History Awesome / Glee

* A meta example for 'Props', but the actors all do such a pitch-perfect job of mimicking each character's mannerisms, from [[Creator/DarrenCriss Darren Criss's]] nailing Puck's pursed-lipped glancing around during songs, to [[Creator/NayaRivera Naya Rivera's]] nailing Artie's signature praise hand to [[Creator/DiannaAgron Dianna Agron]] fully committing to Sugar's hyperactive bopping around and randomly throwing her arms around the people near her, to Damian [[=McGinty=]] being instantly recognizable as Sam just from the slumped way he was sitting. Special mention to [[Creator/CoryMonteith Corey Monteith]] and [[Creator/MarkSalling Mark Salling]] for thoroughly committing to their roles as Kurt and Blaine, exchanging some of the most nauseatingly loving looks during Tina's song.

* A meta example for 'Props', but the actors all do such a pitch-perfect job of mimicking each character's mannerisms, from [[Creator/DarrenCriss Darren Criss's]] nailing Puck's pursed-lipped glancing around during songs, to [[Creator/NayaRivera Naya Rivera's]] nailing Artie's signature praise hand to [[Creator/DiannaAgron Dianna Agron]] fully committing to Sugar's hyperactive bopping around and randomly throwing her arms around the people near her, to Damian {{McGinty}} being instantly recognizable as Sam just from the slumped way he was sitting. Special mention to [[Creator/CoryMonteith]] and [[Creator/MarkSalling Mark Salling]] for thoroughly committing to their roles as Kurt and Blaine, exchanging some of the most nauseatingly loving looks during Tina's song.

* A meta example for 'Props', but the actors all do such a pitch-perfect job of mimicking each character's mannerisms, from [[Creator/DarrenCriss Darren Criss's]] nailing Puck's pursed-lipped glancing around during songs, to [[Creator/NayaRivera Naya Rivera's]] nailing Artie's signature praise hand to [[Creator/DiannaAgron Dianna Agron]] fully committing to Sugar's hyperactive bopping around and randomly throwing her arms around the people near her, to Damian McGinty being instantly recognizable as Sam just from the slumped way he was sitting. Special mention to [[Creator/CoreyMonteith]] and [[Creator/MarkSalling Mark Salling]] for thoroughly committing to their roles as Kurt and Blaine, exchanging some of the most nauseatingly loving looks during Tina's song.

* In "Blame It on the Alcohol", Blaine kisses Rachel at an alcohol-fueled house party she throws for the glee club, and after accepting when Rachels asks him out the next day, he starts wondering whether he might actually be bisexual. This doesn't sit well with Kurt, who argues that "[[NoBisexuals bisexual's a term that gay guys in high school use when they want to hold hands with girls and feel like a normal person for a change]]." What Blaine says to him afterwards unfortunately falls on deaf ears and doesn't really amount to much in the episode, but the fact that, at the very least, he ''does'' get to deliver a WhatTheHellHero speech where he rightfully calls Kurt out on his biphobia is still pretty satisfying.

*** That kiss is a meta CMOA as well, because it's ''Glee'' taking the trope ButNotTooGay, [[GroinAttack kicking it in the balls]], and making it run away while crying like a little girl. ''On FOX.''

** On a Meta level, this episode has several scenes that represent the show returning to its Season 1 roots, after what some fans felt was a questionable showing during the "New York" segment.

* "Lights Out": A campus-wide blackout forces the club to go acoustic. You have ACappella, guitar, piano, and a TrashCanBand taken UpToEleven. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD1WHoW2lik Behold!]]

* The entire episode "Dream On" for being directed by Creator/JossWhedon and guest starring Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, but especially the titular song in duet between Harris and Matthew Morrison.

** You know that the show has good song writers when they manage to make ''Friday'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-VNes5YQs sound good.]]

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* Creator/HeatherMorris (Brittany's actress) was only meant to teach Chris and Jenna the Single Ladies dance. She emerged from that simple job with the position of playing the EnsembleDarkhorse character.
* The final Glee Live [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIB93mm8Z5o Klaine skit in Dublin]]. Not only do Brittany and Santana kiss, but so do ''Kurt and Blaine!'' Fandom is going crazy.
** [[http://fyeahfrenchkliss.tumblr.com/ And there is now a meme.]]
* Lauren Potter and Jane Lynch's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T549VoLca_Q "Not Acceptable"]] PSA, powerfully making the case that the word "retard" is just as offensive as any other slur.
* Kurt whips out a pair of ''sai swords'' during his performance of "I'm the Greatest Star". Granted he only uses them for a few moments, but it's still a moment everybody (including Chris Colfer) has been waiting for!
* The Fall 2014 season of ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' needed a rendition of [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow The Time Warp]] for a team dance. They could easily have used the one from the movie, but instead they used the one from The Rocky Horror Glee Show.
* Harry Shum, Jr (Mike) does very little singing, and even Creator/DiannaAgron's numbers became few. Keep that in mind: a lot of the 'background' vocals for the glee club's songs were recorded by studio artists, not the remaining cast, except for a handful of performances each season which had Dianna and Harry fill in. I.e. the voices of the 10 or so members of the club in the show were done by a group of randoms instead of the actors, so that they didn't have as much time in the studio, but two of the actors also covered the entire rest of the group by themselves sometimes. So much for Mike not being able to sing and Quinn not having a voice that can carry. (Apparently requested because of co-producers saying that Harry and Dianna had nice and unique enough voices that people might notice them missing from the background and lose the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief when it comes to separate backing vocals.)
* The very fact that the last action Naya Rivera did before her death was using all her energy to save her son by pushing him up on the boat.
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** Kurt's "GET OFF OF MY RUNWAY!" gets a lot of people ''every time''.

* Kurt suggests that Santana and Brittany shouldn't get married because they're too young. Santana gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that is not only mildly hilarious in its extremeness (as usual for Santana), but a list of some of Kurt's more irritating qualities that might have interfered with his relationship with Blaine.
-->'''Santana:''' Kurt, I took what you said to heart, and I thought long and hard about it, and it occurred to me that you may have a point. Okay, maybe Brittany and I are too young to get married. I mean, after all, that's why it didn't work out with you and Blaine, right?
-->Or maybe it didn't work out because you're a judgmental little gerontophile with a mouth like a cat's ass. Maybe Blaine got tired of hearing your shrill, self-aggrandizing lecture about how you felt the two of you were at the very apex of the gay rights movement every time you so much as cooked macaroni and cheese together or farted. Maybe Blaine didn't want to be with someone who looks like they just removed their top row of dentures every time they smile or someone who doesn't dress like an extra out of one of Andy Dick's more elaborate wet dreams. Maybe Blaine grew weary of dating a breathier, more feminine Quinn Fabray. Maybe he finally got freaked out by your strange obsession with old people that causes you to skulk around nursing homes like one of those cats that can smell cancer.
-->Maybe he got tired of watching you drape yourself on every piano you happen to pass to entertain exactly no one with, say, some song that Judy Garland choked on her tongue in the middle of or some sassy old Broadway standard made famous by another dead alcoholic crone. Maybe Blaine woke up one day and said, "You know what, I don't want to marry a sexless, self-centered baton twirler. Maybe I need someone who knows more than three dance moves: the finger wag, the shoulder shimmy and the one where you pretend to twirl two invisible rainbow-colored ribbons attached to your hips.
-->So, you know what, maybe that's why it didn't work out. Maybe it has nothing to do with me and Brittany. Maybe it's just that you are utterly, utterly intolerable. Maybe that has something to do with it.

** The funny thing is, she sounds ''way'' better than Music/{{Beyonce}}. The song's not in the original ''{{Theatre/Dreamgirls}}'' and was only added to the movie to give Beyonce a [[OscarBait showstopper]]...where she spends three minutes straining her vocal range and sounds like a screeching cat. Sunshine made this song good.

* Kurt shouting at Will during ''Britney/Brittany'', for - once again - ignoring what the gleeks wanted. Would be more awesome if, instead of sending Kurt to principal's office Will actually listened for once.

** The choreographers for the Singing In The Rain/Umbrella mashup number. Dancing through ''actual'' water on stage. (The kids get one for that as well)

* Minor one, but Holly [[NoSell not slipping on the buttered floor, and in fact not batting an eyelid]] especially as just before someone ''had'' tripped on it.

* An Understated one but in retrospective still quite impressive, in “Never Been Kissed” Puck and Artie together manage to something than the whole Glee club was unable to do in 2x01, actually excite and impress their fellow students with their musical talent to the point the whole cafeteria actually join to hear them sing and actually joins in.

* In "Sue Sylvester Shuffle" when, for the first half of the big important game, the Glee Club (including the girls except the Unholy Trinity) was the entire football team. Tina taking the ball and running was epic, and you'd think they'd have made Lauren a full member after the way she bulldozed some of the opposing players.

** I found Mercedes' song "Hell to the No" to purely be MADE of this!!

* Oh my god, the ''mattress commercial.''

* ''Mash-Up'' is one CMOA right after the other: Will taking off his shirt to rap, Puck singing "Sweet Caroline", Emma finally getting a number, Will and Sue's dance... O, and:

* Kurt bluntly calling Rachel out on the damage her Finn-motivated spying and concern trolling over his supposed 'infidelity' with Sam is doing to the club in the run-up to Nationals, and then flatly refusing to get involved in the gossip mill, in 'Rumours'.
* Rolling. In. The. Fucking. Deep. My god Jonathan Groff managed to top his cover of Bohemian Rhapsody. No background music, just him and Lea.
** His ''entrance''. [Love him or hate him, the boy knows to how make an entrance.
* Kurt's reentrance into the “Prom Queen” - the boy stood up to an entire crowd of haters and said, basically, I am who I am, and you can't change me. "Eat your heart out, Kate Middleton," indeed!

* Mad props to Puck, Artie and Sam for making Friday into something silly and fun to listen to.

-->So? I don't have a date. I am just going to dance. Then all your dates are going to ignore you, and come dance with me. So, your dates are really my dates. (fistbumps the air.

* In “Funeral”, Finn proposes to participate in Jean’s funeral in order to emotionally back up Sue. After managing to convince the other members, Jesse makes a snide remark about how “The show must go on” Finn answers with a firmly that they '''WILL''' help Sue, never wavering from his conviction. Talk about TookALevelInBadass.

* From Season 3 “The Purple Piano Project”:

* In “I Am Unicorn”, after Kurt explains the whole "unicorn" thing to his dad:

* Mike Chang in “Asian F”. Russ Tamblyn couldn't have played a better Riff. His version of Cool is possibly the best song of the episode.

%% * Many fans cheered when Blaine punched Sebastian. NOTE: I seriously don't remember this, and I've watched Glee a lot. If this happened, go ahead and put it back, with the episode in which it happened.
* 'Props' for Tina. Not only does she /finally/ get to belt out a gorgeous solo, but she stands up for once!

* "Diva:"

* "I Do:"

* "Wonder-ful:" Kitty mouths off to Mercedes about how she must have failed to become a recording artist in L.A. Kurt promptly tells her off:

* "Love, Love Love"

* "Frenemies:" Artie calls Tina out on her bad attitude:

* "Bash:"

* "Tested:" Hunky shirtless Kurt in fight class. Everything about him; his physique, his attitude, Chris Colfer's mad skills. It's astounding to see how far that effeminate, scared little boy from season one has come. Not to mention hunky, shirtless and only wearing boxers Kurt doing pushups at his apartment. He's well and truly a man now.

* "Back-up Plan": Rachel nearly sabotages her own Broadway career by doing an audition behind the back of her impresario and showrunner, and is stuck far away from New York, unable to perform in time for ''Funny Girl''. [[FromBadToWorse And her understudy is unable to perform in her place, having hurt herself.]] The show is saved by Santana, of all people, who decided to help Rachel by playing Fanny in her place, and who did it not to upstage her, but [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments to sincerely help a friend in need]]. Rachel told the truth to her impresario via e-mail, and went to see him to apologize in person. She wasn't fired... However, he was not pleased. ''[[TranquilFury At all]]''. He called her out on her selfishness, lack of judgement and professionalism, revealed that he would've fired her if she wasn't the star of the show, and made it very clear on no uncertain terms that if Rachel ever does a single misstep again, he would ''end'' her by firing her, suing her ''back to the stone age'' and destroying her reputation meticulously, thus preventing her from being in Broadway ever again. Rachel is understandably shaken, but boy, was that scolding deserved. In a case of LifeImitatesArt, Lea Michele was called out in 2020 by her former Glee co-actor Samantha Ware for her intolerable and racist behavior towards her, soon followed by Amber Riley, Heather Morris and other cast members, prompting HelloFresh to end their partnership with Michele.

* Tina yelling at Artie in The Power of Madonna.

* Burt Hummell gets his in ''Theatricality'' as well. Despite all the unfortunate implications between Kurt and Finn, Burt will ''tear you a new one,'' at the risk of his own happiness and girlfriend, if you say "faggy" in his house. Awesome, heartbreaking, and perfect.

* Oh my god, the ''mattress commercial.''

* An Understated one but in retrospective still quite impressive, in “Never Been Kissed” Puck and Artie together manage to something than the whole Glee club was unable to do in 2x01, actually excite and impress their fellow students with their musical talent to the point the whole cafeteria actually join to hear them sing and actually joins in

* New Directions finally winning Regionals and ending their original song "Loser Like Me" with the famous slushee attack shown in the Glee promos. The Take That at Sue was also totally sweet.

* Kurt bluntly calling Rachel out on the damage her Finn-motivated spying and concern trolling over his supposed 'infidelity' with Sam is doing to the club in the run-up to Nationals, and then flatly refusing to get involved in the gossip mill, in 'Rumors'.

* In Brittany 2.0, Cassandra July tells Rachel just how hard it is in the real world. This is after Rachel got fed up with her teacher's ways of teaching and snapped at her with "You're just jealous of us" and how Cassie was a washed up Youtube sensation. Rachel came back to apologize for her out-of-line behavior, and July points out just how fragile Rachel is when it comes to pressure and harsh criticism. It's particularly satisfying to have Rachel knocked down a peg, especially when she still thinks she's hot shit. Cassie spoke the truth when she told Rachel that if her little outburst had ended up on the Web, no one would ever want to cast her. In some ways, that part is a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}: she's trying to [[JacobMarleyWarning stop Rachel from making the same mistakes she did.]]

* "I Do"

* Rachel gets her first audition for the revival of "Funny Girl" And the song she picks? "Don't Stop Believing." She envisions the original five members of the Glee Club singing together, using the same choregraphy from the very first episode. And she picked it because she was reminded of what made her what she is today.

* Kurt gets yet another one in "Duets". After being told that singing a duet with a new member a Glee will get the said member bullied for singing with "the gay dude" he decides - no matter how much it breaks his heart - to let Sam go and sing a duet ''by himself'' and sings (or, should I say, owns) "Le Jazz Hot" from "Victor/Victoria"

** And yes that does include words such as fag, kike and even nigger. [[SincerityMode As someone who has been hounded for years with this word, thank you Glee.]]

* Burt Hummel in "Pot O' Gold." Everything - just everything. Goes from one second changing a tire to the next second finding out his son, over whom he's always been a PapaWolf, has to raise money to fund the school musical. Does he buy ad space in the program? Well, yes, but he also goes one better; he gets together with several other local buisness people to donate the funds so that the musical can go on. We see him say he wants to see Sue lose - he then decides that he's going to enter the congressional race as a write-in candidate against her, and telling her point blank that bullies don't have a good track record against the Hummels. Burt Hummel is a badass mechanic/political candidate. (Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} - especially when he mentions that the Glee club saved Kurt's life.)

* The girls singing "I Kissed A Girl" in the episode by the same name to stand up for Santana against the guy trying to "straighten [her] out." Even Sugar gets in on it, [[{{Fanon}} defending one of her moms like a good daughter should]].

* Kurt whips out a pair of ''sai swords'' during his performance of "I'm the Greatest Star". Granted he only uses them for a few moments, but it's till a moment everybody (including Chris Colfer) has been waiting for!

--> '''Kurt:'''It's called "Taking one for the team" ''(slushies himself)''. Now get out of here. And take some time to think whether or not any of your friends from the football team would have done that for you.

* In "The Power of Madonna", Shue finally tells Sue to lay off his hair, and delivers two perfect ice burns within thirty seconds, seriously ticking Sue off for one of the few times in the series. Turns out it's her BerserkButton.

* Rolling. In. The. Fucking. Deep. My god Jonathan Groff managed top his cover of Bohemian Rhapsody. No background music, just him and Lea.

* Brittanys speech when she learned that Mercedes didn't have a date to the prom.

* Bieste rebuffing Sue when she threatened to disband the football team. Especially because it happened right after "[[{{TearJerker}} Never Been Kissed]]"

* "Furt" has Artie and Mike standing up to Karofsky, Sam jumping in when they're taken down, and then Bieste stepping between the two and holding them apart.

* Mike and Britney's dance routine at Sectionals. Finally two of the best dancers in the cast get to perform together, and it's glorious. Special mention to Heather Morris landing a backflip in high heels.

** Bieste continues to prove how absolutely awesome she is by somehow getting Artie an incredibly obscure device that can allow him to walk. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.

** Finn: It's funny Karosky, you're always calling guys gay and yet... ''you'' never seem to have a girlfriend."

** Britanny calling Santana out on her insecurity over wearing the shirt in "Born This Way" after Brit just got called out by Santana in "Sexy". Brit has apparently grown a brain and a pair of balls during this season.

* Britney's "Run the World" flash mob.

*** Combines with TearJerker as that was the last time Cory Montieth and Lea Michele sang together.

* "Back-up Plan": Rachel nearly sabotages her own Broadway career by doing an audition behind the back of her impresario and showrunner, and is stuck far away from New York, unable to perform in time for ''Funny Girl''. [[FromBadToWorse And her understudy is unable to perform in her place, having hurt herself.]] The show is saved by Santana, of all people, who decided to help Rachel by playing Fanny in her place, and who did it not to upstage her, but [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments to sincerely help a friend in need]]. Rachel told the truth to her impresario via e-mail, and went to see him to apologize in person. She wasn't fired... However, he was not pleased. ''[[TranquilFury At all]]''. He called her out on her selfishness, lack of judgement and professionalism, revealed that he would've fired her if she wasn't the star of the show, and made it very clear on no uncertain terms that if Rachel ever does a single misstep again, he would ''end'' her by firing her, suing her ''back to the stone age'' and destroying her reputation meticulously, thus preventing her from being in Broadway ever again. Rachel is understandably shaken, but boy, was that scolding deserved.

* Sue is not generally known as the supportive or caring type. The fact that she does actually ''have'' a heart is, thus, on full display in "Jagged Little Tapestry." And I'm not (just) referring to her MamaBear tendencies with regard to grilling Becky's new boyfriend from college. I'm referring to the fact that she's supporting Coach Beiste after finding out that Shannon, or more accurately, ''Sheldon'', identifies as male and is going through the transition. Not only does she verbally support him, she promises that when the coach returns he will have his coaching job waiting for him. She's come a long way from how she treated Unique.

* Kurt whips out a pair of ''sai swords'' during his performance of "I'm the Greatest Star". Granted he only uses them for a few moments, but it's till a moment everybody (including Chris Colfer) has been waitign for!

** When Rachel and Kurt go into the mixer for potential students of the school of the arts they want to go to, the other students put on an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cxd7CnwE_8 amazing performance of a mash up of the songs Anything Goes and Anything You Can Do]] that is not only fantastic, but also leaves Rachael and Kurt's puffed up egos drained leaving potential for less pride coming from their directions.