Glee: Season 1


Highlights From Season 1

Glee was a musical comedy drama that aired from 2009 to 2015 and followed the lives of a group of teenagers at McKinley High as they navigated adolescence through song and strove to claim the title of show choir champions.  Mr Schuester (played by Matthew Morrison) was the Glee club's passionate (and at times inappropriate) coach while Sue Sylvester (played by Jane Lynch) was brilliant as his irreverent arch nemesis (her insults are legendary).  The show also featured several legendary guest stars (including Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Ricky Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Stamos, Matt Bomer, Neil Patrick Harris and Olivia Newton-John).  I collected every album throughout the show's run and recently decided to rewatch the series from the first season.  This has also given me an opportunity to compile a list of personal highlights from each season.

  • The performance of Push It in the school assembly
  • Puck's landing strip mohawk
  • Sue's tracksuits, journal entries and regular rampages through the hallways
  • Sue's insults aimed at Mr Schue's hair
  • Ms Pillsbury cleaning each grape before eating them (she was ahead of her time)
  • Will Schuester's acapella group, The Acafellas
  • Locker room Puck
  • Kurt performing Single Ladies with Brittany and Tina then then using the song to try out for the football team
  • Sue's Corner - "And that's how Sue sees it"
  • Kurt coming out to his dad
  • Boozy Kristin Chenoweth and her Alone duet with Will
  • The local mattress commercial
  • Halo / Walking on Sunshine mashup
  • Rachel's inappropriate crush on Mr Schue
  • Mr Schue doing Ice Ice Baby with the Glee club
  • Sue's Physical video with Olivia Newton-John featuring the wrestling singlet-clad dancers
  • Emma's wedding dress
  • The entire "Power of Madonna" episode - the perfect episode!
  • Rachel's Run Joey Run video with Finn, Puck and Jesse
  • Mr Schue and Neil Patrick Harris' joint audition for Les Misérables
  • Artie's Safety Dance flash mob daydream
  • Lady Gaga week
  • Finn showing up in a red latex dress to defend Kurt from the football team bullies
  • Idina Menzel and Rachel's stripped down duet of Pokerface
  • Don't Stop Believin' at Regionals


    5 of Sue's Best Quotes 

 [To Will]: "So here's the deal. You do with your depressing little group of kids what I did with my wealthy elderly mother: Euthanize it. It's their time."

[To the Glee club]:  "Santana! Wheels! Gay Kid! Come on move it!! Asian! Other Asian. Aretha. And Shaft. See Will, I don’t want to participate in a group that ignores the needs of minority students."

[To Will]:  "I might buy a small diaper for your chin, because it looks like a baby's ass."

"As Madonna once said, I'm tough, I'm ambitious and if that makes me a bitch, that's what I am. Pretty sure she stole that line from Sue Sylvester. No, really. I said it first."

[Writing in her journal]: "Dear Journal, something strange happened yesterday. I felt something below the neck. Dare I admit it? I have feelings for one Will Schuester. Sexy, non-murdering feelings. True love always springs from true hate. I'll admit in the past I've fantasized about waking up with Will's head on the pillow next to me, except now I picture it attached to the rest of his body."

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