In an otherwise above-average episode of Glee, the much-publicized appearance of Kathy Griffin guest-starring as a Sarah Palin parody fell as flat as Brittany’s speaking Read the full post.
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Disagree! “Are we sure these kids were born in America?” I thought Kathy was funny. Ken Tucker’s issue seems to be that the jokes were too tame but, obviously, everyone is forgetting that the network probably didn’t want him to be too explicitly anti-Palin. Even last week’s super-tame episode about sex education was attacked by the right (i.e. everyone’s favorite cult The Parents Television Council) as brainwashing the youth so if they had more blatantly attacked Palin, we’d never hear the end of it. It seems like Ken and most of the posters were tuning in to see the “Kathy Mocks Palin Hour” and were disapointed. Can we plase show some respect to the woman who, in her quest to lampoon Palin, actually fake-dated her daughter’s baby daddy?!
How is this her fault? blame Murphy.
I have to agree with many of you. The jokes really fell flat. They were unoriginal and cliche.
On the uber-positive side, KLAINE!!!! My friend and I were screaming so loud when they finally kissed. It was a BEAUTIFUL moment.
Love Kathy. Love Glee. Agree though, that Kathy on Glee was pretty weak. Or at least, a wasted opportunity. Don’t think it was Kathy’s fault. There just wasn’t much time for her and, yes, the lines they gave her were too dull and obvious.
Totally Disagree. It wasn’t meant to be earth shattering it was a quick little cameo in one scene. a small bit of levity away from the big action of the episode, which was great by the way! Ken, why you would choose to pick on those few minutes of the episode to magnify and pull a part, is beyond me. Where you watching the same show?
Why did Ken pick on it? So he can justify the fact that he’s a 78-year-old who watches teen shows by nitpicking things. BTW, fix the line “come up with anything better lines than.”
Griffin is a joke, both on this episode and in real life. can we go ahead and just demote her to an “f” status celebrity, where the F stands for FAIL…
I thought she was fine, although I was disappointed that she and Loretta Devine had such throw-away parts. However, this is hands-down the best episode of the season. I loved the original songs.
HATED the music from this other than the Warblers songs! Enuf with original crap – if I wanted that I would have kept Cop Rock on air! The songs SUCKED
you watched cop rock? you do realize that your opinions no longer matter after that revelation….don’t you?
I don’t usually do this but can anyone tell me what Blaine said to Kurt before they kissed, I had this recorded on my DVR, I ran it twice and there was no sound right after Blaine said something about watching Kurt sing and he was looking for someone and realized he was right in front of him,and then no sound until the kiss. Please help me out. I don’t know if it was a recording glitch or censorship! Down in TX, when you watch Blazing Saddles on TV, they removed the fart sounds from the campfire/beans scene! All you can hear is the horses.
We didn’t read any previews in our house, so when the judges were introduced, I thought KG was pretty funny. On the other hand, right before the judging scene, my husband and I both voiced a hope that they would just skip it this time. I thought they might, since the only reason for it last time seemed to be because Sue was a judge. While it was mildly amusing, I thought the nun was funnier than the O’Donnell/Palin character. I’m not too terribly big a KG follower, though, so I don’t really know whether she was underutilized or not.
All in all, I didn’t have a problem with the scene being too tame, or not funny, or anything else, but I do think the episode could just as easily have done without it.
A couple of Brittany lines could have provided as much levity from the competition, and the absence of the judging room would not have been noted, since none of our regular cast were even there.
it was heavy handed…and pretty flat. why bother? weakest part of the show
Lame and pointless. I thought Loretta Devine’s nun who only joined the convent to stay off the pole was a little funny. The whole scene felt kind of pointless though.
Love my Kathy, but your assessment is true. Not nearly as biting as it coulda/shoulda been. But BIG props to the Blaine/Kurt kiss. And it was not some quick peck.
That Darren Criss is a smoldering pit of adorableness.
What would critics of Glee do if they didn’t have something to complain about. With all the great things in the episode, of course the one thing that has to be mentioned is this. Listening to Ken Tucker’s top 10 in music on NPR’s Fresh Air really gave me a new respect for the critic, but to read that he tuned in mostly for Kathy’s appearance…wow, really? Not the original songs? Kurt and Blaine’s long awaited kiss. Regionals? Why are critics obsessed with the negative?
WASTE of a cameo!!!