Glee: This One Is a Kicker
We don't even know where to begin. This episode of Glee was so full of awesome -- plus a kick in the teeth or two, but still. I guess you gotta take the good with the bad in William McKinley High.
So first with the awesome. Youtube may be full of it, but you've never seen Beyonce done this way. Yes, the football team busts a move to "Put a Ring on It" out on the field in front of everyone and wins a game. How can this be? Well, we'll tell you. It's all thanks to Kurt, who did some quick fibbing to his dad saying he was the kicker on the team. More after the jump.
Yes, once you go and say something like that, you actually have to
audition -- we mean, try out -- for the football team. So Kurt does exactly that. But he
uses his music to help him get warmed up and psyched up for the kick.
It is so great he helps to convince the whole team to use it to shock
the competition. And boy does it. Best part? Strike a pose. We died.
So the game is tied up and it's all on Kurt's shoulders to see if he can kick a field goal. He gets his own Beyonce on and puts it right through the uprights. The crowd -- including his dad -- goes wild. This all gives Kurt the courage to tell his dad he's gay. And yay! His dad doesn't love the idea, but he's hardly surprised. And he's relatively supportive.
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Sorry, we're still basking in the glow of Kurt hoisted on the football player's shoulders blowing kisses to the crowd. We're back now.
Oh yeah -- the kicks in the teeth include a teen pregnancy with dueling fathers, Sandy returning thanks to Sue's scheming, and Rachel abandoning Show Choir altogether. They're all unpleasant. Perhaps most unpleasant for us was the Celine Dion rendition, but we don't want to dwell. There's just too much awesome in the rest of it.
Best Lines:
So the game is tied up and it's all on Kurt's shoulders to see if he can kick a field goal. He gets his own Beyonce on and puts it right through the uprights. The crowd -- including his dad -- goes wild. This all gives Kurt the courage to tell his dad he's gay. And yay! His dad doesn't love the idea, but he's hardly surprised. And he's relatively supportive.
...
Sorry, we're still basking in the glow of Kurt hoisted on the football player's shoulders blowing kisses to the crowd. We're back now.
Oh yeah -- the kicks in the teeth include a teen pregnancy with dueling fathers, Sandy returning thanks to Sue's scheming, and Rachel abandoning Show Choir altogether. They're all unpleasant. Perhaps most unpleasant for us was the Celine Dion rendition, but we don't want to dwell. There's just too much awesome in the rest of it.
Best Lines:
- Kurt: Hi, I'm Kurt and I'll be auditioning for the role of kicker
- Sue: Not everyone's gonna have the walnuts to take a pro-littering stance.
- Sue: If I was out to get you, I'd have you pickling in a mason jar on my shelf by now.
- Coach: You're up, kid. You make this and we win. You make this and you die a legend. Kurt: Can I pee first?