<p>^^My DH pretends to be reading the paper but I see him watching out of the corner of his eye when Glee is on. I keep wondering how Finn can be dumb enough to believe Quinn got preg. in a hot tub with their clothes on. Maybe Bio. isn’t a req. at Glee High Sch.,lol</p>
<p>. The marching band at S2’s university has a Glee half-time show.
They play “Don’t Stop Beliving” then “Rehab” (some Glee competitiors did it on one episode) and finish off with “Somebody to Love”
When the annoucer introduced the band and said they would be doing a Glee show, there were big cheers from the crowd…guess Glee has a good college following.</p>
<p>I was going to post that even though they’ve mentioned several times that Finn is not the brightest tool in the shed, you’d think that at the least he would have gone home and googled “can I get pregnant in a hot tub?”</p>
<p>I hoped when Puck told Mercedes that he was the father of Quinn’s baby, she would run and tell everybody else. WHY on earth isn’t she telling anyone?! Poor (dumb) Finn is stuck taking responsibility for no reason.</p>
<p>Come on, people. Glee is not real life! They have to reserve Finn learning who the real father is for a much, much later episode – maybe (probably) the season finale. They need to keep tension between him and Rachel, and between Puck and Quinn.</p>
<p>But as for WHY on earth Mercedes isn’t telling anyone? She got it right immediately: Quinn chose Finn to be her babydaddy, not Puck. Putting aside the interesting depths Puck has been revealing (but only to Quinn), wouldn’t you? And Finn is stuck taking responsibility because that’s who he is: a responsibility-taker (just not an especially competent one).</p>
<p>When Finn started to sing “Having My Baby” last night, I was laughing so hard I could barely watch. I also loved the bathroom confrontation between Rachel and Susie Pepper, and the complete backfiring of Will’s Police/Puckett mash-up.</p>
<p>Okay, I heard Mercedes’ reasoning last night, but since when do you just get to pick the Daddy you want as opposed to the Daddy who actually fathered the child? That’s ridiculous on so many levels that it’s hard to believe she said it with a straight face.</p>
<p>I agree, mimk6. Mercedes was being so utterly ridiculous that I was shocked any adult (ie the writers of the show) could think up such a ludicrous line of thought. That’s not how it works in the real world. You don’t just get to pick and choose those things just because you’re the one with the uterus. And Mercedes was completely ignoring the fact that Finn is being manipulated and even victimized by these lies.</p>
<p>I caught this last night (kids watch it religiously). I really LIKED it! They said I wouldn’t…how could they think I wouldn’t like it? I do, I do!</p>
<p>I am really interested in mimk6 and PhysicsMom’s reactions – Do you honestly think that women haven’t been doing this for, oh, approximately all of human history? It’s only in the past decade or so that it has been possible to determine definitively who the father of a baby was. The idea that a pregnant woman would choose Mr. Right over Mr. Right Now is practically a cliche in literature and other forms of popular narrative. What’s more, I believe that under most states’ legal regimes, if a couple marries before the baby is born, a third-party biological father would have a very, very hard time asserting any rights with respect to the child. </p>
<p>To a large extent, you DO get to pick and choose those things because your’re the one with the uterus (although fraud is never a good idea). And I think overall that’s the policy that works best for the children, too.</p>
<p>But JHS, as you point out, for most of history people couldn’t really determine who the father was if the timing was close. In this case, she didn’t even have sex with Finn. She really does know. And what’s-his-name knows the truth, and so Mercedes made her comment based on that assumption. She didn’t even seem shocked about what Quinn was doing. She didn’t even seem to have a moment of “Hey, is this an ethical problem for me?” Besides, why is Finn really Mr. Right? Just because Quinn likes him better? Because he can sing “Having My Baby?” I’d like to think we have come a ways in the last few decades in terms of fathers’ rights and that we have learned that a life built on lies isn’t actually that good for kids.</p>
<p>Just watched Glee on hulu. Since I work Wednesday nights I always watch it on the computer. I think it’s best not to analyze too much and just watch. I think the fake pregnancy of the wife is the strangest story-line.</p>
<p>I don’t know; I’m more skeptical than you that “a life built on lies isn’t actually that good for kids”. Although I guess a kid ought to have access to the medical histories of his biological parents. Also, I believe that for most of history women often (not always) had a very accurate idea who the father was, and a lot of leeway in reporting when they became pregnant.</p>
<p>As for the characters on Glee – hey, it’s an outrageous TV show. Of course it’s questionable whether Finn is really Mr. Right. The show is generating tremendous narrative energy out of that. Does it matter that he’s so dumb and gullible? Will he crack? Will he ever act on his feelings for Rachel? Will Quinn ever realize how much Puck loves her? Can Puck be a little less of an ass? And what happens when Psycho-Wife tries to steal the baby?</p>
<p>The show went to great lengths to make clear that, at least, Finn ejaculated in the general vicinity, which under some circumstances (not likely a hot tub) could result in pregnancy. So Finn is dumb, but he’s not THAT dumb; he has assimilated the message that penetration is not required for pregnancy (something my children were taught in sex ed, too). And of course the set-up is outrageous.</p>
<p>Cardina Fang hit the jackpot: “it’s a soap opera”…add to that and “it’s funny”…think Allie McBeal and others of that genre…totally agree…(just thought of Moonlighting also)</p>
<p>Based on enthusiastic reviews of Glee on this thread, I finally watched an episode. Fun! and Funny! Made me want to sing in the shower, which sadly (considering my voice) is not a good thing.</p>
<p>“Does it matter that he’s so dumb and gullible? Will he crack? Will he ever act on his feelings for Rachel? Will Quinn ever realize how much Puck loves her? Can Puck be a little less of an ass? And what happens when Psycho-Wife tries to steal the baby?”</p>
<p>Reading this actually made me chuckle because it made me think of the old soap opera promo voice overs. I was never much of a soap opera follower but I really enjoy this show, the music makes the show. Of course it’s funny, but without the music, it wouldn’t be <em>as</em> good to me.</p>
<p>I did watch the first episode, because of this thread, but while I thought parts were cute, Ididn’t really care about any of the characters enough to see it again- however, I know others who are really hooked.</p>
<p>I don’t have the attention span for storylines that never get resolved ( in general)
I did used to love Santa Barbara & * Knot’s Landing *though-</p>
<p>Oh, no, please don’t compare this to Ally McBeal. It can’t hold a candle to Ally McBeal! This show is ridiculous, in every way describable. Very poorly written, unlikeable characters, so many plotlines that you can’t keep them straight but that doesn’t matter because chances are that they’ll be dropped anyway with no resolution, inconsistencies in character development sometimes even within the same episode!, and when in the world are those elusive sectionals (which have been only a few weeks away now forever) going to take place? I honestly don’t know why I keep watching. I guess I keep hoping that they will, even once, allow the kids to actually sing without auto-tuning and lip-syncing every single overproduced number.</p>
<p>Did someone say this already? It is more like “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”
I love Glee!
When Finn decided the best thing to do would be to sing “You’re having my baby”?
priceless</p>