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Glee Episode Guide
eligibility rules. Puck agrees to be the club’s ”Am-badass-ador.” In the locker room, Puck delivers
an inspiring speech about Bruce Springsteen avoiding a dead-end blue-collar fate through music
in an attempt to persuade the football team to join New Directions. But Karofsky and Amizo
decide to make an example of Puck . . . stuffing him in an upturned port-a-potty.
Blaine tells Kurt that he’s got a slot to audition for a solo in the Warblers’ sectional set.
Meanwhile, Mercedes thinks that the club will lose sectionals without her, and Rachel protests
her lack of a solo by duct-taping her mouth shut. Will explodes, insisting that Rachel drop
her persistent star trip, lecturing the students about putting the team before themselves and
insisting that they be good sports at sectionals no matter the outcome.
After being rescued by Lauren Zizes, Puck invites her to join New Directions, and she agrees on
two conditions: that he produce a carton of out-of-season Cadbury Eggs and oblige her with her
”seven minutes in Heaven.” Puck apparently provided both (admitting that she ”kind of rocked
my world”), and Lauren joins the glee club. Pledging to be nicer to people after his port-a-potty
ordeal (and then modifying his pledge to just fellow Jews), Puck attempts to help Rachel overcome
her boyfriend troubles.
Dressed as a goth-y cheerleader, Tina tells Artie that Mike’s fetish for the pom-pommers has
driven him to an affair with Brittany. Artie doesn’t believe her, but the seeds of doubt are planted
as Tina insists that the two of them never had a chance with a football player and a cheerleader.
Kurt approaches Rachel in the music room, asking for help crafting his tryout, and Rachel
confesses that she’s been fantasizing about the death of the glee club for not acknowledging her
superior talents - and she has the perfect song to express it: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim
Rice’s ”Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” from ”Evita.” Kurt auditions with the song but is bypassed
for a solo; Blaine tells him that he shouldn’t try so hard to be noticed and that he would fit in
better by blending into the team.
Artie grows more suspicious when Brittany evades him to rehearse with Mike. Will admits
to Emma that he’s worried his new game plan has put the students more out of sync with one
another than ever. She disappoints him further by explaining that she won’t be joining him at
sectionals due to a fight caused by her beau Carl’s objections - a fight that resulted in Emma
and Carl declaring their love for each other.
At sectionals, Rachel and Kurt bond over having their identities challenged by their new
situations, realizing it’s easier to be nice to each other now that they’re not competing within
New Directions. The Hipsters, an elderly glee club from an adult education school, performs
Mike + the Mechanics’ ”The Living Years,” followed by the Warblers, who rouse the crowd with a
Blaine-led rendition of Train’s ”Hey, Soul Sister” - even getting a standing O from New Directions.
The glee club members are stressing out in major ways before their performance: Quinn’s
nervous because the last time she performed in front of a crowd, she went into labor; Artie hears
that a regretful Brittany is guilty of ”adultery”; and Rachel’s upset because everyone already
knew about Finn and Santana’s fling but her. Finn stands up to Rachel, justifying his hook-up
because she was dating someone else at the time, and Rachel, Artie, and Tina all threaten to
walk out on the team. Will tells them he’s ashamed of them all.
Artie learns that Brittany thought that ”adultery” means being stupid, ”like being adult,” and
she didn’t actually cheat on him - though she admits she did something she thinks is worse:
she lost his magic comb and had been avoiding him out of shame. Artie tells her that the comb,
which he found and was about to throw into the trash before giving it to her, wasn’t magic - she’s
the one who’s magic, and he should’ve told her earlier. They reconcile, and she tells him that
she’ll be dancing for him.
Sam’s belief in Quinn also bolsters her confidence as well, and their opening duet, Bill Medley
and Jennifer Warnes’ ”(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” from ”Dirty Dancing,” wins over the audience.
Santana’s smooth lead vocals on Amy Winehouse’s ”Valerie” kick off Brittany and Mike’s
energetic, athletic dance number, pumping up the crowd even further.
The sectional winners are announced, and it’s a tie: New Directions and the Warblers will
both be advancing to regionals! Back at school, Will shows off the trophy to Emma, who has
another shocking revelation: she tells him that Carl took her to Vegas over the weekend, and
then displays the new ring on her left hand. Will assumes that she’s gotten engaged, but the
news is even more dramatic: Emma and Carl got married.
Rachel tells Finn that the sectionals experience made her realize how special it is to be a part
of a team, and when Finn asks if they are still a team, she says yes. Finn promises that there will
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