Anyone find the choice for the opening plotline of the post-Super Bowl episode to be odd? Playing the "football guys are dumb and homophobic" card when you're following the biggest football game of the year? Way to welcome your new audience Glee! You've successfully painted with the stereotype brush you claim to fight against.

PS - I like the show, just feel they wasted an opportunity to welcome a whole new segment of America.

Still a Glee fan. That's the power season one has over me. I can watch this episode and STILL be a fan. I think the writers need a story arc. The first season had some good ones: Sue wants to destroy the glee club, Will's wife was faking a pregnancy, the Quinn/Finn baby drama, and superceding it all, the struggle to win Regional’s even though everything was against them. This season has no story arcs. There's a weak one with Will, Emma, and the dentist, and the depressing bully one (which was good, but I miss happy Kurt and would very much like to see him leave the monotone Warblers), but everything else including Rachel/Finn are all over the place and the story changes from one episode to the next. Nothing is leading up to anything. Even the run to the Regional’s is watered down. Forget center stage, it's not on stage. No one seems to care about it because it's not talked about, it's not a driving force, and without these guys working together for something, it's all bickering.

It can be saved. I still like the characters. They just need more stability.

Awesome Dina Lohan zing. Loved it!

Also, I'll swallow a lot unbelievable plot because, c'mon, it's Glee. But if Finn and Quinn hook back up, that's taking it too far. Dump Rachel because she kissed someone else but take back your ex-girlfriend who lied about cheating and a pregnancy (I was LIVID when she ragged him about paying the bills knowing it was Puck's). That will cross the line for me. Even more than Sue Sylvester dressing up in green paint as the Grinch.

yeah, the episode last night was terrible, save for Katie Couric. and i wanted to kick a puppy while hearing the Warblers do "Bills, Bills, Bills". i don't even like hearing the Destiny's Child version. and... it made no sense to choose that song. unless "terrible" was the theme for the episode.

Actually, this was the first episode of "Glee" I ever saw. I really loved it. And I did like the Thriller/Heads Will Roll mashup, so I appreciated that, at least. But then again, I totally loved the Black Eyed Peas's Super Bowl show, so you can call me weird if you like.

To be honest, I think Sue Sylvester is a juicy character, and there were two Sue scenes that made me cackle: The first being the tattoo parlor misspelling flashback scene, which made me laugh quite hard, and the 2nd (I think it was in the same scene) was the "inspiration" for Sue's cannon-firing number, which involved Felix the Cat, surprisingly enough.

BJ

It wasn't the plot of the episode that got me -- which was convoluted, but okay -- it was the continuity of the episode. Halfway through the show I thought 'Wouldn't a championship game happen in November? Yet we already had a Christmas episode.' That threw me for a loop for some reason.

The other thing that got to me was Kurt's cameo appearance. The man won a Golden Globe...time for him to come back into the fold of New Directions.

Ummmm.... Nope.... Out of the hundreds of songs in Michael Jacksons "playlist", they had to choose Thriller to ruin??? This is an iconic song and to hear it in a "mash-up" was truly upsetting. I do believe they tried to take advantage of the new Zombie craze. Truly sad.

This show is *already* unbelievable. It's the show that has the football team break out into "Single Ladies" in the middle of a game. It's the show that has a wheelchair-bound football player. It's the show where a high school "jazz ensemble" is always around with professionally arranged music when someone wants to break into song. It's been unbelievable since the pilot episode. I saw absolutely nothing in this episode that was any less unbelievable than any of that. If you're going to watch this show, you've gotta expect utter over the top ridiculousness.

Regarding the football team, they've been making mention of the new success of the football team throughout the season under Beiste. When the character of Beiste was introduced, it was mentioned that she was brought in specifically because she had done the same at other previous schools. No, the show hasn't shown them much until now, but that's because the show isn't a football show, it's about a glee club. You want a football show, go watch old episodes of Friday Night Lights.

I also thought the Thriller/Off With Your Head mashup was quite enjoyable. I think they were right when in dialog they noted that Thriller had been done to death and beyond, and there is very little original or interesting that can be done with it anymore. Had they done just "Thriller" straight, there would have undoubtedly been complaints that they didn't do anything interesting with it. This at least freshened up the song and was something different from what everyone has done before.

I would probably more concerned with the plot contrivances if the episode hadn't been so much fun. Seriously, I was laughing and giggling throughout it, and I really like the message that Puck gave to the Football team right before the half-time show, if you're afraid of what you might become, you'll end up being nothing. And I really admire Coach Beastie for sticking to her guns and making the rest of the team do the Half-Time Show if the wanted to play. I'm also fascinated with Quinn, and I want to see were thy ake her storyline with Finn, or if they even will. It was great seeing them together, and I felt the chemistry between Quinn and Finn this time around. And, I know the girls joining the team was absurd, but come on. This club has done stuff that is way more absurd. That's just the universe they live in. And, by the way, just because we haven't seen the Football team getting better doesn't mean it hasn't happened. We only saw about 7 and a half hours of what maybewas an entire semester out of the lives of these characters, so just because we don't see something doesn't mean it isn't happening. Those are just my two cents (well, maybe more like five cents, but I do feel you were unfair to a particularly enjoyable episode, which is more than I can say for many in the first half of this season).

I hope Tuesday's episode will make up for this episode. It was lack-luster, and a little sad. Maybe it was just built up too much. They defintely did not do Michael Jackson justice. Check out my review here: http://rantsofacrazyperson.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/glee-%E2%80%9Cthe-sue-sylvester-shuffle%E2%80%9D-recap/

Yeah. I rolled my eyes. At this article.

Do we have to do this every episode? "The show better do x or the show will go down." "The show needs to improve on x, or it'll start losing viewers." Etc. These articles have been saying that since early on in the first season, and the show's only increased viewers, ratings, accolades, interest, etc. I mean, an opinion's one thing, but seriously.