Thanks for Watching! Leave a like on the video and subscribe if you'd be interested in a part 2 where we finish out the first Gl-eason! Edit2: Some audio and video was lost at the beginning of Vitamin D and Mashup. Copyright shenanigans, unfortunately :( Nothing much is missed other than my yapping, fortunately. Edit: Reminder that this video commentary is still supposed to be comedic and the points system is made up! Also, there are things that were given "points" that aren't directly mentioned in the video but are still reflected in the final score!
Not at the beginning though! Kurt is scared to come out, his dad hasnt made that a comfortable environment, he even takes away kurts car because he finds womens clothes in his room. Burt is amazing and i love him, but he BECOMES amazing. Before we really meet him, it strongly implies that hes not so cool yet
@@morgandulany4939i think part of it is trying to imply that since Kurts mum died there has just been an uncomfortable rift between them, and when Kurt gained some confidence and community in Glee club that meant he was strong enough to start kicking that wall down, and Burt did the right thing by immediately joining in. Its a shame the son had to make the first move, but Burt even admits that he had some internalised homophobia that he didnt even realise (using the f slur in high school etc) and watching him unpack and unlearn all of that is so wonderful to watch
The fact that this video is almost 3 hours long and only covers half of the first season perfectly demonstrates how vast Glee's crimes against humanity really were. I salute you, sir, and wait with baited breath for the next Glevil instalment.
Omg the show turns into such a mess in so many ways as the seasons go on. Idk wtf they were thinking. "Yeah, let's do an episode where we're all pretending to be super heroes for no reason!" Or "Let's introduce a serious storyline that real people go through and then never mention it again!" (Such as Kitty and Ryder bonding over past trauma, or the school shooting episode.) And right when we started to care about these new kids, most of them disappeared and other new kids are introduced for the final season. Again, only to disappear right when we started to feel something for these new characters. (Okay, the big dude with the headphones got me right away. He was such a sweetheart and his voice! Damn, he was underutilized!) Barely related to season 6: The kid who played Myron grew up to become a beautiful transwoman who worked on the Saved by the Bell reboot, both on and off screen. Makes sense; Myron exuded Diva in the Making
Let's be real : Kurt's dad is the only one who would end up in the positive at the end of the show. But as you don't do the side characters, it will leave no one.
I have hope that he'll add burt in the next video because of the amount of comments about it. I feel like if kendra can get a spot burt definitely can since he becomes more important- at least I hope🤞
His mechanic dad accepting him without being super enthusiastic is the most comforting and my favorite moment of this show. As a queer southerner, my family was upset when I told them. I got broke up with that night cuz my gf couldn’t handle my family knowing. The next morning, my entire family gathered to hug me when I cried at breakfast. They didn’t understand it but they loved me and accepted I was hurting and needed support. It wasn’t vocal, but those hugs meant the world.
@@Volvagia1927 No absolutely not Kurt. I love Kurt, but the fact that Ryan Murphy made the character openly hate bi people in Season 2(?) when he got jealous that his little boytoy dared possibly be interested in girls. Not the character's fault, definitely not Chris Colfer's fault, but still a very dark stain on his character. But Brittany S. Pierce? Yes. S-tier good guy no notes she is just vibing and existing in her own little marshmallow world.
There's definitely a culture. Particularly around human rights/activism/Pride, involving allies, friends and family, especiallysince HIV/AIDS. If gay people had been accepted there likely wouldnt have been a distinct gay culture. Culture often results from being in a marginalized or oppressed group. Not just immigrants with a previous emigrated culture. Deaf culture exists. Obviously African Americans developed a culture after being enslaved and oppressed in the US for hundreds of years, as well as a huge contribution to larger American culture. While LGBT ppl are different type of minority, largely raised by their oppressors with the expectation to be one of them, there has definitely been gay/Queer culture, even going back to ways of communicating silently (cruising, the hanky code), euphemisms or "queer coding" in Hollywood during the Hayes Code Censorship era 1930s-60s, how the world of OZ coming to technicolor in the film Wizard of Oz was seen at the time as analogous to "coming out" /engaging in gay love, to the point the place "over the rainbow" became a shorthand for a place to be gay/be yourself and then led to the original (of now many types of) pride flags. There are fashions and icons that cycled particularly in gay communities in different eras. In addition to gay people over centuries but especially 20th century having had an enormous impact on the arts and trend making (similar to Black Americans in this way). Fran Liebowitz in an article or interview talks about how the decimation of an entire generation of (particularly metropolitan) gay men in the 80s-90s basically had a negative impact on contemporary art and fashion-- not only did we lose so many performers and creators in the arts but we lost so many donations, patrons, collectors the "educated audience members" who are versed in the standards of the genre or form and can judge it properly, the critics, etc.
The fact that they literally got a justin timberlake lookalike is so funny 🤣 i always thought mr.schue looked like him, i didnt know even know it was intentional lmfaoo
If this were the world of the Smurfs, then it would be: Smurfed in his pants. It sounds cute, but it's actually really weird. Like, they *are* Smurfs. We're humans, but we don't go around "Oh, human! I homo-sapiened in my pants!" Not in any language, I'm sure. Why are the Smurfs so obsessed with being Smurfs that they put it in smurfin' everything? Is it a bizarre form of specie-ism? Why am I pondering the secret minds of fictional blue creatures on a video about Glee? And dammit, they need to give us a Smurfs movie with Smurfette's new sister and brother officially in the mix as these self-obsessed blue beings
@@johnindigo5477stupid is giving a lot of credit tbf, some of their actions genuinely rival Gossip Girl for levels of laughably evil teenage shenanigans.
Okay, but removing Quinn from the Cheerios imo isn't fully a bad thing. Not allowing a pregnant tenn to participate in a dangerous sport seems kinda reasonable. 🤷 I'm pretty sure that at least in all-star cheer you usually are not allowed to compete while pregnant for safety reasons. When one of my teammates was pregnant she simply stopped actively participating at practice for a while. Quinn could still be allowed to come watch practice, do some strength excersises etc. like you'd do when you're injured or an alternate and still be a part of the team that way, so completely removing her seems kinda cruel, but not allowing her to stunt makes total sense
You know what I hate about it, though? Puck got Quinn drunk and THEN had sex with her. Whether the show is willing to admit it or not, he absolutely SA'd her (which is why I hate that they ended up together for so many reasons) so feminist icon Sue Sylvester technically discriminated against a SA victim by kicking her off the squad, called her a "disgrace" for getting pregnant from nonconsensual sex, and destroyed her hope of finding a support system because God knows her family isn't gonna help her when they find out. So yeah it'd good for her physical health and for the baby, but this could have destroyed her already fragile mental health and been enough to make her do something very final.
@@manband20 I think Quinn got herself drunk in order to sleep with Puck, not vice versa. She seemed to have made the date, and showed up expressly with the intent of "doing it". But it's still very icky, and maybe a rape fantasy, not based on reality. I'm sure a lot of date rapers tell themselves "well she wouldn't have gotten drunk and gone to my room if that's not what she wanted".
@@carolsimpson4422 Okay admittedly I don't remember the later seasons (and never watched the last one) so I don't know if this was discussed by them at a later date BUT in the episode where he confronts her about being pregnant, Quinn herself says that "You got me drunk on wine coolers and I felt fat that day." Which is explicitly SA. I just rewatched the scene and OH BOY does Puck do everything illegal. 1) Quinn tries to back out. He ignores her and shoves more alcohol in her face. 2) She's already drunk enough to not be able to give consent. 3) She asks if he has protection. He says yes. He does not, in fact, have protection. This is very much SA. 4) The overall emotional manipulation in general like goddamn it was uncomfortable when you keep your brain on. And even if something happened that I missed and she was intentionally trying to make it happen, it's still SA. She was drunk. Even though Puck was a whore and needed to sleep with every single person in the school to finish checking off his card to get his free sandwich, he should have stopped it like he did in Season 3 when Quinn was like "BREED ME, NOAH PUCKERMAN, BREED ME" in the hotel room. idc that he was a dumb teenager, it was still SA and he has A LOT of nerve to trash her for going through a pregnancy HE CAUSED by lying about having a condom.
@@manband20reading this reminded me of how Puck's actor was accused of doing something similar in real life, his ex accused him of SA by pretending he had a condom when he didn't use one. If I remember correctly it was settled out of court where he payed a few million to her
Kurts dad is like... the absolute best. As a kid, that scene where he accepts Kurt and tells him that he loves him made me cry. As an adult, I cried when my dad said that he still loved me and accepts me when I came out to him too.
This show was on for WAY too long. It's been so long I don't even remember when I fell off it...maybe halfway through season three? It just got so ridiculous and goofy that I had to walk away. And it wasn't even the height of television artistry and storytelling to begin with...
its criminal how they gave the absolute evil role of sue silvester to such a naturally funny and charismatic actress as jane lynch. i hate that shes so funny bc the lines they give her are DIABOLICAL but her delivery is SO GOOD i cant help but laugh and scream like,,,,,,,
If you haven't seen "Party Down", check it out. I believe it lasted 2 seasons, 8 episodes per (?) (although it was revived recently for a 3rd season); great, funny show but it was completely overlooked due to being on Starz. She plays a large role; Ken Marino, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr... by the same guy who did "Veronica Mars" (with quite a few cameos - I assume if you watched VM, you're probably aware of Party Down, but just in case you're aware of one and not the other... and if you're not familiar with either, maybe if you give Party Down a chance and love it, you'll check out VM too. Also, dude was involved in iZombie as well... which I didn't think was great or anything, but it was relatively fun, I think. The tv equivalent of a beach read, I'd say).
Yeah he ends up becoming like...an awful person?? And a lot of his actions in the last couple seasons seem way out of character for him, but like...since he spent so much time acting badly, it sorta became his character? I just hate it 😭
It's kind of a double-edged sword because on one hand, the disabled character is being written like a "normal" person. It's not the correct choice of wording, but it's kind of like how The Owl House has multiple openly gay/bi/gender neutral characters and nobody bats an eye because it's normal in their world. The disabled guy being as awful as all the other guys just makes him more like everyone else, which ironically fits with how Sue treats Becky: the different person who just wants to be treated like everyone she goes to school with. The other side of the coin is they flanderized Artie (and Becky, to an extent) to the point that he (they) stop being "normal for the world" and just reach whole new levels of awful. How do you possibly justify your single main character with a disability like Artie's and turn him into the teenage version of a sloppy balding Hollywood executive who wants to know just how far you'll go to get into the picture business while drool trickles down his chin as he speaks? You don't. And I almost respect them for being so bold with the choice to make him so terrible.
Literally, it's like they had to make him super misogynistic and shitty to convince people he's a "real man". which shows you everything you need to know about the writers/ Ryan Murphy.
Considering how many times the school loved the glee club and let them perform at events, I am always surprised how much they get bullied especially since most of them are cheerleaders and jocks.
@@Hi-en7xx funnily enough, puck is actually one of the least problematic characters by the time he leaves the show. The worst thing he does in the later seasons is date Rachels mum
@@sophienah4654 I haven’t watched that show for years and even with a terrible memory I know that absolutely isn’t true, I mean there’s enough examples in this video but he also periodically try’s to date/sleep with girls based purely off of race/religion/size, pressures/manipulates multiple women into doing sexual things, allegedly date r*ped Quinn (idk why that wasn’t brought up in this video, maybe because it wasn’t explicitly shown in season one, only talked about, but later shows a flashback showing he at the very least manipulated her right before), cheats many times, tries to get other people to cheat, do I need to keep going?
As a former Gleek, this is the best Glee retrospective video I’ve seen. Definitely want to see the rest of season one, and would totally watch if you do more seasons!
Imagine an alternate universe where Justin Timberlake did take the role of Will, and how even more of a train wreck revisiting Will's baby story line in Glee would be after the revelations about him and Britney Spears
right, I am at 0:01 and I can already say: it's Mr. Schu. as a teacher, another teacher who behaves like that with students is a massive ick even if it's just in a tv series. ew, ew, ew, ew. f that guy.
oh and about 1:23:05 I have had an examiner literally brag over coffee that she failed an apprentice because the company he worked fir was mean to her. it's been a few years so I don't remember exactly but it was something like an ISP not changing her contract ir something. nothing to do withthe kid she failed believe me, there are some vile people out there. reporting them is a pretty constant battle. obviously most teachers and examiners would never do that. but there is scum out there.
Technically, Chang can also be a South Korean surname, like the actress Katie Chang, who is mixed white and Korean. But I do think it’s sad they didn’t have a surname for Tina by that point and I agree they were being discriminatory towards her and her character (which was also obvious in the show with her limited amount of solos and such, though she did get at least a couple, outside of Gangnam Style, which is so sad, because she didn’t know Korean due to being adopted and there were many K-Pop songs in English back then they could have used and they could have had a rival group with someone else who is Korean basically “steal” Gangnam Style (I mean it was popular, so I could see another group wanting to use it) for their performance, so maybe her and one of the other kids who is into K-Pop could surprise the crowd by doing a song that most don’t know, but is in English and might pop off better than Gangnam Style; I was always sad they never did a K-Pop episode, and they did such unpopular songs all the time that probably were known better in the show than outside the show, so I think that’d been a cool idea).
I mean, comparatively, sandy almost matching will is actually kind of insane cause yes his transgressions are legally worse but he’s barely on screen a fraction of the time will is. Like we watch will just shovel fuel into the hate train for himself day in and day out, we jump cut between different instances of him doing that, sandy is their what, maybe every 3 episodes on average?
Fun Fact!!! In episode one when Quinn is hating on Rachels MySpace page, it was originally going to be UA-cam, but they couldn't get the rights in time.
"I don't know why we're spending so much time with April." If I had to guess it's cause the show is aimed at theatre and music nerds and she's played by Kristen Chenowith.
at the swing part and omg them doing swing dance practice together is legit so nice! just a great scene of two adversaries having a good time bonding and I KNOW there's no way this is sticking and that swing twist is coming and it's gonna crush me
I really dislike the "this will turn out to be a gift" line from Emma bc it's sooooo out of character for her, yes she will show to be a bit naughty in later seasons but she has severe ocd and is uncomfy with sexual stuff most of the time. It's a good joke, but a terrible line for this character imo
When I first watched the show and the first few times I rewatched it I thought it was referring back to the bulimia. Like 'one day that will be a blessing' because you won't have all the physical and emotional issues a good chunk of your life.
In the Imagine number, I can almost understand the choice to have the New Directions sing along because they also stand next to the kids from the Deaf choir and learn the signs. The TRULY heinous crime is that the track on Spotify completely cuts the Deaf singer. It's only the New Directions. Rude??? Lmao
As a disabled person, i really hate when media has people 'faking' being disabled, because faking a disability isn't that common, and people, primarily ablebodied people harass disabled people if they dont think they're 'really' disabled
To explain sectionals as a highschool athlete: Sectionals, according to my state, is a contest where schools in your region are automatically qualified to compete. Typically this event is a qualifying competition for a regional/district event, which from there you would then attempt to qualify for state. Basically there are 4 districts, and 4 sectionals per district. Meaning they would be at 1/16th the difficulty of a state tournament. In summary, sectionals are more so to weed out the bad, rather than prove who is good.
As a science major myself, you need to explain your methodology a bit more my guy. Like why is literal hate crimes scored less than Will manipulating Finn (both are obviously awful but like come on), why is genuine moments of humanity and overcoming obvious inbuilt prejudice not positively scored, but Rachel standing up for the club was? (Kurt's father accepting him was more than just 'wholesome'), or Finn even when hes terrified and depressed about the idea of becoming a father, still attempts to do the right thing and be there for Quinn and the baby (with the blanket as a symbol for that). Tongue-in-cheek criticsm aside this was a fun vid, thanks for the laughs!
can we talk about how they didn't have money for ramps but they somehow got out a whole bunch of wheelchairs?? Those are expensive and its not like you can just lend those out...
@@marocat4749did she though? I mean she’s done a lot of horrible things. To just name a major one would be causing the Cherrios to have eating disorders
We did bake sales all the time in high school to fund raise for our theatre program, got very little funding from the school. Our teacher had to put a lot of unpaid time and even his own money to ensure we got to be in theatre and do productions. Bake sales are one of the very few things highschoolers will actually spend money on. We would do smaller productions to fund raise as well, never got as much as we did from bake sales.
Holy fucking shit is this a three god damned HOUR Glee video in the year of our lord 2024 what are you THINKING - I'm so ready. Edit: I made this comment before starting, and I see you say at 3:08 "in 2024, the year of our Glord" so thank you for saying what I was thinking.
Just wondering how much it cost Mr. Schuster to rent those wheelchairs and if that money might have been better spent buying ramps and renting the accessible bus instead of teaching the kids a lesson.
Ken Tanaka (Patrick Gallagher), is also Asian (Irish American father and a Chinese Canadian mother). But he does have a Japanese name, and four characters still isn’t nearly enough.
How do you only have a little over 1K subs when you make videos of this type of quality. Honestly, a great watch, you've roped me in sir and I will be looking forward to a potential part 2
Your timing is perfect, I am in the middle of my glixation and I was running out of gleeviews and gleesays to watch on YT. I really like this method of point counting because it is actually hard to trace this moral account when watching the show - we are being shown very shitty people but edited and narrated so that we empathise with them.
okay but random fun fact that gives the writers some points: I went to elementary school with an integrated deaf program, so we learned ASL and we learned Imagine by John Lennon at one point, and it's actually signed correctly and looks identical to what I remember. it's a drop in a bucket but glad they actually got one thing right (love the video btw I laughed out loud several times)
Just wanted to say I ADORE the yellow - orange - teal colours you have behind you because it constantly drags the eyes to the center and has such a nice glow around you, its a REALLY appealing backdrop to the video! ♥
a few years ago, i was reading this magazine, and one of the top stories in that magazine was the actor that played mr. shue was fired from being a judge from so you think you can dance because he was texting inappropriate things to an underage contestant 😭 not really surprised considering his character once twerked down a hallway with a bunch of teens to a song about date rape 💀
So, I watched this series on TV when I was 9 and my little sister and me were so into it! Now I'm 20 minutes into this video and my 22year old self is loosing her freaking mind about it! Wtf?!? How did our parents let us watch this???? Love your description of Will as the 'somehow even whiter Justin Timberlake' tho
Thanks for Watching! Leave a like on the video and subscribe if you'd be interested in a part 2 where we finish out the first Gl-eason!
Edit2: Some audio and video was lost at the beginning of Vitamin D and Mashup. Copyright shenanigans, unfortunately :( Nothing much is missed other than my yapping, fortunately.
Edit: Reminder that this video commentary is still supposed to be comedic and the points system is made up! Also, there are things that were given "points" that aren't directly mentioned in the video but are still reflected in the final score!
babe im gonna need like 10 parts i love this
I need it!
This is so good that I'll need you to do every season
Every season please ❤❤
hehe funny youtube
We need to get to season 2… I wanna know how many points Rachel is gonna lose for sending sunshine to a crack house
i forgot about the crackhouse! at least it wasn’t an active crackhouse lol
ayo WHAT!?!??!
@@lokakona they stole her sheet music and used it as toilet paper tho 🥲
@@currentlyblinking It wasn’t an ACTIVE crack house
It really feels like they threw the inactive part in to make it kind of redeemable? (Its not 😂😂)@@lokakona
Kurt's dad not being on the good scoreboard is a crime. Literally the only safe (not evil) adult in the whole series
Totally agreed, W dad
Gotta start a fan scoreboard and pray that he's included in the follow up video
Not at the beginning though! Kurt is scared to come out, his dad hasnt made that a comfortable environment, he even takes away kurts car because he finds womens clothes in his room. Burt is amazing and i love him, but he BECOMES amazing. Before we really meet him, it strongly implies that hes not so cool yet
@@aribailey8405which always confused me. They seemed like they didn’t know what they wanted to do with his dad until the found an actor.
@@morgandulany4939i think part of it is trying to imply that since Kurts mum died there has just been an uncomfortable rift between them, and when Kurt gained some confidence and community in Glee club that meant he was strong enough to start kicking that wall down, and Burt did the right thing by immediately joining in. Its a shame the son had to make the first move, but Burt even admits that he had some internalised homophobia that he didnt even realise (using the f slur in high school etc) and watching him unpack and unlearn all of that is so wonderful to watch
"This is where our daughter or gay son will sleep" to this day sends me, that's so fucking funny.
honestly top 5 lines for me
Fr 😂😂
Yeeeeaaaah, saying it as a queer guy
I’ll never get over it
It was delivered so well
The fact that this video is almost 3 hours long and only covers half of the first season perfectly demonstrates how vast Glee's crimes against humanity really were. I salute you, sir, and wait with baited breath for the next Glevil instalment.
Omg the show turns into such a mess in so many ways as the seasons go on. Idk wtf they were thinking. "Yeah, let's do an episode where we're all pretending to be super heroes for no reason!" Or "Let's introduce a serious storyline that real people go through and then never mention it again!" (Such as Kitty and Ryder bonding over past trauma, or the school shooting episode.) And right when we started to care about these new kids, most of them disappeared and other new kids are introduced for the final season. Again, only to disappear right when we started to feel something for these new characters. (Okay, the big dude with the headphones got me right away. He was such a sweetheart and his voice! Damn, he was underutilized!)
Barely related to season 6: The kid who played Myron grew up to become a beautiful transwoman who worked on the Saved by the Bell reboot, both on and off screen. Makes sense; Myron exuded Diva in the Making
Glay son or glot daughter?
😂😂😂😂😂
glose, glestern man
Glay glaughter
@@omnipocket3055 glocean man, take me by the hand and bring me to the gland
Glot and Glay. The 2 genders.
Let's be real : Kurt's dad is the only one who would end up in the positive at the end of the show. But as you don't do the side characters, it will leave no one.
I have hope that he'll add burt in the next video because of the amount of comments about it. I feel like if kendra can get a spot burt definitely can since he becomes more important- at least I hope🤞
One of his best moments that I can remember is when he goes off on Finn because Finn kept using the F slur about Kurt's stuff in their room.
He has officially added Burt (in the second video)
@@moleperson yeah I saw ! I'm glad. But deserves it.
@@Spencerthepoet
the way “gl-“ just slowly integrated more and more into your vocabulary was beautiful
I love that detail, it's been cracking me up the whole time.
*gleautiful
@@societycrumblesthe gleetails
@@iburiedpaul You are glorrect, my glapologies.
“Glums his pants” took me out
His mechanic dad accepting him without being super enthusiastic is the most comforting and my favorite moment of this show.
As a queer southerner, my family was upset when I told them. I got broke up with that night cuz my gf couldn’t handle my family knowing. The next morning, my entire family gathered to hug me when I cried at breakfast. They didn’t understand it but they loved me and accepted I was hurting and needed support. It wasn’t vocal, but those hugs meant the world.
“Who is Josh groban-Kill yourself!” Is truly one of my favorite lines in anything ever
Same why is it so good? 😂
for as bad as Sandy is he was very funny
Same 😂 and the funny thing is I actually didn't know who he was until last year tbh
So Chris Colfer (actor for Kurt) has said that being slusheed felt like being bitch slapped by an iceberg so i feel so bad for people who got slusheed
they only used real ones for the first episode after that it was gelatin dw
The Glood, The Glad, and The Glugly
Just the Glad and the Glugly
@@fifteendozenalleyroses Late, but? The Glood: Kurt. The Glad: Mr. Shue. (Lee Van Cleef) The Glugly: Sue. (Eli Wallach)
@@Volvagia1927 No absolutely not Kurt. I love Kurt, but the fact that Ryan Murphy made the character openly hate bi people in Season 2(?) when he got jealous that his little boytoy dared possibly be interested in girls. Not the character's fault, definitely not Chris Colfer's fault, but still a very dark stain on his character.
But Brittany S. Pierce? Yes. S-tier good guy no notes she is just vibing and existing in her own little marshmallow world.
@@manband20 Well, remember, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly metaphor. The Man With No Name is more "Batman" than "Superman."
The whole gl- is so funny. I wish he just censored himself that way
Calling someone “culturally gay” sounds like something Sue Sylvester would have done on Glee……
There's definitely a culture. Particularly around human rights/activism/Pride, involving allies, friends and family, especiallysince HIV/AIDS. If gay people had been accepted there likely wouldnt have been a distinct gay culture. Culture often results from being in a marginalized or oppressed group. Not just immigrants with a previous emigrated culture. Deaf culture exists. Obviously African Americans developed a culture after being enslaved and oppressed in the US for hundreds of years, as well as a huge contribution to larger American culture. While LGBT ppl are different type of minority, largely raised by their oppressors with the expectation to be one of them, there has definitely been gay/Queer culture, even going back to ways of communicating silently (cruising, the hanky code), euphemisms or "queer coding" in Hollywood during the Hayes Code Censorship era 1930s-60s, how the world of OZ coming to technicolor in the film Wizard of Oz was seen at the time as analogous to "coming out" /engaging in gay love, to the point the place "over the rainbow" became a shorthand for a place to be gay/be yourself and then led to the original (of now many types of) pride flags. There are fashions and icons that cycled particularly in gay communities in different eras. In addition to gay people over centuries but especially 20th century having had an enormous impact on the arts and trend making (similar to Black Americans in this way).
Fran Liebowitz in an article or interview talks about how the decimation of an entire generation of (particularly metropolitan) gay men in the 80s-90s basically had a negative impact on contemporary art and fashion-- not only did we lose so many performers and creators in the arts but we lost so many donations, patrons, collectors the "educated audience members" who are versed in the standards of the genre or form and can judge it properly, the critics, etc.
@@rickwrites2612 oh yeah for sure. The phrasing is just a little funny and sounds like a Sue line lol
@@rebeccafrost2743oh haha yea I see how you meant now
Now then she would be correct
As someone with epilepsy the “cool epilepsy” line made me giggle
fun little glact: the role of mr. schue was written for justin timberlake but he didn’t want to do it so they got matthew morrison instead lol
I feel like Justin timberlake would portray the same amount of evil to the show as Matthew Morrison
The fact that they literally got a justin timberlake lookalike is so funny 🤣 i always thought mr.schue looked like him, i didnt know even know it was intentional lmfaoo
That makes so much sense 😂😂
GLACT
This makes so much sense now
The parting line “be more like Artie” is going to age so quickly if this series continues lol
I really appreciate the fact that characters don’t get ‘good’ points for doing the bare minimum
"GLUMS IN HIS PANTS" might gross me out than the actual word. 😂
If this were the world of the Smurfs, then it would be: Smurfed in his pants. It sounds cute, but it's actually really weird. Like, they *are* Smurfs. We're humans, but we don't go around "Oh, human! I homo-sapiened in my pants!" Not in any language, I'm sure. Why are the Smurfs so obsessed with being Smurfs that they put it in smurfin' everything? Is it a bizarre form of specie-ism? Why am I pondering the secret minds of fictional blue creatures on a video about Glee? And dammit, they need to give us a Smurfs movie with Smurfette's new sister and brother officially in the mix as these self-obsessed blue beings
The amount of manipulation in this show is insane especially when you realize that most of it is done by the adults💀
Yeah the older I get (21 now) the more I realize the kids really are just stupid teenagers. I thought they were so cool when I was 10 😂
@@johnindigo5477stupid is giving a lot of credit tbf, some of their actions genuinely rival Gossip Girl for levels of laughably evil teenage shenanigans.
Okay, but removing Quinn from the Cheerios imo isn't fully a bad thing. Not allowing a pregnant tenn to participate in a dangerous sport seems kinda reasonable. 🤷 I'm pretty sure that at least in all-star cheer you usually are not allowed to compete while pregnant for safety reasons. When one of my teammates was pregnant she simply stopped actively participating at practice for a while. Quinn could still be allowed to come watch practice, do some strength excersises etc. like you'd do when you're injured or an alternate and still be a part of the team that way, so completely removing her seems kinda cruel, but not allowing her to stunt makes total sense
You know what I hate about it, though? Puck got Quinn drunk and THEN had sex with her. Whether the show is willing to admit it or not, he absolutely SA'd her (which is why I hate that they ended up together for so many reasons) so feminist icon Sue Sylvester technically discriminated against a SA victim by kicking her off the squad, called her a "disgrace" for getting pregnant from nonconsensual sex, and destroyed her hope of finding a support system because God knows her family isn't gonna help her when they find out.
So yeah it'd good for her physical health and for the baby, but this could have destroyed her already fragile mental health and been enough to make her do something very final.
Yeah but did you miss the part where she also called her a disgrace? 😢
@@manband20 I think Quinn got herself drunk in order to sleep with Puck, not vice versa. She seemed to have made the date, and showed up expressly with the intent of "doing it". But it's still very icky, and maybe a rape fantasy, not based on reality. I'm sure a lot of date rapers tell themselves "well she wouldn't have gotten drunk and gone to my room if that's not what she wanted".
@@carolsimpson4422 Okay admittedly I don't remember the later seasons (and never watched the last one) so I don't know if this was discussed by them at a later date BUT in the episode where he confronts her about being pregnant, Quinn herself says that "You got me drunk on wine coolers and I felt fat that day." Which is explicitly SA.
I just rewatched the scene and OH BOY does Puck do everything illegal.
1) Quinn tries to back out. He ignores her and shoves more alcohol in her face.
2) She's already drunk enough to not be able to give consent.
3) She asks if he has protection. He says yes. He does not, in fact, have protection. This is very much SA.
4) The overall emotional manipulation in general like goddamn it was uncomfortable when you keep your brain on.
And even if something happened that I missed and she was intentionally trying to make it happen, it's still SA. She was drunk. Even though Puck was a whore and needed to sleep with every single person in the school to finish checking off his card to get his free sandwich, he should have stopped it like he did in Season 3 when Quinn was like "BREED ME, NOAH PUCKERMAN, BREED ME" in the hotel room. idc that he was a dumb teenager, it was still SA and he has A LOT of nerve to trash her for going through a pregnancy HE CAUSED by lying about having a condom.
@@manband20reading this reminded me of how Puck's actor was accused of doing something similar in real life, his ex accused him of SA by pretending he had a condom when he didn't use one. If I remember correctly it was settled out of court where he payed a few million to her
My body wasn’t ready for a 3 hour glump
Glump it up
yeah, turns out it was 3 hours mate
I didn’t realize this was 3 hours until I saw this comment thanks so much I gotta get a snack
Kurts dad is like... the absolute best. As a kid, that scene where he accepts Kurt and tells him that he loves him made me cry. As an adult, I cried when my dad said that he still loved me and accepts me when I came out to him too.
putting GL on everything is like how in pitch perfect they put acca on everything
Glacca-scuse me?!
@@fifteendozenalleyroses NOOOOOOOOOO
@@fifteendozenalleyroses This feels sinful
@@fifteendozenalleyrosesglacca-believe it
@@fifteendozenalleyrosesPfffNOOOOO
I’m probably biased but like I feel like Kurt throwing the note for the sake of his dad feels like it should at least be a +1000
The only thong is they could habe mercedes tried, because dah diversity?
one of the most (only) mature and selfless decisions made on the show
The way my jaw dropped when you said this was only the first THIRTEEN EPISODES
right, like this isnt even all of season 1 :,)
Noo follow up :( , they get so muchworse, especially rachel
This show was on for WAY too long. It's been so long I don't even remember when I fell off it...maybe halfway through season three? It just got so ridiculous and goofy that I had to walk away. And it wasn't even the height of television artistry and storytelling to begin with...
@@marocat4749 he uploaded part 2!
its criminal how they gave the absolute evil role of sue silvester to such a naturally funny and charismatic actress as jane lynch. i hate that shes so funny bc the lines they give her are DIABOLICAL but her delivery is SO GOOD i cant help but laugh and scream like,,,,,,,
If you haven't seen "Party Down", check it out. I believe it lasted 2 seasons, 8 episodes per (?) (although it was revived recently for a 3rd season); great, funny show but it was completely overlooked due to being on Starz.
She plays a large role; Ken Marino, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr... by the same guy who did "Veronica Mars" (with quite a few cameos - I assume if you watched VM, you're probably aware of Party Down, but just in case you're aware of one and not the other... and if you're not familiar with either, maybe if you give Party Down a chance and love it, you'll check out VM too. Also, dude was involved in iZombie as well... which I didn't think was great or anything, but it was relatively fun, I think. The tv equivalent of a beach read, I'd say).
No because Jane Lynch is such a funny fucking person. So even though everything she says is AWFUL...It's hilarious
She's the savior of the entire series
Yeah... don't get too used to seeing Archie with a positive score. Every new season he becomes more and more despicable in more appalling ways.
Yeah he ends up becoming like...an awful person?? And a lot of his actions in the last couple seasons seem way out of character for him, but like...since he spent so much time acting badly, it sorta became his character? I just hate it 😭
No fr that’s all I was thinking like don’t praise this man he sucks
It's kind of a double-edged sword because on one hand, the disabled character is being written like a "normal" person. It's not the correct choice of wording, but it's kind of like how The Owl House has multiple openly gay/bi/gender neutral characters and nobody bats an eye because it's normal in their world. The disabled guy being as awful as all the other guys just makes him more like everyone else, which ironically fits with how Sue treats Becky: the different person who just wants to be treated like everyone she goes to school with.
The other side of the coin is they flanderized Artie (and Becky, to an extent) to the point that he (they) stop being "normal for the world" and just reach whole new levels of awful. How do you possibly justify your single main character with a disability like Artie's and turn him into the teenage version of a sloppy balding Hollywood executive who wants to know just how far you'll go to get into the picture business while drool trickles down his chin as he speaks?
You don't. And I almost respect them for being so bold with the choice to make him so terrible.
Who tf is Archie? This isn't Riverdale... lol
Literally, it's like they had to make him super misogynistic and shitty to convince people he's a "real man". which shows you everything you need to know about the writers/ Ryan Murphy.
Considering how many times the school loved the glee club and let them perform at events, I am always surprised how much they get bullied especially since most of them are cheerleaders and jocks.
arties score is crazy to me lmao i wanna see how much it drops in the upcoming seasons like hes THE misogynist of the show
What about puck?? If I remember right he isn’t as prevalent of a character in later seasons, but he’s still a pretty horrible misogynist
@@Hi-en7xx funnily enough, puck is actually one of the least problematic characters by the time he leaves the show. The worst thing he does in the later seasons is date Rachels mum
@@sophienah4654 I haven’t watched that show for years and even with a terrible memory I know that absolutely isn’t true, I mean there’s enough examples in this video but he also periodically try’s to date/sleep with girls based purely off of race/religion/size, pressures/manipulates multiple women into doing sexual things, allegedly date r*ped Quinn (idk why that wasn’t brought up in this video, maybe because it wasn’t explicitly shown in season one, only talked about, but later shows a flashback showing he at the very least manipulated her right before), cheats many times, tries to get other people to cheat, do I need to keep going?
I love how they show the phone after Puck sexted Santana & its one of the worst sexting exchanges I've ever read
48:44 “Why can nobody just do the right thing once in this show” Have you never met theatre kids that just how it is.
Hey! I mean, you’re not _wrong_ but… hey!
As a former theatre kid I take offense. 😂 I mean you’re not wrong but how dare you state facts.
I know it’s wrong but Terri’s death threat to that random teen makes me laugh out loud every time I see it
everything Terri does is wrong, but she’s genuinely hilarious. she was only really in season one, but has so many of the best lines in the show
"idk why were spending so much time with april" who wouldnt want to utilize The kristin chenoweth
They do the same w Idena Menzel
@@fifteendozenalleyroses Wicked were brought to the wicked glee club.
I fully believe they did it as a joke for those of us who had no idea they were the original Wicked on Broadway cast when this first aired
In not too long, Artie won't just be "the guy in a wheelchair" anymore. He'll be remembered as the most misogynistic character on that show.
As a former Gleek, this is the best Glee retrospective video I’ve seen. Definitely want to see the rest of season one, and would totally watch if you do more seasons!
Kurt's dad is LITTERALLY the best and I love him
Imagine an alternate universe where Justin Timberlake did take the role of Will, and how even more of a train wreck revisiting Will's baby story line in Glee would be after the revelations about him and Britney Spears
Oh the memes would have been insane
Hold on what
right, I am at 0:01 and I can already say: it's Mr. Schu. as a teacher, another teacher who behaves like that with students is a massive ick even if it's just in a tv series. ew, ew, ew, ew. f that guy.
oh and about 1:23:05 I have had an examiner literally brag over coffee that she failed an apprentice because the company he worked fir was mean to her. it's been a few years so I don't remember exactly but it was something like an ISP not changing her contract ir something. nothing to do withthe kid she failed
believe me, there are some vile people out there. reporting them is a pretty constant battle. obviously most teachers and examiners would never do that. but there is scum out there.
i never comment on videos but if this doesn't become a full series i'll walk into the ocean thank you
the way you snuck in gl in everything is so subtle but it means so much
As an epileptic I thought Britney’s comment about “cool epilepsy” was hilarious
same
samesies
I love how he points out the sports inaccuracies to a drama camp show we love a multi faceted king
Technically, Chang can also be a South Korean surname, like the actress Katie Chang, who is mixed white and Korean. But I do think it’s sad they didn’t have a surname for Tina by that point and I agree they were being discriminatory towards her and her character (which was also obvious in the show with her limited amount of solos and such, though she did get at least a couple, outside of Gangnam Style, which is so sad, because she didn’t know Korean due to being adopted and there were many K-Pop songs in English back then they could have used and they could have had a rival group with someone else who is Korean basically “steal” Gangnam Style (I mean it was popular, so I could see another group wanting to use it) for their performance, so maybe her and one of the other kids who is into K-Pop could surprise the crowd by doing a song that most don’t know, but is in English and might pop off better than Gangnam Style; I was always sad they never did a K-Pop episode, and they did such unpopular songs all the time that probably were known better in the show than outside the show, so I think that’d been a cool idea).
Glad some one else said it
Yup, I'm a Korean Chang. I also grew up with a bunch of other Korean Changs. It's just another romanization of 장, which is more commonly seen as Jang.
I mean, comparatively, sandy almost matching will is actually kind of insane cause yes his transgressions are legally worse but he’s barely on screen a fraction of the time will is. Like we watch will just shovel fuel into the hate train for himself day in and day out, we jump cut between different instances of him doing that, sandy is their what, maybe every 3 episodes on average?
Josh, I am so glad we are both re entering our glee era and I am not alone in this journey
🫡
that's me every 6 months since i was like 14 (I'm 23 now)
did you mean... this glourney?
I've been on and off the train since mic the snare
Your Glera
Burt was the dream dad all of us closeted gsy teens dreamed of having back then
Fun Fact!!! In episode one when Quinn is hating on Rachels MySpace page, it was originally going to be UA-cam, but they couldn't get the rights in time.
the fact that Hosh said "glimpse" and I fully took it as another glord
"I don't know why we're spending so much time with April." If I had to guess it's cause the show is aimed at theatre and music nerds and she's played by Kristen Chenowith.
at the swing part and omg them doing swing dance practice together is legit so nice! just a great scene of two adversaries having a good time bonding and I KNOW there's no way this is sticking and that swing twist is coming and it's gonna crush me
emma pamphlets are my favourite running gag throughout the show
The gl- prefix is the rare joke that genuinely keeps getting funnier
I really dislike the "this will turn out to be a gift" line from Emma bc it's sooooo out of character for her, yes she will show to be a bit naughty in later seasons but she has severe ocd and is uncomfy with sexual stuff most of the time. It's a good joke, but a terrible line for this character imo
tbf that line is from like. the second episode of the show. maybe that aspect of her character hadn’t really solidified when they wrote it
When I first watched the show and the first few times I rewatched it I thought it was referring back to the bulimia. Like 'one day that will be a blessing' because you won't have all the physical and emotional issues a good chunk of your life.
She was literally a virgin at the time too
Also seems odd for her to be sexualizing a child, or at least to their face.
Started watching, didn't realize it was 2.50 hours long. THIS. This is the kind of enthusiasm I want to see when talking about glee
3:10 missed opportunity to say “in the year of grilled cheesus, our glord and slayviour, 2024”😔
In the Imagine number, I can almost understand the choice to have the New Directions sing along because they also stand next to the kids from the Deaf choir and learn the signs. The TRULY heinous crime is that the track on Spotify completely cuts the Deaf singer. It's only the New Directions. Rude??? Lmao
The real villain will always be Mr. Schuester at the end of the day. Especially as time goes on
As a disabled person, i really hate when media has people 'faking' being disabled, because faking a disability isn't that common, and people, primarily ablebodied people harass disabled people if they dont think they're 'really' disabled
The Persona soundtrack between episodes was a lovely way to reset after witnessing Will's brain rotting personality for much too long
The moment Kurt came out to his dad will forever be my favorite moment!! It makes me cry all the time!! That’s how very parent should be
Me opening this up at 11p and seeing that it's 3 hrs long 👄👁️👄
Its a long one, for sure
Me too but at 11:45.
👄👁️👄
I will never use these emojis in any other order than 👄👁️👄 from this day forward. Thank you, you absolute visionary.
me at 2:30am
To explain sectionals as a highschool athlete:
Sectionals, according to my state, is a contest where schools in your region are automatically qualified to compete. Typically this event is a qualifying competition for a regional/district event, which from there you would then attempt to qualify for state. Basically there are 4 districts, and 4 sectionals per district. Meaning they would be at 1/16th the difficulty of a state tournament. In summary, sectionals are more so to weed out the bad, rather than prove who is good.
This is incredible, Burt would be the only adult with positive numbers lol
who doubted it?
As a science major myself, you need to explain your methodology a bit more my guy. Like why is literal hate crimes scored less than Will manipulating Finn (both are obviously awful but like come on), why is genuine moments of humanity and overcoming obvious inbuilt prejudice not positively scored, but Rachel standing up for the club was? (Kurt's father accepting him was more than just 'wholesome'), or Finn even when hes terrified and depressed about the idea of becoming a father, still attempts to do the right thing and be there for Quinn and the baby (with the blanket as a symbol for that).
Tongue-in-cheek criticsm aside this was a fun vid, thanks for the laughs!
Glosh said that he basically just made it up as he watched tbf
this glideo cured my glemorrhoids. glank you hosh
can we talk about how they didn't have money for ramps but they somehow got out a whole bunch of wheelchairs?? Those are expensive and its not like you can just lend those out...
Unfortunately as a young teen watching Mr shue was hot to me. Now he's creepy af and I can't unsee a joker smile on his face. I hate his chin
Thank god sue aged well
@@marocat4749barely
you’re so brave for admitting this
@@marocat4749did she though? I mean she’s done a lot of horrible things. To just name a major one would be causing the Cherrios to have eating disorders
@@melit.On top of straight up bullying children and slutshaming every other teenage girl in her eyesight in the wrist ways.
words cannot describe how badly i need one of these for every season of glee omg, new fav video of all time
glank u for making this glideo, it made me hehehe. sorry. funny youtube. a glart two would be much agleeciated !
Please keep going!! I need to see Jesse St. James and Blaine Anderson added to the count!
We did bake sales all the time in high school to fund raise for our theatre program, got very little funding from the school. Our teacher had to put a lot of unpaid time and even his own money to ensure we got to be in theatre and do productions. Bake sales are one of the very few things highschoolers will actually spend money on. We would do smaller productions to fund raise as well, never got as much as we did from bake sales.
I’m gonna need every season because I’m INVESTED and I need to see how many points the Flash loses for that rock salt slushee
Holy fucking shit is this a three god damned HOUR Glee video in the year of our lord 2024 what are you THINKING - I'm so ready.
Edit: I made this comment before starting, and I see you say at 3:08 "in 2024, the year of our Glord" so thank you for saying what I was thinking.
Please I would watch a thousand hours of these, it’s like cult deprogramming for former glee fans
oh im gonna glum
I’ve been watching this video for three days. I loved every second. I desperately need a breakdown of every season because it somehow only gets worse
Please Cover the other seasons, for an ultimate worst character (even though we know its probably Will)
Him or rachel, but he is an adult, so probably will
@@marocat4749don't forget Artie, he becomes insufferable far more than Rachel imo
Lol rachel??? Stfu if we speak of crimes its sue
And even quinn and santana did more cromes than rachel@@marocat4749
How very "the good place" of you to give them points to see who's worse, HAHAH love it! Excited to watch the full video
every time he says stuff like “glub” or “gluys and glorls” or “glevil” i giggle a little
update: i just heard him say “glussy” and i regret watching this video
Don’t you mean you gliggled?
@@calebelliott2629 you made me gliggle i glove you please don’t glie
This is honestly one of the best tv recap/review videos ive seen in a while. Would love to see a part 2.
This is such a fun take on the Gleecaps.
Every Gl- prefix was so funny to me 😂
I need an episode for every season of Glee and then you make a gleepilatiom of all the videos so I can rewatch it. I need more videos like this.
Just wondering how much it cost Mr. Schuster to rent those wheelchairs and if that money might have been better spent buying ramps and renting the accessible bus instead of teaching the kids a lesson.
Ken Tanaka (Patrick Gallagher), is also Asian (Irish American father and a Chinese Canadian mother). But he does have a Japanese name, and four characters still isn’t nearly enough.
Oooooooo didn't know he has an Irish American father. As an Irish ex gleek this made my day.
I know in my heart that William Shuster will be the most Gleevil person . He should have - 2 billion points just for the hair alone
I love when Finn talks to Quinn about baby names and she asks “are you an idiot?” 😂
That “the show gives us a glimpse into what hell is like” bit got me. Hahaha, sorry, funny UA-cam
How do you only have a little over 1K subs when you make videos of this type of quality. Honestly, a great watch, you've roped me in sir and I will be looking forward to a potential part 2
imagine the points Will would get from the Rocky Horror episode.
unfortunately telling us to be more like artie is not going to age well 🥲
but please make a part 2
uh oh 😟
Your timing is perfect, I am in the middle of my glixation and I was running out of gleeviews and gleesays to watch on YT. I really like this method of point counting because it is actually hard to trace this moral account when watching the show - we are being shown very shitty people but edited and narrated so that we empathise with them.
Drumming. I still maintain that Finn was very good at drumming.
That’s because Corey was a drummer prior to glee where as he learned to dance and sing on the show
okay but random fun fact that gives the writers some points: I went to elementary school with an integrated deaf program, so we learned ASL and we learned Imagine by John Lennon at one point, and it's actually signed correctly and looks identical to what I remember. it's a drop in a bucket but glad they actually got one thing right (love the video btw I laughed out loud several times)
Wow! $8000 to hire Dakota Stanley as a choreographer. You can stay at the defunct Star Wars hotel one and a half times for that price! 🤣
Lmao long video essay crossover?
Just wanted to say I ADORE the yellow - orange - teal colours you have behind you because it constantly drags the eyes to the center and has such a nice glow around you, its a REALLY appealing backdrop to the video! ♥
adding the 'g' at the beginning of all key words had me crying laughing
i immediately subscribed as soon as I heard the persona music. Glee AND persona music? genius. this video feels specifically made for me thank u
persona and ace attorney music in a glee video???? youtube recommended knows me too well
(hehe funny youtube)
no cause why is it so good!!
Me when danganronpa music started playing (although i came here from my subscriptions)
a few years ago, i was reading this magazine, and one of the top stories in that magazine was the actor that played mr. shue was fired from being a judge from so you think you can dance because he was texting inappropriate things to an underage contestant 😭
not really surprised considering his character once twerked down a hallway with a bunch of teens to a song about date rape 💀
The first time shuester raps isn’t that bad to me but every other time raps gets me so disgusted it gives pain
So, I watched this series on TV when I was 9 and my little sister and me were so into it! Now I'm 20 minutes into this video and my 22year old self is loosing her freaking mind about it! Wtf?!? How did our parents let us watch this????
Love your description of Will as the 'somehow even whiter Justin Timberlake' tho