"Let's Have a Kiki/Turkey Lurkey Time" is a mash-up featured in Thanksgiving, the eighth episode of Season Four. Blending the 2012 single by the Scissor Sisters with a song from the 1968 musical Promises, Promises, the mash-up is sung by Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel, with back-up vocals from Brody and Isabelle's friends.
The performance begins after the arrival of Isabelle's friends at Rachel and Kurt's apartment. Isabelle is nowhere to be seen until Kurt picks up his phone to hear that she is on her way. The first verse begins as Isabelle speaks to Kurt in the City. Isabelle enters their apartment and she, Rachel and Kurt begin to sing the chorus of the song as they "lock the doors tight." Everyone dances along to the song happily enjoying themselves. Rachel then starts singing Turkey Lurkey Time which everyone joins in with and then after the song then transits back to Let's Have a Kiki, with Brody joining in. As the song ends, Rachel squeals that it's the "Best Thanksgiving ever!"
Lyrics[]
Isabelle:
Hey, I’m calling you back.
Oh, she’s been a bitch tonight!
And by bitch I mean this rain
No cabs, nowhere.
So I had to put on the wig, and the heels,
And the lashes and the ear
And take the train to the club
And you know the MTA should stand for:
Mothers Touching My Ass
So then I get to the club
Looking like a drowned, harassed rat
And I'm greeted, not by Miss Rose at the door
But our friend, Johnny Five-O
Yes honey, the NYPD shut down the party
So no fee for me, and I don't even know what's the tea!
So I hope you’re up, girl,
'Cause we are all coming over
Lock the doors, lower the blinds
Fire up the smoke machine
And put on you heels
'Cause I know exactly what we need!
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let’s have a kiki
Isabelle:
I wanna have a kiki!
Kurt:
Lock the doors (Rachel: Tight)
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let’s have a kiki (Kurt: Mother)
Isabelle:
I’m gonna let you have it
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki
Isabelle:
I wanna have kiki (Kurt: Dive) (Rachel: Turn)
Work
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki
Isabelle:
We’re gonna serve
Kurt:
And work
Rachel:
And turn
Isabelle:
And hon-hon-honey
The Orphans:
Kiki, oh yeah
Kurt:
A kiki is a party for calming all your nerves
We’re spilling tea and dishing just deserts when they deserve
Isabelle:
And though the sun is rising, few may choose to leave
So shade that lid and we'll all bid adieu to your ennui
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let’s have a kiki
Isabelle:
I wanna have a kiki!
Kurt:
Lock the doors, (Rachel: Tight)
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let’s have a kiki, (Kurt: Mother)
Isabelle:
I’m gonna let you have it
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki
Isabelle:
I wanna have kiki (Kurt: Dive) (Rachel: Turn)
Work
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki
Isabelle:
We’re gonna serve
Kurt:
And work
Rachel:
And turn,
Isabelle:
And hon-hon-honey
Rachel:
It's turkey lurkey time
Tom turkey ran away but he just came home
It's turkey lurkey time
He's really home to stay, never one to roam
Let's make a wish
And may all your wishes come true
Kurt:
Turkey lurkey
goosey loosey
Rachel with the Orphans (and Kurt):
Some for uncle Joe, (some for cousin Lucy)
Rachel with Isabelle, Kurt and the Orphans:
Everybody gather 'round the table
Dig in, dinner's being served
Eat all the turkey you are able
Can't you see a partridge in a pear tree?
Climb up and bring it down for me
That's something I would like to see
Isabelle:
This kiki is marvelous!
Kurt and Rachel with the Orphans:
Kiki, soso
Oui, oui, non non!
Kiki, soso
Oui, oui, non non! (Kurt: non non)
Kiki, soso
Oui, oui, non non!
Kiki, soso
Oui, oui, non non!
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let’s have a kiki
Isabelle:
I wanna have a kiki!
Kurt:
Lock the doors (Rachel: Tight)
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let’s have a kiki (Kurt: Mother)
The Orphans:
Aah
Isabelle:
I’m gonna let you have it
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki
Isabelle:
I wanna have a kiki (Kurt: Dive) (Rachel: Turn)
Work
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki
Isabelle:
We’re gonna serve
Kurt:
And work
Rachel:
And turn
Isabelle:
And hon-hon-honey
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki (The Orphans: Kiki)
Isabelle and Kurt:
I wanna have a kiki! (The Orphans: Soso)
Kurt:
Lock the doors (The Orphans: Oui, oui) (Rachel: Tight!) (The Orphans: Non non)
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki (Rachel: Hunty) (Kurt: Dropper) (The Orphans: Kiki, soso)
The Orphans:
Aah, Oui, oui
Isabelle with the Orphans:
I'm gonna let you have it (Friends: Non non)
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki (Friends: Kiki)
Kurt and Rachel with the Orphans:
I wanna have a kiki (The Orphans: Soso, oui, oui), boots, ten, queen (The Orphans: Non non)
Isabelle, Kurt, and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki (The Orphans: Kiki)
Isabelle:
We’re gonna serve (The Orphans: Soso)
Kurt:
And work (The Orphans: Oui, oui)
Rachel:
And turn
Isabelle:
And hon-hon-honey (The Orphans: Non non)
Kurt and Rachel with the Orphans:
Let's have a kiki!
Trivia[]
- In the studio version of this song, Isabelle sings "Fire up the smoke machine." In comparison, in the episode version she sings "Light up the smoke machine."
- Brooke Lipton, choreographer on Glee alongside Zach Woodlee, made her third appearance on Glee and second one in a musical number. She was dancing as one of Isabelle's friends in this performance.
- Chris Colfer said, in Jenna and Kevin's podcast And THAT'S What You Really Missed, that he hated filming this number.
- This performance also marks the second time Perez Hilton has made an appearance on Glee, as he makes a cameo here as a party-goer and a judge in Season Three episode, Nationals.
- This is Glee's third time releasing different versions of a song that includes Kurt and Rachel: the first being Defying Gravity - Rachel version and Kurt version plus a duet version (plus a trio with Mercedes in Season Five's episode 100); Don't Cry for Me Argentina - Rachel version and Kurt version plus a special duet version used in the episode Special Education; and Let's Have a Kiki/Turkey Lurkey Time - one mashup version and a separate version of Let's Have a Kiki (featured on Glee: The Music - Season 4, Volume 1).
- This is the second song that Isabelle sings with Kurt and Rachel, after The Way You Look Tonight/You're Never Fully Dressed in Makeover. Coincidentally, both songs are mash-ups.
- Glee also released a non mash-up version of Let's Have a Kiki, featured on the deluxe version of Glee: The Music, Season 4, Volume 1.