Glee – Recap & Review – Vitamin D

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Glee
Vitamin D

Original Air Date: Oct 7, 2009

Patricia Morris Buckley — Staff Writer
pmb@thetwocentscorp.com

Here’s what I learned from Glee last night: Complacency = bad, stepping up a notch = good. Got that? Alright, let’s move on.

Will is frustrated that the glee club is complacent about the upcoming sectionals because their competition is a school for the deaf and a halfway house for girls. When he complains to Emma, Sue overhears and advises Will to fill them with fear. And Will actually takes her advice! Kinda.

He pits the girls vs. the boys in a mash up. Once again, the girls are so complacent they don’t practice, angering the hyper competitive Rachel. When the boys perform amazing, albeit sped up, versions of Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life” and Usher’s “Confessions,” boy, do the girls take notice.

Then Kurt, who wanted to sing with the girls all along, comes clean. The boys are taking over-the-counter decongestants on the orders of the school nurse. Nurse Terri that is. Terri as in Will’s wife.

Seems that Sue is feeling off her game when she notices that the preggo Quinn is wobbling on top of the pyramid (if they don’t win nationals, Sue loses her endorsements and then how will she buy a hoovercraft?). So she ups her game against Will by visiting his wife to clue her in on the in-school flirting going on between Will and Emma.

So Terri convinces the principal that, even without any real credentials, she should be the school nurse (after Sue trips the elderly school nurse on the stairs, putting her into a coma—totally typical Sue).

Finn comes to see the nurse because he’s been falling asleep in school. He’s overloaded with school, football and glee and even cutting out homework doesn’t help. And then there’s that niggling little thought that keeps him up late at night — his impending fatherhood.

Terri can’t understand his problem. After all, in high school she was head cheerleader, most popular girl and a good student — oh, that’s when she remembers the cold drugs that helped her keep up and gives some to Finn. After all, they’re over the counter, sort of like vitamins, yes? Finn likes all his new energy, so he gets the boys to try it as well.

(BTW, I use Sudafed for my allergies everyday and I don’t talk like I can’t get the words out fast enough. Atleast,Idon’tthinkso.)

Once the girls learn the boys’ secret, they also give decongestants a try and provide a rousing and speedy mash up of Beyoncé’s “Halo” and “Walking on Sunshine,” by Katrina and the Waves.

Another Terri convert is Ken, who suggests they have an affair to get back at their significant others. Instead, Terri offers Ken a decongestant “pick me up” then advises him to man up by proposing to Emma. And he does! Eventually Emma says yes, but they can’t see each other outside of school and she’ll keep her name. Ken must be desperate, because actually goes along with this.

The only other person not on drugs is Quinn, who has decided to give Terri her baby. Quinn likes her life as it is, even glee club, and doesn’t want to add a baby to the list. Quinn then asks for medical expenses, etc., but Terri nixes that idea quickly.

Eventually, all good and drugged things come to an end when Terri is called on the carpet for spreading drug use (after poor Howard is arrested for trying to buy 36 boxes of decongestant, which can be used to make crystal meth).

In the end, everyone has decided on the hard road and step it up a notch. As a result, Sue is named co-coach of the glee club, Terri seems to have gotten a baby, Emma is engaged and everyone stops taking drugs. For me, the most significant change is Rachel’s, who changes her goal from one all about her to one for the team.

Will Sue drive Will crazy or find she enjoys glee club? Will she mess up everything they’ve built? Will Quinn really give her baby to Terri? Is cold medicine drug use really a bad thing? (Idon’tthinkso.) Give us your Two Cents…