Gleecap: Yes/No

Gleecap: Yes/No

“Glee” is back after a torturous winter hiatus (ed note: I call it hell-atus season!) and this writer here could not be more excited. Regardless of the fact that the episode I’m really looking forward to isn’t airing for another two weeks (president, schmesident — I kid, I kid), last night’s episode was better than my expectations for it, which, to be honest, were pretty low.

In “Yes/No,” Mr. Schuester enlists the New Directions to help him propose to Ms. Pillsbury. He also asks Finn to help him pick a ring, tells him he wants him to be his best man and mentions him going to his bachelor party. In other words, Mr. Schuester is being a douche bag again.

That was the part that no one cared about, especially when Mr. Schuester ruined a perfectly good performance of Rihanna’s “We Found Love” by walking on water in white tailcoats.

Now for the relevant parts of the episode:

1. New Directions (with an adorable cameo from Sugar) doing a pretty freaking good cover of Summer Nights (including some of the same choreography from the movie and even the cheesy fade out of Sandy/Mercedes’ face at the end) that had the “Grease” fan in me rejoicing.
2. Helen Mirren as Cheerio Becky’s inner voice. My life will never be the same after hearing Helen Mirren say “booyah.”
3. Finn was actually a tolerable human being when his mom told him his dad didn’t die valiantly in the war but actually overdosed (props to Cory Monteith’s acting in that scene).
4. Sam trying to win Mercedes back — when will she realize she belongs with our endearing stripper and not that controlling asshole called Shane?

All I really care about though? The Michael Jackson tribute episode, airing on January 31st (and Chris Colfer’s ass in a leather onesie, of course).