The Sue Sylvester Shuffle
Season Two, Episode Eleven
First Aired	February 6, 2011
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The Sue Sylvester Shuffle is the eleventh episode of Glee's second season, and the thirty-third episode overall. It premiered on February 6, 2011.

When Coach Beiste recommends the Football Team to join Glee Club and prepare for a performance during half time in their final championship game, but things turn out pretty bad. Coach Beiste and Will also have hopes that the two groups can end their rivalry. Sue asks her cheerios in Glee Club to choose whether to attend their Cheerleading Regional Championships or perform at half-time, while old lovers begin a new spark.

The episode was written by Ian Brennan, directed by Brad Falchuk, and followed The Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011. This episode was the Super Bowl episode.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Songs 2.1 Background Songs 3 Guest Stars 3.1 Special Guest Star 3.2 Guest Cast 3.3 Co-Stars 3.4 Absent Cast Members 4 Trivia 5 Errors 6 Quotes 7 Gallery 8 Navigational 9 Comments

Plot

The episode starts with the Cheerios performing California Gurls. Sue grows disillusioned with cheerleading, and in an effort to recapture her love for it, she plans to fire Brittany from a cannon during their next competitive routine. Meanwhile, Shannon Beiste has the school football players join the glee club, in order to end rivalry between the Glee kids and the team. In revenge for opposition to her cannon plan, Sue has the cheerleading Regionals competition moved to the same night as a football championship game, so her cheerleaders will be unavailable for the halftime show. Will announces that the glee club, including the football players, will perform the halftime routine, planning a mash-up of Michael Jackson's Thriller with Heads will Roll by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, inspired by the Phillippine dancing inmates' Thriller. He notices and encourages the talent of Karofsky. When the football players are attacked by members of the school ice hockey team, Karofsky encourages them to quit the glee club, resulting in Coach Beiste barring them from the championship game.

To ensure that the game goes ahead, Rachel, Mercedes, Tina, and Lauren join the football team. The game begins badly for the McKinley side, and when Tina is injured during a play, Finn takes control of the situation. He has Puck convince the former football players to return, and convinces Quinn, Santana, and Brittany to quit

the cheer squad and perform at the halftime show. Only Karofsky refuses to participate, but when he sees the positive reaction the crowd has to the routine, he joins in himself. Beiste welcomes the football players back, and they go on to win the game by intimidating the opposing side, still dressed as zombies from the halftime routine.

Sue's Cheerios lose at Regionals for the first time in seven years, and she is named "Loser of the Year" in a televised interview with Katie Couric. Furthering her ire, the cheerleading budget is slashed in favor of New Directions. Karofsky refutes Finn's suggestion that he join the glee club permanently, reaffirming the animosity between them. Finally, Quinn kisses Finn, telling him that his actions have reminded her of why she loved him.

Songs

Song Title	Original Artist	Performer(s)
Need You Now	Lady Antebellum	Rachel Berry and Noah Puckerman
She's Not There	The Zombies	Finn Hudson with the McKinley Titans
Bills, Bills, Bills	Destiny's Child	Dalton Academy Warblers
Thriller/Heads Will Roll	Michael Jackson/Yeah Yeah Yeahs	New Directions and the McKinley Titans

Background Songs

• California Gurls by Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg - Danced to by the Cheerios
• O Fortuna from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff - Background music during Sue's giant tantrum.
• Looking Back by Kerry Muzzey - Background music heard when Tina comes to.

Guest Stars

Special Guest Star

• Katie Couric as herself

  

Guest Cast

• Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins
• Dot Jones as Shannon Beiste
• Romy Rosemont as Carole Hudson-Hummel
• Harry Shum Jr. as Mike Chang
• Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans
• Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson
• Telly Leung as Wes
• Max Adler as Dave Karofsky
• James Earl as Azimio Adams
• Scott Lincoln as Cannonball Guy

Co-Stars

• Ashley Fink as Lauren Zizes
• Lauren Potter as Becky Jackson
• Kody Batchelor as Christopher Strando
• D.C. Cody as Scott Cooper
• Chris Delfosse as Tattooist
• Riker Lynch as Jeff
• Titus Makin Jr. as David
• Eddy Martin as Thad
• Curt Mega as Nick Duval

Absent Cast Members

• Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester
• Jayma Mays as Emma Pillsbury

Trivia

• The Sue Sylvester Shuffle was the 2nd most expensive episode at $5 million dollars, behind New York which cost $6 million. Reasons for the cost were:
  • The professional fire breathers, BMX bikers and jugglers
  • The USC marching band
  • Katie Couric guest starring
  • Pyrotechnics
  • Elaborate costumes and special effects makeup for the Thriller/Heads Will Roll dance number
  • An on-set cannon
  • Over 500 extras recruited for the half-time performance
• This is the most watched episode at over 26 million views, because of it airing after the 2011 Super Bowl.
• In this episode, it is foreshadowed that Glee will cover Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok'.
• The third episode to feature a characters name in the title, the first one being The Rhodes Not Taken and second being Britney/Brittany. This makes it the first episode to feature a characters' full name.
• The music featured as Sue demonstrates the cannon is taken from the 1995 Japanese monster movie 'Godzilla vs. Destoroyah'.
• The scene where the referee signals the final touchdown that wins the game for the Titans is taken from Preggers when Kurt kicks the game winning extra point.
• Rachel's helmet for the football game has three gold stars on it. No other helmet had them on, so it is assumed they are there because 'gold stars are kind of her thing'.

Errors

• When the championship game is starting, the scoreboard reads 17-0, but after Finn throws an interception returned for a touchdown, the score is shown at 6-0, but then switches back to 17-0 at a point late in the first half.
• During the Thriller/Heads Will Roll mashup Finn is seen with a head mic, then without, then with one again.

Quotes

“	Quinn: What the hell are we gonna do. If we go to our cheerleading competition we miss the half-time show and we're out of Glee Club. I'm torn. Santana: Well I'm not. Brittany: I'm Brittany.	”
—Quinn, Santana and Brittany after Zombie Camp

“	Sue: And as you ponder your decision, I ask that you remember that that cannon has 2 little baby twin cannons, and one more on the way, and if you refuse to sign this, well, those little baby cannons might just go hungry. Brittany: Baby cannons... Sue: And the mama cannon has fibromyalgia so she can't work.	”
—Sue and Brittany

“	Puck: Are you ready for this? Rachel: Let's kick some ass!!	”
—Puck and Rachel

“	Screw her. She put me on the bottom of the pyramid.	”
—Santana

“	Katie Couric: You beat out the following losers: the economy, Mel Gibson, Dina Lohan... and Sparky Lohan, who is Dina Lohan's dog and, apparently, also a loser. How do you deal with that? Sue: I've been drinking a lot of bleach.	”
—Katie and Sue

“	You're so afraid of being called geeks or losers or gay that you settle for being nothing.	”
—Puck

“	No time for a foursome, ladies. The bus leaves in five.	”
—Sue

Gallery

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