Glee (TV Series)

The Rhodes Not Taken (2009)

Cory Monteith: Finn Hudson

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Quotes 

• Finn Hudson : You know what we should do?

  Rachel Berry : Elope?

  Finn Hudson : What?

  Rachel Berry : Nothing.

• Finn Hudson : [to Rachel]  You're the most talented person I know. Even more than that guy at the mall who can juggle chainsaws.

• Will Schuester : Guys, I'd like to introduce you to someone very special. This is April Rhodes. She's our newest member.

  Finn Hudson : Wait, so old people can join Glee Club now?

  April Rhodes : Old, huh? You guys look like the world's worst Benetton ad.

• Will Schuester : April is amazing. But she's not in the glee club anymore. It... I, uh... I screwed up bringing her here. It was about me, and Glee Club is supposed to be about you guys. You don't need her to be great.

  Mercedes Jones : But we need her for the second act.

  Will Schuester : I'll just have to go out there and tell them we had to cut the show short.

  [seeing how disappointed they are] 

  Will Schuester : Hey, guys. You were great. Don't worry. There will be other performances.

  Rachel Berry : [entering]  Excuse me? I think I might have a solution. In show business, when a star can't perform, her understudy steps in. I'd be happy to go in for April, if you'd let me.

  Mercedes Jones : Since when are you willing to be an understudy?

  Rachel Berry : Since I quit the play.

  Kurt Hummel : Really? Why?

  Rachel Berry : I realized being a star didn't make me feel as special as being your friend. If I'd let you down when you needed me the most, I'd never forgive myself. I know all the words to the song.

  Quinn Fabray : You don't know the choreography.

  Finn Hudson : Then we're gonna have to give her a lot of help out there.

  Will Schuester : Go get in your costume.

• Rachel Berry : Why didn't you tell me Quinn was pregnant?

  Finn Hudson : Who told you?

  Rachel Berry : Everybody knows but me. I'm the only fool who went out with you and let you kiss me, thinking you actually had feelings for me.

  Finn Hudson : But I... I do. Look, yeah, I haven't been totally honest with you, but that's different than lying. Well, maybe it's not that much different, but... but look, I need to get a music scholarship, so I can go to college, so I can get a good job so I can take care of my kid, and I can't do that if you don't come back to Glee Club. You should take it as a compliment.

  Rachel Berry : You could have just been honest with me.

  Finn Hudson : Look, I know what I did was wrong. I get that, but... that kiss was real.

  Rachel Berry : Whatever it was, it ruined any chance of me ever coming back to Glee. I hope you have fun playing house with Quinn while you languish in your little ensemble, but my dreams are bigger than that, and they're bigger than you.

• Will Schuester : Hey, can you give us the room, Rachel? We need to teach April the cues for "Don't Stop Believin'".

  Finn Hudson : Wait, she's singing the female lead?

  Rachel Berry : Wait, she's in the Glee Club? She's... ancient.

  April Rhodes : Talent doesn't age, sweetheart.