'Glee' recap: There Always After Me Lucky Charms

By Zap2it Partner

November 2, 2011 4:21 AM ET

To be brutally honest with you, this was an exceptionally dull installment for them to be airing first thing after that deadening month-long baseball-related hiatus, so I'll be doing my best to keep this brief:

Sue somehow manages to get the funding pulled for the school musical, so the poor little woebegone waifs of New Directions have little choice but to go door-to-door in the wind and the rain, selling advertising space in the program to pay for it all. Horrors! This ends up being a blessing in disguise, of course, for when St. Gay Of Lima hits his dad up for a donation over at Hummel Tires And Lube, Burt gets all righteously indignant and such, and not only does he arrange for the musical's funding to be replaced in full by Lima's three mortuaries, he also decides to run against Sue for Congress as a write-in candidate because, hey: If it worked for that chick up in Alaska, it'll work for him, right?

Meanwhile, McKinley's got a brand-new foreign exchange student from Ireland named Rory Flanagan. Brit-Brit, of course, assumes the kid's an actual leprechaun, and begins nagging him to grant her three wishes, after which she'll grant him access to her titular pot of gold. I think. Both Brit-Brit and the leprechaun (Damian McGinty from Glee Project) were so marble-mouthed during their scenes together that I'm pretty sure I'm missing a number of key plot points from their storyline this evening. In any event, the leprechaun does his level best to deceive our dear little Brit-Brit, but Santana eventually swoops in to expose his foul and miserable lies for the mendacious fabrications they truly are, or something, and the leprechaun ends up joining New Directions, because that's what you do on this show. [Particularly if you've won Glee Project and they have to find a way to shoehorn you into a show.-- Angel]

In other news, Quinn's still hell-bent on regaining custody of Drizzle, and she conspires with Puck to have Child Services yank the little bastard from Idina Menzel's care. Idina, however, does Puck a solid by securing her condo's pool-cleaning contract for him, so Puck decides to undermine Quinn's nefarious efforts right before he and Idina so totally have sex with each other.

» Read the full recap at Television Without Pity

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