Pilot
Background music to highlight some comedic moments.
Background piano music used for an emotional moment.
McKinley High School's glee club devolves into a "stool choir" under Sandy's direction.
Branson, Missouri. Glee Club Invitational, 1993. A young Will Schuester performs in the McKinley High School glee club.
Will and Finn need convincing to not give up on glee club.
New Directions is awed and dismayed by the Vocal Adrenaline performance.
A young Finn finds a father figure and discovers a passion for music.
Will drives into the school parking lot in his beat up car.
New Directions take a field trip to watch their competition's performance.
The glee club members set aside their differences and prove that they can perform together.
Will sings a goodbye to his teaching job and dreams of a new glee club.
Music Featured in the Episode
- That’s The Way (I Like It)
- One
- Shining Star
- Where Is Love?
- Golliwog’s Cakewalk
- Soul Bossa Nova
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Mr. Cellophane
- I Kissed A Girl
- On My Own
- Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat
- A Fifth of Beethoven
- Can’t Fight This Feeling
- Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’
- You’re The One That I Want
- Chewing Gum (Vocal Mix)
- Rehab
- Don’t Worry, Be Happy
- Moonlight Sonata
- Leaving on a Jet Plane
- Don’t Stop Believin’
Will Schuester, an optimistic high school teacher, tries to reinvent the McKinley High School’s glee club, while reinventing himself. He challenges a group of outcasts to realize their true star potential, while facing harsh criticism from everyone in the school.
Episode Summary »
McKinley High School’s Spanish teacher Will Schuester takes over “New Directions,” the school’s Glee Club, in hopes of restoring it to its former glory. His motley Glee crew consists of Rachel Berry, the overly ambitious and talented singer who is bullied by the cheerleaders (“Cheerios“) and football players; Kurt Hummel, a male soprano who is also bullied; Artie Abrams, a wheelchair-bound guitar player; Mercedes Jones, a blinged-out diva who refuses to sing back-up; and Tina Cohen-Chang, an Asian-American goth with a speech impediment. They can’t even get in sync, let alone consider the dream of competing in Regionals and Nationals.Hoping to attract more members, Will recruits Finn Hudson by blackmailing him with detention. Finn, the star quarterback of the football team with a secret passion for singing, risks alienation from his popular girlfriend, Cheerio Quinn Fabray and football teammate Noah “Puck” Puckerman for his participation in Glee.
With moral support from friend and fellow colleague Emma Pillsbury and despite threats from “Cheerios” head Sue Sylvester, Will starts to get his Glee Club on track. Yet when his wife Terri finds out she is pregnant, Will is pressured to quit teaching and take on a better-paying job. The Glee Club vows to go on, and they work together to stage a number without a director. When Will sees them perform, he knows he has to come back to school and Glee. “It would kill me to watch you win Nationals without me,” he says.
Source: FOX
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