Glee (TV Series)

The Sue Sylvester Shuffle (2011)

Cory Monteith: Finn Hudson

Quotes 

• Finn Hudson : It's not too late.

  Dave Karofsky : To commit social suicide? How the hell are you gonna play with five guys, huh?

  [seeing Rachel, Mercedes, Tina, and Lauren suited up] 

  Dave Karofsky : You have got to be kidding me.

  Azimio : What the hell are they doing?

  Finn Hudson : What you don't have the balls to do.

• Finn Hudson : There's no way the Glee Club's gonna let you join permanently, until you clean things up with Kurt. So I was thinking maybe we could go together to Dalton and apologize to him, if you...

  Dave Karofsky : Who-who said I want to join the Glee Club permanently?

  Finn Hudson : I just thought after this week and-and... the way we won the game and the way you came out to dance...

  Dave Karofsky : What do you think? We all dance around together and win a football game and everything's gonna change? Glee Club's gonna be cool and we're all gonna sing hippie peace songs every morning?

  Finn Hudson : Maybe. I-I don't know. I-It's a start.

  Dave Karofsky : No, dude, it's a finish. Okay? This is high school. People's memories for good stuff lasts about as long as their Facebook status.

  Finn Hudson : But we've got a chance to really change things here.

  Dave Karofsky : I just won the conference championship. I'm on top. Why would I want to change things?

• Finn Hudson : Dude, relax. This is gonna be fine

  Dave Karofsky : Yeah, of course it is. 'Cause I'm quitting Glee Club.

  Shannon Beiste : [entering]  No, you're not. Fact is, covered in ice and red dye number seven, you guys look more like a team than you ever have out on that field.

  Dave Karofsky : I don't care. I'm out.

  Shannon Beiste : Then you're off the team.

  Dave Karofsky : No way.

  Shannon Beiste : Yeah.

  Dave Karofsky : If we all quit, you barely have enough guys to play next week. It's the championship game. You're not gonna throw it away.

  Shannon Beiste : Try me.

• Quinn Fabray : What are you doing here?

  Finn Hudson : Stopping you from going to Sue's regionals competition. You guys got to come to the game with me.

  Quinn Fabray : Haven't you been paying attention? If we're not Cheerios!, we're nothing.

  Finn Hudson : You-you think that, but it's not true. You joined Cheerios! to be popular, but you joined Glee Club because you loved it. Sue doesn't care about you guys. She's fine killing Brittany. Tell me honestly. If you didn't think it would hurt your reputation, which would you choose?

  Brittany S. Pierce : Glee Club.

  Finn Hudson : I know you, and you don't think you are, but you're strong enough to do this.

  Quinn Fabray : Okay.

  Finn Hudson : Okay?

  Quinn Fabray : Okay.

  Finn Hudson : What about you, Santana?

  Santana Lopez : Screw her. She put me on the bottom of the pyramid.

• Sam Evans : Why can't we just let them back on the team just for this game?

  Shannon Beiste : No. We carry this thing through, even if it means having to forfeit the game.

  Finn Hudson : I can't believe this is it.

  Rachel Berry : [sharing a look with Mercedes]  Maybe it isn't. We want to join the team.

  Artie Abrams : "We" who?

  Mercedes Jones : All of us Glee girls. We want to join the football team, and we want to play in the championship.

  Mike Chang : Come on, guys, stop screwing around. It's not cool.

  Lauren Zizes : What's not cool is you guys not respecting women enough to realize we're perfectly capable of playing football. And don't forget who the state champ in Greco-Roman wrestling is. I've got offers from three different professional wrestling organizations for after I graduate, so...

• Will Schuester : All right, New Directions, let's give a warm welcome to the newest members of Glee Club.

  [overlapping angry shouting] 

  Mercedes Jones : Oh, hell to the no, Mr. Schue. Are you serious?

  Will Schuester : Hey! Come on! Guys!

  Shannon Beiste : Hey!

  Finn Hudson : Mr. Schue, are you serious? These are the guys that made Kurt transfer.

  Rachel Berry : And there's no way that I'm sharing the choir room with a known homophobe.

  Will Schuester : I don't disagree with you guys. But I talked to Coach Beiste about it, and she and I both agreed that the kind of bullying that David does is born out of ignorance. Having him in here, as difficult as it may be for us, is an opportunity to show him and the rest of the guys that being in Glee Club is kind of cool; find some common ground.

• Finn Hudson : How the hell could you do this?

  Quinn Fabray : Oh, don't get all up in my face, Finn. What were we supposed to do?

  Finn Hudson : Uh, quit Cheerios!. Coach Sylvester is awful to you guys. And don't forget who was there for you the last time she dumped you on your ass: us, Glee Club.

• Dave Karofsky : [after getting Slushied]  Oh, my eyes! It's burning!

  Finn Hudson : Just relax. It stops after a couple hours.

  Dave Karofsky : No frickin' way I'm letting that happen again.

  Artie Abrams : He's in the first stage of loserdom: denial.

• Finn Hudson : All right, how's everyone doing?

  Mercedes Jones : Kill me now. I'm gonna die.

  Tina Cohen-Chang : Is anyone else tired of lying down all the time? I wanna play.

  Finn Hudson : Just don't get ahead of yourself, okay?

• Quinn Fabray : I never got a chance to thank you. For helping me do the right thing.

  Finn Hudson : Ah, you would have come to it on your own soon enough. So, how does it feel being out of the uniform?

  Quinn Fabray : Weird. Did turn a couple of heads. You were amazing this week. On the field and off. Reminded me of why I loved you.

• Shannon Beiste : What are you guys doing in here?

  Finn Hudson : Oh, we were gonna take our zombie makeup off for the second half. It's... it's kind of itchy.

  Shannon Beiste : No. Leave it on. Maybe we'll freak out the other guys a little bit, and we need all the help we can get right now.

• Scott Cooper : Appropriate outfits. They represent the death of your guys' reign at this school.

  Finn Hudson : How many times do we have to put you puckheads in your place before you realize that football rules this school?

  Scott Cooper : Maybe, but not after you make dancing fools of yourself at that halftime show. You know it, we know it, the whole school knows it.

  Dave Karofsky : They'll think different after they see it. It's gonna be awesome.

  Scott Cooper : Holy crap. They turned Karofsky gay.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : What are you moose knuckles doing with those Slushies?

  Scott Cooper : Ready for the fireworks? It's Independence Day.

• Finn Hudson : You don't need to be a Cheerio! to be cool.

  Quinn Fabray : Oh, you are so naive. This whole school is about labels.

  Finn Hudson : Wow. I never realized you were so freakin' weak.

  Quinn Fabray : Oh. I...

  Sam Evans : What did you say?

  Finn Hudson : All the Cheerios! quit Glee Club.

  Sam Evans : So why are you yelling at my girlfriend about it?

  Finn Hudson : I'm yelling at her 'cause I'm the leader of this team.

  Sam Evans : Well, maybe it's time for a change at the top.

  Finn Hudson : What's that supposed to mean?

  Quinn Fabray : This is kind of hot, actually.

• Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : I really want to win this game, and I figure it's the only way us Glee studs are ever gonna get any respect around here.

  Finn Hudson : What's your point?

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : My point is that none of that's gonna happen unless you and I become allies again, like Maverick and Iceman at the end of "Top Gun".

  Finn Hudson : So why'd you sing that duet with Rachel?

  Rachel Berry : [flashback to the choir room]  I need you to do this number with me to make Finn jealous.

  Noah 'Puck' Puckerman : Nothing like that will ever happen again. You lead, and I got your back. We need to win this championship and become legends.

• Dave Karofsky : Hey, I need to talk to you.

  Finn Hudson : Can-can we not fight for just one day? Man, it's already hard enough not to kick you in the nuts every time I see you.

• Shannon Beiste : All of you are gonna be in this Glee Club for one week, no exceptions.

  Dave Karofsky : She's bluffing. Next week is the championship game. Without us, she has no team.

  Shannon Beiste : With you, I have no team! You guys have gotta find a way to come together, or we're gonna get our asses kicked from here until Tuesday finds a saddlebag full of buckwheat.

  Azimio : If I have to stay, I'm not singing no show tunes. That is the music of my oppressors.

  Finn Hudson : Do you even have any idea what we do in here?

  Will Schuester : No. None of them do. We have to show them. Rachel, Puck, haven't you guys been working on something? Why don't you give it a whirl?

  Rachel Berry : Fine. As offended as I am by their presence here, I won't let anything get in the way of a performance.

• Finn Hudson : What about the Cheerios! in Glee Club?

  Will Schuester : They have a choice. Us, or the Cheerios! competition.

  Rachel Berry : Well, obviously, Quinn is gonna choose the Cheerios!. I mean...

  Finn Hudson : Well, that's not fair. You don't know what she's gonna do.

  Will Schuester : I think the cheerleading competition is gonna be a lot of fun, but if you go, you're gonna miss out on us doing the most iconic song of all time. The Super Bowl of pop anthems: "Thriller".

  [whoops and mutters of excitement] 

  Will Schuester : Yeah, remember a few years ago when that Philippine prison did that mega performance of "Thriller" and put it on YouTube? And in the four months it took to rehearse that number, prisoner-on-prisoner crime dropped 80%. Doing that, together, as a team, created a unity within that prison. And that's what I'm looking to do here.

  Mercedes Jones : I mean, don't get me wrong, you know, I'm big on Michael and everything, but isn't that kind of what they're expecting us to do?

  Will Schuester : Which is why we're gonna mash it together with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' equally spooky single "Heads Will Roll."

  Azimio : [more mutters of excitement]  Who's Yeah Yeah Yeah?

  Shannon Beiste : All right, New Directions, Titans, we're going to zombie camp.