I Got Nothing.

"Maybe if we seemed more dangerous, people would

stop flushing my glasses down the toilet all the time."

Glee might be my favorite show on television. The witty dialogue, the delightful characterizations, and my little brother brought up an interesting point last night: Ryan Murphy, one of the writers is from Indianapolis, and Vocal Adrenaline, the rival glee club, is supposed to be from Carmel High. Near Indianapolis there really is a Carmel High. The school's every fine arts club wins EVERY SINGLE COMPETITION EVER (they're regular state marching band champs) and the area is a rather wealthy one, which would explain why in last night's episode the "very active booster club" bought every member of Vocal Adrenaline a brand new SUV, ostensibly so they would never miss rehearsal.

Quite frankly, that just brings Glee closer to my heart.

I find Glee to be a rather refreshing show. Not because it's original, because who HASN'T seen these archetypes before. Seriously, it's practically a musical Breakfast Club with a larger cast. What's refreshing is the satirical tone that the show embraces. This show does not take itself seriously. It not only displays overblown characters with ridiculous personalities, but it embraces them and gives each of them a touch of something that makes them real.

And I think one of the VERY best things about it is how easy it is to identify with.

I don't know anyone who has one of those overblown personalities, but I will say that most of the people I know in law school were not cool in high school. Start asking around. I'm willing to bet we're all music and student government geeks. And we were also certain of our maturity.

While we don't often find ourselves in the actual scenarios of the characters (ie, trying to raise funds by selling pot cupcakes so that people will have the munchies and eat more cupcakes), we can understand the scenarios pretty well. Slushie in the face? More like being made fun of and brushing it off. Pretending to have a stutter in order to avoid having to do your homework? How about just staying quiet even though you have the answer so that nobody notices you? Somewhere along the line we all found ourselves in similar situations, even if we came up with dissimilar responses.

As for me? I was a music geek who was always in charge of everything. And if there was no authority to put me in power, I put myself in power. Because clearly I knew everything there was to know and could keep everyone in line. Yep, I was a micro-managing little Rachel Berry. And I'm PROUD of it.

I think everybody has one character on that show that they can identify with. Who were you in high school?