"I bet the duck's in that hat."

The assignment in glee club this week is everyone's favorite karaoke classic: ballads! The kids team up and pick names of their future partners from a hat. Tina gets "other asian", Cheerios get each other, Quinn gets Artie, Finn gets Kurt, Puck gets Mercedes, and Rachels gets...Mr Shu?! Since one of the boys is in the hospital because they found a spider in his ear (oh gag, oh barf), Shu has to fill in. Over the course of their "Endless Love" duet, Rachel develops a crush on him. So gross. As, what a terrible idea guy. C'mon.

Shu's seen that look in a young girl's eyes before a few years prior with Suzy Pepper. A hilarious character that I fear will never come back, Suzy Pepper is what Rachel (pretty accurately) describes as the "school crazy". Shu tried to let her down gently and she flipped out, and he fears the same thing will happen to equally uptight Rachel. He goes to Emma (yes, Emma is back) for advice, and somehow it leads to her telling him to sing his feelings to Rachel? Though Rachel didn't really get the message behind the "Young Girl/So Close To Me" mashup, it aaaaall worked out in the end. Thank God that storyline is over.


"The square root of 4 is rainbows."

Poooor Kurt. Thanks to the Finn/Kurt teamup, we learn that Kurt has been hopelessly in love with Finn for a long time. Finn is, of course, clueless. Somehow Kurt ends up being Finn's Jimminey Cricket this episode and Finn listens to everything he says. This includes serenading the video of Quinn's sonogram (creepy), which leads to Finn finally telling his mother the truth. Finn and I are both glad that the truth is at least kind of out now. Next step, telling Quinn's Glenn Beck and chastity-loving Christian parents. Or, as Kurt suggests, singing them the truth! Quinn's father flipped out and kicked her out of the house. Even though she's kind of a lying bitch, I feel really horrible for her. Luckily Finn's mom is way hipper and is letting her crash at their place. Also, their glee friends serenade them with "Lean On Me." Awww.

Miscellanea
* Le gasp, Mercedes knows the truth about who Quinn's real baby daddy is! I wonder how long she can keep it under wraps.
* Glee really excels when they mainly focus on one plot line. Way to go!
* BRING COACH SUE BACK NOW PLEASE KTHNX.
* How creepy was Rachel going over to Shu's house?
* Finn about his future baby: "I'm gonna spend my whole life loving her and shes never going to know." Okay that's the saddest thing ever .
* "If I don't get enough sleep my antidepressants won't work and I'll go crazy and kill you."
* Quinn's creepy dad is Hue from "The Riches"! Did anyone else watch "The Riches?" It was an amazing show.

Fan art! So much amazing fan art!

I usually watch Castle online (not sure if they play it when it actually airs or not) and before each episode he gives a cute little intro that I'm gonna throw in here...just for fun The ( ) are clips from the show

Intro:
There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people...psychopaths and mystery writers. I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I? I'm Rick Castle. (Castle: I really am ruggedly handsome aren't I?) Every writer needs inspiration and I've found mine. Detective Kate Beckett. Thanks to my friendship with the Mayor, I get to be on her case. (Castle: I'd be happy to let you spank me.)Together we catch killers. (Castle: We make a pretty good team you and I, like Starsky and Hutch, Turner and Hooch... Beckett:You do remind me a little of Hooch)

So sorry this is sooo late! Busy busy week...I didn't even get to watch it until right now either! Anyhow, just going to do a quick 'live blog' type deal since it's so late

Live Blog Time! -->

Ha! That was a great opening...fun music...dead guy falling on your car...fun fun fun!

Wow...a non-dirty, very upstanding lawyer for a vic...interesting!

Castle (to a suspect) "Quite a record...your parents must be proud" Perp "Yea, they hang all my mugshots on the fridge"

Ryan making fun of Castle's DeNiro impression...cute!

IDK if this is a Firefly reference or not...but I'm sure taking it that way! The comment about the bar fight...and then Castle gets punched LOL so reminiscent of 'The Train Job' episode...at least he didn't get thrown through a window this time (holographic or not!) I'm loving it!

This black guy suspect is hi-larious! When they're in the car...does that remind anyone else of Joe Pesci being the annoying tag along in the Lethal Weapon movies?! Oh, and Beckett putting Castle in the backseat and the guy is teaching him how to get out of handcuffs...omg that was great

Ah ha! So, our very upstanding lawyer vic is a not so upstanding pimp!...(shocker...not)

Wonderful timing...just as I was thinking how great of a twist it would be if it was actually the call girl that was behind everything...low and behold...plot twist! *yataa!* lol that's awesome!

Thoughts:

I love this show and all it's funny but I'm thinking we need to either see more of the story line about Beckett's mom or have another season long story arc to tie in to everything...I just feel like there could be more...thoughts anyone?

*Edit*
From Nathan Fillion's Twitter-->Seamus Dever keeps coming up with brilliant comedic bits. People are saying he's funnier than me. Guess Ryan's gonna catch a bullet soon.

(ya'll really should follow him on there-->[link] ...he comes out with some great stuff )

Fan Art:

(isn't she sooo much hotter with long hair?! hope they pretty her up a bit on Castle soon...I don't like her hair as it is right now )

Sorry for the delay folks. Work, school, and life took over. Thank God it's almost winter break.

4.04 Recap-Audition Day

Pete and Liz have finally found an actor but they need Jack's approval. They set up an audition day with him going up against actors they have chosen specifically to make him stand out so it looks like it was Jack's idea to pick him.
When Jenna finds out about who they intend to hire, she reveals that she worked with him before and of course she doesn't like him. Who is really surprised though? So she makes it her and Tracy's plan to find others to audition as well. Since all these extra actors throw off the formula for the "Hornberger System", Pete rushes to add more hoping to guarantee that Jack will pick their favorite.
Dot Com even tries to audition, as well as Josh. I miss him.
Jack has bed bugs and spends the entire episode itching and getting disgusted looks from everyone.
Random funny moment: Kathy Geiss headbutts Jayden, the actor they want to hire.
Jack decides he wants to hire the guy who pretends to be a robot on the street.

Quotes:
Tracy: People will laugh even when I forget my um...line!
Grizz: Lines!
Tracy: Lines.
Jack: I can hear your hair growing from this thing!
Tracy: He's evil Tracy? Oh...He's evil "comma" Tracy.
Jenna: If you are a funny gay man, please get into the car
Jack: Make me feel human again. Embrace me, Kenneth.
Kenneth: ...I've got a thing...
Jack: Et tu Kenneth?
Josh: I call this character "Smelly Belly."




Frank's Hats:
-Because

4.05 Recap-The Problem Solvers

The robot guy shows up for work without his robot outfit on of course. His real name is Jack but they change it to Danny...Kenneth is confused because Danny doesn't want to depends on Kenneth for everything and use him like the other actors do.
Liz and Jack go out to dinner...not as a date...sadly. He wants to do a dealbreaker talk show with her. After discussing it with Jenna and Tracy, they advise her to meet with other networks and agents about it first. When Jack finds out he's obviously a little upset about it. It turns into a small little battle between Jack and Liz trying to get the dealbreaker show but in the end Liz realizes Jack is the best person to go with anyways.
After giving Liz advice, Jenna and Tracy start calling themselves "The Problem Solvers."
Kenneth has issues dealing with Danny because he refuses to use him the same way Tracy and Jenna do. At the end of the episode Kenneth assures him he enjoys his work.


Quotes:
Liz: Dealbreaker: The book for you man no good. By Lesbian Sauerkraut
Jack/Danny: Oh I'm Jack too. Jack Baker. So I guess there's two Jacks.
Jack: I don't think so. Let's call you...Danny.
Jack: I was wrong. It's you. It's always been you.

Frank's Hats:
No Frank in this episode? What gives?




New episode tonight but I won't be home. My next blog for tonight's episode will be up probably on Saturday.