this week in tv

[jlh]

HIMYM: I love Robin Sparkles. I wish they had either gotten an actual actress to play Robin's old friend, or a non-actress that people would recognize, rather than a singer not a lot of people know. The show reminded me of Xuxa, that Brazilian kids show from the 90s that starred a total sexpot.

Castle: The reference to the X-Files was cute, whatever. I think the mystery could have been a little tighter. So much time was spent on the space thing that it was hard to follow the clues.

Hawaii 5-0: Ugh. Guys, just don't try to do this political thing, seriously, because you really don't do it well at all.

Dancing with the Stars: I don't really want to talk about it. And by that I mean that since this is my journal and not a comm I'm modding, if you comment about a certain dancer's mother, or the relation to politics, I'll delete your comment.

Glee: I said on twitter that I'm beginning to just let this go. Every episode both creates and kills puppies, the end. So instead I'll take you through me, watching an episode of Glee, and cross my fingers that you won't defriend me because of it.

• Will: I thought we were friends?
  Sue: That got boring.
  Me: LOL!
  
• GLEE BABIES. Seriously, Muppet Babies never stops giving back to the world.
  
• Terri, whatever.
  
• Oh Mercedes, welcome to life as a best friend to a young gay man. He hasn't been able to express his sexuality, so now it's all going to come out in a torrent, and he's basically going to leave your ass at every opportunity. Life giveth and it taketh away.
  
• The Paltrow can be really irritating, but this role really used it well.
  
• Omg the buttered floor—Kurt in particular did a great pratfall. And Puck's Finn was fantastic, as was the look on his little face when Paltrow said they'd sing Cee-Lo.
  
• Forget You was great! Fun dancing from the
  
• Bieste: You do not spray athlete's foot medicine in your teammates eyes! Come on!
  (to Sue) Can I help you, Sue?
  Sue: Principle Sue, and I'm here to inform you that effective 4pm today, the football team is officially disbanded.
  Bieste: Well, if you're cutting the football team, who are your Cheerios going to cheer for?
  Sue: (pause) I will get back to you on all of this later.
  Bieste: (shakes head, sprays athlete foot medicine at retreating Sue, turns back to the team and points at can). No!
  Me: I love Coach Bieste for ever and ever.
  
• omg Becky is wearing a headset.
  
• I didn't like "Make 'Em Laugh" when Donald O'Connor did it (that number is WAY too long) so I'm certainly not going to watch Will and Mike Chang do it in Will's dream.
  
• hahah Animal Hoarders is better than Hoarders.
  
• and Kurt drops Mercedes again. Shocking!
  
• Sue: Do you know what this is?
  Mercedes: A toilet brush
  Sue: It's broccoli. When I showed this to Brittany earlier she began to wimper that I had cut down a small tree where a family of gummy bears lived.
  Me: LOL!
  
• Rachel isn't able to push for what she wants from Will? Since when?
  
• Terri, whatever.
  
• Oh Kurt. He's always been kinda condescending, is the thing. And that football player IS hot. And I don't really care about Karofsky. But it was worth it for Mercedes doing her Norma Rae in the caf.
  
• New rule: the only people who should try to recreate Fosse choreography on this show are Brittany, Mike, and Tina. Maybe Sam, Puck, Mercedes, Kurt and Santana with enough practice time.
  
• Though it was almost worth it to see Kurt and Quinn being all chummy. <3
  
• Oh, Sue and your grabs for petty power.
  
• Oh my gosh I opened my mouth and a little purse falls out! Also: Buckeyes!
  
• So Paltrow and Will talking about teaching was tedious since neither of them are good teachers.
  
• We already know that Mercedes will go after your car if she's pissed off at you. Maybe it's the name?
  
• Blah blah Will and Paltrow, weird Dangerous Minds/Precious interlude, plus Terri whatever.
  
• Kurt, condescending again, joy. Weird resolution to a weird Mercedes plot.
  
• Karofsky, what the hell? (Me, unsurprised that people ship them.)
  
• So was this about how they all needed to learn to appreciate Will?
  
• I liked the mashup. I thought it was very well staged, though it did remind me of the obligatory rain/fountain dance in a Bollywood film.

Top Chef: Aww, Yigit won! and Morgan wasn't an asshole about it! A satisfying ending, but I can't wait for All Stars!

Community: I liked the blanket fort b-plot better than the conspiracy a-plot, but that a-plot was damned good. And Professor Professorson was in the runaway train movie!