Holly Holliday
General Information
Gender:	Female
Hair Color:	Blonde
Eye Color:	Light Blue
Height:	5'9
Occupation(s):	Sub. English Teacher Sub. Spanish Teacher Sub. Sex Ed Teacher Sub. History Teacher Sub. Glee Director
Aliases:	Miss Holliday (Kurt, Rachel) The Salad Lady (Mercedes) Doctor (Carl) Miss H (Puck) The Substitute (Sue)
Family & Friends
Relationships:	Will Schuester (ex-boyfriend)
Friends:	Will Schuester New Directions Quinn Fabray Kurt Hummel Mercedes Jones Rachel Berry Santana Lopez Brittany Pierce Noah Puckerman Lauren Zizes Finn Hudson
Employer:	Principal Sue (former) Principal Figgins (former)
Enemies:	Cameo Terri Del Monico
Other Information
Interests:	Teaching
Clique:	Teachers
Education:	John Adams Elementary Berkway High School Juneau Community College
Talent:	Singing Teaching
Vulnerabilities:	Jealousy
Strengths:	Singing 'Funny' Bullying
Weaknesses:	Commitment Romance
Series Information
First appearance:	The Substitute
Last appearance:	A Night of Neglect
Portrayer:	Gwyneth Paltrow

Holly Holliday is a substitute teacher at William McKinley High School. She seems to be able to teach many subjects such as Sex-Ed, English, History, and Math.

Holly Holliday is portrayed by actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Season Two 1.1.1 The Substitute 1.1.2 Sexy 1.1.3 A Night of Neglect 1.2 Season Three 1.3 Season Four 2 Personality 3 Songs 3.1 Solos 3.2 Solos (In a Duet) 3.3 Solos (In a Group Number) 3.4 Unreleased Songs 4 Trivia 5 Gallery 6 Quotes 7 Navigational 8 Comments

Biography

Season Two

The Substitute

Holly substitutes for Will Schuester in Spanish class. When Kurt Hummel becomes tired of Rachel being the leader/dictator of Glee Club during Mr. Schue's absence and hears Holly singing Conjunction Junction, he suggests her to be Will's substitute as Glee Club adviser, and she accepts.

When walking into the Glee room, she slides over the buttered floor that Puck makes as a substitute teacher prank, much to the surprise of the New Directions. The Glee kids attempt to trick her by switching names, but Holly tells them she knows they're lying, and explains that she knows their names because she watched New Directions perform at Regionals, coming in last. Puck questions if she can actually sub for Mr. Schue, because as an adult, she doesn't know much about today's music, suggesting Cee Lo Green. She then performs Forget You with the New Directions and quickly gains their trust (except for Rachel, who seems to resent her talent) because, unlike Will, she listens to the suggestions of the club.

Holly then gains Rachel's trust, when she asks Rachel what sort of music she wants to perform. When Rachel describes the song, she and Holly perform Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag from the musical Chicago. Holly even gains the trust and friendship of acting principal, Sue, which results in Will getting fired and replaced by Holly. She feels guilty for Will losing his job, but feels that her more relatable personality is better than Will's more authoritarian approach, and refuses to pass up the opportunity presented to her.

However, when her more wild and laid-back attitude results in inspiring Mercedes Jones to damage Sue's car as an act of revenge for taking the tater-tots from the school lunch, Holly is left horrified at how she has failed as a teacher. She then goes to Will, asking for advice, where she reveals that several years ago, she was a much more uptight, meek and rigid sort of teacher, who ended up getting punched in the face by a girl who did not like her methods. They talk and drink beer together for a while. This resulted in her taking on a more relaxed and flaky personality, so as to better relate with the kids. At this moment, Will's ex-wife Terri shows up, and assuming that she and Will are on a date, begins to openly insult Holly and make demands of Will. Holly watches as Will dismisses his ex-wife, feeling awkward about it.

Later when Will returns as the leader of the glee club, he finds himself shocked by how the kids, while glad he was back, were unhappy with the fact he refused to hear them out. Realizing that Holly was somewhat right in her method of teaching, he sought her out, and found her teaching history, dressed up like Mary Todd Lincoln. Will explains about how he wants to perform a certain song, but that he wants it to appeal to the Glee Club, and asks for her help in modernizing it. Together, Holly and Will take lead vocals as they and New Directions perform a mash-up of Umbrella and Singin' In The Rain.

Sexy

Holly Holliday is back giving sex education lessons at McKinley High. Will asks her to educate the New Directions through song, during parcipation of Holly's Jazzercise class. This prompted Holly to perform Joan Jett's Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah). Will later rehearses a rendition of Prince's Kiss with her, culminating in a kiss. Holly turns down his advances, explaining that she would end up hurting him.

Puck and Lauren plan to make a sex tape, until Holly informs them that it would be considered child pornography. A shocked Puck joins the celibacy club as a result. Annoyed by Holly's lessons, Emma has the celibacy club perform Afternoon Delight for New Directions, unaware that the song is about sex. Carl approaches Holly about counseling, revealing that Emma is still a virgin. Emma confesses that she may have feelings for Will, and Carl tells her he will be moving into a hotel until she is certain of her feelings.

Holly also counsels Santana and Brittany when they express confusion about their sexuality. She joins them for

a performance of Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, after which Santana confesses that she is in love with Brittany and wants to be with her, but is afraid of being ostracized by the student body for being in a same-sex relationship.

Holly is dismissed from her teaching position due to parental complaints about her classes. She tells Will that she wants to learn about romance; he offers to teach her, and they kiss.

Although Holly isn't in Original Song, she and Will are on the phone after New Directions wins Regionals, and Will says that he loves her. It is assumed that this is in response to Holly saying she loves him.

A Night of Neglect

On an pizza date with Will she gave him the idea for the "night of neglect" prompting A Night of Neglect. Dustin hit on her (under Sue's instructions) and nearly got in a fight with Will. During the "night of neglect" concert, she performs Adele's Turning Tables as a breakup song to Will. She moved to Cleveland to teach French for 4 months, and hence breaks up with Will. When he asks if she will someday settle down, she says that there is a possibility of that happening, but tells him that she won't be settling down with him because he is "in love with someone else." She shares one last kiss with Will and turns to go, but Will asks if she will come back to visit someday. She repeats her trademark phrase "I thought you'd never ask," and leaves. This is the last time we see Holly in Season Two.

Season Three

Holly did not appear and was not mentioned in Season 3.

Season Four

It was rumoured that Holly will be returning sometime in Season 4, as Ryan Murphy said that he would like her to do so but she does not appear in the fourth season. 

Personality

Holly Holliday is a laid back, 'cool' substitute teacher who replaced Will Schuester as both the spanish teacher and the glee club director when Will was sick and unable to work. Not much is known about her, but it is revealed in Sexy that she can also teach Sex-Ed. Holly has a kind nature, as demonstrated when helping Santana admit her feelings for Brittany.

Songs

Solos

Season Two:

Solos (In a Duet)

Season Two:

Solos (In a Group Number)

Season Two
Song	Episode	Solos with
Forget You	The Substitute	Mercedes, Santana and Artie
Singing In the Rain/Umbrella		Will and Artie

Unreleased Songs

Season Two:

• Conjunction Junction (The Substitute)

Trivia

• Her catchphrase is "I thought you'd never ask."
• She claims that her cucumber and condom example made VeggieTales, christian children's show, "hilarious" for her.
• Once moved out of a town where a guy asked her to marry him.
• She is "deathly allergic to commitment." (A Night of Neglect)
• She can speak Spanish and French.
• Despite hinting at a return at the end of A Night of Neglect, Holly did not appear in Season Three or Season Four.
• She once attempted to make a sex tape with J.D. Salinger, which turned out to be a "disaster." (Sexy)

Gallery

Quotes

Main article: Holly's Quotations

Navigational

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Directors Will Schuester • Finn Hudson Current Members Boys • Girls Artie Abrams • Tina Cohen-Chang • Sam Evans • Blaine Anderson • Sugar Motta • Joe Hart • Wade "Unique" Adams • Jake Puckerman • Marley Rose • Kitty Wilde Alumni Rachel Berry • Mike Chang • Quinn Fabray • Finn Hudson • Kurt Hummel Mercedes Jones • Santana Lopez • Noah Puckerman • Brittany Pierce Former Members Sunshine Corazon • Rory Flanagan • April Rhodes • Matt Rutherford • Jesse St. James • Lauren Zizes • Bassist • Drummer • Sue Sylvester • Holly Holliday • Emma Pillsbury • Dakota Stanley • Ryder Lynn

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