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As a former drama kid, I am curious about this show, despite my love/hate relationship with Disney/ABC/ABC Family.

It's a FOX show, not ABC.

Even better! Hmm... not sure why I was thinking it was an ABC show.

Having now seen the second episode, I can already tell I'm going to have to frequently do the same thing I did with Ryan Murphy's other show, Nip/Tuck, which is remind myself that it's high farce, and not meant to be taken too literally.

I love it.

It's about 70% humor and 30% really awkward. I like it .

I like the description of the show on fox.com "It's as though High School Musical got punched in the stomach and had its lunch money stolen."

But then, I'm a choir geek from way, WAY back. Couldn't stand High School Musical, however, because I have, y'know, a functioning brain. But combine a show about choir geeks with Ryan Murphy's warped sense of farce, and I'm totally there.

Someone is going to start a club devoted to that show. And then we will be forced to end civilization. Bastards.

It's as though Ryan Murphy reviewed my adolescence and decided to write a farce loosely based upon the community I spent my teenage years in and the people I went to high school with. Kinda eerie in a way.

Oh, this show is full of double entendre. Last week's "I just had a facial!" had me rofl.

Was at Itunes today and noticed two new songs by the Glee cast that haven't appeared on the show yet, including an absolutely phenomenal, better-than-the-original cover of Queen's "Somebody To Love" that I suspect will turn out to be the glee club's competition piece.

That's my only beef with it. I wish they made more of an effort to make the musical numbers sound less like they were recorded in a completely different environment than the dialogue, which I know is a product of them being more heavily "touched up" at the sound board than the dialogue. But the rest of the show is so marvelous I'm able to overcome that objection.

Spoiler"I'm cutting your dry-cleaning budget to get costumes for the glee club. Sue! The dry-cleaners here are just as good as the ones in Europe!"

"I want my full operating budget restored...I need a fog machine."

"If you ***** this up for me, I'm going to shove my fist so far down your throat you'll taste my armpit hairs!"

"I'm going to ask you to smell your armpits. That's the smell of failure, and it's stinking up my office. I'm revoking your tanning privileges for the rest of the season."

Good stuff.

For those who watched it last night: who do you think won the mashup contest? You can listen to the clips on youtube here:

Guy's Mashup: It's My Life/Confessions, Part II
Girl's Mashup: Halo/Walking on Sunshine.

Here's the video of the guys, although it will likely be taken down soonish. This is the girl's, although the sound quality sucks.

My personal opinion? The girl's video was better, but the guy's mashup blows the girls' out of the water. And if you haven't seen the video, the reason they seem so hyper is Spoilerbecause Will's wife becomes the nurse and gives them all over-the-counter pep pills.

Edit: Also loved how different Confessions sounded (in a good way). And Artie's voice is freaking awesome!

Edited, Oct 8th 2009 9:28am by LockeColeMA

Hey Joph, is it just me or are they getting a bit better with the lip sync/Autotune issues? The past couple weeks I haven't been noticing it as much, so either I'm getting used to it, or they're improving.