Chris Colfer and Darren Criss (Photo: Fox) But that was 2009. [8] Michele took the role in Glee because of Rachel's characterization, explaining: "Not only is she a singer, but she has so much heartI think it's what we need on TV. In season two, Puck is sent to juvenile detention for stealing an ATM. [11] Their relationship continues, however, and Carole visits Burt's bedside when he suffers a heart attack early in the second season. He hooks up with Blaine at Will and Emma's wedding though he insists that they are not back together. He joins Rachel, Sam and Mercedes, who have teamed up to go do "prom on a budget", at the McKinley junior prom; however, after getting into a fight with a jealous Finn, he's kicked out of prom. Ken Tanaka (Patrick Gallagher) was the head coach of the football team and was previously engaged to Emma. The cast shared pictures from the set on Twitter and Instagram, like Lea Michele 's post of one particularly poignant picture of herself carrying Finn's framed jersey from Cory Monteith 's. Only one question remained following her appearances - why was she not featured more often? Rachel sent her to a crack house and she joined VA) or Holly Holiday. (19 episodes, 2009-2014) Eric Stoltz . After Quinn is in an automobile accident and confined to a wheelchair, he prays for her, and also helps her with her physical therapy; she, in return, recruits him into the glee club. [17] She was described by Agron as Rachel's enemy, and "terrible, the meanest girl". He also directs Grease along with Finn Hudson during his senior year. Holly's third and final appearance that season is in the episode "A Night of Neglect", in which she breaks off her relationship with Will because she knows he is in love with Emma. Later in the season (starting from the episode "Feud"), she chats with her crush Ryder Lynn (Blake Jenner) as a blonde girl named Katie to create a connection between them. [171] In "Pot o' Gold", Shelby tells Puck that she is struggling at being a mother; as the episode ends, they kiss. [170] In the episode "Dream On", it is revealed that Shelby is, in fact, Rachel's biological mother. [222] Introduced in the episode "Hell-O", he is directed to befriend Rachel by Vocal Adrenaline coach Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), who is secretly her biological mother. [85] Mays has deemed Emma an "amazing" character to play, explaining: "I don't find that female characters are always written with a lot of depth, but she's so well defined on the page. Now let's do this. [138] Becky wants Sue to come back to McKinley, and later misbehaves in "Lights Out" so that Roz Washington, who has taken over as coach of the Cheerios, brings her to the principal's office, as she wants to tell Figgins something important. [13] In the beginning of the third season, Rachel plays Maria in the school's production of West Side Story, and she and Finn have sex for the first time. In the fourth-season episode "Shooting Star", Becky fires two gunshots, and Sue covers for her, and she is fired. Encouraged by Finn to audition for New Directions, he joins the males of the group in a performance of "Billionaire", the same song with which Overstreet studio tested for Glee. Even if they didn't really have lines, they were important to Glee. Though he is a bit skeptical about Elliot's intentions at first, later he finds a good friend in him. For the second season, formerly recurring cast members Mike O'Malley, Heather Morris and Naya Rivera were promoted to the main cast. Brody and Rachel break up. Lillian Adler (Jane Galloway Heitz) was the glee club director until 1997 when she died of unknown causes. Will then introduces Sam as the new coach of New Directions. [19] After discovering Terri was faking her pregnancy,[20] Will ends his marriage and shares a kiss with Emma. Although Colfer had no previous professional experience, Murphy was so impressed by Colfer's performance that the role of Kurt Hummel, named after the character Kurt from The Sound of Music, was created for him. In the third season, her junior year and his senior year, she helps Mike when he decides to try out for the school musical and then to apply to dance school, and tells Rachel and the other girls that she had sex for the first time with Mike over the summer, losing her virginity. Quinn and Finn get back together, though eventually Finn realizes his true feelings for Rachel, and breaks up with Quinn. [110], Spencer Porter (Marshall Williams) is a football player and student at McKinley. A kiss from Quinn brings back Puck's confidence: he passes the retest and graduates. The two of them are shown to be incredibly close and are referred to by Kitty Wilde as the "creepy incest twins". Sam continues to support her, and a YouTube video he posts of Mercedes singing results in her being offered a job as a backup singer in Los Angeles after she graduates. Instead of using traditional network casting calls, Murphy spent three months on Broadway, where he found Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester), who had previously starred on stage in Hairspray and The Light in the Piazza, Lea Michele (Rachel Berry), who starred in Spring Awakening, and Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina Cohen-Chang), from the Broadway revival of The King and I. "[24] Sue enlists cheerleaders Quinn, Brittany and Santana to help her bring the glee club down from the inside. [186] He commented: "the real challenge is to find the balance between not trying to be too funny, not trying to make it funny, just letting it be funny, and just delivering the line and letting the writing do the work for you. He stops dating her in "The Break Up". It's been such an amazing year! Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Sue helps coach the glee club, and they win at Nationals, which puts her back in charge of cheerleading. Glee goes so far in the opposite direction it plays like bad fanfic. That's her entire world view. There is one huge unjust con to both of these episodes which I'm going to go ahead and get out of the way, there are main cast members missing. It is later revealed he is the voice Rachel heard singing, and later becomes the first official member of the newly reformed New Directions after a successful audition of "Mustang Sally". They get married along with Brittany and Santana. Quinn subsequently receives a college acceptance letter from Yale. Jean Sylvester (Robin Trocki) is Sue Sylvester's older sister. Meanwhile, also in 2020, Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) reunites with Mercedes, Blaine, Kurt, and Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale) and Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz), who are now a couple. After pausing for a moment to think back on his own show choir past, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) joins his New Directions members on stage as they are now in the finals for the show choir national championship (winning Regionals off-screen). [130] He was therefore surprisedand thrilledwhen his religious beliefs seemed to interest and inspire Glee's Ryan Murphy during an episode of The Glee Project.[130]. [176][177] Holly makes a return appearance in the episode "Sexy", this time subbing for McKinley's sex education teacher. Her plaque was viewed during the course of the series by Will and other glee club members as a further source of inspiration. [235] She marries him later that fall. [155] James Poniewozik of Time commented positively on Suzy's characterization, observing that while she appeared to be a "throwaway dorky-girl stereotype", she was "fleshed-out as a person", a feat he doubted the series would have been capable of earlier in the season. He proposes to her after New Year's, and she accepts. They become parents with Rachel as their surrogate. Shelby returns in the second episode of season three, "I Am Unicorn", having been recruited to lead a second glee club at McKinley High by Sugar Motta's father when Sugar is refused entry into New Directions. In the episode "Throwdown", Kendra and Terri bully their obstetrician, Dr.Wu (Kenneth Choi), into faking an ultrasound to convince Will the baby is real. (21 episodes, 2010-2015) Brad Falchuk . Entertainment Weekly's Wendy Mitchell deemed Kendra "hilarious" and wished to see more of her,[231] while her colleague at the magazine, Ken Tucker, described Kendra as "a garish cartoon who exists only to further the pregnancy plotting".[232]. April appears once again, at which point she has become the mistress to an elderly tycoon and is the owner/operator of a "cabaret roller rink". His doctor tells him that he is cancer free a few months later. [29] When her actions are discovered by Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba), Sue is suspended from the school. (Main Season 34; Recurring Season 12; Guest Season 56) Michael Robert "Mike" Chang, Jr. (Harry Shum, Jr.) is a football player and dancer who joins New Directions in the episode "Preggers". [246] Puck's father, played by Thomas Calabro, appears in the eighteenth episode, "Choke". [31][83] Mike tries out for the school musical, West Side Story, against his father's wishes, and is briefly disowned by him, though his father later comes to understand Mike's desire to become a dancer and supports his decision to go to college for dance. He later switches from teaching Spanish to teaching history, though he continues directing the glee club. "Someday We'll Be Together" by Diana Ross & the Supremes is sung by Riley. Marley, Jake, and Ryder may not have been Glee 's most compelling characters, but that's as much (if not more) the writers' fault than their portrayers. The Glee whose sixth and final season came to an end last night had long since shed its cultural phenomenon status. Kitty, though still acerbic, becomes more sympathetic to the other glee club members, admitting that she considers everyone in New Directions her friends, and thatsince the glee club's disqualification has been reversedshe wants to win a Nationals championship. The casting notice for the role of Sandy read, in part, "He's gay, but covers it most of the time. He is an actor, known for Glee (2009-2015), Struck by Lightning (2012), and The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell. [45] He contemplates resigning as coach upon learning that several students have been fantasizing about him in order to curb their arousal while making out. [10] When Quinn gives birth, she asks that Mercedes be present for the delivery of her child. Blaine later moves in with Kurt. She is later transferred to another school by Sue Sylvester as she wants to remove all the remaining members of Glee Club in the school. Will has a brief relationship with Holly Holliday (Gwyneth Paltrow) starting in the episode "Sexy". (Main Season 5; Recurring Season 4; Guest Season 6) Kitty Wilde (Becca Tobin) is introduced as a new McKinley High cheerleader in "The New Rachel". Santana later gets back together with Brittany in the final season, and marries her, along with Blaine and Kurt. Santana, who has moved to New York and is staying with Rachel and Kurt, is suspicious of Brody; she initially believes he is a drug dealer, but later discovers he is a male escort, and gets Finn to come to New York and confront Brody. April then decides to buy the glee club their auditorium back, now called The April Rhodes Civic Pavilion, and return to Broadway to back an all-white version of The Wiz. At the beginning of his senior year, Blaine becomes the lead singer of New Directions and successfully prompts Kurt to follow his New York City dreams. [108] In addition to his second full appearance in "Nationals", he also appears briefly in the episode "Props". Ryder, whose gift ideas were so successful because he'd fallen in love with Marley himself, kisses her when she thanks him for helping Jake with the presents. (Main Season 24; Recurring Season 1; Guest Season 56) Brittany Susan Pierce (Heather Morris) is a bisexual cheerleader who joins the glee club with Quinn and Santana in the episode "Showmance". "[4] Lynch states that Sue is "pure evil and doesn't hide it,"[3] having been created as a product of Murphy, Brennan and Falchuk's "inner mean girl. During the first season, Kurt tells his father that Lauren's parents had to sue the school district to get Lauren a spot on the wrestling team. When he and Quinn both return for the end of the McKinley High Glee club, he is dismayed to see she has a rich boyfriend, Biff Macintosh. Lea Michele is being accused by former co-stars of mistreatment toward people of color on the set of "Glee.". The last scene of the series showed Adler's plaque alongside a plaque of the rededication to the auditorium and a memorial plaque for Finn Hudson. [131] She is first introduced in "Homecoming" alongside her twin brother Mason. Sue arranges to have the cheerleading regionals competition moved to conflict with the football championship, and she forces Quinn, Brittany, and Santana to quit glee club, which has to perform the halftime show since the Cheerios will be absent; the three of them ultimately perform with the glee club, resigning from the Cheerios. Their relationship ends, however, when Santana breaks up with her due to the distance. He is introduced as a new Dalton Academy Warbler in the fifth episode, "The First Time". "There were a few eye rolls from cast members, who shall remain nameless, but. [275] Lerner appears again in the fifth season, and in that season's premiere, two more Funny Girlrelated roles were introduced: Peter Facinelli plays Rupert Campion, the musical's director, and Ioan Gruffudd appears as Paolo San Pablo, the show's lead male actor. Marley asks Jake to the school's Sadie Hawkins dance and he accepts. He then falls in love with Shelby. Jake tells Finn about this and Finn convinces Ryder to do a test to see what's wrong with him. Robert Bianco for USA Today wrote of Chenoweth's guest appearance in "The Rhodes Not Taken": "Her presence may not make much sense, but that's probably all right. Having originated as a minor antagonist, Santana's role became more prominent in the second half of the first season,[51] and she became a main character in season two.