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The Glee Agenda
Echoing the real Josh’s Twitter sentiments: I am totally gay for Glee.
In fact, I’ve been quite gay for it since Fox premiered the pilot on Hulu almost 4 months ago. The musical element of the show gives it its voice, but thankfully it’s used sparingly. There’s typically a featured performance per episode and 1 more incidental song. It’s enough to keep the music present but not overpowering. The main female lead (sorry, haven’t learned names yet, and apparently I don’t know how to use Google) is infectious and owns every scene she’s in. One thing I especially like about Glee is the pacing. It moves quickly from plot point to song to plot point, etc. My only complaint (granted I’ve only seen 2 eps) is that all the dialog written for the only female black character sounds like it was specifically engineered to sound like it was written by a corny white guy FOR an “urban’ black girl. So far she’s a constant string of “sho-nuff’s” and “nah ahhh white boy’s.” She actually said “you’re pretty fly for a white guy” in episode 2. No black person has every uttered those words in the history of mankind.
Your thoughts on Glee? Are you A Gleek? Commentward, Ho!
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September 12th, 2009 at 12:33 am
I'm really gay for Glee. In fact, the three male members of my family sat around and watched it together. I can only assume, in an ironic twist, that my mother and sister were doing manly things, like shooting small animals or scratching themselves while talking about sports over cheap beer.
September 11th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
The art today is amazing!
September 11th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
The coloring and lines look amazing today!
September 12th, 2009 at 12:58 am
After visiting about 20+ web comics you are still the champion. Awesome comic, very funny! Thanks!
September 12th, 2009 at 1:32 am
But we know you know, Joel. We want you to know.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Joel's hair-horn cradling Josh's cheek in panel 2 is fucking spectacular. Well done.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:03 am
I'm a little worried about my gay-married musicals-loving husband. He told me he wasn't all that interested in watching it. I just don't know who he is anymore. *snif*
September 12th, 2009 at 2:14 am
The men gay and the women butch lesbians?
September 12th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Oh noes he's gone strait for Felicia Day! :O
September 12th, 2009 at 2:22 am
In that first panel Josh looks like he's standing at a urinal doing his business.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Oh btw Joel that Art Institute Ad is totally lagging my browser.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:43 am
who says I'm not?
September 12th, 2009 at 4:30 am
omg Joel's pompadour is taking on a life of it's own, soon it will start controlling Joel.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Thanks, Adam. I appreciate the confidence boost.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:16 am
So he's gone "King (as opposed to queen) for a Day?"
Zing!
September 12th, 2009 at 5:17 am
im so distraught I dont realize or care that he's peeing on me. Its canon now.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:17 am
if only my real hair were that impressive.
September 12th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Panel 2 in itself is just great. The look on Josh's face, all this desperation around him… I lol'd.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I didn't realize 'stupiding' was a verb. I will definitely be adding that to my vocabulary.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Is Josh getting more spiteful and angry in the past few months, or is it me? More heavy eye lids, and less emotion in general.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I'm totally gleeking out- but I'm female, so I have an excuse? Granted, I'm a lesbian, so maybe I shouldn't like it so much…
…But I love musicals…
… and Kurt's completely casual attitude about being tossed into the dumpster (One day, you will all work for me.) made my FREAKING DAY!
September 12th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I am to a GLEEK! It was a shock to hear the dialogue for the "urban" black girl. Can the writers get any more cliche? When can we get rid of stereotypes and do somthing new with certain characters? The whole show is lloking very interesting and I'm very glad it isn't like High School Musical. Which is could have been if they had crapforbrains writers. At least there that.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Instant gayness *and* watersports? This show must be something special to have such an effect on a respectable young WASP such as… myeah, anyway, I guess I should check it out.
September 12th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Clearly i'm doing my best to play it cool, Joel just uncovered our agenda, I can't let him know he's onto us!
September 12th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
this is part of it. Also, Im trying to bring out more of Josh's misanthropic side. His only REAL side.
September 12th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Thanks for getting me interested in this, Joel. This show is awesome, plus, I can really relate to it, because I was the geek in High School. I wasn't the biggest geek in my school, that title belonged to one of my few friends, Shane, but I was a pretty close second. I won't go into too much detail about how geeky I was, but Shane and I used to arrive at school early so we could play a few games of chess in the library. Sometimes Shane would even bring in his 3-layer chess set.
September 12th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Misanthrope, yes, but if you prick him does he not bleed? if you tickle him does he not laugh? if you poison him, does he not die? And if you wrong him, does he not revenge? I think Joel owes Josh an apology.
September 13th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Joel belongs in the 50s with that hair.
September 13th, 2009 at 3:20 am
He'll only bleed if you prick him without lube.
Zing!
September 13th, 2009 at 3:23 am
OMG Star Trek 3D Chess?! I always wanted one!
September 13th, 2009 at 3:26 am
I'm totally gay for Glee but I might just be plain gay with my love of musicals and appletinis.
I had never heard of this show since I don't watch a lot of tv on actual tv. Once again Hijinks Ensue came through and recommended another fantastic show, there was one random podcast where you guys brought up this show and I watched it that very night on Hulu and instantly fell in love. How could you not with that fantastic cover of "Don't stop believing".
September 13th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I believe he's planning a spin-off comic starring just his hair.
September 13th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
September 13th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
That set was like the deciding factor of who was geekier. The fact that he had one and I didn't was the sole reason he was the #1 geek.
September 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
but who was the better player? Thats the real deciding factor.
September 13th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
"I think Joel owes Josh an apology. "
A less true statement has never been uttered. Josh owes humanity an apology.
September 13th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
So, after reading this, I went and watched eps 1 and 2 back to back. I often live in a musical myself, but I also KEEP it to myself…Glee makes me want to sing and dance out loud, a proclivity I thought was much repressed.
September 13th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Shane beat me like 7 out of every 10 games.
September 13th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Is there a move called the Kirk Gambit?
September 14th, 2009 at 12:35 am
I <3 verbing.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Thanks Joel! You made a boring Monday morning a chucklefest for me. I'm not a gleek, cos I can't be bothered, but the strip was laughtastic and I loved Josh's "Face-hole – stupiding" comment – I'm gonna have to try to slip that into conversations from now on. Fortunately, my kids give me plenty of opportunity to ask that sort of question and totally get stuff like that so you've started a whole new verb usage. Nicey!
September 14th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Watched the first 2 episodes of Glee. Songs were good, characters were a little uneven but I kinda expect that early on in a show, humor was good and the wife was a complete bitch that I want to die. Overall I give it a B.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Hairjinks Ensue?
September 14th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Egg _zact_ ly!
September 14th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
I agree with everyone else – that second panel is genius!
September 14th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I thought the show was decent, but the musical numbers were horrible, and autotuned to death. I was waiting for Jay-Z to come out and slap some sense into them.
September 15th, 2009 at 2:02 am
It's ok. You're allowed to be a lesbian and like musicals. In fact, most lesbians I know like them enough to watch at least one a week.
But it is hard to be gay for something when you are already gay. Oh well, I can at least pretend its Glee making me gay.
September 16th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Isn't each character a complete stereotype? Isn't that intentionally part of the writing? Pretty sure the main girl could not be more Jewish American Princess if she tried…If the writers intentionally use all over the top stock characters for this over the top show it works way better…as evidenced by the first two episodes.
September 16th, 2009 at 1:32 am
My complaint might make more sense if I confess that I think the other characters are more "accurate stereotypes."
September 16th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I just want to thank you for directing me to Glee! It was amazing.
September 16th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
glad I could help spread the glee.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:22 am
The Mole bear takeover now this…stop giving away our secrets!
signed
The Gay Maffia (Gaffia? Gaffer tape? oooh….)