Saturday, September 26, 2009

Glee 1x03 - Acafellas

Demoralised by the Glee club (Rachel mostly) insulting his dance choreography, Will decides to start an Acapella group for some male bonding with his colleagues and to go after his dream of being a performer. Thankfully amongst the suggestions for Crescendudes and Testostertones, they decided to go with ‘Acafellas’.

The Cheerios spies in the team go to work sowing seeds of doubt, by getting Rachel to lead the Glee team into hiring the Hell coach of their main rival Vocal Adrenaline, leading Mercedes to believe Kurt, who’s obviously out and about gay, likes her.

Poison (originally by Bell Biv Devoe)

The original Acafellas (Will, Ken, Henry and Howard) first performance was to this sexy number. Who says Will can’t dance? Their choreo was pretty smooth I thought. This suave number left Will’s #1 supporter Emma swooning, and Will’s ife Terri giving her the evil eye. The paper gave them all (but Howard, Will was kind enough to pretend he wasn’t mentioned) pretty good reviews, and Principal Figgins invited them to perform for the school at a session addressing angry parents who found out their kids were served prison food.

 

Mercy (Originally by Duffy) 

Current show choir champions Vocal Adrenaline from Carmel High show why they’re on top with the second number we’ve seen from them. Awesome, really! The dancing is awesome and well choreographed, but still not considered good enough by their coach, the renowned Dakota Stanley, who throws them off the stage and whose own members call him a monster.

(is he driving a tesla at the end of that scene? i vaguely recognize it from Leverage 1×02, Nate’s mid life crisis machine)

 

Bust Your Windows (originally by Jazmine Sullivan)

Never actually heard this song before, but it’s played when Kurt harshly rejects poor led-on Mercedes (despite Rachel and Tina’s well intentioned gaytervention), who puts a rock through his windshield before bursting into song with a bunch of sexy bikini clad cheerleaders dancing backup. Hell I want those high heeled sneakers and knee socks! Anybody else notice that anytime a cheerleader dances, their choreography is quite distinctly cheerleader style?

 

I Wanna Sex You Up (originally by Color Me Badd)

The Acafellas lose Henry to rehab (cough syrup overdose from the loss of his two thumbs and overall stress) and Howard (depressed, not his dream), and Will recruits Finn while Puck (hoping to score with cougars) volunteers his services to Ken. They’re forced to take in creepy phaedophilic ex-teacher Sandy who promises to bring in Josh Groban, who’s looking for a new opening act.

And talk about sexy! Will is hot in his untied bow tie and smooth voice, and Puck definitely scored with the cougars, as even Sue Sylvester in the audience is charmed by him! The response is pretty good, and Josh Groban even makes a backstage appearance, even if it’s just to tell Sandy to stay away from him! He did like their performance though, and hits on Wills drunk mum at the end…

 

So Sue’s plan of destruction fails (”I want you to smell your armpits. That’s the smell if failure and it’s stinking up my room.” hee!) – Dakota Stanley gets the boot, Mercedes and Kurt make up, with Kurt admitting his gayness, Will goes back to the Glee Club. All is well? What else does Sue have up her sleeve?

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