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There's an awful lot of singing in this episode, but not actually a whole lot of plot -- although the plot's that there is pretty juicy. Okay, first -- Mr. Schue assigns the kids to pair off and sing ballads to each other. Because Matt (a.k.a. "Shaft") is out of school with an aural spider infestation, Mr. Schuester has to put his name into the hat so there'll be an even number of singers. And he ends up paired with Rachel, who develops an insane crush on him while the two of them are singing "Endless Love." And when I say insane, I mean it -- she goes to his house and lets Terri put her to work cooking and cleaning to prove her worth. She also completely misses the point when Will tries to use the power of music to get her to back off. It's only when an older student who formerly had a crush on Will shares her Guatemalan-insanity-pepper-inspired wisdom that Rachel comes to her senses.
And speaking of crushes, Kurt finally tells the world (in voice-over) that he's madly in love with Finn. Luckily for him, the two of them are paired up for the ballad assignment. His plan seems to be to help Finn and Quinn stay together just long enough for Quinn to drive Finn crazy and make him give up girls completely. He also encourages Finn to express himself with song, to disastrous effect. First, Finn's mother catches him singing "I'll Stand By You" to a video of a sonogram, thereby realizing that he's an expectant father. And then Finn's plan (hatched in Kurt's brain) to tell Quinn's parents about the pregnancy by singing "(You're) Having My Baby" at dinner goes awry when Quinn's parents freak out and her father throws her out of the house. So now Quinn is living with Finn, because his mother is cool like that.
We don't get to see any of the other ballad pairings (and I feel cheated to miss out on the song stylings of Brittney and Santana) because the other kids have been preparing a song to sing to Finn and Quinn to tell the two of them how everyone feels about them. And that song is "Lean On Me." And it's pretty damn awesome.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Mr. Schue writes "Ballad" on the whiteboard in the music room, telling the kids it's from the Middle English, neglecting to tell kids that Middle English stole it from Old French, which stole it from Old Provençal. Look at the Man, whitewashing history. He asks if anyone knows what it means. Brittney: "It's a male duck." Oh, Brit-Brit -- you just keep on trying. Kurt tells Mr. Schue that a ballad is a love song. Will tells him that a ballad can be a love song, but that a ballad is really a story set to music. He thinks they're the perfect mode for self-expression, since "stories and music are the way we express feelings that we can't get out any other way." He reminds us that sectionals are in a few weeks. I thought they were in a few weeks a few weeks ago. Is McKinley High trapped in some kind of time loop, forced to repeat the same week over and over again until they get it right? Anyway, Will tells the kids that there's a new rule this year that requires each choir to sing a ballad. He can claim it's a new rule, but I think he just sat down and finally read the rule book last night. To get the kids in the ballad-singing mood, Mr. Schue is going to pair them off; each member of the pair will pick a ballad and sing it to his or her partner. Finn tries to pick Quinn, but Will says that fate will pick their partners -- he wrote everybody's name on pieces of paper and he's going to pick them out of a hat. Brittney whispers to Santana, "I bet the duck's in the hat." Santana tells Will that Matt is out sick -- he had to go to a hospital because they found a spider in his ear. I have to believe that actually happened to someone in the writers' room, because I just don't see how somebody could just make that up. In any case, after overcoming his gag reflex at the thought of a spider in the ear, Will says that he'll take Matt's place until he gets back. The kids pick names out of the hat. Puck gets Mercedes, Artie gets Quinn, and Finn gets Kurt. Kurt looks like his wildest dream has just come true. Finn tells Mr. Schue that he can't sing to a dude, but Will tells him that fate will not be denied. Tina gets "other Asian," and Santana gets Brittney -- who looks even happier than Kurt did when Finn picked his name. Hmmmm. Which means that Rachel is left with Will. He thinks that maybe they should wait until Matt gets back, and Finn throws his fate line right back in Will's face. Artie asks for some clarification about what kind of song they're supposed to sing, so Rachel volunteers herself and Will for a demonstration. She also finally reveals the piano player's name, as she tells him, "Brad, 'Endless Love' in B-flat, please." He'll always be Tinkles to me. Will doesn't think "Endless Love" is really an appropriate song, but she points out that it's a perfect ballad. Egged on by Finn and the other kids, Will assents, and Tinkles starts to play the song. As Will starts to sing, we get internal monologues from some of the kids. Kurt: "I could totally sing this song with Finn. But screw him if he thinks he's taking the Dianna Ross part from me." Puck: "I love the days when I don't where underwear. Full commando." I think I can safely say that we all love those days. Finn: "I never noticed how nice Rachel's butt is. Oh crap, I think Quinn knows I'm staring at it." Indeed, Quinn is giving him the stink eye. As Will and Rachel sing, he realizes that he's at the receiving end of one Rachel's very intense looks -- the one that says, "You're the one that I want." She starts circling around the piano to get closer to him. He makes increasingly disturbed faces as he circles around to keep the piano between the two of them. He's not fast enough, and has to jump behind a stool that he uses as a shield to keep her away. Rachel gets her own inner monologue: "Wow, I never noticed this before, because he's always trying to destroy my career, but Mr. Schue has really pretty eyes. And really nice teeth. He's obviously invested in good oral hygiene, and that's important to me, it shows wonderful self-esteem." Will: "I don't like the way she's looking at me. I shouldn't have sung this song to her. Crap, she looks crazy right now. I know this look." The other kids are waving their glowing cell phones in the air as the song wraps up. Rachel: "Okay, this is amazing. When I'm singing with him, it's like I'm seeing him for the first time. And what I'm seeing is super, super cute." Title card.
Quinn's house. We finally get to meet another parent! Quinn's super-blonde, super-tan mother is helping her try on her white gown for the Chastity Ball. Mrs. Fabray is also drinking a highball. Or maybe a gin and tonic. In her head, Quinn is mourning the loss of her polyester Cheerios uniform, since "the control panel hid [her] baby bump perfectly." Alas, the Chastity Ball gown is not so forgiving, as Mrs. Fabray is unable to zip up the back of the dress. She's confused, since the dress was custom made for Quinn just a few weeks ago. Quinn blames the really big lunch she had at school, and after a few seconds, Mrs. Fabray blames it on her lack of exercise since leaving the Cheerios. Mr. Fabray calls out for Mrs. Fabray (first name: Judy) to come watch Glenn Beck, and then he staggers into the room holding his own drink. I guess drunk is the only way to watch Glenn Beck. He closes his eyes so he won't see Quinn in her gown. Quinn: "Daddy! It's not like we're getting married." Okay, keep it in your pants, Electra. Mr. Fabray kisses Quinn on the cheek and then the two Fabrays start grilling Quinn about whether Finn is or is not "pressuring her." Quinn assures them that he's a perfect gentleman. But she doesn't tell them about the imperfect, non-gentleman who got her pregnant. And then we learn that Mr. Fabray is inviting Finn over for dinner on Sunday. And Mrs. Fabray goes to freshen up their drinks before they settle in for an hour of Glenn Beck's insanity.
Rachel, holding a gift-wrapped box behind her back, walks up to Mr. Schuester's desk. She wants to confirm that they're rehearsing their ballad at 4:00. It turns out that Will can't get out singing with Rachel because Matt will be out all week. Did they find a spider in his ear, or Shelob? He confirms the time of their rehearsal. She hovers over his desk and he asks what else she wants. What she wants is to give him the present she's holding behind her back. It's a hideous blue tie with some gold stars on it. Rachel tells him that every time he wears it, he can think of her and the star he's helping her become. If he finds himself wearing that tie, I think it would be a better use of his brain power to try to think of who could have stolen all of his other ties, because that's the only way he's ever putting that thing around his neck.
Emma's office. She's cleaning the windows while Will tells her, "It's happening again. It always starts with a novelty gift." Emma: "You can't blame her, Will. I mean, if we were gonna rank crushworthy teachers at this school, you'd be number one with a bullet." And then Emma looks like she wishes she'd put a bullet in her own brain instead of admitting that to Will. Instead, she diverts him by asking when Rachel started crushing on him. He tells her about the song, and then says that he can't go through this "again." Noting his repeated use of the word "again," Emma asks him what he's talking about. And so Will tells us all the tale of Suzy Pepper. About two years ago, before Emma started working at the school, Suzy was a student in Will's Spanish class who developed an enormous crush on him. Suzy is wearing red overalls over a red shirt, with a pepper-themed bandana in her hair. And maybe it's just the name, but I swear that she reminds me of nothing so much as a young Wendy Pepper. With an intense look in her eyes, she asks him how to conjugate the word "to love." And then she gives him a pepper-themed tie. "Peppers. So you can wear them and think of me... Suzy Pepper." Will thought this crush would run its course like all the others that had happened over the years, but Suzy only got crazier. The phone rings to Will's bed while he's sleeping. He answers it, but hears nothing but heavy breathing on the other end of the line. Will: "Suzy Pepper?" Suzy Pepper: "You knew it was me just by the sound of my breath. That's so romantic." Terri grabs the phone: "Listen, you little psycho. This is Will's wife, and if I don't get enough sleep, my anti-depressants won't work. And then I'll go crazy and I'll kill you. Stop calling!" I've missed Terri the last few episodes. There hasn't been nearly enough sociopathic insanity with her gone. Will decides that he has to be honest with Suzy and face things head on, as we see him approach her at her locker. In the present, Emma asks how that went. By way of answer, we flash back to Suzy Pepper, sobbing as she staggers down the hall, listening to break-up music. She flings open her locker, takes out a jar, opens it, and removes a deadly black pepper. And then she pops it in her mouth and starts chewing. And isn't that just the kind of thing you could see Wendy Pepper doing? And then accusing somebody else of slipping the pepper to her? In the present, Will tells Emma that Suzy ate the worlds' hottest pepper, which she had shipped from Sinaloa. It burned a hole in her esophagus, and she was in a medically-induced coma for three days. I wonder if she had a visit from the space coyote while she was in that coma. Will: "That's why I can't just tell Rachel to back off. These girls are too fragile." That's right, Will. You are soooo hot that if you reject a girl, she will engage in self-destructive acts. Emma thinks that if Will can't tell Rachel directly to back off, maybe he can do it through song.
Close-up on Kurt. "Sing to me everything you feel." He's talking to Finn. Finn's trying to think of a song that will communicate just how freaked out and uncomfortable he is. But Finn can't sing to a dude, and he gets kind of shouty about it, telling Kurt, "I'm sick of and tired of people pushing me to be somebody I'm not." Kurt: "Your lashing out at me is fantastically compelling and inappropriate." Finn apologizes for the yelling, noting that he's under tons of pressure. Kurt: "Girls. They're your problem. They're up, they're down. Girls." Left unsaid is the implicit "Who needs 'em?" Finn's real problem is that he's sad that he's never going to know his own daughter, and that she'll never know that he really did love her and want to take care of her. (Because, as you may recall, Quinn has decided that the baby is being given up for adoption. Although Quinn hasn't told him that the plan is to give the baby to Terri.) Kurt thinks the answer is to let it all out. As he tells Finn this, he places his hand on Finn's shoulder. Finn asks exactly what he's talking about, clearly concerned that "letting it out" is slang for something he'd rather not know about. But Kurt really means that he should express his feelings through song. "I'll Stand By You," by the Pretenders, to be precise. So Kurt plays the song, and Finn sings it out to the empty seats in the auditorium. And the invisible chorus on the stage backs him up. It's nice, and it clearly works, because Finn keeps singing the song in his own bedroom, looking at the sonogram of Drizzle on his MacBook. His mother enters his bedroom and finds him singing to his laptop. Finn's clearly never been caught watching porn on his laptop, because he doesn't instinctively snap the computer closed. Instead, he sits up and does a really half-assed job of trying to prevent his mother from seeing the screen. She realizes what she's seeing, and sits down to him. She asks if Quinn is pregnant, and he starts sobbing. She grabs hold of him and tells him it's going to be okay. She's a cool mom. And she's wearing a textured denim vest that is both scary and amazing at the same time. Commercials
School hallway. Finn has told Quinn that his mother knows about the baby. She's freaking out. He tries to reassure her that his mother won't tell her mother, but she won't hear it: "You're wrong, I'm right. I'm smart, you're dumb." Well, at least one quarter of that is correct. Tina, Mercedes, and Kurt are witnessing this from a few feet away. Tina complains about the baby drama, and Mercedes feels bad for them. Kurt just sees an opportunity, and he leaves the girls, promising to report back later. Kurt approaches Finn as Quinn storms off. Kurt: "How do you explain her constant irritation with you? It's because she's a girl." Finn thinks it's the pregnancy hormones. Kurt: "It's enough to make you want to give up women altogether." Oh, honey, you're young, so I'll forgive you. But in a few years, you're going to learn that being gay doesn't mean you have to trash women. Finn laughs along, half-heartedly, and then tells Kurt that singing to the baby really did make him feel better. "I owe you one, dude." Kurt looks like he knows exactly how he'd like to call in that favor.
Kurt's inner monologue: "Okay, I'll admit it. I'm madly in love with Finn. I have been since the first time we met." That first time was when Puck randomly shoved Kurt against the lockers and Finn berated Puck for his lack of impulse control. Kurt: "My feelings only grew stronger as we bonded over Glee. Then football. Then skin care." In the football locker room, Kurt (in an oversized terry-cloth robe) and Finn (in t-shirt and shorts) sit on a bench. Kurt tells Finn, "Your t-zone is dangerously dry." Finn looks confused, and then nervously glances down at his crotch. Kurt gestures to the t-zone on his face, and then gives Finn some moisturizer. Voice-over: "I don't know why I find his stupidity charming. I mean, he's cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of 4 is 'rainbows.'" (This as we see Finn in Spanish class copying off of Brittney's assignment.) "I guess that's love for you. I know it seems weird that I'm helping Finn with Quinn, but rest assured, it's all part of a master plan. No matter what I do, or how much I assist him with his ballad, she's going to end up disappointing him and breaking his heart. And then, he'll be crying into my shoulder pads." Oh, sweetie. That plan never works -- at least not without a case of beer.
Music room. Rachel sniffs her own hair as Will enters with Emma. He tells Rachel that he's picked a medley of songs that he thinks will be a great teaching tool. Rachel's not listening -- she just wants to know why that cow Miss Pillsbury is there. (The "cow" part is unspoken, but assumed.) Emma tells her that she is also very interested in the power of the ballad. And then Will makes Rachel sit to Emma while he sings a medley of "Young Girl" and "Don't Stand So Close To Me." Before singing, he tells her, "I want you to listen very closely to the lyrics, because I really mean what I'm singing. Really listen." And while the lyrics are clearly saying "back off, young crazy girl," he can't help dancing around like one sexy mother. By the end of the song, there's not a dry seat in the house. Including mine. Mr. Schue, time you're trying to get a girl to not like you, maybe you should think twice about shaking your moneymaker in her face. At the end of the song, all three of them are out of breath (for different reasons). Will asks if Rachel understood the song. Rachel: "Yes. It means I'm very young, and it's hard for you to stand close to me." Will, desperate, asks Emma if that was the message she got. But Emma is in a hypnotic daze, and can only mutter, "You're a very good performer." Rachel leaves to go home and work on her own medley. And as she leaves the music room, there's a mysterious figure glaring at her. It's Suzy Pepper! Commercials.
Basement of Finn's house. Kurt's there -- he's offering his services as a fashion consultant as Finn tries to find something nice to wear to the Fabrays' house for dinner. He's looking in a trunk of his dad's old clothes that his mother never threw away. His military uniform is in there. Kurt tells his own story about how his father can't throw away his mother's stuff, and they bond over their dead parents. Finn pulls a suit jacket out of the trunk. It fits, and Kurt pronounces it "not half bad." There's a moment of awkwardness as Kurt picks two ties for Finn to compare, thereby placing his hands on Finn's shoulders. As Finn looks at himself in the mirror, he's sad that his father was "brave enough to fight in some desert thousands of miles away, and [he] can't even go other to Dudley Road and tell the Fabrays the truth." Kurt tells him that his father didn't fight empty-handed -- he had a weapon. Finn: "You think I should bring a gun?" If I remember my Glenn Beck correctly, I think you're required to bring a gun. But Kurt is thinking of metaphorical weapons. No, not Finn's penis -- his singing voice.
Will walks in the front door of his apartment. The acapella music of insanity is playing, but since he lives with Terri, I assume that music is always playing. Will calls out that he's home, hangs up his jacket, and sits on the couch. Someone hands him a beer from behind the couch, and he takes it with gratitude. But he changes his tune when the "you're welcome" he gets comes from Rachel, not Terri. Rachel: "Casserole's almost ready. Hope you like venison."
Cut to the kitchen, where Will is asking Terri why she let Rachel in the house. Terri: "'Cause she said she was one of your glee kids. It didn't take me five minutes to realize she's in love with you. She asked if she could see your baby pictures." Will: "So now you're making her clean our bathroom?" Terri: "Look, Will, I have been dealing with these schoolgirl crushes for years. So why shouldn't I get a little something out of it?" Rachel, wearing yellow rubber gloves, enters the kitchen and asks Terri where to find more Ajax. Terri tells her, and as Rachel leaves, she gives a tiny little wave of one gloved hand to Will. That wave was the funniest moment of the entire episode. Will thinks it's immoral for Terri to take advantage of Rachel's crush. Terri thinks the real immorality is that Will spends his day surrounded by nubile young students. I think the real immorality is that Puck is allowed to wear a shirt. Terri complains that she's got a rash on her belly form the cocoa butter his mother sent her, so she can't scrub the floor as hard as Rachel. Will, concerned about the rash, reaches out to feel Terri's stomach and offers to look at it. Terri: "So now I'm gonna show you the bleeding pustules on my skin? Wow, no, that's not gonna send you into the loving arms of some teenage slut." Will denies having an affair with any of his students, and accuses Terri of having an irrational fear of him leaving her. She thinks making Rachel work is win-win for everybody. Especially since Rachel is apparently a very good cook. But Will's not going to taste the venison casserole -- he storms off to drive Rachel home. Terri: "Can you ask her to dust the blinds in the craft room first?"
Will drives the car. Rachel asks why she has to ride in the back seat. Will claims it's the law that children have to ride in the back. When Rachel points out that the law refers to children under seven, Will claims to just be concerned for her safety. That fills her with visions of him protecting her from harm, so he has to clarify that actually he's not concerned for her safety. Rachel thinks they should take advantage of this time to practice their ballad. And, wouldn't you know, she's got a CD with her of the music she wants to sing. She pops it into the stereo and starts singing "Crush." Will turns it off after a few bars, telling her that he can't listen with the horrible acoustics in the car. He tries to change the subject, asking her how things are going with Puck. She tells him she dumped Puck because he was too immature, just like all high school boys. She has her eyes on someone who can keep up with her intellectually and creatively. Somehow, that's supposed to be the kind of big revelation that merits a commercial break.
Rachel walks down the hallway with a big smile on her face -- a smile that disappears when she finds her path blocked by Suzy Pepper, who warns her, "Stay away from him! You're gonna get hurt... bad!" Rachel denies being frightened of Suzy, and they stalk off in opposite directions. The camera pans over to Mercedes, who's walking down the hallway having a phone conversation with Tina. The subject of the conversation seems to be their respective locations in the school. Also, we learn that Mercedes's biology class hamster is pregnant. She enters the music room, where Puck has been waiting for her so they can practice their ballad. Mercedes hangs up and tells Puck that everyone else has decided that instead of singing ballads to each other, they're all going to get together to sing a ballad to Finn and Quinn to let them know how much they are loved. Puck is not happy with that idea: "It's not fair! Finn gets everything, he gets the sympathy, he gets the girl!" And that's when Puck tells Mercedes that he's the father. Mercedes takes a moment to think and then tells Puck that he'd better just get over it and move on. I don't pretend to understand the logic of teenage girls, but I think her point is that he messed up Quinn's life enough by getting her pregnant, so now he's got to just sit back and let her make whatever decisions she needs to do deal with that, including the decision to make the world think that Finn is the father. See, I told you it didn't make sense.
Dinner chez Fabray. It's all very tense (although I'm delighted to hear that Mrs. Fabray cures all her own meats), until Mr. Fabray stands up to deliver a long-winded toast about what a remarkable family he has. As he drones on, Finn's heart starts beating in his ears. Before he faints, he stands up and announces that he has to go to the bathroom. In the bathroom, Finn calls Kurt (who is ironing) and tells him that he's freaking out. He asks Kurt what a heart attack feels like, and Kurt tells him to remember the power of the ballad. Finn: "I have to go, they'll think I'm pooping." And then, after a couple of warm up karate moves in the bathroom mirror, Finn walks into the dining room with the little boombox from the kitchen. He pops in a CD and starts singing "You're Having My Baby." The Fabrays look charmed at first, but it doesn't take them long to realize that the lyrics should be understood quite literally. Mr. Fabray cuts off the music and glares at Finn. Commercials.
Fabray living room. Mrs. Fabray is confused, because they raised Quinn right. Finn defends Quinn's honor, pointing out that they never even had sex. Mrs. Fabray asks him to please stop with the lying. Mr. Fabray tells a story about taking his two daughters to a baseball game, and about how Quinn fell asleep in his lap, and how much he wanted to take care of her in that moment. And just when you think that maybe he'll be okay, he tells Finn to leave. And then he tells Quinn to leave. Finn asks Mrs. Fabray to intercede, but Quinn tells him not to bother, since Mrs. Fabray had a chance to do something when she realized Quinn was pregnant and chose to ignore it. There's some more crying and some more shouting, and then Mr. and Mrs. Fabray leave Quinn and Finn alone in the living room.
Hudson basement. Mrs. Hudson is taking clothes out of the dryer. She hears Finn coming down the basement stairs, and starts to lecture him about not turning his t-shirts right-side-out. But she stops when she sees that Quinn is there. Finn tells her that Quinn's parents threw her out, and asks if she can stay for a few days. Mrs. H is a super-cool denim-vest-wearing mom, so she tells Quinn that she can stay with them as long as she wants.
Rachel is freshening her makeup in the girls' room when Suzy Pepper emerges from a stall and tells her, "Hey, Barbra Streisand. We need to have a little talk." Rachel accuses Pepper of stalking her and calls her the school crazy. Suzy Pepper: "I was crazy. Crazy in love." Rachel says that anything Suzy does will just make her and Mr. Schue's love grow stronger. Suzy Pepper: "Let me tell you a few things I learned from two years of intensive psychotherapy and an esophagus transplant. Lesson number one: You and Schue, it won't work." Rachel: "What do you mean?" S.P.: "We're not so different, you and me. We're both mildly attractive and extremely grating. Love is hard for us. We look for boys we know we can never have. Mr. Schue is a perfect target for our self-esteem issues. He can never reciprocate our feelings, which only reinforces the conviction that we're not worthy of being loved. Trust me, I'm a cautionary tale. You need to get some self-respect, Rachel. Get that mildly attractive groove back." I was wrong. Suzy Pepper is a lot more sane than Wendy Pepper will ever be. Comercials.
Will enters the music room to find Rachel holding a pot of flowers. She tells him that the ballad she's selected has an important message she wants him to hear. He cuts her off and tells her that her behavior has been totally inappropriate. She tells him she already knows. The flowers are an apology, and the song she was going to sing was "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" (The flowers have a card in them -- "Sorry I've been acting crazy!") Rachel sits down and starts crying. Will tells her that he knows things aren't always easy for her, and that there are things about herself that she might like to change. "But you should know that there's some boy out there who's going to like you for everything you are. Including those parts of you that even you don't like. Those are gonna be the things he likes the most." Rachel is reassured by this. Mr. Schue decides they should bag rehearsal, since Rachel doesn't really need any help with her ballads.
Auditorium. Kurt and Finn are talking before they rehearse. Finn has clearly just told Kurt the story of the horrible, no good, very bad dinner party, including the fact that Mr. Fabray gave Quinn exactly thirty minutes to pack before leaving. Kurt apologizes for coming up with the plan that caused the problem. But Finn tells him he's glad not to have any more secrets. Finn thinks they should work on Kurt's ballad, and asks him what the song is. Kurt: "'I Honestly Love You.'" Heh. Finn thinks it sounds positive and nice and awesome, although he can't bring himself to look Kurt in the eyes. Fortunately, we're saved from any more awkwardness as Mercedes interrupts them to drag them off to the music room, where there's something the Glee Club wants to give to Finn and Quinn.
Mercedes leads Finn into the music room, telling him to open his eyes since she never told him to close them. Quinn is already there, sitting in a chair. Finn looks around, asking if there's cake. Will tells Finn and Quinn that the Glee Club wants to sing them a song to let them know how they feel about them. Is there a song that says "one of you is dumb and the other is a crazy liar"? No, instead they're going to sing "Lean On Me." And it's pretty awesome, with Artie and Mercedes singing lead. At the point where everyone's repeating "call me," Finn gets a special little "call me" gesture from Kurt, and Quinn gets one from Puck. They each notice, and neither seems entirely comfortable. As the song is nearing its end, Mercedes pulls Finn and Quinn up and makes them dance with the rest of the club.
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