Shut Up It's On

Will they win? Will Vocal Adrenaline best them? What about that baby? What’s going on with Emma? How is Sue going to meddle in glee’s affair this week? So many more questions and only a little time to answer them!

Will is putting up posters for the students of McKinley High to come and support New Directions at Regionals. While admiring and probably being nostalgic about the wondrous year he has had with them, Sue comes and pulls him back down to Earth. She’ll be a judge this year, so good luck on that.

Will goes and yells at Figgins, but this is all out of his hands. Apparently this show choir board has decided the judges will all be celebrities and does Ohio have any bigger ones than Sue? Nope. He is just going to have to try his damnedest to win over Sue.

Quinn is remembering the night she got pregnant as Will wakes her from her daydream. They’re all at his place for a pizza party set list choosing night. I think he might’ve worded that better. Artie points out that with Sue as a judge, they have no chance, what’s the point. Tina starts crying, Santana and Brittany confirm Sue has said that and they all become sad pandas.

Will goes to Emma for advice and she’s all, what do you want me to say to you. She reminds him that he wanted to abandon his dream in the beginning of the school year just to support his family and that he decided to do what he loves regardless, since it made him happy. We find out Emma is going out with her dentist (who we also just learned will be John Stamos, have mercy) and that she has not had sex with him yet. How that’s possible, no idea.

While driving, Will hears Journey on the radio, that classic glee song “Don’t Stop Believin’” and starts crying.

[Sidebar: What's with these people, students and teachers alike, always leaving school in the middle of the day? I don't ever recall doing this.]

Finn stops Rachel in the hallway and wants her to stop with this mopey attitude and be the Rachel that pushes everyone in glee to do more again. Without Rachel hounding them to be their best they fall off the wagon, even if they think she’s annoying. Rachel kisses Finn and they run off to the choir room.

Before they can say what they just discussed, Mr.Shue has decided on their set list. Journey medley, you guys. Since you know, that’s what they started with and they have to go full circle. This storyline gets real cliche and I was half expecting Shue to say something about it’s not about the destination it’s about the road to get there. He pretty much did, but thankfully in different words so it still came out as motivational and inspiring for them.

Why did a show choir director have to use a ticket to get in to competition is beyond me, but let’s hear it for the judges. Josh Groban and Olivia Newton John make their second appearances along with some newscaster and our very own Sue Sylvester.

Backstage everyone is a little worried and tense but Shue psychs them up and they getting ready to go out there. While waiting to go on Finn and Rachel share a moment, he tells her he loves her and then they sing their hearts out to some Journey. Thankfully they gave a few solos to Puck and Santana, Mercedes did some wailing and I think even Artie got a line or two.

They’re so amped up leaving the stage, Quinn is shocked to find her mom is there. She hasn’t seen her in a while, tells her she did great. Turns out she left her husband after cheating on her and wants her to move back in, baby and all. Before Quinn can answer, her water breaks. A month early! That’s a total non-issue, by the way.

We get an perfect montage now of Vocal Adrenaline singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Quinn having her baby. She wants Mercedes in the delivery room with her and Puck looks like he’s about to pass out. She has her baby and Rachel stayed behind, watching Jesse perform. After she goes to Shelby and tells her VA isn’t going to win, they have no heart. She should come work at McKinley with Shue and they would become unstoppable. Shelby thanks her for the idea but she’s done with show choir. She wants to have a life and a family(ouch Rachel). Shelby asks what happened to the rest of her team, and Rachel tells her they’re at the hospital with Quinn, she just had a beautiful baby girl.

We get a peek into the judging process and Sue wants New Directions to get a concise third. We find out Olivia Newton John is a super bitch who hates poor people and brunettes and they all agree that Sue isn’t even a celebrity, what is she doing there. Sue actually defends the honor of New Directions, not all kids are given the same opportunities and as an educator she’s offended by their judging standards of high school students.

I’m going to assume there we’re more than three show choirs in this competition and since Aural Intensity was the only other one pointed out that we only get these three. And that through some sort of miracle, they all got back from the hospital on time. So we’re waiting to hear the results and Aural Intensity gets runner-up. First place goes to…Vocal Adrenaline. New Directions didn’t even place and they’re devastated.

The next week at school, Will sees Emma and Figgins having a heated argument, and when she leaves his office, Will runs after to find out what that was about. Emma thinks that this whole process glee went through was really unfair and that everything is Sue’s fault. While Will agrees, he knows that there is more to this than the kids she’s doing this for him as well. He tells her he loves her and then kisses her. Before she has time to react, Rachel pulls Will from the situation to come to the auditorium.

When Will gets there, he finds the kids on stage and they tell him how glee has changed them for the better and how much he means to them. They sing “To Sir With Love” to him and everyone gets all teary eyed, including Sue who is lurking in the back.

As Will is packing up the last of glee’s things in the choir room, Sue comes in to presumably gloat. Will asks for one thing, what made the judges choose VA over them. Sue says she can’t revel the voting process but we learn that she actually wanted New Directions to win. Sue goes on a long diatribe about how she thinks Will’s teaching style is ridiculous, but she admires him for his ability to reach these kids. And what would next year be like if she didn’t have a brillo-haired rival? She went to Figgins and told him to reinstate the glee club for just one more year. Blackmail! Works in funny ways.

Shue calls all the kids into the choir room and tells them the good news. He then returns the favor and sings to them “Over the Rainbow” with the help of his ukulele and Puck. All the kiddies are real appreciative of each other and what a happy family! Speaking of, Shelby adopts Quinn’s baby and names her Beth. If you fail with your first kid, try again? Whatever, Shelby.

While this episode did have its great moments, Bohemian montage and “To Sir With Love” stick out for me, it was a stinker for a finale, right? A lot did get resolved and it’s clearly setting up next season but it could’ve really used a bigger bang. Either way, I will be watching next season and you just know it is going to be filled with guest stars and outrageous Sue Sylvester one liners.

This is how Sue sees it:

“Your hair looks like a briar patch. I keep expecting racist animated Disney characters to pop up and start singing about living in the Bayou.”
“It’s as barren as me in here, Will.”
“I’ve seen that car you drive, I don’t want to catch poor.”
Honorable mention to Olivia Newton John: “Are they a poor person school?”

For musical show, the finale was a little light on the music: