Episode 'Glee' Season 2, Episode 14 - Blame It on the Alcohol Recap

Last night's episode of "Glee" was created to inform kids about the dangers of alcohol. Drinking is not only bad for your health, but it provokes very bad decisions. 

It was very sweet of Will Schuester to offer his phone number should any of his students find themselves in a pickle around 3am.  And by pickle I mean drunk and sobbing behind someone's furnace after you had one too many wine coolers. By the way - wine coolers?  I remember watching a DARE video about high school drinking in the 80s, and wine coolers being the beverage of choice, but who drinks them these days?

Anyway,  "Glee" did it's job by convincing me that alcohol is bad, only because I got a little nauseous by the sight of so many hangovers. 

And while I've been on both ends of the drunk dial, Will Schuester's public humiliation was enough to make me the designated driver forever.  Yet, I'm ten years out of the high school and not nearly as impressionable as a young Rachel Berry.  Oh, to have a bottle of cheap wine at my bedside as I dial the number of a handsome boy, who's 95% sure he's gay.  Ring ring.  I can feel the liquid courage coming up through my throat.  Or is that bile?  He picked up!  He said he'd go on a date with me!  I'm so happy I could throw up.  Excuse me....

The episode kicks off with Rachel tepidly agreeing to host a mixer for the New Directions crew.  Hoping to keep things under control, Rachel dressed in her very best costume (plucked right from the dressing room of Scarlet O'Hara) and offered her guest two drink tickets each. 

The setting was perfect for a party like hers-Rachel's dads transformed their basement into an Oscar viewing room.  Once Puck told Rachel that her party would end up a solo rendition of "All By Myself," Rachel agreed to let Puck break into (with the promise of later replacing) her dads' liquor cabinet.  PAR-TAY TIME.  Still in her plantation-chic garb, Rachel poured herself a cup of booze and hung on a sober Finn, who took this opportunity to use big words like "archetype."  Everyone was out of control and throwin' dollah dollah bills left and right.  After a game of spin-the-bottle, Rachel realizes that she has feelings for a very gay Blaine, who second-guesses his own sexuality after they kiss. 

"Your face tastes awesome," Rachel tells him.  What does this mean?  Is Blaine straight?  Or is he just being sexually selfish?  Either way, this does NOT sit will well Kurt.  

Rachel: "We saw 'Love Story' at the revival theater.  We even dressed up as the characters."
Kurt: "That doesn't sound gay at all."

I suppose we could use alcohol as an excuse for all of the nonsense that went on this episode.  Take, for instance, Sue's plotted act of violence against the Oral Intensity coach.  Two flights of stairs, Sue?  And brain swelling?  Tell me, were you drunk when you did that?

Oh Will.  We've all been there, but you got yourself wasted at Rosita's Roadhouse.  And what is Sue Sylvester doing in your phone book?  Being drunk in the twentieth century is nothing but bad news.

Santana puked up what looked like grey chalk.  It was gross. I'm never drinking again.