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Thank you Non-Christians! No Really, thank you!
*Disclaimer—not lumping ALL Christians into this group! So don’t send me hate mail or a theological...
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Fifty years ago, on October 18, 1961, Natalie Wood debuted in one of her most iconic roles: Maria, the 20th-century twist on Shakespeare’s...
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Anderson Cooper giggle fits are like unicorn kisses. Rare. Adorable. So gay.
(Things get awesome at 2:35.)
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by vinquilop
Day 9: Best scene ever
It’s finally here: my first Glee entry in this 30 Days of TV challenge. I know, right? I’m totally excited, too!
Now, I know what you’re thinking. “But, Jessie, how could a show like Glee have the best scene ever?” I hear ya’. I mean, there was the scene where Xena went to Hell for Gabrielle, there was the scene where Buffy dove to her death to save her sister, there was the scene where Boomer found out that she was a cylon when she was faced with hundreds of naked Boomers… I’ll just stop there and leave you with that visual. Let me know when you’re back.
We good? Can we continue now? Great.
Let’s talk about TV fathers. There are the hard to please fathers like Jay in Modern Family. There are the crazy fathers like whatever William Shatner’s character’s name in $#!@ My Father Says. There are sweet, understanding and almost feminized fathers like Arthur in South of Nowhere.
And then there’s Burt Hummel.
This character, played brilliantly by Mike O’Malley, breaks the mold of father types on television. He’s a mechanic. He loves football. He’s the guy who thinks that a sandwich with four types of meat is healthy just because it’s on wheat bread. And beer is a grain, right? So, that’s kind of a food group to him.
But Burt is also one of the most loving fathers ever depicted on television. Interrupting his son’s nightly moisturizing routine to have a quick talk doesn’t phase him. He’s used to show tunes blaring from his son’s room and design magazines dictating his home’s decor (or at least the basement decor). He doesn’t seem to fear that his own masculinity is in jeopardy because his son is gay. He’s supportive and accepting — and that’s so very rare to see on television.
Burt is probably one of my favorite characters on Glee and is most definitely one of the best parental characters on television today. And this [poor quality] clip is why:
So, yes, Glee is a silly little show with a lot of singing, more than a lot of whining, and more than a few plot holes — I still adore it immensely — but when it does something right, it really does it right.
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