Rachel and Mercedes finished singing Take Me Baby or Leave Me with the classroom standing in a round of applause. As the applause died down, Brittany raised her hand. Mr. Schuester gestured to her.

"Yes, Brittany."

"I don't get it," Brittany said, the typical look of confusion crossing her face as she removed her hand from Artie's.

"What don't you get?" Rachel asked, not even attempting to hide her indignation at what she knew had been a killer duet.

"Well, when San and I bought Rent, we decided that I was Maureen and she was Joanne, but when you guys just did it, Mercedes was Joanne, and you were Maureen, Rachel." The class stared at Brittany confused. Well, everyone in the class other than Santana, who looked around the room nervously, before deciding that the floor was her best option to look at. Yep, definitely the floor. "I mean, I get that Mercedes is black," Brittany continued, "so she would make a better fit for Joanne. But isn't Joanne supposed to be anal-retentive? That sounds more like Rachel…"she noticed the class staring at her in shock. "That's not a sexual reference!" Brittany said quickly, thinking that's why they were staring at her. Santana had already spent an hour explaining that detail of the song to her. "And Mercedes is obviously the sex-goddess like Maureen…" Mercedes couldn't help but smile at that. "And Santana is all organized and that's why she'd be Joanne, even though I guess it kind of fits, because she's, like, a quarter black, or whatever…which also doesn't make sense to me, because isn't she like 100% person? How can she be a quarter anything? And I'm like…the one who likes to have sex…" Brittany finished her deadpan run on sentence, still not sure why the group was gaping at her.

"It was in one of those four DVD's for $20 bins at Blockbuster, okay?" Santana said under her breath.

"Moving on," Mr. Schuester said, deciding after the odd silence that it was best to continue his assignment. "This week, we're going to work on…wait for it…response songs!" He clapped his hands together and a goofy smile crossed his face.

"Will those two finally come out already?" Quinn whispered over to Mercedes, as Mr. Schuester continued his lecture for the week. Mercedes just shrugged and grinned.

Brittany furrowed her brow. She still didn't get it.