Glee-Cap: Ep. 7: Clash of the Titans
As a result of last week's drug debacle, Will and Sue are now co-chairs of Glee Club. And if you thought last week's boys vs. girls sing-off was brutal, this week finds the teachers at each others throats and the white kids vs. well, everyone else. So, as you can imagine, this week the gloves are off. Stuck with each other, Will and Sue are worse than squabbling spouses in a bad marriage. These two can't even pretend to hide their loathing. Yeah, this is gonna get good!
Sue has a mole in the Glee Club, so she knows that there's some discord over what songs the kids should perform. (Mercedes asks if they can sing something "a little more black," which garners a quick response from Rachel: "It's Glee Club, not crunk club." Oy!) Anyway, Sue's greatest talent (besides pithy one-liners and making fun of Will's curls) is sniffing out weakness and exploiting it. She quickly pits the kids against each other by separating out the minority students as "Sue's Kids." She even chooses "Hate on Me" as their song. Subtle, huh?
With the club split in two, Will and Sue's cold war becomes a bare-knuckled smackdown. Sue burns sheet music, and Will fails cheerleaders (making them academically ineligible to be on Sue's precious Cheerios). Sue just wants to take down the Glee Club and get Will fired. Is that so wrong? Meanwhile, Will is urged on by his fake-pregnant wife, Terri, who tells him, "Youve got to get down in the gutter if you want to win this!" Isn't she just delightful? Speaking of Terri, her phony baby drama is heating up.
Quinn, who is actually pregnant and has promised the baby to Terri, visits her obstetrician for her 10-week checkup with Finn by her side. Mr. Shue, who escorts them to the doctor's office, reads Parenting magazine in the waiting room and has an epiphany that he has never attended a sonogram for his own "pregnant" wife. Hmmm! The teens learn they are having a girl (by the way, 10 weeks is awfully early to find out the sex of the fetus—have any of the writers on this show ever had a baby?), and Will becomes determined to accompany Terri to her next OB appointment.
A desperate Terri gets even more frantic when she finds out Will wants to observe her next ultrasound. And learning that Quinn is having a girl almost pushes her over the edge. Remember how she said she was having a boy (also ridiculously early on in her pregnancy)? She does what any sane, self-respecting fake-expectant mother would do. She blackmails her OB (with the help of Kendra, who blames him for her three unintelligent children) into faking a sonogram. But poor Will's tears at the sight of his (well, he think it's his) baby on the screen are very real. Aww.
Where's Rachel in all this? She's trying to keep the story of Quinn's pregnancy out of Jacob Ben Israel's gossip-mongering blog. Is it because she has a great love for Quinn or wants to win points with Finn? Duh. In order to appease Jacob, Rachel gives into his gross request, or as he puts it: "I want Rachel Berry panties or the story of Quinn Fabray and the stork goes wide." As Rachel would say, "Ew." Quinn is aware of the chemistry between Finn and Rachel (and who isn't, with them rehearsing their Glee number all over the place?) and warns Rachel to back off. Rachel, ever-fearless, reminds Quinn that once the baby news hits the blogosphere, how long can it remain a secret? Glee Club is all she'll have.
Either Rachel is wildly prescient or just full of common sense, because her prediction comes true when Sue finds Rachel's unmentionables in Jacob's locker and pushes him to publish his dirt on Quinn. Sue finally decides to resign her co-leadership of Glee Club, but as the announcement is being made, she manages to out Quinn's secret. In a touching final sequence, the club unites to perform Avril Lavigne's "Keep Holding On" with Quinn (looking angelic and even a little preggers) barely keeping her emotions in check.
P.S. Finn wants to name the baby Drizzle. Awesome!