“Vitamin D,” this week’s “Glee,” is really all about vitamin c—competition.
Feeling threatened by neat freak guidance counselor Emma, Terri becomes the school’s nurse in an effort to end Emma’s friendship and budding flirtation with Mr. Schuester. Terri, Jessalyn Gilsig, understands her marriage is dangling precariously and decides to take matters into her own hands.
She calls upon Coach Tanaka, Emma’s “boyfriend”--if only in title. Terri talks him into popping the big question. When Ken tells her that he would be crushed if the answer was no, the new “nurse” is even kind enough to provide courage in the form of over-the-counter uppers.
Now, where did Terri Schuster, a linens store employee, get the idea to become the school nurse? And who painted Emma as nothing but a home wrecking vixen out to steal Will? Sue Sylvester, of course!
See, Sue is filling a bit threatened herself. While writing in her journal, the audience is invited into her evil, yet hilarious mind. She worries the glee club will be the demise of her prized cheer squad, the Cheerios.
If that happens the squad will lose their endorsements, and “without those endorsements, I won’t be able to buy my hovercraft,” she writes.
With this realization, Sue decides she will destroy the man, Will, in order to obliterate the club.
Meanwhile, the glee club has become complacent with their sectionals competition coming from a deaf school and a correctional school. The kids think they’ve got it in the bag and don’t need to try.
Will devises a “glee-off” to get the kids excited again and ready to fight for their place in regionals. It’s boys v. girls. Each team must “mashup” two songs to perform for a “celebrity judge,” Emma.
Finn basically sleeps through the boy’s first rehearsal. Puck sends him to the nurse’s office to take a nap.
Showing how little Terri knows about nursing and good health, she prescribes Finn decongestants, “vitamin D,” to keep him peppy and running. She figures it’s ok because, after all, they are over-the-counter.
Thanks to “vitamin D,” the boys deliver a high-energy mashup of Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life” and Usher’s “Confessions, Pt. 2.”
After the boy’s performance, the girl’s wonder how the boys were able to do it and wish they had worked harder on their mashup. Kurt, professing his true allegiance to the girls, let’s them in on the “vitamin D” secret.
Fuming, Rachel and the other girls visit Nurse Terri to get some “vitamin D” of their own.
Their mashup of Beyonce’s “Halo” and Katrina and the Waves’ “Walking on Sunshine” is sheer bubble-gum delight.
No winner is picked, though. Feeling guilty, both Rachel and Finn admit their team’s unfair use of “vitamin D” and decide they must be disqualified. Their confession leads to Terri’s firing and inevitable hell for Will. Principal Figgins declares Mr. Schuester unfit to lead “New Directions” on his own. Sue is his new co-director.
While the true showdown between Sue and Will is still to come, Sylvester seems to be weakening “the man.” When Emma tells him that she has accepted Tanaka’s marriage proposal, he looks genuinely heartbroken. He’s shaken, but will soldier on for the sake of glee.
When it comes down to it, “Vitamin D” was a bit of a mess, but an incredibly entertaining mess. Even when the show is not at its best, it still pleases.
In the words of Rachel, “If there are two things America needs right now, it’s sunshine and optimism. Also angles.”
That’s what "Glee" offers every Wednesday at 9 p.m.
So until next week, America, here's a dose of ummm... angels to keep to you going.
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