So the most “Holy crap!” moment didn’t come until the last few seconds of Glee this week, when the new kid Rory was singing his second tune of the episode, (more on him later) and the montage showed Puck and Shelby smooch it out! I think we all kinda saw it coming, as Puck removed all the planted items in Shelby’s apartment, and listened to her pour her heart out about being a single mother. (By the way, Quinn has just turned into a horrible person, has she not?) I wonder. Since the previews and buzz are all about next week’s show where Kurt and Blaine and Finn and Rachel “do it?” Maybe we’ll see a May/December thing with these two as well. Quinn is just gonna explode when she finds out, and you know she will. Everybody finds out every little thing on this show.
And I can’t help it. Brittany continues to make me chortle when she believes in the magical. She’s naive in so many ways; she’s trying to find her way on a lot of different levels. Her relationship with Santana, finding her own unique style in the glee club, and taking a chance by running for student council. All while truly believing her cat is hooked on cigarettes, and the new foreign exchange student staying with her family is a leprechaun. But! And I’m being completely serious here, I had to turn on my closed captioning to understand a freaking word she mumbles. This has turned into a major thorn in my side with the director and producers of Glee. Between the rapid fire delivery of characters like Sue and Santana (who was just on fiya with the insults this week) so much is lost! Sigh!
We saw the introduction of The Glee Project co-winner Damian McGinty, who won several stints on the show in the reality competition in this episode too. Damian is Irish, obviously, and can talk a good brogue. (I needed my closed captioning again.) It’s interesting he sings with no accent at all, and I have to say I loved his rendition of Kermit the Frog’s “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
The lengths he went to in making Brittany’s wishes come true were cute. It’s completely believable that a teenage boy, with the promise of a “pot of gold,” would do whatever it takes. However! This leads me to my next question. And it’s been a heated one with the gals at my work. Is Glee really a show for kids anymore??
For example: Two of tonight’s featured songs contained questionable lyrics. As in Blaine’s rendition of the Katy Perry song “Last Friday Night.” Here’s a snippet…
“Last Friday night
We went streaking in the park
Skinny dipping in the dark
Then had a ménage à trois…”
Huh. Or how about when the girls were trying to name their new singing group? They wanted to call it “Hot Bitches,” “Hot Messes,” or “Free Beer.”
Look, I’m not the bad word police. I just wonder. What with next week’s episode rumored to start at ten o’clock because of sexual content (what with everyone losing their virginity and all) what do you think? Are you a parent who sits and watches this with your kids? At first, Glee was thought of as a family and kid-friendly show. Has this idea gone by the wayside? Has it become a show for adults now? Just some questions for you to ponder and comment on, until we meet again.
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on Nov 02, 2011 @ 01:34 EST5EDT
I used to watch the show. I thought the show was great until it decided to be a propaganda machine. I am conservative. I know I’m a media target. I can laugh at myself. I just wish that we could laugh at everyone instead of trying to single out one group. I stopped watching simply because it stop being about the music. It’s just a bunch of socially scary vignettes that will through a funny line in and call it comedy. The show would be better if it didn’t try to be so social. I know it’s hard to pick songs that are popular and interesting for the kids without jumping into objectionable lyrics but they could try. They changed lyrics for Gold Digger. I’m probably in the minority, and that’s ok. I can always change the channel and that’s what I have done. I’ll look to the blog if they actually do something worth listen too with the music,
Side Note: Wrote this way too early in the morning (645am). Apologize if it is full of grammar errors.
I don’t think Glee has ever been for kids … But that’s not me.
I mean, there was a discussion of of scissoring that I had to beg out of explaining to my mother, as I was visiting when I covered that particular episode.
Yeah I’m not sure where anyone got the impression that the show is meant to be for kids. It’s always been for the teens and up crowd. The show has always brought up sex and stuff without anyone batting an eye. And they’ve also done much more risque songs than T.G.I.F.
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Huh. I know a lot of people who watch this show with their kids, or let their kids watch it themselves. And by kids, I guess I mean the “tweens”, the 10,11, and 12 year olds.
Ivey, I completely missed the scissor reference. That must have been something to have to explain to Mom! Eek!
I agree, the show has brought up sex in the past. It just seems to me that they’re pushing it up several notches as the seasons progress.
Hmm, I know I probably would not let my kids watch it if they were 10-12 just because of all the questions it would bring up. The show has always felt fairly adult to me. And the whole thing of it getting progressively more adult, that’s to be expected since the characters are getting older and are dealing with more issues.
I’m glad I don’t have kids, and don’t yet have to make these decisions about what, and what not, to allow them to watch. I hope to adopt my parent’s philosophy, as they applied different rules to different “types” of compromising things. Instead of saying “no,” there was a lot of appropriate give and take. The other thing to keep in mind is that there was a certain point where they couldn’t control what media I consumed for the most part, and they factored that into how they approached it.
But Glee? I don’t think I’d let my hypothetical 13 year old watch it.
When Glee started, it was tapping into the High School Musical phenomenon (and satirizing it). Who would be attracted to such a show? Um, the kids who liked HSM… ya think? The audience quickly became much broader, but nobody can seriously pretend that kids aren’t watching this show or aren’t going to be drawn to it – OR that the average parent who doesn’t watch it regularly is going to know that their kid might Google “scissoring” the next day out of curiosity. The show has always had questionable content, so the parents are to blame for not knowing that. BUT let’s also be real about the show’s target audience – it obviously includes kids. Why else would there be message episodes about bullying and such? So the writers are also to blame for including questionable content when they know full well that they have plenty of kids watching each week. Don’t put it in a Happy Meal box if it ain’t a kid’s meal.
An excellent point, and I especially love the Happy Meal line.
The best response I can muster, however, is “schnoogins.”
I was a bit surprised that they did Last Friday Night at all. It was meta, with Darren Criss and Kevin McHale. Regarding its lyrics: Top 10 radio plays this stuff.
I don’t think that Puck and Shelby kissed, I think that he kissed her, fade to black. We’ll know next week.