Glee - Recap - Katys, Gagas, and Creepers, Oh my!
Oh, boy. Do we have an episode to recap tonight! Glee came back tonight swingin'..on vines. We've got Katy Perry songs, we've got Lady Gaga songs, and we've got Adam Lambert. Let's dive right in, shall we?
Read on for our recap of Glee season 5 episode 4 "A Katy or a Gaga".
There is no mention of Finn in the "What You Missed" section in the beginning of the episode and there's very limited Lea Michele. She actually says it's too soon for her to be doing much of anything. The show makes up for her absence in a big way.
Threatened by the new powerful super choir group "Throat Explosion", Will encourages the kids to think outside their boxes and perform Katy Perry and Lady Gaga songs. The "nice" kids are the Katy's and the rebels (?) are the Gaga's. The creeper nurse who hits on Sam is back and she's not enjoying Sam's love for True Jackson VP. Is anyone else wondering why this is okay? How old is she? How can they just hold hands in the halls?
The other person struggling with re-inventing themselves is Marley. She's feeling pressure from Jake in the bedroom (and he cheats on her with the new head Cheerleader for it) and pressure from her teacher (Hey, look. Will is a teacher! Who knew?) to strip down in public. I kid you not. When half the group comes out to perform "Applause", WILL SUSPENDS MARLEY FOR NOT WEARING GAGA'S THONG BIKINI ON STAGE. She is underage! And she just had an eating disorder! Will why are you so creepy?? He was so happy when Sam came out half naked.
The Gaga's opt to go for a more stripped down performance of "Wide Awake." Meh. Blah vocals. Blah performance. I'm ready for a nap.
Let's get to the good stuff and go back to New York. Kurt is starting a band. Everyone is invited. He holds open auditions and the only one who shows up is Elliot AKA Starchild AKA guest star Adam Lambert. He's wearing a sparkly top hat and some Spice Girls shoes. This is gonna be awesome.
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He auditions with "Marry The Night." I'm so happy. He's having some sort of seizure on the floor, he's humping the air, and Demi Lovato is pretending to play the guitar or something in the background. It's all very weird but extremely entertaining. Kurt doesn't like him. "I came to New York to be in your band, Kurt." Please.
He's too over the top and Kurt wants to be accepted by the world. Yada yada yada, eventually Rachel convinces him that's baloney and their band "Pamela Lansbury" (that's not even clever) is born.
Back in Ohio, Sue suspends the Glee club for no reason at all and they retaliate by performing an awful version of "Roar." They're swinging on things and so are the members of Pamela Lansbury. They were able to tie a rope up in that apartment! So crafty.
Honorable mention to this gem from Sue: "Please sing a Journey song! There's gotta be one left."