I CAN'T GET NO QUADRILATERAL: I quit Glee long ago, in no small part because many of you pointed out that if I hated it so much, I shouldn't watch it. But I did happen to catch about 15 minutes or so last night while looking up from Bossypants. Those 15 minutes, in which a subset of Nude Erections lamented a financially troubled Athletic Decathlon team (open retcon; paradigmatic nontroversy, (tm) Spacewoman), confirmed that there was no need whatsoever to watch the rest of the episode. It did tickle me today to see a screen grab from that scene, with an error that I didn't notice. Hey, wouldn't, say, the Athletic Decathletes have noticed that? This kind of sloppiness only reinforces my belief that the show spends months putting together its elaborately produced musical numbers and then basically improvises the rest of the stuff at the last minute.
Also, I would never equate the actors in question, but as for the characters, aren't we at the point where we can recognize that Sue Sylvester = Ari Gold? Acid-tongued self-absorbed secondary character is the breakout role in the first season, garnering press and critical attention disproportionate to the role; producers follow up by increasing the quantity of screen time as marginal returns decrease and then dip into the red.
Two things:
ReplyDelete- Yeah, that math mistake really bothered me. I understand what Mr. Schue was going for, but a simple unit analysis would show that he should have divided instead of multiplied. (And you wonder why numeracy rates are in the toilet...)
- I'm currently about 40 pages into Bossypants, and I am absolutely loving it. There's a big laugh in practically every paragraph. The unfortunate thing is that I tend to read in bed, and the BF does not appreciate my chortling.
At this point I probably would buy any book that says nice things about Donald Glover, so I wasn't really in any danger of not enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteI also really loved Bossypants. It is just really, unabashedly funny.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it was worth it just to note that three of the opponents in the final round were L. Dobler, D. Lightman, and G. LaChance. 80s movies FTW!
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, bad math and not my favorite episode.
Love the headline. Mike Doughty FTW!
ReplyDeleteExcellent catch. A couple of months ago on a Grammar Rodeo I snuck in a line from $300 and nobody mentioned it.
ReplyDeleteExcellent catch. A couple of months ago I snuck in the chorus to "300 Dollars" (the sampled part) in a Grammar Rodeo and nobody noticed. I think they just thought my go-to grammar example was solicitation for prostitution.
ReplyDeleteI still love the St. Louise reference from February.
ReplyDeleteI didn't catch those names! That's awesome. Otherwise - I pretty much hated this episode. And so my love/hate relationship with Glee continues. (I loved the "original music" episode so much that it's still on my DVR so I can watch it again.)
ReplyDeleteAnd surprisingly, I did catch the math mistake in the episode. And I'm no math whiz.
Can we have a thread about Bossypants?
ReplyDeleteAnd a thread about our crushes on Donald Glover??
I didn't like this week's episode for a number of reasons but I have been obsessed with Glee recently.
ReplyDeleteThe Sexy episode of Glee (the one where Santana declares her love for Brittany) was the closest I've ever seen my own experience of falling in love (and later coming out) portrayed in tv or film. I so connected with that episode that even though it's 17 years later, I got a stomach ache, couldn't concentrate, and lost three lbs. Seriously. (I am now wishing for more gay teen angst on tv as a diet plan!)
Even though there is no consistency to that show, even though the characters float in and out and we don't see or hear from some of them for weeks and weeks, even though we get too much time on Will Schuester's love life, Emma's OCD, Sue Sylvester's insanity, blah, blah, blah... there are gay kids on tv. And they kiss and make out with other kids. A parent talking to his son about safe gay sex? About emotions and how complicated sex and love are? I know it's fiction but it's certainly fiction that I didn't see when I was 16, in love with my best friend, and scared of who would know and what that would mean. So I'll keep tuning in. In hopes that Santana will dump Trouty Mouth and Britt-Britt will dump Artie. And Santana and Brittany will fall in love and have sweet lady kisses while Melissa Ethridge's Come to My Window plays in the background.
Thanks for posting that, Christy. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has loved both Santana and Brittany's storyline and everything involving Kurt.
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