TeeVee: Glee, Silly Little Love Songs (S2Ep12)
Glee (Tuesdays @ 8PM on FOX)
We got 2 episodes just a few days apart. Oh Glee, how I missed you all of January. This Valentine's themed episode went back to the roots of story-telling coupled with songs that make sense in that story-telling, which happens to be my favorite kind of Glee episodes. With that being said, you also have to enter the "Glee-reality" because certain things can't/wouldn't actually happen in real-reality.
The Story-lines and the Songs -
1. Puck's into Lauren, but Lauren's playing hard to get. It started with the shorten version of '7 minutes in heaven' (it only lasted 3 minutes, since Lauren was less than impressed with Pucks kissing abilities). And continued throughout the episode. For Mr. Shue's "Love Song" assignment, Puck tries to serenade Lauren with "Fat Bottomed Girls", which she found offensive. A cat fight later, Lauren finally gives into Puck for a date... but only as friends.
2. "Artittany" and "Tinike" are totally in lurveeeee. Artie sings "P.Y.T." to Brittany while Mike Chang dances for Tina. It was totally cute. Then Tina makes it high-school-girl awkward when she breaks down crying "My Funny Valentine" for Mike in front of the club. EEEK.
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3. Blaine wants to sing to his love, but it's not Kurt. Blaine enlisted the help of Kurt and the Wablers to serenade his crush. Kurt thought it was him, but he soon found out it was a guy with a good head of hair that folds clothes at the Gap.
Kurt, Mercedes and Rachel have a slumber party (I like how Kurt and Rachel have become besties since he's moved schools) and they vow to forget about guys for awhile and focus on becoming stars. (Doubt that will last...)
Blaine, Kurt and the rest of the Wablers crash the mall for their "Gap Attack" with "When I Get You Alone" and thoroughly creep out Blaine's crush in the process. The poor guy gets fired and tells Blaine they're not really dating (Blaine's jailbait). Kurt's there to confort him and later confronts him about thinking the crush was on him. The two decide that they don't want to risk their friendship on dating quite yet and to be each other's Harry (Blaine) and Sally (Kurt)... you know, from "When Harry Met Sally"
4. The Rachel-Finn-Quinn-Sam Love Square, plus Santana causes trouble. Finn's riding high on his football championship win and inpromtu kiss with Quinn. He comes up with a plan to do a kissing booth, to make money for New Directions as well as peer pressure Quinn into kissing him again (which he thinks will be enough to get her back). Parallel-ly Rachel thinks a kiss will get her Finn back.
Quinn initially refuses to kiss Finn again, until Sam realizes that seems fishy. He chaperones a kiss at the booth, but with that kiss Finn/Quinn see fireworks and decide to meet up later.
Rachel tries her plan at the kissing booth, but Finn denies her by giving her a kiss on the cheek. She tries to rant, but is squashed when Finn hands over the christmas present he bought her (a gold star necklace) before they broke up. He tells her to go be a star, and that even though they're not together, it doesn't mean he doesn't believe in her. Awww.
Santana is feeling left out because Puck is woo-ing Lauren, so she wants to stir up trouble. She realizes there's something going on between Quinn & Finn, and goes to prove it by kissing a kid with mono, then kissing Finn at the kissing booth.
After that, Finn and Quinn meet at the auditorium, where Finn becomes a hypocrite about the whole "cheating" scenerio. They make out.
While Tina sobs through "My Funny Valentine", Finn & Quinn are visibly under the weather and when they ask to be excused, Santana busts them on "kissing with tongue".
While at the nurse, Quinn realizes that maybe the universe is telling her that cheating is bad, because the first time she ended up pregnant and this time she ended up with mono. She wants to figure out what she has with Sam before thinking about things with Finn.
Later, Rachel comes in to confront Finn about the rumor. Finn tries to deflect, but when Rachel asks what it feels like when he kisses her and he says "fireworks", it was all over. Especially since he could neither confirm or deny that he feels fireworks when kissing Rachel. She thanks him for finally giving her the strength to move on and she rocks a version of Katy Perry's "Firework".
The heartbroken Rachel and the rest of the crew hit up Breadstixx for Kurt's "Lonely Hearts Club" where Blaine and the Wablers sing "Silly Love Songs". (Did you see the glance exchanged between Sam and Santana?!)
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So, we got little adult characters this episode... No Sue, very little Will, but I think the focus on the craziness of High School "love" was quite fun.
