Glee (TV Series)

The Power of Madonna (2010)

Jayma Mays: Emma Pillsbury

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• Sue Sylvester : You wanted to see me?

  Emma Pillsbury : Um. Yeah. Thank you for coming. Please sit down.

  Sue Sylvester : No.

  Emma Pillsbury : Okay. Um. I was just wondering why Madonna was playing everywhere except my office.

  Sue Sylvester : Well, it's simple, Arlene. You don't deserve the power of Madonna. You have none of her self-confidence, her power over her body, or her sexual magnetism. Simply put, you have all the sensuality of one of those pandas down at the zoo who refuse to mate. I had your intercom disconnected.

• Will Schuester : Where have you been? I have been calling you all weekend.

  Emma Pillsbury : I was kind of embarrassed. I really wanted to go through with it, Will. You were so gracious and gentle and... handsome, and it felt so good to be close to you in that way. I just... I don't know why I always freak out that like that.

  Will Schuester : Stop. Stop, stop, stop. You don't need to sleep with me to prove anything. You took ownership of your body on Friday when you told yourself you weren't ready... and then ran out of my apartment with no shoes on.

  Emma Pillsbury : They're my favorites. Did you bring them?

• Will Schuester : I feel so bad, Emma. I've been working so hard trying to get the guys to start treating the girls with more respect, and I... I haven't been walking the walk. I never should have agreed to have you come over that night.

  Emma Pillsbury : I did kind of throw myself at you.

  Will Schuester : That is the point. All right, we're falling into a pattern here. We need to instant an official no dating policy until my divorce is final.

  Emma Pillsbury : Well, when will that be?

  Will Schuester : I filed today. So that's a start. But while we're waiting, I want you to get some help for your problems; we need to take action here. They're not gonna go away unless we do.

  [handing her a business card] 

  Will Schuester : Now, our health union covers counseling. They'll come to the school, meet you in your office, whatever you need. And...

  [he places her shoes on the desk] 

  Will Schuester : I polished them myself.

  Emma Pillsbury : [standing to leave]  Thank you.

• Emma Pillsbury : You know when we were talking about Madonna the other day and how her music was being blasted like an intimidating cluster bomb into everybody's office except for mine because, apparently, I lack a shred of sex appeal? Well, it struck me that the Big Mo is always in control of everything. Her life is her own.

  Will Schuester : Okay.

  Emma Pillsbury : So I need to take control of myself and my body, just like Madonna. Which is why... I'm planning on doing the nasty with you tonight at your place. Foreplay shall begin at 7:30 sharp. So, what do you think? Not that it matters.

  Will Schuester : I couldn't agree more.

  Emma Pillsbury : Great.

  Will Schuester : Great.

  Emma Pillsbury : 7:30.

  Will Schuester : Cool.

  Emma Pillsbury : Mm-hmm.

• Will Schuester : Hey, guys. I'm sorry to interrupt your little sorority, but I couldn't help overhearing. Are you really having that much boy trouble?

  Quinn Fabray : You wouldn't understand, Mr. Schue. You're a guy.

  Will Schuester : Well, then maybe you should talk to someone else about it. Like Ms. Pillsbury.

  Rachel Berry : I tried that.

  [cut to Emma's office] 

  Emma Pillsbury : [flustered]  Oh, um, that's a hot-button topic, isn't it? I mean, when to do that. This is the perfect chat to have with your mom.

  Rachel Berry : I have two gay dads.

  Emma Pillsbury : Right. Right. You, um... how about your rabbi?

  Rachel Berry : I really don't feel comfortable talking about this with Rabbi Greenberg. Aren't you a guidance counselor?

  Emma Pillsbury : [lost for words]  Uh...

  [back to the choir room] 

  Quinn Fabray : [as the dismissal bell rings]  The fact is that women still earn seventy cents to every dollar that a man does for doing the same job. That attitude starts in high school.

• Emma Pillsbury : I don't know what to say. I mean, I can't do this job if I don't have the kids' confidence.

  Will Schuester : Now, I get that this area of interest is, uh, your blind spot, but I want to help you so that the next time a girl comes in here asking those kinds of questions, you'll be prepared.

  [seeing her expression] 

  Will Schuester : I... I'm not saying you need to have sex.

  Emma Pillsbury : No. No, no, no. No, that's not what you were offering. Why would you offer that? It wasn't what I was thinking. Wishful thinking is all that was.

  Will Schuester : I mean, what this is all really about is teenage girls feeling like they have no power.

  Emma Pillsbury : Right, and it makes sense, too. I mean, look at their role models, you know? You've got Britney Spears and her shaved head. Lindsay Lohan looks like something out of "Lord of the Rings". Ann Coulter.

  Will Schuester : Let's work together to try to find a way to make them feel more confident about themselves.

  Emma Pillsbury : Yeah, I like that. Yes, we will change the world one girl at a time. We'll be like a girl-saving team.

  Will Schuester : And maybe along the way, we can find a way to help you, too.