"Glee" Cast, Creators Toast 100 Episodes

[JamesG]

"Glee" Cast, Creators Toast 100 Episodes
2/24/14
by Lesley Goldberg


The cast, creators and executives behind Fox's musical sensation "Glee" gathered at the show's Paramount lot in Hollywood on Monday to raise a glass to the show's 100th episode with a ceremony that was as heartfelt as it was humorous.

20th Century Fox Television chairman Dana Walden opened the afternoon gathering on the show's McKinley High School auditorium set, where the cast, massive crew and select members of the press gathered to mark the rare milestone.







Gathering everyone on stage, Walden kicked off the celebration by acknowledging that the show's auditorium set has featured a plethora of festivities -- including the show's 500th song celebration -- and most recently, "Glee's" tribute to Cory Monteith, who died last year at the age of 31.

"We've celebrated so many milestones on this stage and most recently we celebrated the life of our good friend and colleague, Cory Monteith. I miss Cory a lot today," Walden said.

"He was always front and center at an event like this; he really loved them and was always smiling in the front row. He was so proud of this show. He was blown away by the talent that surrounded him -- and he had very good reason to be proud."







Walden then rattled off some of the show's impressive achievements in its five-season run, which include six Emmy Awards, 39 nominations, two Golden Globes for best comedy or musical, six People's Choice Awards, three Grammy nominations, two AFI Awards and a Peabody.

On the music side, the series has seen more than 62 million singles downloaded, with more than 13 million albums sold worldwide. In thanking Columbia Records, who distributes the show's music, Walden also noted that "Glee" has the most songs ever charted by a single act on the Billboard 100, with 207, topping Elvis Presley, James Brown and The Beatles.

Not to mention the show's sold-out tours in which more than 450,000 tickets were sold, selling out 40 cities in minutes.







But beyond the numbers, Walden -- and later Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly -- singled out the show's cultural impact and ability to "deeply move" its viewers. Walden read an emotional letter offering a hint at just how much "Glee" has registered with people across the world.

"Through thousands of letters, emails and postings online, it's clear that everyone involved in this series has changed so many lives for the better," she said.





Reilly, meanwhile, recalled the early days of co-creator Ryan Murphy pitching the show, a process that he called the "definition of a vision."

"You remember the really special ones," Reilly said. "I was literally sitting there while Ryan told stories, some from his past, some melded in with the actual show that it was going to become. It was vivid and it was real and it felt alive. I knew he was going to pull it off."







While the plot registered immediately, the network executive recalled the questions about the elaborate music and dancing that would go into the production -- all of which were settled a few weeks later when Murphy played him the show's now iconic cover of Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin''.

"Two minutes into that song it was clear this was going to be the phenomenon that this became," Reilly said, singling out the dedication of the cast. "It's been such a collaboration and such an undertaking putting on this amazing movie that gets made every week."



"What you guys have pulled off is extraordinary. I don't use that word lightly. I've done these ceremonies before and some shows manage to solidly in yeoman-like fashion go step by step to 100 episodes. But very few have gone through crazy high highs and some very challenging lows that this show and you people have had to go through," Reilly added.

"It is extraordinary. Glee on a good week is an amazing television show; Glee on a great week is something that transcends the medium and has been a cultural phenomenon."







Co-creator Brad Falchuk, who spoke on behalf of the executive producers, praised 20th TV and said they were the only studio that would have taken such a big swing. He also acknowledged Reilly's role in the show's creative direction after the network topper said the series needed to add a bad guy, ultimately being responsible for the addition of Jane Lynch's snarky Sue Sylvester.

Falchuk credited the cast for their hard work and inspiration. Producers were joined by cast members including Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Naya Rivera and original stars Dianna Agron and Amber Riley -- who are returning for the 100th episode -- as well as the show's next generation regulars Melissa Benoist, Blake Jenner, Alex Newell and more.



"To the cast, we started with you guys and we all grew up together," an emotional Falchuk said. "What most people don't know about the show is that we [the writers] steal from them -- if they're talking about something on the set, we take it and put it into a script. The most shameful, painful, horrible things that ever happened to you guys -- whether in the past or the present -- we took and put it in the scripts and you guys brought it to life. You brought our shames and our pains to life."



"The best storytelling takes the personal and makes it very global," he added. "You guys took all that personal stuff and gave it to the world in a way where they could really hear it and I think you let a lot of people take the most painful part of their lives -- which is high school -- and relive it again because of how courageous you were in telling these stories. They could live it again but they can do it right this time. Personally, you changed my life and I'm really grateful to you and I love you all."







"Glee's" two-part 100th episode airs March 18 and 25 and will feature remixed performances of some of the show's best performances, as voted on by its fans.

"Glee" returns Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. on its new night and time.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...ast-100-683181

[irehtman]

I know Cory Montieth is the only member going to be missed in this episode, but Jayma Mays should be in both this episode and the final upcoming graduation episode, no offense. I don't know if both Vanessa Langies and Iqbad Theba appear or not in this episode.

[TMC]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...rainwreck.html

Why last night’s episode was like visiting a home for the elderly.
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#LgIomr3EpqbeSp2y.99

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http://www.vulture.com/2014/03/294-i...-episodes.html

The 100th episode of Glee airs tonight, and while the show’s most lasting legacy will likely be its music, it’s important to remember just how unafraid of tackling issues the show has been — any issue! All issues! No social problem is too large, no interpersonal conflict is too small, and no feline behavioral issue is too ridiculous. These are the 294 issues that have ensured that each and every Glee is basically a Very Special Episode.

• Getting molested by your choir director
• Education budget cuts
• Getting slushied
• Getting cyberbullied
• Fitting in, belonging, and acceptance
• Giving up your craft room to make room for a family
• Attempted bulimia
• Celibacy
• Premature ejaculation
• Accidentally hitting a mailman with your car
• Only being able to prevent premature ejaculation by remembering the time you hit a mailman with your car
• Hysterical pregnancy
• Choosing between your boy band and your show choir
• Coping with a verbally abusive show choir dance coach
• Falling in love with your gay best friend
• Rage-shattering the windows of an Escalade
• Coming out
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Teen pregnancy
• Lying about who your baby daddy is
• Attempted fetal kidnapping
• Stuttering
• Accepting your child’s sexuality
• Fear of becoming a “Lima loser”
• The relative merits and ethics of enrolling a 30-year-old ringer in your high school to participate in glee club
• Supplying alcohol, skin mags, and shoplifting lessons to minors
• Performing Carrie Underwood songs while drunk
• Dropping out of high school
• Pseudoephedrine abuse
• Hiring people with no medical credentials as school nurses
• Racial diversity and inclusion
• Bribing ultrasound technicians
• Trading your underwear to prevent sensitive information from being blogged
• What happens when your secret pregnancy is no longer a secret
• Finding a Jewish girlfriend to appease your mother
• Coping with a decrease in popularity (mechanisms include: sunglasses, crying)
• Dating and being cheated on by a local television news anchor
• Admitting you faked your stutter
• Wheelchair access in public schools
• Selling weed cupcakes to pay for ultrasounds and buses
• Spending a week in a wheelchair to learn a valuable lesson about people in wheelchairs
• Living with Down syndrome
• Caring for an aging sibling with a disability
• Guys singing “girl songs”
• Protecting your parents from your sexuality
• Falling in love with your glee club instructor
• Getting an esophageal transplant because eating a hot pepper was your way of coping when your Spanish teacher didn’t reciprocate your love
• Telling your parents you’re pregnant
• Getting kicked out of the house
• Accidentally revealing to your mother that you’ve gotten a girl pregnant when she walks in on you singing to a sonogram picture
• Having a crush on a straight boy
• Using your hair to get what you want
• Interrupting a deaf choir while they’re performing
• Sexting
• Getting a makeover from a gay man to impress a boy
• Illegally participating in and accepting payment for a mattress commercial
• Discovering your wife’s fake pregnancy
• Appearing in a defaced yearbook photo
• Losing (and then regaining) your ability to compete in show choir sectionals
• Having your sectionals set list stolen and distributed
• Learning that you’re not your girlfriend’s baby daddy
• Rising above the fact that you’re not your girlfriend’s baby daddy in order to compete in a show choir competition
• Getting dumped because your boyfriend needs time with his “inner rock star”
• Falling in love with a competing show choir’s lead singer
• Mysophobia
• Losing your virginity
• Taking someone’s virginity
• Opting to keep your virginity
• Getting boys/men to take you seriously
• Living life as the mistress of a roller rink tycoon
• Body image and acceptance
• Setting up your father with the mother of the boy you have a crush on
• Coping when video of you lip-synching to “Physical” is leaked to the internet
• Offending three boys when you triple-cast them as the lead in your rendition of “Run Joey Run”
• Creating and posting a list (“glist”) ranking people by promiscuity level
• Losing your voice
• Losing the ability to move from the neck down
• Pretending to be straight to please your father
• Realizing a career in the arts is impractical
• Finding and singing along to a cassette tape from your birth mother
• Trying to dance as a paraplegic
• Being forbidden to dress as a goth
• Meeting your birth mother
• Trying to seduce your future stepbrother
• Being kicked out of the house by your future stepfather for saying “faggy”
• Vandalizing rival show choirs’ auditoriums or cars
• Egging your ex-girlfriend
• Confining yourself to bed after being stood up
• Giving birth
• Having your baby adopted by a rival show choir director
• Losing Regionals
• Luring a potential glee club member to a crack house instead of to auditions
• Losing the arts budget to the football program
• Getting kicked off the football team
• Being demoted as head cheerleader after your coach finds out you have breast implants
• Poor dental hygiene
• Hallucinating at the dentist's office
• Getting caught masturbating in the school library
• Causing a riot by sexually exciting the student body by performing “Toxic” at an assembly
• Asking your boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend to try to seduce him as a fidelity test
• Finding Jesus in a grilled cheese sandwich
• Faith/atheism
• Your father having a heart attack
• Going to juvie for trying to steal an ATM
• Being afraid to sing a duet with another guy
• Having a crush on a straight guy
• Trading sexual favors for partnership in intra-glee club competition
• Putting on a production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a cast of children to win back your ex-girlfriend
• Being forbidden by your parents to play a transvestite in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Male body image
• Suspension from school for walking around the halls wearing only underwear
• Gay bashing
• Spying on rival show choirs
• Forcible first kiss from football player in locker room
• Sneaking into your ex’s house to have sex with him while he sleeps
• Unconventional show choir coaching methods
• Tater tot addiction
• Receiving death threats after discovering a football player is gay
• Giving your girlfriend a promise ring
• Confronting bullies
• Being expelled (and then reinstated) from school for bullying
• Being afraid to slow dance with your soon-to-be stepbrother
• Getting married to yourself and inviting your former Nazi-hunting mother
• Being saved by a female wrestler after you get locked in a Porta-Potty
• Boosting your confidence with a magic comb
• Making out with your boyfriend’s best friend to make him jealous
• Having fruit and shoes thrown at you while Christmas caroling
• Keeping your (17-year-old) girlfriend’s belief in Santa alive
• Getting a ReWalk mobility device from Santa
• Recovering after a faculty member dressed as the Grinch steals your glee club’s Christmas tree and gifts
• Quitting the cheerleading squad after your coach wants to fire you from a cannon
• Football/glee club/cheerleading scheduling conflicts
• Having a crush on an older boy
• Performing for your crush in a flashmob at the Gap, and subsequently getting him fired
• Figuring out a way to incept a boy with mono to prove he’s cheating on his girlfriend
• Staging your own fake suicide by gummy vitamins
• Questioning your sexuality
• Throwing a party with drink tickets
• Sustaining a weeklong buzz
• Projectile vomiting on the stage during a school assembly
• Drunk dialing
• Banning sex ed
• Being told by a teen that it’s time to give your son the sex talk
• The sex talk
• Waiting until marriage as an adult
• Being in love with your best friend
• Secretly getting back together with your ex
• Pet canaries dying of strokes
• Writing a song about your boyfriend’s fishlike mouth
• Coping with hecklers
• Elective rhinoplasty
• Becoming a beard
• Making posters exposing your rival’s pre-plastic surgery face and weight
• Creating an anti-bullying club as a part of a prom queen election platform
• Teen homelessness
• Insulting your girlfriend’s intellectual disability
• Going to prom with your ex
• Being elected prom queen as a gay man
• Getting kicked out of prom for fist-fighting
• Coping with the death of your sister
• Planning and performing at a funeral
• Losing a Nationals competition (mainly because two of your glee club members starting making out mid-performance)
• Piercing your tongue, dyeing your hair, and becoming a Skank
• Running for Congress on an anti-arts campaign
• Arson (piano-related)
• Being mocked when your West Side Story audition isn’t “masculine” enough
• Spending time with the child you gave up for adoption
• Being forbidden to see the child you gave up for adoption
• Getting an A- on a chemistry exam
• Clashing with your parents about whether you should become a doctor
• Parents who mock their child’s OCD
• Framing the woman who adopted your child for abuse and neglect
• Initiating a sexual relationship with the mother who adopted the child you gave up for adoption
• Being bullied because you’re Irish
• Believing all Irish people are leprechauns
• Questioning whether you can play a romantic lead even if you’re a virgin
• Accepting the fact that you won’t get a football scholarship
• Going to a gay bar for the first time
• Pressuring your boyfriend into sex
• Getting disowned because you want to become a professional dancer
• Attempting to get dodgeball banned
• Being outed in a political attack ad
• Getting shunned by your grandmother because you are gay
• Rigging the student body president elections and getting suspended
• Teen strippers
• Debate about whether “sex sells”
• High school fight clubs
• Choosing between serving the homeless or appearing in a public television Christmas special
• Questioning the ethics of sleeping with an underage girl with Down syndrome
• Joining the Army
• Learning the truth about your deceased father’s postwar PTSD and death from drug overdose
• Deciding to what extent your obsessive compulsive disorder should influence whether you have children
• Getting a slushie laced with rock salt thrown in your face
• Eye surgery
• Taking remedial Spanish classes as a Spanish teacher
• Accusing a teacher of presenting negative racial stereotypes
• Writing pamphlets about genital sanitation
• Teen engagement
• Public display of affection rules that are only enforced for same-sex couples
• Having your former bully as your secret admirer
• The God Squad deciding whether to perform singing telegrams for same-sex couples
• Texting and driving
• Attempted suicide, post-outing
• Sibling rivalry
• Post-text-and-driving partial paralysis
• Planning a post-graduation pool cleaning business
• Irregular amniocentesis results
• Accidentally getting a boner while helping your friend do her physical therapy
• Making a sex tape with your girlfriend
• Locking down your life plans at the age of 17
• Text-message-based cheating
• Spousal abuse
• Seeing your estranged father for the first time in five years, who asks you for money
• Propositioning your geography teacher in exchange for better grades
• Coping when your fiancé takes another woman to the prom
• Getting sucked into your cat’s Ponzi schemes
• The ethics of using your (temporary) wheelchair as a means of getting prom queen votes
• (Literal) body swapping
• Being pressured to perform in drag
• Bringing a switchblade to a fight
• Revealing that the switchblade you brought to a fight is actually a prop from West Side Story
• Leaving your abusive husband
• Food poisoning
• Being the first transgender person to win the Nationals MVP trophy
• Losing your virginity as an adult
• Embarking on a long-distance relationship
• Failing to secure your father a posthumous dishonorable discharge from the Army
• Breaking up with your girlfriend so she can achieve her dreams
• The difficulties of “scissoring your webcam”
• Trying to protect your overweight, lunch lady mother from taunting
• Adjusting to life in the big city
• Being told you’re not allowed to learn how to tango because you lack sex appeal
• Staging a mental breakdown to have a splashy comeback
• Cheating on your boyfriend
• Secretly attempting to tell your boyfriend you cheated by cry-singing to him at a piano bar
• Ending your first serious relationship
• Joining a club to prepare for the rapture
• Being prevented from playing Rizzo in Grease because you are transgender
• Finding out your new boyfriend is sleeping with your mean dance teacher behind your back
• Dyslexia
• Being pressured into sex
• Having an affair with one of your Yale professors
• Collapsing onstage because of bulimia during a show choir competition
• Internet lesbians trying to get you and your ex-girlfriend back together
• Prostate cancer
• The Mayan apocalypse
• Canceling Christmas to pay for eating disorder therapy
• Love triangles in which none of the participants are of complimentary sexual orientation
• Dating a high school sophomore as a 19-year-old
• Selling semen to pay for a show choir tour bus
• Learning you have more to offer the world than your abs
• Deciding whether to appear topless in a student film
• Non-consensually straddling and VapoRubbing a male friend while weeping
• Accidentally kissing your former guidance counselor
• Leaving a man at the altar
• Deciding to wait for sex
• Taking a pregnancy test for the first time
• Finding out that you’ve been dating a gigolo
• Struggling to accept a transgender person for who they are
• Admitting you have a crush on your straight best friend
• Admitting you love Barry Manilow
• Confronting your gigolo boyfriend
• School shootings
• Finding out you’re being Catfished
• Joining a fraternity
• Quitting a fraternity
• Pretending to be your own identical twin
• Being told to “tone down” your boobs as a transgender woman
• Getting molested as a child by your babysitter
• Getting told that being molested by a female babysitter is “every teenage boy’s fantasy!”
• Asking your boyfriend’s father for permission to propose
• Finding out the identity of your Catfisher
• Being in a secret relationship with the head cheerleader
• Proposing to your boyfriend
• Getting pig’s blood dumped on you at the prom
• Coping with the loss of a friend, boyfriend, son, and teacher
• Having sex on school grounds
• Getting suspended for dressing like Lady Gaga
• Getting suspended for not dressing

[irehtman]

What a extreme disappointment about Jayma being absent in this 100th episode! I know she is still appearing in "The Millers" at the mean time, but she should also appear in this episode at the same time, but of course she does not have to sing at all! I don't understand why critics, writers and producers of this show abhor her Emma character for no reason at all?