What’s that? You haven’t heard about “Glee,” the most wonderful fantastic STRAIGHT UP AWESOME show ever? Allow me to introduce it then. It’s kind of hard to say, exactly, what “Glee” will be like since there was only the one episode in the spring. But from that, and from sneak peeks, I’m guessing this is how my high school was NOT like the kids’ school from “Glee.”
1. There were some middle-aged semi-handsome men that taught subjects like world history and…gym, but no one looked like Matthew Morrison, who plays Will Schuester, Save-The-Glee-Club guy.
2. We had a chorus, but I’m pretty sure they never rapped a song. Actually, I’m pretty sure they only sang show tunes.
3. Our cheerleaders were not named the “Cheerios,” nor did we have a maniacal cheerleading coach. Right now I can remember every name and face of my sophomore year cheerleading squad, but I couldn’t for the life of me tell you who coached it. I have a sneaking suspicion we would have been loads better though, if we’d called ourselves The Cheerios.
4. We didn’t have a Quinn, Finn or Puck, but we did have the Smith kids: Jenon, Logan, Keegan, Austin, Onae and Gavin.
5. There was no MySpace or Facebook to make us famous. Only the yearbook and the greatest of all communication systems: gossip.
6. We didn’t look like this:
via New York Post
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Is this really a show? I’m clueless and paying needless cable bills!
Yes! And it’s FANTABULOUS.
Wow, that is an admirably diverse cast. Do these people not realize how contrived these things look? It’s getting to the point where kids are going to grow up, go to school, see a glee club, and say, “Wait–where’s your member who is in the wheelchair? Doesn’t everyone have one of those?”
Yeah, it’s definitely a poster for Perfectly Televised Diversity.
I thought the episode was genius, and the diversity of the cast is part of the gag. And having gone to an all boys high school, you joined the theater club because girls from the all girls schools came to play the female roles. The Glee club had maybe 10 voices; 4 tenors, 4 baritones, 2 basses.
The old joke was that the marching band halftime show was a salute to punctuation.
I think there is a little bit of every school in the Glee story.
Loving the blog man, i heart glee! I’m a HUGE fan! keep up the work.