Episodes
Episode One
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Auditions for New Directions take place. | Mercedes | Sam | Sugar | Stoner Brett | N/A | ||
Kurt | De'wanda | ||||||
Tina | Sunshine | Blaine | Jake | ||||
Rachel | Marley | ||||||
A male character is seen singing in the shower. | Finn | Sam | N/A | Brody | N/A | ||
A performance intimidates someone in New Directions. | Vocal Adrenaline's Rehab | Sunshine's Telephone | Harmony's Anything Goes/Anything You Can Do | Marley's New York State of Mind | N/A | ||
A couple has broken up. | N/A | Artie and Tina | Sam and Mercedes | Mike and Tina | N/A | Kurt and Blaine | |
Puck and Lauren | |||||||
Someone gets a slushie in the face. | Rachel | Kurt | Finn | Marley | N/A | ||
Unique | |||||||
A new faculty member is introduced. |
Will |
Shannon Beiste | Nancy Bletheim | Cassandra July | N/A | Janet | |
Millie Rose | |||||||
A faculty member is accused of doing something inappropriate. | Sandy is accused for touching Hank inappropriately | Beiste is falsely accused of touching Brittany inappropriately | N/A | Cassandra is accused of being drunk in class. | Figgins is accused of various misdeeds that were planted by Sue. | N/A | |
A male member of the glee club has left. | N/A | Matt | Sam | Rory | Joe (possibly) | N/A | |
A song is sung in the courtyard. | N/A | Empire State of Mind | It's Not Unusual | It's Time | Got To Get You Into My Life | N/A | |
Blaine sings in the courtyard. | N/A | It's Not Unusual | It's Time | Got To Get You Into My Life | N/A | ||
Jacob Ben Israel interviews the New Directions. | N/A | About their summer. | About their senior year. | About their newfound popularity and about who the "New Rachel" will be. | N/A | ||
Sue has a plan to... | N/A | Get Shannon fired. | Remove arts programs. | N/A | Get Figgins fired and become the new prinicpal. | End New Directions' revival after Rachel and Kurt brings it back. | |
A confrontation involving one of the Cheerios. | N/A | Quinn vs. Santana | Santana vs. Becky | Kitty vs. Marley | Kitty vs. Bree | N/A | |
A rival for Rachel is introduced | Mercedes | Sunshine | Harmony | Cassandra | N/A | Clint | |
Someone rejoins the Cheerios | N/A | Quinn | Brittany | N/A | |||
Santana | |||||||
Someone gets jealous of another student. | Rachel is jealous of Hank. | Rachel is jealous of Sunshine. | Finn is jealous of Blaine. | Brittany, Blaine, and Tina are jealous of Unique. | Bree is jealous of Kitty | N/A | |
Someone gives Kurt a hard time. | Puck | Azimio | N/A | Kitty | N/A | ||
A mash-up is performed. | That's the Way (I Like It)/(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty | N/A | Anything Goes/Anything You Can Do | Americano/Dance Again | N/A | ||
Recent pop songs of the year are performed. | I Kissed a Girl | Telephone | N/A | Call Me Maybe | N/A | ||
Empire State of Mind | Dance Again | ||||||
Billionaire | |||||||
A female brunette with a powerful voice is introduced and sings a solo. | Rachel | Sunshine | Harmony | Marley | N/A | ||
Rachel sings a duet | Don't Stop Believin' with Finn | Telephone with Sunshine | Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead with Kurt | New York State of Mind with Marley | A Hard Day's Night with Santana | Suddenly Seymour with Blaine | |
Mike and Tina's relationship. | N/A | They begin dating each other. | Tina loses her virginity to Mike. | They break up. | It's revealed Mike broke up with her because she wasn't "Asian enough." | N/A | |
Someone watches New Directions performing in auditorium. | Puck | Sam and Sunshine | Quinn | Jake | N/A | ||
Sue, Quinn and Santana | |||||||
Someone isn't welcomed by the New Directions. | Finn (after he quits) |
Sunshine | Blaine | Unique | N/A | ||
At the end of the episode, the New Directions perform in a specific color. | Red | N/A | Purple | Black | Red | N/A | |
A male character leaves/has left the glee club. | Hank | Matt | Sam | Rory | Joe | N/A | |
A performance intimidates Rachel | Rehab | Listen | Anything Goes/Anything You Can Do | Americano/Dance Again | N/A |
Episode Two
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The plot revolves around the Glee club members being unhappy with Will's decision | About performing disco songs. | About Will's stance against Britney Spears songs. | About setting up Booty Camp. | N/A | ||
Sexual performance at pep rally. | Push It | Toxic | N/A | Gimme More | N/A | |
Brittany's first... | Brittany's first appearance. | Brittany's first solo. | Brittany's first campaign for class president. | Brittany's first voiceover. | Brittany's first absence in a Prom episode. | Brittany's first appearance in Season Six. |
A New Directions girl singing directly to a crush. | Rachel sings Take a Bow about Finn. | Rachel sings The Only Exception to Finn. | N/A | Marley sings Everytime to Jake. | N/A | |
Brittany realizes her self-worth and gains confidence to do something. | N/A | Has a Britney Spears fantasy and gains the confidence to step up and perform | To run for class president because she is a "bicorn" | In the end of episode she gets back her confidence | N/A | |
An adult special guest star appears. | N/A | John Stamos as Carl Howell | Idina Menzel as Shelby Corcoran | Kate Hudson as Cassandra July | Peter Facinelli as Rupert Campion | N/A |
All the songs are in the theme in except one. | N/A | All the songs are Britney Spears songs except for The Only Exception | All the songs are from West Side Story except for I'm The Greatest Star | All the songs are Britney Spears songs except for Boyfriend and Crazy | N/A | |
Will gets angry with a student. | At Rachel for the sexual performance at the assembly. | At Kurt for mouthing off to him. | At Quinn, because she blames him for everything that happened to her | At Brittany, because she lip-synced in the pep rally performance. | N/A | |
Finn and Rachel share a kiss. | On the stage. | In the locker room. | At the repair shop. | N/A | ||
Rachel has a conflict with another person, which then makes her sing a song | Rachel sings Take a Bow after fighting with Finn over their "secret" kiss. | Rachel sings Baby One More Time after she feels threatened about how her relationship with Finn is working. | Rachel and Shelby sing Somewhere about their kinship. | Rachel sings Oops... I Did It Again to prove to Cassandra that she can be sexy. | Rachel and Kurt sing Get Back because Rachel is sad since Santana made a commercial and she hasn't achieved anything yet. | N/A |
The last song performed is a solo | Take a Bow | The Only Exception | Something's Coming | Everytime | N/A | |
The plot revolves around Brittany. | N/A | Her confidence about singing Britney songs. | Helping Kurt with his campaign, and then starting her own campaign. | Becomes depressed after getting kicked off the Cheerios and not hearing from Santana. | N/A | |
Brittany is sad because... | N/A | She doesn't want to live under Britney's shadow. | She thinks she disappointed Kurt as his campaign manager. | She misses Santana and was kicked off the Cheerios. | N/A | |
It is a tribute episode | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Episode Three
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The episode is named as a result of snappy word play. | Yes | N/A | ||||
Kurt and Mercedes hit a small bump in their friendship. | Mercedes has crush on Kurt, but Kurt is gay. | Mercedes is a Christian while Kurt is an atheist. | Mercedes has a conflict with everyone, including Kurt, during It's All Over. | N/A | ||
Mercedes' first released solo of the season | Bust Your Windows | I Look to You | Spotlight | N/A | I'll Stand by You | N/A |
The episode contains a religious theme. | N/A | Finn thinks he has found God in the form of his grilled cheese sandwich. | Will wants to learn how to pray with Emma. | N/A | New Directions say goodbye to Finn. | N/A |
Someone's parents are introduced. | Will's parents. | N/A | Mike's parents | N/A | ||
Emma's parents. | ||||||
Puck sings. | I Wanna Sex You Up | Only The Good Die Young | It's All Over | N/A | Seasons of Love | You Learn/You've Got a Friend |
No Surrender | ||||||
A dinner with parents. | Will and Terri with Will's parents. | Kurt and Finn with Burt and Carole. | Will and Emma with Emma's parents. | N/A | ||
Mercedes is greatly featured | She has a crush on Kurt. | She tries to help Kurt and takes him to church. | Mercedes competes for the part of Maria against Rachel. | N/A | She pays tribute to Finn. | N/A |
Someone has a medical issue. | Henri chopped off his thumbs. | Burt has a heart attack | The origins of Emma's OCD are revealed. | N/A | Finn passes away. | N/A |
Someone starts his/her campaign for senior class president. | N/A | Brittany | Blaine | N/A | ||
Brittany |
Episode Four
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Pregnancy is mentioned. | Quinn reveals she is pregnant with Finn's baby. | Kurt assumes Rachel is pregnant. | Brittany says the Selena Gomez's pregnancy rumors are false. | N/A | Unique suggests reenacting a birth on stage. | N/A |
A secret is revealed. | Quinn reveals she's pregnant, but it turns out to be Puck's baby, not Finn's. | Sam reveals that he's not a natural blonde. | Brittany and Santana are officially dating. | Blaine cheats on Kurt. | Bree's manipulations towards Jake | Blaine and Dave are third cousins. |
A male character joins the club. | Puck | Sam | Rory | N/A | ||
Matt | ||||||
Mike | ||||||
Kurt discusses his sexuality with his dad. | Kurt comes out to Burt. | They discuss how lonely Kurt feels because he is the only openly gay student at McKinley. | Kurt believes that voters won't vote for his dad because he has a gay son. | N/A | ||
Rachel and a solo. | Rachel gets angry about losing the solo to Tina. | Rachel purposely tries to not get a solo. | N/A | Rachel mentions singing My Man. | N/A | |
An intimate moment between Brittany and Santana. | N/A | They make-out in Brittany Pierce's room. | They hold hands at Breadstix. | They share a kiss in Santana's room. | N/A | |
Finn tries to help someone feel accepted. | Kurt on the football team. | Sam on joining the glee club and facing bullies. | Rory on joining the glee club and making new friends at school. | N/A | ||
Someone isn't feeling like a part of the group. | Rachel | Kurt | Santana | Blaine | Marley | Will |
A member of and New Directions quits because of solos | Rachel | N/A | Brittany | N/A | ||
Santana | ||||||
A song containing a word that references nighttime is sung. | Tonight (Tina) | N/A | Last Friday Night | N/A | Marry The Night | N/A |
Relationship problems or intimacy. | Quinn and Finn | Brittany and Artie | Puck and Shelby | Finn and Rachel | Jake and Marley | N/A |
Kurt and Blaine | ||||||
Will and Terri | Quinn and Sam | Brittany and Santana | Sam and Penny | |||
Will and Emma | ||||||
A song by Katy Perry is performed. | N/A | Last Friday Night | Teenage Dream | Wide Awake | N/A | |
Roar | ||||||
Blaine and Katy Perry | N/A | Blaine sings Last Friday Night | Blaine sings Teenage Dream | Blaine mentions he's a proud Katy Perry. | N/A |
Episode Five
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The students perform with an adult. | Last Name with April | Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? with Carl | N/A | Born to Hand Jive with Mercedes and Mike | Blurred Lines with Will | N/A |
Juke Box Hero with Finn | ||||||
The first song performed in the episode is from a musical, which has some sort of significance. | Maybe This Time (Cabaret) | Science Fiction Double Feature (The Rocky Horror Show) | Tonight (West Side Story) | Hopelessly Devoted to You (Grease) | You Are Woman, I Am Man (Funny Girl) | N/A |
Relationship problems involving Will and Emma. | Emma accuses Will of having feelings for April, implying she's jealous. | Will is jealous of Carl. | N/A | Emma lies about going to Washington D.C., but tells him the truth. | N/A | |
Will's motives are questioned. | Emma questions him about letting April joining glee club. | Principal Figgins questions him about doing The Rocky Horror Show as the school play. | N/A | Sue fires Will for inappropriate behavior when he tries to get the students to twerk. | N/A | |
A new major character is introduced. | April | Carl | Sebastian | Ryder | N/A | |
A promiscuous character is involved with the storyline. | April | N/A | Sebastian | N/A | Bree | N/A |
The episode title begins with "The" | The Rhodes Not Taken | The Rocky Horror Glee Show | The First Time | The Role You Were Born to Play | The End of Twerk | The Hurt Locker, Part Two |
A released song has two separate performances. | Quinn's version of Don't Stop Believin' is performed after being performed in Pilot. | There's a Light (Over At The Frankenstein Place) is shown at two separate times in the episode. | A Boy Like That/I Have A Love was split in two parts of the episode. | N/A | ||
Kurt loses his "innocence." | Gets drunk for the first time. | N/A | Loses his virginity. | N/A | Gets a tattoo and a piercing. | N/A |
Someone cries after a performance. | Kurt after Maybe This Time | N/A | Beiste after Tonight | Blaine after Hopelessly Devoted To You | Unique after If I Were a Boy | Sue after All Out of Love |
Marley after Wrecking Ball | ||||||
Sue interferes with the school musical. | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
The longest episode title of the season. | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Episode Six
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The mash-up competition takes place. | Boys vs Girls | New Directions vs. The Troubletones | N/A | |||
A teacher, other than Will, is present for the mash-up competition. | Emma | Beiste | Shelby | N/A | ||
The competing show choirs for Sectionals are revealed. | Jane Addams Academy and Haverbrook School for the Deaf | Dalton Academy Warblers and The Hipsters | The Troubletones and The Unitards | N/A | ||
Mercedes has a solo in the all-girls mash-up performance and the performances are all one color. | Halo/Walking on Sunshine in yellow. | Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer in black. | Rumour Has It/Someone Like You in black. | N/A | ||
Puck and math class. | Puck mentions that he hasn't been to a math class in two years. | Artie offers to tutor Puck in geometry because he's failing. | Shelby is Puck's geometry substitute teacher. | N/A | ||
Kurt wants to be part of the girl's team in the Mash Up competition, but Will won't let him. |
Yes | N/A |
Episode Seven
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Sue tries to turn the glee club against Will. | Dividing the kids by minority | Giving Holly Will’s job | N/A | ||
Finn and Gwyneth Paltrow | Finn mentions Gwyneth Paltrow. | Finn dances with Holly Holiday, who is portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow. | N/A | Finn mentions The Avengers, a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow. | N/A |
New Directions gets a new director. | Sue | Holly | Shelby | Finn | N/A |
The glee club performs a fun Top 40 number | Hate on Me | Forget You | I Kissed a Girl | Some Nights | The Fox |
The glee club performs a big number at the end in the auditorium | Keep Holding On | Singin' In the Rain/Umbrella | N/A | Some Nights | The Fox |
A group number is performed to show support for a character. | Quinn | N/A | Santana | Blaine | |
A substitute for Will. | Sue | Holly | N/A | Finn | N/A |
A duet between two females. | N/A | Holly and Rachel sing Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag. | Rachel and Santana in I Kissed a Girl. | Kitty and Marley sing Holding Out for a Hero. | N/A |
Episode Eight
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Plot involves a wedding | Emma and Ken | Burt and Carole | N/A | ||
Sue and herself. | |||||
Rod and Andrea | |||||
Dance tutorials. | Will teaches Emma to waltz. | Kurt teaches Finn and Burt to waltz. | Will teaches the New Directions Boys. | Mike teaches the boys during sectionals rehearsals. | N/A |
Someone returns to Ohio. | N/A | Doris | Sam | Quinn | N/A |
A fight involving a member (or former member) of New Directions breaks out. | Finn and Azimio | Sam and Karofsky | Blaine and Sam | Quinn and Santana | N/A |
A teacher separates the fight. | Ken separates Finn and Azimio | Beiste separates Sam and David | Will separates Blaine and Sam | N/A | N/A |
Former members rejoin the glee club by the end of the episode. | Finn | N/A | Brittany | N/A | |
Mercedes | |||||
Santana | |||||
Quinn and a secret. | Sue discovers Quinn is pregnant. | N/A | Quinn plans to reveal Puck and Shelby Corcoran's affair. | Quinn reveals she is dating her 35-year old, married Yale professor. | N/A |
Episode Nine
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Mentions of disabilities. | The episode focuses on Artie's disability. | Episode title refers to students with disabilities. | Artie mentions his physical disability. | N/A | Tina accidentally throws Artie out of his wheelchair. |
Becky Jackson is introduced. | |||||
Jean Sylvester is introduced. | |||||
Tina and Artie interaction. | Tina and Artie begin dating. | Tina tells Artie that she believes Mike and Brittany are having an affair. | N/A | They run into each other in the hallway. | They fight for the valedictorian title. |
Finn fights with his girlfriend | Quinn | Rachel | Rachel | N/A | |
Rachel fights for a solo. | Kurt and Rachel have a diva-off to win the Defying Gravity solo. | Rachel fights for a solo at Sectionals when Will decides he wants new singers. | Rachel sings River for the lead in Artie's Christmas Special. | N/A | Santana sings Don't Rain on My Parade and Rachel gets angry because she thinks it's Rachel's song. |
Kurt auditions for something with a song from a musical. | Defying Gravity for a solo | Don't Cry for Me Argentina for a solo | N/A | Being Alive for NYADA | N/A |
Someone in New Directions misses someone. | N/A | New Directions miss Kurt. | Sam and Rory miss their family. | Artie misses Sugar. | N/A |
Kurt sings a song from a musical. | Defying Gravity | Don't Cry for Me Argentina | My Favorite Things | Being Alive | N/A |
Kurt faces a difficulty, concerning another person. |
(Rachel Berry) |
N/A | N/A | Carmen Tibideaux | Elliott Gilbert |
Rachel faces a competition. |
Defying Gravity diva-off | Sectionals | N/A | Winter Showcase | Santana auditions for Funny Girl's Fanny Brice understudy and this starts a competition feud between them. |
Episode Ten
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Kurt admits that he's in love with someone. | Finn | Blaine | N/A | Blaine | N/A | |
Someone surprises Will at his apartment. | Rachel | Sue and New Directions | N/A | Emma | ||
Someone develops an unlikely crush. | Rachel develops a crush on Will. | N/A | Becky develops a crush on Artie. | N/A | Tina and Sam kiss. | |
The final song is a New Directions group number | Lean on Me | Welcome Christmas | We Found Love | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | N/A | |
Rachel sings a solo to the object of her affection. | Crush to Will | Merry Christmas Darling to Finn | Without You to Finn | N/A |
Episode Eleven
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New Directions perform with another group. | Haverbrook School for the Deaf | McKinley Titans | Dalton Academy Warblers | N/A | |||
A mash-up or medley is performed. | Hair/Crazy in Love | Thriller/Heads Will Roll | N/A | Mr. Roboto/Counting Stars | |||
Wigs are involved | Hair/Crazy in Love | California Gurls | N/A | Unique wears a wig. | |||
Sue tries to sabotage New Directions. | Sue demands that Will gives her the setlist. | Sue forces Quinn, Brittany, and Santana choose between the Cheerios and New Directions. | N/A | Sue makes a call to the hotel where the kids are staying and attempts to prevent them to be allowed to be there. | |||
Puck and Quinn play vital roles. | Puck and Quinn babysit together to see if Puck can be a good father. | Quinn has to choose between glee and the Cheerios while Puck attempts to revive his friendship with Finn. | Quinn says goodbye to her past loves, including Puck. | Puck and Quinn return to McKinley to mentor Jake and Kitty. | N/A | ||
Nielson ratings are among the highest (or lowest) of the season. | 6.18 million viewers, lowest of the season. | 26.80 million viewers, highest of the season (and overall). | 9.07 million viewers, second highest of the season. | 6.79 million viewers, third highest of the season. | 2.30 million viewers, lowest rating of the season so far. | ||
Rachel sings a duet with a love interest | You're The One That I Want with her crush Finn. | Need You Now with her ex Puck. | I Just Can't Stop Loving You with her boyfriend Finn. | N/A | |||
The Warblers make an appearance. | No | Yes | No |
Episode Twelve
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Mentions of possible disqualification. | New Directions | Dalton Academy Warblers | N/A | Dalton Academy Warblers get disqualified. | N/A | |
Pajamas are worn | Jump performance features pajamas. | Rachel, Kurt and Mercedes have a sleepover. | Rachel, Kurt, and Mercedes have another sleepover. | Rachel wears pajamas during Torn. | N/A | |
Quinn tries to reclaim her past | Quinn tries to get into the Cheerios yearbook photo | Quinn gets back together with Finn | N/A | Quinn kisses Puck. | ||
Talk of a hypothetical gay marriage involving Blaine. | N/A | Blaine mentions that if he and Jeremiah got married, the Gap would give him a 50% discount. | Rachel asks Kurt what he would do if Blaine proposed to him. | N/A | April asks Blaine and Kurt when are they getting married. | |
Rachel sings with her hairbrush. | N/A | Firework | N/A | Torn | N/A |
Episode Thirteen
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Rachel has a stand off with a rival. | Rachel and Mercedes both want the solo at Sectionals. | Rachel and Mercedes sing Take Me or Leave Me. | N/A | Rachel and Kurt sing Bring Him Home at NYADA. | Rachel is willing to give Santana 10 Funny Girl shows, but Santana wants them all. |
Infedelity is revealed. | Finn learns that Quinn cheated on him with Puck | Sam finds out Quinn cheated on him with Finn. | Mercedes reveals to Shane that she cheated on him with Sam. | N/A | Santana and Brittany kiss each other and have romantic interaction. However, it is not clear if this is infidelity as Santana and Dani's relationship status is unknown. |
A song is sung with the word "love" in the title. | N/A | Somebody to Love | Chapel of Love | N/A | |
L-O-V-E | |||||
Let Me Love You | |||||
I Will Always Love You | |||||
Love Shack | |||||
Santana has troubles involving her relationship with Brittany. | N/A | Principal Figgins won't allow them to kiss in public. | Santana receives a call from Tina about Brittany and Sam's relationship. | Brittany wants Santana to go to Lesbos with her and never come back, but Santana isn't sure. | |
Santana and Sam interaction. | N/A | They start dating. | Sam and The God Squad serenade Brittany a singing telegram from Santana | Santana and Sam face-off for Brittany's affections. | N/A |
Santana and Brittany interact romantically. | No, but it is first mentioned that they have sex. | N/A | They kiss. |
Episode Fourteen
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Will does or talks about something he regrets. | He makes out with Shelby | He drunk-dials Sue | He reveals he contemplated suicide. | He regrets leaving Emma with all the planning for the wedding and dismissing her stress. | N/A |
Rachel's first... | Rachel's mother, Shelby, makes her first appearance. | Rachel's first time having a party and drinking alcohol. | Rachel's first wedding. | Rachel's first pregnancy scare. | Rachel's first own chauffeur |
A glee club member has a date with an LGBT character. | Finn goes on a date with Brittany and Santana. | Rachel goes on a date with Blaine. | N/A | Tina attends Will and Emma's wedding with Blaine. | N/A |
Rachel gives Finn hell. | She sings Gives You Hell to him. | She hangs all over him while drunk. | She makes him angry about the nude photo Sebastian made of him. | She mentions her and Brody moving in together. | N/A |
Something happens that relates to Rachel and Finn's relationship. | They start dating then break up. | Rachel is needy to him when drunk, claiming she will do "anything" for him. | They almost get married. | After singing We've Got Tonite, they have sex and Rachel has a pregnancy scare. | N/A |
Blaine and Kurt stay distant. | N/A | Blaine doubts about his sexuality and this leads to a confrontation between him and Kurt. | N/A | Kurt and Blaine are together in Will and Emma's wedding but stay "just friends." | Blaine moves with Kurt and they realize they can't get enough self space, so Blaine moves out. |
Episode Fifteen
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Artie gets the girl. | Tina | Brittany | Quinn as a friend. | N/A | |
The topic of sex or sexuality is discussed. | Emma, Rachel and Finn plan on losing their virginity. | Holly teaches sex education. | N/A | Rachel has a pregnancy scare. | Kurt is gay bashed. |
Emma sings. | Like a Virgin | Afternoon Delight | N/A | You're All the World to Me | N/A |
Santana's first... | Santana sings for the first time. | Santana admits her feelings for Brittany for the first time. | N/A | Santana experiences her first real week in New York. | N/A |
An adult performs with someone younger. | Vogue by Sue with Kurt and Mercedes. | Landslide by Holly with Santana and Brittany. | Hungry Like the Wolf/Rio by Cooper with Blaine. | In Your Eyes, by Will with New Directions. | N/A |
Episode Sixteen
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Kurt sings with a boy he likes, which impacts their relationship. | He sings A House Is Not a Home with Finn. | He sings Candles with Blaine. | N/A | He sings Love Is a Battlefield with Blaine. | ||
Mercedes sings a solo to find her own self-confidence. | Beautiful | Hell to the No | Disco Inferno | N/A | I Want to Know What Love Is | |
A song is sung about a second chance to make things right. | Home | Get It Right | N/A | Let's Wait Awhile | ||
Sue tries to sabotage a show choir that threatens their chances at Regionals. | She takes over the auditorium so New Directions can't practice for Regionals. | She fakes a cease and desist letter from My Chemical Romance so they have no set list for Regionals | She forces Kurt and Mercedes to convince Unique to go onstage in drag to jeopardize Vocal Adrenaline from winning Regionals. | N/A | ||
Kurt's feelings are reciprocated | Finn becomes his friend despite knowledge of Kurt's crush. | Blaine admits to liking Kurt and kisses him. | N/A | Blaine and him feel that they're competing. | ||
Blaine sings a duet. | N/A | Candles with Kurt | N/A | I Still Believe/Super Bass with Sue | Love Is a Battlefield with Kurt |
Episode Seventeen
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New Directions sings overlooked songs. | They sing songs with a bad reputation. | They sing songs that are under-appreciated. | N/A | They sing their guilty pleasure songs. | N/A |
Someone gets heckled. | Sue | New Directions | N/A | Jake | N/A |
Members of New Directions feel less important than the rest of the group. | Artie | Mercedes | Quinn | N/A | |
Brittany | |||||
Kurt | |||||
Mercedes | |||||
Tina |
Episode Eighteen
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Kurt sings a solo from a musical about returning. | Rose's Turn upon returning to his true self. | As If We Never Said Goodbye upon returning to McKinley | Not the Boy Next Door which is about returning as a different person. | N/A | |
The club sings about how they feel about themselves. | One | Born This Way | N/A | Say | N/A |
The plot has something to do with someone's appearance. | Puck loses his mohawk. | Rachel wants to have a nose job. | Beiste's bruises from being hit by Cooter. | N/A | |
Puck has a big part in the episode. | Puck loses his mohawk and popularity, so he pursues Mercedes, who is popular because she is a Cheerio. | Puck arranges the Barbara-vention to stop Rachel from getting a nose job. | Puck's father returns and Puck fails his geography test. | N/A | |
Something bad happens to Rachel. | She contracts laryngitis. | Her nose is broken. | She chokes during her NYADA audition. | N/A. | She's almost fired after it's found out that she lied to Sidney. |
A dark theme is present in the episode. | Sean Fretthold's paralysis. | Anti-gay bullying. | Domestic violence. | School shooting. | N/A |
Episode Nineteen
Parallel | 1x19 | 2x19 | 3x19 | 4x19 | 5x19 | |
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Songs with the word "dream" are performed/mentioned. | Dream On | Dreams | N/A | Dream Weaver | N/A | |
I Dreamed a Dream | Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | |||||
Dream a Little Dream | You Make My Dreams | |||||
Someone sings two duets with a guest star. | Will sings Piano Man and Dream On with Bryan. | Will sings Dreams and I've Slept With You with April. | N/A |
Kurt sings Memory and Lucky Star with Maggie. | ||
Someone's secret is revealed. | Artie's dreams of dancing. | Sam's family is poor and he lives in a hotel. | N/A | Maggie has been pretending that her daughter sends her flowers. | ||
Someone wants to find the truth about something. | Rachel and Jesse search for the truth about Rachel's mother. | Rachel and Finn try to find out whether or not Quinn is actually cheating on Finn. | Finn finds out Quinn can actually walk. | Blaine confronts Becky about the gunshots. |
Kurt tries to find out why Maggie's daughter hasn't been to one of her performances for years. | |
Sue makes plans that don't go as she had hoped. | Persuading Bryan to give more money to athletics than to performing arts. | Getting Will to move to NYC. | Preventing the punch from being spiked. | N/A | ||
Alcoholic beverages are consumed. | Will and Bryan get drinks at a bar. | Sue, April and Terri drink Sue's homemade cocktails. | Puck and Becky drink beer at the anti-prom. Puck and Becky also spikes the punch at the prom. | The students at the college party drink alcohol. | N/A |
Episode Twenty
Parallel | 1x20 | 2x20 | 3x20 | 4x20 |
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Someone sneaks into an auditorium during a performance. | Rachel walks in on Shelby Corcoran's performance of Funny Girl. | Jesse walks in on Rachel's performance of Rolling in the Deep. | Beiste walks in on Puck's performance of Mean. | N/A |
Someone makes their own outfit. | New Directions | Kurt | Joe | N/A |
Rory | ||||
Sugar | ||||
Tina | ||||
The guys serenade a New Directions girl. | Quinn with Beth | Brittany with Isn't She Lovely | N/A | |
Someone tells Kurt to not make a big spectacle of himself. | Finn | Burt | N/A | |
Blaine | ||||
Kurt and Karofsky have a scene in the hallway. | Karofsky starts bullying Kurt. | Karofsky tearfully apologizes to Kurt. | N/A | |
A physical fight occurs. | Burt and Finn | Finn and Jesse | Puck and Rick "the Stick" | N/A |
Finn gets kicked out because of a fight. | He gets kicked out of the Hummel house. | He gets kicked out of prom. | N/A | |
New Directions members are outside of their regular outfits. | They are dressed in Lady Gaga or KISS-inspired outfits. | They are dressed in prom attire. | They are dressed as each other in Tina's dream. | N/A |
Homemade outfits are featured. | Lady Gaga costumes. | Kurt's prom kilt. | New Directions' costumes for Nationals. | N/A |
Kurt cries in front of a guy he likes. | Finn | Blaine | N/A | |
Kurt gets bullied. | Karofsky and Azimio bully him. | The student body pull a prank on him. | N/A | |
Karofsky's last appearance of the season | Yes | N/A | ||
Someone gets hurt/injured. | Kurt and Tina are pushed against a locker. | Quinn slaps Rachel. | Tina slips and hits her head. | N/A |
Finn dresses flamboyantly | Lady Gaga-inspired outfit. | N/A | Dressed as Kurt. | N/A |
Somebody asks to sing a duet with someone. Rachel is involved. | Rachel asks Rachel with Poker Face. | N/A | Tina asks Rachel with Flashdance... What a Feeling. | N/A |
Tina is grossed out by Finn. | She complains that she "pictured him licking stuff" in Shout It Out Loud. | N/A | She dreamed that Kurt (as Finn) wanted to have sex with her. | N/A |
Sue says that someone who is not dead is rolling over in their grave. | N/A | John McCain | Jennifer Beals | N/A |
Episode Twenty-One
Parallel | 1x21 | 2x21 | 3x21 | 4x21 |
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The episode title starts with "fun" at the beginning of the word, however both have a depressing theme that has something to do with sadness. | Funk | Funeral | N/A | |
A relationship is officially ended in a parking lot. | Rachel and Jesse | Finn and Quinn | N/A | |
Quinn tries to prove she feels something. | About her life and her pregnancy. | About her relationship with Finn. | N/A | |
New Directions is against Jesse St. James. | Because he, along with the rest of Vocal Adrenaline, TP-ed their choir room, putting them in a funk, and him egging Rachel. | Rigging the auditions for Nationals soloist and giving hurtful critique. | At Nationals competition, since Jesse is the new coach of Vocal Adrenaline | N/A |
Terri as a manager | Terri talks about being a manager. | Terri gets to be a manager in Miami, FL. | N/A | |
Jesse messages Rachel to meet him for something important | Egging her | Winning the auditions | N/A | |
Will and Sue "grow closer" in a way | Will seduces Sue | Will comforts Sue after the death of her sister. | N/A | |
Will and Terri say goodbye | Their divorce is finalized. | Terri announces she's moving to Miami. | N/A | |
Terri admits that she still has feelings for Will despite their situation. | After the divorce is finalized, she tells him she'll always think of him as the 15-year-old she fell in love with. | Sue wants Terri to destroy Will and the glee club, but she saves them instead. | N/A | |
New Directions perform a group number to a group of people | Give up the Funk | Pure Imagination | Paradise By The Dashboard Light | N/A |
The relationship status between Rachel and Jesse changes | They break up. | They rekindle their relationship. | N/A | |
Quinn has a major role. | She sings a solo and talks about her life. | Finn breaks up with her. | She joins The Troubletones and is able to dance again. | N/A |
Two people give a speech about someone they admire. | N/A | Sue and Will about Jean. | Finn and Rachel about Will. | N/A |
Episode Twenty-Two
Parallel | 1x22 | 2x22 | 3x22 | 4x22 |
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Competition episode. | Regionals | Nationals | N/A | Regionals |
Rachel and Finn sing a duet. | Faithfully | Pretending | Roots Before Branches | N/A |
Artie and Tina harmonise together for at least one line. | To Sir, With Love | Light Up The World | In My Life | N/A |
Finn tells Rachel he loves her. | Before Regionals begins. | Numerous times during the episode. | He tells her in the car that he loves her forever. | N/A |
Will sings a solo. | Over the Rainbow | Still Got Tonight | Forever Young | N/A |
A surprising "I love you" is said. | Finn to Rachel | Blaine to Kurt | Quinn to Puck | Brittany to Sam |
Puck to Quinn | Sam to Blaine | |||
Rachel and Finn have a confrontation before their duet | Faithfully | Pretending | Roots Before Branches | N/A |
A scene about Quinn and love involving Puck | "Did you love me?" "Yes, especially now." |
N/A | Quinn tells Puck that she loves him and they kiss. | N/A |
New Directions face and overcome tough news right before the competition. | Sue being a judge. | Will going to Broadway | N/A | Brittany leaving after Regionals due to her early MIT acceptance and Ryder not returning to glee club after Regionals. |
The title implies travel. | Journey | New York | Goodbye | N/A |
Special guests are present. | Josh Groban | Jonathan Groff | Gloria Estefan | Patty Duke |
Jonathan Groff | ||||
Idina Menzel | Cheyenne Jackson | James Lipton | Meredith Baxter | |
Olivia Newton-John | Patti LuPone | |||
This episode marks the last appearance in the season of a male member of New Directions who joined in the fourth episode. | Matt | Sam | Rory | N/A |
Finn and Rachel share a kiss in the school | A kiss in the stairwell. | A kiss in the library. | A kiss in the auditorium, during the graduation ceremony. | N/A |
An outstanding performance from Vocal Adrenaline. | Bohemian Rhapsody | As Long as You're There | Starships | N/A |
There is an unexpected twist at the end. | Sue asks Principal Figgins to give New Directions another chance. | Sam and Mercedes hold hands. | Finn and Rachel break up. | Will and Emma's surprise wedding. |
Last appearance of a couple. The couple is seen holding hands at the end of the episode, then breaks up over the summer | Tina and Artie | Sam and Mercedes | Tina and Mike | N/A |
There is a change in Rachel and Finn's relationship status. | They get together. | They get together again. | They break up. | N/A |
Puck sings with someone. | Over the Rainbow with Will. | N/A | Glory Days with Finn. | N/A |
Someone wears an outfit inspired by a sailor. | Kurt | N/A | Sugar | N/A |
My Cup is performed | N/A | In the hotel room for the first time. | N/A | Mentioned by Brittany, then sung briefly with Artie. |
The title has 7 letters in it. | Journey | New York | Goodbye | N/A |
Rachel is in New York. | N/A | For Nationals | After graduating | Living |
Competition Episodes
Sectionals
Parallel |
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New Directions wins and advances to Regionals |
Beating Jane Addams Academy and Haverbrook School for the Deaf |
Beating The Hipsters and tying with the Dalton Academy Warblers |
Beating The Unitards and The Troubletones |
N/A |
New Directions use a substitute for a twelfth member |
Jacob for Finn, but Finn returns just in time and replaces Jacob |
Lauren for Kurt, but Lauren becomes a regular member |
Sam, Bassist and Drummer for Mercedes, Santana, Brittany and Rachel |
N/A |
New Directions compete against a group of 1 gender |
They compete against Jane Addams Academy |
They compete against the Dalton Academy Warblers |
They compete against the Troubletones |
They compete against the Dalton Academy Warblers |
There is a major problem and nobody expects to win, yet they do |
Their set list is stolen |
Everybody hates each other and don't want to perform with a specific person |
There are only two girls in the group and Rachel isn't allowed to compete |
Marley faints at the end of Gangnam Style |
A New Directions girl sings lead in one of the songs in the competition |
Rachel sings Don't Rain on My Parade |
Quinn sings (I've Had) The Time of My Life Santana sings Valerie |
Tina sings ABC |
Tina sings Gangnam Style |
Something happened in the episode before Sectionals that will cause someone unable to attend/perform in Sectionals |
Will got disqualified because of the mattress incident (Mattress) |
Kurt transferred because of bullying (Furt) |
Rachel got banned for stuffing the ballot boxes in the school election (I Kissed a Girl) |
Will won't be able to coach New Directions since he went for a sabatical (Dynamic Duets) |
One of the original 6 members is unable to participate (with ND) in Sectionals or threatens to quit |
Finn quits |
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Rachel is suspended |
N/A |
A celebratory song is sung after the competition |
N/A | |||
The setlist doesn't call for Rachel having a solo |
Rachel gives her solo to Mercedes |
Will doesn't give her a solo after Emma suggests that he spread the solos around |
Rachel is suspended and can't perform at Sectionals overall |
Rachel has graduated |
Mercedes only performs in 1 song at Sectionals, in which she gets a lead |
N/A |
N/A |
- At some point in the episode, New Directions are at least one member short of the twelve-member requirement, but the place(s) are filled just before Sectionals.
Regionals
Parallel |
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Sue is present at regionals |
As a judge |
As a coach |
In the audience |
N/A |
New Directions has a theme to their songs |
Journey Medley |
Original Songs |
Songs to Inspire |
Songs about Dreams |
Someone outrageously announces the results |
Sue sarcastically calls Aural Intensity"Not-at-all-stupidly-named" when she announces them as 2nd Place |
The Lieutenant Governor's wife drunkenly announces New Directions' win |
The vampire-dressed judge announces the results in an evil, vampire-like voice |
N/A |
At least one of Rachel's parents is in the episode |
N/A |
N/A | ||
Regionals requires at least 1 song of a certain genre |
N/A |
Anthems |
Inspirational Songs |
Dreams |
Three songs are sung |
Faithfully, Any Way You Want It/Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' and Don't Stop Believin' (Regionals Version) |
N/A |
Fly/I Believe I Can Fly, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) and Here's to Us |
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Artie has a solo in at least one of the songs |
Any Way You Want It/Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' and Don't Stop Believin' (Regionals Version) |
N/A |
Nationals
Parallel |
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Nationals is held in a popular city |
New York |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
Several special guest stars appear |
Patti Lupone, Cheyenne Jackson |
Lindsay Lohan, Perez Hilton, Rex Lee |
Jackée Harry, Joanna Rohrback, Marlee Matlin |
A New Direction member(s) cheer up a Vocal Adrenaline member because they got nervous before performing |
Rachel cheers up Sunshine |
Kurt and Mercedes cheer up Wade/Unique |
N/A |
Santana mentions that she would go "all Lima Heights" out of anger |
When she loses it after the competition, since Rachel and Finn kissed, losing it for them |
During rehearsals before competition in order to boost everyone's confidence levels |
N/A |
Christmas Episodes
Parallel |
Previously Unaired Christmas | |||
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Kurt and Blaine have a duet |
N/A | |||
References to other Christmas shows/specials |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Judy Garland Christmas Special and A Charlie Brown Christmas |
Love, Actually/It's a Wonderful Life |
Glee, Actually |
A Christmas album is produced, containing songs from the episode |
Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 4 | |||
The tile card is altered |
The background is green |
A Santa hat sits upon the final "e" in "Glee" |
The title is wrapped in Christmas lights |
N/A |
One song from the episode isn't on the Christmas album |
N/A |
(Blaine) | ||
There's a big Christmas Event |
N/A |
The T.V. Christmas Special |
The Christmas Concert |
The "green" Christmas tree contest and the living manger |
Someone pays Kurt a surprise visit. | Will visits him at Dalton | N/A | Burt and Blaine visit him at New York | Santana visits him and Rachel at New York |
The New Directions perform the last number of the Christmas episode in some way to Sue Sylvester. | Welcome Christmas | Do They Know It's Christmas? | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | N/A |
Sue Sylvester goes from doing the wrong thing to doing the nicest thing. | Giving all the gifts back and decorating Will's apartment with the help of the New Directions | Running the food and entertainment at a homeless shelter. | Selling her 7000 year old "Bamboo" tree to raise money for Marley and her mom's financial struggles. | Treating Becky unfairly different and regretting that, awarding New Directions in the tree contest |
Valentine's Day Episodes
Parallel |
I Do | ||
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Artie sings to the girl he likes who sits on his lap and says something to do with Artie's disability |
P.Y.T to Brittany who says: "That's my man and his legs don't work." |
Let Me Love You to Sugar who says: "Wheel me to class baby." |
N/A |
Mike performs with another member of New Directions while showing his affection for Tina |
N/A | ||
Someone is serenaded |
Marley | ||
Tina sings to Mike |
My Funny Valentine |
N/A | |
An unreleased song |
My Funny Valentine |
Chapel of Love |
N/A |
Kurt makes an assumption about Blaine |
He assumes he is the one Blaine wants to sing to |
He assumes Blaine is sending him Valentine's Day cards |
N/A |
Sam and cheating |
Quinn cheats on him |
Mercedes discusses her cheating with him |
N/A |
Kurt & Blaine are in the final performance which is held at Breadstix, and has the word "Love" in the title |
N/A | ||
Two songs are performed by a singing group other than New Directions |
N/A | ||
Someone confesses their feelings to someone else and gets turned down. |
Kurt confesses his feeling to Blaine and gets turned down. |
Dave confesses his feelings to Kurt and gets turned down. |
N/A |
A party at Breadstix at the end of the episode |
Lonely Hearts Club Dinner |
Sugar Shack |
N/A |
Prom Episodes
Parallel |
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An unlikely ND member who is LGBT takes part in the nominating of the opposite gender's Prom candidate |
Kurt becomes Prom Queen |
Brittany is nominated for Prom King |
N/A |
Santana runs for Prom Queen with her gay boy/girlfriend, who goes for King |
Dave Karofsky |
Brittany Pierce |
N/A |
"Prom" is the first word of the title |
N/A | ||
Santana sings a duet with a good female friend/girlfriend |
Mercedes Jones (Dancing Queen) |
Quinn Fabray (Take My Breath Away) |
Dani (Here Comes The Sun) |
Artie and Sam perform a modern, popular song with other male(s) |
N/A | ||
Puck makes an attempt to spike the punch with alcohol, together with an ally |
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N/A |
In order to spike the punch with alcohol, he tries to distract Sue. |
He tries to seduce her. |
He tells Becky to distract her. |
N/A |
Brittany and Tina sing back-up for a friend at Prom |
Blaine, I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You |
Santana, Love You Like a Love Song |
N/A |
Rachel prepares a Prom number in the auditorium with the help of a male, entering from the doors |
Jesse, Rolling in the Deep |
Kurt and Blaine, Big Girls Don't Cry |
N/A |
Finn gets annoyed by someone/gets in a fight, which get stopped by Sue |
Finn gets annoyed after watching Jesse dancing/flirting with Rachel and gets in a fight with Jesse. |
Finn gets annoyed with Quinn after finding out she can walk, and then gets in a fight with her and Joe. |
N/A |
Sam gets in a relationship |
Begins his romance with Mercedes |
It is revealed that he and Mercedes are a couple again after several months. |
Begins his romance with Penny |
A non-candidate wins Prom Queen with write-in votes |
N/A | ||
Rachel asks a guy who likes her "What are you doing here?" |
Jesse in the auditorium |
Finn in the hotel room |
N/A |
Brittany talks about chickens |
Is confused about whether eggs contain baby chickens |
Says she got accepted to work at a chicken factory |
N/A |
Quinn and Santana run for Prom Queen, Quinn with Finn for King | Yes | No |
Non-Episode Specific
Parallel |
Season Five | ||||
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Talks of using humans as props |
In Throwdown, Quinn asks Mr. Schue "Do you expect us to just sway back here like props?" |
In Funeral, Jesse mentions that if a member of Vocal Adrenaline dies, their body is used as a prop |
In Props, Tina feels like she is just a "human prop" because she doesn't get enough solos |
N/A | N/A |
Kurt does something that causes him to lose some of his innocence |
Gets drunk (The Rhodes Not Taken) and uses Pseudophedrine like a drug (Vitamin D) |
Gets kissed by a guy for the first time (Never Been Kissed) |
Loses his virginity (The First Time) |
Has a one night stand with Blaine (I Do) | Gets a tattoo (The End of Twerk) |
A diva mentions the story of Barbra Streisand about her nose and/or her career |
Rachel to Dakota (Acafellas) |
Kurt to Rachel (Born This Way) |
N/A |
N/A | Kurt to Rachel (A Katy or A Gaga) |
A New Directions boy thinks he's going to be father, but it's false |
Finn (Preggers) |
Artie (Sexy) |
N/A |
N/A | Jake (Puppet Master) |
A girl wipes a slushie off a boy, who is a romantic interest |
Rachel wipes a slushie off Puck (Mash-Up) |
Quinn wipes a slushie off Sam (Duets) |
Mercedes wipes slushie off Sam (Yes/No) |
N/A | N/A |
New Directions loses a very talented member one episode before a competition |
Jesse before Regionals (Funk) |
Kurt before Sectionals (Furt) |
Rachel before Sectionals (I Kissed a Girl) |
N/A | N/A |
A song from a musical is performed in a dream sequence between a student and a Glee Club Director |
Shelby and Rachel perform I Dreamed a Dream (Dream On) |
Will and Mike perform Make 'Em Laugh (The Substitute) |
Shelby and Rachel perform Somewhere (I Am Unicorn) |
N/A | N/A |
A song about drinking/partying is sung by the New Directions in front of an audience while the blonde lead singer is intoxicated |
April in Last Name (The Rhodes Not Taken) |
Brittany in Tik Tok (Blame It on the Alcohol) |
N/A |
Brittany in Gimme More (Britney 2.0) | N/A |
An episode which has three words which start with the same letter in the title |
N/A |
N/A | Love Love Love | ||
One of Beth's parents suddenly appears with a drastic change in his/her hair |
Puck shaves off his mohawk (Laryngitis) |
Quinn has short hair (New York) |
Quinn has pink hair (The Purple Piano Project) |
Quinn has long hair (Thanksgiving) | Puck's hair is longer (The Quarterback |
A scene in which two characters are shown to be at night in a car with the windows covered in rain |
Shelby and Jesse (Dream On) |
Mercedes and Rachel (A Night of Neglect) |
Kurt and Rachel (The Purple Piano Project) |
N/A | N/A |
Mercedes is involved in a diva-off number |
Mercedes vs. Santana (Laryngitis) |
Mercedes vs. Rachel (Comeback) |
Mercedes vs. Rachel (Asian F ) |
N/A | Mercedes vs. Rachel (100) |
Artie is all-body covered in a type of dirt |
N/A |
Artie covered in a slushie (The Sue Sylvester Shuffle) |
Artie covered in spaghetti (The Purple Piano Project) |
N/A | Artie covered in water (New New York) |
Someone insults Rachel's personality but praising her singing |
Puck said that Rachel makes him want to light himself on fire [but, boy, can she sing] (The Rhodes Not Taken) |
Kurt's exact quote is 'She can be difficult, but, boy, can she sing' (Funeral) |
N/A |
N/A | Rupert Campion thinks Rachel is good at singing but is too much self-confident (Love Love Love) |
Song about a weeknight sung |
Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? sung by Carl in The Rocky Horror Glee Show and Friday sung by Puck, Sam, and Artie in Prom Queen |
Last Friday Night sung by Blaine in Pot o' Gold and Tonight sung by Blaine and Rachel in The First Time. |
We've Got Tonite sung by Rachel, Finn, Kurt, Blaine, Marley, Jake, Quinn, Santana, Artie and Betty in I do | A Hard Day's Night sung by Rachel and Santana in Love Love Love and Marry the Night sung by Elliott in A Katy or A Gaga | |
Blaine sings a song by Katy Perry |
N/A |
Roar in A Katy or A Gaga | |||
A member/former member of New Directions walks down the stairs at Dalton Academy and walks in on a Warblers performance |
N/A |
Kurt walks in on Teenage Dream in Never Been Kissed |
Blaine walks in on Uptown Girl in The First Time |
N/A | Kurt walks in on All You Need Is Love in Love Love Love |
A riot happens during an assembly |
N/A |
N/A | |||
Mention of Lindsay Lohan |
Emma mentions her when talking about bad role models for teenage girls (The Power of Madonna) |
Holly has the students discuss how crazy she is and how many times she has been in rehab in Spanish class (The Substitute) |
Lindsay Lohan appears as a judge at Nationals (Nationals) |
N/A | N/A |
The second episode after a long hiatus is the first and/or only tribute episode of the season |
N/A | ||||
New Directions/a fomer New Directions member performs a heartfelt number in white as the final song of the episode (the episode being early in the season) |
N/A | Make You Feel My Love (The Quarterback) | |||
Rachel and Kurt sing a song from a musical based on witches and/or wizards |
N/A | N/A | |||
An episode is named after the position of the character on who the episode is centered |
N/A |
N/A | The Quarterback | ||
Benedict Arnold's traitor ways are mentioned |
Kurt nicknames Rachel that for dating Jesse (Hell-O) |
N/A |
Puck mistakenly calls Blaine "Eggs Benedict" for saying they were singing MJ (Michael) |
N/A | N/A |
"Do you think you can love two people at once?" is asked by or to Finn |
Finn to Terri (Vitamin D) |
Quinn to Finn (Silly Love Songs) |
N/A |
N/A | N/A |
Someone puts Will's job in jeopardy. |
N/A |
N/A | Sue (The End of Twerk) | ||
Someone in Kurt's life gets hospitalized. |
N/A |
Burt gets hospitalized due to a heart attack (Grilled Cheesus) |
Blaine gets hospitalized after being hit with a tampered slushie. (Michael) Dave later attempts suicide and ends up in the hospital. (On My Way) |
N/A | Kurt gets hospitalized after being gay bashed (Bash) |
Blaine gets drunk and hurts Kurt's feelings. |
N/A |
Gets drunk at Rachel's party, and ends up making out with Rachel. (Blame It on the Alcohol) |
Gets drunk at Scandals and tries to be intimate with Kurt. (The First Time) |
N/A | N/A |
A member of New Directions gets food thrown in their face by a male member of their rival team, who also happened to like them. |
Jesse and Vocal Adrenaline throw eggs at Rachel in a parking lot. (Funk) |
N/A |
Blaine gets a slushie thrown in his face by Sebastian in a parking garage. (Michael) |
N/A | N/A |
After said member of New Directions get attacked by food, New Directions teaches the rivaling show choir a lesson through song in the auditorium (Kurt, Mercedes, Artie, and Puck all have solos in both songs). |
New Directions "Out funk" Vocal Adrenaline by singing Give Up The Funk (Funk) |
N/A |
New Directions sing Black or White for rights to sing Michael Jackson at Regionals. (Michael) |
N/A | N/A |
"What would 'a famous idol who's name starts with an M' do?" is asked by a teacher in a tribute episode. This teacher mentions the acronym earlier. |
"What would Madonna do?" is asked by Sue (WWMD) |
N/A |
"What would Michael Jackson do?" is asked by Will (WWMJD) |
N/A | N/A |
Themed set list for a competition |
Journey Medley at Regionals |
Original Songs at Regionals and Nationals |
Jackson Medley at Sectionals and Inspirational Songs for Regionals |
Foreign Songs at Sectionals | Finn's Favorite Songs at Nationals |
Brittany and Santana moments during a song titled "Home" |
Santana links pinkies with Brittany before resting her head on Brittany's shoulder. (Home) |
N/A |
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N/A | N/A |
Two members of New Directions sing a duet between Madonna and another artist in a tribute episode |
Kurt and Mercedes sing 4 Minutes, by Madonna and Justin Timberlake |
Brittany and Santana sing Me Against the Music, by Britney Spears and Madonna |
N/A |
N/A | N/A |
Will supports someone before/after a disappointing loss at Regionals, putting them into a funk |
N/A |
N/A | N/A | ||
A cut Faberry scene in a Regionals episode |
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Quinn visiting Rachel's house, leaning her head on her shoulder and a couple more scenes (Original Song) |
Quinn yelling at Rachel in the bridal shop (On My Way) |
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Brittany and Santana holding hands during the results at Regionals. |
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Warblers enjoying New Directions performance. |
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What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (On My Way) and Black or White (Michael) |
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Mercedes participates in a performance including a church choir |
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Grilled Cheesus) and Ain't No Way (A Night of Neglect) |
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The word "Glee" is inserted into a movie title for an episode |
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Santana wears red in two duets that she sings with the same female who also wears a certain color twice |
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Mercedes during River Deep, Mountain High and Dancing Queen, wearing purple |
Rachel during A Boy Like That/I Have A Love and I Kissed a Girl, wearing white |
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Finn threatens to beat someone up, followed by the New Directions boys, but is stopped by Will |
Threatens to go all Braveheart on Vocal Adrenaline for egging Rachel. (Funk) |
Threatens to go all Thunderdome on the football team for slushying Artie (The Sue Sylvester Shuffle) |
Threatens to beat "That Sebastian kids' ass" for blackmailing Rachel with a nude photo of him. (On My Way) |
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Singing in the shower scene |
Finn sings Can't Fight This Feeling (Pilot) |
Sam sings Every Rose Has It's Thorn (Audition) |
Blaine sings Fighter (Big Brother) |
Brody sings Sister Christian (The New Rachel) |
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A gay character sings an emotional song towards a family member, starts singing in the hallway and ends in the auditorium |
Kurt sings Rose's Turn towards his dad (Laryngitis) |
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Blaine sings Fighter towards Cooper (Big Brother) |
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Member of New Directions sings a duet with a family member on a stage. |
Rachel and Shelby sing Poker Face (Theatricality) |
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Blaine and Cooper sing Somebody That I Used To Know (Big Brother) |
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A tribute episode made to a pop singer with their first name in the episode title |
Madonna (The Power of Madonna) |
Britney Spears (Britney/Brittany) |
Michael Jackson (Michael) |
Britney Spears (Britney 2.0) |
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Kurt is accused of cheating on Blaine |
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Finn and Rachel think he's cheating on Blaine with Sam (Rumours) |
Blaine thinks Kurt's cheating on him with Chandler (Dance With Somebody) |
N/A | Becky tells Blaine he's cheating on Blaine with Elliott (Frenemies) |
Couples counseling with Emma |
Quinn and Finn about popularity in Mash-Up |
Rachel and Finn about Finn's first time with Santana in Special Education |
Mercedes and Sam about their feelings for each other in The Spanish Teacher, Kurt and Blaine about their relationship status in Dance With Somebody |
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Brittany sings a Ke$ha song in front of a crowd |
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An episode title that represents a vocative |
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Students make fun of Beiste, then apologize through song. |
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The Glee guys (And Tina) imagined Beiste in underwear in order to cool down in compromising situations, then later sing Stop! In the Name of Love/Free Your Mind in Never Been Kissed |
The Glee girls poke fun at Beiste getting punched, then later sing Shake it Out in Choke |
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A parent walks into the auditorium during a song at competition |
Judy Fabray (Journey Medley) in Journey |
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Principal Figgins dances to a song that New Directions are performing |
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A gay member of New Directions says that Mercedes is black and that he/she is gay |
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Will sings saying good-bye to something. |
Leaving on a Jet Plane to McKinley High (Pilot - director's cut) |
Still Got Tonight to his Broadway dream (New York) |
Forever Young to graduating senior Glee kids (Goodbye) |
N/A | Don't Stop Believin' to the Glee Club |
Blaine removes his sunglasses and tosses them to a fellow male student during a musical number designed (at least in part) to surprise another gay character |
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When I Get You Alone (Silly Love Songs) - Sung to Jeremiah, Glasses to Jeff |
It's Not Unusual (The Purple Piano Project) - Surprising Kurt, Glasses to Kurt |
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Kurt spies on rival show choir |
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The Dalton Academy Warblers (Never Been Kissed) |
Vocal Adrenaline (Props) |
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A love triangle between Quinn, Rachel and Finn blooms and then followed by a love triangle between Jesse, Rachel and Finn. The two relationships also intersect with one another - when Quinn and Finn broke up, Jesse and Rachel started dating. |
Starting from Pilot and ending with Sectionals (Episode) (Quinn/Finn/Rachel) Starting with Hell-O and ending with Funk (Jesse/Finn/Rachel) |
Starting with The Sue Sylvester Shuffle and ending with Funeral (Quinn/Finn/Rachel)Starting with Prom Queen and ending with Nationals (Jesse/Finn/Rachel) |
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Someone wants Kurt to dress like a girl, but he refuses. |
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Will wants Kurt to play Dr. Frank-n-Furter (The Rocky Horror Glee Show) |
Sue wants Kurt to dress like a girl for Nationals (Props) |
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The Warblers serenade a gay character. |
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They sing When I Get You Alone to Jeremiah and Kurt looks angry/jealous (Silly Love Songs) |
In a cut scene in Michael, the Warblers sing I Want You Back to Blaine, and Kurt looks pissed (Michael) |
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They sing All You Need Is Love with New Directions, Vocal Adrenaline and the glee club for the deaf (Love Love Love) |
A student crushing on a teacher. |
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Artie on Holly Holliday | |||
A male New Directions member makes his debut after a long hiatus. |
Rory in Pot o' Gold |
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A male New Directions member joins/is introduced in the episode before the school musical. |
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Sam before The Rocky Horror Show |
Rory before West Side Story |
Ryder before Grease |
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Rachel sings a split screen duet with someone who is auditioning |
Maybe This Time with April - Audition for New Directions (The Rhodes Not Taken) |
Don't Cry For Me Argentina with Kurt - Audition for a solo at Sectionals (Special Education) |
Out Here On My Own with Mercedes - Audition for West Side Story (Asian F) |
New York State of Mind with Marley - Audition for New Directions (The New Rachel) |
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Finn says something offensive |
Indirectly calls Kurt a fag (Theatricality) |
Sings With You I'm Born Again with Rachel in a priest costume (Duets) |
Calls Brittany stupid (Pot o' Gold) |
Calls Sue's baby retarded (The Role You Were Born to Play) |
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Kurt mentions how good the bagels are in New York |
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He and Rachel eat bagels at Tiffany's (New York) |
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He mentions New York has decent bagels to Burt (The New Rachel) |
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A New Directions (biologically) boy walks into a girls' bathroom and their friend calls them out on it. |
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Puck walks into a girls' bathroom to talk to Rachel about her nose (Born This Way) |
Puck walks into the girls' bathroom to talk to Quinn about Beth (I Am Unicorn) |
Wade walks into the girls' bathroom to talk to Marley about Grease (The Role You Were Born to Play) |
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McKinley Alumnus helps out New Directions. |
April joins New Directions and wins them over (The Rhodes Not Taken) |
April helps them with Fleetwood Mac week (Rumours) |
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Finn directs Grease with Mike and Mercedes' help (The Role You Were Born to Play) |
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Someone collapses after a performance and their boyfriend rushes to their aid. |
Quinn falls during rehearsals for Sectionals and Finn and Puck rush to her aid. (Sectionals) |
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Blaine collapses after being hit with a tampered slushy after performing Bad with New Directions and the Warblers, and Kurt rushes to his aid. (Michael) |
Marley faints after performing Gangnam Style at Sectionals and Jake and Ryder rush to her aid. (Thanksgiving) |
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A song from Chicago is performed. |
Mr. Cellophane (Pilot) |
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We see a wedding take place/almost take place. |
Ken and Emma (Sectionals) |
Burt and Carole (Furt) |
Finn and Rachel (On My Way) |
Will and Emma (I Do and All or Nothing) |
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A marriage proposal. |
Ken to Emma (Vitamin D) |
Burt to Carole (Furt) |
Will to Emma and Finn to Rachel (Yes/No) |
Jan to Liz (All or Nothing) |
Blaine to Kurt (Love Love Love) |
Someone lusts after someone else of the same gender | Kurt after Finn | Santana after Brittany | Sebastian after Blaine | Blaine after Sam | Kurt after Cody |
A member of the New Directions sings a number from the current McKinley High School Musical with a guest star | April Rhodes (Kristen Chenoweth) and Rachel sing Maybe This Time (Cabaret) | Carl Howell (John Stamos) and the New Directions sing Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? (Rocky Horror Picture Show) | Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel) and Rachel sing Somewhere (West Side Story) | Cassandra July (Kate Hudson), Santana and Unique sing There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Grease) | N/A |
Rachel sings a duet with a Special Guest Star |
Maybe This Time (Kristen Chenoweth) I Dreamed a Dream (Idina Menzel) Poker Face (Idina Menzel) |
Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag
(Gwyneth Paltrow) |
Somewhere
(Idina Menzel) |
All That Jazz (Kate Hudson) Next to Me (Idina Menzel) |
You Are Woman, I Am Man (Ioan Gruffudd) |
A member of the New Directions sings with the member of a rival Glee Club | Rachel sings Hello with Jesse (Hell-O) | Rachel sings Don't You Want Me with Blaine (Blame It On The Alcohol) | Santana sings Smooth Criminal with Sebastain (Michael) | Blaine sings Dark Side with the Warblers (Dynamic Duets) | N/A |
Someone is sexually abused | Sandy caresses Hank (Pilot) | Karofsky forces a kiss on Kurt (Never Been Kissed) | Brittany hints at being sexually abused at a cheerleading camp (The First Time) | Ryder admits to being molested by his female babysitter and Kitty admits to be molested by her friend's brother (Lights Out) | N/A |
A song originally sung by someone who has portrayed/portrays a character in the series is sung | Defying Gravity (Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel) |
Take Me or Leave Me (Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel) |
N/A | Give Your Heart a Break (Demi Lovato) | Colorblind (Amber Riley) |
Still Got Tonight (Matthew Morrison) | |||||
Don't Stop Believin' is sung | Pilot, The Rhodes Not Taken, and Journey | N/A | N/A | Sweet Dreams | New Directions |
A member/former member of the New Directions arrives at New York singing a song | N/A | N/A | Rachel singing Roots Before Branches | Santana singing Girl on Fire | Sam and Blaine singing Movin' Out |
Sue and Will singing NYC | |||||
The Glee kids honor Mr. Schue singing a song near to the end of the season/school year | To Sir, with Love | N/A | We Are the Champions | N/A | Don't Stop Believin' |