Needless to say, it’s a total flop, and back at the loft, Rachel encourages him to try elsewhere. Sam admits that he doesn’t want to go to college, and when Rachel says that he doesn’t have to, he says he’s felt societal pressure about it his whole life, like its the only success route. Rachel tells him something very astute – “In life, it’s not about knowing what you want, it’s about knowing what you can cross off your list of that you don’t want” and is generally very attentive to him, serving him food and pouring him drinks. They’re very natural together, more than I ever expected, and it makes me wonder if Sam is reminding her of Finn.
Sam tells her that he does know what he wants: his childhood dream of male modeling. We see a flashback to child Sam practising posing, and a flash forward to his fantasy – sitting outside a studio in LA and seeing himself in an underwear ad on the side of a bus. Rachel is very considerate of Sam’s description of modeling as form of expression, in fact, she looks utterly charmed. Sam expects to be mocked, but Rachel immediately starts setting up a photo shoot so that he can apply to agencies.
Rachel organises for the Funny Girl production photographer, Barbara Brownfield, to come take pictures of Sam at the loft. The photographer is impressed with Sam’s look, despite the truly bizarre Blaine-style outfit he comes out in. She shoots him in several different styles, and then in his underwear. Rachel comes over to put some oil on his chest and there is a weird tension and look between them, which, wow. If that’s going to be a thing, wow, weird, but the chemistry is definitely there.
Artie makes Becky meet him in the auditorium, where he and the band sing “Honesty” to her. She takes it as a sexual advance again, because apparently that joke isn’t old and weird yet. Artie shuts that down immediately, and says that she needs to be honest with him and with herself about her graduation. Becky admits that she wants to go to college, but is scared of being bullied like in school. Artie says that the environment will be better, and that she will have a support network of professors, counselors and friends.
Sue soon calls Artie into her office via the PA system. She tells him again to stop meddling with Becky, and he retorts that Becky told her himself that she wants to go to college. Sue says Artie’s a fool for not thinking that Sue has not already done all this research herself for Becky – contacted the schools and such – but Sue claims that Becky isn’t ready. When Artie tells Sue that maybe Sue just isn’t ready to let her go, and that he’s gotten permission from the Jackson family to take Becky to visit a program at the University of Cincinnati, Sue accepts, and tells him to ask the school tough questions, and to report back.
Marley helps out in the kitchen and we see her mom for the first time this season. She talks to her mom about Jake’s crazy behaviour, from begging to apologise to acting the victim. She admits that she’s glad it ended before she slept with him, and her mom scars her for life by making some sexual innuendos. She goes on to tell Marley that, for her first time, to hold out for a good guy, someone that she really trusts, not just likes, which seems like a blatant set up for Ryder to come back into the picture.
Sure enough, Ryder soon begs Marley to go out with him, listing all the reasons for how good and sweet and decent and pure he is. She tells him that she needs to take a break from guys, but that she will think about it. I honestly can’t think too hard about the Jake/Ryder/Marley triangle or I get very angry at Marley, because remember how she dumped him because he was seeing a dyslexia specialist and she was having a fit of bad-girl whimsy? It seemed horrible then because he had been so lovely, but now he seems kind of creepily intense – he begins to sing “An Innocent Man” to himself in the mirror and then continues in front of the glee club. Everyone, including Schue, gives him even more of a hardcore side-eye than they gave Jake. At the end of the song, he asks Marley out, she says yes, and Jake storms out.
Kurt commandeers the planning of Blaine’s NYADA audition with Carmen Tibideaux. Blaine says that he has to tell Kurt something, sounding anxious. “If you’ve cheated on me again, I’m not taking sex addiction as an excuse,” Kurt replies glibly, at which point, fifty seven ‘Blaine Sexual-Compulsive Anderson’ meta writers punched the air, because it legitimately sounds like something that they’ve talked about – but the issue is that, apparently, Blaine doesn’t want to audition for NYADA. He says that he feels restricted, since NYADA only teaches performance, and that he may want to experience other options in college – teaching, or maybe pre-med. “Of course!” Kurt stares at him. “How could I forget the numerous conversations we’ve had about you wanting to be a doctor?” His sarcasm is light and not too mean, but completely valid and hilarious.
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