Glee - Recap - Season 5 Episode 7 - Puppet Master

With Nationals quickly approaching, Blaine takes it upon himself to come up with performance ideas. However, he comes across as very controlling and not many of the Glee club members want to hear what he has to say. This causes Blaine to dive in to his role as a "Puppet Master" and spend the rest of his time in this episode with his hand up a puppet butt.

Read on for our recap of Glee season 5 episode 7: "Puppet Master".

Brad speaks! He actually has like, three lines. But Blaine isn't listening. There's a gas leak in the choir room that causes him to have a vision that he's singing "You're My Best Friend" with puppet versions of his friends. I feel like I'm watching Sesame Street. Inspired, Blaine makes puppets for everyone and they all sing "What Does The Fox Say?" I'm sorry but..this one is just really weird. It's like the Sockapellas from Pitch Perfect.

A school board evaluation prompts Sue to act on her crush on the Silver Fox superintendent. She is alarmed to realize that he actually thinks she's a man. She begins to worry about her femininity and we see a flashback to the 80s, when her iconic tracksuit was born. A Faux-Australian Figgins advised her to "try pants" to be more intimidating and she never looked back.

Sue decides to ask Will for advice and the gas leak causes her to envision the two of them dueting on "Cheek to Cheek". This performance was so great! All these visions remind me of the Britney Spears episode. Sue decides to get Unique's help instead and while she doesn't get a date with her man, she gets a permanent job as principal of McKinley.

In boring love triangle news, Jake has a gas leak vision to prove to the Glee club (and viewers) that he's the new Mike Chang. His dance moves don't impress with a performance of "Nasty". He only has cheerleaders to comfort him. One in particular is not happy. Bree has a pregnancy scare and this sends Jake running back to Marley, who isn't interested.

Over in New York, Pamela Lansbury has their first real gig. Half the band worries about the venue and Kurt's direction. He would be happy if they were a Madonna cover band. In fact, we're treated to a vision performance of the group performing "Into The Groove". This was really, really long. Every time I thought it would end, it kept going.

Sadly, only one person is in attendance for their performance. That one person, however, liked what he saw and gets them a great second gig at a music hall. They're movin' on up.