Glee - 'Girls (and Boys) on Film'

This episode has the 500th song - and I would like to point out that they haven't even reached 100 episodes, so that ratio is a bit much... I love music as much as the next person, but let's have some plot development with good old-fashioned dialogue!!
Not to mention, there are some of those songs we could have done without entirely - remember the painful awkwardness of Finn singing 'you're having my baby' to Quinn's parents?!
However, the opening black-and-white-gravity-defying-room number with Will and Emma was awesome, until Will woke up. Poor guy :(
The theme of this episode is.. movies!! Sam does a Nicholas Cage impersonation, and Kitty is a bitch. I did NOT miss her last week.
The assignment is to do a mash-up of your favourite songs from your favourite movies - competition of guys vs. girls. Hmm... The Princess Bride is my favourite movie, but there are no singing songs in it!! Just the theme music!
Mr. Schue doesn't know how to find Emma, Finn decides to inspire him to go after her by shouting 'Come on, Stand and Deliver! Zero Dark Thirty!' after him. Hehehehe!!!
Finn asks Sue, and she lectures him on why she hates him, but doesn't know where Emma is. So he and Artie have an epic conversation where Artie invents the term 'lady-manhunt' and says they need to search every "gas station, residence, farm house, warehouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse". Which already had me cracking up, but then Finn's next line put me over the edge:

That's right. The creators of Glee know memes.

They decide to try to talk to her parents instead. Even though a lady-manhunt sounds like more fun. Continuing with the movie theme, I could have sworn that line about searching things came straight from Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive.
Blaine and Britney suggest that they do a girls and guys movie-song to start the week - 'Shout' from Animal House. And they're running all through the school singing and dancing and they army-crawl out of the library for some reason, which reminded me of another Internet sensation:

THIS KITTY!!!!! Meet Lil Bub, she's so damn cute!!!

Santana is snowed in at their apartment, and she hates Kurt and Adam's Downton Abbey impersonations. Then she gets all bitchy about Rachel spending so much time in the bathroom, they have a fight where Rachel tries to kick her out, and they next squabble over movies - all of which are pregnancy-themed. FORESHADOWING?? I think so!!
Then suddenly Blaine and Kurt are on a roof and singing a song from Moulin Rouge. I'm not sure I follow. But that set is stunning. And Kurt is crying during the movie, plus Santana mentions that he and Blaine had wanted to sing that song to each other at their wedding - Aww!!! Adam looks awkward and I want to tear up now. She also voices her suspicions about Brody being a psycho, because he's made of plastic, and she found $1200 cash while she was 'rooting through all the pockets and drawers in this apartment' hahaha. She also found a pager. And there's only one type of person who carries both - a drug dealer. Or a high-class hooker, I was thinking...
Finn and Artie (in red-haired wigs, which is brutally hilarious) tell Emma's parents that they need Emma to come back because the 'Stop Ginger Bullying' club she started is running out of money. They are informed that they don't 'smell like gingers' and that redheads smell like pennies. Which is odd, because I never really thought about it, but pennies totally do have a distinct smell. Unfortunately, I don't have any ginger friends to test that theory on. Emma's dad points out that "the kids at this school don't seem to think about what school they want to go to until a week before they graduate. That's weird."
Brody hasn't come back yet, so Rachel calls him and he says he's stranded at a friend's house and he has to go. And now Kurt is on board with Santana's drug-dealer theory.
The boy's team KILLS an awesome tribute to Top Gun and Risky Business with a mash-up of 'Danger Zone' and 'Old Time Rock & Roll' and if I wasn't already in love with half the guys on this show, that combination would have cemented my affection...

Only Canadians will know who I'm talking about, but I saw Marianas Trench
in concert, and they did the same Risky Business outfits... It was epic.

The girls are up next, and as they're in the washroom getting ready, Kitty pulls Marley aside and apologises for saying behind her back and to her face that she's 'fat, poor, and mousey, and boring, and dresses like Zach Galifianakis'. That's a lot of disses to cram into one breath. Marley looks upset, so Kitty swears not to tell (with bitchily crossed fingers, of course) if Marley spills to her - which she does, about Ryder kissing her and how it was good but she still likes Jake.
Kitty gives her typically skanky advice: "Boys are like lumps of coal. They're dirty and cheap and they get hot when they're rubbed. And some turn into diamonds, so collect as many as you can." Which is a perfect segway to their mashup of 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend' and 'Material Girl', complete with lots of fake bling and black feathered fans.
Kurt's practising his pirouettes at school when Adam comes in, and says he hates it when the 'snow comes out and the snow melts, and all the snowmen look like they have scoliosis' hahah and then Adam (politely as possible) confronts him about how in love he was with Blaine. So they decide to find a sappy movie to watch together.
In the third Oscars reference this week (first was Kitty calling Marley the girl from Les Mis, then Zero Dark Thirty), Will tells his departing class that they're going to watch Lincoln next week ahahah
Finn says he needs to go to Emma and make a grand romantic gesture - so he does, a la John Cusack in Say Anything when he and the New Directions stand outside (complete with boombox and trenchcoat) and sing 'In Your Eyes' and I cried like a little baby. 

"Are you crazy?!" "Crazy for you!" OH THE CUTENESS!!!

They agree that they need to 'get to know each other again' since he was away for too long (STILL no mention about the kiss!).
Santana confronts Rachel about the pregnancy test which, naturally, she found while digging through the bathroom garbage. After seeing that, I feel the need to wash my hands - so gross!!! Rachel doesn't actually answer anything, just says that she's scared.
Then Jake comes clean about the fact that all the Valentine's stuff was Ryder's idea, but he came up with something on his own - doing pottery together while he sings 'Unchained Melody' incredibly beautifully and I'm over here absolutely MELTING!! So lovely!!! Where are my Kleenexes?!
However, amidst all the cuteness I couldn't help but think of this...

"No Ghosting!!!" Tony Hale would not be impressed.

I love Community!!! But then, Marley and her indescisiveness go and ruin it by picturing herself with Ryder in the same setting - and as much as I love him, and her, and he also sang the song wonderfully (but Jake was a teensy bit better), this whole alternate-reality made me pretty uncomfortable. Her too, apparently, because she freaks out and gets up, and then confesses to Jake that she knew it had been Ryder all along, and then that Ryder had kissed her (which is weird because they showed him when she said that and he was still smiling, but whatever...) and he gets up and storms off and she is left there crying and can't even hold her face because her hands are covered with clay.
Mr. Schue concludes that everyone wins, because Artie needs everyone in his 'microbudget' movie. Will pulls Finn into the hall and thanks him for helping him get Emma back, then Finn asks if she said anything about him, and Will goes "why would she" and Finn says "because... I kissed her" and Will slowly turns around with his 'I'm-really-really-mad-now' face that we've only seen once before, when he found out evil Terry was lying about being pregnant... 

WHY IS EVERYONE CONFESSING IN THIS EPISODE?!!!!

Finn bumbles through the situation and why it happened, refers to OCD as ACDC and I'm thinking RUN DAMNIT RUN he says he was trying to calm her down and he didn't mean to and Will looks less mad and Finn says that he tried to tell him but he couldn't because he knew it would screw everything up and Mr. Schue should just punch him or whatever because he's really sorry. And then Schue does his own version of Jake's walking-out from earlier.
Then the gang does an awesome version of FOOTLOOSE!!!! Complete with awesome red-soled Converse! Such an epic song!!! It's one of the ringtones on my phone teehee!! It's definitely my favourite musical movie (unless you count Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). And by that I mean the awesome Kevin-Bacon-punch-dancing-filled original, not the ridiculously not-awesome, angst-filled new one.

This guy's the only good thing about the 2011 Footloose...

But even so, he's still no match for Kevin Bacon!!!!

One of the best songs EVER - I can't believe they haven't done it already!!
I totally loved the movie-themed episode, even if it was undercut with a lot of depressing drama. I hope they do another one like this soon! I'm such a movie junkie, it was a brilliant idea. That or a parody episode - I love those too!!! However, I didn't like the ending that much, I mean no conclusion to any of the problems, Jake didn't even confront Ryder but then they went and danced together? Unlikely. And usually the final song suits the tone of the ending, this one did not at all, because the song was so happy and upbeat and everyone (well, Marley, Jake, Ryder, Finn and Mr. Schue) would have actually been angry and upset. AND IS RACHEL PREGNANT OR NOT??? AND IF SO, WHO IS THE FATHER?!!!
Damn I hate cliffhangers. At least I only have to wait 2 more days for the next episode!