Saturday Night Glee-ver
- Episode aired Apr 17, 2012
- TV-PG
- 44m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
1.2K
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New Directions pays homage to the film "Saturday Night Fever" by grooving to the disco-infused dance numbers.New Directions pays homage to the film "Saturday Night Fever" by grooving to the disco-infused dance numbers.New Directions pays homage to the film "Saturday Night Fever" by grooving to the disco-infused dance numbers.
Heather Elizabeth Morris
- Brittany S. Pierce
- (as Heather Morris)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFirst appearance of Alex Newell as Wade "Unique" Adams
- GoofsWhen Sam shows Mercedes that he posted a video of her to YouTube, she/the camera look down to see that it has "485 Views", Mercedes reads out that it has 485 *comments*, a statement which Sam goes with by saying 484 are positive. Meanwhile the location they show on the page is where YouTube shows number of views, which in addition is legible on screen as "views".
- Quotes
Will Schuester: It's not the broken dreams that break us. It's the ones we don't dare to dream.
- ConnectionsEdited from Glee: Mattress (2009)
- SoundtracksYou Should Be Dancing
(uncredited)
Written by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb
Performed by Heather Elizabeth Morris, Darren Criss and Harry Shum Jr.
Featured review
An Homage this is not, but I still enjoyed the episode
I have been a huge fan of Saturday Night Fever for 40 years. The 1977 mega-disco-hit starring John Travolta, not only solidified him as an acting force to be reckoned with, but brought the day to day drama of life in 1970's Brooklyn as a teen with no direction in life.
So when Glee opted to pay homage I had to jump up and give this episode a watch. Now, they call this an homage however it doesn't even skim the surface of what Saturday Night Fever was about. Kids in midwest Ohio aren't going to understand nor relate to Tony Manero. However as an acapella glee club wanting to show respect to a film that not only defined a decade, but established music from a soundtrack that is still as listenable today as it was in 1977.
While I would have loved to have been a writer on this episode, simply because as a filmmaker and a fan I would have dialed the story around all the struggles the kids do face, not having them try to act like their life is as hard as Maneros'
What I loved about this episode was the cinematography and camera direction simply because if you know the original film as well as I do you can catch all the direct shot lifts from the film used int he episode, which gave it the proper technical nod.
The dancing was what i would expect of a Glee episode set to disco, however I personally would have saved the opening number dance for the end of the show. You Should be Dancing would have been a great closing number where as Stayin' Alive is and always will be an opening number. However, it was nice to see many Manero moves lifted and put into that opening number... they just needed the floor and they would have have almost had a shot for shot opening to the famous dance scene.
My biggest qualm was the lift of a line of dialogue from the 1983 sub-par sequel, Staying Alive. Just as the staying alive number is about to begin the line lifted is from Manero's final line after his successful Broadway performance... You Know what I wanna do, you know what i wanna do... Strut. However, due to the poor lift of a line from a throw away subpar sequel it made me angry.
In the end, this baby doesn't move at midnight and sure as heck doesn't make it to the dawn, but it does keep ya dancing.
So when Glee opted to pay homage I had to jump up and give this episode a watch. Now, they call this an homage however it doesn't even skim the surface of what Saturday Night Fever was about. Kids in midwest Ohio aren't going to understand nor relate to Tony Manero. However as an acapella glee club wanting to show respect to a film that not only defined a decade, but established music from a soundtrack that is still as listenable today as it was in 1977.
While I would have loved to have been a writer on this episode, simply because as a filmmaker and a fan I would have dialed the story around all the struggles the kids do face, not having them try to act like their life is as hard as Maneros'
What I loved about this episode was the cinematography and camera direction simply because if you know the original film as well as I do you can catch all the direct shot lifts from the film used int he episode, which gave it the proper technical nod.
The dancing was what i would expect of a Glee episode set to disco, however I personally would have saved the opening number dance for the end of the show. You Should be Dancing would have been a great closing number where as Stayin' Alive is and always will be an opening number. However, it was nice to see many Manero moves lifted and put into that opening number... they just needed the floor and they would have have almost had a shot for shot opening to the famous dance scene.
My biggest qualm was the lift of a line of dialogue from the 1983 sub-par sequel, Staying Alive. Just as the staying alive number is about to begin the line lifted is from Manero's final line after his successful Broadway performance... You Know what I wanna do, you know what i wanna do... Strut. However, due to the poor lift of a line from a throw away subpar sequel it made me angry.
In the end, this baby doesn't move at midnight and sure as heck doesn't make it to the dawn, but it does keep ya dancing.
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