Muppet Glee
Things couldn't be any better for New Directions.
After three years of being bullied, slushied, and plotted against by Sue or some bitter rival, they had finally overcome all adversity and won Nationals AND the full respect of McKinley High. Will cried himself to sleep from so much joy after his first intimate night with Emma. Coach Beist was pretty proud herself of her boys in the glee club too. As for Sue…well, she was still Sue. Although, she somewhat acted a little choked up since they got the trophy. Could it have been her softening up at long last to Schuester and his glee club?
"Hmmm…" Sue pondered, "let me check." She felt her chest.
"Nope, it's just my heart pills doing their job. Good job, boys!"
And that's what you missed on GLEE.
A week after Nationals, Mr. Schue was asked to meet up with Figgins in his office for something important regarding the glee club's success.
"You're kidding!" Schue exclaimed.
"I kid you not, William" the Hindu-American principal replied. "In honor of your glee club's win at Nationals, the school is allowing you to perform a special gala night with the celebrity OR celebrities of your choice…as long as the school can afford said celebrity OR celebrities of your choice."
"But wouldn't that eliminate our amateur status and ban us from ever competing again?"
"Oh no, you probably don't remember the last time the glee club won Nationals all those years ago. They got to sing with Donny Osmond! I and the show choir committee give you our full support!"
Will couldn't believe it, his glee club, the underdogs, the outcasts, HIS glee club, was going to be performing with a celebrity of their choosing! The kids were all ablaze with excitement. The problem was, however, who would they be performing with?
Rachel wanted Barbara Streisand, naturally. Puck had one word: SLAYER! Blaine thought it'd be fun to sing with Michael Buble. Mike Chang was secretly an avid Savion Glover fan, but not secretly anymore once he admitted it to the class as a suggestion. And Brittany…
"Me? Perform with a celery of my choice? Wouldn't I just end up eating it?"
It seemed like everyone wanted to perform with someone too expensive, too inappropriate, too unrealistic (like when Brittany finally went with Alvin and the Chipmunks when told what a celebrity was), or all of the above! At this rate, they weren't gonna find one by next week, which was when Figgins said the gala would take place.
Will sat quietly in bed that night, thinking of who New Directions could perform with. He quickly flipped through TV channels, with each click of the remote paying less and less attention to what was on as he stared blankly while he thought.
"Why don't you find someone who more or less resembles the club and its morals?" Emma suggested.
Will just nodded as he slowed down his clicking. He stopped on one channel. It was a movie channel, showing "The Muppets Take Manhattan". Being a simple Muppet fan, he sat and watched as Kermit and his friends sang "Together Again".
But as he watched, something occurred to him. The Muppets were a bunch of performers whose eccentric personalities frequently clashed with each other. They played the underdogs in plenty of productions. And they always stuck together regardless of how bad things got. Will Schuester smiled.
"Emma?"
"Yeah Will?"
"Get me the phone, New Directions has got its celebrities!"