It was a very Glee Christmas, and Baby, its cold outside! Seriously, It’s f#*king freezing in my house! But Baby, It’s Cold Outside – the duet between Kurt and Blaine was the absolutely best part of the entire show.
I love Glee, I really do. And I’m a Glee apologist too – because I defend the show to absolutely everyone who ‘just doesn’t get Glee’. But I was soooo looking forward to this ‘all Christmas Glee’ episode and instead I was left with a really crappy episode.
So it’s Christmas, and the kids want to embrace Christmas so they decorate a Charlie Brown Christmas tree all while singing the ‘Island of the Misfit Gifts’ song – because they’re misfits too – get it? Yeah, me neither. In fact I still can’t understand how the captain of the football team, the head cheerleader and 2 of the hottest cheerleaders in school are considered ‘misfits’, but that’s another rant altogether.
So the kids are all excited for Christmas and Mr. Shue wants them to go carolling from classroom to classroom to help raise money for under privileged kids and the Glee kids don’t want to because they think they’ll be mocked. Turns out they’re right, because the kids turn on them and a teacher even throws a shoe at them! Really?! Come on – we all know that would not happen!
So then we find out that Brittany still believes in Santa, which is actually quite believable because they’ve made her such a dim, but loveable character. But even cuter is that all of Glee club wants to preserve her belief. Which is really totally cute and all the kids go to see Santa and sit on his lap but Brittany asks Santa to make Artie walk for Christmas which is basically impossible.
So the guys ask Coach Beiste for her help in pretending to be Santa and to tell Brittany that Artie walking just won’t happen, which results in a pretty weird scene where a teenager has a very weird conversation with a woman dressed in a Santa suit. Kinda odd.
And then we have Sue, who I normally love, but this week was just too much. Basically Sue played the Grinch and Brittany was Cindy Lou Who and Sue stole Christmas but then the Glee kids made her happy and she gave back Christmas and the Glee kids sang the song from The Grinch and Artie was able to walk thanks to a Transformer walking thing-y from Israel that Coach Beiste secretly bought. Yay!
So boring. Seriously – Rachel and Finn drama – boring. Mr. Shue and Sue drama – boring. Even Mr. Shue and Ms Pillsbury – boring!!! The one highlight – as very small as it was, was when Kurt and Blaine sang ‘Baby, its Cold Outside’. It makes me sad that Kurt had to leave the Glee club so that we could actually hear him sing. But this whole private school thing is getting old.
I hate that I didn’t love it, because TV has been pretty terrible lately so I really look forward to my go to shows. Did you watch Glee last night? Did you love it or were you just meh like me?
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Confessions from a Pop Culture Mummy
I have a confession to make – I don’t like the Brangelina. Nope, not even a little bit. Sure they might have 6 of the most gorgeous kids in Hollywood today, but I still don’t like them. And yes, I believe that Angelina Jolie is a home wrecker and Brad Pitt is a filthy adulterer. So when Chelsea Handler decided to take pot shots at Angelina Jolie during one of her stand up shows, all I could think of was ‘F**k yeah!’
See interestingly enough Chelsea Handler had just celebrated Thanksgiving with Jennifer Aniston in Mexico, while Jen’s ex-husband was with his new love and their 6 children in Paris. Hmmmm, kinda makes you think that the ladies might have been trashing the ex while in Mexico, no?! Now lots of people will think that it’s time Jennifer should move on, if in fact Chelsea’s latest tirade was a result of that Mexican vacation. And I do too, to a point. I mean if it was you or me, and we were on a girls only trip, ABSOLUTELY would the topic come up in conversation – especially after a few margaritas. That’s not ‘not moving on’, that’s just being a girl.
See in Chelsea’s routine where she mocks Angelina about not having any female friends – I get that. Because unlike Angelina, I’m a girl's girl. And as a girl’s girl it’s the unwritten rule that you never, ever trust a boy's girl. That’s the girl that can’t get along with other girls. Stay. Away. From. That. Girl. Are there exceptions to the rule? Sure there are. But Angelina is not one of them.
So when I heard that Chelsea Handler talked a bit of smack about Angelina in her stand up routine I thought ‘Now that’s a girls girl – sticking up for her friend!’ See Angelina has a new movie coming out with Johnny Dep called ‘The Tourist’ which looks absolutely shit-tastic, so of course she’s been whoring herself out to the masses as much as possible in hopes of ensuring a good box office return, even though the buzz around the movie is really quite bad. That’s why you’ve seen countless pictures of her and her kids, her and Brad, and her on the set of her new movie every single day on the gossip blogs.
Now it’s no secret that back in the day I was on Team Aniston. I mean for the love of God, my girlfriends and I all bought the Team Aniston shirts off e-bay from Kitson - that’s how much we were on Team Aniston. Because every time I look at Angelina Jolie all I can see is a woman who hooked up with a married man. And now when I look at Brad Pitt (who really used to be so heavenly to look at) all I can see is a man who left his wife to hook up with Angelina Jolie.
Chelsea Handler took to her twitter account to defend her stand up routine stating that;
I have been making fun of angelina jolie for years. Period.
So I get it, and I applaud it. We all need friends like Chelsea Handler, the kind of friend that’s willing to say the things that you want to say, but can’t. The kind of friend that’s not afraid to piss others off for saying what she thinks. And the kind of friend that will drink margaritas in Mexico with you and always have your back. Have a look at Chelsea’s video and let me know if you think she went too far. Caution - there's some spicy language in there so it's not safe for work.
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Confessions from a Pop Culture Mummy
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