Glee: Thanksgiving (#4.8)

I shall be doing another live-blogging of sorts, of, granted, an episode of television all of you watched last week, and I'm watching on a Saturday morning, but, well, better late than never right?  If it helps, I'm going to be doing this week's episode right after it.  Back-to-back Glee, here we go!

And we're off, and I'm already getting all verklempt.  Quinn is back (making all of the Glee-ers returners now!), and she, Mercedes, Mike, Puck, and Santana tackle one of the best numbers they've done all year-a mashup of "Homeward Bound" and "Home" (a song that grows on you and then wanes on you with stunning regularity, depending on your mood), and suddenly I am $1.29 poorer thanks to iTunes.

One of the best parts of Glee is when Ryan Murphy decides to wink (subtly or not) at the audience, and I love the way he turned the partners assignment into Saved by the Bell: The New Class, showing who should be partnering with each other.  Quinn/Kitty, Old Puck/New Puck, Mercedes/Unique-perfect.  Also, you have no idea how much I've missed Santana.  I almost had convinced myself that Kitty was a nice hybrid of Santana and Quinn, and then I get the real things, and I'm like, "oh right, Santana can deliver an insult with far more impeccable timing and Quinn is a snob without making me hate her."

We then role into secret boyfriends Ryder and Jake talking about their secret love at the lockers, and, I'm sorry, I told you a couple weeks ago that I'm totally not involved with this storyline, so unless something interesting happens during their scenes together (or with Marley), I'm going to just be making up a story for them.  Ooh, the Public Library-must be time for Rachel and Kurt!

The Unholy Trinity-I have missed this too.  Glee producers-I am so mad and happy at you right now.  Brit, Santana, and Quinn doing The Supremes-this is not playing fair!  Please tell me this is not the last reunion episode we're going to get this season!!!  Also, I'd say that Kitty has no idea what Quinn Fabray would do (I seriously doubt that Quinn would try to torture a girl into developing an eating disorder), but Quinn did try to steal away someone's baby and lied to Finn for many months about him knocking her up, so perhaps Kitty is a little on the nose, and my Quinn-nesia is just making me hope that Kitty realizes that Quinn had a nice streak on occasion.

Rachel, Brody, and Brody's biceps all have spectacular chemistry, and I'm totally onboard with this pairing, and I suspect it might happen tonight (during my proofread of this episode, I will note that it did not, thought it got closer).  I'm already looking forward to the Kurt comments to come during that dinner, which will inevitably involve at least one more person, but who?

Oh, well, apparently it's SJP that's coming to dinner, and the only sign that she wasn't playing Carrie Bradshaw in that scene is that I cannot imagine Carrie going to Brooklyn for pizza.

Oh snap, again, I swear I won't make this a "the old is better than the new" post (okay, I cannot swear that, and for those people reading this and realizing that it makes little to no sense if you don't watch the episode at the same time, I apologize, and will go back to the traditional recaps next week again, but I will admit this free form is really fun).  Anyway, Santana and Quinn had more chemistry and bitchy sniping in one scene than Marley and Kitty have pulled off in the past seven episodes.

Ryder and Jake are now dancing together with Ryder showing off his spectacular arms and talking about losing their virginities.  Seriously, I haven't even had to make up a story line yet.

Okay, I have to share one of the most LOL moments of the season of Glee.  In preparing for the Thanksgiving dinner, Kurt compares the meal to The Big Chill, and Brody states, "but no one is going to break out into song."  The look of angst on Kurt's face and the "WHAT?!?" that comes from Rachel as she waves a string bean was priceless.

It took 36 minutes into the episode, but we get our first Blaine sighting, and he's holding hands with Sam.

Holy crap, the Dalton Warblers were amazing.  Honestly, I could see the New Directions losing Sectionals this year-that could happen.  Some of that dancing was Mike Chang level awesome.

I believe that is the first time that Burt Bacharach and the Scissor Sisters have ever been seen together.  I actually had never heard "Let's Have a Kiki" before, and had to look up who sang it (and was glad for the explanation of what a kiki was).  The later heart-to-heart between Kurt and Blaine was heartbreaking, and while I am also eager for them to be back together, I am still a firm believer that they should at least go on another date with the someone else before that happens.

Look, Ryder is jealous of Jake's interactions with Marley, and pulls him aside in their cute, matching outfits.  And wants him to be the lead dancer, and you can just tell that Marley is going to collapse on-stage.  I've been feeling it all episode, and it's clearly about to happen.

And it happened.  One of the best things about cliffhangers is when they aren't actually cliffhangers because you have the next episode in your TiVo queue.  To be continued...now.