeah.
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Students being weird. Also just maybe a sign that you
need gender neutral restrooms? Yeah.
Or like, clean them more often, Yeah.
Or that yeah, like. Maybe up your cleaning rotations
here. So this is an interesting
storyline because this is stuff that actually happens, like
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students wanting to use the bathroom that corresponds to
their gender identity. Interesting storyline.
Totally, absolutely relevant today, right?
Yeah, I mean, I was a little bitsurprised.
I mean like obviously I'm familiar with Glee doing the
unique storyline, but so many other parts of Glee feel kind of
dated and I was like, this feelslike a now topic.
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Yeah, totally. It's it's a now topic and
somehow it's gotten worse. Like the the problem that they
were discussing is worse. It hasn't gotten better.
Sorry, Kurt to your tattoo, but it it did not get it did not get
Bette Midler. Yeah, so we also have Sue's
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Corner as our our villain arc. And I guess Sue's Corner is one
of our recurring themes that do happen to come back.
But she wants to discuss the nation's insidious foe, Miley
Cyrus and twerking. And for anyone re watching the
show or maybe watching it for some reason for the first time
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in 2024, if you weren't around for Miley Cyrus dancing with
Robin Thicke at the VM as this doesn't make any sense.
This is the dated reference where.
You're like. What are you talking about?
It's definitely like very dated.Yeah.
Like Glee sometimes can capture a little bit of a timeless feel
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because the music isn't always new.
But this, yeah, this, this storyline, No, this is
transported back in time. Like when people were mad at
Miley Cyrus, like, oh, OK, so Sue wants to end the pandemic.
And I was like, no, don't say that word.
Oh yeah. By outlawing it at McKinley,
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because whenever she makes a bigproclamation, it's definitely
going to go well. Oh yeah.
So the Glee club is pissed aboutthis because they it's their
God-given right to twerk, a thing that they have never done
as a Glee club, but now? Still can't even do.
They're literally trying to learn how to.
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Do it. They're trying so hard.
This thing that they've never done for their competitions will
never do again. But it is so important to them
right now. And will goes who someone goes
on this rant about like twerkingis about blurring lines.
It's just a speech that will cueWill Schuster into singing
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Blurred Lines. Which didn't need to happen.
This didn't need to happen. This song is so gross.
Robin Thicke is so gross. Like including this in the
episode is blah. Yeah, I like, I skipped it.
I mean, I've heard it before. Yeah, I saw.
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I, I was, I was there. I was there when it was written.
I was there. I I saw this when it happened.
Yeah, I don't need that that. Song.
In my head again, because it is an earworm and I fucking hate
it. It is, yes.
It has been a while since Mr. Shuster had a song.
That's true. Yeah.
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We had peace for a while. We knew peace and honestly I was
kind of with Sue on this one. I was like, this is honestly
very disruptive for the school to have these idiots running
around into the classrooms. I mean, Sue makes some points
sometimes. Like this is a place of
learning, not a place of dancingand.
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Twerking is it? Is it a place of learning for
any of them? No, I think their SAD scores
have got to be the lowest in thecountry.
Absolutely. The feds are about to roll in
and take over and Sue rightfullycalls the song out for being
about date rape. Like this is not an appropriate
song. It's a bad song.
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Yeah, it's, it's like, I like the the bit of acknowledgement
from the show, the Oh yeah, we actually know what this is
about, but we're gonna have these teenagers like.
We know it's a bad song. We're gonna do it anyway, like,
but you don't have to. You don't have.
There's so many other songs. Just because Miley Cyrus danced
to this song at the VMAs and you're doing an episode about
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like you don't, you could still twerk to a different song?
Yeah, there are like so many songs you could twerk to.
Like you any like anything, anything I.
Mean you know Blaine has a playlist.
Blaine has got a bootylicious. Playlist.
Absolutely. Blaine has an entire he He is
ready to go. He's been waiting months for
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this to come up. He's been stretching.
He's got stretchy pants just forthis.
Because those, you know, if he were trying to do this in jeans,
it would never happen. No.
But yeah. And Sue tries to fire him
because she's always trying to fire him.
Except when they're friends for,like, an episode.
And then they go back to being enemies, because the Glee club
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needs an enemy to survive. And they, they are.
I mean, to be fair, I guess if Ihad Jane Lynch as an enemy, like
acting it, I would want to milk that too.
Oh, totally. Yeah, they could.
Just leave them enemies. I know, I mean if I were ever.
I mean I'm more into Shu and Sooas enemies to lovers.
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Oh. So so we've you know, we have to
go back to unique storyline because this episode bounces
around these three. We have twerking, we have New
York and we have unique. One of them is very private and
personal and sad and like important, and the other two are
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silly and it's your good old classic Glee episode sandwiching
an important storyline between nonsense some.
Emotional whiplash and music. Yeah, it's great.
Yeah. So unique goes to use this time.
She's going to use the men's room because she's getting told
off from the women's room and ofcourse gets bullied by a bunch
of dudes who are there who are just being absolute garbage.
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Not sure if these were football or whatever.
Doesn't actually matter what they're all like wearing
Letterman jackets. Finn Hudson would not have put
up with this. No season one.
Season one probably would have just looked the other way, yeah.
Past that, no. Yeah, would not have.
But this, this cues up our second song of the episode,
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which is If I Were a Boy. If I were a boy, I think I could
understand how it feels to everygirl.
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I swear I'd be a better man, which does makes sense for the
show. Yeah, it does, yeah.
It's like a nice, accurate song.I, I, I feel like the accuracy
is good. It's not, it's not my favorite
song, but the the emotional impact, they get points for
that. Yeah, it's like, oh, this one.
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It fits. Yeah, this one.
Fits. I love it.
And I did. Like when she goes back to the
choir room, Jake, Writer and Samare going to go kick ass.
Yeah, but rightfully unique is like, that's not going to fix
anything. Like, it's a systemic problem to
to solve this. And there's so there's like a, a
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McKinley school board meeting. And so one, the joke of it opens
with the motion approved to dig up the school parking lot and
move the Indian bones. Incredible.
Yeah. I did think this was gonna the
school board meeting was gonna include the bathroom situation,
and it's not. It's simply Schuster protesting
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the twerking ban. You would think that maybe one
of those would be equally as important as the other in the
eyes of the school board, but no.
I was like, oh, we're going to talk about the the bathroom
situation at the school board. That's going to be kind of
fraught and interesting. Like, no, it's just the the
twerking band. The second joke that came really
quickly was. Teacher of the.
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Year What is this? A typo.
William Schuster. Incredible.
But Will is there to protest andthey run through different types
of controversial dances at the time, the waltz, jazz, Elvis,
the twist and the kids get to dolittle dances and I thought that
was cute. But then we have to go back to
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the bathroom where Unique has requested a unisex bathroom,
which, OK, great unisex bathrooms.
We all use them all over the place in airplanes and all sorts
of situations. In your home.
Your home. Your home is a unisex bathroom.
Yeah, it's not that hard. Sue grants this request by
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installing a purple porta potty bolted to the choir choir room.
Floor. That kind of made me laugh.
It made me laugh. Also, Tina immediately using it,
Yeah. Yeah.
I was like, all right. That was that was a good one.
She's like, it's not that bad. Like you got me.
That was. That's so stupid.
(23:04):
You got me. Yeah.
I hate this show. Yeah.
Why is this funny? Who did this and why am I
laughing? You, Ryan Murphy?
Yeah, fuck you. When you get it wrong and when
you get it right. Yep, Yep.
I don't actually know who wrote this episode.
I'm just in a cursing out Ryan mood apparently.
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I wonder if he even saw these episodes by this point in the
5th. Season.
Probably not. This one was he.
Was well on to season 73 of American Horror Story by Dan
Lesney. Probably this one was written.
The credit goes to Michael Hitchcock.
OK. So he did Big Brother, he did
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MASH off the role. You were born to play girls and
boys on film. I mean some of those.
He seems like a bit of a mixed bag.
Yeah. 'Cause yeah, I don't know.
I I feel like there are definitely points of this
episode that are good but not, Idon't know, not put together the
best way. I know it's just, yeah, I know,
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'cause we ought 'cause then we have to go to Marley, who's
confronted by Bree, showing her a vine, rip vine of her.
Another throwback. I know of her dancing during
Blurred Lines. Just to be a bitch like this is
just simply to be an asshole, and it's like mocking her dance
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moves because she's not quite asgood at twerking as everyone
else. And that's when Bree tells
Marley that she and Jake had sexafter Marley decided that she
didn't want to again, just to behurtful.
Just cruelty. Just cruelty.
And the way she says it, too, isthis whole thing about, like,
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Jake having a mole on his hip and all of this, like, just like
that. Is neat little like that.
That was unnecessary. Yeah, and not, not funny.
Not that the scene should be funny, but there were ways that
Santana would break bad news or or be mean in clever ways.
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Like the dialogue was clever. I mean it's the dialogue was
clever and Naya also just had a talent for being emotionally
like just like impactful when changing would be but also
fucking hilarious while delivering the lines.
Totally. Like you got the multiple layers
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there. There's only one layer with
three. No offense to whoever the
actress is, I have no idea what her name is, but.
No offense to you, whoever you are.
Yeah, so sorry you were not not bringing it the way Naya.
And like, so sorry that your character was just like a third
copy. Yeah, no.
And I'm, I'm sure you know what,I think probably there were
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plenty of times when Naya was given absolute cardboard to redo
and made something of it. So yeah, not entirely the
actresses fault there. Like, you can only do so much
with this dialogue. So Marley rightfully goes to
confront Jake about what Bree told her.
And it's like, cheating on me goodbye.
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And she walks off to go sing Wrecking Ball.
Yes. This is her.
This is her stand up auditorium song.
Yeah. She gets the the spotlight in
the auditorium. Did did you like Wrecking Ball?
It seemed it looked so cheap. It really did.
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Like I it wasn't my favorite. It was OK.
Like the the Wrecking Ball was OK.
Like I really like Melissa's voice and I don't know, just
this. The set looked so cheap and it
was just them copy pasting the video.
Yeah. Yeah, it it was pretty much just
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a recreation. Yeah.
So considering what we got with What does the fox say, maybe,
maybe they just stick stick to recreating I.
Know. Sorry, I'm so salty towards them
today. I don't know why.
I think 'cause I was just annoyed having to watch this
episode. What's this show?
(27:30):
Yeah, I think, I don't know. I don't know.
Sometimes you're just like, why did you do this?
Yeah. 'Cause I don't dislike the song
itself, but like putting her on the the ball.
It just looks. It just looks so silly.
It also like undercuts a moment where I was genuinely feeling so
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bad for Marley. And it was just.
Like well, this is distracting. It yes, you're like, oh, here's
like an emotional moment where her boyfriend's cheating on her
and she already feels like shit and and now she's swinging on a
cardboard ball. Poor Marley.
Like don't Melissa her, yeah, don't do this to Melissa.
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She doesn't need this shit from you.
No. Yeah.
I will say I was just I I am increasingly happy with any
episode where I don't have to see Ryder a ton.
This is true. You're so right.
That might be part of it too, where you're like, what was
going on? Yeah, yeah.
And. That's like obviously not
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something I was judging anyone on at the time it aired, but
it's it's impossible to not rewatch with that perspective.
Mm hmm, yeah, gotta love a retrospective where you're like,
look at this now. Yeah.
In hindsight, what was she thinking?
Yeah. So we have a a final, a final
bathroom moment where it's during choir practice.
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This is maybe the most choir practice they've done.
Yeah, in a lot like they're actually.
Yeah. Practicing unique.
So they're like the cameras, like looking at that stupid ass
porta potty and Unique is like asking to use the the bathroom
and she's gonna use that fuckingporta potty.
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And she's like, no, I've got something better 'cause I'm the
savior. And offers to take Unique to the
faculty bathroom. And he has this like speech.
It's like a aren't I awesome? Yeah, it's very.
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Self congratulatory vibes there.It was a self congratulatory and
all I was thinking of is like Unique is already doing all of
the hard work to be herself in this situation.
And like you're stepping in and being like, I'll give you a key
like. Yeah, you.
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You don't have to. You shouldn't have to do this
like Nah, yeah, I don't. I found it an I think it was
supposed to be very like, here'sa teacher stepping up for a
student and trying to help when no one else is helping and
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encouraging someone to do like be yourself.
You know, you keep fighting the good fight, but she's like, she
already has to. She has to fight everything all
the time. She has no option but to fight
that fight. There, there's nothing else she
can do. It felt a little patronizing to
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me. Yes, yeah, totally.
And maybe the best thing that hesaid was this.
Like, no one needs to know how you identify yourself, but like,
you force her to by having heardit come to you to ask to use the
bathroom. Yeah.
That's a good point. Like everyone, Like yeah.
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Everyone's going to know becauseshe has to come to a teacher.
So Sue sees this whole interaction, goes down and
apparently thinks it's degradingto have to ask for the key, and
offers to give Unique a key to the faculty bathroom, but only
if the student stopped working because somehow twerking is so
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important to Sue. And I think this is honestly, we
all know that this is just a a Sue plot to fuck with the Glee
club, but it's up against something as important as a
student's identity. Yeah.
I mean, it's it's safety insinuating some equivalency
(31:55):
there that is definitely not. Like like, your health and
safety in this school is up against dancing.
Yeah. And I'm gonna pit them against
each other, like or not. Yeah, or you could just not you
just you just give unique the key.
Yeah, you you could just give Unique the key and fight this
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battle another way. You don't have, you don't have
to potentially put her in a dangerous situation because you
wanna get back at Shoe for something again.
Yeah. And I sometimes I don't know if
the writers of the show realize they're making that equivalency
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or if they do and they're tryingto show that it's absurd.
Yeah, like. Like you guys know that this is
stupid right? Like these two things are not
equal. I feel like I might give them
the benefit of the doubt if it were this situation alone, but I
have a feeling I don't remember it very well, but I have a
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feeling as we get into the beaststuff.
Oh God. We're gonna see that this was a
conscious decision being made. Yeah, that's going to be awkward
to talk about. I.
Think yes, yes. I don't.
Work I do, I know. Anyway, she says no and then
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throws a suicide rebellion as heleaves the office throwing
furniture all over the place. And I actually really enjoyed
that. I was like, OK, that's funny,
that's throwing shit all over the place, good for you.
And it seemed like he had a goodtime doing it, so I had no
complaints there. Appropriate.
That was appropriate. And you know, the the end of the
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Glee club storyline is, you know, talking about they shoe
kind of is like, hey, we're not going to twerk anymore because
we're not gonna twerk anymore because uniques safe.
You know, safety is more important.
Rebelling is one thing, but betraying who we are is
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something else. Like, didn't you realize that at
the beginning? Like we're not gonna twerk
during nationals. We all know this God.
I hope not. I hope that wasn't the shoe
plan. There is no shoe plan.
They picked their songs the day before.
That's true. That's true there.
Is no plan an? Actual plan.
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I, however, could not stop looking at Blaine's outfit.
Yeah. Lavender Plants plants lavender
pants, a rainbow Plaid shirt, and a yellow bow tie.
Who hurt you? I mean, I, I do feel like at
some point Darren Chris, just like I don't know if he like
(34:50):
fucked him and ran or what, but he hurt someone in that
costuming department. He's like.
Why like? He pissed someone off.
He complained about the hair gelone too many times.
And they were like, OK, it's over now, baby.
They were like, oh, you want to see how much worse it can get?
You thought this was bad, Just you wait, motherfucker.
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And then they sing a song I had never heard before called On Our
Way as the group number at the very end.
I had also never heard this and to be honest watching it back I
was like I'm still not sure I'veever heard this.
I was. Like, did this happen before?
Yeah. Or is this new?
Is this new to the rewatch? OK.
Can't believe they inserted entire songs.
(35:36):
Damn Hulu streaming version. Like, OK, I guess this didn't
hit the charts. Yeah.
All right, OK, so I guess we have to go all the way back to
New York. Yes, Rachel and her fucking
funny girl shit. Yeah.
She is going to get a haircut and wants to do a
(35:58):
transformation. She wants to look completely
different. And I was like yeah OK whatever.
She goes to rehearsal where she has gotten a fuck ass Bob and
everyone's pissed about this. Like the director's going off
about how he controls absolutelyeverything about the production,
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and all I could think was she's going to wear a wig for the show
anyway. Everybody in the production
wears a wig, so. What does it matter then?
What does it fucking matter? Like that's that's what happens
on stage. Everyone wears wigs.
Would will you wear wigs? When will you wear wigs?
(36:44):
When will you wear wigs? Will you wear wigs?
Maybe. When will you wear wigs like
they're? Yeah.
It they're gonna wear wig, What does it matter?
She could shave her fucking head.
It won't matter. She and whatever his name is the
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guy who's playing the lead across from her saying you are
woman. I am man.
I hate this song. I this performance to me is like
kitsch. I just don't enjoy it.
I don't really like the the musical anyway.
Sorry. I just, I just not for me, it's
it I it doesn't spark joy. So this performance, I was like,
(37:31):
OK, yeah, I don't care. So the director comes around to
the haircut, but it doesn't matter anyway because when she
gets home to the loft, she reveals that it was a wig
anyway. Plot twist.
We all cried. And I was like, as if Lea
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Michele would have cut her hair.Yeah, really.
You know, like, whatever. And then she feels the need to
tell Kurt that he is boring. I mean, this man is just living
his life. Like he's going to work, he
comes home, he's got a boyfriend.
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Like it's just fucking living his life.
Let him do him. I don't think he's he's not even
boring. Like he's literally a student
who has a job and extracurriculars.
Yeah, you're right. He's got a he's got a band, he's
got a fiance, and he goes to school and to work.
He ain't got no other hours in his day.
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Like what does she expect him tobe doing to liven up his
personality for her entertainment?
Apparently they're going to go out and do something crazy of
getting tattoos. I, as someone with tattoos, I
like other things. When you're not an expert, like
when you have the thing that people depict on TV, you're
(38:56):
like, that's not how that works.Yeah.
So the scene is just stupid. What the the tattoo realism not
hidden for you the. Tattoo realism is not hidden for
me. Because it's non existent.
It's it's just non existent. Don't drink before you get a
tattoo. One, they probably won't do it
(39:17):
if they catch you drinking. Even this place, they're like,
oh, it's a sketchy place. Like, no, yeah.
So Kurt gets something that he says is both personal and
political, and it's supposed to say it gets better.
But what he has gotten is it it's get better.
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And so the idea is that they, like, went out and just got
tattoos. But then he says that he got a
printing of it so the artist would know what font he'd like.
So that's not like, a random decision.
Yeah. So like.
There was some premeditation there.
(40:07):
A little premeditation. Apparently not premeditated
enough because he was the one who spelled it wrong.
I mean, that's the kind of dumb bleeping that I'm like, all
right, that's fine. That's that's funny.
Yeah, he he and he also chose really dumb font like what it
hurt you work at Conde Nast like.
(40:29):
Yeah. Stop it.
Did you not ask Sarah Michelle? Like what is happening so.
If you have her at your disposal, run everything by her
verse. You ask her what the appropriate
font for a tattoo is. And also like he had no bandage
on it. There was no swelling, it wasn't
(40:52):
red at all. Very pretty tattoo.
Someone just took a fine pen to his back.
It's like, give it an attempt. Would you give it a fucking
attempt? Rachel claims she went through
with it, but or claims that she didn't go through with it, but
(41:15):
we find out later. So.
Oh, so Kurt goes back to the tattoo parlor because it's
misspelled and he talks to this artist and he's like, I wanted
to rebel and shake off my doldrums.
Like, again, what doldrums are you talking about?
You are in school, you have a job, you're in a band with a
(41:35):
really cool dude and a really cool chick.
Also, your dad's a senator. Your dad's a senator.
You're engaged. Worker you've lived a lot of
life in 1920 years Kurt like. You've.
Won mine the. Glee Club Championship.
You've been in New York for six weeks.
(41:58):
This. Show.
What, so the artist is like, yeah, I'm gonna fix it, but you
gotta go more nuts. And by going more nuts, I mean,
you gotta get your tongue pierced.
Not a nose, not an eyebrow, not your ear.
Which would make more sense. Your tongue.
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Yeah. Fucking stupid, stupid, stupid.
So he gets his tattoo fixed to say it's got Bette Midler, which
I don't hate 'cause it's so I. Know it's It's stupid enough
that it works. It's funny.
It's stupid enough that it works.
I love Bette Midler, I can't be mad about it.
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I remember people being a littleupset that it had nothing to do
with Blaine. Oh well, that's.
But also like they're 19, their wedding is stupid anyway.
Everything about them getting engaged at 19 is dumb.
They don't mean to add. Like.
Body modification to it. Like let them get married and
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figure out if this is going to last anyway and then they can
talk about bad idea tattoos. But it's got Bette Midler is
funny. The tongue piercing.
It's really. Tall and she's never seen again,
right? Never seen again.
Which is probably why it wasn't an earring because they could
(43:27):
just be like, oh we took it out.I just think Kurt Hummel with an
earring is funny. That would have been funnier I.
Think I think that would have been kind of cute.
It's the Nicholas Gallatzin era.You just rock an earring all the
time. But yeah, so it it turns out the
the Rachel did get a tattoo and it's Finn's name up on her her
(43:52):
ribs, which is very cute. Yeah.
It's hard to make fun of even though like.
Yeah, I have nothing for that one.
Nothing. Nothing to say about that one.
Yeah, we'll take a pass on that.Yeah, that that's the thing that
Rachel gets the excuse on this episode, nothing else.
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But like but also like where wasSantana?
She would have gotten a tattoo. Santana would have been like
probably the responsible one to check like Yelp reviews or call
up her heavily tattooed friend and be like recommend me a good
place. Like recommend me somewhere that
spells it right the first time. That's why she couldn't be in
the episode 'cause she actually would have been too responsible,
(44:35):
yeah, for the storyline to to work.
Yeah, that's you're so right. Like not you guys.
Yeah. We're going to the good place,
not the bad place. So yeah, those are our very our
three. I guess everyone was, well, no,
not even everyone was letting loose with the twerking and the
(44:57):
tattoos. But then Unique had a very
serious storyline and. Yeah, just a disjointed set of
storylines. Mishmash.
Yeah. I wonder what Naya was doing.
Like why wasn't? I miss her in the episode.
(45:18):
I know. I know I I, I definitely, again
with the retrospect, I enjoy Santana so much and I'm always
watching her when she's on screen.
Yeah, me too. The the trivia attached to this
episode is apparently this is the 4th episode to have a viewer
discretion advised. Really.
(45:39):
Content reading? And it was like, for what?
What was it? Yeah, what?
I guess. Quirking gender.
Gender require. I don't, I don't know.
I mean. No gender.
Unique is in many more episodes.I'm not sure if they're aware of
that. And she is always herself.
(46:01):
Beware gender. Yeah, scary, scary.
And it's the it's the first episode of Season 5 to not be a
tribute episode. OK, Yeah, thank God.
Yeah. It's too many tribute episodes.
I remember that being an issue in the like, hey, we get it.
No more. No more, no more tributes.
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Thank you very much. OK, well that that is the
episode. Do you got anything else to add?
Not really it wasn't. I mean the unique storyline
wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either.
Which again, is for Glee. For a storyline like that, not
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bad. Probably is the high bar that
they have reached. Yeah, like.
Offensive. They didn't, yeah, they didn't
do anything horrifically wrong in it.
So I'm like, good job. Yeah, totally.
Yeah. It just again, it's like to
sandwich it between like silly stuff.
I I guess is how you make it, not I don't know.
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I mean, this is what Glee does though, so it's not like it's
surprising. I mean it, I don't know what
else was airing on Fox at the time, but it also might have
been how do we get this on air thing.
That is very true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just, I hate when those kind of storylines feel diminished
because they're next to twerking.
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You're like, actually, this is something really important that
people should talk about. But also dancing.
Like, all right, that's fine. Oh my.
God, I just saw that the next episode is also silly.
A tribute episode. It is the the next two episodes
are they're fine. Yeah.
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Season 5 is buck wild. I don't.
I don't know how high the writers room was, but it's not
great. Yeah, pretty high, I'm guessing.
Do you have a favorite song? Not really.
I mean, just in terms of the song, like she'd like.
Melissa did a good job with Wrecking Ball, but I.
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Don't know the. Song I always want to.
I came. In like a regular I never hit so
hard. All I wanted was to break.
All you ever did was, yeah, I was going to say Wrecking Ball
(48:40):
because I like Marley and Melissa.
Yeah, like unique song, like it,it, it fit, but I still didn't
enjoy it. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, I'm going to go with Wrecking Ball.
Do you have any favorite lines or anything that stood out I.
Don't think much stood out to mein this one.
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The only thing I really wrote down what the the teacher of the
year? What is this a typo?
OK, that was good. Yeah.
I like that. I was like, thank you.
That is for. Us yeah OK I'm going to steal
that in just a second it. And then because we're supposed
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to end these episodes on something positive, what is that
thing you like? Oh, let's see, I mean I I like
Sue stepping in for unique, evenif it was a like leverage thing.
I like the Vine reference. Vine.
(49:44):
Yeah. We miss you.
And oh, I, I like that they pointed out that Blurred Lines
is about Dave, right? Yeah.
Like, yeah, at least some self-awareness.
Just a a smidgen of it. And I, I, I will say I think
that even if I didn't like all the storylines, I think that
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Unique and Marley's scenes were well acted.
I love their friendship, yes. Yeah.
And I like that that continues. I love their best, their
besties. I don't know if they're besties,
but I'm gonna say it. They seem like they should have
been besties. Yeah, yeah, I like them.
There's So what about you? What?
What's the thing you like? Aw.
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Man, I don't know. You know, I I like that in the
beginning, Blaine was just chilling.
Yeah. Taking care of business.
Like I don't know if he stayed late to put chairs away but like
I appreciate someone cleaning upafter themselves.
Yeah. So I'm going to say Blaine
dancing on his own, just having a good time.
(50:50):
Tidying. Tidying up like a good boy, yes.
Not something I'm going to say. That's a good one.
Yeah, 'cause you know, you don'thave to leave that to other
people to take care of. You should do that.
All right. Well, this is the the end of the
end, the the end of the end of twerking.
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It's a a bit of a skip, I would say.
In the Canon, yeah. Of not not a necessary rewatch
if you're doing the best of there.
Yeah, you know, if I don't thinkit's gonna crack your top 20,
No, but you know, thanks for forlistening.
You can find us on the Internet on Phantom on the rocks.
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And if you want to find all our bonus content, that's on
patreon.com/phantom on the rocksand we will catch you on the
next episodes that are also kindof silly mid season five.
What the hell are they doing episodes.
And I guess that's what you missed on twerking.
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