Summary
The glee club pays tribute to Lady Gaga, donning some of her famous outfits. Will teaches the club about theatricality to help Tina through an identity crisis. Rachel finally meets her mother by accident during a sneak-in on a Vocal Adrenaline practice session, but neither feel an immediate mother–daughter bond. Burt invites Finn and his mother to move in, but Finn is reluctant to share a room with Kurt. He uses a homophobic slur against Kurt during an emotional outburst, and is told to move out by Burt, but later comes to Kurt's defense when he is attacked by school bullies.
Next Time: We get funky.
Songs
- "Funny Girl" performed by Shelby
- "Bad Romance" performed by New Directions "girls" and Kurt
- "Shout it Out Loud" performed by New Directions "boys"
- "Beth" performed by Puck with Finn, Mike, and Matt
- "Poker Face" performed by Shelby and Rachel
Tropes appearing in the episode
- Beware the Nice Ones: Both Finn and Burt explode in here-to-fore unknown tempers.
- Breather Episode: Between "Dream On" (wherein the club is threatened) and "Funk" (wherein everyone's depressed).
- Brick Joke / Call-Back: The wigs the boys wear during "Shout it Out Loud" are from "Hairography."
- Catholic School Girls Rule: Referenced when the club is suggesting new looks for Tina. By Puck.
- Continuity Nod: An in-episode one, subtle and possibly unintentional. When the boys perform "Beth," Puck is still wearing eyeliner, as if he washed off his makeup in the bathroom at lunch.
- Freaky Is Cool: The club realizes this at the end.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Shelby gave up Rachel but now that she wants children she can no longer have any.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Finn in a shower curtain dress.
- V-Formation Team Shot: Of the Glee club in full Theatrical garb.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Burt gives a massive one to Finn after the former hears the latter using homophobic slurs towards Kurt.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: "You want to name our baby girl Jack Daniels?"
- Would Hit a Girl: Kurt calls the bullies on this. They try to justify it by saying they can't tell the difference.