" Pot o 'Gold " is the fourth episode of the third season of the American music band Glee, and overall forty-eight. It was written by Ali Adler, directed by Adam Shankman, and was first broadcasted on Fox in the United States on November 1, 2011. This episode featured the arrival of Irish foreign exchange student Rory Flanagan ( Glee Project prizewinner Damian McGinty) at McKinley High, new challenger for Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) in his congressional races, and ongoing fragmentation of the club's fun center on the show, New Directions.
The overall episode received mixed reviews from reviewers. The storyline involving Quinn, Puck and Shelby was widely criticized, while Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley) injection into the congress race as opposed to Sue was enthusiastically welcomed. Music is received with a bit more pleasure than the episode itself, especially "Candyman", sung by the newly formed Troubletones.
The five covers of the song featured in the episode were released as singles, available for download, and one of them, "Last Friday Night (TGIF)", charted on Billboard Hot 100. After the initial broadcast, the episode was seen by 7.47 million US viewers and gain Nielsen 3.0/8 rating/share in demographics 18-49. The total number of viewers and ratings/share dropped significantly from the previous episode, "Asian F", which was broadcast four weeks earlier on October 4, 2011.
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Plot
Rory Flanagan (Damian McGinty), a foreign exchange student from Ireland, has started attending McKinley High and is regularly bullied. She lives in Brittany's house (Heather Morris); he believes that he is a leprechaun. Rory, who likes Brittany, does not relieve him of this belief because he has promised to let him into "pot o 'gold" if he grants his three wishes. He easily fulfilled his first two wishes in worldly ways.
Mercedes (Amber Riley) recruits for a new choir for all girls directed by Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), and asks Santana (Naya Rivera) - a member of the fun club at school, New Directions - to join. Santana strongly refused to leave Brittany, and when he and Brittany went to dinner, Santana tried to recruit him, but Brittany did not want to leave his New Directions friends. He tells Santana about Rory's magical powers, and Santana then forces Rory to tell Brittany that Santana wishes he joined Shelby's merry club. Brittany believes he must obey that desire, but his third desire is that doing so does not hurt anyone's feelings. New direction co-captain Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) tries to persuade Brittany not to go: he tells him that leprechaun is not real and that he is stupid. Brittany, humiliated, stopped too.
Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Puck (Mark Salling) offer to take care of Beth, their biological daughter they gave to Shelby for adoption. While babysitting, Quinn hides spicy sauce, sharp knives, books on child cannibalism and other items to make Shelby look like an unworthy mother; he then called the Child Protection Service, assuming that eventually they will return Beth to him after they investigate and find the proof. Puck then returns to collect the items in secret. She also sings "Waiting for Girl Like You" to appease Beth who cries and comforts Shelby, who claims she is very lonely. In the closing moments of the episode, Puck and Shelby kiss.
Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) 's congress and cheerleader - whose campaign platform includes the abolition of funds for the school art program - the editorialization on television to cancel the West Side Story school production budget . He succeeds after an angry mother throws a brick to Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba). Glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) recruited members to sell advertising space in program books to raise money; when Kurt (Chris Colfer) asked his father Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley) to buy advertising, he instead gathered a group of entrepreneurs to fund the musical. He then announced that he was running for the congress against Sue.
At a meeting of the Shelby group, dubbed the Troubletones, the newly arrived Santana surpassed Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies) to surrender his leading role. The Troubletones then gave the dynamic performance of "Candyman", witnessed by disappointed Finn and Will. Finn then apologizes to Brittany for his insensitive comments and wishes him and the best Troubletones, after which Rory claims that he has fulfilled the three wishes of Brittany. However, she punished him, saying that Finn's feelings were obviously hurt by the defection and that he now knows the leprechaun is not real. Later, when Rory is harassed by a bully, Finn comes to save him and invites him to join the New Directions; he successfully auditioned with the song "Take Care of Yourself".
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Production
This episode was written by co-executive producer Ali Adler, making it the first episode not written by one of the co-creators of Glee - Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan - and it is the second one to be directed by choreographer Adam Shankman, who led "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" in the second season. Shankman began working on the episode on September 2, 2011, and the filming ended on September 22, 2011. This episode and the previous episode were taken in parallel for several days until "Asian F" finished filming the end of the music on September 16, 2011.
McGinty, one of the two winners of the Glee Project Prize of the recurring character role of seven episodes at Glee , made the first appearance on this episode as Rory Flanagan, an Irish exchange student. Murphy reveals that on the first day of filming McGinty, "he was put on a locker 25 times", and that on his "first take in his first song, the crew gave him enormous applause." Rory lives with the Brittany family, and the idea of ​​a McGinty character interacting with Brittany was first mentioned in the last second episode of The Glee Project, with judges speculating that Brittany would not be able to understand a single word of a character because an Irish- his.
Additional recurring guest stars that appeared in this episode include Menzel as Shelby Corcoran, Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba), Kurt Burt Hummel's father, Burt's wife and Finn Carole Hudson-Hummel's mother (Romy Rosemont), students of Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies), and TV co-anchor news Rod Remington (Bill A. Jones) and Andrea Carmichael (Earlene Davis).
This episode features five covers, all available for download as a digital single: "Candyman" Christina Aguilera brought by Rivera, Morris, and Riley, "Friday Night Night (TGIF)" Katy Perry with Criss on Main vocals, Strangers "Waiting Girl Like You "featured by Salling, and" Bein 'Green "from Sesame Street and Teddy Thompson" Take Care of Yourself ", both done by McGinty.
Reception
Ratings
"Pot o 'Gold" was first broadcast on November 1, 2011 in the United States on Fox. It collects Nielsen 3.0/8 rating/shares in a demographic of 18-49, and received 7.47 million American viewers during its initial broadcast. It continued its streak that came in second in the timeslot to NCIS on CBS, which earned a 3.9/11 rating/share in 18-49 demographics. It's been four weeks since the episode of Glee aired, and the number of event viewers fell by more than 11% of the 3.6/10 and 3.42 million viewership of the "Asian F" broadcast on October 4, 2011. "Pot o 'Gold" is tied for the second lowest Glee rating/share ever received in demographics 18-49 - the fourth episode of the first season, Preggers, is also rated/share 3.0/8, though has only 6.62 million viewers. It is still ahead of the eleventh episode of the first season, "Hairography", which received 2.5/7 rating/share in 18-49 demographics and 6.08 million viewers when broadcasted on November 25, 2009, the night before Thanksgiving.
Views also declined in other countries. In the UK, "Pot o 'Gold" was watched on Sky1 by 1.05 million viewers, down nearly 5% compared to "Asian F" four weeks earlier, when 1.10 million viewers watched. In Australia, "Pot o 'Gold" was watched by 724,000 viewers, making the Glee the fourteenth most watched program of the night. Views dropped 11% from "Asian F", which was watched by 843,000 viewers. It was the lowest number of viewers in the third season, just below the second episode, "I Am Unicorn", which attracted 729,000 viewers. In Canada, 1.62 million viewers watched the episode, and it was the eighth most-watched show of the week, down four slots and 11% of the 1.82 million viewers watching "Asian F", though up 8% from 1 , 50 Ã, a million viewers who watched "I Am Unicorn".
Critical reception
"Pot o 'Gold" received mixed criticism from critics, who ranged from quite positive to very negative. In the last camp is Bobby Hankinson from The Houston Chronicle, who calls it "disaster", and Erica Futterman's "Rolling Stone", which says it's "stale and not funny "and" blatantly failing to keep the momentum started by the first three episodes of the season ". Robert Canning of IGN took a different view of Futterman with respect to the progress of the show: he gave it a "good" rating of 7.5 out of 10, and wrote that although it was not a "stunning return after four weeks", it "keeps the momentum and focus of some the first episode of the season as a whole ". The A.V. Club 's Todd VanDerWerff characterizes it as an "episode that tries many things" but "produces too many clothes", while Anthony Benigno from The Faster Times feels that fact that it was the first episode not written by one of the show's fellow creators, it means "much more subtle" but "seems a bit lifeless at times". Crystal Bell "was very surprised" and said the episode was "better than the majority" of those coming from the second season, and Abby West from Weekly Entertainment i> describes it as a "fairly dense return" after hiatus.
The entire storyline centered around Quinn, Puck, and Shelby was criticized by reviewers. West writes that it makes him feel "nauseous", and he calls Quinn's actions "disgusting". Bell is one of the few that thinks it's so unreasonable that the Child Care Service will be supported, let alone for two weeks, given the severity of Quinn's allegations. Hankinson wonders why they "make Quinn a total sociopath" that shifts from "dancing on the table" to "framing a person for the danger of a child" very easily; VanDerWerff is also critical of these actions, and calls Quinn's sabotage of Shelby's apartment "a move that takes a potentially good character, is played by a good actress, and only denounces him". Kevin P. Sullivan of MTV has a different view, and writes that "the storyline sticking out along the episode as the most interesting". He also notes that it is "cathartic and very nice to see the sweeter Puck balancing Quinn's madness". The final scene of the episode, when Puck kisses Shelby, is marked as "creepy" and "super awkward" by Bell, either as "super creepy" or "romantic" by John BuddyTV John. Kubicek, as "groan-inducing" in "are you really going to go there?" vein by Canning and "realistically like Lord Tubbington throw away candy bars" by Michael Slezak of TVLine .
Sue's campaign for congress in the third season has not yet gained much support from reviewers, though Futterman feels that adding Burt Hummel as a competitor candidate "gives us a bit of hope, especially since Mike O'Malley has made a mistake so far" like Burt, and VanDerWerff , while otherwise unimpressed, says that he likes "the idea of ​​a show that fabricates the purest heroic figure against the purest evil.Boy is delighted by the new development, and notes that in three seasons," no character has grown more than Burt " Canning says he is happy to have Burt as Sue's enemy, and Kubicek writes that they are both "amazing together".
Some reviewers feel that Rory's introduction is too much. Benigno calls it "cheap stereotypes", and "teenagers" on the author's side. West, while he admits that "maybe it's a bit tough" to have Rory in green, feel it's "successful", especially for his opening solo and "isolation" for that long. Jen Chaney of The Washington Post characterized the tweaking of the solo as being about "oppressed Irish exchange students" as "forced", and VanDerWerff writes that he's tired of "people just randomly pushed around. no real reason ". Benigno notes that Sugar is also bullied - by Santana - and writes that he's "not a fan" of this "on events that are considered glorifying outcasts and promoting their success". Santana comes for praise from Kubicek, along with Brittany, for their "fantastic date" and their "most exciting" relationship on the show. The new show choir that they follow, Troubletones, is recognized by Bell: "I really love the Shelby divas."
Lesley Goldberg calls the use of Katy Perry's "LAST Friday Night (TGIF)" in an episode "really out of place", and Sullivan characterizes inclusion as "almost unjustified". Raymund Flandez from The Wall Street Journal shows that both Criss and McHale had a big role in Perry's video, and Glee's appearance blinked in reality. The West is plagued by Finn's tendency to "surrender" to the less favorable and less responsible sides as exemplified in this episode with his failure to "defend Rory" and to blow up Brittany's "simple and ridiculous belief system" even if he does. finally doing the right thing.
Music and shows
The musical performances in this episode were received with a bit more enthusiasm than the episode itself. Benigno described them as "good songs," but although Canning wrote that "Candyman" was "fun", he also said that "the rest of the music" prevented the episode from "getting much better." Indeed, "Candyman" is a favorite of many reviewers: Vicki Hyman calls it "rocking and fun", Futterman praises the "strict harmony" and "diva record of Mercedes and Santana ", and Slezak gave the number" A "and said he liked the Troubletones" really jump "in their performance. Hankinson, Hyman, and Chaney chose the production values ​​of the number - Hyman called them "extraordinary"; Chaney to be noted, as he gave the song "A-", that the costume cost for that number would rival the $ 2,004 budget of the West Side Story that left Sue very upset; and Hankinson, although he said it would be his favorite in the "blind test", to call it "a classic example of the kind of mysterious performance that I hate most in this event".
Most reviewers have positive things to say about the new Rory Flanagan singer's voice, including Futterman, who says he's "pretty pretty" and has a "rich tone", and Rae Votta of Billboards called her "fine crooner". Hankinson, however, said he was never "hit" by McGinty's voice, "so both numbers fell very flat for me", and Futterman stated that the two songs were "fit" for the episode, while Votta thought of owning it. doing two solos is "excessive in character recognition". In general, "Bein 'Green" is considered less impressive than "Take Care of Yourself", despite its supporters: Votta and Bell both call it a "good introduction," and West states that "simple, clear-is voiced to be an outsider rang true and very beautiful, "and gave it an" A- ". Canning is not impressed: "Maybe if it's sung with more feelings, it could work better." For "Take Care of Yourself", both West and Goldberg agree with Rachel's assessment that the performance is "magical", and West is judged by "A". The Los Angeles Times Amy Reiter has been "blown up", and Chaney gives it "A" with comments that Rory "handles with adorable confidence". Slezak and VanDerWerff, however, think that number is rather stimulating to sleep.
Puck's appearance of "Waiting for Girl Like You" is almost universally described as "sweet". Flandez goes a step further, and writes "he drank sweet and sexy, and you can not help but feel good", and Goldberg still further when he declared that it "ended up being one episode - and the season - the sweetest moments so far". West praised the "beautiful little guitar solo" and gave the song "B"; Chaney conferred the same class and called it "a gloomy moment" but a "good job" by Salling. Futterman commented that Puck had to "show his fine falsetton".
"Last Friday Night" evokes opinions from reviewers. Chaney writes that the show "incorporated some Glee tropes" and was a previously seen routine; he gave it a "B-". Futterman marks the choreography as "filled with forced sunlight" and says "Blaine's normally soundless voice sounds like a breath". West noted that the song was "not the best display for his voice" but added that "it was a nice little distraction needed", and gave him a "B". Goldberg called it "fantastic", and Kubicek said "it's hard not to love the singing". Slezak stated that "Darren Criss is better than this song", and gave him a "D". Votta pointed out that the song is "one of the first truly fresh pop songs in Glee this season", describes the show as "pure Glee " and "irregular and happy" dance, and all the numbers why event "connecting with American youth".
Chart history
One of five cover versions released as his debut single on Billboard Hot 100: "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" debuted at number seventy-two. "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" also debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 Billboard , at number eighty-six. In addition, it is the only one of the episodes to be included on the album soundtrack Glee: The Music, Volume 7 . The additional song from the episode, "Take Care of Yourself", was included as one of the five bonus tracks available on the Target album edition.
References
External links
- "Pot o 'Gold" on Fox.com
- "Pot o 'Gold" in IMDb
- "Pot o 'Gold" on TV.com
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