10 Signs You Might Be Taking Glee Too Seriously
I love Glee. Judge me if you must, but it’s my favorite tv show. It allows me to suspend my disbelief, zone out, listen to music that I otherwise probably would never listen to and reminisce about high school. Some weeks I cry, some weeks I laugh, but I enjoy the hell out of it. I’m even going to the Glee concert this weekend because my husband bought me tickets for my birthday and I’m really pretty excited about it.
Now, all that said, I see a startling trend among my fellow Glee watchers. People seem to be really almost creepily emotionally attached to the show. Attached to the point that they start dissecting each episode, song and character and doing other things that are a little troubling. I can stay silent no longer.
The following are 10 signs that you might be taking Glee a little too seriously. And for the record, all of them are real things that I have seen or read in the past few weeks, none are made up.
10. You update your facebook status more than once during an episode to criticize the plot, characters, dancing and/or musical selection.
9. You write entire 500 word blog posts devoted to how stupid Glee has become. By the way, we all know you’re totally still watching it anyway.
8. You use the phrase “jump the shark” about a television show centered around high school kids in a Glee club. I love the show to death, but the premise should’ve clued you in about the shark jumping from the first moment.
7. You start giving musical advice to the kids on the show. You know they’re not actually competing in a national competition, right?
6. You randomly start conversations about the last episode of Glee and why it was the worst episode ever. And even though your wife tells you you’re taking Glee too seriously and disagrees with your assessment of the episode, you continue to restart the same conversation several times over the course of the week. MUCH to your wife’s dismay, I might add.
5. You openly discuss how concerned you are that they have changed the ages of several characters and express concern that they won’t have them graduate when they should be.
4. You start getting upset that they haven’t had the football coach on the show in several episodes. And even when someone points out that football season ended months ago, you ask why she isn’t there teaching a P.E. class. (Answer: because she’s not a real football coach.)
3. You wax on poetically about how good the first season was and how disappointed you are with the second season, as if it was your child who had done something unthinkable.
2. You blame Glee for the downfall of teenage morality and for the increased support of gay marriage initiatives while scolding Kurt for not believing in God.
1. You refuse to go to your basement during a serious tornado watch because you didn’t want to miss the season finale of Glee.
6 Responses to “10 Signs You Might Be Taking Glee Too Seriously”
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Welcome! I'm Katie, a 28 year old, full-time graduate student who just happened to have brain surgery in November of 2007 to give my ginormous brain a little more space. This blog chronicles my daily life, from relentless headaches to being a doctor's wife. Sit down, get comfortable and stay for a while.
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I stopped watching Glee for a while this season because it seemed to be less character/plot driven and more music driven. I missed the great story lines.
But, I’m baaaaaaaack and happy to see more character development.
I’m easy.
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I’ve actually never seen Glee. However, I’m pretty sure most of these could apply to any TV show on right now. Each week I see the same people bitch about Greys in some of these same ways. But hi, then they do it again the next week.
If you like something watch it, when you stop, stop. It can’t be that hard.
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I think I might be over Glee. It usually takes me three seasons to lose interest in a show, but I find myself fast-forwarding through much of their music lately. I think it’s the lack of Puck, that show really needs more Puck, I don’t even care what he’s doing, as long as he’s doing it shirtless (I checked and Mark Salling falls within the 1/2 your age plus 5 rule, so I don’t feel like a complete dirty old woman)
And more Brittany, I miss her fantastic one-liners.
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I’m sorry Katie, but I still find the absence of the football coach alarming. SHE SHOULD BE TEACHING PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
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Heh. I saw the first four episodes over a year ago and really liked it…then just didn’t really have time to keep up, so I didn’t. *shrug*
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