Month: May 2011

In this week’s episode, the ever-scheming Sue concocted a plan where the New York City-bound “New Directions” would wind up on a plane that would dump them in Libya instead. Without giving away anything major (they’ve been promoting the hëll out of the NYC episode) let’s just say it doesn’t work out that way.

I think that’s a crying shame.

Would the plot machinations for them to be oblivious that their flight was heading to Tripoli instead of Manhattan been preposterous? Sure. But it would have been totally worth it to see the glee club wind up in the middle of a war zone. In an episode I call “Tripoli the Light Fantastic,” as bullets are being fired at them, they become nostalgic for the days when the worst thing thrown at them was slushees. And then, when they’re all against the wall and about to be shot, they start singing “We are the World” and suddenly Kadaffy shows up and says, “Are you guys a glee club? I love glee clubs! I’ve got quite a good voice, you know.” (Which allegedly he really does). And using the power of song, they manage to settle all the unrest. At which point the State Department shows up and is so impressed that they decide to send them to the Middle East to sort out all those problems. The name of that episode? “Jumping the Sheik.” (Which is, from what I understand, what they did in “Sex and the City II.”)

But no. They’re just going to NYC. Big deal.

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Okay, well, admittedly I did exhale and then inhale it a couple of times.

See, my story sense told me that there would be a serious change to the status quo in the last act of the show, and I was afraid I knew what it was. Turns out I was wrong, thank God.

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Remember how a month or so ago I reported that X-Factor won a GLAAD award? Well, apparently some sites just got wind of it. There was a second awards ceremony carried out in San Francisco a few days ago (as opposed to the one in New York in April) and it seems it was (re)announced there. So it’s being reported as if it just happened. This, of course, has given some fans the opportunity to extend their congratulations and the usual suspects the chance to spout off about it’s undeserved. So everyone’s happy.

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Does anyone think for a moment that if Obama hadn’t overseen the operation that resulted in bin Laden sleeping with the fishes, Mike Huckabee would have pulled out of consideration for the 2012 election?

What does that say about Obama’s chances in the eyes of the GOP if their current polling frontrunner doesn’t want any part of the next presidential campaign?

As an aside, I saw another poll recently that indicated that Sarah Palin had a name recognition value of ninety-six percent. I’m sure the reason for this has to do with rounding off answers to a lower decimal value or something, but taken at face value, it indicates that pollsters were actually able to find four percent of Americans who, when the name “Sarah Palin” was mentioned, said, “Doesn’t ring a bell.” That’s pretty astounding.

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What do you do when you have a two hour finale of a superhero series that’s been building to a huge smackdown between the forces of good and evil, and you don’t have the budget to actually carry that off?

You have people talking.

A lot.

Because talk is cheap.

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