Glee (TV Series)

Bad Reputation (2010)

Lea Michele: Rachel Berry

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Quotes 

• Rachel Berry : Are you still mad at me?

  Jesse St. James : You know, before I transferred here to make you my girlfriend, I asked around about you, found out your rep; what kind of girl you were.

  Rachel Berry : What did they say?

  Jesse St. James : Most of them had no idea who you were. The ones that did said you were kind of sneaky hot, but that that quality was canceled out by a compulsive need to be right and a strange affinity for sweaters with animals on them. The most interesting part was that, even though no one particularly liked you, they all said you were a person who could be trusted.

  Rachel Berry : I still am. I have this pathological need to be popular, okay? I... I just want people to think I'm cool so bad sometimes that it just clouds my judgment, okay? As a fellow star in the making, I'm... I'm sure you can understand that.

  Jesse St. James : On that level, sure. But as the guy who gave up everything to be your one and only, I just can't see past this. I should have been enough for you, Rachel.

  Rachel Berry : I knew you'd break my heart.

  Jesse St. James : Well, that's the funny thing about reputations. Everyone thinks I'm the big heartbreaker, but the fact of the matter is you broke mine first. Do me a favor. If we end up next to each other on the bar at Ballet Club this week, just do your arabesques and piqués in silence. Don't talk to me.

• Rachel Berry : Do you know that when we dated, the rest of the school gave us a nickname? Puckleberry.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : That's humiliating.

  Rachel Berry : The fact is that slumming it with me actually improved your reputation. It gave you a sense of humanity.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : Wait. Do you want to date again? I was wondering why you invited me here.

  Rachel Berry : As you know, I'm taken. But I can be of some assistance. Help me with my song for Glee Club. I... I might be the last chance you have to salvage what's left of your reputation, and stay in Glee. Besides, you need a song that's going to help you express your inner pain.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : So what song do you want to do for your assignment?

  Rachel Berry : I've chosen David Geddes' fantastically terrible '70s top ten hit "Run Joey Run". It's a story song. So we get to play parts. I'm going to play the role of the tragic heroine who dies in the end, a la Nicole Kidman in "Moulin Rouge". And you can be the hunky, heroic male lead.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : Do I get to kill you?

  Rachel Berry : Actually, my dad shoots me with a shotgun.

• Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : Do you think I made that Glist? Honestly.

  Rachel Berry : Well, it does sound like something that you would do.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : God, I'm so tired of people judging me for a few mistakes I've made. I try to be a good guy. I go to school and I say "Be cool, Puck. Be nice." But by second period, I've got a fire extinguisher in my hands and I'm spraying some dweeb with it and I don't know how I got there.

  Rachel Berry : I understand. Yeah. I sit in Glee Club and I watch a couple of imperfect performances and a litany of criticisms just start building up inside of me like a volcano and I keep telling myself to hold it in and then it just comes bursting out. Granted, generally I'm right, but doesn't do much for my reputation.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : It does suck when you do that.

  Rachel Berry : So, uh, how do you think we can get people to see us differently?

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : I don't know.

  Rachel Berry : [he leans in to kiss her, but she pulls back]  I can't... I can't do this.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : You know, whoever made that Glist is going to put you at number one when they find out you cheated on that Jesse kid with me. Besides, Jesse will never fully understand what it means to be a Jew.

  Rachel Berry : [he leans in again, but she stops him]  Noah... I'm ironically turned on by your bad boy image, but I think we should just keep this professional.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : All right, I'm out. Why stay if there's no chance of us making out?

• Rachel Berry : I need to enlist the services of the A/V Club.

  Artie Abrams : What did you have in mind?

  Rachel Berry : My shame at appearing so low on the Glist has made me re-evaluate my image at this school and beyond. I've now realized that in today's culture of bad boy athletes and celebrity sex tapes, a good reputation is no good at all. Artie, you know how our Glee Club assignment was to find a song with a bad reputation and rehabilitate it? Well, mine is going to afford me the worst reputation in this school. Rachel Berry is going to get a little down and dirty.

  Artie Abrams : I'm going to stop you. You had me at "sex tape". How can I help?

• 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.

• Finn Hudson : That's not Olivia Newton-John. That's... that's Sue Sylvester. Where did you get this?

  Kurt Hummel : I can tell you that I certainly did not steal it from her locked file cabinet yesterday when she sent me back to her office to get her hormone replacement injection during Cheerios practice.

  Artie Abrams : Wait, did she just do the Cabbage Patch?

  Finn Hudson : I'm posting this on YouTube.

  Rachel Berry : No, no, wait, wait. Do you think that's a good idea? She might kill us.

  Mercedes Jones : Oh, let her get a taste of some of the humiliation she put us through.

• [first lines] 

  Finn Hudson : What's so funny?

  Rachel Berry : You guys aren't watching the video of me falling off stage at my first TinyTots beauty pageant, are you?

  Kurt Hummel : That was Carrot Top funny compared to this comedic tour de force.

  Jesse St. James : That's Olivia Newton-John's "Physical". It was pretty groundbreaking subject matter at the time, considering its depiction of fluid sexuality.