A Don Pardo type announcer asks the audience to give a Hawkeye State welcome to State Regional Champs "Vocal Adrenaline"! Curtains rise and BAM! Full scale, Broadway caliber production. New costumes! Fancy choreography! Tumbling!

We got a dolly roll shot of our shell-shocked home team. "We're d-d-d-doomed." Yes, Tina C, you are.
Back at school, Finn get cornered by the football team armed with paintball guns. Puck looked it up and women don't have prostates. Finn broke the rules and for that he must die be punished. Finn tries to reason with them. They have the power! They don't have to do this!

Will come home to Terri and a "Congratulations" sign. The kids haven't won anything yet, what's it for? She's pregnant. They're going to be a family. Hugs all around.
Wheelchair kid, Artie sadly asks if when Will will be leaving them. He's given the school his two weeks notice but will find them a great replacement before he leaves. Mercedes wonders if he's leaving because of the Carmel kids because they can work harder. Rachel doesn't think its fair. They can't do it without him. Finn oblivious to everyone's disappointment wonders if his departure means he doesn't have to be in Glee anymore. Will reassures the kids that it has nothing to do with him. Being an adult is about making difficult choices. Sometimes you have to give up the things you love. They'll understand when they grow up. No they won't. I still haven't...tear.

Will signs some paperwork. Emma asks if he needs help grading papers. It's actually an application for H.W. Menken. He tells Emma he'll miss her. Awww. Instead of declaring her love for him, which I would have done, she asks him to stop by the career center before he leaves. He's in need of some guidance. He tells her he's having a kid, what he needs are better benefits. She asks him to go, for her.
I wonder if this show will be on long enough for these two to finally get together...
In the hallway, Finn closes his locker and finds Rachel. She didn't him at Glee. Is that still happening? Yes, she's taken over as interim director until they find someone more permanent. Quinn comes up and says hi to Finn and "RuPaul". Heh. Why is he talking to Rachel? Finn freezes, but Rachel comes up with science project partners. Quinn reminds Finn about the Christ Crusaders meeting at her house and leaves. Rachel thinks he's really got something and that he's throwing it away by worrying about what people think. He's better than all of them.
Who else started feeling the water works warming up here?
Football Field. Pucks not apologizing to Finn, that's not him. If he joined the flag team, Finn would beat the crap out of him. Why did he do it? Will promised him extra credit in Spanish if he joined. If he flunks another class he's off the team. No matter, it's over now. Puck's got a welcome back present for him...

The jocks are going to flip it and they're saving the first one for Finn. Instead, Finn has an epiphany and gets Artie out. Puck can't believe he's helping that loser. Finn thinks they're all losers, everyone in the school and the town. Of all the kids that graduate, half go to college and maybe 2 will go out of state to do it. He's not afraid of being called a loser anymore because he can accept what he is. What he's afraid of is turning his back on something that made him happy. Puck asks if he's quitting football to join "Homo Explosion"? No. The football team can't live without him and neither can Glee. So in your big, dumb jock faces!!!
As Finn wheels Artie away, he hears the angelic voice of Steve Perry...

And something comes over him...

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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