"Glee' Breakdown 'A Very Glee Christmas'
Written by Bob Suggs Wednesday, 08 December 2010 21:21
| ← Lea Michele Belts 'America The Beautiful' At Super Bowl |
|---|
Glee - A Very Glee Christmas - on FOX
The last new episode until February when 'Glee-ers' get a post-Super Bowl episode.
Last Night the 'Glee Club' went full Santa and Sue went 'Grinch'. But opposites attract and by the end of the episode Sue, Will and The Gleeks share a Christmas Eve.
Will saying to Sue "I thought you hated the Holidays?" she replies "nah, I just hate you".
But before all that here's what went down.
The Story
As Glee begins, Brittany reveals to Artie that the roads to the North Pole are treacherous, and he’s got to get his letter in to Santa early.
“And don’t forget. Even a little envelope is heavy to an elf.”
“No way,” Artie breathes.
Oh yes, it’s true: Brittany believes in Santa.
Musical Number 1:
The students decorate the Christmas tree (in the Glee Club Room) with a festive rendition of “The Most Wonderful Day of the Year.”
Shue’s big idea is to go classroom to classroom, caroling to raise money for homeless kids. But all doesn't go like a sleigh traveling downhill, nope more like over a cliff and they get booted out of their first classroom performance (ok, it was a shoe not a boot)!
Meanwhile, Rachel wants to sing Finn a forgive-me song, but he's not ready to forgive her and leaves.
Musical Number 2:
"Merry Christmas, Darling" The Christmas song of the Carpenters is Rachel's lovesick song to her newly split ex. (Finn). She wistfully mourns for someone to spend the holiday with, as snow falls all around her. It's a pretty song, but really it just makes us feel sorry for Rachel, especially when Finn doesn't cut her any slack.
Artie tells the group they have to band together to help Brittany continue to believe. But when she wishes for Artie to be able to walk ... how are they going to fake this?
Over at Superprep Academy, Blaine asks Kurt to help him work on Musical Number 3: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" When it comes to the songs we'll download, our top pick goes to Kurt and his new love interest, Blaine, who steamed up the holidays with their version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Kurt's sultry voice perfectly straddled the line between masculine and feminine. Blaine, who holds down the fort with another solid number. The original is very sexy and romantic, and this update bears repeated listening.
Meanwhile, Sue has rigged the teachers’ Secret Santa so that all the presents go to her, and she’ll have everyone arrested if they touch ‘em; Shue consults some kind of rulebook (?) and confiscates them for the homeless kids, calling her a Grinch.
Sue suits up as The Grinch and dismantles the glee club’s charity Christmas project to Musical Number 4: "You're a Mean One, Sue the Grinch" There has been no sight more frightening on "Glee" this year than Sue in the green Grinch makeup. "You're a Mean One, Sue the Grinch" (featuring k.d. lang) ties in with the stealing-presents story line, and adds a cartoon holiday favorite to the mix.
The next day, in the face of all the destruction, Brittany insists Santa will make it right. And Finn rallies the troops: way worse things than this have happened. They have to pull it together for the homeless kids. At the tree lot, Finn and Rachel split up to look at trees; as they wander along, they sing Musical Number 5: "Last Christmas" When Rachel suggests Wham! as a Christmas favorite, it could have easily produced eye rolls. But when she and Finn got a hold of it the whole thing works out after all. It's kind of sad knowing that it's the last song Finn and Rachel will sing as a couple, or is it? (yes, one question that will have to wait till next year to be answered).
The kids rope Coach Bieste into playing Santa; she visits Brittany and gives a heartwarming speech about how sometimes Santa can’t give you what you want, but instead, gives you patience. Deflated, Brittany loses the Christmas spirit.
The kids don’t, though. They visit the teachers’ lounge to sing Musical Number 6: “Welcome Christmas,” that song from How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Gleeks sing it hoping to raise spirits and a little money, by the end Sue’s heart grows three sizes bigger.
A Christmas miracle: Artie gets a thing called a Re-Walk, which is totally a real thing.
Shue returns home, resigned to a lonely Christmas, but who’s there? It’s Sue, delivering the tree and gifts -- and an apology. Plus a shaver “so you can put all of us out of our misery and shave off that Chia Pet.”
That was a bang-up episode. And here are some favorite lines to fill your stocking, too.
- “Just know you have rights.” -- Brittany to Santa’s elf
- “You don’t know how many kittens I’ve given back because they weren’t just right.” -- Rachel
- “Just a friend. But on the upside, I’m in love with him and he’s actually gay, so I call that progress.” -- Kurt
- “Camouflage is the only thing that kept me from being court martialed after that My Lai misunderstanding.” -- Sue
- “Are you guys punkin’ me? I thought we were okay after you sang me that song.” -- Coach Bieste
- "I imagine having us in your classes chips away at your hopes and dreams until the world seems like a never-ending nightmare of pain." -- Finn, to the teachers
- "For me, the real joy of Christmas was breaking the collective hearts of the Glee club." -- Sue
To create link towards this article on your website,
copy and paste the text below in your page.
Preview :
The last new episode until February when 'Glee-ers' get a post-Super Bowl episode. Last Night the 'Glee Club' went full Santa and Sue went 'Grinch'. But opposites attract and by the end...
© 2013 - Screen Rave
Back
| < Previous |
|---|
