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First Aired: Sep. 20, 2011 on FOX

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Season 3 » Episode #01 - The Purple Piano Project

Summary: The glee kids are down in the dumps following their disappointing showing at Regionals, so Will assigns them a project to get them back on track. Meanwhile, Ms. Sylvester wants to go to Washington: Sue's running for Congress.

Who appeared in this episode?

Brittany Pierce	played by Heather Morris (III)
Noah 'Puck' Puckerman	played by Mark Salling
Jacob Ben Israel	played by Josh Sussman
Becky Jackson	played by Lauren Potter (V)
Rod Remington	played by Bill A. Jones
Andrea Carmichael	played by Earlene Davis
Lauren Zizes	played by Ashley Fink
Harmony	played by Lindsay Pearce

Episode Quotes

Will Schuester: [after hearing Sugar sing] Holy sh... ugar!

Rachel Berry: High school is where you learn, it's survival of the fittest. She's gonna drag the New Directions down and that's not fair for those of us who don't wanna spend our lives rotting in this insignificant town! You said that you'd do anything to get us to Nationals. She is gonna keep us from winning that elusive crown, if anything, she's gonna kill all of our chances!

Finn Hudson: The truth is, I have no idea what I'm doing. I look around, and everyone knows where they're headed, or at least what they want. I'm lost. It's like I can't even remember who I am anymore. [gets slushied in the face by several students] Now I remember.

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (continuity error): Throughout the song 'We Got The Beat' when Rachel, Santana and Brittany are stood on the tables, their order repeatedly changes between shots.
Goof (continuity error): When Kurt and Rachel are talking in the car it is raining on Rachel's side of the car. The camera then cuts to Kurt and the first two times his side of the car is completely dry until the third cut to him.

Trivia

Two dancers from So You Think You Can Dance appeared in this episode, Courtney Galiano from Season 4 as one of the Skanks and Melinda Sullivan from Season 7 as one of the "Anything Goes" dancers.
When Emma is providing Kurt and Rachel with college counseling, she says, "Kent State has a wonderful musical theater program and a macabre backstory, so if you're having a bad day, or you don't get the lead in the musical, you can say to yourself 'you know what? Things really could be worse.'" Emma is referring to the incident on May 4, 1970, in which members of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds into a crowd of unarmed college student war protesters on the Kent State campus, killing four students and wounding nine others. This incident is now seen by many historians as a turning point in national attitudes about U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
One of the songs in this episode is "You Can't Stop the Beat" from the musical Hairspray. Matthew Morrison (Mr. Schuester) played the role of Link Larkin in the original Broadway cast of Hairspray.