Happy Halloween, gleeks! Last night was the long-awaited Rocky Horror episode of Glee and it was fun fun fun.

Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab (the lab is after the jump).

Last week Joneser called me out in the comments for hating a little too hard on Glee, so I've spent the last couple of weeks thinking about this show and the special kind of frustration it can cause. In the same comments rickgould joined the many people who have pointed out that one of the series' co-creators, Ryan Murphy, is notorious for making wildly inconsistent TV shows and movies. And it's true: Glee is nothing if not inconsistent. It's important to note, though, that the show is never inconsistent in terms of quality. The inconsistency comes from the fact that episode to episode (and sometimes moment to moment) you don't know what kind of show you're going to watch.

Glee has the capacity to be a lot of shows to a lot of people and it doesn't want to reign itself in. That's why sometimes you get 7th Heaven-style sentimentality (Kurt's dad is dying and no one understands how hard it is!) and sometimes you get Degrassi-style moralizing (I guess we should all just WORK TOGETHER!) and sometimes you get cynical, absurdist humor. It's enough to cause whiplash and make critics like me act all butt-hurt on the internet when you just want to watch snarky kids singing and you end up learning about the importance of diversity.

But I fucking digress. Last night was the flavor of Glee I like the best. A lot of the reason I think "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" worked so well was that the Rocky Horror through line held everything consistent tonally. Plus RHPS is fun and it was fun to see the kids knock those numbers out.

Take Mercedes, for instance. She ain't a transvestite and I was disappointed that she came from Sinsational Transylvania and not Transsexual Transylvania, but whatever; she killed "Sweet Transvestite". And "Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me" between Emma and Will (with Santana and Brittany creeping in the window)? A dream come true. (I'm not sure why Will needed to practice that number, though. All that was required of him was to lose his shirt and get writhed on. Oh yeah, and shove his grill in the camera and say "Creature of the night!" in a way that made my scrotum shrink).

And what could be more perfect for a couple as devoid of chemistry as Rachel and Finn than to play a cinematic couple as square as Brad and Janet? My favorite Rocky song, the underrated "Over at the Frankenstein Place", even got some screen time. Before Stamos cut it short and accused Will of trying to steal his woman! Which was true! I love it when Will's not just the perfect guy and kind of loser-y. Could Will have emulated the power of Meat Loaf as well as Uncle Jessie did? Hot patootie, I don't think so.

But I almost forgot! Last night's message was something about male image issues! What? Ok! Finn is worried he will look silly in his tighty-whiteys. Well, no, that's not enough. In typical Glee fashion, Finn is not just a little uncomfortable, but we suddenly learn he is so insecure he swims and showers with his shirt on a la Tobias on Arrested Development. Sam, meanwhile, is super confident. This was a good thing because it gave Sam a little character development, turning him from milquetoast to milque-raisin-toast.

And Sue was there and she was gonna ruin everything because Barry Bostwick (Rocky cameo!) told her to. But - just in the nick of time - Will decides that, fuck all the set designers and crew who worked on his quixotic Rocky Horror production, the glee club is now just gonna perform it for no one! Yes! Empowerment or something!

Stray notes and quotes

Santana did her best singing "Science Fiction/Double Feature", but you could hear the non-comprehension in her voice during the lyrics about old '50s horror movies. Michael Rennie? Claude Rains?

I guess Mike Chang's parents were OK with him being Eddie in the show as long as they were performing it for no one.

Artie called Santana's tits ostrich eggs and he believes internet porn altered women's brain chemistry making them more like men. Artie's kinda a misogynist.

Glee: it's that show where a main character hands a girl with downs syndrom a megaphone and tells her to "Go scream at some fatties."

Those bully dudes called Finn "Baby Huey". Please tell me high school bullies are actually using Baby Huey to insult each other now.

Kurt is an awesome Riff Raff.

Finn sucks at drawing hearts on white boards.

"I have no idea what's going on in this script and not in a cool Inception kind of way."

"...Making it the zoo's first Unitarian chimp wedding in over six years!"

"Halloween is that magical day of the year when a child is told their grandmother is a demon that's been feeding them rat casserole with a crunchy garnish of their own scabs."

"Ain't no carpool lane to sexy!"

"Seventy percent of all teeth in this school are wooden."