Glee Preggers Review

Look, a football team do a choreographed dance routine to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" is not something you expect to see on network TV… but damn if it isn't really funny and actually kind of awesome, in a completely ridiculous way.

Last week's episode's subplot about Mercedes' crush on Kurt, and Kurt subsequently coming out to her was okay – but seemed especially unnecessary given the events of this episode, which put Kurt much more front and center, and dealt with his not so shocking secret in a very fun and clever manner. Okay, it was very convenient that Kurt's friend lied to his dad that he was a kicker on the football team, and the football team just happened to need a new kicker, but that's okay – because the events that occurred surrounding Kurt on the team were so funny.

Kurt could kick alright, but he just had to have "Single Ladies" playing to put him in his zone. Chris Colfer really went for it here, hysterically performing Kurt's "audition" for the football team, as he did his dance routine (inspired by Kanye West's choice for "one of the best videos of all time!") leading up to his big kick. What followed was even funnier, as the entire team was forced to learn Kurt's dance routine – including the very unhappy Puck. It all lead up to the requisite Big Game, and the inspired visual of all of these football players, in full uniform, baffling everyone with their dancing. It was quite the memorable TV moment indeed. And Kurt, in the aftermath of helping win the game, had a nice coming out scene with his dad (played by Mike O'Malley) which was both sweet and funny.



With the Kurt storyline dominating, a couple other plotlines also moved forward. It's hard not to be annoyed by Rachel demanding she lead vocals when the Glee Club was performing West Side Story (though I did like her line, "Natalie Wood was a Jew, you know!"). But while I'm not so invested in Rachel's angst, I am very happy with the fact that it lead to lots of great material for Jane Lynch and Stephen Tobolowsky, as the two plotted to steal Rachel away from Glee by offering her a lead in a show Sandy was directing. The scene in which Sue went to Sandy's home was great, as we got even more of an idea of just how incredibly creepy Sandy is, as he traipsed about in a way too short robe. A great moment had Sue deadpanning that Sandy's massive collection of dolls was "lovely and normal", before saying all his home was missing were, "Bodies under the floor board." Tobolowsky is terrific in this role, as Sandy manages to make everything he says ("Take a seat on the casting couch!") sound amazingly disturbing.

Sue's new job on the local news is random, but who cares when it offers more of Jane Lynch being awesome? Her interaction with the TV station's owner (played by another great character actor, Kurt Fuller, who can also currently be seen on Supernatural) led to some priceless Sue moments, as we learned she was the only one "brave enough to take a pro-littering stance" and then went into a racist tinged tangent about helping garbage men "afford tacos for their family."

Lest we forget, there was also the storyline that gave this episode its title – as Quinn revealed to Finn that she was pregnant (Psst! It's really Puck's baby!). Her explanation for how this could be included an awesome call back to Finn's premature ejaculation problem (and mailman hitting flashback), and also dovetailed into Terri still pretending to be pregnant. It was obvious where Terri's mind was going as Will told her about a pregnant cheerleader at school, and I wondered how they would play it.

A woman faking a pregnancy, while planning to eventually take the baby belonging to a pregnant girl trying to hide her pregnancy (whew!) is a very soap opera plotline – but luckily Glee is the kind of show to handle it with humor. I liked the scene in which a sobbing Quinn ran into her car, only for Terri to ominously already be sitting there – So far, Terri has been an incredibly unlikable character. More firmly establishing her as this devilish type of schemer at least pushes her far enough to make her actions entertaining, even as we root against her.

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