“Props” · Season 3, Episode 20
In this episode: Rachel Berry (3), Tina Cohen-Chang (3), Finn Hudson (1), Will Schuester (1), Sue Sylvester (1), Mike Chang (1), Rory (1), Sugar (1)
[to Tina as Rachel] Oh, hey there, Hobbit. Can't wait to hear your solo in glee club today. Hope you don't choke like you did in your NYADA audition. [walks away]
We've got one last week to come together and shake things up. If there's anyone here who is not up to trying and working their butts off, you should just get up right now and leave.
(Tina gets up and leaves)
Whoa, whoa Tina where are you going?
You guys don't need me-- carry on.
Tina, you don't understand. I need this.
Because you blew an audition? That's not a reason for you to get a solo at nationals. Maybe the rest of us would like one, too.
I wouldn't mind having another one before I get deported.
I want one even though I can't sing.
Tina, Rachel's a senior.
So are you, but you can bet the only thing you'll be doing is a dance break with Brittany. Other people matter.
Tina, you might not always get the solos, but you are a key player. I put you in charge of costumes.
Wow! like that's some prize. You want props to move around? Well I'm a human prop, and I'm sick of it!
Take a lap and cool down, Asian Number One.
My name is Tina. Tina Cohen-Chang!
Isn't she the one who used to stutter?
Tina, look, I understand that you feel like your voice is being stifled right now, in the glee club. I mean, I have no idea why you would choose this moment specifically to make a stink about it but I want you to know you are being heard. Which is why I am willing to offer you $50 just to let this all blow over until after Nationals.
(Tina walks away, Rachel follows)
Do you have any idea how important Nationals is to me? I mean if I can convince Carmen Tibideaux to come and watch us perform, then it's basically like a do-over for my NYADA audition, which means that my entire future depends on us being amazing, which means that everyone has to do their part.
Their part to make you look good. I've sat, for three years, in the back of that choir room, holding Mikes hand or crying or smiling and swaying, while everyone else was out there singing solos. Maybe I say something, most of the time I don't, team player all the way. I am tired of being silent. I am one of the original glee club members and I was singing Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat when Finn and Puck were still throwing slushies at us. So when is it my turn?
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to be me? Do you have a Facebook account or Twitter account?
Yes.
Do you have time to watch Bravo or read a book or buy laces for your incredibly high comical boots? Okay? I don't. It's exhausting being me. I get up at 5:00 in the morning just to get all of this prepared, in case a solo is thrown my way. I have the entire Sondheim, Hamlisch, Lloyd-Webber, Elton John songbooks memorized, including every single Katy Perry hit, as well. And I do all of this while keeping my boyfriend interested and physically satisfied and being the captian of 16 clubs and keeping a 3.86 GPA.
I could do all of that.
And you will. Next year. You'll have your chance next year.
All I want, for one moment, to feel like you. Be up on that stage and get one of the standing ovations you're so used to getting.
Madame Tibideaux, hello. I'm sorry to interrupt, but it's me, Rachel Berry.
(groans)
I'm sorry, I realize that I've been a little persistant, but I'm just...
I am a very busy woman. Every moment I spend deleting yet another one of your voicemails about lost hopes and dreams takes time away from another student. What makes you think that you are entitled to any more attention than other hundereds of people I see with the same hopes and dreams?
No. I'm so sorry. I don't mean to take time away from them.
But you do. And I'm tired of it.
Ms. Tibideaux, I know exactly how you feel. Rachel Berry is a pain in the ass. What she wants, she gets. And I've spent a lot of time resenting her for it. But the fact is, she gets it because she's exceptional. Not just the voice, which is sick, but the focus, the drive. How often do you come across the real deal?
The "real deal" that couldn't remember the words to the song?
Which was as rare as a Bigfoot sighting. She had an off day, and that decides her whole future?
Ms. Tibideaux, I realize that I'm asking you to take me into special consideration, but let me ask you. You've had an amazing career, did you get their by playing it safe? Please, we're performing our Nationals in Chicago, and we saw that you're going to be singing there at the Lyric Opera. And before you close the door, I just, I need you to hear me sing. I have to. There's nothing that I'm as good at or as passionate about or that brings me that much joy. And I think that that sets me apart.
And I think it's time for you and your friend to go.
Okay, but I just want you to know that... I'll see you again next year. And every year after that until I get in. Didn't I read somewhere that you that you auditioned for Julliard four times? Thank you.
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