Remembering The Start of Glee: The Pilot

One of our contributing writers (who isn't on the staff page yet) wrote up her opinion on the Pilot of Glee.  With not a lot of news going on and still counting down until Glee's return in April, we hope that this article will help you remember how you felt when Glee began.  Enjoy!

Glee Pilot Rant & Review
By Sarina C.

After what felt like fifty years, the first episode of Glee finally aired! It did not disappoint. Now it's one of my must see shows.

Hey ladies, want to meet a man who’s chivalrous, has a respectable job and loves kids? Not to mention he’s just as fine as can be! I give you, Mr. Will Schuester. He’s the Spanish teacher/ former glee club member. Oh wait, he’s married to his obnoxious, materialistic wife Terri. Poor guy; rolling so contently onto the school parking lot with his muffler dragging. Dude must really love what he does because his salary clearly isn’t paying him well enough. On top of that, he’s doing detention for free just so he can stick around and do MORE WORK with the glee club? I have to say, I fell in love with him right away. He rescues poor Emma from a big nasty piece of chewing gum, (Her shoes in that scene were smokin’ hot!) and he’s working hard and willing to leave the job he loves in order to take care of the family he’s hoping to have someday. Oh, what a keeper! Fellas, take note: be like him.


Emma, Emma, Emma. Poor germ-a-phobic Emma. How’s she working in a high school of all places? All those “school kid” germs floating around in there. We all know the reason she’s there. His name is Will Schuester! Sexy, fine and polite, Mr. Schuester. She clearly has a thing for him I mean you don’t just go sharing your perfectly clean, germless, un-messy PB&J sandwich with any ol’ man!

I liked how they introduced all the glee club kids by showing them signing up. Was that a cliché song for them to have Mercedes sing or what? Yeah, it was. I guess it was just to give us her first impression as a girl who demands r-e-s-p-e-c-t! She’s a sassy chick with a diva attitude and compares herself to Beyonce? At first that mess made me mad. I was like, “Why they gotta make the black girl have a bossy attitude and act like she’s ready to fight people?” All black females are not like that! Then, I thought about it again and it definitely would have made me mad if they had her acting preppy and bubbly so it’s cool. Every show needs an urban character. I’m still trying to find out where they get her wardrobe. I don’t know what the heck she be wearing sometimes but most of the time my girl be stylin’ flyyy.

Kurt is absolutely hilarious! His audition singing Mr. Cellophane and sweeping his hair on that “knewww,” note had me ROFL. Even though his pants were a straight throwback to the 80’s, ol’ boy is smooth.

What in the world is wrong with this Rachel child? I could seriously see somebody punching her- oh wait. They just threw a slushy in her face. If that was me, dude would’ve got the brakes beat off him. In other words, that would’ve been the last thing he did with THAT hand for a very long time. For real though, Rachel probably would have been somebody I was cool with in high school. She seems nice…enough. Though putting a gold “metaphor” sticker by her name and recording a video for MySpace everyday is a bit much! But when she first heard Finn sing, she fell in love with him. Go check out the episode and watch her face light up when he starts singing.

Finn is such a good person. I would have been finished with Puck after the paintball shooting. If that wasn’t bad enough, he was torturing Artie! I felt so bad for Finn when he was sitting in Mr. Schu’s office saying something about “looking relaxed.” Okay, having the world’s biggest frown between your eyebrows is not looking relaxed! He was just “caught” with weed. I was cracking up on that part. “Don’t tell my mom!” It was so wrong and funny for Mr. Schu to plant that weed on him to get his jock image in glee club, not to mention his great singing voice. Think he’ll ever find out it was all a set up?

Sue is the devil in some kind of Adidas sweat suit. First of all, just because she’s the coach does not mean she has to dress like she just stepped out of an eighties rap video! She’s just so evil and how calm she is with it is what makes her hilarious. I don’t see how she has anybody on her squad. I wouldn’t last 5 minutes with that woman.

Now, what makes the show so original is the way they transform the music. It’s just so much friendlier that the original version. It’s so… show choir. Sorry, Amy Winehouse, I liked Vocal Adrenaline’s version of Rehab better. Of course, like everybody else, I thought Don’t Stop Believing was the joint. They tore that song up didn’t they?! It was so fun to watch. It was like they were calling out to Mr. Schu in the hall, begging him to stay with them. After it aired, some pressed person immediately watched it online, downloaded the WAP video and the ringtone. Oh right, that was me! The song fit the show so perfectly. It’s telling these losers, don’t stop believing, and hold on to that feeling. Someday you won’t be losers anymore!

Quotes I liked:

“There’s no joy in these kids, they feel invisible. That’s why every one of them has a Myspace page.”
      -Mr. Schu
If you have a Myspace page you have no joy and you feel invisible

“You might think that all the boys in school would totally wanna tap this, but my Myspace schedule keeps me way too busy to date”
      -Rachael
She doesn’t really want any boys to “tap that” if she’s letting a website take up all her time!

“Don’t start crying. You are the weakest link, pal!”
      -Sue
You’d better not cry as she stands there yelling and calling you names through a megaphone. Her saying “pal” just makes it hurt even more.

“I’m on my feet 4 hours a day, three times a week here. Then I have to go home and cook dinner for myself?"
-Terri
Oh yeah that’s almost a part time job! She can’t make dinner for herself? That’s a load of crapola.

“You’re teaching tone-deaf acne factories”
      -Sandy
Wow, what a damper image to put on the kids!

“…seeing a gift in a kid they didn’t even know they had; talent.”
      -Mr. Schu
See, he really does care.

“The only life worth living is one that you’re really passionate about.”
      -Emma
That’s why she’s a guidance counselor!