From Twitter 10-05-2010: Glee: Grilled Cheesus

[azurelunatic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilled_Cheesus

Context as well as just the tweets.

• All of us agreed that Rachel's song sounded awfully familiar. I whipped out my phone and Googled some of the lyrics. "Barbra Streisand!" I cried in triumph. The boys cracked up laughing.
  20:37:22: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yentl
  
• Kurt started singing. "That's the saddest interpretation of 'Hold My Hand' I've ever heard," someone said.
  20:40:25: "This looks an awful lot like a death montage." -@gameboyguy13
  
• Strings popped up in the Glee room. 20:42:53: "A quartet? A quintet? What's the collective noun for strings?" @teshiron "A clusterfuck of strings!" @gameboyguy13 #glee
  (JD was in orchestras a lot as a kid, he clarified. Ryan and I were in disagreement whether a sharp open E string was worse than a flat one; I said sharp & he said flat.)
• 20:48:42: OMG R.E.M.!!! #glee
  (I love this song. Shortly after that, someone on Twitter said that "Losing My Religion" is about a crush and not about actual religion. I was very tempted to point out the way that Hold My Hand is generally romantic, and not parental.)
• 20:51:20: RT @XMwt7: Why do people keep referencing Pastafarianism and not saying the name?! #Glee
  
• 20:52:22: Hat twins! #glee
  
• 20:58:35: Poor Kurt. Really hard to not be Christian in the US. #glee
  (Kurt seems to be an atheist; I'm pagan, but I feel for a lot of the stuff he's going through in this episode.)
• 21:02:37: Idk about you, but I would not want to eat #grilledcheezus after toting it around for a week. #glee
  
• 21:05:27: @heymally Not just you! #grilledcheezus #glee
  

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I had really low expectations when I saw that this was going to be a Special Religious Episode, and they didn't quite sink as low as I thought they would. Kurt got to keep most of his dignity and most of his religious convictions. Sue's side ... erk. :(

Comments

[ashestothestars.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it yet, but you've managed to alleviate some of the fears I had about it. I think I may give it a watch.... and Finn ATE Grilled Cheesus?

[azurelunatic]

Yeah, he ate the first half the day he made it, and kept the other half on a plastic-wrapped plate that he toted around with him and prayed to. Then Emma told him he was being a fucking idiot, and he ate it. Some days later. Eww. Even though it was probably wonder bread and plastic cheese, and thus unlikely to actually go bad.

[ashestothestars.livejournal.com]

Still, that's like eating a 10 year old happy meal.

[azurelunatic]

Agreed. Ew.

[kestrelct.livejournal.com]

I was also intrigued and saddened to note that I identified with the atheists over the theists in this episode. I keep hearing "People of any faith have more in common with each other than with atheists", but I think it's truer to say "Minorities have more in common with each other than with the majority".

[nilo.livejournal.com]

So when Quinn, Rachel, Finn, and Mercedes were in the hospital room praying/singing, they said it was good because they were representing three religions. Ummmm... What three? Ok, I got Jewish from Rachel. Are they separating out black Christian from white Christian? What the hell is Quinn supposed to be???? I don't care, but I was totally lost on that point.

[jd]

Yeah, they may have conflated religion with denomination? maybe?

Quinn I think is supposed to be fundamentalist (the abstinence club, her parents from season 1)

[nilo.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm wondering. Actually, according to Television Without Pity, there's some speculation that she's Catholic. Who knows? And honestly, it's not too relevant. I was just curious.