Glee – Episode 7 – Takedown – VIDEO
Download Glee from iTunes:
- No Air – Rachel and Finn
- You Keep Me Hanging On – Quinn
- Hate On Me – Mercedes
- Keep Holding On – Glee cast
- More Glee Music
- Glee – Season 1
Sue Sylvester is back! Hooray! This week’s episode is a Jane Lynch tour de force, with too many delicious lines to even repeat here. Let me pull some of your favorites from comments:
“Santana! Wheels! Gay Kid! Asian! Other Asian! Aretha! Shaft!. See Will, I don’t want to participate in a group that ignores the needs of minority students…bigotry is no laughing matter!”
‘Yes, it’s true that I have been trying to destroy your club with a commitment that can only be described as religious. And I’ll tell you why, I don’t trust a man with curly hair’ ¦I can’t stop imagining small birds laying sulfurous eggs in there and it makes me sick.’
Jane Lynch is a genius.
More Recap and VIDEO after the JUMP…
Sue and Will are at each other’s throats. The trouble began when Principal Figgins made Sue the co-director of Glee after Will’s wife got the kids hopped up on nasal decongestant.
Cut-throat Sue seems as if she’d be the victor in this battle, and she almost is, until Will throws down a few underhanded moves of his own. After Sue manipulates the minority kids into siding with her, Will flunks all the Cheerios from Spanish class. The battle escalates until they’re left screaming at each other at a Glee rehearsal. The kids step in, walking out of rehearsal in disgust.
After, Sue decides to step down from Glee club and she seems almost human. That, until her nastiest act of all. When she inadvertently finds out that Quinn is pregnant, she feeds her to the school nerd, who runs a gossip blog. (His attempts to bribe Rachel are hilarious). Sue is truly evil.
Quinn and Rachel have a big showdown after Finn asks Quinn why she can’t be more like Rachel (Finn thinks Drizzle is the perfect baby name, Quinn calls him a moron).
Rachel knows Quinn is feeding info to Sue. But, it isn’t until Sue throws Quinn under the bus that she sees that Rachel is right about Sue’s snakey nature. Quinn realizes that her Glee pals are the ones who will see her through. The episode ends with the kids singing “Keep Holding On”.
Lots of music in this week’s episode. Mercedes belts out a fabulous “Hate On Me” with the other “minorities” backing her up. After Sue splits the group up, the kids get together anyway to do a fun jam of Nelly’s “Ride Wit Me”. Finn and Rachel sing a duet of “No Air” filled with so much bittersweet ache and longing, you could cut it with a knife.
Will takes Finn and Quinn to the OBGYN. Quinn finds out she’s having a little girl. Now that Quinn’s pregnancy is no longer a secret, I wonder how long it will take for the truth–that Puck is actually the father–to come out.
Meanwhile, Terri and her sister Kendra continue to plot and scheme. Will wants to be at Terri’s next OB appointment, so they pay a visit to the sister’s baby doctor, whom Kendra successfully blackmails into faking a sonogram. Will cries when he finds out their having a girl (well, not really) and Terri remains clueless (“I didn’t know having a boy meant so much to you.”)
The pregnancy plot is on my last nerve, but Jennifer Aspen, who plays Kendra is awesome. I say keep Kendra (somehow) and ditch Terri…
And where was Emma? Tonight’s episode was 100% Emma Pillsbury free, which is NOT a good thing…
Hate On Me
Ride Wit Me
No Air
Keep Holding On
Posted in Glee
65 Responses to “Glee – Episode 7 – Takedown – VIDEO”
Totally agree. It’s very very hard to weave the gimmicks and multiplicity in these shows together with really strong compelling story lines, and they’re missing the boat on the second half of this kind of. Not too late to fix it though. Hope they do. Because I’ve needed a new Buffy the VS to be devoted to for a *long* time.
Sue was AMAZING tonight. So many funny lines. I loved the songs as well. Especially Ride With Me, it didn’t look lip-synched. Great to see Mercedes have the lead, now we just need more Wheels and Gay Kid. Hee. Hee.
Is it just me or does Puck look like Chris Daughtry??
Also I would like to see some of the other glee kids to get the big solos other than Finn and Rachel.
Actually, I think she calls him ‘Shaft’
In the interest of bizarro world, political incorrectness, and geekiness I offer this performance of ‘Shaft’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE
It is just a fun show with music, start analyzing the bee jeesus out of it and bye bye fun. I have the news to go to to find strong compelling or whatever – I dont think this show needs to be pulled back from the brink of anything – they need to just keep doing what they are doing
While I’m with you all on really, really wanting to see more numbers from across the awesome cast, I’m not calling a problem, yet. Here’s the way I see it–to sell the show initially, it helped to have a big, obvious romantic pair, Rachel and Finn. Now hopefully they’ll roll out and develop the rest of the cast, who have been only sketched in, however deliciously.
Looks like next week, more Puck, which is awesome. Boy does need a solo, stat. They started to make Quinn more human and sympathetic the last few. Want another big number from Kurt, and yeah, Wheel Chair Kid!
I love this show so. My hubby actually sat through it with me for the first time last night and was like “This is one f’ed up show. I like it.”.
Our favorite line of the night was during the Schuester/Sue fight and Finn breaks in and says something along the lines of “If we wanted to witness fighting like this, those of with two parents still at home would stay at home on payday.” Love it!
I knew Puck was Jewish! It’s so nice to see “the Jewish kid” portrayed as a stud who’s not necessarily the smartest kid in the class. If he and Rachel (who’s more stereotypically Jewish) are hooking up next week, at least we know she’ll be smart about it and not get herself preggers!
I agree that Cory Monteith isn’t the strongest singer in the group, but I love his character and I think he sings well enough. And I just sit there LMAO that those Idol producers passed on Mercedes; that girl can sang.
Also, I have to agree with your assessments, erinthered. It’s starting to feel like an hour-long comedy sketch. Brilliant stuff, but not enough substance to the characters to keep you connected. And No Emma: Shame!!!
I’m seriously hoping Terri gets run over by a truck and put out of our collective misery, and then Will can picture her hitting the windshield when he’s struggling with premature ejaculation.
I love this show and I don’t want to analyze it. It’s fun and it’s supposed to be fun.
I loved “No Air!” I agree that the writing is unrealistic and not the best, but I don’t care because the musical numbers and the jokes are great.
I swear i ear GAYKEN!
Missed the show last night being out of town and out to dinner in Chicago, but soo appreciate the comments and mj posting her recap and the vids! thankyew!
classic rendition of shaft, I love me some UOGB….=)
I LOVE Finn’s voice when he sings “No Air”. Actually, the combination of Rachel and Finn’s voices are awesome! Finn (and the actor who plays him) is getting better and better vocally as the season progresses. Pretty cool.
Kind of OT, but the actor that plays Will Schuster reminds me of this singer from Santa Barbara named Eli Goldsmith. It’s kind of uncanny. Same nerdy-ish appeal that makes you go…wow…you can dance and sing and play an instrument…HOT!
That is fabulous! Love them.
Part of the reason I notice these things is that I’m a writer. I can’t help but notice. It’s like a curse. lol
Given that, I think some of these things aren’t as apparent to those just enjoying the music, may be by the end of the season. There needs to be something behind the music in order to sustain the show, and keep the average viewer involved.
Ever loved a show that was can’t miss for you and then wondered what happened when it was suddenly okay to miss an episode or two, or put off watching it on the DVR? Most people won’t even see it coming. They’ll just wonder why they lost interest and move on. Writing and editing really are key in anything. Even the most harmless of fluff.
…unless you’re Stephanie Meyer…no one can seem to explain that one…