Glee (TV Series)

Bad Reputation (2010)

Amber Riley: Mercedes Jones

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• Artie Abrams : Remember, if Sylvester hits you in the face after you cop to posting the video, don't scream like a woman.

  Mercedes Jones : You're so brave for doing this, Kurt.

  Kurt Hummel : I know. Thank you.

• Kurt Hummel : Fellow Glee Clubbers, I've called this meeting because our free-falling reps have reached terminal velocity. We are at DEFCON 1.

  Mercedes Jones : We're such zeroes, they didn't even bother putting us on the Glist.

  Kurt Hummel : What does a C-lister do when their tiny star is about to fall off Perez Hilton's radar screen? They cause a scandal so extreme they can no longer be ignored.

• Will Schuester : Between this and posting Coach Sylvester's personal video on YouTube, you guys are getting a pretty bad reputation.

  Artie Abrams : Why is that a bad thing? Maybe if we seem more dangerous, people would stop flushing my glasses down the toilet.

  Will Schuester : [passing out sheet music]  Look, things are hard right now. I get it. You're under a lot of pressure with regionals coming up. And I know that winning sectionals hasn't had the positive effect on your popularity that a lot of you thought it would. But becoming what you despise is not the answer.

  Mercedes Jones : Man, this song is whack.

  Will Schuester : No, it's not. It's a terrific song on a long list of top hits that, because of time or some bad press, has become a joke. And like you guys, it's time to start rehabilitating its bad reputation. The assignment for the week is for all of you to find songs like this, mine them for what works, and make them great again. And then, hopefully, can apply this musical lesson to your own lives.

  Jesse St. James : This song should be arrested for the crime of sucking.

  Will Schuester : [the students all agree]  You want to bet?

  [to the backing band] 

  Will Schuester : Hit it.

  [the beginning of "Ice Ice Baby" plays] 

• Finn Hudson : That's not Olivia Newton-John. That's... that's Sue Sylvester. Where did you get this?

  Kurt Hummel : I can tell you that I certainly did not steal it from her locked file cabinet yesterday when she sent me back to her office to get her hormone replacement injection during Cheerios practice.

  Artie Abrams : Wait, did she just do the Cabbage Patch?

  Finn Hudson : I'm posting this on YouTube.

  Rachel Berry : No, no, wait, wait. Do you think that's a good idea? She might kill us.

  Mercedes Jones : Oh, let her get a taste of some of the humiliation she put us through.