Mash Off

Mash Off
"Mash Off"
Glee episode
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 6
Directed by Eric Stoltz
Written by Michael Hitchcock
Featured music "Hot for Teacher"
"You and I" / "You and I"
"Hit Me with Your Best Shot" / "One Way or Another"
"I Can't Go for That" / "You Make My Dreams"
"Rumour Has It" / "Someone Like You"
Original air date November 15, 2011 (2011-11-15)
Guest stars
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"Mash Off" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American musical television series Glee, and the 50th overall. Written by former season one guest star and consulting producer Michael Hitchcock and directed by Eric Stoltz,[2] the episode aired on Fox in the United States on November 15, 2011, and features a competition between the two McKinley High glee clubs.

Contents

Plot

Puck (Mark Salling) fantasizes about his substitute teacher, Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), who he kissed during an earlier episode and has since fallen in love with. He sings "Hot For Teacher" by Van Halen, with Mike (Harry Shum, Jr.), Blaine (Darren Criss) and Finn (Cory Monteith). Puck tries to convince Shelby, who adopted the child he fathered with Quinn (Dianna Agron), to start a relationship with him, but she rejects the idea. Meanwhile, Quinn is still scheming to get Beth, her birth daughter, back from Shelby, including trying to join Shelby's glee club, the Troubletones, but when Puck tells Shelby of Quinn's true intentions, Shelby tells Quinn that she does not want her in Beth's life.

Will (Matthew Morrison) and Shelby agree to hold a mash-up competition between the New Directions and the Troubletones. Santana (Naya Rivera) takes the rivalry very seriously, and is seen taunting and deriding New Directions members—particularly Finn—throughout the episode. Finn challenges Santana and the other Troubletones to a game of dodgeball. Finn and Santana are the last two people standing, until Santana whips a ball at Finn's face, winning the game. Despite having won, the Troubletones violently target Rory (Damian McGinty), giving him a nosebleed.

Cheerleading coach Sue (Jane Lynch) starts a smear campaign against her chief rival in the special election for congress, Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley). When Burt's son Kurt (Chris Colfer) accuses her of lying, Sue defends her tactics, adding that Kurt's own campaign for senior class president is boring and lacks edge. When the presidential candidates make their assembly speeches, Kurt pledges to ban dodgeball, a sport he says is too often used to bully. Rachel (Lea Michele) withdraws her candidacy and urges everyone to vote for Kurt, because he is the only one who has run a positive campaign. Later that day, Rachel reveals to Kurt that she quit partially so that he could have something important to put on his college application, and also because she missed being close friends with him. The two make up, and go to work on Kurt's campaign.

Mercedes (Amber Riley) is elected president of the Troubletones, and tells Santana that she should play fair against New Directions from now on. Santana apologizes to Finn in the school hallway, but her so-called apology consists of a great many further insults. As she walks away, Finn retaliates by telling her to come out of the closet, calling her a coward for constantly tearing others down while not accepting herself. A couple of days later, Santana is told by Sue and Burt that the niece of one of their opponents in the election overheard the conversation between her and Finn, and said opponent is now set to release an attack ad that criticizes Sue for choosing a lesbian as head cheerleader. Santana runs out of the office in tears, saying that her parents do not yet know she's a lesbian. The episode concludes with the Troubletones' mash-up of Adele songs. The moment the performance ends, Santana jumps down from the stage and yells at Finn for outing her to the world, after which she slaps him in the face.

Production

The episode featured a mash-up of Adele's "Someone Like You" and "Rumour Has It".

"Mash Off" written by Michael Hitchcock and directed by Eric Stoltz.[2] Principal photography for the episode commenced on October 6, 2011, while the fifth episode, "The First Time" was still shooting;[3] It was initially filmed in parallel with that episode, which continued through October 14, 2011,[4] and with the seventh episode, which began filming on October 13, 2011.[5]

This episode marked the 300th musical number Glee has filmed, which was a mash-up of two Adele songs: "Rumour Has It" and "Someone Like You", with lead vocals by Amber Riley and Naya Rivera. The performance was filmed with great fanfare "in front of an audience of press and crew members" on October 26, 2011, and included a press briefing afterward. Riley revealed during the briefing that she suggested the idea that she perform Adele to co-creators Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy after finding out that Adele was hoping Riley would sing her music on the show: "Someone actually e-mailed me a video of Adele saying that she wanted me to sing her song, so I e-mailed it to Brad and Ryan."[6]

The episode was to contain a flashback to a sixteen-year-old Sue, played by Colby Minifie, singing the title song of the musical Oklahoma! in a scene that would have explained Sue's antipathy to music in the schools. Series co-creator Ian Brennan said "we wanted to show that Sue at one point had Broadway dreams", and Lynch reveals, "Will tells Sue, 'Poor little Susie Sylvester was told she wasn't good, and now she's got to punish the world.' Like a lot of angry people out there, Sue's a wannabe."[7] However, the scene was not included in the episode as broadcast.

Three other mash-ups beyond the Adele one are being performed in the episode: a Hall & Oates mash-up of "I Can't Go for That" and "You Make My Dreams" performed by New Directions, a mash-up of Lady Gaga's "You and I" and Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle's "You and I", performed by Morrison and Menzel, and one of Pat Benatar's "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" and Blondie's "One Way or Another", performed by competing glee clubs New Directions and the Troubletones. Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher", performed by Mark Salling, is also included.[8]

Recurring guest stars appearing in the episode include teacher Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), Kurt's father and new congressional candidate Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley), Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba), football coach Shannon Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones), cheerleader Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter), rival glee club member Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies), and exchange student Rory Flanagan (The Glee Project winner Damian McGinty).[6][9]

Reception

Ratings

"Mash Off" was first broadcast on November 15, 2011 in the United States on Fox. It received a 3.0/8 Nielsen rating/share in the 18–49 demographic, and attracted 7.08 million American viewers during its initial airing, which tied with "Pot o' Gold" for the lowest rating of the third season.[10] While the show's viewership was up slightly from the 6.91 million viewers for the previous episode, "The First Time", which was broadcast on November 8, 2011, the rating in the 18–49 demographic decreased slightly from the 3.1/8 rating/share received by that episode.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Listings - Glee on Fox". TheFutonCritic.com. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20111111fox04/. Retrieved November 11, 2011. 
  2. ^ a b Wood, Mikael (October 27, 2011). "'Glee' to Feature Toby Keith, Adele in New Episodes". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media LLC. http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/glee-mixes-toby-keith-and-adele-for-300th-musical-performance-20111027. Retrieved October 28, 2011. 
  3. ^ Michele, Lea (October 6, 2011). "Twitter / @msleamichele: Starting episode 6 today! Haven't finished 5 yet so gotta shoot both at the same time! Kinda confusing.. Haha". http://twitter.com/#!/msleamichele/status/122014610827128832. Retrieved October 15, 2011. 
  4. ^ Michele, Lea (October 13, 2011). "Twitter / @msleamichele: Off to bed... Finishing episode 5 tomorrow! Im feelin a little West Side Story... :)". http://twitter.com/#!/msleamichele/status/124705493884215296. Retrieved October 15, 2011. 
  5. ^ Michele, Lea (October 13, 2011). "Twitter / @msleamichele: First scene up.. Me @chriscolfer and Heather.. Starting episode 7 today.. Still shooting 5 and 6 though! Three at once!! Oy vey!". http://twitter.com/#!/msleamichele/status/116378725993545728. Retrieved October 15, 2011. 
  6. ^ a b Bentley, Jean (October 26, 2011). "Glee spoilers: Jesse St. James, Adele, and more scoop from the set of the 300th Musical Number". Zap2it. Tribune Media Services. http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/10/glee-spoilers-jesse-st-james-adele-more-scoop-from-the-set-of-the-300th-musical-performance.html. Retrieved October 26, 2011. 
  7. ^ Keck, William (October 30, 2011). "Keck's Exclusives: Glee Reveals Sue's Evil Origins". TV Guide. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Glee-Sue-Origins-1039162.aspx. Retrieved October 30, 2011. 
  8. ^ Bentley, Jean (November 11, 2011). "'Glee' mashup mania: Listen to 'Mash-Off' songs here". Zap2it. Tribune Media Services. http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/11/glee-mashup-mania-listen-to-mash-off-songs-here.html. Retrieved November 11, 2011. 
  9. ^ "Mash Off". Eric Stoltz (director), Michael Hitchcock (writer). Glee. Fox. November 15, 2011. No. 6, season 3.
  10. ^ Gorman, Bill (November 16, 2011). "Full Tuesday Final Ratings: 'Glee,' 'NCIS:LA,' 'Parenthood' Adjusted Up; 'Body Of Proof' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/16/partial-tuesday-final-ratings-glee-parenthood-adjusted-up/110870/. Retrieved November 17, 2011. 
  11. ^ Seidman, Robert (November 9, 2011). "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'Dancing With the Stars' Adjusted Up; No Adjustment for 'New Girl'". TV by the Numbers. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/09/tuesday-final-ratings-dancing-with-the-stars-adjusted-up-no-adjustment-for-new-girl/110182/. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 

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