History Fridge / Glee

** He's probably sitting because TeensAreShort. Having one student as tall as the teachers while all of the other "kids" are not wouldn't look good.

* In the Britney Spears episode, it's (obviously) all Britney songs - except one, at the end, by Paramore. I thought that was really weird... then it hit me. What Paramore song was it? ''"The Only Exception."'' Genius!

* Why did the music video homage of "...Baby One More Time" have such bad lip syncing? Because the original one did!

* Quinn feeling Joe's erection against her leg during her physical therapy could be seen as a very creative to show that she was regaining feeling before her eventual recovery.

* "Oh Bambi. I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy." Hilarious - until you remember that Kurt's mom died when he was a kid. And then it's just heartbreaking.

** That is YMMV, before the rumors, it was ''none'' of Finn business, but even after... it was a ''very'' delicate issue.

** And this also explains his borderline [[TastesLikeDiabetes cringe-inducing]] declaration of love to Kurt in "Original Song". He tries so hard to be romantic, and ends up over the top.

*** Given that Rachel behaves at all times like she's the heroine of a stage musical, a genre overblown to the point of ridiculousness even in comparison to the teen movie/teen TV series genre, and expects the rest of the world to behave like she's the heroine of a stage musical too, 'self-centred brat' is by far the more reasonable conclusion (as is 'delusional')...

* In the episode "Sexy" which came right before Blaine's LoveEpiphany and the Kurt/Blaine kiss, the warblers sing "animal" by NeonTrees, which features the line, "I kinda wanna be more than friends".

* The dresses the girls wore at the Prom were a piece of brilliance too. Tina's gown is obviously a gothic gown, so no surprise here. Rachel's gown is no fashion disaster, as you would have expected if you saw her owl sweaters in season one. This probably shows her developing friendship with Kurt. The gown, is, however, not the right color for her. A dark green gown would have suited her brunette hair much better - probably an expression of their friendship not being all the way yet. Quinn's gown. Baby (!) blue with lots of tulle. Although it seems, at first glance a nice little dress, if you look better, most of it leaves her body rather uncovered, without the little tulle bands on her shoulders, it would have been strapless - there are more, not so sweet sides to her. Mercedes' dress, purple complemented her skin, looked nice... But most brilliant were Santana's and Brittany's dresses. Santana (Satan) was clad completely in red. Brittany's dress was the only short one (that I noticed) in the bunch. It had limegreen upperskirts and red underskirts, which I thought would clash. They didn't. It just looked great and very playfull, just like the little had. But the uttermost brilliant was the fact that the red underskirts and shoes tied her to two persons; Santana AND Artie, who were both completely dressed in red.

* [[TheDitz Brittany]] Logic suggests that she is pretty good at math from ''season 1'', if you think how her brain works. Kurt says that she thinks the square root of four is rainbows. Right, the numerical square root of four is two. The concept of '2' would have probably been explained to her by showing her two of an object, or people because they don't need to be small things when the number of them is small (hence little Joey has 80 oranges but Amnah only has 3 tables), when she was young. And she will have stuck to that method, because it's easy to understand and why make math harder than it needs to be? She's so good at math because she views it as simply as possible. So, the square root of four is two people. Brittany is ThoseTwoGirls with Santana. So the square root of four is Brittany + Santana. What do rainbows symbolise? Happiness and... [[BuffySpeak gay-ness]] (or double gayness, as Brittany has a wide vocabulary - knowing the original definition of 'manipulate' and what a mallard is - and the original definition of 'gay' is happy). She used math to say that when she's with Santana she is happy, moreso than with other people: if she's been told that rainbows are gay and happy, it's [=happyXhappy=] in her mind because of the advanced vocabulary that is seemingly present for no good reason (except hinting at this). Whilst she's usually happy all the time, being with Santana makes her happy ''squared'' (and = multiply in math). [[{{Foreshadowing}} Only a math genius could do that.]] And why would she come out with it anyway otherwise, if it weren't to tell people that? As if any math teacher would call on her for an answer if she has a 0.0 GPA, and she's shown not to divulge random Brittany-isms to people ''except Santana'' unless they ask: Sue saying "anything else?" and Brittany saying she sometimes forgets her middle name, Will asking what a duet is and Brittany saying a blanket - duvet being French for that very thing, making it more logical that she passed Spanish and further supporting the idea that her name is a ShoutOut to the Brittany in ''France'' that Saint Anne is patron of. In the restaurant after Finn leaves, Brittany may be dropping another hint to Santana when she randomly [[AccidentalPun comes]] [[DoubleEntendre out]] with "dolphins are just gay sharks". What else are dolphins known to be? Cheerleaders. What have people probably compared Santana to? A shark.

* ''According to Kurt'', Brittany thinks [[MemeticMutation the square root of four is rainbows]]. Well, [[http://www.schools.manatee.k12.fl.us/webdisk/571otr/Images/factor_rainbows.jpg this is how they teach kids how to find square roots in America]] and we already [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131230014132/glee/images/9/9c/AllorNothingTitleCard.gif know that Brittany take math tests in multicoloured crayons]], as in "All Or Nothing". Who thinks Kurt was trying to cheat off of her, too, once and thought it was a rainbow? She may fail just because it takes so long to alternate between crayon every letter/number/line, so she barely has time to answer any questions.

* HilariousInHindsight for [[Recap/GleeS2E22NewYork the season 2 finale]] is the realisation that a woman receiving a (usually short) haircut, particularly from another woman, is an old euphemism for lesbian activities between the two. It's a gay trope, Ryan Murphy was probably aware and is providing a hilarious in joke because as soon as Quinn turns down what she thinks is Santana's offer of some girl-on-girl action, she does let Santana take her to get her locks chopped off.

** Most of the mentor-newbie matchups in "Thanksgiving" are fairly straighforward (e.g. Kitty getting matched with her idol Quinn), but there doesn't seem to be an obvious theme reason to pair Santana and Marley. However, given that this is around the time Kitty started fueling Marley's eating disorder, it might actually be referencing a throwaway remark from back in season 2. When Rachel hears Sunshine puking from nerves in the washroom at Sectionals, she initally mistakes her for Santana. The implication here is that Santana used to make herself vomit, but this is never explored again. In other words: Santana was the most logical person to work with Marley and figure out what Kitty was doing to her, because Santana herself had the same or similar eating disorder at Marley's age.
* Why did Jesse change in the end? He went from an EntitledBastard AttentionWhore to someone who selflessly recommended his ex for a program, and gave her space after her boyfriend died. That's a lot of CharacterDevelopment. Initally, Rachel didn't get back together with Jesse. She said no, despite the fact that he was putting a lot of effort into winning her back. For all his life, Jesse got what he wanted; his parents' attention, numerous solos, Shelby Corcoran's trust, and first place at Regionals. Then he flunked out of college, got the ReformedButRejectedTreatment from his former teammates, and saw a girl he truly tried to make amends with get back together with Finn. MiseryBuildsCharacter, and it made Jesse realize what he lost by egging Rachel.

* Jesse was a DomesticAbuse BastardBoyfriend in the making. Now, it's par for the course for ''Glee'' in that everyone is a douche, but the way he hurt Rachel crossed the line for the Glee Club because, as Kurt put it famously, "Only we're allowed to humiliate her." He got close to her to ensure that she found out Shelby was her mother and then transferred back to Vocal Adrenaline once that deed was done. You can't blame the Glee Club for refusing to trust him: gaslighting, lying, physical abuse -- there's no other way to describe the egg prank -- are all red flags. That he was hesitating is no excuse, since he lured her to the parking lot knowing what would happen with Vocal Adrenaline mocking her vegan ways. They had no way of knowing if he had truly changed.

*** If they had done it the way they had suggested, both would probably have ended up in a bedroom for themselves. I don't think that the ND would have made such a big deal out of it. They would probably not mind having an outed Santana and Brittany -seeing as they are quite out to them, hence the 'Saphic charm' comment of Rachel and some other between the lines comments - in the girls room.

* "Courage". All the UnfortunateImplications of victim-blaming and issues of possible character 180 aside, Blaine tells Kurt that the best way to deal with bullies is to confront them instead of avoiding them. However, given that Blaine knows that Karofsky is willing to use violence, and now that we know that Blaine himself was violently assaulted as a result of homophobic bullying, his advice of "Courage" turns from a well-meaning peptalk that backfired unexpectedly into knowingly telling a lamb to pick a fight with a pack of hungry wolves.

* At first, egging Rachel just seems mean-spirited. Then you remember that Rachel is a vegan, and it goes from mean-spirited to just plain mean. But what really got this troper was remembering that Lea Michele (who plays Rachel) is ALSO vegan is what really pushed it into FridgeHorror.

* A lot of people, this troper included, thought that Mike's segment of the It's All Over performance was going to go to Blaine, being new to the New Directions and not having seen most of the... torrential sides of the club yet. Then Mike pops up... who just started singing well ''that very episode.'' He's talking about how he's just joined the vocal ranks, which are far more competitive than the footwork ranks!

** A lot of 'Duets' is tailored towards Santana's denial now that the writers have decided what they're doing with the excess cheerleaders. Kurt specifically tells Santana that she could learn a lot from embracing all you are right before he performs "Le Jazz Hot" from Theatre/VictorVictoria. She also snarks off about "how frickin charming" the words are when Sam and Quinn are singing "Lucky". Those words? "I'm in love with my best friend". Just a little hint, there. Mr. Schue also says that "most" of the glee club voted for themselves. We never see who Santana voted for (presuming that 'Mercedes + Satan' was Mercedes' vote), the brag at the end of their performance was probably a sign of confidence to a point to infer that she wouldn't even consider voting for herself or that anyone would do so. Mr Schue also notices that those who didn't compete - Brittany and Artie - appear to have voted for themselves, too, even though Brittany's paper simply said "ME!". Santana voted for Brittany, which Mr Schue thought was Brittany.

** Plus, during the performance at least, he's performing for a bunch of girls. Maybe Blaine, who is more your typical EstrogenBait, had no problem with it, but Kurt is a {{Uke}} {{Bishonen}}. He is clearly not a sexual prospect for anyone in their audience, so it's hard for him to act like one.

* Upon watching The First Time, an episode about... well [[TheirFirstTime Blaine and Kurt's first time]], this troper had a cross of fridge horror and HarsherInHindsight thinking back on the scene where Blaine tells Burt to give Kurt the talk during the car scene. You know - the one where he says "He'll be at a party, have too much to drink, meet some guy and they'll start fooling around..." Blaine needs to listen to himself next time!

* Brittany ReallyGetsAround with pretty much everyone in [=McKinley=]. Yes, [[CloudCuckooLander Brittany]] [[DumbBlond being]] [[TheDitz Brittany]], it's PlayedForLaughs. But what disturbs this troper is that everyone knows she's TooDumbToLive and it's possible that most of those people are just taking advantage of that to satisfy their carnal needs.

* People have been wondering how Glee can depict the bullying as so horrible. Is it just over-exaggerated? Probably not. The bullying - especially in the first season - has one 'gang leader'. Lets take popular!Quinn as an example. She became a so called 'charismatic dictator' to the school with vazals (Brittany and Santana). One of the signs of such a dictator is the fact that they have minions (and vassals) that do their bidding; they mostly don't work at all, just set one example. Though Quinn has slushied people, she doesn't do the dumpster-dives and stuff like that. People are filling in the blanks that she leaves and radicalizing themselves, another sign of charismatic dictatorship. This is why the bullying went from bad to (way) worse.

** Also Kurt was completely right in calling him a little boy. His behaviour is just like a boy pulling on the pigtails of the girl he secretly likes on the playground.

* In 'Grilled Cheesus', when Kurt makes his initial statement about why he doesn't like religious institutions, Mercedes gives him a pronounced, disapproving side-eye in the background before jumping in with her wish to sing church music in glee. This disapproval makes sense - not very pleasant sense, but sense - of her later behaviour after finding out about Burt's heart attack - walking right past her best friend without so much as stopping to speak to him, let alone offer any comfort, and then flatly telling him that he should be turning to her God to get through his 'dark time'. But why does such a trivial matter get between them and stop her giving her best friend support when he needs it most? Because though their friendship is real, it's also superficial enough that they've ''never talked about anything particularly meaningful to either of them''. This explains why, a year and change in, she doesn't know that he's an atheist and he doesn't realise that she'd be offended by what sounds like him snubbing her faith...and why, in 'The Substitute', he's so eager to spend time with Blaine, whom he describes as 'someone he can talk to'.

*** I thought Rachel wore a pink dress because that was her favourite coplour (Remember when she and Finn went bowling back in Season 1?).

** Kurt's actually wearing grey pants and a pink sequinned jacket in the same shade as the girls' dresses. This is because Mercedes, whose ImagineSpot it is, has always considered Kurt to be 'one of the (Dream)girls' - up to this sequence, in which she accuses him siding with stepbrother Finn and turning on her.

* Kurt's bouquet for Blaine is actually a source of FridgeBrilliance if you look at the colors. He picked a mix of pink and yellow roses. Pink roses have traditionally been symbolic of love, gratitude and appreciation - perfect for an "I'm sorry I was a diva, your audition was awesome" gift. Yellow's tradtional meaning in the Victorian era mixed with its modern meaning makes them even more perfect - in the Victorian period, yellow symbolized jealousy. Kurt was certainly jealous of Blaine to a point - but the modern meaning is one of joy, admiration, and friendship, and Kurt definitely seemed to be ready to eat crow because he knew how much Blaine deserves this part because he admires him. The balance of love and friendship in the bouquet is also really great.

** A lot of 'Duets' is tailored towards Santana's denial now that the writers have decided what they're doing with the excess cheerleaders. Kurt specifically tells Santana that she could learn a lot from embracing all you are right before he performs "Le Jazz Hot" from Theatre/VictorVictoria. She also snarks off about "how frickin charming" the words are when Sam and Quinn are singing "Lucky". Those words? "I'm in love with my best friend". Just a little hint, there. Mr Schue also says that "most" of the glee club voted for themselves. We never see who Santana voted for (presuming that 'Mercedes + Satan' was Mercedes' vote), the brag at the end of their performance was probably a sign of confidence to a point to infer that she wouldn't even consider voting for herself or that anyone would do so. Mr Schue also notices that those who didn't compete - Brittany and Artie - appear to have voted for themselves, too, even though Brittany's paper simply said "ME!". Santana voted for Brittany, which Mr Schue thought was Brittany.

* Who is the cameraman in Fondue For Two? Not exactly a ''error'', but still who???
** My personal canon is that it is Brittanys little brother that was mentioned back in the Madonna episode.
*** Actually, she has a younger sister ("Wes Brody, he plays soccer with my sister?"). But yeah.
*** [[WildMassGuessing Charity, her other cat.]]

** That is YMMV, before the rumours, it was ''none'' of Finn business, but even after... it was a ''very'' delicate issue.

** Kurt has shown he knows to keep a secret, and ''it wasn't his secret to share''. Both Quinn and Kurt have demonstrated that people can trust them, as even with the nasty rumours goings on and affecting their own relationships, they never said anything, as it was Sam who should decide when and if tell anything. Plus, both had very good reasons to not tell Finn; he has been an ass to Sam most of the season.
* If Will only booked two hotel rooms: one for the girls and one for the guys, where'd he sleep?
** With the boys. If he were female, he would have slept with the girls. What I wonder is why a female teacher wasn't sent along with them to room with the girls. Although, if Kurt was allowed to sleep with the unchaperoned girls due to his sexual orientation, it does explain how he and Rachel were able to keep sneaking out.
*** I believe he did. At several times, you can see him in the background in the girls' room, I believe that he even joined in the pillowfight.
** I'm pretty sure they said that the kids were being split into separate rooms, by gender, not that he only booked two rooms.

** If Santana were out of the closet, would they make her sleep in the guys' room even though she's been sexually involved with Puck, Finn, and possibly Sam?

*** He probably had a single bedroom, my teachers had that too when we went to Greece with out whole class. Each of the three male teachers had their own, separate bedrooms, but they did not mind entering students bedrooms to check up on us, though they did knock.

* Another easy to miss lyric one - Kurt and Blaine have always been associated with the song Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. Not included in the episode that it's performed in is the lyric "I finally found you, my missing puzzle piece. I'm complete." Up until The Break-Up, Kurt and Blaine were one of the [[OfficialCouple official couples]] so this made sense. And then after Blaine admits to [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on Kurt]], The Scientist by Coldplay is performed, and Kurt gets the line "I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzle apart," a nice, subtle lyrical tie in to their relationship's (granted not confirmed, as even Blaine doesn't know where they stand in-universe officially, but most likely) end.

* If Shelby didn't want Rachel since she wasn't a cute little baby anymore...what's it going to be like for Beth when she grows out of the cute little baby stage?
** It's not so much that Shelby can't be bothered with teenagers or whatever, but that she didn't watch Rachel grow up, and therefore had no emotional connection with her. With Beth, it's going to be an entirely different story, so fret not.

* Quinn is only blonde because she dyes her hair, but during her pregnancy, she has the same shade of hair as before she was pregnant, meaning she still dyed her hair while she was pregnant, even though you're not supposed to dye your hair while you're pregnant.
** Chalk it up to the Lucy Caboosey plot not being remotely thought of when the writers were still doing the first season.
** While I agree with the poster above me, there's also the fact that many girls/women do things they're not technically supposed to do when pregnant. Some women smoke, some have the occasional drink, some consume a buttload of caffeine, etc. It could've been that she didn't know and whoever was providing prenatal care didn't know she dyed her hair and thus didn't tell her that she shouldn't, that they knew and told her it wasn't recommended but that it should be fine if she wanted to keep on, or they knew and told her she should stop and Quinn made the decision to disregard their instructions.
** It's nigh on impossible to have that shade of hair in an adult (or, ignoring DawsonCasting, older teenager like Quinn) without dye. The problem stands with or without the Lucy Caboosey plot.
*** Not necessarily. This troper has a 21-year-old friend with hair that blonde and she's never so much as lightened it in any way. It happens. It's just, in Quinn's case, a plot hole.
*** A lot of people who dye their hair blonde get it done by getting full head of foil highlights; this method is safe during pregnancy as the dye doesn't touch the scalp.
* If Quinn isn't really a blonde, then how come Beth is?
** A lot of children start out with blond hair as an infant/toddler, and then the hair becomes progressively darker and most commonly becomes brown as the child becomes older.
** Also, uh, are we at all familiar with recessive genes? Kids of two non-blond/e parents can still be blond/e, and not just during childhood.
** Partially confirmed. We know Quinn must have a blond gene in her because both her parents are blond and don't seem like the types to dye their hair. (The reason her natural hair is auburn is because she also has the gene for hair redness, influencing the color.) We still don't know what Puck's parents look like.
*** We do know what his mother looks like (she is quickly shown crying with his sister over Schindler's list). Her hair is raven black, just like his sister's. His father could have had blond/red or even black hair as he is never shown.
*** Highly unlikely, given what we know about Puck's mom - she very likely wouldn't date or marry a man who didn't "look Jewish" (i.e. with dark hair and/or Semitic features). It's more likely that making Beth blonde is an example of further whitewashing by the Glee writers; even the half-Jewish Beth isn't safe from having her potential "ethnic" features (like Puck's olive skin, stocky build, and black hair) made into something supposedly more acceptable to the audience - especially since, if Quinn is blond/red, Beth has AT MOST a 1-in-4 chance of being blonde. Skin color is a polygenic trait, too, so having her at least have a slight golden tone to her skin is more likely than the ghost-pale toddler they actually portray. Feh.
*** True, but it is never directly said, so though it would be logical, it is not sure; she could have had a springfling or something.
*** Incorrect. Anyone who knows anything about genes knows that it's perfectly possible for a mixed-race child to be completely one race or the other--for instance, a black man and a white woman could give birth to a completely white child (or fraternal twins, one being white and the other dark-skinned) so long as the other parent has the gene ''somewhere'' in the gene pool. If the black father had a white relative anywhere in his family tree, the gene would still be in his DNA and could very well be passed to his offspring. It's not uncommon, for example, for a relatively rare recessive trait, like green eyes or truly blond hair, to skip several generations of a family and show up seemingly out of the blue. There's also the massive restrictions on shows that hire child actors which must be even more stringent for babies, so the selection might not have been that big in terms of race of the baby. For a show with such a diverse cast it seems highly unlikely that this was anything like purposeful 'whitewashing' on the part of the readers.
*** ...more evidence for the WMG that the baby's father is actually Kurt (who is white, blue-eyed and might or might not dye his hair brown)?
*** Take Creator/DiannaAgron's ''actual family'' as an example: they're all Jewish, and her father is one of the most traditional Semitic-looking guys you'll see, whilst her mom looks like Michelle Pfeiffer. Dianna, who plays Quinn, has pretty light skin, but also pretty dark brown hair. Her younger brother, however, has lighter skin than her and blonde hair.

* In Blame on the alcohol, Kurt is the only kid that isn't drinking by choice (Finn is the designated driver), apparently to impress Blaine, except that Blaine is himself quite wasted already. "The Rhodes not taken" shows that he can't quite hold his liquor without humiliating results.

* In Blame it on the alcohol, Rachel acts like a self-centered bitch. She even goes on a date with a boy of whom she knows that one of her friends - Kurt - likes him. Which is pretty strange considering that it is some kind of unwritten rule for girls to not take boys out which are "already" claimed by their friends. The friends, if they have already told you about the crush, which Kurt did in Silly Love Songs and probably even before that, have the first rights. When thinking about Rachel's friendless background, you can understand this. She has never learned this kind of stuff from her friends...

*** Given that Rachel behaves at all times like she's the heroine of a stage musical, a genre overblown to the point of ridiculousless even in comparison to the teen movie/teen TV series genre, and expects the rest of the world to behave like she's the heroine of a stage musical too, 'self-centred brat' is by far the more reasonable concusion (as is 'delusional')...

** And this also explains his borderline [[TastesLikeDiabetes cringe-inducing]] declaration of love to Kurt in Original Song. He tries so hard to be romantic, and ends up over the top.

* Rachel says in the season 1 Sectionals episode that a team has an advantage if they play either first or last. In the Regionals episode, they play second. Rachel [[ForeShadowing foreshadowed]] their own defeat]].

* At the end of Prom Queen when I realized the situation and yes I know it sound mean but: Kurt, a homosexual boy or "queen" has been crowned Prom Queen and dances with his boyfriend to Dancing Queen.

* For this [[ABECrudele Filipino troper]], I realize there is a hidden meaning in Sunshine's name. Children, and perhaps artists, associate yellow as the color of the sun or sunlight and in the history of Philippines, there are a few notable figures who has 'Corazon' in their names. Yes, I'm saying that Sunshine Corazon was named after the late President Corazon Aquino and an extent, the first EDSA Revolution aka the Yellow Revolution. Talk about being [[{{NamedAfterSomebodyFamous}} named after somebody famous]].

* Quinn reassuring everyone that all her plumbing still works after she gets paralysed seems like a funny joke, referencing what Artie has said before, and maybe also showing that Quinn's loosened up a bit now. Fridge brilliance (and YMMV some fridge horror) comes in when you consider just how important it must be for ''Quinn'' of all people to still be able to have children.

* In the early pilot drafts for the show, Quinn was called Liz. This may be then brought into the show as an out-of-place ContinuityGag with her daughter being called Beth -- both are short for Elizabeth. For [[CastingGag added fun]], who adopted her? [[Theatre/IfThen Liz/Beth]]!

** I'm pretty sure they said that the kids were being split into seperate rooms, by gender, not that he only booked two rooms

*** Being the mirror image of a star is not necissarily a good thing. Take a look at Monica Potter's resume for example.

** Finn also mentions Gwenyth Paltrow in early Season 1 (referencing how she named her child "Apple") but doesn't recognize when she shows up as a substitute teacher.

** It's interesting that when a actual person is mention that person will come on the show as a character. Emma mention John Stamos, we get Carl, Neil Patrick Harris is mentioned we get Bryan Ryan and Gwenyth Platrow is mentioned we get Holly.

** While I agree with the poster above me, there's also the fact that many girls/women do things they're not technically not supposed to do when pregnant. Some women smoke, some have the occasional drink, some consume a buttload of caffeine, etc. It could've been that she didn't know and whoever was providing prenatal care didn't know she dyed her hair and thus didn't tell her that she shouldn't, that they knew and told her it wasn't recommended but that it should be fine if she wanted to keep on, or they knew and told her she should stop and Quinn made the decision to disregard their instructions.

*** We do know what his mother looks like (she is quickly show crying with his sister over Schindler's list). Her hair is raven black, just like his sister's. His father could have had blond/red or even black hair as he is never shown.

* People have been wondering how Glee can depict the bullying as so horrible. Is it just over-exaggerated? Probably not. The bullying - especially in the first season - has one 'gang leader'. Lets take popular!Quinn as an example. She became a so called 'charismatic dictator' to the school with vazals (Brittany and Santana). One of the signs of such a dictator is the fact that they have minions (and vassals) that do their bidding; they mostly don't work at all, just set one example. Though Quinn has slushied people, she doesn't do the dumpster-dives and stuff like that. People are filling in the blanks that she leaves and radicalizing themselves, another sign of charismatic dictatorship. Thís is why the bullying went from bad to (way) worse.

* I just realized why Cory Montieth is sitting down in that cast photo on the front page. He's so tall he'd either tower over the others or get his head cropped off!

** The point was that they don´t need to get extra-screentime ''just because''. None of the other glee-kids get extra parent-time exept for Kurt´s and Finn´s and that only for the romance (both Burt/Carol and Kurt/Finn) subplot. (And, of course, Quinn´s.)

* In the episode "Mattress",Rachel is shown to be a member of several clubs that it makes no sense she would be a part of, including the Black Students Union. Other than [[BrickJoke the rule that clubs have to let everyone who wants to join in]], Rachel could be in the club because one of her dads is black.

* The dresses the girls wore at the Prom were a piece of brilliance too. Tina's gown is obviously a gothic gown, so no suprise here. Rachel's gown is no fashion disaster, as you would have expected if you saw her owl sweaters in season one. This probably shows her developing friendship with Kurt. The gown, is, however, not the right color for her. A dark green gown would have suited her brunette hair much better - probably an expression of their friendship not being all the way yet. Quinn's gown. Baby (!) blue with lots of tulle. Although it seems, at first glance a nice little dress, if you look better, most of it leaves her body rather uncovered, without the little tulle bands on her shoulders, it would have been strapless - there are more, not so sweet sides to her. Mercedes' dress, purple complemented her skin, looked nice... But most brilliant were Santana's and Brittany's dresses. Santana (Satan) was clad completely in red. Brittany's dress was the only short one (that I noticed) in the bunch. It had limegreen upperskirts and red underskirts, which I thought would clash. They didn't. It just looked great and very playfull, just like the little had. But the uttermost brilliant was the fact that the red underskirts and shoes tied her to two persons; Santana AND Artie, who were both completely dressed in red.

* At the beginning of "Britney/Brittany", Brittany gives a little speech about how, due to her similar name, she has been constantly living in the shadow of Britney Spears, and how she doesn't want to do a Spears song. Mr. Shue decides to adhere to the request. Who does he start talking about immediately after? [[Film/OfficeSpace Michael Bolton]].

* Karofksy's pre-planned speech and what not (you can see Santana whispering his speech) allows him to say out loud all the stress, all the angst, all this stuff that's been eating him up inside in, at least for him, basically a safe and open way... but that also allows him to keep fooling himself that he still 'doesn't really' mean it all and keep his excuses.

** This makes more sence of the 'Smooth Criminal' preformance as well; Santana ís Annie. And Annie is being cornered by a smooth criminal, Sebastian. The fact that Santana 'wins' the preformance is a form of female empowerment; Annie might be attacked, but she wins in the end.

* This one is very subtle - during "The Quarterback," the tribute to Finn/Cory, the music is very heavy on accoustic guitar and other instruments or acapella - but there's no drums played, even when they specifically have a drummer in the room sitting behind a drum kit. Why? Because when Finn was playing an instrument, he was the drummer.
* This one is either FridgeBrilliance or FridgeLogic maxed up but during "Previously Unaired Christmas" and the scene where Santana is talking to the children, she refers to one of them as looking like a young Brittany S.Pierce. And then she begins to launch into an explanation of the two of them. During it, she specifically states that Brittany dumped her. Everyone knows in fact it was Santana who did that and it even caused a bit of a stir in the fandom with some people believing that the writers merely forgot Santana broke up with her. Considering this is [[NegativeContinuity Glee]] we are talking about, you could believe that as much as the brilliance of it. Santana hates admitting defeat and we later find out she regrets the decision about breaking up with Brittany. Since she knew she had did one of the worst decisions of her life, she twists the situation around to try and make her seem like the good guy with it. But once again, continuity and Glee never should be used in the same sentence so this doubles as FridgeLogic as well.

* ''Series/{{Glee}}'', yes, ''Glee''. In one scene Kurt throws up on Emma'a shoes and it's hilarious until you realize that was an incredibly traumatizing event for her. This woman can't even touch an object that has spit on it and showers 3 times a day. Any realistic scene at the hospital would have gone into DudeNotFunny territory.

*** We do know what his mother looks like (she is quickly show crying with his sister over Schindler's list). Her hair is raven black, just like his sisters. His father could have had blond/red or even black hair as he is never shown.

* A calender shown during "Opening Night" shows that the timeline of the show had caught up with real time (as in, the calender shows that the episode was set in April). And yet Emma only then gives birth. Considering how she was revealed to be pregnant a while before Nationals it can be safely estimated that she had been pregnant for at least a year...somehow.

* Everyone remembers how [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] Figgins standing up to Sue for the Glee Clubs' sake was back in Sectionals. [[spoiler: By the time the actual finale rolls around, the situation repeats itself, only this time the roles are ''completely reversed'', with Sue saving the club from Figgins.]].

*** This comes back in Season 6 - [[spoiler:when Dave and Blaine break up because Blaine's still in love with Kurt and has finally realized it, Dave flat out tells him to just ''tell'' Kurt rather than singing it.]]

* A sad hybrid of brilliance and horror: After returning from New York, when Kurt and Blaine were sitting in the coffee shop and [[spoiler:Blaine tells Kurt he loves him, why does Kurt suddenly freeze and not freak out in true romantic fashion, as we would've expected from the boy who's ''finally'' found the perfect guy?]] When Kurt and Rachel finished singing [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} "For Good"]] earlier in the episode, [[spoiler:they decided that Broadway was their one true love.]]
** Um, not exactly? Watch the scene again; [[spoiler: ''Rachel'' says that she doesn't need to choose between Broadway and love because Broadway is her true love. Rachel is, in fact, the only one who says this.]] The only reason they were even on the stage was because Kurt brought them there so ''Rachel'' could work out what she really wants in life. She needed to make a choice between Finn and her career because she saw the two as mutually exclusive. Kurt, meanwhile, clearly stated that he'd talked about the future with Blaine and they wanted to be together in New York. It wasn't "Blaine ''or'' Broadway", it was "Blaine ''AND'' Broadway." So [[spoiler: why did Kurt "freeze" when Blaine said the magic three words]]? Let's break it down. He wasn't expecting something of that emotional magnitude seconds after he was nonchalantly describing how wonderful being able to go to New York was (would you?), plus he's an insecure teen who's been in love with Blaine for most of the season and was probably surprised to hear [[spoiler: that Blaine felt as strongly as he did and expressed it before Kurt did]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking plus he had a mouth full of coffee when Blaine said it]].

* Santana being angry at Rachel in "New York" after [[spoiler:losing Nationals and not even placing in the top ten]], is understandable if you reread the lines she had in "Light up the world":

* They practically sum up whole of the second-season-Santana's storylines and might even foreshadow her season three storylines. The girl poured out her heart on stage, finally telling what was/is bothering her - remember, they wrote the song herself - and ends up [[spoiler: losing Nationals - and loosing it HARD]]. Who wouldn't be mad? And seeing as she is not the person to blame herself, or the whole Glee Club, who does she end up blaming? Rachel, who is already the black sheep but WAS [[spoiler: kissed by Finn]] and did not start out.

* The episode title "On My Way" has multiple meanings- 1) Rachel and Finn getting married, 2) Quinn's life getting back on track, and 3) the text Quinn sends to Rachel right before [[spoiler: she gets into a car accident.]]

* Another easy to miss lyric one - Kurt and Blaine have always been associated with the song Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. Not included in the episode that it's performed in is the lyric "I finally found you, my missing puzzle piece. I'm complete." [[spoiler: Up until The Break-Up, Kurt and Blaine were one of the [[OfficialCouple official couples]] so this made sense. And then after Blaine admits to [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on Kurt]], The Scientist by Coldplay is performed, and Kurt gets the line "I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzle apart," a nice, subtle lyrical tie in to their relationship's (granted not confirmed, as even Blaine doesn't know where they stand in-universe officially, but most likely) end.]]
** Think about Brittany's line in The Scientist: "questions of science, science and progress don't speak as loud as my heart". [[spoiler: She's going to be sent to MIT to be a math monkey. Here she's saying that she doesn't care about education more than emotions, and "The Break-Up", tragically, prevents her from having to choose between her love for Santana and the elation that somehow she's got into University. Later the lyrics come into play again, when she does choose Santana over math in "100/New Directions" because she's got into university and she's proud of that, Santana proud too, but doesn't want to do math. And certainly not more than Santana.]]

* Sam [[spoiler: being poor and homeless]] is allegorical for the US (Uncle ''Sam'') falling deep into recession. The moral? Support your friends through the hard times, America!

* Everyone remembers how [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] Figgins standing up to Sue for the Glee Clubs' sake was back in Sectionals. [[spoiler: By the time the actual finale rolls around, the situation repeats itself, only this time the roles are ''completely reversed'', with Sue saving the club from Figgins.]].

* While reading comments for a review of the first episode of the second half of season one of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' there was one that said "''Glee'' is an upbeat show about terrible people." And suddenly why the show was so jarring to me became clear, it's not that she was unused to GrayAndGreyMorality but that she had never seen a show where it was treated like sunlight and sugar. All the characters are manipulative or stupid or both or at least seemingly dumb enough to be let off being horrible to other people by the fandom. And yet this show attempts a CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming an episode. She actually feels more at peace with the show now.

* Quinn saying (that in acting) she would get all the parts where the girl cries. Initially you'd think it's because Quinn goes into histrionics, but apart from when she was hyped on baby hormones, she hasn't cried (unlike, say, Santana or Tina). The FridgeBrilliance? DiannaAgron is renowned in Hollywood for her ability to precisely and believably cry on demand.

** Logical fallacy. Within the show universe, Shelby and April are real people, not fictional characters played on a TV show by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, so the fact that Shelby and April exist does ''not'' have to mean that Idina and Kristin don't.

** Less to do with that, but Kurt's actually getting elected - potentially mildly foreshadowed in the recent Music/LadyGaga episode, when they gave him the "Don't be a drag, just be a queen" line. And this may be reaching, but when she first decided to run for Prom Queen, Lauren called Quinn a "sized two teenage dream." Now, what song did Blaine first sing when he met Kurt? Teenage Dream by KatyPerry. And who ended up doing the King and Queen dance at Prom? Blaine and Kurt. Writers - take notes - this is how you subtly foreshadow!

* The meta reason for the Blaine/Rachel kiss and the ensuing drama is KatyPerry. ''I kissed a girl and liked it / hope my boyfriend won't mind it...''

* When Amber Riley performed for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for Christmas 2017, she did the Glee arrangement of "Somebody to Love".

* I can't remember the exact episode, but Kurt visits [=McKinley=] one day, noting that he "waited for Karofsky to leave" before showing up. In layman's terms, he stalked Karofsky to avoid Karofsky. Made even funnier by the fact that Karofsky is apparently stalking Kurt in "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle". [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei It's a chain of stalkers!]]