Glee (TV Series)

Bad Reputation (2010)

Matthew Morrison: Will Schuester

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• Will Schuester : Look, I know you know something! So we're not leaving here until I get some answers.

  Kurt Hummel : Mr. Schuester, may I be blunt?

  Will Schuester : [exasperated sigh]  Shoot.

  Kurt Hummel : Ever since you separated from your wife, you've spent a lot of late nights watching reruns of "Law & Order", haven't you?

  [seeing his expression] 

  Kurt Hummel : Hmm. Thought so. And no, I didn't make the Glist.

• Will Schuester : I know you're behind the Glist.

  Quinn Fabray : You have no proof. I can't believe that you're gonna pin this on me. I'll be expelled. I mean, it makes sense. Everything else has been taken from me; my popularity, my body. Might as well throw away my education.

  Will Schuester : You know when I realized that you did it? The moment I felt what it was like to walk in your shoes. I mean, it takes years to build a good reputation, but only seconds to destroy it. Couple of bad choices, and you go from the top to the bottom. You have lost so much, Quinn. Which means you had the most to gain from the Glist.

  Quinn Fabray : I never meant to hurt anybody.

  Will Schuester : I know.

  Quinn Fabray : I... I was captain of the cheerleeding squad, president of the Celibacy Club. I had Finn. People would part like the Red Sea when I walked down the hallway. Now I'm invisible.

  Will Schuester : And you think being seen as a cheap tramp is better?

  Quinn Fabray : A bad reputation is better than no reputation at all.

  Will Schuester : Look, I know that high school feels like your whole life right now, but it's going to end. You're going to give that baby to a family who really wants it, who's going to love it, and then you are going to go on to do amazing things, Quinn.

  Quinn Fabray : You really think that I can get it all back one day?

  Will Schuester : No. I think you can get something even better. I mean, come on. You're Quinn Fabray, right? I mean, those people didn't part when you walked down the halls; you moved them with your attitude.

  Quinn Fabray : Thanks, Mr. Schue. You're a really good teacher. Even if everybody is calling you a man-whore.

• Sue Sylvester : [passing Schue in the hall]  Hey, man-whore.

  Brenda Castle : Will Schuester?

  Will Schuester : Yeah.

  Brenda Castle : I'm Brenda Castle. I'm the new astronomy teacher and badminton coach. I also happen to be an alcoholic, and... I like pills. I hear that's just your type. Let's go in this classroom and pork!

  Will Schuester : [pulling away]  No.

  Principal Figgins : I am praying for you, William. We've all heard about your gallivanting!

  Will Schuester : But nothing happened!

  Ken Tanaka : Maybe that's not what matters, Will. You broke the heart of somebody who doesn't let people get close to her.

  Will Schuester : I didn't mean to hurt anybody.

  Ken Tanaka : You probably didn't mean to hurt me, either, but lately I've been feeding my feelings to the tune of 6,000 calories a day.

  Sue Sylvester : [passing Will again]  Slut.

• Emma Pillsbury : Excuse me.

  Will Schuester : Oh, hey, Em. Can you just give us a sec?

  Emma Pillsbury : Actually, no, Will, I can't give you a sec. You're just going to have to reschedule your heavy petting session with Mrs. Carlisle for a later time.

  Will Schuester : Emma!

  Mrs. Carlisle : I beg your pardon? I was just telling Mr. Schuester about how my husband recently died.

  Emma Pillsbury : Wow. Getting them fresh off the rebound now, aren't you? Amazing. Nobody's safe. Nobody is safe.

  Will Schuester : Emma, can I talk to you in private?

  Emma Pillsbury : No, you can't, Will. We're gonna talk about this here and now, because I have absolutely nothing to hide. Actually, did you know I was seeing a therapist? Do you know that? Did you know I've been trying to work through my OCD so I could be with you? Will, do you think that's fun for me? It's not fun; it's absolutely humiliating. And come to find out you've been fooling around with some woman named Shelby, and you slept with April Rhodes.

  Will Schuester : How did you find out about that?

  Emma Pillsbury : You're not denying it. Wow, okay. See, I thought we were trying to work through this. I thought when you said you were trying to figure things out on your own, I thought you meant that. I'm not going to stand for this anymore. I'm not. I'm putting my foot down, and I am finally sticking up for myself. You're a slut, Will. You're a slut. You're a slut, you're a slut, you're a slut. Everybody should know that. And you should know that I'm through with you.

  [empathetically to Mrs. Carlisle] 

  Emma Pillsbury : I'm very sorry for your loss.

• Will Schuester : Who did it? This is serious. Principal Figgins is threatening to disband the club.

  Santana Lopez : Why are we playing this game? We all know it was Puck.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : Back off. I didn't do squat.

  Tina Cohen-Chang : Then why is your girlfriend first on the Glist?

  Rachel Berry : And why am I last? Aside from the fact that I refused to put out for you.

  Will Schuester : Okay, enough! No one is accusing anyone of anything. Puck, seriously, did you do it?

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : I said no. I'm a delinquent, sure. I like setting stuff on fire and beating up people I don't know. I own that. But I'm not a liar.

• 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] 

• Will Schuester : [after singing "Ice Ice Baby"]  This song is officially paroled!

• Will Schuester : You know, Sue, there are a lot of people at this school who dislike you. My kids don't do stuff like this.

  Sue Sylvester : Is that so? Exhibit B.

  Will Schuester : What's a Glist?

  Sue Sylvester : It's a "Glee List", William. It's a weekly ranking of your glee club, based on a hotness quotient of sexual promiscuity. It was posted all over the school an hour ago. Apparently, you get a point for each act of perpetuated depravity.

  Will Schuester : What makes you think my kids did this?

  Principal Figgins : The Glist was made on a library computer using the pass code "gleeclub".

  Sue Sylvester : Your glee club is a petri dish of sexual depravity.

  Principal Figgins : Sue's right, Will. Why, only last year, a list was posted ranking McKinley's ten ugliest Gingers. And the perpertrator would have been expelled had it not turned out to be a member of the faculty!

  Sue Sylvester : I stand by that list.

• Sue Sylvester : You know, a week ago, had I found a list that so degraded the glee club, I would've been embarrassed I was beaten to the punch. But now I know the white-hot shame of public rebuke; that pain is indescribable.

  Principal Figgins : William, last year at West Dayton High, a photo circulated of school superintendent...

  Sue Sylvester : And what was he wearing?

  Principal Figgins : Women's lingerie.

  Sue Sylvester : And what was he riding?

  Principal Figgins : Pony!

  Sue Sylvester : And who was expelled?

  Principal Figgins : The entire school!

  Sue Sylvester : The entire school was expelled, Will!

  Will Schuester : What does that have to do with me?

  Principal Figgins : You must find out who made the Glist and suspend them before they post another one, or I'm holding the entire glee club responsible!

  Will Schuester : Are you serious?

  Principal Figgins : Deadly serious! I cannot have these shenanigans at this school!

  Sue Sylvester : He cannot have these shenanigans at this school!