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Glee Episode Guide
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Season 1
Episode Number: 12
Season Episode: 12
Originally aired: Wednesday December 2, 2009
Writer: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan
Director: Elodie Keene
Show Stars: Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester), Jane Lynch (Sue Sylvester), Jessalyn
Gilsig (Terri Schuester), Jayma Mays (Emma Pillsbury), Lea
Michele (Rachel Berry), Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson), Chris Colfer
(Kurt Hummel), Mark Salling (Noah ”Puck” Puckerman), Kevin McHale
(Artie Abrams), Dianna Agron (Quinn Fabray), Amber Riley (Mercedes
Jones), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina Cohen-Chang)
Recurring Role: Naya Rivera (Santana Lopez), Harry Shum Jr. (Mike Chang), Dijon Talton
(Matt Rutherford), Heather Elizabeth Morris (Brittany), Iqbal Theba
(Principal Figgins), Patrick Gallagher (Ken Tanaka)
Production Code: 1ARC11
Summary: Rachel’s struggle not to be ignored spreads to the rest of the Glee club
when their yearbook photo is threatened by budget cuts. Elsewhere,
Terri faces more problems in her relationship with Will.
While discussing yearbook picture day
at lunch, Will finds out that Emma and
Ken’s wedding is the same day as Sectionals.
As he digests this information,
Sue joins them and drops the bomb that
the glee club will not have a picture in
the school’s yearbook, the Thunderclap,
since the picture is always vandalized.
At glee, Kurt proposes to the group
that they would be better off not taking
a yearbook photo anyway since it can only lead to pain, humiliation, and/or a horrible future.
Mr. Shue, however, embroiled by Sue, assures the kids that they’ll get their yearbook photo.
Will storms Figgins’ office and demands that the glee club get a photo. Figgins says fine, but it
will cost over $300 and only two of the kids can be in it. Terri forbids Will to pay for the yearbook
ad, but he does anyway and tells the kids they must vote on which two will represent glee.
The kids unanimously elect Rachel to be the sole captain for the picture since they want no
part of it. Will seeks advice from Emma on how to get the other kids in the picture, but she tells
him to just let them handle it. Will tells her he thinks Ken scheduled their wedding the same
day as Sectionals on purpose, and Emma says that Ken may have problems, but he’s full of
compassion and that’s why she’s marrying him.
Will puts Rachel in charge of finding a co-captain for the picture, but no one will be in it with
her. Finally Finn agrees, but when he’s harassed by the football team he flakes on Rachel and
the glee photo. After posing without Finn, Rachel gets the glee club their big break as stars in a
local TV commercial for a mattress store.
Will discovers Teri’s fake pregnancy belly and confronts her. She says that it started as a
hysterical pregnancy, but she continued the lie to save their marriage because he’s changed ever
since he started the glee club. He storms out and spends the night in his office on one of the
mattresses the kids got as compensation for the commercial.
Sue sees the commercial on TV and convinces Figgins to disqualify the glee club for performing
for payment, therefore negating their amateur status.
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