He later finds out that "Katie" is someone in the glee club when he calls the number while being in the choir room and the phone goes off. She, along with some of the other members of New Directions transfer to other schools when the Glee Club is disbanded. Lea Michele is being accused by former co-stars of mistreatment toward people of color on the set of "Glee.". [210] She is persuaded by Sue to use songs from New Directions' set list at Sectionals to give her group an edge in the competition. June takes interest in Blaine and decides to organize a one-night-only show for Blaine. [72] While Blaine was initially a recurring character, Criss was promoted to the main cast for the third season. Kurt becomes a finalist, and impresses the school's dean at his audition; he discovers the day of his graduation, however, that he was not accepted, though Rachel was. I didn't see Myron in the final performance. Ryan Murphy not only has a firm grasp of exactly how Glee will end, he also knows which two . He commented that in the pilot episode, Carole was "just the slightly pathetic figure we saw pining after the lawn-care guy", however her reaction to Quinn's pregnancy was "a brilliant bit of characterization through small moments", an example of how Glee was "becoming very good at showing how life happens in small exchanges in people's laundry rooms and finished basements".[156]. [244] Rachel's two fathers, Hiram and LeRoy Berry (Jeff Goldblum and Brian Stokes Mitchell), first appear in "Heart" in their two-episode recurring roles,[245] with Stokes Mitchell returning in the season six premiere, "Loser Like Me". Kitty starts to like Ryder and he says they could try being together once he figures out who "Katie" is. At its core, it taught us. [5] Agron auditioned for Glee coming from a background in dancing and acting. Kurt begins to mend his and Blaine's relationship in "Thanksgiving" and they spend Christmas together in New York City. She campaigns with Puck for prom king and queen, though they both lose, and the two are still a couple at the end of the second season. As this was the series finale, multiple former actors returned to the show for one last reunion. He dislikes Emma and Will spending time alone together, aware that Will has feelings for her. [207] Lisa Respers France of CNN named Pearce's performance the best moment of the episode, and found that the character positively reminded her of "Glee of old". Marley is initially introduced as a shy, sweet, intelligent "wallflower" who was frequently bullied and an outcast at her previous schools. Shelby offers to include both Quinn and Puck in Beth's life. She makes brief appearances during seasons four, five and six. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing in the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues.. [14] In the new year, Finn asks Rachel to marry him, and she accepts. *Also, there was no April Rhodes, Shelby Corcoran, Sunshine Corazon (lol, does she count? She leaves NYADA as she feels that she is not able to split her time between school and Broadway. Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) is William McKinley High School's "stern but fair" principal. As a local celebrity, Rod has been tapped to judge show choir competitionshe has appeared as a judge for four of those that New Directions has competed in: the first and sixth season's Sectionals competitions, and the Regionals competitions for the first two seasons. [9], The Hollywood Reporter also noted that after the series' final episode had wrapped, a number of actors took pieces of the set home as souvenirs. [21] Their divorce is finalized late in the first season. [270], Sarah Jessica Parker is introduced in the third episode of the fourth season, "Makeover" as Isabelle Wright, who is Kurt's mentor at Vogue.com after having signed him on as an intern. She briefly rejoins the glee club as an adult, during a period in which Rachel had left the club and it was in need of a female lead. Initially a spy for cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, she comes to enjoy her club participation. Fox/Adam Rose . [25] At the end of the episode "Vitamin D", Sue is made co-director of the glee club,[26] but soon scales back her involvement to an advisory role. He recruits Elliot, Dani, Santana and Rachel to be his bandmates. Near the end of the second season, Terri is recruited by Sue Sylvester to join Sue's League of Doom to destroy the New Directions glee club directed by Will,[88] but Terri undoes the damage and tells Will that she's been promoted to manager at work, and is being transferred to a new store in Miami. Though there are signs that he and new club member Marley Rose are interested in one another, she is upset to learn he is dating cheerleader Kitty (Becca Tobin). They go on to win his fourth consecutive national show choir championship, which occurs offscreen. Her father Al is the wealthy owner of a piano business who donates three repossessed pianos to the glee club in "The Purple Piano Project", the episode in which she first appears. Colfer originally auditioned for the role of Artie, however Murphy was so impressed by his performance that the role of Kurt was created for him, replacing a character named Rajish who was initially intended to be a member of the glee club. Brittany was initially convinced that Rory was a magical leprechaun whom only she could see and was there to grant her three wishes. Glee was a smash success on Fox when it debuted in 2009 and made stars out of the show's young cast -- which aside from Rivera and Monteith, included Lea Michele, Darren Criss, Amber Riley, Chord . Unique is dismayed by the publicity and pressure, but after a pep talk from Kurt and Mercedes, performs and wins the MVP award at Nationals competition, though Vocal Adrenaline comes in second to New Directions. [121] Sugar's debut was praised by Salon's Matt Zoller Seitz, who said of the new addition to McKinley, "She's awful. Sue arranges to have the cheerleading regionals competition moved to conflict with the football championship, and she forces Quinn, Brittany, and Santana to quit glee club, which has to perform the halftime show since the Cheerios will be absent; the three of them ultimately perform with the glee club, resigning from the Cheerios. [18] She has her own spot on the local news, which she uses to editorialize on issues such as support for caning and littering. He proposes to her after New Year's, and she accepts. He comes to William McKinley High with an enviable record of coaching successful football teams, and Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) boosts the football program budget for him by reducing the cheerleading and glee club budgets, which alarms coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) and director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), respectively, and drives them into a temporary alliance against him. Agron said in an interview: "They told me to come back with straight hair and to dress sexier. Sugar returns in the sixth-season episode "A Wedding", performing "I'm So Excited" with Mercedes, Santana, Brittany, Blaine's mom, Santana and Brittany's moms and Kurt's stepmom. At some point after going to junior prom together, Sam and Mercedes start to secretly date. ", "Tony Winner Lloyd Young to Guest on New Fox Series "GLEE, "Best. In the episode "The First Time" he begins dating Ohio State football recruiter Cooter Menkins (Eric Bruskotter), who is scouting for talent at McKinley,[14] but discovers in "I Kissed a Girl" that Sue has become his rival for Cooter's affections, just as Beiste comes to realize that he loves Cooter, thus prompting his first solo song, "Jolene". [274], Amy Aquino and Michael Lerner appear in the fourth season as producers of a Broadway production of Funny Girl that Rachel auditions for; Lerner's character was named Sidney Greene. With a pastel sweater thrown over his shoulders, Sandy is the former Glee Club teacher, who is given the axe after an episode of inappropriate touching. [222] Introduced in the episode "Hell-O", he is directed to befriend Rachel by Vocal Adrenaline coach Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), who is secretly her biological mother. Jarrett Wieselman of the New York Post has compared Morris as Brittany to Lynch as Sue, deeming her "one of the funniest second bananas on TV". Sam continues to support her, and a YouTube video he posts of Mercedes singing results in her being offered a job as a backup singer in Los Angeles after she graduates. Ken Tanaka (Patrick Gallagher) was the head coach of the football team and was previously engaged to Emma. "[3] Glee's costume designer Lou Eyrich selects "quirky" outfits for Emma, to reflect her "sunny disposition". In the episode Feud, Ryder has an online love interest named Katie, whom he shares all his secrets with, only to find out he's being catfished. The two have their first sexual experience in the episode "The First Time". He and his sister successfully audition for the New Directions and become the third and fourth members of the newly reformed club. [181] Tim Stack for Entertainment Weekly has praised Sandy as "one of the most reliable characters for great lines and laughs". "Teach Your Children" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is sung by Morrison. He goes to Lima for his father's tests and gets relieved on learning that Burt is out of danger. During the first season, Kurt acts as a matchmaker for Burt and Carole Hudson (Romy Rosemont), Finn's widowed mother. After Karofsky kisses Kurt in the heat of an argument, Karofsky blackmails him into keeping it quiet, saying that if Kurt were to tell anyone of the kiss that they shared, he will kill him. A kiss from Quinn brings back Puck's confidence: he passes the retest and graduates. Madison McCarthy (Laura Dreyfuss) is a student at McKinley and a member of the New Directions. They are about to become fathers, with Rachel as their surrogate. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [97] He also takes on the task of running the school elections. She becomes friends with Quinn when the pregnant ex-cheerleader gives her advice during her stint on the Cheerios, and when Quinn is unhappy having to stay at Puck's house, invites Quinn to move in with her family. [249] In the sixth season, Brittany Pierce's mother and father Whitney and Pierce Pierce appear twice, portrayed by Jennifer Coolidge and Ken Jeong,[250] and Blaine Anderson's mother Pam (Gina Gershon) appears in the second of these, "A Wedding".[251]. 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April Rhodes returns and asks for Will's help with her new Broadway project: a one-woman show entitled CrossRhodes, but he ultimately decides that his students in New Directions are more important than his dreams of Broadway. [1] McHale explained that the diversity of the cast's backgrounds reflects the range of different musical styles within the show itself: "It's a mix of everything: classic rock, current stuff, R&B.