Booty Camp
Debut:	Born This Way
Type:	Dance
Head:	Will Schuester Sue Sylvester Finn Hudson
Institution:	William McKinley High School
Status:	Active

Booty Camp was started by Will in an attempt to help certain members of the New Directions improve their dancing skills. Mike assists Will in the choreography. The sessions officially started in I Am Unicorn, the third episode of Season Three, but before that episode, a Booty Camp session was held in Born This Way, the eighteenth episode of Season Two.

Overview

Will chose Finn, Puck, Kurt, and Mercedes to join the group, as he felt that they needed to improve their dancing. Blaine also chose to join, in order for him to catch up to New Directions. At the end of the episode, Quinn joined, as well as returning to New Directions.

In Asian F, Santana, Tina, and Brittany are also members of Booty Camp. When Mercedes struggles, Will has a go at her, and she imagines a Dreamgirls-like scene, where she and the other members of Booty Camp sing It's All Over. During the song, Mercedes and Santana argue, before other members join in. At the end of the song, Mercedes discovers that the auditorium is empty, and leaves New Directions.

As Blaine was nowhere to be seen in It's All Over, it's unknown whether he's still a member of Booty Camp. However, this might be because the scene is in Mercedes' imagination, and she doesn't know Blaine well enough for his presence to make a difference to the song, or Mercedes' decision to quit.

With Nationals looming, Booty Camp makes a return in Big Brother and is now co-run by Sue Sylvester. By this time, the entire Glee club is involved. Quinn invites Joe to Booty Camp, where he becomes a member of New Directions. Sue tries to help the kids get focused, in time to win the National Championships in Chicago.

In Season Four, Sectionals is soon to come and without Mr. Schue around, Finn picks Gangnam Style as the choice of the song, and since it's also Thanksgiving soon, Mercedes, Mike, Quinn, Santana and Puck return to Lima as promised and assists in mentoring the New Directions for Regionals. Mike does a Booty Camp class for the boys to pick out the best boy dancer to dance during one of the dance solos with Brittany. He plays Fantastic Baby by BIGBANG to give the boys the feel of K-Pop (Korean pop) music as for their upcoming Sectionals, they'll perform a korean song. Jake could've easily got the dance solo but with a deal he made with Ryder earlier in the episode, he lets Ryder take the spotlight. 

Members

Will Schuester: Director

Finn Hudson: Joins in I Am Unicorn. Graduated in Goodbye. Re-joins in Dynamic Duets.

Blaine Anderson: Joins in I Am Unicorn.

Tina Cohen-Chang: Joins in Asian F.

Artie Abrams: Joins in Big Brother.

Joe Hart: Joins in Big Brother.

Sugar Motta: Joins in Big Brother.

Sam Evans: Joins in Big Brother.

Marley Rose: Joins in The New Rachel.

Jake Puckerman: Joins in Britney 2.0.

Wade "Unique" Adams: Joins in The New Rachel.

Kitty Wilde: Joins in Dynamic Duets.

Alumni

Mike Chang: Choreographer/Assistant. Graduated in Goodbye.

Noah Puckerman: Joins in I Am Unicorn. Graduated in Goodbye.

Kurt Hummel: Joins in I Am Unicorn. Graduated in Goodbye.

Quinn Fabray: Joins in I Am Unicorn. Graduated in Goodbye.

Mercedes Jones: Joins in I Am Unicorn, quits in Asian F, and returns in Big Brother. Graduated in Goodbye.

Santana Lopez: Joins in Asian F, quits in Pot O' Gold, and returns in Big Brother. Graduated in Goodbye.

Rachel Berry: Joins in Big Brother. Graduated in Goodbye.

Former Members

Lauren Zizes: Joins during the Booty Camp session in Born This Way. Leaves prior to The Purple Piano Project.

Rory Flanagan: Joins in Big Brother. Leaves prior to The New Rachel.

Sue Sylvester: Co-Director. Joins in Big Brother. Quits in Nationals.

Brittany Pierce: Joins in Asian F, quits in Pot O' Gold, and returns in Big Brother. Leaves in All or Nothing.

Ryder Lynn: Joins in Dynamic Duets. Leaves in All or Nothing.

Known songs

• It's All Over by Dreamgirls. Solos by Mercedes, Mike, Finn, Kurt, Will, Santana, and Puck. (Asian F)
• Fantastic Baby by BIGBANG. Danced to by the New Directions Boys with Mike. (Thanksgiving)

Trivia

• When Booty Camp started, the only member whose reasons for joining weren't explained was Tina. However as of Big Brother, Rachel, Joe, Sugar, Sam, Artie, and Rory also joined without explanations, but it can be assumed that at that point the whole Glee Club joined so they can improve their dance skills.
• Booty Camp originally began in the episode Born This Way. In the episode, the whole club was in booty camp. During this Booty Camp session, Finn accidentally hits Rachel's nose causing her to want to have a nose job and also resulting to the Glee Club's assignment for the week: to accept yourself and love yourself for who you are.

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