Oh so Glee-ful

Glee

(Don't all high school car washes look like this? Santana, Mercedes, and Brittney perform "Bust Ya Windows" spontaneously.)

2/4

I'm not in Glee Club because my school doesn't have one. All after-school singing related events are attached to chorus, meaning that you actually have to be in the class to audition for them. The closest thing to Glee Club is probably Show Choir.

High school in general doesn't look anything like Glee. For one thing, we don't wander the halls, our voices echoing as we belt out Jordin Sparks with our hair blowing in the non-existent wind. For another, we don't say things like, "You know, you can kiss me if you want." We definitely don't have a chastity club, and cheerleaders don't wear their cheer uniform every day of the week. But let's just go into the biggest problems.

1. Glee Club looks nothing like Show Choir. Show Choir's uniforms are much snazzier, their songs aren't taken straight off the radio, and I'm about 98% sure that they actually practice.

2. Glee Club's students are nothing like actual high school students. It isn't just the wimpy dialog and the overly-desperate nerd following the lead character, Rachel, around, it's also in the fact that Rachel, her crush Finn, and his girlfriend, Quinn, are incredibly boring people. Actually, all members of the Glee Club - with the exception of the moody Puck, the feisty Mercedes, and that one kid who might be gay - are quite boring.

Can I also mention that the lip synching is really bad? Like we're going to believe that any of those kids sound like that naturally. Glee is like a cross between High School Musical and The Office, except I can't really say that because I haven't actually watched High School Musical.

The Plotline: Nerdy girl who looks, talks, and acts nothing like a nerd Rachel either is the President of Glee Club or would be if there were a President. She has a huge and, considering that she is in high school, unlikely crush on Finn, the Quarterback of the football team. Finn, as to be expected, is dating the captain of the "Cheerios", named Quinn. Rachel likes Finn so much that sometimes all she wants to do is cry. Emma, who has some sort of administrative job at the school, denies having the same problem with Will, the Spanish teacher and teacher supervisor of the Glee Club. Will is married to a woman who is pretending to be pregnant, so Emma agrees to marry a coach she is only vaguely dating. Joining the pregnancy drama is Quinn, who's pregnant with Puck's baby. Finn is a real idiot. He and Quinn haven't gotten that far, but he still thinks that Quinn is having his baby. As if.

So what's to keep one watching despite the bad lip syncing, the ridiculous plot, the bad dialog, and the somewhat dull characters?

I'm not really sure. Perhaps it's Jane Lynch, who plays the obnoxious cheer leading coach. Perhaps it's that really cute guy who plays Will. Perhaps it's the hope that Emma and Will, or Finn and Rachel, or Puck and Quinn, or even Puck and Rachel, will get (back) together.

Or maybe it's those dang cheesy musical numbers. They're so catchy.