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Glee Season 2 Episode 3

Grilled Cheesus

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AIRED: Oct 05, 2010

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A life or death situation and one Glee clubber's admission that they don't believe in God causes controversy for everyone.

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Moments of brilliance ruined by a sickening suck up to The Vatican

5.0

By bonezrulz05, Feb 11, 2012

I gotta say this episode of glee kinda sucked. I think Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays and, in particular, Chris Colfer were stunning but this episode was just so pretentious. Mercedes and Finn just seemed to be pushing their faith on everyone and Rachel was the worst of all. She practically assaulted everyone with that ridiculous song she sang. Not a whiff of religion in the first season of glee and all of a sudden the cast are devout evangelists. Finn's Grilled Cheezus was just weird. Though I must say that Puck was outstanding in this episode. He and Kurt were the only ones to give an accurate depiction of how teens feel and react to religion these days and that Billy Joel song was brilliant. They also handled the gays vs. God issue very well. This episode had lots of good points but they were ruined for the most part by the sickening holier-than-thou attitude that is usually only seen in clergymen in their 70s.

PS was it just me or did Mercedes sound like a chipmunk when she sang in this episode?moreless
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A big disappointment in terms of actual "tolerance"...

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By WaterSinger, Nov 22, 2011

For an episode that was supposedly meant to show the promotion of religious tolerance - they did a horrible job of showing the converse of that, which is tolerance for those without religion. Kurt's every slight insinuation of not believing was met with mountains of "but you HAVE to believe" and "because we're doing something we believe in, we MUST be doing the right thing". Every other member of the club absolutely barraged Kurt for not wanting their prayers and belittled him (Mercedes' "I'm sorry that you're feeling bad Kurt, but..." then her insistence on being allowed to shove her beliefs in his face stands out as one of the worst instances).

I appreciate that religion is important to many people and that students should be allowed to practice their beliefs - it is only teachers that shouldn't be trying to get students involved in anything faith-based. However, this episode tried to make it seem like the poor oppressed faith-believing students were the ones being wronged, not the kid suffering his comatose father while also having to be told that he's wrong for not believing and not having the teacher stop the bullying. And all this in an episode that purports to be tolerant. They say that for every anti-religious comment/scene they had a pro-religion one, but really all they had were atheist scenes balanced against anti-atheist scenes. None of the atheist scenes were anti-religion, just anti-being-presumed-religious and anti-being-forced-to-hide-being-non-religious. Almost all the "pro-religion" scenes were scenes about how the atheists have to suffer without god and how you have to believe in God.

Finally, they should have brought in a consultant for their portrayal of the atheists because they clearly had no idea what they were talking about. While there are some atheists who doubt in times of troubles or disbelieve because they are disappointed in their prayers not being answered, they are generally in the minority. For the only two atheists to be shown as these minority types just echoes the theme that this episode really just bashed atheism and made it seem like the belief of a bunch of angry, bitter, hurt people who really just don't know what's best for them. For Emma to attack Sue's support of Kurt not wanting to deal with the Glee club's prayers was just the cherry on the top of this intolerant pile of hate - she's more concerned about him being supported in his non-religion (because obviously he needs religion to get through this rather than support for who he actually is) than she is about helping him deal with his father's coma as the atheist he is. What a bunch of crock.moreless
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Rubbish, I fast-forwarded through every song

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By CosmoCramer1, Nov 18, 2011

Ugh, everyone keeps talking about the controversial topic, there was barely any topic or acting - just RUBBISH songs. The Britany episode was just all pop and fast moves, which was at least more fun than this, but what happened to a good mix of music with a tie in to the moment. This show is starting to bore me.
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Getting worse and worse

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By ekotan, Nov 18, 2011

After last week's episode, which was embarrassingly bad and devoid of any meaningful content or character development; we have yet another well below par episode without any memorable songs or scenes. It looks like the show's lost its way and jumped the shark and I seriously wonder if we'll ever see any episodes as strong as the season one pilot or the Road to Sectionals. The only highlight of the episode was Kurt's rendition of I Wanna Hold Your Hand and how closely the actor playing young Kurt resembled the teenage Kurt - that's some inspired casting there. I'm afraid the other songs were quite dull and made me resist the temptation of fast-forwarding through them.

Glee, in this season, has been mediocre at best and godawful at worst, I just hope its writers will pull themselves together and up the ante before more viewers lose interest.moreless
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i barely liked it. the glee kids dealing with faith and spirituality and religion and kurt struggling with a life changing family drama.

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By misslarousse, May 09, 2011

i have to say i'm not a religious person and i had an issue with the way kurt's lack of faith was handled during most of the episode, i felt like it was being attacked wich is horrible. everybody y free ro believe in anything they want and say out loud and no religion should ever be judged, but in the same way, people should never judge someone for saying "i don't believe in god". i think such a sensitive topic shouldnt be trivialized and i would have enjoyed the show a lot more if they had focused on kurt's situation, wich was strong enough. i liked only a couple of songs. not the strongest episode for me.moreless
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Dianna Agron	Quinn Fabray
Chris Colfer	Kurt Hummel
Jessalyn Gilsig	Terri Schuester
Jane Lynch	Sue Sylvester
Jayma Mays	Emma Pillsbury
Kevin McHale	Artie Abrams

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Al Pugliese	Customer	Guest Star
Robin Trocki	Jean Sylvester	Guest Star
Sharon Muthu	Siku	Guest Star
Harry Shum Jr.	Mike Chang	Recurring Role
Romy Rosemont	Carole Hudson	Recurring Role
Chord Overstreet	Sam Evans	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (2)
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- Goof: When the group is performing "One of Us", they're standing in a long row, with Tina at the end and Rachel in the middle. When the shot changes to the view from the auditorium they exchange places, with no time to do so.
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- Music featured in this episode:
  "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel
  "I Look to You" by Whitney Houston
  "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel
  "Papa Can You Hear Me" by Barbra Streisand
  "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.
  "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles
  "One of Us" by Joan Osborne
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QUOTES (22)
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- Sue: I need to know what's going on with that Glee club. Brittany, Jugs The Clown, go.
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- Brittany: Whenever I pray, I fall asleep
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- Finn: I sort of worship Eric Clapton and Ochocinco
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- Finn: When I pulled the sandwich out, I saw the face of God. Literally
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- Kurt: I appreciate your thoughts, but I don't want your prayers.
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- Finn: They can choose totally go to Jew church and wear those hats and eat that salty orange stuff with their bagels.
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- Brittany: I made him a card that said 'heart attacks are just from loving too much.'
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- Kurt: I don't believe in God, Dad. But I believe in you, and I believe in us.
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- Emma: (to Finn) You didn't hurt Sam. It was a 300-pound left tackle who just got expelled because he's on steroids and he's 23.
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- Kurt: Otherwise God is kinda a jerk, isn't he? Well he makes me gay and then has his followers going around telling me it's something that I chose as if someone would choose to be mocked every single day of their life.
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- Tina: Last week we were too sexy; this week we're too religious. We can't win!
  Brittany: Now I know what Miley feels like.
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- Sue: (to Emma) I realize you're only half orangutan but I'm still very allergic to your lustrous ginger mane.
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- Sue: (to Emma) Asking someone to believe in a fantasy, however comforting, is an immoral thing to do. It's cruel.
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- Sue: (to Kurt) I'm sorry for what you're going through, Lady. I wouldn't wish it upon my worse enemy and I guess I wouldn't have to. Mary Lou Retton is like … an orphan or something.
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- Sue: If your kids want to praise Jesus in class I suggest they enroll at Sweet Holy Mother of God Academy on I Love Jesus street.
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- Sue: This country is not a monarchy, William. Trust me, I've tried.
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- Principal Figgins: Sue, children should be allowed to profess whatever faith they choose.
  Sue: At the BET Awards but not in public school.
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- Brittany: (to Kurt) I did a book report on heart attacks if you want to give it to the doctor. It got knocked down an entire letter grade because it was written in crayon.
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- Puck: I'm a total Jew for Jesus. He's my number one Heb
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- Finn: Something happened to me and I can't really get into it but it's shaken me to my core.
  Puck: Oh my God, he's coming out.
  Finn: Yes, there is a man who's sort of recently come into my life and that man is Jesus Christ.
  Puck: That's way worse.
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- Burt: (to Kurt) The whole point of having something sacred is that it takes precedent over anything else you have going on.
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- Kurt: Suzanne Somers says skipping breakfast is suicide.
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- International Episode Titles:
  Czech Republic: Boží sendvič (Divine Sandwich)
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- Although credited, Jessayln Gilsig (Terri Schuester) does not appear.
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- This episode marks the first appearance of Mike O'Malley (Burt Hummel) since being promoted to a series regular from a recurring character.
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- Original International Air Dates:
  Canada: October 5, 2010 on Global
  Australia: October 20, 2010 on TEN
  Latin America: December 2, 2010 onFOX
  United Kingdom: January 24, 2011 on E4/E4 HD
  Sweden: February 2, 2011 on TV11
  Czech Republic: September 3, 2011 on Prima LOVE
  Germany: September 12, 2011 on Super RTL
  Slovakia: September 25, 2011 on JOJ
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- Working Episode Title: Faith
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- Sue: Mary Lou Retton is like … an orphan or something.
  
  Mary Lou Retton is a gymnast form West Virginia who won the all-round Olympic Gold Medal in 1984, the first American woman ever to do so.
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