THANK. YOU. While some of the ridiculousness in the beginning such as how crazy Sue is or the Terri fake pregnancy storyline I never minded, it's just gotten out of hand. Those things were fun in the beginning, even Terri handing out pseudoephedrine, because they were still funny, and the show had a much more satirical feel in the beginning.

But trying to tell me Glee is realistic? No way. I've been waiting forever to hear some one agree with me on the big-budgeted numbers and the unpreparedness for competitions. It's what's made Glee harder and harder for me to watch every time.

*sigh* I do watch Glee, but the farther along we go, the more of a freaking NUTJOB I've come to belive Ryan Murphy is, starting (continuing?)with calling Kings of Leon homophobes for not wanting him to wreck one of their songs and moving onto this bizarre attempt to weave "realism" into the most unrealistic show I've ever watched. Trying to decide if I'm going to keep watching....

Mercedes dancing on the hood of Kurt's SUV with full Cheerios dance and vocal backup? Is Ryan saying that actually happened? The whole show is one big montage. Run with it.

I actually think the showrunner wants to cycle out the stars of the show before their contracts run out and demand much higher salaries per episode due to their popularity. Bring in a bunch of no-names and let the music carry the show.

In terms of being a "realistic" show, I think Glee is very similar to the fantasy scenes in the movie "Sucker Punch". When it's time to perform, the audiences' brains create a collective hallucination where anything is possible. We never actually see the real performances.

Or not. Who cares, in the words of William Shatner, "It's just a TV show!"

Not to mention the slushy attacks. I really think they would probably meet the criminal definition of assault, but they are just "one of those things" at McKinley High.

Let's be honest; most of them probably should have "graduated" at the end of this year, to leave the stench of the awful Season 2 behind them as quickly as possible without it tainting their prospects for future work.

If they had the kids staying around forever then people would complain about the ridiculousness of it. I think they can't win no matter what they do.

I've made the choice to go with the ridiculous and watch for the musical numbers - but I am glad they are making the kids graduate and getting a new main cast. Maybe bringing some new blood to the show will perk it up.

I can not believe that Puck is still going to be a part of the cast. He looks as old as Finn does.

I can't believe you forgot the biggest one: the amazing growth rate of Beth Puckman-Fabray-Cochran! Not even ten weeks after conception she had discernible genital organs, she was a month premature and yet was the size of a six month old!

And then there is the rate of birth- Mercedes was in the delivery room with Quinn and still made it back in time for the results. Actually, Rachel was able to tell Shelby that it was "a healthy baby girl" before Vocal Adrenaline was done their number. I know Bohemian Rhapsody is a long song, but come on!

I agree with everything, but as for the dentist-Stamos story-line, now we all know how dentists Really make their money, don't we?

I concur with everything stated in the article. I don't mind the kids graduating...I'm really tired of all their stories. No one cares about Finn and Rachel. Rachel has become too annoying (I'm an independent woman-no, I can't write a good song unless I'm after Finn) to care about this season. Finn has no continuity or redeeming qualities after dumping Rachel for cheating on him, lying about Santana, having Quinn cheat on Sam with him, and then wanting Rachel back only after she and Jessie get together...and this is my protagonist-I wanna drop-kick him. Kurt will be the most missed...but even his story got boring this season. It would have been much more effective if it had more consistency-that's another whole post though. I just don't see this show making it much longer.

I always thought of Glee (at least in the start) as a humorous commentary on High School, High School as portrayed on TV and current American Society. It does have a certain cartoon-likeness to it. Like the roadrunner and the wolf running off the cliff and then hanging in the air.
What I am trying to say is that continuity is not important if you're not trying to tell a story with a punchline, but have fun with stereotypes. And every single character in Glee is a stereotype. but it's fun (or was)

Could not agree more with everything on this list! And while we're talking about completely unrealistic things on this show...

1. When they get slushied, it isn't just on their faces but all over their clothes. And yet in their very next scene, they're perfectly cleaned up, not even a hint of a red stain or at least a wet stain where they washed the slushy away. Do they just keep identical outfits in their lockers every single day, just in case?

2. The band. Are we actually to believe that there is a band program at this school, but it exists purely to back up the Glee club? Don't most Glee clubs perform a cappella or with one pianist or at best with a prerecorded musical soundtrack? Why are the band kids not considered even bigger losers than the Glee kids for being at their beck and call? Every time Rachel feels like singing the whole band drops everything and shows up??

3. Their insistance every week that every song they're singing is preparing for nationals/regionals/whatever-nals. And yet, with the exception of "Don't Stop Believin' " we have never seen them sing a song during a competition that they've actually sung before. (The NY episode was the absolute worst instance of that.)

4. The kids insist they're such losers and everyone hates them. And yet they are the sole entertainment at the prom, and every school performance they've done (except the classroom Christmas carols and the night of neglect benefit) has been packed with cheering students. Um...

5. Along those lines, why are they so convinced that everything they do within the Glee club will affect their reputation at the school? Like Finn being so concerned for Sam when he decided to sing a duet with Kurt, arguing that the whole school would think he was gay and he'd no longer be considered cool. Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't those duets simply for a Glee club competition, to be performed for the other Glee club members only? Why do they think that the entire school ignores/hates them and yet are also acutely aware of every move they make in an after-school club?

I'm just saying, I stopped watching this show for consistency or realism ages ago and am pretty much in it for the musical numbers. What year they're all in was the least of their problems.

Okay, seriously. Get over the whole "realism" thing in Glee. Of course it's not realistic, it's a TV show. Especially get over the fact that they never rehearse. I was in a highly competitive, extremely good high school choir (fine arts school), and you know what we did all year? We rehearsed. Over and over and over again. We probably learned 20 songs in a YEAR. Why? Because that's what you do. You not only sing the same song 100 times, you sing the same part of that same song 500 times. Do you want to watch that? Hint, no you don't. It's boring as hell and not a good TV show. Glee has plenty of problems, but not showing them rehearsing endlessly is not one of them.

Of course this decision is not about realism. It's about how every other show attempting to keep characters on after they graduate has failed. I doubt Ryan Murphy wants his show to fail.

Word X 10! Every single one of those contributed to me finally quitting the show, because I just couldn't take it anymore - the absurdity, the lack of continuity, all of it started to really outweigh the fun parts. There are some cast members I still like and wish well, and some of the music was great, but beyond that, it became a giant waste of potential in my eyes. So to here Murphy claiming he's shedding cast members for "realism" is hilarious.
Oh, and don't forget Rachel's birth mother deciding she wants a baby and then instantly adopting Quinn's like she was picking up groceries. Was there a barcode on the diaper and a check out at the nurse's station?
I should have known better, the show turned out to be a typical Ryan Murphy show - a fun, interesting, different first season, followed by overblown dreck that lost its core appeal.

You could make this list a top 100 reason and still have more.

In Born this way Quinn says she is 17 and Rachel says she is 16.

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