Glee » Season 2
Glee - 02x07 The Substitute

2x07 The Substitute

ratingratingratingratingrating
4.2/5 (10 votes)
First Aired: Nov. 09, 2010 on FOX
Summary: After Mr. Schuester gets sick, a substitute teacher (Gweneth Paltrow) takes over the Glee Club and becomes a new love interest and competition for Will.

Main Characters in this Episode


More

Guest Stars

Brittany Pierce played by Heather Morris (III)
Noah 'Puck' Puckerman played by Mark Salling
Holly Holliday played by Gwyneth Paltrow
Sam Evans played by Chord Overstreet
Dave Karofsky played by Max Adler
Cameo played by Lindsey Sims-Lewis
Waitress played by Loanne Bishop
Lauren Zizes played by Ashley Fink

Episode Quotes

Kurt Hummel: Mercedes, trust me. Love is just around the corner.

Dave Karofsky: 'Sup, homo? [Karofsky winks at Kurt]
Will Schuester: You're a substitute. Of course you can let the kids do whatever they want. You never have to deal with the hangover of all that fun.
Holly Holliday: 16% of all high school students dropped out last year. We can't just expect them to sit up and pay attention. These kids feel special. They have a voice, and if we don't listen to it, they just tune us out.
Will Schuester: I give my kids a voice. I just don't let them run it free. I'm a teacher. It's my job to know more than they do.
Holly Holliday: Right, you don't know about what they care about the most - themselves. These kids get bored, they change their facebook status. They're entitled to have all of these emotions, and not only that, they're entitled to have the world care about them, that is what the generation is about.
Will Schuester: A great teacher is supposed to show them there are other points of view besides their own.

Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (revealing mistake): During the "Singing in the Rain" scene a 3-second clip is playing in reverse.

Trivia

  • Shortly after the episode aired, Dina Lohan publicly attacked the show and Gwyneth Paltrow for the joke made about her daughter Lindsay.
  • In the pre-title teaser, the triumphant music accompanying Sue's announcement that she is the new headmaster, is, fittingly, from Antonín Dvorák's "From the New World", popularly known as the New World Symphony.