Mones Fun Fact: I love to sing...in the shower, while cleaning my apartment, in my cubicle at work when everyone leaves, on Monday nights at a certain San Francisco karaoke bar. I sing my little heart out.
Mones Sad Fact: I'm not good. I have my moments, but they are few and far between. It's the tragedy that is my life.
Sorry, Gasmii! I know this is super late, but I had my wisdom teeth taken out the week this premiered. There was pain. There was an infection. There may have been a small addiction to painkillers. The important thing is that I'm out of rehab back and beyond excited to recap Glee.
That being said, I think you can all understand why I absolutely LOVED this show...and why I cried tears of joy for 20 minutes after it was over. I'm convinced this show is the reason why America will win the war on terrorism.
OK, OK, I'll shut up and get to the recapping already. Nothing this good lasts more than a season. See My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, et al.
Ladies and Gentlemen...Glee.
Ready! OK! We open on cheerleading practice and this show has me at hello. Jane Lynch! Love her. The routine ends and one of the girls loses her balance and falls.
Credits. Opening riffs of "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind & Fire? Oh show, could I love you more?
We follow a teacher salary-priced car through the parking lot. The driver walks over to a group of jocks circling their nerd prey and asks Kurt (nerd) if he's making new friends.
He reminds another jock, Finn, that he still needs his report on "Que aakdla dhaldksh addh". After consulting closed captioning, I can deduce two things: 1- the driver is a Spanish teacher and 2- both the writer of the pilot and the actor playing the Spanish teacher don't know Spanish. Possibly the only fault of the episode. Why couldn't he have been an English teacher? I don't know nothing bout that.
Anyways, Finn is almost half way done with almost all of it. El Maestro leaves and the jocks re-direct their attention to Kurt. They pick him up to throw him in the dumpster. Kurt pleads for mercy on his new Mark Jacobs. Finn stops them and lets Kurt hand him his jacket before letting them throw him in.
El Maestro stops by the school trophy case to look at the 1993 Show Choir Championships 1st place trophy. We pan up to a picture of Lillian Adler...
El Maestro looks on pensively.
Spanish class. ¡¡¡Ay Dios mio!!! The bad pronunciation is hurting my delicate Latin ears! Finn mumbles to himself in a daze.
Music Room. Someone who I'm assuming is the current Glee Club advisor is rehearsing "Where Is Love?" from Oliver! with a cute/tone deaf student. Thinking no one is looking, he runs his hand down the student's chest.
Teacher's Lounge. El Maestro asks where the coffee is. Budget cuts. Harsh. Jane Lynch! walks in with some lattes. In walks a prissy redhead with crazy eyes. Ken Tanaka, PE teacher, hungrily eyes her. Emma, said redhead, gives him a curt "hey" and gives Will (Maestro) a loving "hi" complete with huge smile and voice tone change. She asks about the lattes. Jane Lynch! felt bag about Principal Figgins cutting the coffee budget in order to pay for a nutritionist (Emma) for the Cheerios. Her performers didn't make it on Fox Sports Net because they ate at Bacon Junction. Emma wonders when cheerleaders became performers. Meee-ow!
After complimentary Emma on the savory taste of her resentment, Jane Lynch! leaves for a phone interview with a major television outlet. She'll probably use her iPhone.
Ken adjust his belt and heads over to Emma, who's disinfecting the table. He missed her at the singles mixer last weekend. A pipe exploded in her building (I bet that's not the only pipe Ken wants exploding in her building, right guys?) so she couldn't go. She hates those things anyway. Will assures her that there's someone out there for everyone. Oh Will, don't tell her those things! It only makes her want you more! She tells the guys about Sandy Ryerson getting fired. Will wonders who'll take over Glee Club?
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Comments (9)
so glad this show is getting recapped! Haven't read it yet, but i can't wait!
1 of 9 | Posted by tv freak | Posted on June 3, 2009 4:25 PM
I have to say that I would have liked less detail and more commentary. There are dozens of sites that do recaps straight. What I love about tvgasm is the recappers are snarky.
The glee teacher rubbing down the student's stomach...I had thought that was encouraging the student to breathe through the diaphragm.
2 of 9 | Posted by tv freak | Posted on June 3, 2009 4:56 PM
I love this show and I officially love you! I liked you at the Jesse Spano "I'm so excited...I'm so scared". Feelings grew at "dang, anything else", oh Bon Qui Qui. I realized it was love at Fosse! Just walk it out!
Seriously great show! I hope it makes it and is not sent into premature death like Freaks and Geeks and Arrested Development (RIP)
3 of 9 | Posted by rosarina | Posted on June 3, 2009 5:23 PM
I am SO in love with this show right now!!!
If the writers can keep it this fresh, warm, and humorous.. then I shall come along for the ride.
I will spread the disease of this show to every person I know..and also any random strangers that have the misfortune of being stuck in a Starbucks Coffee line with me.
Now...
"From the top."
4 of 9 | Posted by knackered | Posted on June 3, 2009 6:59 PM
Thanks for recapping this show. I love it. This show is awesome. I loved the music, I loved the performances by the two groups. Especially loved the choice of songs. "Don't Stop" is a great song. I never get tired of it and I loved what they did with it.
I can't wait for it to start in the fall.
I wish glee Club had been like this when I was a kid. Can you imagine?
5 of 9 | Posted by AnneM | Posted on June 3, 2009 7:32 PM
AnneM: agree with you comment completely, except instead of wishing i had glee club as a kid, it's not too late for me lol...trying to convince my choir teacher to start one. wish me luck =P
Loved the song choices. Omg...especially gold digger (in the season preview)...loved it already, but i think their 5 second snippit sounded better than the original.
Btw...did anyone see the season preview (I assume I can talk about it since it aired right?) Did anyone see the scene where they said the wife isn't pregnant ("did it fall out" rotflol)...I'm so guessing when that surfaces, the teacher may leave her for crazy eyes. anyone else think this?
6 of 9 | Posted by tv freak | Posted on June 4, 2009 4:08 PM
Good luck on getting a Glee Club at your school. I think it would be a great activity.
I did see the season preview and I think the wife is going to try and fake the pregnancy for as long as possible.
I can't wait to see how the cheerleaders and their evil leader will try and make trouble for the Glee singers.
This show is almost too good for TV.
7 of 9 | Posted by AnneM | Posted on June 4, 2009 6:09 PM
tv freak: sorry you didn't like it. it's hard to snark on something this good.
knackered: amen!!! i'll take care of all the non-starbucks coffee shops. :-)
thanks everyone for reading!
8 of 9 | Posted by mones | Posted on June 5, 2009 1:13 PM
Mones! I love this show so much I can't stand it. The only bad thing is having to wait for the fall until we get more.
I love Jane Lynch! also and will watch pretty much anything she's in. But I'm liking everyone right now. I can't wait to see what they do with this and I PRAY that they don't fall victim to the same axes that cut Freaks and Geeks and My So Called Life out of our lives forever.
I could go on and on and on, but I'll just say one more thing. I Love Glee!
SWAK, PottyMouth
9 of 9 | Posted by PottyMouth | Posted on June 7, 2009 4:24 PM