What's going down?
"Let me stop you right there. It's Principal Sue." Worrying words for both staff and students of
McKinley. Apparently Figgins has come down with a particularly virulent form of monkey flu all the
way from Borneo and will be out of action for the foreseeable future, leaving her in charge due to
some clever blackmailing of local politicians. Her first order of business? "Destroy the Glee club."
Unfortunately for Will, just as Charlotte sneezed monkey flu onto Figgins, the same thing happens to
him.
Later on at Glee, Will isn't feeling too well. He tries to power through it but when he looks at the
club and sees (completely adorable) younger versions of them, it's clear that he needs to go to the
nurse's office. The next day Will is holed up at home with a nasty fever. Who should come over to
look after him but Terri? "I'm probably revealing too much, but I do still love you", she tells him. Will
makes it pretty clear that he doesn't feel the same and tells her to leave. She goes but not
before giving him "Singin' in the Rain" to watch, his favourite feel good movie.
Kurt and Mercedes aren't happy. In Schue's absence, Rachel has taken over the Glee club, asking
them "what songs they'd like to hear (her) perform at Sectionals". Mercedes is also upset that Kurt's bailed on their plans to go bowling, in favour of hanging out with BlainE. Mercedes questions him if they're a couple but he insists that it's just nice to have someone, like him, to talk to. The bigger problem, though, is taking down one Miss Berry and Kurt has just the way to do it.
Introducing Holly Holiday, the new Spanish teacher, subbing for Schue, played by none other than
Gwyneth Paltrow. She's the kind of teacher who tries to relate to the kids, stating "I'm the cure for
The Common class." Kurt interrupts and asks her to take over Schue's Glee duties. After last week's
English class, where she gave an impromptu performance about conjunctions, he thinks she'd be
perfect. "I thought you'd never ask," she says.
At Glee, news of the substitute Schue has been spread and the club are busy buttering the floor
and planning to swap names in preparation. Finn isn't pleased with this; he says if they want to win
at sectionals, they're going to have to take it more seriously. Fortunately for Holly, it's Rachel who
bears the brunt of the buttered floor: "at least I didn't fall and break my talent." She soon wises
up to their tricks and it's clear to the club that they've met their match. As soon as she tells them
that she wants them to sing the songs that they want to sing, everyone is suddenly much more
cooperative. She picks up Puck's request to do Cee-Lo Green's smash hit "Forget You" and treats the club to her own rendition of it. Very nice, Miss Holiday, very nice. By the end of the song, the whole club is up dancing - well, except Rachel.
At football practice Bieste is telling the boys off for spraying athlete's foot medicine in each other's
eyes. None of this matters, though, as Sue walks in and tells them that as of 4pm, the football team is disbanded. "Well. if you're cutting the football team, then who are your Cheerios going to cheer for?" It's clear Sue hadn't thought about that one as she tells Bieste she'll get back to her later. Racked by humiliation by the Bieste, Sue writes in her diary that she needs a cause. She wasn't able to replace all chairs with sharp objects, in attempt to stop sitting, so instead she decides to ban tater-tots, to crack down on the school's obesity.
Schue and Mike perform an incredibly energetic, comedic and acrobatic rendition of "Make 'Em
Laugh" from "Singin' in the Rain". Unfortunately, it was all a dream, as Will wakes up to hear his
front door buzzing. It's Rachel, complete with germ mask, who complains to him about Holly. "I'm
not worried about someone coming in and usurping me, you kids love me", he says, though panic
strikes when Rachel points out that Sue doesn't and that she's taken quite a liking to Miss Holliday,
as the two bonded over red wine and bleaching their hair. Rachel encourages him to get better asap, for his own sake, as well as hers.
Mercedes is once again upset that Kurt has blown her off for Blaine. She becomes even
angrier when she sees that Sue's tater-tots ban has come into effect. She storms into Sue's office
and demands to know why she's done this. "Nutrition at this school is abysmal," she says and it's
clear she's right when she shows Mercedes some broccoli and she responds that it's "a toilet brush". Mercedes though is adamant that she's getting her tots back.
