What's going down?
It's bad news at Glee club as Schue tells the gang that Puck's in juvie for driving his Mum's Volvo into a convenience store and taking off with the ATM. It's not known when he's getting out which means the club is down one member. Finn is angry that they've lost his "bad boy voice and stage presence". Schue, though, takes this as an opportunity to announce the very dreamy Sam as the club's newest member. Kurt is more than pleased at the newest addition, convinced that Sam does in fact bat for him team. This week's lesson? Duets. Apparently a great one is just like a marriage. To heat up the competition a little, Schue offers to pay for the winning pair to have a dinner at Breadsticks.
Later on, Kurt corners Sam at his locker and gives him his own personal welcome to Glee, offering to keep his secret that his incredibly blonde hair is dyed. Sam looks slightly creeped out and insists that he doesn't actually dye his hair. Kurt then asks him to pair up with him for the duets competition; after all next to Rachel he is Sam's best bet for a win.
In Brittany's bedroom she is enjoying Santana's "sweet lady kisses". She really wants the two to sing a duet but Santana wants her to stop talking and to keep making out. "I'm not making out with you because I'm in love with you and want to sing about making lady babies," she tells her. Santana has her own plan, though, and much to Mercedes' surprise asks to sing with her. However, when she tells her that they'll be "the undisputed top bitches" at McKinley, Mercedes is more than happy to join her.
Finn isn't too happy about Sam singing with Kurt. He's worried that if he does he'll become a prime
target for bullying and will leave Glee and with Puck gone they could really use his voice and of
course dreamy good looks. Kurt thinks Finn is just being homophobic but Finn argues back that after the way he obsessed over him last year, he has an issue with the fact that Kurt doesn't know when no means no. Finn says that it's Kurt's call over who he sings with but from his face we can see he knows Finn's right.
In the choir room Finn and Rachel are practising their duet, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton
John and Kiki Dee, and they are very very good. Finn tells her that he knows they're going to win but for once Rachel doesn't look too happy. She thinks that they need to throw the competition in order for Sam to win, thus meaning that he'll stay as he feels like he belongs.
Mike also isn't happy as he tells Tina that he doesn't know if he can actually sing, let alone sing in
the duets competition. He suggests that she just sing and that he'll just dance around her. Down the hallway, Brittany tells Artie that she's really in to him. She admits that for a while she thought he was a robot but she wants to be his girlfriend because she likes the idea of wheeling him around: "I just want to get you in a stroller".
In the locker room Finn tries to warn Sam off singing with Kurt; Sam doesn't see what the problem is, though. After being sent 60 mp3s of him singing he can tells that Kurt is his best chance of winning. Sam is confused after the reason that Finn talked him into joining is because he said that it would make them gods. "I didn't realise you had such a problem with gay dudes," quips Sam. Finn tells him that it isn't him who has a problem, it's everyone else and that it's their world they're living in. Just as Sam leaves he gets a slushie facial, seeing the real world of Glee. As luck would have it, Quinn walks past and offers to help clean him up in the toilets: "the blueberry one is the worst," she tells him, "especially if it gets in your pants." He tries to flirt with her but comes off
more than a little weird.
Burt is recuperating at home, with Kurt catering to his every need, making him extra-healthy food.
Burt wants to eat at the table but his son won't let him even get up from the sofa. Kurt tells him
about the problem he's having at school because he wants to sing a duet with Sam. When Burt sides with Finn's views Kurt loses it. Burt tells them that until he finds "someone as open and as brave" as him, he's going to have to get used to going it alone.
At Glee, it's time for the first of the duets, as Santana and Mercedes sing Tina Turner's "River
Deep Mountain High". Rachel looks worried, as the pair work well together. Her plan to throw the
competition might not be so easy after all. Later that night the two talk it over. Rachel says they
need to perform a bad song; Finn agrees but says that it also should be offensive. That way they'll
definitely not win.
