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Season 1
- Sheila and Ruth have their moments:
- In "Slouch. Submit", on recognizing an angry Debbie approaching, Sheila whispers to Ruth some tips that she can use in front of "Alpha Wolf" Debbie as a "Beta Wolf".
- "Maybe It's All In The Disco", Ruth (while managing to deal with her own issues) advises Sheila how to deal with the birthday celebration she didn't want and skates hand-in-hand with Sheila, since the latter woman is apprehensive of roller skates. A long way since Ruth treated her as a pariah due to Sheila's wolf-persona.
- Sam's three moments:
- "The Dusty Spur" and taking a punch from Goliath Jackson defending Carmen and her choice to wrestle.
- Not a punch!Backhand.
Sam: "A backhand? What am I, a mouthy housewife?" - "Maybe It's All in the Disco", when he goes with Ruth to an abortion clinic and stays in the waiting room through the procedure. He has no reason to do this, and he does give her some signature-Sam grief about it, but he's surprisingly understanding and doesn't try to talk her out of the abortion.
- "The Money's in the Chase", when he goes after his long-lost daughter, Justine, and convinces her to at least come to the taping and they'll try to build a relationship.
- "The Dusty Spur" and taking a punch from Goliath Jackson defending Carmen and her choice to wrestle.
- Rhonda saving the show in "Live Studio Audience" by rapping her song in the middle of the ring. It's so charming, it gets the audience to clap and engage in the show.
- "The Money's in the Chase", the season one finale, has a number of them:
- Ruth giving a nervous Carmen advice to avoid another panic attack. She talks about when she started acting in front of audiences and would focus on something in the audience like a funny t-shirt.
- Carmen's family, after being adamantly against the idea of her being a lady wrestler, showing up to the Pilot taping and getting the crowd to cheer for her.
- The moment where Bash puts on glittery pink eyeshadow on his lids as emcee, you can tell that he really feels more like himself. He really shines on play-by-play too, getting the audience into the show and providing some much-needed emotion to the show.
- When Debbie, having sat in the audience with Mark and simply watched the show, stands up and tears off her trenchcoat to reveal her Liberty Belle outfit, and challenges Ruth/Zoya for the GLOW crown.
Season 2
- Ruth interrupts a cast argument by singing the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, it's cute and narmy and she breaks the news that they are going to film main title sequences at the mall.
- Reggie confides to Ruth that the cast likes it better when Ruth directs instead of Sam. And the cast, after mostly treating her with suspicion at worst in the last season, really is close to Ruth.
- Aside from the main title sequence being funny and a represenative of Ruth's directing skills, it shows the cast as these friends who are having a good time.
- Ruth tries to do right by Reggie after the latter got fired by Sam for standing up for Ruth.
- Tamme going over Debbie's house when Bash and Sam skip out on the "producers' dinner" as well as giving Debbie some coffee before their match, and the two mothers begin to bond over their sons.
- And their handclasp in the season finale.
- Cherry ends up as the lead on a cop show, but finds herself hopelessly lost since she's a stuntwoman, not an actress. Her husband eventually gets Sam to intervene and find a way to get Cherry released from the show.
- Tamme's son waiting for her after she lost the GLOW crown, telling her how much he admires her athleticism and taking her out for dinner.
- While the audience gleefully participates in Liberty Belle's shaming of Welfare Queen, everyone stops when they realize her tears are real. A guy even yells out that she's being bullied.
- When Ruth tells Debbie about being sexually harassed by Tom Grant, Debbie has the audacity to chew her out over not sleeping with him. When she tells Sam, however, he believes her and sympathizes with her, even going out to vandalize Grant's car the next day to defend Ruth's honor. Especially great as he'd been a huge Jerkass in the first half of the season.
- Ruth getting injured in the ring sets off a whole chain of these:
- First, when no one is quite sure what to do, Russell the camera guy jumps into the ring and lifts Ruth up and out, carrying her out to the parking lot, where:
- They are immediately mobbed by the entire GLOW cast, who confiscate Ruth and rush her to the hospital in Melrose's limo. They spend most of the night waiting with her in the emergency room, and even after she's admitted, they refuse to leave. They spend the whole time in full costume and makeup.
- When Ruth finally gets a room, the other ladies take turns entertaining her. Arthie, Yolanda, Carmen, Dawn and Stacy do their best to make her laugh, Jenny does Origami with her, Cherry and Keith run a new wrestling concept by her, Melrose sits with her doing a Cosmo quiz, and Tamme reads the Bible to her in very dramatic fashion. Sheila's nurturing instincts kick in to full effect from offering to lick Ruth's wound to stealing extra pillows and blankets for her.
- Even Debbie gets a moment when, after having had an extremely bad fight with Ruth, she goes and gets clothes for Ruth to leave the hospital in. And she signs Ruth's cast with "sorry I broke your ankle".
- Sam takes back what he said at the beginning of the season, making it clear to Ruth that he’s keeping her in the show and that he regards her as irreplaceable.
- Yolanda and Arthie's romance is actually very sweet, in part thanks to how little drama or angst it generates despite the time period. Even Sam seems to think they're adorable.
- In the beginning of "Rosalie", Ruth has been invited to dinner at Sam's where she is witness to the relationship between Sam and Justine.
- Justine invites Ruth to the screening of "Gina the Machina" telling Ruth that she is his friend....or at least the one person he yells at less in the GLOW crew and cast. Ruth shows up to the screening where she and Sam talk about their personal lives.
- Justine invited some kids from her school to the screening to fill the seats there, even the kids from her AV class.
- Sam is proud of how Justine protested her home ec class that is totally regressive and "marries" off two girls to one guy.
- Ruth sleeps on the couch and smiles, listening to Sam and Justine argue over how loud her rock music is.
- In an earlier episode, Sam is a proud papa running into Justine's friends from AV Club at the screening of one of his old movies. He is gleeful about his daughter having the same interests and school activities he did as a kid.
- The final episode has Justine leaving back to Sacramento with her Mom, she and Sam share an embrace and encourage each other to finish their respective screenplays.
- After a whole season where she has been looking down on most of the cast, after Carmen's brother Kurt almost humiliates her on the air when the GLOW cast is interviewed for a radio program, Debbie as Liberty Belle replies that Machu Piccu is very honorable (Kurt accused her of stealing one of his wrestling moves) and "behind every great lady wrestler" trying to succeed is a man trying to bring her down. It's nice to see Debbie support Carmen.
- Carmen and Cherry help Ruth wrestle even with her leg in a cast for the finale. Sam explains that not only does Ruth want to stay involved, but the girls wanted her involved as well.
- Mark and Debbie get an amicable divorce and joint custody of Randy. They are also getting along better than they had when they were married and divorcing. He also gives a couple of sweet smiles to Ruth and Debbie.
- The entirety of "The Good Twin" because, in universe, the entire cast decides that they're going to have fun with their sinking ship. The end result is a superbly cheesy, and campy episode of cable television.
- Reggie returning after Sam fired her.
- According to Ruth, Jenny had lent Justine two of her own dresses for her Winter Formal. It's so very sweetly Jenny of her to offer something nice for Justine to wear.
- Ruth gets Russell as a boyfriend. And she starts off seeming like a seedy porn camera man and turns out to be a very sweet and supportive boyfriend to Ruth.
- The moment Zoya wins the crown, despite being a heel and is actively making fun of the crowd and the concept of the crown, the fans are completely on her side.
- The montage of the cast on the bus is both this and bittersweet: Cherry and Keith snuggle, so is Yolanda and Arthie, Debbie (distraught at being separated from Randy) gets a handy show of support from Tamme, Rhonda and Bash are together but uncertain, Sheila is bored and resting, Sam and Ruth are both apart from Justine and Russell and are looking forward to Vegas, Carmen is serious, etc. They are clearly a team and are going places together.
- Bash marrying Brittanica. Even though both are rather apprehensive about it, Bash thinks it's better that Britannica marry a friend rather than a creepy stalker. Said stalker is then booed out of the building after he pushes Bash and angrily insults everyone.
Season 3
- Cherry and Keith's reunion in the last episode.
- Sam legally adopts Justine so she can inherit his money after he dies.
- Birdie does her best to be intimidating when she meets Rhonda, but Rhonda counters this by being completely honest about how she married Bash for a green card but has come to love him. Birdie voices her suspicion that Rhonda is after Bash's money, but Rhonda reveals that when she discovered a whole bunch of Bash's unopened paychecks lying around, she went to the Credit Union and opened a savings account for him and lodged them in it, so he couldn't just take the money out whenever he wanted to; as Rhonda points out, she wasn't even sure if Bash even knew he was getting paid. This convinces Birdie that Rhonda does genuinely love Bash, and isn't a freeloader. She gives them full access to Bash's trust fund to the tune of $40 million, which allows him to buy a TV station to get GLOW back on the air.
- Debbie has had it up to here with Bash's immaturity and flakiness, especially when he unilaterally decided to keep GLOW in Vegas for a whole year. She goes from telling him he can drown in his own vomit for all she cares, to tenderly comforting him and helping him find a way to get out of Vegas when he admits to the threesome with Paul and his homosexuality to her.
