Glee (TV Series)

Bad Reputation (2010)

Kevin McHale: Artie Abrams

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• Artie Abrams : Um, excuse me. Why is she here?

  Brittany Pierce : I've been here since first period. I had a cold, and I took all my antibiotics at the same time, and now I can't remember how to leave. But I also don't know why I've only made fourth on the Glist. I've made out with, like, everyone in this school. Girls, boys, Mr. Kidney the janitor.

• Artie Abrams : [before "Can't Touch This" in library]  I'm kind of getting cold feet here.

  Brittany Pierce : Can you even feel your feet?

• Artie Abrams : Remember, if Sylvester hits you in the face after you cop to posting the video, don't scream like a woman.

  Mercedes Jones : You're so brave for doing this, Kurt.

  Kurt Hummel : I know. Thank you.

• Kurt Hummel : Coach Sylvester, can I have just a minute of your time?

  Sue Sylvester : What do you want, ladyface?

  Kurt Hummel : You're aware a tape was leaked onto the Internet, causing you to become a national laughingstock? We stole the tape from your syringe and pill drawer. We posted it online. We'll accept whatever punishment you see fit.

  Sue Sylvester : So it was you. I can't thank you enough.

  [Kurt looks around at the others, confused; cut to them in a classroom] 

  Artie Abrams : She wasn't angry at all. It was weird.

  Tina Cohen-Chang : Maybe the comments online have gotten so mean, people have started to feel sorry for her. She's finally getting some sympathy, so she's in a forgiving mood.

• Artie Abrams : It's simple math, Mr. Schue. The Glists are posted at a height of five and a half feet, comfortably out of my reach. It could not have been me.

• Kurt Hummel : We're as menacing as Muppet Babies. Which means our squeaky-clean reputations are still very much intact.

  Artie Abrams : We have to do what we've been dreading, something more terrifying than Rachel's personality. We have to go to Sylvester and admit that we posted the "Physical" video.

  Tina Cohen-Chang : But we'll get suspended.

  Kurt Hummel : And it will be worth it. Finally the entire student body will see us as badasses.

• Kurt Hummel : What is the worst thing a student can do at this school?

  Tina Cohen-Chang : Eat in the cafeteria?

  [she and Mercedes snicker] 

  Kurt Hummel : No. Be a disruption in the library. And I'm not talking about trying to check out a reference book. Mm-mm. I'm talking about full-on chaos. Including getting your Glee on in the stacks.

  Artie Abrams : Genius.

• Rachel Berry : I need to enlist the services of the A/V Club.

  Artie Abrams : What did you have in mind?

  Rachel Berry : My shame at appearing so low on the Glist has made me re-evaluate my image at this school and beyond. I've now realized that in today's culture of bad boy athletes and celebrity sex tapes, a good reputation is no good at all. Artie, you know how our Glee Club assignment was to find a song with a bad reputation and rehabilitate it? Well, mine is going to afford me the worst reputation in this school. Rachel Berry is going to get a little down and dirty.

  Artie Abrams : I'm going to stop you. You had me at "sex tape". How can I help?

• Will Schuester : Between this and posting Coach Sylvester's personal video on YouTube, you guys are getting a pretty bad reputation.

  Artie Abrams : Why is that a bad thing? Maybe if we seem more dangerous, people would stop flushing my glasses down the toilet.

  Will Schuester : [passing out sheet music]  Look, things are hard right now. I get it. You're under a lot of pressure with regionals coming up. And I know that winning sectionals hasn't had the positive effect on your popularity that a lot of you thought it would. But becoming what you despise is not the answer.

  Mercedes Jones : Man, this song is whack.

  Will Schuester : No, it's not. It's a terrific song on a long list of top hits that, because of time or some bad press, has become a joke. And like you guys, it's time to start rehabilitating its bad reputation. The assignment for the week is for all of you to find songs like this, mine them for what works, and make them great again. And then, hopefully, can apply this musical lesson to your own lives.

  Jesse St. James : This song should be arrested for the crime of sucking.

  Will Schuester : [the students all agree]  You want to bet?

  [to the backing band] 

  Will Schuester : Hit it.

  [the beginning of "Ice Ice Baby" plays] 

• Finn Hudson : That's not Olivia Newton-John. That's... that's Sue Sylvester. Where did you get this?

  Kurt Hummel : I can tell you that I certainly did not steal it from her locked file cabinet yesterday when she sent me back to her office to get her hormone replacement injection during Cheerios practice.

  Artie Abrams : Wait, did she just do the Cabbage Patch?

  Finn Hudson : I'm posting this on YouTube.

  Rachel Berry : No, no, wait, wait. Do you think that's a good idea? She might kill us.

  Mercedes Jones : Oh, let her get a taste of some of the humiliation she put us through.