The time has officially arrived for Will Schuester and Emma Pillsbury's Valentine's Day wedding. Finn Hudson must contend with his guilt over kissing Emma in the previous episode, while Emma is convinced she won't be able to go through with the wedding. Many alumni of McKinley's Glee Club return, causing old relationships to stir up and new ones to be created. Jake enlists Ryder's help in giving Marley the perfect Valentine's Week as Ryder struggles with his own feelings. Artie is introduced to Emma's niece, Betty, who proves to be more than the average tough cookie, Tina is unable to hide her jealousy over Kurt and Blaine. After the wedding, Rachel returns to New York to face a major bombshell.
Next Time: Glee goes to the movies as we get the fallout from this aborted wedding, the milestone 500th performance, and a moment detractors of a certain character have waited four seasons to see.
Songs
- You're All I Need To Get By, by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, performed by Jake and Marley with New Directions boys
- Getting Married Today from Company, performed by Emma, Mercedes, and Will
- Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode, performed by Kurt and Blaine
- "We've Got Tonight'' by Bob Seger (Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton version), performed by Finn and Rachel, Kurt and Blaine, Jake and Marley, Quinn and Santana, Artie and Betty
- Anything Could Happen by Ellie Goulding, performed by New Directions
Tropes
- Convenient Slow Dance: What "We've Got Tonight" starting to play is for Quinn and Santana. Still. Not. Kidding.
- Everybody Has Lots of Sex
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Fanfic Fuel: The obvious ones involving Rachel instead of Santana, plus When It's Time To Party We Will Always Party Hard
, which takes the "We've Got Tonight" montage up to eleven. - Four Lines, All Waiting: The various plots revolving around relationships, basically shown as the epitome of the trope during "We've Got Tonight" and the bedroom scenes afterwards.
- Fridge Brilliance: Santana says that she and Quinn are "opposite ends of the same bitch-goddess spectrum" — one end will be 'complete bitch', the other 'absolute goddess'. Given Santana's self-proclamations of being the complete ('straight-up') bitch, is that just one massive convoluted way of giving Quinn the ultimate compliment?
- Love Dodecahedron: Emma is freaking out about seating plans because she doesn't know which various glee club couples are together this week.
- Makes Sense In Context: Promos (and the page image) with Sue in a wedding dress.
- Motor Mouth: "Getting Married Today", natch.
- Playing Cyrano: Ryder to Marley (for Jake)
- Runaway Bride: Emma.
- Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss: Played with — yes, it was Sweeps Week for Glee, but the Quinn/Santana storyline was not advertised.
- The Cameo: Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray, Mark Salling as Noah Puckerman, Harry Shum Jr as Mike Chang, Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones.
- Valentine's Day Episode
- Wedding Episode: Will and Emma's wedding is the focus of this episode.
