Glee: Acafellas (S01E03)

By Cindy Graham on September 17th, 2009

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Glee’s third episode begins as Will admits to his father (Victor Garber), his terror over becoming a new dad, and is motivated by his father to find out if he has the guts to abandon his fears and follow his dreams. After Rachel so tactfully tells Will that he isn’t capable of choreographing the Gleeks in a winning number, he all but abandons the glee club, and forms an all-male a cappella group, called the Acafellas. The pressure of the rising-to great-heights quartet, causes a couple of men to drop-out, and they end up being replaced by Finn and the unlikely singer, Mohawk-haired Puck, for an engagement before the P.T.A. They are amazing as they perform “I Wanna Sex You Up.” Will is just plain hot, and I for one, would have run through hot coals to have had him as my high school Spanish teacher.

In the meantime, Rachel, under the influence of Quinn, hires their rival Glee club’s (Vocal Adrenaline) choreographer. The arrogant Dakota Stanley is a bully, who takes great pleasure in humiliating people for their imperfections. When Finn and other Gleeks quit, Rachel rallys the group to stay, and fires Stanley. Because Quinn failed to cause the demise of the Gleeks, the egotistical cheerleading coach, Sue Sylvester, punishes Quinn (and friend) by making them smell their armpits, while saying “that is the smell of failure, and it is stinking up my office.” Oh yes, she also took away their tanning privileges for the season.

Somewhere along the way, forlorn Mercedes falls in love with still-in-the closet Kurt. Kurt, to keep her from learning the truth, crushes Mercedes when he lies and tells her that he is in love with Rachel. She becomes deranged and throws a rock through his car window, which opens the door for her to belt out “Bust Your Windows.”

I must admit, I enjoyed the Acafellas tunes, which also included Montell Jordan’s “This is How We Do It” and Bel Biv Devoe’s “Poison.” I just can’t for the life of me figure out what the producers were thinking, when they created a part for Josh Groban, odd as it was, and didn’t have the astounding virtuoso sing. Let me know your thoughts on that!