Glee (TV Series)

Bad Reputation (2010)

Jonathan Groff: Jesse St. James

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.

• 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] 

• [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.

• Jesse St. James : You guys need to stop being such asses and start being badasses.