Glee 1x07 "Throwdown" review
Ok, I fucking loooooooooooved this episode! It was the best since “Preggers”, IMHO.
The slow mo and voice over fighting of Sue and Will will never get old. Progress report: “Things couldn’t be going more smoothly”. The shoulder punching! No pitting the kids against each other. Never. “I want to pit these kids against one another.” ROTFL.
“Now, let’s hug it out”
“I’d rather not do that”,
“I really don’t see that happening”
“This meeting doesn’t end until I see your bodies touching!”
OMG. Sue has a double-headed coin!!! This is amazing! And she knows the rules better than Will. LOL! “Black shiny thing” “That’s called a piano, Sue”. Sue picks Santana, wheels, gay kid, Asian, other Asian, Aretha, Shaq.
“Sometimes people ask me: Sue, how come you’re so sensitive when it comes to minorities? I’ll tell you why: Because I know first hand how hard it is to struggle as a minority in America today. I’m 1/16 Indian. In fact, I like minorities so much, I’m thinking of moving to California to become one!” ROTFL. She then lets the kids perform “Hate on me”. And it was very… interesting. The singing was amazing, but I thought the dancing was kinda… weird? I don’t know. But Kurt was… ROTFL. I love that kid so much.
Sue and Will have another run in “Hey Silvester, I’m talking to you”. “Hey buddy, I thought I smelled failure”. Bwahahaha. “Your delusions of persecution are a tell tales sign of early stage paranoid schizophrenia”, “I don’t trust a man with curly hair”. And then she throws a random kids drink on the floor. So Will makes some of the cheerios fail Spanish class. HAAAAA! I loved that they played “Oh Fortuna” in the background. “One of your cheerios misspelled her name and answered every question with the drawing of a sombrero!”, “Most of your cheerleaders are functionally illiterate!”, “They wanted to spell ‘go team’ and instead spelled out ‘to game’”, “She is DERANGED!” LMAO! “Don’t - touch - me!” But he does it anway. “That is a lawsuit, Mister. I will sue - your -ass!” And then Sue throws things with “Oh Fortuna” in the background. “Not the children!”
Rachel is still being stalked by that creepy reporter dude, who is writing about Quinn’s pregnancy. But Rachel gets him to stop by giving him a pair of Rachel Berry panties. Ewwwwww. But she only did it because she has “feelings” for Finn. Double ewwwwww.
Quinn is getting a girl, but she doesn’t want her uniform to get ruined! Oh Quinn. Finn is still as clueless as ever. And he wants to name the baby “Drizzle”, because he thinks naming a kid “Apple” is genius. WTF Finn! “Are you a moron?” Go Quinn. And then Finn is being the biggest. Douchebag. EVER by telling Quinn he wishes she were more like Rachel. WTF FINN!!! Gosh.
And then comes my favourite scene of the episode - the Glee kids jamming TOGETHER. PUCK PLAYS THE GUITAR. Finn plays the drums. And everybody sings and has a really great time, because they miss being together. AWESOME. But Kurt is worried that Sue will shave his head so it doesn’t last long.
Will wants to do “No Air” with his kids. Of course Rachel and Finn get the lead, which pisses off Quinn. So she gets Puck (who is Jewish) and Brittany (a dutch) to quit the group as well.
Quinn has a smackdown with “treasure trail” aka Rachel over - you guess - Finn. Blah, blah blah. So then Quinn performs her solo and… I expected more, to be honest. I though it was a little weak, both the singing and the dancing. But oh well.
And then they’re supposed to do their performances. “I’m sorry, is there a fire?” “No, that’s the point, there is no fire!”. And then Sue and Will do some more chest puffing. “You are rude, you have no class and you’re a terrible teacher!” “You are a failed performer, Will. You weren’t good enough to make it in the real world, you aren’t even good enough to run this stupid little club that nobody really cares about!” Ouch. “You spend every waking moment of your life figuring out ways to terrify children to try to make you feel better about yourself and about the fact that you’re probably going to spend the rest of your life alone!” Then there is shoving and yelling, until Finn steps in “If we wanted to hear mom and dad fight those of us who still have two parents would rather stay at home”. Because Glee club is supposed to be fun and the kids don’t like the minority stuff, so they’re out. And I really liked the shot of the football players carrying Artie’s wheelchair out of the room for some reason.
Will and Sue talk it out. Sue is stepping down *sniff* but she still stays on as councillor. And then she outs Quinn’s pregnancy and tells the creepy reporter (“Are you an Eve who was born as Steve?”) to run his story, which leaves Quinn devasted. So we get our last performance of the week, the kids singing “Keep holding on”, including some very nice moments between Quinn/Kurt and Quinn/Artie. And just like “Preggers” we end the episode with a shot of a sad Quinn.
Terri’s pregnancy storyline didn’t really get me this time. It was rather stupid. Blackmailing the OB/GYN to do a fake ultrasound. Meh. Even though her line “What, you think the kids weren’t drunk when they wrote them?” cracked me up.
The slow mo and voice over fighting of Sue and Will will never get old. Progress report: “Things couldn’t be going more smoothly”. The shoulder punching! No pitting the kids against each other. Never. “I want to pit these kids against one another.” ROTFL.
“Now, let’s hug it out”
“I’d rather not do that”,
“I really don’t see that happening”
“This meeting doesn’t end until I see your bodies touching!”
OMG. Sue has a double-headed coin!!! This is amazing! And she knows the rules better than Will. LOL! “Black shiny thing” “That’s called a piano, Sue”. Sue picks Santana, wheels, gay kid, Asian, other Asian, Aretha, Shaq.
“Sometimes people ask me: Sue, how come you’re so sensitive when it comes to minorities? I’ll tell you why: Because I know first hand how hard it is to struggle as a minority in America today. I’m 1/16 Indian. In fact, I like minorities so much, I’m thinking of moving to California to become one!” ROTFL. She then lets the kids perform “Hate on me”. And it was very… interesting. The singing was amazing, but I thought the dancing was kinda… weird? I don’t know. But Kurt was… ROTFL. I love that kid so much.
Sue and Will have another run in “Hey Silvester, I’m talking to you”. “Hey buddy, I thought I smelled failure”. Bwahahaha. “Your delusions of persecution are a tell tales sign of early stage paranoid schizophrenia”, “I don’t trust a man with curly hair”. And then she throws a random kids drink on the floor. So Will makes some of the cheerios fail Spanish class. HAAAAA! I loved that they played “Oh Fortuna” in the background. “One of your cheerios misspelled her name and answered every question with the drawing of a sombrero!”, “Most of your cheerleaders are functionally illiterate!”, “They wanted to spell ‘go team’ and instead spelled out ‘to game’”, “She is DERANGED!” LMAO! “Don’t - touch - me!” But he does it anway. “That is a lawsuit, Mister. I will sue - your -ass!” And then Sue throws things with “Oh Fortuna” in the background. “Not the children!”
Rachel is still being stalked by that creepy reporter dude, who is writing about Quinn’s pregnancy. But Rachel gets him to stop by giving him a pair of Rachel Berry panties. Ewwwwww. But she only did it because she has “feelings” for Finn. Double ewwwwww.
Quinn is getting a girl, but she doesn’t want her uniform to get ruined! Oh Quinn. Finn is still as clueless as ever. And he wants to name the baby “Drizzle”, because he thinks naming a kid “Apple” is genius. WTF Finn! “Are you a moron?” Go Quinn. And then Finn is being the biggest. Douchebag. EVER by telling Quinn he wishes she were more like Rachel. WTF FINN!!! Gosh.
And then comes my favourite scene of the episode - the Glee kids jamming TOGETHER. PUCK PLAYS THE GUITAR. Finn plays the drums. And everybody sings and has a really great time, because they miss being together. AWESOME. But Kurt is worried that Sue will shave his head so it doesn’t last long.
Will wants to do “No Air” with his kids. Of course Rachel and Finn get the lead, which pisses off Quinn. So she gets Puck (who is Jewish) and Brittany (a dutch) to quit the group as well.
Quinn has a smackdown with “treasure trail” aka Rachel over - you guess - Finn. Blah, blah blah. So then Quinn performs her solo and… I expected more, to be honest. I though it was a little weak, both the singing and the dancing. But oh well.
And then they’re supposed to do their performances. “I’m sorry, is there a fire?” “No, that’s the point, there is no fire!”. And then Sue and Will do some more chest puffing. “You are rude, you have no class and you’re a terrible teacher!” “You are a failed performer, Will. You weren’t good enough to make it in the real world, you aren’t even good enough to run this stupid little club that nobody really cares about!” Ouch. “You spend every waking moment of your life figuring out ways to terrify children to try to make you feel better about yourself and about the fact that you’re probably going to spend the rest of your life alone!” Then there is shoving and yelling, until Finn steps in “If we wanted to hear mom and dad fight those of us who still have two parents would rather stay at home”. Because Glee club is supposed to be fun and the kids don’t like the minority stuff, so they’re out. And I really liked the shot of the football players carrying Artie’s wheelchair out of the room for some reason.
Will and Sue talk it out. Sue is stepping down *sniff* but she still stays on as councillor. And then she outs Quinn’s pregnancy and tells the creepy reporter (“Are you an Eve who was born as Steve?”) to run his story, which leaves Quinn devasted. So we get our last performance of the week, the kids singing “Keep holding on”, including some very nice moments between Quinn/Kurt and Quinn/Artie. And just like “Preggers” we end the episode with a shot of a sad Quinn.
Terri’s pregnancy storyline didn’t really get me this time. It was rather stupid. Blackmailing the OB/GYN to do a fake ultrasound. Meh. Even though her line “What, you think the kids weren’t drunk when they wrote them?” cracked me up.