Line #63 Recap/GleeS1E2Showmance


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Meet the Unholy Trinity.]]
3	!!! Summary
4	New Directions prepares for their first performance at a school assembly. Sue finds a copy of the Show Choir Rule Book, prompting Will to ask the ND members to recruit their friends. Will and Terri start looking for a [[BigFancyHouse new home]], prompting Will to take on night janitor duties. Rachel admits her feelings for Finn and joins the Celibacy Club. Quinn, Brittany, and Santana ([[FanNickname The]] [[AscendedFanon Unholy Trinity]]) join the New Directions, at first to keep Finn away from Rachel and make sure they [[HilariousInHindsight don't look like]] [[TheBeard beards]] to the football team, but then Sue requests they spy on the group.
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6	!!! Songs From the Episode
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8	* "Le Freak," by Music/{{Chic}} performed by New Directions
9	* "Gold Digger," by Music/KanyeWest, performed by Will Schuester and New Directions
10	* "All By Myself," by Music/CelineDion performed by Emma Pillsbury
11	* "Push It," by Music/SaltNPepa, performed by New Directions
12	* "I Say a Little Prayer," by Music/ArethaFranklin, performed by Quinn Fabray with Santana and Brittany[[note]]The Unholy Trinity[[/note]]
13	* "Take A Bow," by Music/{{Rihanna}} performed by Rachel, Mercedes, and Tina.
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15	!!! This episode contains examples of:
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17	* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Discussed during the Celibacy Club meeting, and the girls are well aware of the effect they have on the boys.
18	* BigFancyHouse: Terri wants one that she and Will can't afford.
19	* BlatantLies: Upon finding out she's not pregnant, rather than be honest and tell Will, Terri tells him they're having a boy.
20	* {{Bowdlerise}}: An early example of the show changing the lyrics. There aren't many [[NWordPrivileges words that rhyme]] with "Gold digger."
21	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The list of approved non-sexy songs all have 'Jesus' or other Christian vocabulary in the title and are pretty sweet and upbeat and innocent, [[RuleOfFunny except one]] - Nena's "Neunundneunzig Luftballons" which is about ''kids' balloons being mistaken for foreign aircraft and leading to a 99 year war''.
22	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
23	** The TitleCard will not remain as Will's license plate.
24	** Though it looks like Kurt getting tossed in the dumpster will become a OnceAnEpisode thing, the show eventually relents.
25	** In this episode, Rachel decries celibacy. Compare and contrast her behaviour in episodes like "The Power of Madonna", "Grilled Cheesus", "Sexy", and "The First Time".
26	** Additionally, Quinn's commitment to being celibate is shown to be more of a weapon that she uses to keep guys--namely Finn--in line, and she openly encourages the other girls to tease the guys, but refuse to go through with it. In later episodes, her faith and convictions about sex seem to be much stronger, and less performative and [[spoiler: she views sleeping with Puck as a genuine, one-off mistake.]]
27	* GilliganCut: Emma denying wanting to listen to sad music and cry over unrequited love, a cut showing her doing so in her car.
28	* ItIsDehumanizing: Quinn calls Rachel "that thing" and "it".
29	* ItsAllAboutMe: Both Terri and Rachel get moments of this, although Will points out how wrong Rachel is.
30	* MoralGuardians: After the episode aired, the Parent Television Council denounced ''Glee'' as the worst show on television because of the performance of "Push It". And this is after the choreographers were forced to chance the routine because the original was too sexy to be aired in its slot.
31	* TheOner: The shot where the New Directions are shown again with Will at the beginning.
32	* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse, New Directions try this with "Push It." It does not go over well.
33	* RomanceOnTheSet: [[invoked]] A "showmance" is another term for this, the theatre word, making it what is growing between Rachel and Finn.
34	* ShakingTheRump: One way to get the other cheerleaders to appreciate you, as Santana does this literally for the Cheerios.
35	* ShoutOut: It might be accidental, but when Terri pops a flame with the lighter, [[ActorAllusion alluding]] to her role on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. Some of Quinn's dancing during "I Say A Little Prayer" is also reminiscent of ''her'' role on ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' - the fact that both are included makes it more likely that they are deliberate.
36	* StalkerWithACrush: Finn accuses Rachel of this. "I had to check under my bed to make sure you weren't there."
37	* ThinkUnsexyThoughts: Finn's solution to his "problem." ("Mailman, mailman, mailman")

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