I’m mostly confused about what elegaaanzzz is.

At least we didn’t have to suffer through Britney pretending she can still dance, ie doing the electric slide for 20 seconds.

She’s been my favorite from the start. I hope that actress gets mature work as she gets older because I think she’s got some serious potential to become a fantastic actress.

Her character in general doesn’t actually bother me, I just find it weird that there are apparently no other Cheerios that can speak. But that weird thumbs up thing she did was kind of pushing it for me.

I’m not downvoting because I don’t want recaps, I’m downvoting because I hate any time anyone says “upvote if you agree, downvote if you don’t.” Like, isn’t that kind of the point votes? We all get how they work, no need to explain.

Oh, and I didn’t even really dig any of the Britney covers. Like Soft Gabe said, her songs really only sound good with Britney’s weird nasal growling. They just felt lifeless and boring without her edge, especially given the continued over-producing of all the audio.

(Not to say that Britney’s voice isn’t just as produced, but at least she still sounds somewhat human instead of computer-generated.)

Without a doubt the worst episode of Glee yet, it was pretty much terrible from start to finish. Slave 4 U and a couple of Brittany’s lines were good, but everything else made me cringe. Horrible writing which led to horrible acting which was not at all saved by horrible directing. What was up with all the male lines being weird bro parodies this week? Finn, Artie, Will and Carl all sounded like the stereotypical cool dad character that tries to fit in with his kids. Repeating the same conflict with Rachel and Finn over and over (she’s controlling! he can’t make up his mind about what he wants! they hate each other! they love each other!) is just beyond boring at this point, and I can only hope the season will end with Sue putting them both in a van and driving it off a bridge.

Not to mention that so much of the episode was just disgusting. Reporter guy making humping motions and screaming “IT’S SO SEXY”? Who wrote this and decided it would be funny or entertaining? It’s not! It’s just gross! When that Cheerio with Down’s (which, by the way, why is she the only one who ever speaks?) gave Sue the crazy little thumbs up smile I almost puked. It honestly felt like they were making fun of her disability, like “Look what this retarded girl looks like when she makes silly faces that no high schooler would ever make! LOL!”

I don’t know, guys. If I hadn’t committed myself to writing recaps this season I would just give up, because this episiode was all around horrifying and I don’t even want to give the producers the 4 cents they get from me watching ads on Hulu to continue to create this show.

Epilogue

TBS: Hey, we know those guys fired you, but do you want to take a couple months off, do some stand-up, then come be on a TV show for us?
Conan: Sure!
TBS: Sweet. See you in October.

Like, I get it, guys. I totally understand that NBC was awful to him and he got lied to a lot and there were business decisions made without regard for who was being impacted by them. I’m not inhuman or stupid, I understand the situation. But IN THE SCHEME OF LIFE AS A WHOLE Conan will be okay, seriously, so we can stop acting like NBC murdered his family.

I know I’m not going to win this argument in any way, especially on a site where everyone loves Conan, so I’ll just leave it at that. I understand his position – no need to clarify for me – and I still disagree with his actions.

Okay, calling him a whiny brat is a little much, I’ll concede that. I just always felt he was very petty about the whole thing – the event in particular that sticks in my mind is buying that ridiculously expensive car and dressing it up as a mouse to call his new co-host. Like, really? I dunno, maybe it’s also because I’ve never found him funny but I just saw his general reaction as childish. There was a much more graceful way to handle it, but instead he decided to sink to NBC’s level and as a result I lost whatever respect I had for him.

I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion because everyone seems to love Conan and any shot he took at NBC was just ONE MORE HILARIOUS CONAN JOKE! but I’m sick of the whole thing and I hope once his new show starts everything will finally blow over and he and everyone else can stop talking about it.

And I do agree that just because you’re rich and famous doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ever get upset when people do bad things to you, but really, how screwed over did he ACTUALLY get? Like, it wasn’t like he was never going to get work again or go broke or fade into obscurity. Some level of anger was probably appropriate but turning it into this long drawn out issue was unnecessary. You got fired, okay. Take your huge severance and tell your agent to be ready when every other network calls and asks to hires you.

The summary here is that I felt his reaction and the resulting media frenzy were disproportionate to the severity of the situation, and the fact that he still seems a little bitter about it even though he’s already got a new job where he will probably be just as successful doesn’t endear me to him at all.

After the first episode Gabe was like:

But now he’s like:

For serious! It was already the best, and then Adam Scott was like “BAM! EVEN MORE THE BEST!” I just wish it hadn’t meant the death of Party Down, though it seemed like that was already dying due to ratings. So at least we get more of Adam Scott somewhere, even if it’s not Starz.

“Well, if we can’t show off her boobs on Sesame Street, what’s the next best thing? GOT IT! Slutty Elmo shirt!” – Katy Perry’s Producers

Seriously, that guy would’ve had to be retarded to not even slightly suspect that the whole thing was fake. I knew she wasn’t real from the trailer, I don’t know how he could allegedly e-date her for months and not figure it out. I don’t buy any of it for a second.