When your pederast character is the Voice of Reason, your show is in trouble.

We will never forget Will's rendition of "The Thong Song"! NEVER!

Tom Papa as a sassy exercise instructor in Papa Squat!
Tom Papa as a sassy motorcycle gang leader in Papa Wheelie!
Tom Papa as a sassy porn star in Papa Boner!

A) That wasn't about the death of a beloved cast member since McLean Stevenson didn't die. B) "Abyssinia, Henry" wasn't about Henry Blake's death. It was about his going home. His death didn't figure until literally the last minute.

Um, she left the show because she wanted to focus on her pregnancy and raising her child.

Klaus wanted Katherine/Elena because as Doppelgangers their blood was necessary to complete the transition of a werewolf to a hybrid.

The myth of Silas is apparently known. For Shane it was an area of academic study. Most likely, like vampires, werewolves and such, the general public doesn't know that the myth is true.

Nope. Could be mistaken for Jeremy + Caroline.

But the choices should never have been "Lea does the show or we end the show." They should have been "Lea does the show or we let her out of her contract." The show absolutely could have survived without Rachel (write her off with a contract to do a musical in the West End or something) and there's no way that the…

Who says Marie Laveau is dead?

Lea Michelle's positioning in this whole situation, through no fault of her own that I can see, has struck me as so strange. I blame Ryan Murphy for that. He should never have said what he did about the decision to continue the show resting on her shoulders. It shouldn't have been up to her in the first place and it…

Britney turned out to be some bizarre math genius and got shuttled off to MIT (Heather Morris decided to leave the show because of her pregnancy).

So far we have had Queenie, Marie Laveau and a couple of slaves in the past sequences. So at least four, two of whom are major roles. It's the first episode. Get a grip.

Glee has always been a show that pays attention to, or at least gives the appearance of paying attention to, what its fans say about it online. The "faggy lamp" scene from way back in season one has been a huge sticking point with vast swaths of the fandom, with fights raging for years over whether or not Finn was a…

Sick burn, brah!

No whey!

I camembert a cheese pun thread.

Big red D'OH!

6) Note that her stolen youth faded almost immediately. She'd have to be draining people 24/7 to maintain it.

"We also have that black witch… what power should she have… hmm… let me think… yeah, voodoo!"