Thanks for Watching! Leave a like on the video and subscribe if you'd be interested in a part 2 where we finish out the first Gl-eason! Edit2: Some audio and video was lost at the beginning of Vitamin D and Mashup. Copyright shenanigans, unfortunately :( Nothing much is missed other than my yapping, fortunately. Edit: Reminder that this video commentary is still supposed to be comedic and the points system is made up! Also, there are things that were given "points" that aren't directly mentioned in the video but are still reflected in the final score!
Not at the beginning though! Kurt is scared to come out, his dad hasnt made that a comfortable environment, he even takes away kurts car because he finds womens clothes in his room. Burt is amazing and i love him, but he BECOMES amazing. Before we really meet him, it strongly implies that hes not so cool yet
@@morgandulany4939i think part of it is trying to imply that since Kurts mum died there has just been an uncomfortable rift between them, and when Kurt gained some confidence and community in Glee club that meant he was strong enough to start kicking that wall down, and Burt did the right thing by immediately joining in. Its a shame the son had to make the first move, but Burt even admits that he had some internalised homophobia that he didnt even realise (using the f slur in high school etc) and watching him unpack and unlearn all of that is so wonderful to watch
Let's be real : Kurt's dad is the only one who would end up in the positive at the end of the show. But as you don't do the side characters, it will leave no one.
I have hope that he'll add burt in the next video because of the amount of comments about it. I feel like if kendra can get a spot burt definitely can since he becomes more important- at least I hope🤞
There's definitely a culture. Particularly around human rights/activism/Pride, involving allies, friends and family, especiallysince HIV/AIDS. If gay people had been accepted there likely wouldnt have been a distinct gay culture. Culture often results from being in a marginalized or oppressed group. Not just immigrants with a previous emigrated culture. Deaf culture exists. Obviously African Americans developed a culture after being enslaved and oppressed in the US for hundreds of years, as well as a huge contribution to larger American culture. While LGBT ppl are different type of minority, largely raised by their oppressors with the expectation to be one of them, there has definitely been gay/Queer culture, even going back to ways of communicating silently (cruising, the hanky code), euphemisms or "queer coding" in Hollywood during the Hayes Code Censorship era 1930s-60s, how the world of OZ coming to technicolor in the film Wizard of Oz was seen at the time as analogous to "coming out" /engaging in gay love, to the point the place "over the rainbow" became a shorthand for a place to be gay/be yourself and then led to the original (of now many types of) pride flags. There are fashions and icons that cycled particularly in gay communities in different eras. In addition to gay people over centuries but especially 20th century having had an enormous impact on the arts and trend making (similar to Black Americans in this way). Fran Liebowitz in an article or interview talks about how the decimation of an entire generation of (particularly metropolitan) gay men in the 80s-90s basically had a negative impact on contemporary art and fashion-- not only did we lose so many performers and creators in the arts but we lost so many donations, patrons, collectors the "educated audience members" who are versed in the standards of the genre or form and can judge it properly, the critics, etc.
@@Volvagia1927 No absolutely not Kurt. I love Kurt, but the fact that Ryan Murphy made the character openly hate bi people in Season 2(?) when he got jealous that his little boytoy dared possibly be interested in girls. Not the character's fault, definitely not Chris Colfer's fault, but still a very dark stain on his character. But Brittany S. Pierce? Yes. S-tier good guy no notes she is just vibing and existing in her own little marshmallow world.
The fact that this video is almost 3 hours long and only covers half of the first season perfectly demonstrates how vast Glee's crimes against humanity really were. I salute you, sir, and wait with baited breath for the next Glevil instalment.
Omg the show turns into such a mess in so many ways as the seasons go on. Idk wtf they were thinking. "Yeah, let's do an episode where we're all pretending to be super heroes for no reason!" Or "Let's introduce a serious storyline that real people go through and then never mention it again!" (Such as Kitty and Ryder bonding over past trauma, or the school shooting episode.) And right when we started to care about these new kids, most of them disappeared and other new kids are introduced for the final season. Again, only to disappear right when we started to feel something for these new characters. (Okay, the big dude with the headphones got me right away. He was such a sweetheart and his voice! Damn, he was underutilized!) Barely related to season 6: The kid who played Myron grew up to become a beautiful transwoman who worked on the Saved by the Bell reboot, both on and off screen. Makes sense; Myron exuded Diva in the Making
The fact that they literally got a justin timberlake lookalike is so funny 🤣 i always thought mr.schue looked like him, i didnt know even know it was intentional lmfaoo
His mechanic dad accepting him without being super enthusiastic is the most comforting and my favorite moment of this show. As a queer southerner, my family was upset when I told them. I got broke up with that night cuz my gf couldn’t handle my family knowing. The next morning, my entire family gathered to hug me when I cried at breakfast. They didn’t understand it but they loved me and accepted I was hurting and needed support. It wasn’t vocal, but those hugs meant the world.
@@johnindigo5477stupid is giving a lot of credit tbf, some of their actions genuinely rival Gossip Girl for levels of laughably evil teenage shenanigans.
If this were the world of the Smurfs, then it would be: Smurfed in his pants. It sounds cute, but it's actually really weird. Like, they *are* Smurfs. We're humans, but we don't go around "Oh, human! I homo-sapiened in my pants!" Not in any language, I'm sure. Why are the Smurfs so obsessed with being Smurfs that they put it in smurfin' everything? Is it a bizarre form of specie-ism? Why am I pondering the secret minds of fictional blue creatures on a video about Glee? And dammit, they need to give us a Smurfs movie with Smurfette's new sister and brother officially in the mix as these self-obsessed blue beings
This show was on for WAY too long. It's been so long I don't even remember when I fell off it...maybe halfway through season three? It just got so ridiculous and goofy that I had to walk away. And it wasn't even the height of television artistry and storytelling to begin with...
@@Hi-en7xx funnily enough, puck is actually one of the least problematic characters by the time he leaves the show. The worst thing he does in the later seasons is date Rachels mum
@@sophienah4654 I haven’t watched that show for years and even with a terrible memory I know that absolutely isn’t true, I mean there’s enough examples in this video but he also periodically try’s to date/sleep with girls based purely off of race/religion/size, pressures/manipulates multiple women into doing sexual things, allegedly date r*ped Quinn (idk why that wasn’t brought up in this video, maybe because it wasn’t explicitly shown in season one, only talked about, but later shows a flashback showing he at the very least manipulated her right before), cheats many times, tries to get other people to cheat, do I need to keep going?
Okay, but removing Quinn from the Cheerios imo isn't fully a bad thing. Not allowing a pregnant tenn to participate in a dangerous sport seems kinda reasonable. 🤷 I'm pretty sure that at least in all-star cheer you usually are not allowed to compete while pregnant for safety reasons. When one of my teammates was pregnant she simply stopped actively participating at practice for a while. Quinn could still be allowed to come watch practice, do some strength excersises etc. like you'd do when you're injured or an alternate and still be a part of the team that way, so completely removing her seems kinda cruel, but not allowing her to stunt makes total sense
You know what I hate about it, though? Puck got Quinn drunk and THEN had sex with her. Whether the show is willing to admit it or not, he absolutely SA'd her (which is why I hate that they ended up together for so many reasons) so feminist icon Sue Sylvester technically discriminated against a SA victim by kicking her off the squad, called her a "disgrace" for getting pregnant from nonconsensual sex, and destroyed her hope of finding a support system because God knows her family isn't gonna help her when they find out. So yeah it'd good for her physical health and for the baby, but this could have destroyed her already fragile mental health and been enough to make her do something very final.
@@manband20 I think Quinn got herself drunk in order to sleep with Puck, not vice versa. She seemed to have made the date, and showed up expressly with the intent of "doing it". But it's still very icky, and maybe a rape fantasy, not based on reality. I'm sure a lot of date rapers tell themselves "well she wouldn't have gotten drunk and gone to my room if that's not what she wanted".
@@carolsimpson4422 Okay admittedly I don't remember the later seasons (and never watched the last one) so I don't know if this was discussed by them at a later date BUT in the episode where he confronts her about being pregnant, Quinn herself says that "You got me drunk on wine coolers and I felt fat that day." Which is explicitly SA. I just rewatched the scene and OH BOY does Puck do everything illegal. 1) Quinn tries to back out. He ignores her and shoves more alcohol in her face. 2) She's already drunk enough to not be able to give consent. 3) She asks if he has protection. He says yes. He does not, in fact, have protection. This is very much SA. 4) The overall emotional manipulation in general like goddamn it was uncomfortable when you keep your brain on. And even if something happened that I missed and she was intentionally trying to make it happen, it's still SA. She was drunk. Even though Puck was a whore and needed to sleep with every single person in the school to finish checking off his card to get his free sandwich, he should have stopped it like he did in Season 3 when Quinn was like "BREED ME, NOAH PUCKERMAN, BREED ME" in the hotel room. idc that he was a dumb teenager, it was still SA and he has A LOT of nerve to trash her for going through a pregnancy HE CAUSED by lying about having a condom.
@@manband20reading this reminded me of how Puck's actor was accused of doing something similar in real life, his ex accused him of SA by pretending he had a condom when he didn't use one. If I remember correctly it was settled out of court where he payed a few million to her
Yeah he ends up becoming like...an awful person?? And a lot of his actions in the last couple seasons seem way out of character for him, but like...since he spent so much time acting badly, it sorta became his character? I just hate it 😭
It's kind of a double-edged sword because on one hand, the disabled character is being written like a "normal" person. It's not the correct choice of wording, but it's kind of like how The Owl House has multiple openly gay/bi/gender neutral characters and nobody bats an eye because it's normal in their world. The disabled guy being as awful as all the other guys just makes him more like everyone else, which ironically fits with how Sue treats Becky: the different person who just wants to be treated like everyone she goes to school with. The other side of the coin is they flanderized Artie (and Becky, to an extent) to the point that he (they) stop being "normal for the world" and just reach whole new levels of awful. How do you possibly justify your single main character with a disability like Artie's and turn him into the teenage version of a sloppy balding Hollywood executive who wants to know just how far you'll go to get into the picture business while drool trickles down his chin as he speaks? You don't. And I almost respect them for being so bold with the choice to make him so terrible.
Literally, it's like they had to make him super misogynistic and shitty to convince people he's a "real man". which shows you everything you need to know about the writers/ Ryan Murphy.
its criminal how they gave the absolute evil role of sue silvester to such a naturally funny and charismatic actress as jane lynch. i hate that shes so funny bc the lines they give her are DIABOLICAL but her delivery is SO GOOD i cant help but laugh and scream like,,,,,,,
If you haven't seen "Party Down", check it out. I believe it lasted 2 seasons, 8 episodes per (?) (although it was revived recently for a 3rd season); great, funny show but it was completely overlooked due to being on Starz. She plays a large role; Ken Marino, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr... by the same guy who did "Veronica Mars" (with quite a few cameos - I assume if you watched VM, you're probably aware of Party Down, but just in case you're aware of one and not the other... and if you're not familiar with either, maybe if you give Party Down a chance and love it, you'll check out VM too. Also, dude was involved in iZombie as well... which I didn't think was great or anything, but it was relatively fun, I think. The tv equivalent of a beach read, I'd say).
Kurts dad is like... the absolute best. As a kid, that scene where he accepts Kurt and tells him that he loves him made me cry. As an adult, I cried when my dad said that he still loved me and accepts me when I came out to him too.
As a former Gleek, this is the best Glee retrospective video I’ve seen. Definitely want to see the rest of season one, and would totally watch if you do more seasons!
Imagine an alternate universe where Justin Timberlake did take the role of Will, and how even more of a train wreck revisiting Will's baby story line in Glee would be after the revelations about him and Britney Spears
I really dislike the "this will turn out to be a gift" line from Emma bc it's sooooo out of character for her, yes she will show to be a bit naughty in later seasons but she has severe ocd and is uncomfy with sexual stuff most of the time. It's a good joke, but a terrible line for this character imo
When I first watched the show and the first few times I rewatched it I thought it was referring back to the bulimia. Like 'one day that will be a blessing' because you won't have all the physical and emotional issues a good chunk of your life.
Considering how many times the school loved the glee club and let them perform at events, I am always surprised how much they get bullied especially since most of them are cheerleaders and jocks.
"I don't know why we're spending so much time with April." If I had to guess it's cause the show is aimed at theatre and music nerds and she's played by Kristen Chenowith.
Technically, Chang can also be a South Korean surname, like the actress Katie Chang, who is mixed white and Korean. But I do think it’s sad they didn’t have a surname for Tina by that point and I agree they were being discriminatory towards her and her character (which was also obvious in the show with her limited amount of solos and such, though she did get at least a couple, outside of Gangnam Style, which is so sad, because she didn’t know Korean due to being adopted and there were many K-Pop songs in English back then they could have used and they could have had a rival group with someone else who is Korean basically “steal” Gangnam Style (I mean it was popular, so I could see another group wanting to use it) for their performance, so maybe her and one of the other kids who is into K-Pop could surprise the crowd by doing a song that most don’t know, but is in English and might pop off better than Gangnam Style; I was always sad they never did a K-Pop episode, and they did such unpopular songs all the time that probably were known better in the show than outside the show, so I think that’d been a cool idea).
right, I am at 0:01 and I can already say: it's Mr. Schu. as a teacher, another teacher who behaves like that with students is a massive ick even if it's just in a tv series. ew, ew, ew, ew. f that guy.
oh and about 1:23:05 I have had an examiner literally brag over coffee that she failed an apprentice because the company he worked fir was mean to her. it's been a few years so I don't remember exactly but it was something like an ISP not changing her contract ir something. nothing to do withthe kid she failed believe me, there are some vile people out there. reporting them is a pretty constant battle. obviously most teachers and examiners would never do that. but there is scum out there.
Fun Fact!!! In episode one when Quinn is hating on Rachels MySpace page, it was originally going to be RU-vid, but they couldn't get the rights in time.
I mean, comparatively, sandy almost matching will is actually kind of insane cause yes his transgressions are legally worse but he’s barely on screen a fraction of the time will is. Like we watch will just shovel fuel into the hate train for himself day in and day out, we jump cut between different instances of him doing that, sandy is their what, maybe every 3 episodes on average?
@@marocat4749did she though? I mean she’s done a lot of horrible things. To just name a major one would be causing the Cherrios to have eating disorders
Holy fucking shit is this a three god damned HOUR Glee video in the year of our lord 2024 what are you THINKING - I'm so ready. Edit: I made this comment before starting, and I see you say at 3:08 "in 2024, the year of our Glord" so thank you for saying what I was thinking.
In the Imagine number, I can almost understand the choice to have the New Directions sing along because they also stand next to the kids from the Deaf choir and learn the signs. The TRULY heinous crime is that the track on Spotify completely cuts the Deaf singer. It's only the New Directions. Rude??? Lmao
We did bake sales all the time in high school to fund raise for our theatre program, got very little funding from the school. Our teacher had to put a lot of unpaid time and even his own money to ensure we got to be in theatre and do productions. Bake sales are one of the very few things highschoolers will actually spend money on. We would do smaller productions to fund raise as well, never got as much as we did from bake sales.
Ken Tanaka (Patrick Gallagher), is also Asian (Irish American father and a Chinese Canadian mother). But he does have a Japanese name, and four characters still isn’t nearly enough.
As a science major myself, you need to explain your methodology a bit more my guy. Like why is literal hate crimes scored less than Will manipulating Finn (both are obviously awful but like come on), why is genuine moments of humanity and overcoming obvious inbuilt prejudice not positively scored, but Rachel standing up for the club was? (Kurt's father accepting him was more than just 'wholesome'), or Finn even when hes terrified and depressed about the idea of becoming a father, still attempts to do the right thing and be there for Quinn and the baby (with the blanket as a symbol for that). Tongue-in-cheek criticsm aside this was a fun vid, thanks for the laughs!
How do you only have a little over 1K subs when you make videos of this type of quality. Honestly, a great watch, you've roped me in sir and I will be looking forward to a potential part 2
can we talk about how they didn't have money for ramps but they somehow got out a whole bunch of wheelchairs?? Those are expensive and its not like you can just lend those out...
Sue needs more evil points for making her sister stay in a group home instead of helping her to live independently in the community. Just coming to read to her to assuage her guilt from tossing her in the bin like that isn't a good thing, lol.
@@ollieno971 there's nothing inherently wrong with a group home. In the show it's mostly portrayed as Sue chucking her sister in one because she couldn't be bothered to care for her and was also, maybe, a little embarrassed to have a sister with special needs. It's less the fact the group home was the best living situation and more a matter of convenience. In real life a group home is sometimes the best option for everyone and sometimes it's not; it all depends on each unique family.
@@ChristopherSadlowski I thought the show always showed Sue to absolutely adore her sister, it's been so long since I've seen it but did the show say/imply that??
Just wondering how much it cost Mr. Schuster to rent those wheelchairs and if that money might have been better spent buying ramps and renting the accessible bus instead of teaching the kids a lesson.
@@currentlyblinking I'm biased: I think that he's so fabulous that he deserves points on principle. FYI he's named a main character for season 2, so I fully expect to see him in the points tally 🙃
@currentlyblinking I mean, I'd ague he's about as important as Figgins, both were in around the same amount of eps 47 and 58 respectively. And in comparison to Sandy who's only in 8... Burt is certainly a pretty core character for several important character arches for the cast. And a genuine depiction of a good natured older man trying to adapt to a parenting circumstance he was not prepared for.
this series is going to get really wild when you get to the storyline of Sue making Unique a port-a-potty with a bunch of questions marks all over it and nails it to the middle of the Glee Club chior room... OR Will having teenagers do Rocky Horror Picture Show for just themselves I guess lol.
I remember specifically because im a weirdo, that, will does the rocky horro picture show despite it being completely innapproiate because the redhead lady, (cant remember her name) loves the show, and he wants her back or whatever
1:16:06 i regret to inform you that this is actually standard practice for hiring a "school nurse" in most of the US. no qualifications are necessary by law and it is incredibly common to hire someone's mom that does first aid courses every few years.
