Glee

Sesame Street's spoof of Glee from Season 42.

Glee is a FOX television series about a high school glee club. It premiered in 2009 and features covers of popular songs often set to extravagant choreography.

References

• Season 42 of Sesame Street featured a parody of the show, where Anything Muppet members of their school "G Club" prepare for the "G-gionals" with a parody of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing. Puppet handlers had roughly 10 minutes to change all the character's costumes during filming of the segment.

Characters

"Mr. Gue"
Mr. Schuester parody
(Joey Mazzarino)

Sue
Sue Sylvester parody
(Jennifer Barnhart)

Rachel parody
(Stephanie D'Abruzzo)

The letter G
(Eric Jacobson)

Finn parody
(Kevin Clash)

Artie parody
(David Rudman and John Kennedy)

Kurt parody
(Tyler Bunch)

Mercedes parody
(Matt Vogel, puppetry only)

The Geerios
Brittany parody and Quinn parody
(Leslie Carrara and Fran Brill)

Brad parody

Muppet Mentions

• In the season one episode, "The Rhodes Not Taken", some glee club members are wondering about Quinn Fabray's odd behavior. Puck butts in, "Are you all that stupid? Seriously? I bet you thought Bert and Ernie were just roommates."

• In "Bad Reputation", the glee club members are trying to improve their image. After failing to make themselves appear bad-ass, Kurt admits "We're as menacing as Muppet Babies. Which means our squeaky clean reputations are still very much intact."

• In "Theatricality", the girls in the glee club dress in various styles after Lady Gaga. Rachel wears a dress with stuffed animals stapled to it. Mercedes says, "I think it's the Kermit the Frog look." She's referring to Lady Gaga's dress made of Kermit plush dolls worn as a statement against wearing fur.

• In "Furt", Santana fixes Finn's tie in a church nursery with pictures of Cookie Monster and Big Bird on the wall. Earlier in the episode, Sue Sylvester offers Kurt the following nicknames to pick from: "Gelfling, Porcelain or Tickle-Me-Doughface." He picks the middle one.

• In "A Very Glee Christmas" members of the faculty discover that Sue has rigged the Secret Santa. In retaliation, Sue kicks them out of her office and refers to Emma as Elmo.

• In "I Am Unicorn", Coach Biest carries Artie (who is wheelchair-bound) to a chair. Artie whispers to Emma, "She's like my own private Jim Henson."

Connections

Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester) with the walk-around costume version of Elmo at the 2010 White House Easter Egg Roll.

• Carol Burnett played Doris Sylvester in "Furt"
• Kristin Chenoweth played April Rhodes in "The Rhodes Not Taken" and "Home"
• Katie Couric played herself in "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle"
• Kathy Griffin played Tammy Jean Albertson in "Original Song"
• Neil Patrick Harris played Bryan Ryan in "Dream On"
• k.d. lang performed "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in "A Very Glee Christmas"
• Jane Lynch plays Sue Sylvester
• Idina Menzel played Shelby Corcoran
• Olivia Newton-John played herself in "Bad Reputation"
• Molly Shannon played Brenda Castle in "Bad Reputation" and "Dream On"
• Jenna Ushkowitz plays Tina Cohen-Chang

External links

• Behind the scenes video of "G Club" by Martin P Robinson