Glee: Using Their Voices

By Jennifer Hudock on November 26th, 2009

Glee kicks off this week with Sue asking for the glee club setlist, and Will knows she’s up to something sinister. He knows that she’s leaking their setlist to the competitor schools, but the only way he can stop her is if he can prove she’s up to no good. He visits J. Adams high school to talk to the administrator about it and she points out to him how underfunded her arts program is, and she has no intention of cheating. He offers her their auditorium so they can have a glee scrimmage.

The J. Adams girls perform Bootylicious, and Will is impressed and concerned. Hairography, smoke and mirrors… the J. Adams girls use fancy hair swinging movements to distract from the fact that they can’t really dance. Will gets the idea to do a song from the 70s musical, Hair. They get to work on a little hairography of their own.

Terri is in bed thinking about her pregnancy lie, and how much she misses Will. She really does want to have a family with him, but needs more time to figure things out. In the meantime, she realizes she needs a distraction. She buys a replica of his old car off eBay so he can work on it as a distraction, but while they are looking over the car, Quinn comes and tells her she wants to keep her baby. She decides it’s time to tell him the truth, but Kendra tells her she has it all worked out. They’re gonna camp out and pretend to go to a spa weekend, while waiting for Quinn to have her baby. Terri is worried that Quinn won’t give up the baby, but Kendra’s going to have her babysit to convince her that kids aren’t worth having. Meanwhile, Quinn invites Puck to come babysitting with her on the weekend.

Rachel agrees to help Finn with the hairography stuff, but she’s dressed up like Olivia Newton John from Grease, and Finn’s not impressed. He tells her that she looks like a clown prostitute, and he actually likes her when she’s just being herself. Finn leaves, but not before telling her that he really likes her… the real her.

Puck and Quinn get tied up by Kendra’s kids, but Puck brought his guitar and they quell the rowdy boys with a real live music video. Quinn sings Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach and Puck can’t stop watching her. The kids have such a great time, they ask her to sing again. Quinn successfully conquered the kids, and she tells Puck afterward that he was impressed with her parenting skills. He tries to convince her that they can do it together if they try. Puck’s girlfriend tells Quinn that she needs to keep her hands off of Puck, but Quinn doesn’t believe that Puck was sexting the whole time he was babysitting with her. She confronts Puck, and then tells Terri she can have her baby because a girl needs a good father, and the only way she’ll have one is if she gives the baby to her.

The club has a real awakening when they invite the local deaf glee club to scrimmage with them, realizing it’s about the power of their voices, and not the wild show they put on.

When Sue takes the updated setlist to the competitor schools, she tells them to never let anything stand in the way of winning, and while we all know nice guys finish last, I have a feeling that being yourself and showing your true colors is the only way to really come out on top.