Gleaning from Glee

I’m coming in late on the whole Glee phenomenon but now that the show has picked up five Golden Globe nominations I thought I’d better finally look at it systematically. I've just watched four episodes One-Two-Three-Four while pounding the treadmill in the attic. (Well, not pounding the treadmill the WHOLE time. I touched up the finish on a sweet old chair while watching and also sorted 100 photos from the 1990s, but in the end someone looking in the window at that messy third-floor room for 75% of the time would have seen a person watching a TV screen. Just fixedly watching the screen, which is maybe how most people watch TV I don’t know.)There’s a lot I still don’t get though - like why the cool director Mr. Shuester would marry that moron of a woman in the first place? And what’s with bald-guy pederast in the pink sweaters? Wouldn’t it be better to have just one nice normal gay male in the person of the sweet rosy-cheeked Kurt Hummel character?I need to catch up I realize; these are just the first four episodes of the very first season I'm talking about.I do get the satire though. It’s funny that little Kurt Hummel looks like a Hummel, the little figurines your elderly aunt collected and displayed in her Colonial-style curio cabinet.I also 'get it' that creating a character like the wide-eyed hygiene obsessed Emma Pillsbury is an homage to 1978’s Animal House and the white-glove-wearing character Amanda Pepperidge. (Anyone remember her? And they say drenching sexual content is new!)Anyhow... She’s the one in the headbands in this witty clip-plus-music but oh John Belushi where are you when we really need you? A shame and a waste, your death from speed-balling. Who would ever have guessed back in ‘78 at the huge, huge part drugs would play in wrecking so many lives? Click through to YouTube to watch it and remember to KEEP ON SMILING or else we're all lost![youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fAqFAx_zzk&feature=fvw]