Mash Off
Season Three, Episode Six
First Aired	November 15, 2011
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Mash Off is the sixth episode of Glee's third season, and the fiftieth episode overall. It premiered on November 15, 2011.

The third annual "mash-up competition" takes place in this episode, with the first being in Vitamin D and the second in Never Been Kissed. With Brittany and Santana in the Troubletones with Mercedes, it's big trouble for New Directions. Puck has the hots for Shelby and tells of Quinn's true intentions. Burt and Sue's campaign heats up and when the two Glee Clubs rivalry is taken seriously, Shelby and Will attempts to hold a mash-up competition between the two clubs. But in secret, Santana and Finn plan a dodgeball competition for the two glee clubs. Santana is outed in public even though she wasn't ready. 

The episode was directed by Eric Stoltz and written by Michael Hitchcock.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Songs 3 Guest Stars 3.1 Special Guest Star 3.2 Guest Stars 3.3 Co-Stars 4 Trivia 5 Errors 6 Quotes 7 Gallery 8 Videos 9 Navigational 10 Comments

Plot

Puck fantasizes about his substitute teacher, Shelby Corcoran, whom he recently kissed and has since fallen in love with. He sings Hot for Teacher with Mike, Blaine, and Finn. Puck tries to convince Shelby, who adopted the child he fathered with Quinn, to start a relationship with him, but she reject the idea. Quinn still wants to get Beth back from Shelby, and tries to join The Troubletones in an effort to get closer to her. After Puck tells Shelby of Quinn's true intentions, Shelby tells Quinn that she does not want her in Beth's life.

Sue starts a smear campaign against Burt to the clear disapproval of everyone else, especially Kurt. She compares it to his run for class president, saying that he should play it the same way to get ahead in the votes. She convinces him to get a better cause to fight for.

Will and Shelby agree to hold a mash-up competition between the New Directons and The Troubletones. Santana takes the rivalry very seriously, and taunts and derides her former New Directions teammates—particularly Finn. He challenges Santana and the other Troubletones to a game of dodgeball. Finn and Santana are the last two people standing, until Santana throws a ball at Finn's face, catching him off-guard, and they win the game. Despite having won, The Troubletones violently target Rory, which made his nose bleed. Sue's campaign against Burt continues, and Burt becomes enraged. He knows something has to be done to help him get ahead in the race. The New Directions perform their mash-up first, and it's the Hall and Oates classic I Can't Go For That/You Make My Dreams, complete with 80's costumes.

The nominees for class president debate in front of the senior class. Rick Nelson claims he'll make it so teachers have to listen to students; Brittany promises topless Tuesdays (on her part) as well as outlawing tornadoes; Kurt pledges to ban dodgeball, since it's a direct bullying tactic; Rachel withdraws herself from the race, and urges everyone to vote for Kurt, since he's the only one who's played fair.

Santana is called into Sue's office, explaining that someone overheard her and Finn's conversation, and Santana's lesbianism is being used in a smear campaign against Sue from another opponent (not Burt).

Santana runs out in tears saying that she hadn't even come out to her parents yet. The episode wraps up with The Troubletones' mashup of Adele's Rumor Has It/Someone Like You At the end of the number, Finn whispers something to Rachel, causing Santana to jump down from the stage, and verbally attack him. She then ends up slapping Finn in the face, leaving everyone shocked, and the credits start rolling.

Songs

Song Title	Original Artist	Performer(s)
Hot for Teacher	Van Halen	New Directions Boys
You and I/You and I	Lady Gaga/Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle	Shelby Corcoran and Will Schuester
Hit Me with Your Best Shot/One Way or Another	Pat Benatar/Blondie	New Directions and The Troubletones
Oklahoma! †‡	Oklahoma!	Sue Sylvester
I Can't Go for That/You Make My Dreams	Hall & Oates	New Directions
Rumour Has It/Someone Like You	Adele	The Troubletones

• † denotes an unreleased song.
• ‡ denotes that the song was either cut from the episode entirely or featured in the Director's Cut only.

Guest Stars

Special Guest Star

• Idina Menzel as Shelby Corcoran

Guest Stars

• Mike O'Malley as Burt Hummel
• Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins
• Dot-Marie Jones as Shannon Beiste
• Damian McGinty as Rory Flanagan
• Vanessa Lengies as Sugar Motta
• Lauren Potter as Becky Jackson
• Eric Etebari as Reggie Salazar

Co-Stars

• Rock Antony as Rick Nelson
• Ryan Heinke as Stoner Brett
• Alex Stamm as Other Kid

Trivia

• The 300th performance is Rumour Has It/Someone Like You. Source It is also the first number one song from this season on iTunes. Source
• Rumour Has It/Someone Like You was also the only song from Season 3 to chart in the UK - charting at #35.
• According to the 300th song plaque, Maneater/You Make My Dreams Come True has been cut in favor of I Can't Go For That/You Make My Dreams. Source
• If you look closely in the Rumour Has It/Someone Like You performance you can see Naya's tattoo of a ribbon on her neck. Source
• In the beginning of the episode in the choir room, following Hot For Teacher, you can see Lea's green Imagine tattoo on her right wrist.
• The episode was to contain a flashback to a sixteen-year-old Sue, played by Colby Minifie, singing the title song of the musical Oklahoma! in a scene that would have explained Sue's antipathy to music in the schools. Series co-creator Ian Brennan said "we wanted to show that Sue at one point had Broadway dreams," and Lynch reveals, "Will tells Sue, 'Poor little Susie Sylvester was told she wasn't good, and now she's got to punish the world.' Like a lot of angry people out there, Sue's a wannabe. However, the scene was not included in the episode as broadcast and instead included in Glee: The Complete Third Season DVD.
• This is the third season, and the third time that mash-ups have been the main part of the 6th episode of a season. (Season 1 episode 6: they had a mash-up competition; Season 2 episode 6: mash-up competition. Season 3 episode 6: they are doing a mash-up competition). The third annual "mash-up competition" takes place in this episode, with the first being in Vitamin D and the second in Never Been Kissed. (as stated above)
• This episode is the 50th episode, and has the 300th performance. Coincidentally, 300/50 is 6, and this is the 6th episode this season.
• Unlike the slap in Prom Queen, the slap between Santana and Finn was real. Naya really did slap Cory.
• Ryan Murphy said the young Sue flashback will be an extra in a deleted scene on the DVD, titled "How Sue Sylvester became a bitch." Source
• This episode has the most mash-ups included, with 4.
• Cory did not expect to be slapped by Naya, it was decided by director Eric Stoltz last-minute.
• The version of Rumour Has It/Someone Like You uploaded to Glee's YouTube account features a slightly different ending. As Santana and Mercedes finish singing they hold and look off into the audience as the camera pans around them. In the televised version, Santana immediately jumps off the stage and storms over to Finn. This was done to preserve the storyline as the performance was released prior to the episode's release date. Similarly, several shots of Finn whispering to Rachel are also omitted.
• This episode has the most number of Troubletones performances, specifically numbers without being merged with the New Directions.
• This would be the first mash-up competition that doesn't involve the Boys vs Girls scheme.
• As like most mash-up competitions, the winner is not announced.
• This is the episode Naya submitted for best supporting actress in a comedy for the Emmy's 2012.

Errors

• Even though Kurt said that Rachel doesn't have a MySpace account, it is stated she has one in Pilot. However, she could have deleted it since then.

Quotes

“	Vote Hummel for McKinley, vote for Kurt.	”
—Rachel

“	I always thought of Beth as an accident, but she's no accident.	”
—Puck

Gallery

Videos

GLEE - Sneak Peek "Mash-Off"-0(01:33)
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Glee "Mash Off Dodgeball War" Behind The Scenes(02:57)
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GLEE - Mash Off Behind the Slap-0(01:41)
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Navigational

v - e - d Glee Episodes

Season One Pilot • Showmance • Acafellas • Preggers • The Rhodes Not Taken • Vitamin D • Throwdown • Mash-Up • Wheels • Ballad • Hairography • Mattress • Sectionals • Hell-O • The Power of Madonna • Home • Bad Reputation • Laryngitis • Dream On • Theatricality • Funk • Journey Season Two Audition • Britney/Brittany • Grilled Cheesus • Duets • The Rocky Horror Glee Show • Never Been Kissed • The Substitute • Furt • Special Education • A Very Glee Christmas • The Sue Sylvester Shuffle • Silly Love Songs • Comeback • Blame It on the Alcohol • Sexy • Original Song • A Night of Neglect • Born This Way • Rumours • Prom Queen • Funeral • New York Season Three The Purple Piano Project • I Am Unicorn • Asian F • Pot o' Gold • The First Time • Mash Off • I Kissed a Girl • Hold on to Sixteen • Extraordinary Merry Christmas • Yes/No • Michael • The Spanish Teacher • Heart • On My Way • Big Brother • Saturday Night Glee-ver • Dance with Somebody • Choke • Prom-asaurus • Props • Nationals • Goodbye Season Four The New Rachel • Britney 2.0 • Makeover • The Break-Up • The Role You Were Born to Play • Glease • Dynamic Duets • Thanksgiving • Swan Song • Glee, Actually • Sadie Hawkins • Naked • Diva • I Do • Girls (and Boys) on Film • Feud • Guilty Pleasures • Shooting Star • Sweet Dreams • Lights Out • Wonder-ful • All or Nothing

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