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Now that is more friggin' like it.
 
After last week's middling season debut, Glee came back in a big way last night with its much-talked-about Britney Spears episode. The fact that Britney herself was slated to be in on the episode (albeit in limited cameos) had me all aflutter with wonderings regarding how they would make all this Britney music fit. As it happens, it mostly revolved around various members of the New Directions getting gassed in the face and having elaborate Britney Spears fantasies. 
 
But let me back up for a moment. The crux of the episode centered on Matthew Morrison's Mr. Schuster still pining after his lost love, Jayma Mays' prissy redhead, Emma Pillsbury. She has, as you may recall, fallen in with John Stamos' absurdly rugged and handsome dentist, Dr. Howell. After getting lambasted by the Glee clubbers for wanting to inflict the likes of Christopher Cross on them (which, by the way, ain't a damn thing wrong with Christopher Cross), Kurt makes the radical suggestion of doing a Britney number for the upcoming Homecoming pep rally. Schuster wants nothing to do with it, which gets him labeled as "uptight" by pretty much everyone around him.
 
Hilarious antics ensue, Stamos arrives on the scene, and has some of the clubbers with less-than-stellar dental work come in for some handsome dentistry, and with each gassing of a kid, we find ourselves with a new Britney number, each modeled after the respective music video. 
 
It's a toss-up between which one was my ultimate favorite, but I think it probably has to go to Artie's rendition of "Stronger," which was simultaneously hilarious and just slightly uncomfortable. I also appreciated the abundance of Heather Morris' Brittany in this episode, especially when it was revealed her name is Brittany S. Pierce. Brittany SPierce. Yeah. Anyway, she got two Britney numbers, including a solo run on "I'm a Slave 4 U" and a duet with Naya Rivera on "Me Against the Music." I always enjoy Morris' dead-eyed stupidity on the show, but it was cool to see her get front and center and actually remind us that she's a pretty goddamn solid dancer, to boot. 
 
And yes, of course, Lea Michele's rendition of "Baby One More Time" was every bit the delight you'd expect it to be (the girl does the Britney "sadface" from that video eerily well) and the Homecoming rendition of "Toxic" was pretty good, mostly for the fact that Schuster happened to take part in the performance. That said, the episode did have its faults. I was a little put off by how quickly the story shifted Finn back onto the football team, Kurt's endless whining about wanting to do Britney actually made me want to slap the living shit out of him, and there was a distinct lack of Sue Sylvester in this episode--though her one extended diatribe to Schuster was damn near priceless.
 
Still, few issues aside, this was a really excellent episode all around, and was exactly the upbeat kick in the pants the show needed after last week's premiere. I'm a little sketchy on next week's episode, since it looks like it could be one of those colossally depressing ones (and the potential abundance of Jesus-related music seems...troubling), but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
 
What did you guys think of last night's episode? Was Britney back, bitch?

There was Uncle Jesse in my Glee! 
 
Not a big Britney person, but it was fun to see Brittany get her due time in the spotlight.

It was such a good episode that I finally realized how bad the season premiere was. The double Heather/Britney solos were great, but by default made Lea's "Baby One More Time" fantasy seem lacking in comparison. The "Toxic" performance was my favorite part of the episode, not for the singing but for the hormonally induced sex riot. So hot...

I thought this quote from the recap over at another blog summed my feelings up well, "That’s how things roll on “Glee”: it inhales some happy gas, forgets where it put its keys, and then walks away, hoping it eventually comes across its home." 
 
I mean my god, those last five minutes set to a poorly done version of "The Only Exception" were the biggest piece shit floating in TV this side of Outsourced, The Event & Feces My Dad Says having a three-way and then having the ensuing baby that would come out of that partnership.
 
Yep, I'm out as a Glee watcher. It's just so fucking melodramatic.

I love Glee, but like the previous "themed" episodes (Madonna and GaGa) I thought this one was really weak; the songs felt  crowbarred in and I  fail to see the point in doing shot for shot remakes of existing music videos. 
 
There were still some great lines ("You can drill me anytime" made me almost spit out my drink) but I'll be glad if these spcial one artist episodes are kept to a minimum.

I still have fantasies about Britney Spears.

I enjoyed this episode a lot. I am not a big Britney Spears fan but I thought that this episode help push Glee forward a bit from last weeks episode. And I like that they gave Brittany S. Pierce more of the limelight because she was hilarious. I haven't seen the previews to next weeks episode because I just watched it on Hulu, but hopefully it will be a good one.  
   
I also hope to see more Uncle Jesse!! 

@flap_jackson:  All musicals are pretty much melodramatic. So if this episode is the reason why you are not going to watch anymore Glee that seems a bit irrational. I mean I guess to me it is expected to have some sort of melodramatics in Glee but thats just my opinion.

@Stega18: I was actually done after the NPH episode dissapointed so heavily, but this kind of seals it. I simply don't give a crap about Rachel and her mother, and the various other silly little things these characters have going on.

So much awesome... that is all.

Sue's small part in this episode was truly priceless. 
 
Though the Nerd kid "climaxing" during the Toxic bit was very, very uncomfortable.

I really did like this episode, and even though I'm a new comer to Glee, I think Brittany may be my new favorite character.  With that said, I wasn't that impressed with the music.  I was hoping they do a bit more than just adding glee characters to old britney spears music videos. 

Agree that they should have put the music in the setting instead of just using a story device to show some music videos. Although "Hit Me Baby Once More Time" and "Stronger"  were pretty good. And they atleast seemed pretty aware of it, having Arty explain why they were having the fantasies ( Santana wondering how she and S.Pierce were in the same fantasy)

The best thing about this episode contra the first one of the season is the humor. There were alot more great jokes in this episode.  Sue noting that Schu had a bigger vest collection than the cast of Blossom was priceless. Also Brittany saying "It´s Brittany bitch".

That stereotypical Jewish kid almost ruined this episode for me.

Just saw it, was really damn funny.  Whenever they remake music videos, I picture the actors off screen reviewing the scenes with the director laughing their asses off.  In this case doubly so for Lea Michelle's spot on impression of Hit Me Baby One More Time.  It was funny to see Brittany's character bust out the dance moves.  The actress was a backup dancer for Beyonce, so she knows her shit.  I do agree that they need to better integrate the songs and dance numbers with the show.  They've been leaning on a lot of contrived plot devices to fit in the songs ever since they had Jane Lynch do Vogue.
 
I liked that Mr. Schue got involved for Toxic.  His dancing and singing are always totally awesome, but they struggle to work that in.  No offense to NPH, but he mopped the floor with him when they had the Les Mis audition scene.

Sex Riot!
I'm tired of Lea Michele's face. I'm tired of the Will / Emma crap ( didn't she dump him because he was a man slut?). I'm just so very very tired.
I'm glad Brittany got more lines + screen time since right now she's the funny part in the entire show. The rest of the cast (cept Jane Lynch) is just boring as fuck.

Alex getting excited about Britney Spears showing up on a high school themed musical. So have you come out to your girlfriend yet?

I'll have to finish catching up then if this was good. I'd love to see Gaga come on Glee.

This was a pure example of what makes Glee an awful show whenever Ryan Murphy can't get out of his own way. 
Guess, sometimes, Alex does not care for a semblance of plot or characters' motivations. The 30 days of hate must've taken its toll!

Last weeks show was better. Last season was better.

It was sort of weird to see them scene-for-scene recreate music videos. I wonder if that's what they'll be doing more of in the future?
 
Also, next week is a GAMBLE, but considering Finn's going to be "finding and losing his religion in only an hour" I'm sure there will be laughs.  And Quinn! I miss Quinn.