History Recap / GleeS6E07Transitioning

* CreatorsFavorite: [[Series/TheGleeProject Alex Newell]] as Unique. This isn't subjective, it's pretty indisputable and actually stated.

We continue Glee's transition into oblivion by starting with Vocal Adrenaline and some Bon Jovi. We then cut to what appears to be Will's old TheAllegedCar, as we then see him in newer wheels. This is of course one of the many perks of the job, and we then get a V/O about how easy it is to coach Vocal Adrenaline, and all the said perks he probably shouldn't be getting but is accepting anyway, like massages and paychecks Figgins on his best day would never give out. [[Recap/GleeS1E12Mattress Mattress]] incident? What mattress incident? There's also an obligatory line to show that these people are not horrible people, one generous donator giving Will a mattress and saying he was never in glee club, but his son's gay and wants to support expression. Burt 2.0 is of course never seen again as we cut to Wemma, Jayma Mays putting in some work as we properly see Emma for the first time this season, having been played by a stand-in last episode and conspicuously missing previously. The little Schuester family, Danny in stroller, are in a park that Lima never had before, as Will talks about playing a long game in making changes there. However, the main thing about Vocal Adrenaline is that the chrome always hides the corrupt; while VA is apparently nicer when there's no director, there'll always be rotten apples. Or in this case, eggs. Yes folks, as both a visual reminder of their methods, as well as a CallBack to [[Recap/GleeS1E21Funk the previous time this happened]], we cut to Blainechel approaching Wemma, and sure enough, the yolks on them, second time around in Rachel's case. They have come all the way from [=McKinley=] to complain to Will (who apparently is the opposite of Finn, in telling everybody where he is). Thing is, the new kids refused to let Murphy cover them in fake-egg-yolk, so Creator/LeaMichele had to take the hit again - why else would they egg the competitions' staff instead of actual competitors? They expected Will to have put a stop to the antics, but no such luck. Emma is understandably {{squick}}ed out, which is probably the only reason that Will actually does decide to get his team to stop being jerks. We then cut to Blainechel actually taking the hits as we hit the TitleCard.

As you'd guessed, yes, we cut to Will giving stupid lessons to Vocal Adrenaline instead of working on performing, something at least Clint is dead set against (well, they're not paying any of the new dancers to talk or show emotion). This week's theme is Tolerance. He's written it on a portable white board. Then, because despite everything, this ''is'' still Glee, we cue the Macklemore/Lewis/Lambert as Will proceeds to rap: something Quinn, and only Quinn, is horribly disappointed to be missing. Will also reveals that he brought back a Vocal Adrenaline alumni to help them with tolerance; first thought is Jesse, then you remember who he is and then remember the episode title. Yes folks, we have a "[[IncrediblyLamePun Unique]]" cameo, as the lady herself arrives in her full regalia. Afterwards, as VA looks bored, Clint says that Will has given him a great idea! Be intolerant towards the other teams to throw them off their game. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Will!]]. Clearly changing schools did nothing for your teaching skills, or lack thereof. Oy. Cut to what sounds like Dot-Marie Jones, but a deeper sounding Dot-Marie Jones. Going back to the title of the episode, recall that who we knew then as "Shannon" Beiste was in fact Sheldon Beiste, and after three episodes off to undergo the surgeries, we see him driving to school, prepared to face the horrible students there because Sue will murder them if they're not nice. The make up department did just about OK giving Dot-Marie Jones some facial hair, it's only a little worse than whatever Chord has let grow on his face, but the chest binder isn't really working. Apparently the coaches have guy talk to catch up on, and Trouty is going to try and be correct this season, compared to not even knowing his girlfriend in season 4... we're sorry, [[BlatantLies Sam didn't have a girlfriend in Season 4]]? Oh, okay, carry on. Sue is also trying to be politically correct, swearing to eliminate cis-normality and trans-misogyny from the school -- terms she hit Wiki/TheOtherWiki for that morning.

Moving on from the problems the show is known for tackling, but not as well as you'd expect from all the hype, we cut to the lounge and the more important matter of Rachel Berry. She's not happy because she got woken up this morning! [[Theatre/{{Hairspray}} Call the N-double A-C-P!]] Are you fucking kidding me, ''Series/{{Glee}}''? The gay kids you help support like the characters, but the storylines could do with being unbiasedly finished. However, we do feel ''some'' sympathy for Rachel because her childhood home is being sold. She was woken up by the sign being hammered in outside. She'd been trying to stop people from wanting to buy it, going so far as to sneak in during viewings to dress like the girl from ''Film/TheGrudge'' and hide in the shower. As we cut to examples of that, we feel sorry for Lea's hair during the making of this episode, she's taken up the hair department residency from previous settler Creator/DiannaAgron. She's sad that the only house she's known is just going to be someone else's, and when Trouty tries to play the homeless card she shuts him up because they're really not comparable and he can't negate her feelings no matter what. Preach it, girl, because we agree with you right now. I know, it's amazing. You can think clearly now that you're boyfriend-less (in our minds, because in said minds you've never had one). Besides, as long as you don't do anything stupid like, say, get an eyeful of Trout's trout, you'll be alright. Somewhere in New Haven, Dear Lucy suddenly has the urge to maim fish. Anyway, we now enter a classroom that heavily features Kitty, despite the fact that somebody forgot to credit Becca Tobin for this episode. More people join them, because Sam has an announcement to make - no, the world isn't ending again, but they need to help Rachel. Mercedes has the best response: ''Again?'' We just did. Are we ever getting out of this shit hole? (No, dear, no you're not.) Kurt has to explain that her house got sold, and Sam says that it's a big transition. Kitty's automatic snark reserve picks up on the magic word and she asks if he's still talking about Rachel or now announcing his new gender. Walked right into that one there Trouty. Cut to outside, where we find that VA, more intolerant on Clint's command, have T-P'd Beiste's car, loaded it with jock straps, and spray-painted "Coach Tranny" on it. That's really uninventive, they could have at least put more than two minutes of thought into it. Hell, Jesse would've at least made it more elaborate.

After the break, Will, Beiste and Sue meet in her office to discuss what happened, Beiste saying he expected it and it doesn't matter. That's not flying by Sue, though. Will says it's horrible, but why have they dragged him down - Sue explains it was his kids, glaring at butt-chin; Will goes on to say that nobody hurts his friends and gets away with it (Sue says that she always has, but we think she actually counts as one of his friends.) Cut to the choir room, where Rachel's about to announce New Directions' lesson[[note]]"Buckeye Bull's-eye", artists from Ohio.[[/note]], before Kurt finally interrupts her and shuts her up. Only took him six seasons. Kurt's lesson is TitleDrop, because Rachel's having problems, ones that were verified by the nice lady at the Lima Mental Health Clinic. Sam then announces a "farewell to Rachel's house party", while Madison comments on how the newbies never get any attention, it's all about Rachel, like this lesson. Kitty tells them to shut up, because in Quinn's absence she's now in love with Rachel. Sadly, there's only one fanfic. Anywho, Sam brings in a "Wheel of Musical Fortune", like Series/WheelOfFortune, but with everybody's names on: they're going to get a duet partner. Except Sam and Rachel are already paired up because Sam is adamant on finally crossing her off his list. Brittany gave him the idea. Poor Brit-Brit, she knew not what she had done. Spencer, possibly the OnlySaneMan in the entire show (he's [[CastFullOfCrazy still pretty odd]]), asks why they didn't pull names out of a hat. Well that wouldn't be theatrical. Mercedes, being Mercedes, takes the first spin. It lands on Roderick, and she asks each of the new kids (Madison included) which one he is. Rachel was no help, she was [[Recap/GleeS5E12100 trying to find Ryder]]. Kurt spins Artie, but nudges it to land on Blaine. Everyone notices, and something that looks like it was trying to be a fight but Creator/DarrenCriss needed to try harder happens. They decide not to tell Karofsky because he might get jealous and, what? Violently kiss one of them? But, oh no! A WILD DAV- oh. Trope avoided.

Cut to the lounge where Sam and Spencer find Beiste and, having found out about the car thing, like before, threaten to kill the members of VA. Beiste says that it's sweet they want to do that, but hurting other kids won't teach them anything. It probably will, which Spencer argues, but whatever. Let's continue encouraging kids to let themselves be thrown around and wait on the authorities to help them. That's not going to make weak-ass adults at all. We're not purporting violence, but at least don't try and sell us on leave it to the big guys in charge, especially not [[AdultsAreUseless in the world of Glee]]. Beiste says that no matter what happens, the boys still have the gift of friendship. No, seriously. That's great and all, but, in one of the rare times we will say this, this is one time we actually miss Finn and his propensity for the [[Film/AClockworkOrange ol' ultraviolence]]. Cut to Carmel where Will, the relevant authorities sorting out the issue, tries to read VA the riot act, but of course gets told by Clint that the team doesn't mind be labelled the bad guys, as long as they win, and that Will is a lame loser excuse of a coach. That hits the dormant BerserkButton and he throws Clint off the team, Clint saying that he ''is'' the team. The credits and performances, as well as all the fangirls, agree with him. It helps that [[Music/TheWanted his actor]]'s British.

After the break, some metaphorical stuff happens; that stroller from before and then again? It's presence as an ArcSymbol was required once more! It was a gift from the VA sponsors, and the most expensive available. Will's trying to fix it, saying that something that expensive shouldn't have broken. The metaphor, if not apparent, is that the stroller in many ways represents Vocal Adrenaline, and though Will's trying to fix it, costing a lot of money and being top-of-the-line doesn't make something good or the best fit for you. Also, he needs to sleep on it. Will is thinking about quitting because of his morals or something, things that were missing whilst he was distracted by Finn's "awesomeness", but he really loves being able to provide for Emma and Daniel and all the perks he gets to share with them. Emma says they don't need those things, Danny will understand, and to think about what kind of a father he wants to be. Obviously the moral one. There aren't exactly any other jobs, though. At least... not now. And now, slight MoodWhiplash as we now return to Rachel's basement for her house's goodbye House Party Train-wreck Extravaganza Part II. All the duets are going to be sung, which means that the three duets we saw get picked out are going to be done (the other pairs were Artie/Kitty, Mason/Jane, and Madison/Spencer). Mercedes and Roderick cue the Trainor as we go to break.

We return to see Samchel heads upstairs to pack up her things, something that should really have already happened. We're treated to a lot of pictures on Rachel's wall, something she doesn't want to take down. Whilst it would have been physically impossible for some of these pictures to have been taken, there's a lot of nice ones. Including a very large, very prominent one of Quinn in her [[Recap/GleeS2E5TheRockyHorrorGleeShow Rocky Horror]] outfit that is really the stand out piece because of it only featuring her and being big and purple. This understandably made the Faberry shippers happy, and was probably a deliberate choice by the set designers for this very reason. Ignoring this horrible treatment of the fans, it's clear who Rachel thinks about a lot and clearly loves (Quinn. It's Quinn. It'll always be Quinn.) Sam claims that the room will be part of a Broadway museum one day, and that [[Film/{{Jaws}} they're going to need a bigger wall]]. [[SarcasmMode Don't stop with the impressions.]] [[DeadpanSnarker They're great.]] And then, because all this nostalgia is making Rachel moist in the undershorts and she hasn't had any in a ''very'' long time, Trouty then takes Rachel out of frame, presumably to swallow her... great, just great. You just HAD to do that, huh Murphy? You just HAD to give us a visual reminder that Rachel's into guys with small junk. Hell, into guys PERIOD. Bra-fucking-vo. GOD WE MISS YOU DIANNA!

After the well deserved break, with minors sufficiently drunk and trapped in their teacher's basement (we're not the ones writing this, ''Glee''), everybody decides to dress up during Klaine's take on Betty Who, Spencer willing to fight Kitty over a pink tutu just to keep his mind off the disturbing levels of eye-sexing happening on stage. He wins and then starts dancing with Kitty, both quite pleased with the arrangement as they're gay and single. What do you mean Kitty's not? She ''so'' is, like a more gay, less pregnant and disabled Lucy Caboosey (as we've established, her and Artie were clearly a beard situation). Klaine talk a little outside about their history of duets, Kurt being interrupted by Blaine's lips (yes we're glossing over this one for reasons to be revealed next episode), before we return to the even more disgustingly eye-sexing Samchel doing some relevant Lauper. Bad enough we had the physical... You know what? I'm going to stand here and petition ''Bring Back Brittana!'' Bring Back Britt- oh, next episode? Ok. Thankfully the physical performance is skipped over to show all of the kids present helping Rachel take down her wall, the memories of each picture being shown in a montage of some of the best episodes. It is bittersweet, not gonna lie, as this is clearly a case of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic.

After the break, we're in the locker room after hours, where we find Beiste. He hears a noise, and goes to investigate, but if the cameo earlier wasn't a tipoff, this show is still run by Creator/RyanMurphy so if Alex Newell is showing up, he's going to be important. Unlike some of the [[Creator/DiannaAgron original and beloved main cast]] who make a mandatory appearance to once again just sit in the background. They have a nice talk as you'd expect, Beiste lamenting about how he's okay physically, but no one's treating him like a person. Unique spins it by saying he's special because he had the courage to be himself, which he agrees with but still wants to be treated normally. After saying the pain of the surgery was worth it, Beiste says he wishes he wasn't alone in this. Unique says he's not. We'll see this in action later as we cut to Carmel. Beiste and Unique had a nice talk. You want to know who doesn't have a nice talk? Will, with Principal Gunderson (Figgins in drag). Clint has been put back on VA because of the almighty school board and we're guessing he's rich like Sugar but ''way'' bitchier. Will's ok with this, and you're lead to believe he finally snapped because he now says Clint was right and they're going to do things the Carmel way. Gunderson has nothing to say to this, being about as useful as her brother, because sociopaths, violence and felonies can be overlooked when it brings money and prestige to the school (even though they didn't win last year...) Will then tells the whole group that they're going to prank [=McKinley=], to prove he's really joining them. Eh, we knew he'd finally snap eventually. We'll just call up Sue and Emma to have him committed, only took six years. Cut to Blaineofsky's apartment, where after some token conversation, Blaine says he sung with Kurt. Dave, master of human emotions, then works out through basically nothing that Blaine kissed Kurt and is still in love with him. He says he called it, and revealed that he got a number slipped to him. He breaks up with Blaine, on mutual understanding. Blaine gets a bit teary but decides to see Kurt, Dave tells him to not sing to Kurt. Sweet {{lampshade}}, sits on the 'L' nicely. Blaine runs across town to the choir room (not the Lima Bean? Man, how times have changed) to find Kurt with Walter. He gets asked if he wants to join them and Sam and Rachel on a double date, but refuses. Baby penguin has a sad, though again this will be rendered redundant by the next episode.

We start the home stretch with VA sneaking into the auditorium, where Will has hidden jelly paint for them to cover the place with. Except he hasn't, because as he gathers the group together on that unusual large platform between the front and middle seats (primarily used for the crew to film from) the lights go up and Unique appears. [[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical Blaine is apparently actually a wizard]], because suddenly a choir of between 200-300 people appear from nowhere to sing back up with Beiste. All of those people are trans, and it's the most in both characters and actors to ever appear on a show before, and by far. Will tells VA that he wanted them to see that, and Clint goes all [[Franchise/HarryPotter Draco]] saying that "[[{{Catchphrase}} the Boosters will]] [[MemeticMutation hear about this!]]" because Will cost them 2 hours of rehearsal time that he expected to spend trashing a stage. Well, driving to Lima. Will quits, and Sue then gives Vocal Adrenaline six minutes to leave the campus before she releases the dogs, presumably already having found a way to acquire their personal belongings and sensitize the dogs to their smell. This group of dancer-extras execute a perfect petrified flee scrambling over chairs as dog bark sound effects play in the background. Rachel and Kurt ask Will to stick around and give him Finn's unpaid role of "Special Alumni Consultant" (what the other alumni have also been periodically doing), before saying that they've also run out of ideas. Kurt wants to do Britney 3.0, but Rachel claims there aren't any Music/BritneySpears songs left to do. There are, but we know a certain future Mrs. Lopez-Pierce wouldn't be too thrilled if she wasn't invited. Will asks what the new kids are like, and Rachel tells him that well, they don't talk much. This signals red flags for Will, who suggests maybe she remove the focus from herself and let them. We expect this means that there may be an episode about the kids at some point, but we're not holding our collective breath. Will also says that these kids may become Kurtchel's best friends, and though we're certain Kitty has developed a certain fascination with Rachel, overall it's just as unlikely to happen. Dammit.

Fortunately, something that at one time was just as unlikely to happen did happen. A question was asked, answered, and now will come the result...

Moving on from the problems the show is known for tackling, but not as well as you'd expect from all the hype, we cut to the lounge and the more important matter of Rachel Berry. She's not happy because she got woken up this morning! [[Theatre/{{Hairspray}} Call the N-double A-C-P!]] Are you fucking kidding me, ''Series/{{Glee}}''? The gay kids you help support like the characters, but the storylines could do with being unbiasedly finished. However, we do feel ''some'' sympathy for Rachel because her childhood home is being sold. She was woken up by the sign being hammered in outside. She'd been trying to stop people from wanting to buy it, going so far as to sneak in during viewings to dress like the girl from ''Film/TheGrudge'' and hide in the shower. As we cut to examples of that, we feel sorry for Lea's hair during the making of this episode, she's taken up the hair department residency from previous settler Creator/DiannaAgron. She's sad that the only house she's known is just going to be someone else's, and when Trouty tries to play the homeless card she shuts him up because they're really not comparable and he can't negate her feelings no matter what. Preach it, girl, because we agree with you right now. I know, it's amazing. You can think clearly now that you're boyfriend-less (in our minds, because in said minds you've never had one). Besides, as long as you don't do anything stupid like, say, get an eyeful of Trout's trout, you'll be alright. Somewhere in New Haven, Dear Lucille suddenly has the urge to maim fish. Anyway, we now enter a classroom that heavily features Kitty, despite the fact that somebody forgot to credit Becca Tobin for this episode. More people join them, because Sam has an announcement to make - no, the world isn't ending again, but they need to help Rachel. Mercedes has the best response: ''Again?'' We just did. Are we ever getting out of this shit hole? (No, dear, no you're not.) Kurt has to explain that her house got sold, and Sam says that it's a big transition. Kitty's automatic snark reserve picks up on the magic word and she asks if he's still talking about Rachel or now announcing his new gender. Walked right into that one there Trouty. Cut to outside, where we find that VA, more intolerant on Clint's command, have T-P'd Beiste's car, loaded it with jock straps, and spray-painted "Coach Tranny" on it. That's really uninventive, they could have at least put more than two minutes of thought into it. Hell, Jesse would've at least made it more elaborate.

Cut to the lounge where Sam and Spencer find Beiste and, having found out about the car thing, like before, threaten to kill the members of VA. Beiste says that it's sweet they want to do that, but hurting other kids won't teach them anything. It probably will, which Spencer argues, but whatever. Let's continue encouraging kids to let themselves be thrown around and wait on the authorities to help them. That's not going to make weak-ass adults at all. We're not purporting violence, but at least don't try and sell us on leave it to the big guys in charge, especially not [[AdultsAreUseless in the world of Glee]]. Beiste says that no matter what happens, the boys still have the gift of friendship. No, seriously. That's great and all, but, in one of the rare times we will say this, this is one time we actually miss Finnegan and his propensity for the [[Film/AClockworkOrange ol' ultraviolence]]. Cut to Carmel where Will, the relevant authorities sorting out the issue, tries to read VA the riot act, but of course gets told by Clint that the team doesn't mind be labelled the bad guys, as long as they win, and that Will is a lame loser excuse of a coach. That hits the dormant BerserkButton and he throws Clint off the team, Clint saying that he ''is'' the team. The credits and performances, as well as all the fangirls, agree with him. It helps that [[Music/TheWanted his actor]]'s British.

We return to see Samchel heads upstairs to pack up her things, something that should really have already happened. We're treated to a lot of pictures on Rachel's wall, something she doesn't want to take down. Whilst it would have been physically impossible for some of these pictures to have been taken, there's a lot of nice ones. Including a very large, very prominent one of Quinn in her [[Recap/GleeS2E5TheRockyHorrorGleeShow Rocky Horror]] outfit that is really the stand out piece because of it only featuring her and being big and purple. This understandably made the Faberry shippers happy, and was probably a deliberate choice by the set designers for this very reason. Ignoring this horrible treatment of the fans, it's clear who Rachel thinks about a lot and clearly loves (Quinn. It's Quinn. It'll always be Quinn.) Sam claims that the room will be part of a Broadway museum one day, and that [[Film/{{Jaws}} they're going to need a bigger wall]].

After the well deserved break, with minors sufficiently drunk and trapped in their teacher's basement (we're not the ones writing this, ''Glee''), everybody decides to dress up during Klaine's take on Betty Who, Spencer willing to fight Kitty over a pink tutu just to keep his mind off the disturbing levels of eye-sexing happening on stage. He wins and then starts dancing with Kitty, both quite pleased with the arrangement as they're gay and single. What do you mean Kitty's not? She ''so'' is, like a more gay, less pregnant and disabled Lucy Caboosey (as we've established, her and Artie were clearly a beard situation). Klaine talk a little outside about their history of duets, Kurt being interrupted by Blaine's lips, before we return to the eye-sexing Samchel doing some relevant Lauper. Then, we go over to all of the kids present helping Rachel take down her wall, the memories of each picture being shown in a montage of some of the best episodes. It is bittersweet, not gonna lie, as this is clearly a case of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic.

We return to see Samchel heads upstairs to pack up her things, something that should really have already happened. We're treated to a lot of pictures on Rachel's wall, something she doesn't want to take down. Whilst it would have been physically impossible for some of these pictures to have been taken, there's a lot of nice ones. Including a very large, very prominent one of Quinn in her [[Recap/GleeS2E5TheRockyHorrorGleeShow Rocky Horror]] outfit that is really the stand out piece because of it only featuring her and being big and purple. This understandably made the Faberry shippers happy, and was probably a deliberate choice by the set designers for this very reason. Ignoring this horrible treatment of the fans, it's clear who Rachel thinks about a lot and clearly loves (Quinn. It's Quinn. It'll always be Quinn.) Sam claims that the room will be part of a Broadway museum one day, and that [[Film/{{Jaws}} they're going to need a bigger wall]]. [[SarcasmMode Don't stop with the impressions.]] [[DeadpanSnarker They're great.]] And then, because all this nostalgia is making Rachel moist in the undershorts and she hasn't had any in a ''very'' long time, Trouty then takes Rachel out of frame, presumably to swallow her... great, just great. You just HAD to do that, huh Murphy? You just HAD to give us a visual reminder that Rachel's into guys with small junk. Hell, into guys PERIOD. Bra-fucking-vo. GOD WE MISS YOU DIANNA!

After the well deserved break, with minors sufficiently drunk and trapped in their teacher's basement (we're not the ones writing this, ''Glee''), everybody decides to dress up during Klaine's take on Betty Who, Spencer willing to fight Kitty over a pink tutu just to keep his mind off the disturbing levels of eye-sexing happening on stage. He wins and then starts dancing with Kitty, both quite pleased with the arrangement as they're gay and single. What do you mean Kitty's not? She ''so'' is, like a more gay, less pregnant and disabled Lucy Caboosey (as we've established, her and Artie were clearly a beard situation). Klaine talk a little outside about their history of duets, Kurt being interrupted by Blaine's lips (yes we're glossing over this one for reasons to be revealed next episode), before we return to the even more disgustingly eye-sexing Samchel doing some relevant Lauper. Bad enough we had the physical... You know what? I'm going to stand here and petition ''Bring Back Brittana!'' Bring Back Britt- oh, next episode? Ok. Thankfully the physical performance is skipped over to show all of the kids present helping Rachel take down her wall, the memories of each picture being shown in a montage of some of the best episodes. It is bittersweet, not gonna lie, as this is clearly a case of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic.

As you'd guessed, yes, we cut to Will giving stupid lessons to Vocal Adrenaline instead of working on performing, something at least Clint is dead set against (well, they're not paying any of the new dancers to talk or show emotion). This week's theme is Tolerance. He's written it on a portable white board. Then, because despite everything, this ''is'' still Glee, we cue the Macklemore/Lewis/Lambert as Will proceeds to rap: something Quinn, and only Quinn, is horribly disappointed to be missing. Will also reveals that he brought back a Vocal Adrenaline alumni to help them with tolerance; first thought is Jesse, then you remember who he is and then remember the episode title. Yes folks, we have a "[[IncrediblyLamePun Unique]]" cameo, as the lady herself arrives in her full regalia. Afterwards, as VA looks bored, Clint says that Will has given him a great idea! Be intolerant towards the other teams to throw them off their game. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Will!]]. Clearly changing schools did nothing for your teaching skills, or lack thereof. Oy. Cut to what sounds like Dot-Marie Jones, but a deeper sounding Dot-Marie Jones. Going back to the title of the episode, recall that who we knew then as "Shannon" Beiste was in fact Sheldon Beiste, and after three episodes off to undergo the surgeries, we see him driving to school, prepared to face the horrible students there because Sue will murder them if they're not nice. The make up department did just about OK giving Dot-Marie Jones some facial hair, it's only a little worse than whatever Chord has let grow on his face, but the chest binder isn't really working. Apparently the coaches have guy talk to catch up on, and Trouty is going to try and be correct this season, compared to not even knowing his girlfriend in season 4... we're sorry, [[BlatantLies Sam didn't have a girlfriend in Season 4]]? Oh, okay, carry on. Sue is also trying to be politically correct, swearing to eliminate cis-normality and trans-misogyny from the school -- terms she hit TheOtherWiki for that morning.

[[caption-width-right:350:Not one is Laverne Cox]]

Will starts talking about how easy it is to coach Vocal Adrenaline, and all the perks he probably shouldn't be getting but is accepting anyway. [[Recap/GleeS1E12Mattress Mattress]] incident? What mattress incident? There's also an obligatory line to show that these people are not horrible people, one generous donator saying he was never in glee club, but his son's gay and wants to support expression. Burt 2.0 is never seen again.

Now we properly see Emma for the first time this season, having been played by a stand-in last episode and conspicuously missing previously. The little Schuester family, Danny in stroller, are in a park that Lima never had before. So are Rachel and Blaine, covered in eggs. They have come all the way from [=McKinley=] to complain to Will (who apparently is the opposite of Finn, in telling everybody where he is) that VA have kept up the tradition of egging the competition. Only, the new kids refused to let Murphy cover them in fake-egg-yolk, so Creator/LeaMichele had to take the hit again - why else would they egg the competitions' staff instead of actual competitors? They expected Will to have put a stop to the antics, but no such luck. Emma is understandably {{squick}}ed out, which is probably the only reason that Will actually does decide to get his team to stop being jerks.

Yes, he's going to start giving stupid lessons to Vocal Adrenaline instead of working on performing, something at least Clint is dead set against (well, they're not paying any of the new dancers to talk or show emotion). This week's theme is Tolerance. He's written it on a portable white board. Then he proceeds to rap: something Quinn, and only Quinn, is horribly disappointed to be missing. Will also reveals that he brought back a Vocal Adrenaline alumni to help them with tolerance - given Jesse's lack of that, it's really not a surprise when Unique joins him, but singing. When the song finishes, after looking bored, Clint says that Will has given him a great idea! Be intolerant towards the other teams to throw them off their game. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Will!]]. Clearly changing schools did nothing for your teaching skills, or lack thereof. Oy.

Remember how Beiste came out as a trans man? Ian Brennan did tell you in the PreviouslyOn. So, now he's driving to school, prepared to face the horrible students there because Sue will murder them if they're not nice. The make up department did just about OK giving Dot-Marie Jones some facial hair, it's only a little worse than whatever Chord has let grow on his face, but the chest binder isn't really working. Apparently the coaches have guy talk to catch up on, and Trouty is going to try and be correct this season, compared to not even knowing his girlfriend in season 4... we're sorry, [[BlatantLies Sam didn't have a girlfriend in Season 4]]? Oh, okay, carry on. Sue is also trying to be politically correct, swearing to eliminate cis-normality and transphobia from the school -- terms she googled that morning. Beiste has now changed his first name from Shannon to Sheldon.

Moving on from the problems the show is known for tackling, but not as well as you'd expect from all the hype, to the more important matter of Rachel Berry. She's not happy because she got woken up this morning! [[Theatre/{{Hairspray}} Call the N-double A-C-P!]] Are you fucking kidding me, ''Series/{{Glee}}''? The gay kids you help support like the characters, but the storylines could do with being unbiasedly finished. However, we do feel sympathy for Rachel because her childhood home is being sold. She was woken up by the sign being hammered in outside. She'd been trying to stop people from wanting to buy it, going so far as to sneak in during viewings to dress like the girl from ''Film/TheGrudge'' and hide in the shower. We feel sorry for Lea's hair during the making of this episode, she's taken up the hair department residency from previous settler Creator/DiannaAgron. She's sad that the only house she's known is just going to be someone else's, and when Trouty tries to play the homeless card she shuts him up because they're really not comparable and he can't negate her feelings no matter what. Preach it, girl, because we agree with you right now. I know, it's amazing. You can think clearly now that you're boyfriend-less (in our minds, and yours by the way you treat him).

We now enter a classroom that heavily features Kitty, despite the fact that somebody forgot to credit Becca Tobin for this episode. More people join them, because Sam has an announcement to make - no, the world isn't ending again, but they need to help Rachel. Mercedes has the best response: ''Again?'' We just did. Are we ever getting out of this shit hole? (No, dear, no you're not.) Kurt has to explain that her house got sold, and Sam says that it's a big transition. Kitty's automatic snark reserve picks up on the magic word and she asks if he's still talking about Rachel or now announcing his new gender. He doesn't get it. Clearly, young Hummel drew the "Lose 1 Brain" card this morning.

The Vocal Adrenaline kids, now more intolerant on Clint's command, have T-P'd Beiste's car, loaded it with jock straps, and spray-painted "Coach Tranny" on it. That's really uninventive, they could have at least put more than two minutes of thought into it. Hell, Jesse would've at least made it more elaborate. Will, Beiste and Sue meet in her office to discuss what happened, Beiste saying he expected it and it doesn't matter. That's not flying by Sue, though. Will says it's horrible, but why have they dragged him down - Sue explains it was his kids, glaring at butt-chin; Will goes on to say that nobody hurts his friends and gets away with it (Sue says that she always has, but we think she actually counts as one of his friends.)

Rachel's about to announce New Directions' lesson before Kurt finally interrupts her and shuts her up. Only took him six seasons. Kurt's lesson is "[[TitleDrop Transitioning]]'', because Rachel's having problems. The new kids comment on how they never get any attention, it's all about Rachel, like this lesson. Kitty tells them to shut up, because in Quinn's absence she's now in love with Rachel. Sadly, there's only one fanfic. Anywho, Sam brings in the "Wheel of Musical Fortune", like Series/WheelOfFortune, but with everybody's names on: they're going to get a duet partner. Except Sam and Rachel are already paired up because Sam is adamant on finally crossing her off his list. Brittany gave him the idea. Poor Brit-Brit, she knew not what she had done. Spencer, possibly the OnlySaneMan in the entire show (he's [[CastFullOfCrazy still pretty odd]]), asks why they didn't pull names out of a hat. Well that wouldn't be theatrical.

Mercedes, being Mercedes, takes the first spin. It lands on Roderick, and she asks each of the new kids (Madison included) which one he is. Rachel was no help, she was [[Recap/GleeS5E12100 trying to find Ryder]]. Kurt spins Artie, but nudges it to land on Blaine. Everyone notices, and something that looks like it was trying to be a fight but Creator/DarrenCriss needed to try harder happens. They decide not to tell Karofsky because he might get jealous and, what? Violently kiss one of them? But, oh no! A WILD DAV- oh. Trope avoided.

Spencer and Sam run into the choir room, having found out about the car thing and, like before, threaten to kill the members of VA. Beiste says that it's sweet they want to do that, but hurting other kids won't teach them anything. It probably will, which Spencer argues, but whatever. Let's continue encouraging kids to let themselves be thrown around and wait on the authorities to help them. That's not going to make weak-ass adults at all. We're not purporting violence, but at least don't try and sell us on leave it to the big guys in charge, especially not [[AdultsAreUseless in the world of Glee]]. Beiste says that no matter what happens, the boys still have the gift of friendship. No, seriously. That's great and all, but, in one of the rare times we will say this, this is one time we actually miss Dear Finnegan and his propensity for the [[Film/AClockworkOrange ol' ultraviolence]].

Will, the relevant authorities sorting out the issue, gets told by Clint that the team don't mind be labelled the bad guys, as long as they win, and that Will is a lame loser excuse of a coach. Will throws him off the team, even with Clint saying that he ''is'' the team. The credits and performances, as well as all the fangirls, agree with him. It helps that [[Music/TheWanted his actor]]'s British. Then some metaphorical stuff happens. That stroller from before and then again? It's presence as an ArcSymbol was required once more! It was a gift from the VA sponsors, and the most expensive available. Will's trying to fix it, saying that something that expensive shouldn't have broken. The metaphor, if not apparent, is that the stroller in many ways represents Vocal Adrenaline, and though Will's trying to fix it, costing a lot of money and being top-of-the-line doesn't make something good or the best fit for you. Also, he needs to sleep on it.

Will is thinking about quitting because of his morals or something, things that were missing whilst he was distracted by Finn's "awesomeness", but he really loves being able to provide for Emma and Daniel and all the perks he gets to share with them. Emma says they don't need those things, Danny will understand, and to think about what kind of a father he wants to be. Obviously the moral one. There aren't exactly any other jobs, though.

We now return to Rachel's basement for her house's goodbye House Party Train-wreck Extravaganza Part II. All the duets are going to be sung, which means that the three duets we saw get picked out are going to be done (the other pairs were Artie/Kitty, Mason/Jane, and Madison/Spencer). One song finishes, then Samchel heads upstairs to pack up her things, something that should really have already happened. We're treated to a lot of pictures on Rachel's wall, something she doesn't want to take down. Whilst it would have been physically impossible for some of these pictures to have been taken, there's a lot of nice ones. Including a very large, very prominent one of Quinn in her [[Recap/GleeS2E5TheRockyHorrorGleeShow Rocky Horror]] outfit that is really the stand out piece because of it only featuring her and being big and purple. This understandably made the Faberry shippers happy, and was probably a deliberate choice by the set designers for this very reason. Ignoring this horrible treatment of the fans, it's clear who Rachel thinks about a lot and clearly loves (Quinn. It's Quinn. It'll always be Quinn.) Sam claims that the room will be part of a Broadway museum one day, and that [[Film/{{Jaws}} they're going to need a bigger wall]]. [[SarcasmMode Don't stop with the impressions.]] [[DeadpanSnarker They're great.]] Trouty then takes Rachel out of frame, presumably to swallow her... great, just great. You just HAD to do that, huh Murphy? You just HAD to give us a visual reminder that Rachel's into guys with small junk. Hell, into guys PERIOD. Bra-fucking-vo.

Back in the basement, minors sufficiently drunk and trapped in their teacher's basement (we're not the ones writing this, ''Glee''), everybody decides to dress up during Klaine's performance, Spencer willing to fight Kitty over a pink tutu just to keep his mind off the disturbing levels of eye-sexing happening on stage. He wins and then starts dancing with Kitty, both quite pleased with the arrangement as they're gay and single. What do you mean Kitty's not? She's like a more gay, less pregnant and disabled, Lucy Caboosey (her and Artie were clearly a beard situation). Klaine talk a little outside about their history of duets, Kurt being interrupted by Blaine's lips, before we return to the even more disgustingly eye-sexing Samchel doing their song. Bad enough we had the physical... You know what? I'm going to stand here and petition ''Bring Back Brittana!'' Bring Back Britt- oh, next episode? Ok. Thankfully the physical performance is skipped over to show all of the kids present helping Rachel take down her wall, the memories of each picture being shown in a montage of some of the best episodes.

Back to Beiste, who is about to get attacked in the locker room before the intruder is revealed to be - you guessed it - Unique! This show is still run by Creator/RyanMurphy so if Alex Newell is showing up, he's going to be important. Unlike some of the [[Creator/DiannaAgron original and beloved main cast]] who make a mandatory appearance to once again just sit in the background. They have a nice talk. You want to know who doesn't have a nice talk? Will, with Principal Gunderson (Figgins in drag). Clint has been put back on VA because of the almighty school board and we're guessing he's rich like Sugar but ''way'' bitchier. Will's ok with this, and has apparently turned evil because he now says Clint was right and they're going to do things the Carmel way. Gunderson has nothing to say to this, being about as useful as her brother, because sociopaths, violence and felonies can be overlooked when it brings money and prestige to the school (even though they didn't win last year...) Will then tells the whole group that they're going to prank [=McKinley=], to prove he's really joining them. Eh, we knew he'd finally snap eventually. We'll just call up Sue and Emma to have him committed.

Dave, master of human emotions, works out through basically nothing that Blaine is still in love with Kurt. He says he knows what it feels like, expected it, and likes both of them. He breaks up with Blaine, on mutual understanding. Blaine gets a bit teary but decides to see Kurt, Dave tells him to not sing to Kurt. Sweet {{lampshade}}, sits on the 'L' nicely. Blaine runs across town to the choir room (not the Lima Bean? Man, how times have changed) to find Kurt with Walter, a creepy old man type. He gets asked if he wants to join them and Sam and Rachel on a double date, but refuses. Baby penguin.

Vocal Adrenaline sneak into the auditorium, where Will has hidden jelly paint for them to cover the place with. Except he hasn't, because as he gathers the group together on that unusual large platform between the front and middle seats (primarily used for the crew to film from) the lights go up and Unique appears. [[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical Blaine is apparently actually a wizard]], because suddenly a choir of between 200-300 people appears from nowhere to sing back up with Beiste. All of those people are trans, and it's the most in both characters and actors to ever appear on a show before, and by far. Will tells VA that he wanted them to see that, and Clint goes all [[Franchise/HarryPotter Draco]] saying that "[[{{Catchphrase}} the Boosters will]] [[MemeticMutation hear about this!]]" because Will cost them 2 hours of rehearsal time that he expected to spend trashing a stage. Well, driving to Lima. Will quits, and Sue then gives Vocal Adrenaline six minutes to leave the campus before she releases the dogs, presumably already having found a way to acquire their personal belongings and sensitize the dogs to their smell. This group of dancer-extras execute a perfect petrified flee scrambling over chairs as dog bark sound effects play in the background. And it'd be a coin flip over it either being actual sound effects, or real dogs waiting in the wings. It's Sue, you'd expect nothing else.

Rachel and Kurt ask Will to stick around and give him Finn's unpaid role of "Special Alumni Consultant" (what the other alumni have also been periodically doing for years), before saying that they've also run out of ideas. Kurt wants to do Britney 3.0, but Rachel claims there aren't any Music/BritneySpears songs left to do. There are, but we know a certain future Mrs. Lopez-Pierce wouldn't be too thrilled if she wasn't invited. Will asks what the new kids are like, and Rachel tells him that well, they don't talk much. This signals red flags for Will, who suggests maybe she remove the focus from herself and let them. We expect this means that there may be an episode about the kids at some point, but we're not holding our collective breath. Will also says that these kids may become Kurtchel's best friends, and though we're certain Kitty has developed a certain fascination with Rachel, overall it's still creepy and just as unlikely to happen. Dammit.

Rachel and Kurt ask Will to stick around and give him Finn's unpaid role of "Special Alumni Consultant" (what the other alumni have also been periodically doing for years), before saying that they've also run out of ideas. Kurt wants to do Britney 3.0, but Rachel claims there aren't any BritneySpears songs left to do. There are, but we know a certain future Mrs. Lopez-Pierce wouldn't be too thrilled if she wasn't invited. Will asks what the new kids are like, and Rachel tells him that well, they don't talk much. This signals red flags for Will, who suggests maybe she remove the focus from herself and let them. We expect this means that there may be an episode about the kids at some point, but we're not holding our collective breath. Will also says that these kids may become Kurtchel's best friends, and though we're certain Kitty has developed a certain fascination with Rachel, overall it's still creepy and just as unlikely to happen. Dammit.

Rachel and Kurt ask Will to stick around and give him Finn's unpaid role of "Special Alumni Consultant" (what the other alumni have also been periodically doing for years), before saying that they've also run out of ideas. Kurt wants to do Britney 3.0, but Rachel claims there aren't any BritneySpears songs left to do. There are, but we know a certain future Mrs. Lopez Pierce wouldn't be too thrilled if she wasn't invited. Will asks what the new kids are like, and Rachel tells him that well, they don't talk much. This signals red flags for Will, who suggests maybe she remove the focus from herself and let them. We expect this means that there may be an episode about the kids at some point, but we're not holding our collective breath. Will also says that these kids may become Kurtchel's best friends, and though we're certain Kitty has developed a certain fascination with Rachel, overall it's still creepy and just as unlikely to happen. Dammit.

We now return to Rachel's basement for her house's goodbye House Party Train-wreck Extravaganza Part II. All the duets are going to be sung, which means that the three duets we saw get picked out are going to be done (the other pairs were Artie/Kitty, Mason/Jane, and Madison/Spencer). One song finishes, then Samchel heads upstairs to pack up her things, something that should really have already happened. We're treating to a lot of pictures on Rachel's wall, something she doesn't want to take down. Whilst it would have been physically impossible for some of these pictures to have been taken, there's a lot of nice ones. Including a very large, very prominent one of Quinn in her [[Recap/GleeS2E5TheRockyHorrorGleeShow Rocky Horror]] outfit that is really the stand out piece because of it only featuring her and being big and purple. This understandably made the Faberry shippers happy, and was probably a deliberate choice by the set designers for this very reason. Ignoring this horrible treatment of the fans, it's clear who Rachel thinks about a lot and clearly loves (Quinn. It's Quinn. It'll always be Quinn.) Sam claims that the room will be part of a Broadway museum one day, and that [[Film/{{Jaws}} they're going to need a bigger wall]]. [[SarcasmMode Don't stop with the impressions.]] [[DeadpanSnarker They're great.]] Trouty then takes Rachel out of frame, presumably to swallow her... great, just great. You just HAD to do that, huh Murphy? You just HAD to give us a visual reminder that Rachel's into guys with small junk. Hell, into guys PERIOD. Bra-fucking-vo.

Moving on from the problems the show is known for tackling, but not as well as you'd expect from all the hype, to the more important matter of Rachel Berry. She's not happy because she got woken up this morning! [[Theatre/{{Hairspray}} Call the N-double A-C-P!]] Are you fucking kidding me, ''Series/{{Glee}}''? The gay kids you help support like the characters, but the storylines could do with being unbiasedly finished. However, we do feel sympathy for Rachel because her childhood home is being sold. She was woken up by the sign being hammered in outside. She'd been trying to stop people from wanting to buy it, going so far as to sneak in during viewings to dress like the girl from ''Film/TheGrudge'' and hide in the shower. We feel sorry for Lea's hair during the making of this episode, she's taken up the hair department residency from previous settler Creator/DiannaAgron. She's sad that the only house she's known is just going to be someone else's, and when Trouty tries to play the homeless card she shuts him up because they're really not comparable and he can't negate her feelings no matter what. Preach it, girl, because we agree with you right now. I know, it's amazing. You can think clearly now that you're boyfriend-less (in our minds).

Will is thinking about quitting because of his morals or something, things that were missing whilst he was distracted by Finn's awesomeness, but he really loves being able to provide for Emma and Daniel and all the perks he gets to share with them. Emma says they don't need those things, Danny will understand, and to think about what kind of a father he wants to be. Obviously the moral one. There aren't exactly any other jobs, though.

Vocal Adrenaline sneak into the auditorium, where Will has hidden jelly paint for them to cover the place with. Except he hasn't, because as he gathers the group together on that unusual large platform between the front and middle seats (primarily used for the crew to film from) the lights go up and Unique appears. [[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical Blaine is apparently actually a wizard]], because suddenly a choir of between 200-300 people appears from nowhere to sing back up with Beiste. All of those people are trans, and it's the most in both characters and actors to ever appear on a show before, and by far. Will tells VA that he wanted them to see that, and Clint goes all [[Franchise/HarryPotter Draco]] saying that "[[{{Catchphrase}} the Boosters will]] [[MemeticMutation hear about this!]]" because Will cost them 2 hours of rehearsal time that he expected to spend trashing a stage. Well, driving to Lima. Will quits, and Sue then gives Vocal Adrenaline six minutes to leave the campus before she releases the dogs, presumably already having found a way to acquire their personal belongings and sensitize the dogs to their smell. This group of dancer-actors execute a perfect petrified flee scrambling over chairs as dog bark sound effects play in the background. And it'd be a coin flip over it either being actual sound effects, or real dogs waiting in the wings. It's Sue, you'd expect nothing else.

We now return to Rachel's basement for her house's goodbye House Party Train-wreck Extravaganza Part II. All the duets are going to be sung, which means that the three duets we saw get picked out are going to be done (the other pairs were Artie/Kitty, Mason/Jane, and Madison/Spencer). One song finishes, then Samchel heads upstairs to pack up her things, something that should really have already happened. We're treating to a lot of pictures on Rachel's wall, something she doesn't want to take down. Whilst it would have been physically impossible for some of these pictures to have been taken, there's a lot of nice ones. Including a very large, very prominent one of Quinn in her [[Recap/GleeS2E5TheRockyHorrorGleeShow Rocky Horror]] outfit that is really the stand out piece because of it only featuring her and being big and purple. This understandably made the Faberry shippers happy, and was probably a deliberate choice by the set designers for this very reason. Ignoring this horrible treatment of the fans, it's clear who Rachel thinks about a lot and clearly loves (Quinn. It's Quinn. It'll always be Quinn.) Sam claims that the room will be part of a Broadway museum one day, and that [[Film/{{Jaws}} they're going to need a bigger wall]]. [[SarcasmMode Don't stop with the impressions.]] [[DeadpanSnarker They're great.]] Trouty then takes Rachel out of frame, presumably to swallow her... great, just great. You just HAD to do that, huh Murphy? You just HAD to give us a visual reminder that Rachel's into guys with small junk. Bra-fucking-vo.

Back in the basement, minors sufficiently drunk and trapped in their teacher's basement (we're not the ones writing this, ''Glee''), everybody decides to dress up during Klaine's performance, Spencer willing to fight Kitty over a pink tutu just to keep his mind off the disturbing levels of eye-sexing happening on stage. He wins and then starts dancing with Kitty, both quite pleased with the arrangement as they're gay and single. What do you mean Kitty's not? She's like a more gay, less pregnant and disabled, Lucy Caboosey (her and Artie were clearly a beard situation). Klaine talk a little outside about their history of duets, Kurt being interrupted by Blaine's lips, before we return to the even more disgustingly eye-sexing Samchel doing their song. Bad enough wenjad the physical... Yoi know what? I'm going to stand here and petition ''Bring Back Brittana!'' Bring Back Britt- oh, next episode? Ok. Thankfully the physical performance is skipped over to show all of the kids present helping Rachel take down her wall, the memories of each picture being shown in a montage of some of the best episodes.

Remember how Beiste came out as a trans man? Ian Brennan did tell you in the PreviouslyOn. So, now he's driving to school, prepared to face the horrible students there because Sue will murder them if they're not nice. The make up department did just about OK giving Dot-Marie Jones some facial hair, it's only a little worse than whatever Chord has let grow on his face, but the chest binder isn't really working. Apparently the coaches have guy talk to catch up on, and Trouty is going to try and be correct this season, compared to not even knowing his girlfriend in season 4... we're sorry. Sue is also trying to be politically correct, swearing to eliminate cis-normality and transphobia from the school -- terms she googled that morning. Beiste has now changed his first name from Shannon to Sheldon.

Spencer and Sam run into the choir room, having found out about the car thing and, like before, threaten to kill the members of VA. Beiste says that it's sweet they want to do that, but hurting other kids won't teach them anything. It probably will, which Spencer argues, but whatever. Let's continue encouraging kids to let themselves be thrown around and wait on the authorities to help them. That's not going to make weak-ass adults at all. We're not purporting violence, but at least don't try and sell us on leave it to the big guys in charge, especially not [[AdultsAreUseless in the world of Glee]]. Beiste says that no matter what happens, the boys still have the gift of friendship. No, seriously. That's great and all, but, in one of the rare times we will say this, this is one time we miss Finnegan and his propensity for the [[Film/AClockworkOrange ol' ultraviolence]].

Will starts talking about how easy it is to coach Vocal Adrenaline, and all the perks he probably shouldn't be getting but is accepting anyway. What [[Recap/GleeS1E12Mattress Mattress]] incident? There's also an obligatory line to show that these people are not horrible people, one generous donator saying he was never in glee club, but his son's gay and wants to support expression. Burt 2.0 is never seen again.

Yes, he's going to start giving stupid lessons to Vocal Adrenaline instead of working on performing, something at least Clint is dead set against (well, they're not paying any of the new dancers to talk or show emotion). This week's theme is Tolerance. He's written it on a portable white board. Then he proceeds to rap: something Quinn, and only Quinn, is horribly disappointed to be missing. Will also reveals that he brought back a Vocal Adrenaline alumni to help them with tolerance - given Jesse's lack of that, it's really not a surprise when Unique joins him, but singing. When the song finishes, after looking bored, Clint says that Will has given him a great idea! Be intolerant towards the other teams to throw them off their game. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Will!]].

Remember how Beiste came out as a trans man? Ian Brennan did tell you in the PreviouslyOn. So, now he's driving to school, prepared to face the horrible students there because Sue will murder them if they're not nice. The make up department did just about OK giving Dot-Marie Jones some facial hair, it's only a little worse than whatever Chord has let grow on his face, but the chest binder isn't really working. Apparently the coaches have guy talk to catch up on, and Trouty is going to try and be correct this season, compared to not even knowing his girlfriend in season 4. We're sorry we brought that back up. Sue is also trying to be politically correct, swearing to eliminate cis-normality and transphobia from the school -- terms she googled that morning. Beiste has now changed his first name from Shannon to Sheldon.

We now enter a classroom that heavily features Kitty, despite the fact that somebody forgot to credit Becca Tobin for this episode. More people join them, because Sam has an announcement to make - no, the world isn't ending again, but they need to help Rachel. Mercedes has the best response: ''Again?'' We just did. Are we ever getting out of this shit hole? (No, dear, no you're not.) Kurt has to explain that her house got sold, and Sam says that it's a big transition. Kitty's automatic snark reserve picks up on the magic word and she asks if he's still talking about Rachel or now announcing his new gender. He doesn't get it.

The Vocal Adrenaline kids, now more intolerant on Clint's command, have T-P'd Beiste's car, loaded it with jock straps, and spray-painted "Coach Tranny" on it. That's really uninventive, they could have at least put more than two minutes of thought into it. Will, Beiste and Sue meet in her office to discuss what happened, Beiste saying he expected it and it doesn't matter. That's not flying by Sue, though. Will says it's horrible, but why have they dragged him down - Sue explains it was his kids, glaring at butt-chin; Will goes on to say that nobody hurts his friends and gets away with it (Sue says that she always has, but we think she actually counts as one of his friends.)

Rachel's about to announce New Directions' lesson before Kurt finally interrupts her and shuts her up. Only took him six seasons. Kurt's lesson is "[[TitleDrop Transitioning]]'', because Rachel's having problems. The new kids comment on how they never get any attention, it's all about Rachel, like this lesson. Kitty tells them to shut up, because in Quinn's absence she's now in love with Rachel. Sam brings in the "Wheel of Musical Fortune", like Series/WheelOfFortune, but with everybody's names on: they're going to get a duet partner. Except Sam and Rachel are already paired up because Sam is adamant on finally crossing her off his list. Brittany gave him the idea. Spencer, possibly the OnlySaneMan in the entire show (he's [[CastFullOfCrazy still pretty odd]]), asks why they didn't pull names out of a hat. Well that wouldn't be theatrical.

Spencer and Sam run into the choir room, having found out about the car thing and, like before, threaten to kill the members of VA. Beiste says that it's sweet they want to do that, but hurting other kids won't teach them anything. It probably will, which Spencer argues, but whatever. Let's continue encouraging kids to let themselves be thrown around and wait on the authorities to help them. That's not going to make weak-ass adults at all. We're not purporting violence, but at least don't try and sell us on leave it to the big guys in charge, especially not [[AdultsAreUseless in the world of Glee]]. Beiste says that no matter what happens, the boys still have the gift of friendship. No, seriously.

We now return to Rachel's basement for her house's goodbye House Party Train-wreck Extravaganza Part II. All the duets are going to be sung, which means that the three duets we saw get picked out are going to be done (the other pairs were Artie/Kitty, Mason/Jane, and Madison/Spencer). One song finishes, then Samchel heads upstairs to pack up her things, something that should really have already happened. We're treating to a lot of pictures on Rachel's wall, something she doesn't want to take down. Whilst it would have been physically impossible for some of these pictures to have been taken, there's a lot of nice ones. Including a very large, very prominent one of Quinn in her [[Recap/GleeS2E5TheRockyHorrorGleeShow Rocky Horror]] outfit that is really the stand out piece because of it only featuring her and being big and purple. This understandably made the Faberry shippers happy, and was probably a deliberate choice by the set designers for this very reason. Ignoring this horrible treatment of the fans, it's clear who Rachel thinks about a lot and clearly loves (Quinn. It's Quinn.) Sam claims that the room will be part of a Broadway museum one day, and that [[Film/{{Jaws}} they're going to need a bigger wall]]. [[SarcasmMode Don't stop with the impressions.]] [[DeadpanSnarker They're great.]] (Trouty tries to swallow Rachel).

Back in the basement, minors sufficiently drunk and trapped in their teacher's basement (we're not the ones writing this, ''Glee''), everybody decides to dress up during Klaine's performance, Spencer willing to fight Kitty over a pink tutu just to keep his mind off the disturbing levels of eye-sexing happening on stage. He wins and then starts dancing with Kitty, both quite pleased with the arrangement as they're gay and single. What do you mean Kitty's not? She's like a more gay, less pregnant and disabled, Lucy Caboosey. Klaine talk a little outside about their history of duets, Kurt being interrupted by Blaine's lips, before we return to the even more disgustingly eye-sexing Samchel doing their song. I'm going to stand here and petition ''Bring Back Brittana!'' Bring Back Britt- oh, next episode? Ok. Thankfully the physical performance is skipped over to show all of the kids present helping Rachel take down her wall, the memories of each picture being shown in a montage of some of the best episodes.

Back to Beiste, who is about to get attacked in the locker room before the intruder is revealed to be - you guessed it - Unique! This show is still run by Creator/RyanMurphy so if Alex Newell is showing up, he's going to be important. Unlike some of the original and beloved main cast who make a mandatory appearance to once again just sit in the background. They have a nice talk. You want to know who doesn't have a nice talk? Will, with Principal Gunderson (Figgins in drag). Clint has been put back on VA because of the almighty school board and we're guessing he's rich like Sugar but ''way'' bitchier. Will's ok with this, and has apparently turned evil because he now says Clint was right and they're going to do things the Carmel way. Gunderson has nothing to say to this, being about as useful as her brother, because sociopaths, violence and felonies can be overlooked when it brings money and prestige to the school (even though they didn't win last year...) Will then tells the whole group that they're going to prank [=McKinley=], to prove he's really joining them. Eh, we knew he's finally snap sometime. We'll just call up Sue and Emma to have him committed.

Dave, master of human emotions, works out through basically nothing that Blaine is in love with Kurt. He says he knows what it feels like, expected it, and likes both of them. He breaks up with Blaine, on mutual understanding. Blaine gets a bit teary but decides to see Kurt, Dave tells him to not sing to Kurt. Sweet {{lampshade}}, sits on the 'L' nicely. Blaine runs across town to the choir room (not the Lima Bean? Man, how times have changed) to find Kurt with Walter. He gets asked if he wants to join them and Sam and Rachel on a double date, but refuses. Baby penguin.

Vocal Adrenaline sneak into the auditorium, where Will has hidden jelly paint for them to cover the place with. Except he hasn't, because as he gathers the group together on that unusual large platform between the front and middle seats (primarily used for the crew to film from) the lights go up and Unique appears. [[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical Blaine is apparently actually a wizard]], because suddenly a choir of between 200-300 people appears from nowhere to sing back up with Beiste. All of those people are trans, and it's the most in both characters and actors to ever appear on a show before, and by far. Will tells VA that he wanted them to see that, and Clint goes all [[Franchise/HarryPotter Draco]] saying that "[[{{Catchphrase}} the Boosters will]] [[MemeticMutation hear about this!]]" because Will cost them 2 hours of rehearsal time that he expected to spend trashing a stage. Well, driving to Lima. Will quits, and Sue then gives Vocal Adrenaline six minutes to leave the campus before she releases the dogs, presumably already having found a way to acquire their personal belongings and sensitize the dogs to their smell. This group of dancer-actors execute a perfect petrified flee scrambling over chairs as dog bark sound effects play in the background.

Rachel and Kurt ask Will to stick around and give him Finn's unpaid role of "Special Alumni Consultant" (what the other alumni have also been periodically doing for years), before saying that they've also run out of ideas. Kurt wants to do Britney 3.0, but Rachel claims there aren't any BritneySpears songs left to do. There are. Will asks what the new kids are like, and Rachel tells him that well, they don't talk much. This signals red flags for Will, who suggests maybe she remove the focus from herself and let them. We expect this means that there may be an episode about the kids at some point, but we're not holding our collective breath. Will also says that these kids may become Kurtchel's best friends, and though we're certain Kitty has developed a certain fascination with Rachel, overall it's still creepy and just as unlikely to happen.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Will wants to teach VA about being tolerant, but also how to win. Clint takes from this that being intolerant will throw the other teams off their game.

* "Same Love" by Music/{{Macklemore}} and Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert, performed by Unique and Will

* "Same Love" by Music/{{Macklemore}} and Ryan Lewis, performed by Unique and Will

Now we properly see Emma for the first time this season, having been played by a stand-in last episode and conspicuously missing previously. The little Schuester family, Danny in stroller, are in a park that Lima never had before. So are Rachel and Blaine, covered in eggs. They have come all the way from [=McKinley=] to complain to Will (who apparently is the opposite of Finn, in telling everybody where ''he'' is) that VA have kept up the tradition of egging the competition. Only, the new kids refused to let Murphy cover them in fake-egg-yolk, so Creator/LeaMichele had to take the hit again - why else would they egg the competitions' staff instead of actual competitors? They expected Will to have put a stop to the antics, but no such luck. Emma is understandably {{squick}}ed out, which is probably the only reason that Will actually does decide to get his team to stop being jerks.

Moving on from the problems the show is known for tackling, but not as well as you'd expect from all the hype, to the more important matter of Rachel Berry. She's not happy because she got woken up this morning! [[Theatre/{{Hairspray}} Call the N-double A-C-P!]] Are you fucking kidding me, ''Series/{{Glee}}''? The gay kids you help support like the characters, but the storylines could do with being unbiasedly finished. However, we do feel sympathy for Rachel because her childhood home is being sold. She was woken up by the sign being hammered in outside. She'd been trying to stop people from wanting to buy it, going so far as to sneak in during viewings to dress like the girl from ''Film/TheGrudge'' and hide in the shower. We fell sorry for Lea's hair during the making of this episode, she's taken up the hair department residency from previous settler Creator/DiannaAgron. She's sad that the only house she's known is just going to be someone else's, and when Trouty tries to play the homeless card she shuts him up because they're really not comparable and he can't negate her feelings no matter what. Preach it, girl, because we agree with you right now. I know, it's amazing. You can think clearly now that you're boyfriend-less.

Dave, master of human emotions, works out through basically nothing that Blaine is in love with Kurt. He says he knows what it feels like, expected it, and likes both of them. He breaks up with Blaine, on mutual understanding. Blaine gets a bit teary but decides to see Kurt, Dave tells him to not sing.

* ChekhovsSpeech: Clint thinking that VA should be more intolerant as a reverse of Will trying to get them to be the opposite.

We now return to Rachel's basement for her house's goodbye House Party Train-wreck Extravaganza Part II. All the duets are going to be sung, which means that the three duets we saw get picked out are going to be done (the other pairs were Artie/Kitty, Mason/Jane, and Madison/Spencer). One song finishes, then Samchel heads upstairs to pack up her things, something that should really have already happened. We're treating to a lot of pictures on Rachel's wall, something she doesn't want to take down. Whilst it would have been physically impossible for some of these pictures to have been taken, there's a lot of nice ones. Including a very large, very prominent one of Quinn in her [[Recap/GleeS2E5TheRockyHorrorGleeShow Rocky Horror]] outfit that is really the stand out piece because of it only featuring her and being big and purple. This understandably made the Faberry shippers happy, and was probably a deliberate choice by the set designers for this very reason. Ignoring this horrible treatment of the fans, it's clear who Rachel thinks about a lot. (Quinn. It's Quinn.)

Moving on from the problems the show is known for tackling, but not as well as you'd expect from all the hype, to the more important matter of Rachel Berry. She's not happy because she got woken up this morning! [[Theatre/{{Hairspray}} Call the N-double A-C-P!]] Are you fucking kidding me, ''Series/{{Glee}}''? The gay kids you help support like the characters, but the storylines could do with being unbiasedly finished. However, we do feel sympathy for Rachel because her childhood home is being sold. She was woken up by the sign being hammered in outside. She'd been trying to stop people from wanting to buy it, going so far as to sneak in during viewings to dress like the girl from ''Film/{{Grudge}}'' and hide in the shower. We fell sorry for Lea's hair during the making of this episode, she's taken up the hair department residency from previous settler Creator/DiannaAgron. She's sad that the only house she's known is just going to be someone else's, and when Trouty tries to play the homeless card she shuts him up because they're really not comparable and he can't negate her feelings no matter what. Preach it, girl, because we agree with you right now. I know, it's amazing. You can think clearly now that you're boyfriend-less.

Will, the relevant authorities sorting out the issue, gets told by Clint that the team don't mind be labelled the bad guys, as long as they win, and that Will is a lame loser excuse of a coach. Will throws him off the team, even with Clint saying that he ''is'' the team. The credits and performances, as well as all the fangirls, agree with him. It helps that [[Music/TheWanted his actor]]'s British. Then some metaphorical stuff happens. That stroller from before and then again? It's presence as an ArcObject was required once more! It was a gift from the VA sponsors, and the most expensive available. Will's trying to fix it, saying that something that expensive shouldn't have broken. The metaphor, if not apparent, is that the stroller in many ways represents Vocal Adrenaline, and though Will's trying to fix it, costing a lot of money and being top-of-the-line doesn't make something good or the best fit for you. Also, he needs to sleep on it.

Remember how Beiste came out as a trans man? Creator/IanBrennan did tell you in the PreviouslyOn. So, now he's driving to school, prepared to face the horrible students there because Sue will murder them if they're not nice. The make up department did just about OK giving Dot-Marie Jones some facial hair, it's only a little worse than whatever Chord has let grow on his face, but the chest binder isn't really working. Apparently the coaches have guy talk to catch up on, and Trouty is going to try and be correct this season, compared to not even knowing his girlfriend in season 4. We're sorry we brought that back up. Sue is also trying to be politically correct, swearing to eliminate cis-normality and transphobia from the school -- terms she googled that morning. Beiste has now changed his first name from Shannon to Sheldon.

Rachel's about to announce New Directions' lesson before Kurt finally interrupts her and shuts her up. Only took him six seasons. Kurt's lesson is "[[TitleDrop Transitioning]]'', because Rachel's having problems. The new kids comment on how they never get any attention, it's all about Rachel, like this lesson. Kitty tells them to shut up, because in Marley and Quinn's absence she now likes Rachel. Sam brings in the "Wheel of Musical Fortune", like Series/TheWheelOfFortune, but with everybody's names on: they're going to get a duet partner. Except Sam and Rachel are already paired up because Sam is adamant on finally crossing her off his list. Brittany gave him the idea. Spencer, possibly the OnlySaneMan in the entire show (he's [[CastFullOfCrazy still pretty odd]]), asks why they didn't pull names out of a hat. It's not theatrical.

* "Same Love" by Music/{{Macklemore}} and Creator/RyanLewis, performed by Unique and Will
* "All About That Bass" by Music/MeghanTrainor, performed by Mercedes and Roderick with New Directions, Kurt, Artie, Sam, Blaine and Rachel
* "Somebody Loves You" by Music/BettyWho, performed by Blaine and Kurt