She returns briefly to the club, and then abandons it for the new, rival McKinley show choir, the Troubletones, run by Shelby Corcoran, but when the Troubletones lose to New Directions at Sectionals and disband, she returns again. All was going well with the show as it also continued to attract big-name celebrity guest stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Carol Burnett, Helen Mirren, Jeff Goldblum, Idina Menzel, John Stamos, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ricky Martin to name some. Sam continues to support her, and a YouTube video he posts of Mercedes singing results in her being offered a job as a backup singer in Los Angeles after she graduates. However, he ends his relationship with Rachel by egging her in the McKinley High parking lot along with his fellow members of Vocal Adrenaline, humiliating her. Adler's final appearance is seen in a flashback by Will to the pilot episode in the series finale "Dreams Come True". Three months later, Will is nervous for his first day, but his wife Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) consoles him. Sebastian Smythe (Grant Gustin) is a student at Dalton Academy who transfers into the school in the show's third season. In the season 2 episode "Prom Queen", he returns to Ohio after having flunked out of UCLA, in an attempt to befriend Rachel again, claiming that his biggest regret was choosing Vocal Adrenaline over love. [210] She is persuaded by Sue to use songs from New Directions' set list at Sectionals to give her group an edge in the competition. ", "Tony Winners Chenoweth, Garber, and Monk Join Cast of Fox's Glee", "Glee Guest Matt Bomer on Living Out His Duran Duran Fantasy, Kissing Jane Lynch and More! She briefly rejoins the glee club as an adult, during a period in which Rachel had left the club and it was in need of a female lead. "[7] Agron auditioned with Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon". From NYADA, Whoopi Goldberg first appears in the third season as Carmen Tibideaux, a dean from NYADA who comes to Ohio to preside over Rachel's and Kurt's auditions to the school, in the episode "Choke". Having originated as a minor antagonist, Santana's role became more prominent in the second half of the first season,[51] and she became a main character in season two. [29] Regardless, Puck attends the birth of his daughter, who he names Beth, and tells Quinn that he loves her.[21]. [207] Lisa Respers France of CNN named Pearce's performance the best moment of the episode, and found that the character positively reminded her of "Glee of old". Marley, Jake, and Ryder may not have been Glee 's most compelling characters, but that's as much (if not more) the writers' fault than their portrayers. [208] However, AfterEllen.com's Christie Keith was critical of her appearance, and wrote, "Since Lindsay is one of the reasons I couldn't stand to watch The Glee Project, and no, she can't sing remotely as well as Lea Michele, and none of the boys there was close to being as darling as Kurt, I was forced to suspend disbelief when the whole experience devastated Kurt and Rachel. [152][153] Early in her tenure, she claims that show choir is stupid, but on several subsequent occasions she is seen enjoying singing and performing in the background. [1] The character's name is derived from The Sound of Music's Kurt von Trapp, whom Colfer once played in a production of the musical, and the German Hummel figurines due to his complexion. [76] Kurt begins to mend their relationship in "Thanksgiving" and they spend Christmas together in New York City. In 2011, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie was released. Will takes a leave of absence to be a member of a blue-ribbon panel in Washington, DC, and chooses Finn as his interim replacement; he takes over in "Dynamic Duets". [86] In an attempt to get over Will, Emma begins dating football coach Ken Tanaka,[18] becoming engaged to him in the episode "Vitamin D". When Kurt discovers the lie, he is very upset, but they ultimately reconcile and Kurt decides to support his fianc. [136] Becky is still a student at McKinley in the fourth season, still a Cheerio, and still Sue's aide-de-camp. Brittany loves Santana too, but she is with Artie Abrams, whom she doesn't want to leave, but she keeps Santana's secret to herself. John Lock is frequently shown waiting for Finn Hudson to relinquish the drums to him, and Spencer Conley was featured in amongst the glee club females in their performance of the "Start Me Up / Livin' on a Prayer" mash-up in "Never Been Kissed". For season six, she helps Rachel and Kurt with their new glee club and along with Tina helps Becky with her new boyfriend. In the episode "Comeback", Sam makes a last-ditch attempt to win her back, but ends the relationship after finding out from Santana that Quinn cheated on him with Finn. She appears in several episodes during the season. The second-season episode "A Night of Neglect" confirmed this, with Sandy characterizing himself as a "predatory gay". The parents of Sam Evans appear in "Hold on to Sixteen": his father is played by John Schneider,[243] and his mother by Tanya Clarke. Puck invites Jake to spend Christmas vacation with him in California; the two half brothers bond further, and Puck decides to move back to Ohio. The idea of his character interacting with Brittany was first broached in the penultimate episode of The Glee Project, with the judges speculating that Brittany would not be able to understand a word the character said due to his Irish accent. Though at graduation, Santana decides she wants to go to New York to perform, and her mother presents her with the money to help fund the attempt. She is eventually able to walk again, and even to dance in performance with the glee club. She is made fun of by students and the glee club members initially for her weight, but when they discover she is Marley's mom they stand up for her. [234] They decide to move in together, until Finn uses a homophobic slur against Kurt and Burt refuses to allow him to stay in his home. Kurt gets an internship at Vogue.com and inadvertently pulls away from Blaine; distraught, Blaine cheats on Kurt. It seems that he is the Warblers' captain again when he is the one to announce that they agree to do so. Kathleen Quinlan appears in "Born This Way" as Dr. Shane, a psychiatrist treating Emma Pillsbury. She begins a relationship with Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet) in "Duets" but is later unfaithful to him, rekindling her romance with Finn. Joe finds himself having feelings for Quinn and turns to Sam for advice, since the feelings are partially physical, which is frowned on by his faith. Spencer convinces Alistair to join New Directions, and the two of them become a couple. [244] Rachel's two fathers, Hiram and LeRoy Berry (Jeff Goldblum and Brian Stokes Mitchell), first appear in "Heart" in their two-episode recurring roles,[245] with Stokes Mitchell returning in the season six premiere, "Loser Like Me". After making another try at Jake, she begins dating Jake's older half-brother, Puck. [47] The two remain a couple for most of the season before breaking up. Puck falls in love with her, but Shelby tells him in "Mash Off" that the kiss was a mistake. When the first pilot episode came out, I figured it was something different and something we haven't seen on TV before. Ken will go after what he wants. The two of them come to blows over her in the choir room, and are assigned to share their deepest fears with one another by Finn, who is directing the club while Will is in Washington. Jake and Ryder briefly compete for Marley's affections, but she chooses Jake when Kitty convinces her that Ryder called off their date because of her weight when he was really seeing a dyslexia specialist, and they subsequently begin dating. Regular members of the group include a drummer played by John Lock[161][162] and a bassist played by Scott Henson (later a member of the real band Nightmare and the Cat),[163] both introduced in the pilot; a guitarist played by Spencer Conley in the first two seasons,[164] first seen in "Throwdown"; a guitarist played by Derik Nelson in seasons three to five,[165] replacing Conley in season three opener "The Purple Piano Project"; and a keyboardist played by Mark Nilan Jr. in the first two seasons,[166] who first appears in "The Power of Madonna". As quarterback of the school's football team, and arguably one of the most popular students at McKinley, Finn risks alienation by his friends to join the glee club. (Main Season 13; Recurring Season 4; Guest Season 56) Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) is the school's guidance counselor who has OCD, with obsessions and compulsions primarily focused on contamination and cleanliness. After the show aired on Oct. 10, some media outlets reported that Agron had skipped the TV reunion due to a rift with her former cast members. If you can look in the mirror and say, "I'm Matt Rutherford, or I'm Dijon Talton, and I'm happy with it," that's all that's important. Plus -- Inside the 'Painful' Rachel Romance Debate. [147] Later, after sadly watching Rachel perform at Nationals (and implying he still has feelings for her), Jesse talks to Carmen Tibideaux (Whoopi Goldberg) and tells her Rachel's the most talented person he knows and that she will make an excellent contribution to NYADA. [239] Emma's parentsRusty and Rose Pillsburyare also seen in that third episode and appear again in "Yes/No" and a third time in season four's "Girls (and Boys) On Film"; they are played by Don Most and Valerie Mahaffey respectively. [53] Though she stated in May 2009 that Santana "loves boys",[54] she later deemed Brittany her character's soul mate. Though Kurt couldn't give time to Vogue.com, his mentor Isabel is not ready to let him go. [149][150] Talton has called Matt a typical football player with a talent for singing and dancing, who always wanted to perform but felt forced to choose between performing and being "cool". [25] Sandy appears in Rachel's music video for "Run Joey Run", playing her father,[179] and gives Will advice about beating rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline. Artie Abrams First of all, stop yelling at me. Blaine later gets trapped in an elevator with Kurt, as part of a plan by Sue to get them back together, and she demands they kiss each other to get out, which they eventually do. The Glee actor Naya Rivera has been found dead after drowning in a California lake. [31] In the episode "On My Way", Sue tells Quinn and Will that she's pregnant. Arthur "Artie" Abrams (Kevin McHale) is a guitarist and paraplegic manual wheelchair user. He is also seen in the last performance of the show. Sunshine confesses that she would have loved to be in New Directions, but she felt that Rachel would have made her stay a "living hell". [257] Harris won the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series" for his appearance. Sunshine reappears in the season two finale "New York" for the National show choir competition. He later goes to New York after being told by Santana that Rachel's live-in boyfriend Brody is an escort, and physically attacks Brody, warning him to "stay away from my future wife". The second, third, and fourth seasons of Glee all open with a documentary made by Jacob, focusing on the recent happenings at McKinley and the glee club in particular. He is introduced as an openly gay student at Dalton Academy and a member of The Warblers, a Sectionals and Regionals rival of New Directions. In the episode "The First Time" he begins dating Ohio State football recruiter Cooter Menkins (Eric Bruskotter), who is scouting for talent at McKinley,[14] but discovers in "I Kissed a Girl" that Sue has become his rival for Cooter's affections, just as Beiste comes to realize that he loves Cooter, thus prompting his first solo song, "Jolene". [10] When Quinn gives birth, she asks that Mercedes be present for the delivery of her child. New Directions members from throughout its history unite for one last massive group song. He becomes best friends with Sam, developing a minor crush on him that he later overcomes (and which Sam finds somewhat flattering). [157][158] Rock Anthony appears as Rick "The Stick" Nelson, a hockey player who slushies Finn and runs for senior class president against Kurt and Brittany. Rachel invites her to join the glee club after seeing Sunshine sing along to New Directions' version of "Empire State of Mind", mistakenly thinking that Sunshine idolized her, but when the two sing "Telephone", Rachel feels threatened by Sunshine's singing prowess and tricks her into going to a crack house instead of the auditions. After this, the two become especially close friends. In the third season, the judges for the nationals competition are Lindsay Lohan and Perez Hilton appearing as themselves, and Rex Lee as Chicago Alderman Martin Fong. [103] Jones received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her work as Beiste in Glee's second season, and submitted her performance in the episode "Never Been Kissed" for final judging. Jesse St. James (Jonathan Groff) is the male lead of Vocal Adrenaline and one of the main antagonists of the first season, becoming a supporting character in the later seasons. Naya Rivera's Glee castmates aren't done celebrating her life. I didn't see Myron in the final performance. Though there are signs that he and new club member Marley Rose are interested in one another, she is upset to learn he is dating cheerleader Kitty (Becca Tobin). After Karofsky kisses Kurt in the heat of an argument, Karofsky blackmails him into keeping it quiet, saying that if Kurt were to tell anyone of the kiss that they shared, he will kill him. She later develops a relationship with Sam. (Main Season 36; Recurring Season 2) Blaine Devon Anderson (Darren Criss) is a recurring character in season 2 and a main character in seasons 36. It's just a bunch of events. [17] He is blackmailed by Sue for most of the first season: she uncovers internet footage of him appearing in a support stocking commercial for Mumbai Air,[25] and she later drugs his drink and takes a compromising photograph of them in bed together. [65] Despite some trepidation about the effect it may have on his social status, Sam eventually joins the glee club. [87] In the second season, Sue serves as Figgins's temporary replacement when he catches the flu, and succeeds in having him fired, becoming principal in his stead. In the season one finale, "Journey to Regionals", Shelby adopts Quinn Fabray and Noah Puckerman's newborn daughter, Beth. He remained a main cast member for the rest of the show's run. Her body was found Monday at Lake Piru. However, in "I Am Unicorn", when Shelby Corcoran joins the McKinley High faculty and talks to Quinn about being involved in Beth's life, Quinn pretends to clean up her act and returns to New Directions. [72] While Blaine was initially a recurring character, Criss was promoted to the main cast for the third season. Jayma Mays (Emma Pillsbury) auditioned with the song "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" from The Rocky Horror Show, while Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson) initially submitted a tape of himself acting only, and was requested to submit a second, musical tape, in which he sang "a cheesy, '80s music-video-style version" of REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling". In Lima, Finn is working at his stepfather Burt's tire shop, and Artie enlists his help there to co-direct the school musical, Grease, which had been Finn's suggestion. They are about to become fathers, with Rachel as their surrogate. [181] Tim Stack for Entertainment Weekly has praised Sandy as "one of the most reliable characters for great lines and laughs". Glee star Naya Rivera is missing and feared dead by drowning after her 4-year-old son was found alone on a boat in a California lake late Wednesday night, according to reports. [28] Hoping to sabotage the glee club's chances of winning at sectionals, Sue gives the club's set list to rival glee club directors Grace Hitchens (Eve) and Dalton Rumba (Michael Hitchcock). The last scene of the series showed Adler's plaque alongside a plaque of the rededication to the auditorium and a memorial plaque for Finn Hudson. Her first appearance was in the second-season episode "The Substitute", when she temporarily takes over as the director of the glee club while Will Schuester is out sick. [84] Henson, Lock and Nelson appear, with the Jazz Ensemble, in the flashforward to 2020, accompanying the collected cast in the final performance of the show's final episode.[167][168]. Will finds a match for him, Ken Tanaka, whose job he took over. Her first in-tune solo was in "Summer Nights" in "Yes/No". His family moves to Kentucky over the summer, but Finn and Rachel convince him to come back to New Directions late that fall in time to compete in Sectionals. Figgins appoints swim coach Roz Washington (NeNe Leakes) Sue's co-coach for the Cheerios, but Sue makes a deal with him that if she helps New Directions win Nationals, she'll resume sole control of the Cheerios. Blaine lies to Kurt that he gets to perform in a showcase which is organised by June for Blaine. [266] She was introduced in the fourth-season premiere for a six-episode arc,[267][268] however, Cassandra only appears in five episodes: four in 2012 and one in 2013. June takes interest in Blaine and decides to organize a one-night-only show for Blaine. An optimistic high-school teacher attempts to transform the school's glee club, and also inspires the ragtag bunch of performers to come together and make it to the biggest competition of all. Just hear me out:. At the beginning of season three, Blaine decides to transfer to McKinley to be with Kurt, and joins New Directions. He goes back to New York and starts his own band "Pamela-Lansbury". I was so nervous". Jarrett Wieselman of the New York Post has compared Morris as Brittany to Lynch as Sue, deeming her "one of the funniest second bananas on TV". [108] In addition to his second full appearance in "Nationals", he also appears briefly in the episode "Props". [121] Sugar's debut was praised by Salon's Matt Zoller Seitz, who said of the new addition to McKinley, "She's awful. He describes himself as a "post-modern gay teen". In the third episode, Mercedes quits the glee club and joins the new, rival McKinley show choir, the Troubletones, run by Shelby Corcoran, later recruiting Santana and Brittany to join her. New Directions wins Nationals, and Quinn graduates. He auditioned with the song "Let It Be" and tested alongside Colfer and Ushkowitz. In that same episode she also begins a romantic relationship with Will. "[16] The A.V. Will has the students apologize and earn his forgiveness. Sunshine tells Rachel that she has come to hate being in Vocal Adrenaline, and desperately wants to leave on the day of competition. Later in the episode, Kitty (Becca Tobin) tells Ryder she understands how he feels because she went through a similar situation and the two bond. Later in the season (starting from the episode "Feud"), she chats with her crush Ryder Lynn (Blake Jenner) as a blonde girl named Katie to create a connection between them. She reveals to Finn that she is pregnant and tells him that the baby is his, although the real father is Finn's best friend Puck. Later, during "Jagged Little Tapestry" he performs a duet with Jane, though it is negatively received by Kurt, which inspires the two to do better. Holly takes a job in Cleveland, leaving Will free to pursue Emma after Emma's marriage ends in an annulment. After pausing for a moment to think back on his own show choir past, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) joins his New Directions members on stage as they are now in the finals for the show choir national championship (winning Regionals off-screen).