Pot o' Gold (Glee)
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"Pot o' Gold" is the fourth episode of the third season
of the American musical television series Glee
, and the 48th overall. Written by Ali Adler
and directed by Adam Shankman
, the episode was first broadcast on November 1, 2011 on Fox
in the United States. It featured the arrival of an Irish foreign exchange student at McKinley High.
), a foreign exchange student from Ireland, has begun attending McKinley High School, where he is relentlessly bullied and sings "Bein' Green
" to express his frustration. He is staying with Brittany Pierce
(Heather Morris), who believes him to be a leprechaun
. Rory, who has a crush on Brittany, goes along with this as she has promised to let him into her "pot o' gold" if he grants her three wishes. Her first is for an all-marshmallow box of Lucky Charms
, which is easily accomplished, and her second is for her cat, Lord Tubbington, to "poop candybars," which is easily faked.
Mercedes Jones
(Amber Riley
) attempts to gain new recruits for Shelby Corcoran's (Idina Menzel
) all-girl show choir. When Santana Lopez
(Naya Rivera
)—a member of the school's older show choir, New Directions— refuses to leave Brittany behind, Mercedes tells her to bring Brittany along. At dinner together, Santana asks Brittany if they are dating. Brittany confirms that they are, and reveals her belief in Rory's magical powers.
Quinn
(Dianna Agron
) and Puck (Mark Salling) offer to babysit Beth, their biological daughter they gave up for adoption. When Shelby accepts, Quinn begins placing hot sauce, sharp knives and child consumption books around the apartment that she believes will make Shelby look like an unfit mother, then making Child Protection giving Quinn back her baby. Puck later makes an excuse to return and gather up the items. He also sings "Waiting for a Girl Like You
", to calm the crying baby and comfort Shelby, who confesses she is extremely lonely.
Congressional candidate and cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester
(Jane Lynch
) schemes to cut funding for the school's production of West Side Story
but Burt Hummel
(Mike O'Malley
) gathers supporters to foot the bill, then announces that he is also running for Congress to foil Sue. Meanwhile, student Blaine Anderson
(Darren Criss
) tries to cheer up the New Directions members with a rendition of "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
".
Following her dinner with Brittany, Santana threatens Rory, telling him that she will tell Brittany he's been lying to her unless he helps her. Later, Rory tells Brittany that Santana has asked also him for a wish: that Brittany join Shelby's glee club with her. Brittany believes she must, but her third wish is that doing so does not hurt anybody's feelings. New Directions co-captain Finn Hudson
(Cory Monteith
) tries to persuade Brittany not to leave; he tells her that leprechauns are not real and that she is being an idiot. Brittany accuses him of being a bully and quits anyway. Santana quickly terrifies Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies
) into surrendering her central role in the new club, which Mercedes dubs the Troubletones and performs "Candyman
".
When Finn apologizes for his insensitive remark to Brittany, Rory claims that he has fulfilled her third wish, but she chastises him, saying that Finn's feelings clearly were hurt by the defection and that she now knows leprechauns are not real. Later, when Rory is being harassed by bullies, Finn comes to his rescue and invites him to join New Directions, where he auditions with the song "Take Care of Yourself
" and makes it in. In the episode's closing moments, Puck and Shelby kiss.
, making it the first episode not to be written by any of the co-creators of Glee—Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk
and Ian Brennan
—and it was the second to be directed by choreographer Adam Shankman
, who helmed "The Rocky Horror Glee Show
" in the second season
. Shankman started working on the episode on September 2, 2011, and filming ended on September 22, 2011. This episode and the prior one were shot in parallel for several days until "Asian F
" finished filming its finale on September 16, 2011.
McGinty, one of the two winners of The Glee Project
top prize of a seven-episode recurring character role on Glee, makes his first appearance in this episode as Rory Flanagan, an Irish exchange student. Murphy revealed that on McGinty's first day of filming "he was shoved into a locker 25 times", and that on "his first take in his first song, the crew gave him a huge ovation." Rory is living with Brittany's family, and the idea of McGinty's character interacting with Brittany was first broached in the penultimate episode of The Glee Project, with the judges speculating that Brittany would not be able to understand a word the character said due to his Irish accent.
Additional recurring guest stars appearing in this episode include Menzel as Shelby Corcoran, Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba
), Kurt's father Burt Hummel, Burt's wife and Finn's mother Carole Hudson-Hummel (Romy Rosemont
), student Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies
), and TV news co-anchors Rod Remington (Bill A. Jones) and Andrea Carmichael (Earlene Davis).
This episode features five covers, all of which were made available for download as digital singles: Christina Aguilera
's "Candyman" performed by Rivera, Morris, and Riley, Katy Perry
's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" with Criss on lead vocals, Foreigner
's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" performed by Salling, and "Bein' Green" from Sesame Street
and Teddy Thompson
's "Take Care of Yourself", both performed by McGinty.
on CBS
, which earned a 3.9/11 rating/share in the 18–49 demographic. It had been four weeks since the previous Glee episode was broadcast, and the show's viewership numbers were down over 11% from the 3.6/10 rating/share and 8.42 million viewers from the "Asian F
" broadcast on October 4, 2011. "Pot o' Gold" tied for the second-lowest rating/share Glee had ever received in the 18–49 demographic—the fourth episode of the first season, "Preggers", also earned 3.0/8 rating/share, though it only had 6.62 million viewers. It was still ahead of the eleventh episode of the first season, "Hairography
", which received a 2.5/7 rating/share in the 18–49 demographic and 6.08 million viewers when broadcast on November 25, 2009, the night before Thanksgiving.
Viewership also decreased in other countries. In the United Kingdom, "Pot o' Gold" was watched on Sky1 by 1.03 million viewers, down 6% compared to "Asian F" four weeks earlier, when 1.10 million viewers were watching. In Australia, "Pot o' Gold" was watched by 724,000 viewers, which made Glee the fourteenth most-watched program of the night. The viewership was down 11% from "Asian F", which was watched by 843,000 viewers. It was the lowest number of viewers of the third season, just below the second episode, "I Am Unicorn", which drew 729,000 viewers. In Canada, 1.62 million viewers watched the episode, and it was the eighteenth most-viewed show of the week, down four slots and 11% from the 1.82 million viewers who watched "Asian F", though up 8% from the 1.50 million viewers who watched "I Am Unicorn".
: "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" debuted at number seventy-two. "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" was also the only song that debuted on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100
chart, at number eighty-six. In addition, it is the only single from the episode to be included on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 7.
Glee (season 3)
A third season of the Fox musical comedy-drama television series Glee was commissioned on May 23, 2010 while the first season aired. It premiered on September 20, 2011, and is being produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Ryan Murphy Television, with executive producers Dante Di Loreto and...
of the American musical television series Glee
Glee (TV series)
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
, and the 48th overall. Written by Ali Adler
Allison Adler
Allison Beth Adler is an American producer and writer for television. She is from California.-Career:Adler has worked on television series including Still Standing and Family Guy. She worked on the TV series Chuck, but she left in May 2010 to work on the ABC series No Ordinary Family...
and directed by Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman
Adam Michael Shankman is an American film director, producer, dancer, actor, and choreographer. He has been a judge on the television program So You Think You Can Dance since Season 3. He began his professional career in musical theater, and was a dancer in music videos for Paula Abdul and Janet...
, the episode was first broadcast on November 1, 2011 on Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
in the United States. It featured the arrival of an Irish foreign exchange student at McKinley High.
Plot
Rory Flanagan (Damian McGintyDamian McGinty
Damian McGinty, Jr. is a Northern Irish singer and actor from Derry, Northern Ireland, and was a member of the group Celtic Thunder. He has been performing for the past thirteen years, winning his first music competition before the age of six...
), a foreign exchange student from Ireland, has begun attending McKinley High School, where he is relentlessly bullied and sings "Bein' Green
Bein' Green
"Bein' Green" is a popular song written by Joe Raposo in 1970 for the first season of the children's television program Sesame Street. It was originally performed by Kermit the Frog ....
" to express his frustration. He is staying with Brittany Pierce
Brittany Pierce
Brittany Susan Pierce is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Heather Morris, and has appeared in Glee from its second episode, "Showmance", first broadcast on September 9, 2009. Brittany was developed by Glee creators Ryan...
(Heather Morris), who believes him to be a leprechaun
Leprechaun
A leprechaun is a type of fairy in Irish folklore, usually taking the form of an old man, clad in a red or green coat, who enjoys partaking in mischief. Like other fairy creatures, leprechauns have been linked to the Tuatha Dé Danann of Irish mythology...
. Rory, who has a crush on Brittany, goes along with this as she has promised to let him into her "pot o' gold" if he grants her three wishes. Her first is for an all-marshmallow box of Lucky Charms
Lucky Charms
Lucky Charms is a brand of cereal produced by the General Mills food company of Golden Valley, Minnesota, United States. It first appeared in stores in 1964. The cereal consists of two main components: toasted oat-based pieces and multi-colored marshmallow bits in various shapes, the latter making...
, which is easily accomplished, and her second is for her cat, Lord Tubbington, to "poop candybars," which is easily faked.
Mercedes Jones
Mercedes Jones
Mercedes Jones is a fictional character from the Fox popular musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Amber Riley, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Mercedes was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and...
(Amber Riley
Amber Riley
Amber Patrice Riley is an American actress and singer best known for her role on the series Glee as Mercedes Jones.-Early life and career:...
) attempts to gain new recruits for Shelby Corcoran's (Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel
Idina Kim Menzel is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is widely known for originating the roles of Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked.-Early life:...
) all-girl show choir. When Santana Lopez
Santana Lopez
Santana Lopez is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Naya Rivera, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Santana was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan...
(Naya Rivera
Naya Rivera
Naya Marie Rivera is an American actress and singer known for her role in the musical comedy television series Glee, as cheerleader Santana Lopez.-Early life:...
)—a member of the school's older show choir, New Directions— refuses to leave Brittany behind, Mercedes tells her to bring Brittany along. At dinner together, Santana asks Brittany if they are dating. Brittany confirms that they are, and reveals her belief in Rory's magical powers.
Quinn
Quinn Fabray
Quinn Fabray is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Dianna Agron, and has appeared in Glee since its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. She is a former cheerleader at the fictional William McKinley High School in...
(Dianna Agron
Dianna Agron
Dianna Agron is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Quinn Fabray on the television series Glee.-Early life:Dianna Agron was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in San Antonio, Texas and San Francisco, California. She is the daughter of Mary and Ronald S. Agron, a general...
) and Puck (Mark Salling) offer to babysit Beth, their biological daughter they gave up for adoption. When Shelby accepts, Quinn begins placing hot sauce, sharp knives and child consumption books around the apartment that she believes will make Shelby look like an unfit mother, then making Child Protection giving Quinn back her baby. Puck later makes an excuse to return and gather up the items. He also sings "Waiting for a Girl Like You
Waiting for a Girl Like You
"Waiting for a Girl like You" is a song by British-American rock band Foreigner. The distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-unknown Thomas Dolby.-Chart performance:...
", to calm the crying baby and comfort Shelby, who confesses she is extremely lonely.
Congressional candidate and cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester
Sue Sylvester
Susan "Sue" Sylvester is a fictional character of the Fox musical comedy-drama series, Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Jane Lynch, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Sue was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian...
(Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch
Jane Marie Lynch is an American comedian, actress and singer. She gained fame in Christopher Guest's improv mockumentary pictures such as Best in Show and is currently best known for playing the role of Sue Sylvester in the television series Glee...
) schemes to cut funding for the school's production of West Side Story
West Side Story
West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...
but Burt Hummel
Burt Hummel
Burt Hummel is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actor Mike O'Malley, and first appeared on Glee in the fourth episode of the first season, "Preggers". Burt was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan...
(Mike O'Malley
Mike O'Malley
Michael Edward "Mike" O'Malley is an American actor and playwright who has appeared in films and television series. He hosted Nickelodeon GUTS, and he starred in the CBS comedy Yes, Dear...
) gathers supporters to foot the bill, then announces that he is also running for Congress to foil Sue. Meanwhile, student Blaine Anderson
Blaine Anderson
Blaine Anderson is a fictional character from the American musical comedy-drama television series Glee. Played by Darren Criss, Blaine was introduced in the sixth episode of the second season as the openly gay lead singer of the Dalton Academy Warblers, a rival show choir to New Directions, the...
(Darren Criss
Darren Criss
Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and a founding member and co-owner of the theater company StarKid Productions. He currently portrays Blaine Anderson, an openly gay high school student, on the FOX television series Glee...
) tries to cheer up the New Directions members with a rendition of "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
"Last Friday Night " is a song by American recording artist Katy Perry. The song was produced by Lukasz Gottwald and Max Martin, who also co-wrote the song with Perry and Bonnie McKee for Perry's third studio album, Teenage Dream. Perry stated that she was inspired to write the track after a night...
".
Following her dinner with Brittany, Santana threatens Rory, telling him that she will tell Brittany he's been lying to her unless he helps her. Later, Rory tells Brittany that Santana has asked also him for a wish: that Brittany join Shelby's glee club with her. Brittany believes she must, but her third wish is that doing so does not hurt anybody's feelings. New Directions co-captain Finn Hudson
Finn Hudson
Finn Hudson is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actor Cory Monteith, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Finn was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan...
(Cory Monteith
Cory Monteith
Cory Allan Monteith is a Canadian actor and musician, best known for his role of Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee.-Early life:...
) tries to persuade Brittany not to leave; he tells her that leprechauns are not real and that she is being an idiot. Brittany accuses him of being a bully and quits anyway. Santana quickly terrifies Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies
Vanessa Lengies
Vanessa Lynne-Marie Lengies is a Canadian actress best known for starring in the drama American Dreams as Roxanne Bojarski...
) into surrendering her central role in the new club, which Mercedes dubs the Troubletones and performs "Candyman
Candyman (Christina Aguilera song)
"Candyman" is a swing jazz song written by Christina Aguilera and Linda Perry for Aguilera's third studio album, Back to Basics. It was released as the album's third and final American single in early 2007. It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at 2008 Grammy...
".
When Finn apologizes for his insensitive remark to Brittany, Rory claims that he has fulfilled her third wish, but she chastises him, saying that Finn's feelings clearly were hurt by the defection and that she now knows leprechauns are not real. Later, when Rory is being harassed by bullies, Finn comes to his rescue and invites him to join New Directions, where he auditions with the song "Take Care of Yourself
Bella (album)
Bella is the fifth studio album by singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson, released through the record labels Decca and Verve Forecast in February 2011...
" and makes it in. In the episode's closing moments, Puck and Shelby kiss.
Production
The episode was written by co-executive producer Ali AdlerAllison Adler
Allison Beth Adler is an American producer and writer for television. She is from California.-Career:Adler has worked on television series including Still Standing and Family Guy. She worked on the TV series Chuck, but she left in May 2010 to work on the ABC series No Ordinary Family...
, making it the first episode not to be written by any of the co-creators of Glee—Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk
Brad Falchuk
Brad Falchuk is a television writer, director and producer. He is best known for his work on the television series Nip/Tuck, Glee, and American Horror Story.-Early life:...
and Ian Brennan
Ian Brennan
Ian G. Brennan is the official sculptor to the Most Noble Order of the Garter and Honourable Order of the Bath. Brennan has received over ninety-five commissions for the Royal Household, these include over seventy-five carved and painted crowns, coronets and crests. Those of the Garter knights...
—and it was the second to be directed by choreographer Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman
Adam Michael Shankman is an American film director, producer, dancer, actor, and choreographer. He has been a judge on the television program So You Think You Can Dance since Season 3. He began his professional career in musical theater, and was a dancer in music videos for Paula Abdul and Janet...
, who helmed "The Rocky Horror Glee Show
The Rocky Horror Glee Show
"The Rocky Horror Glee Show" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American television series Glee, and the 27th episode overall. It was written by Ryan Murphy, from a story by Murphy and Tim Wollaston, directed by Adam Shankman, and premiered on Fox on October 26, 2010...
" in the second season
Glee (season 2)
The second season of the musical comedy-drama television series Glee originally aired between September 21, 2010 and May 24, 2011 on Fox in the United States...
. Shankman started working on the episode on September 2, 2011, and filming ended on September 22, 2011. This episode and the prior one were shot in parallel for several days until "Asian F
Asian F
"Asian F" is the third episode of the third season of the American musical television series Glee, and the 47th overall. Written by series co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, it first aired on Fox in the United States on October 4, 2011...
" finished filming its finale on September 16, 2011.
McGinty, one of the two winners of The Glee Project
The Glee Project
The Glee Project is an American reality television series from Oxygen. It serves as an audition for the FOX TV series Glee. Although originally planned to begin broadcasting in late May 2011, The Glee Project premiered on June 12, 2011...
top prize of a seven-episode recurring character role on Glee, makes his first appearance in this episode as Rory Flanagan, an Irish exchange student. Murphy revealed that on McGinty's first day of filming "he was shoved into a locker 25 times", and that on "his first take in his first song, the crew gave him a huge ovation." Rory is living with Brittany's family, and the idea of McGinty's character interacting with Brittany was first broached in the penultimate episode of The Glee Project, with the judges speculating that Brittany would not be able to understand a word the character said due to his Irish accent.
Additional recurring guest stars appearing in this episode include Menzel as Shelby Corcoran, Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba
Iqbal Theba
Iqbal Theba is a Pakistani-American actor. Theba currently has a recurring role as Principal Figgins in the show Glee.-Life and career:Theba became a familiar face in the 1990s when he appeared in various TV shows and commercials in the United States....
), Kurt's father Burt Hummel, Burt's wife and Finn's mother Carole Hudson-Hummel (Romy Rosemont
Romy Rosemont
Romy Rosemont is a television actress who has appeared in multiple TV series, including Shark, Grey's Anatomy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Prison Break and Private Practice. She got her break in 2010, playing Carole Hudson in the musical series Glee...
), student Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies
Vanessa Lengies
Vanessa Lynne-Marie Lengies is a Canadian actress best known for starring in the drama American Dreams as Roxanne Bojarski...
), and TV news co-anchors Rod Remington (Bill A. Jones) and Andrea Carmichael (Earlene Davis).
This episode features five covers, all of which were made available for download as digital singles: Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...
's "Candyman" performed by Rivera, Morris, and Riley, Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" with Criss on lead vocals, Foreigner
Foreigner (band)
Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm...
's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" performed by Salling, and "Bein' Green" from Sesame Street
Sesame Street
Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
and Teddy Thompson
Teddy Thompson
Teddy Thompson is a British folk and rock musician. He is the son of folk-rock musicians Richard and Linda Thompson and brother of singer Kamila Thompson...
's "Take Care of Yourself", both performed by McGinty.
Ratings
"Pot o' Gold" was first broadcast on November 1, 2011 in the United States on Fox. It garnered a 3.0/8 Nielsen rating/share in the 18–49 demographic, and received 7.47 million American viewers during its initial airing. It continued the streak of coming in second in its timeslot to NCISNCIS (TV series)
NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
on CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, which earned a 3.9/11 rating/share in the 18–49 demographic. It had been four weeks since the previous Glee episode was broadcast, and the show's viewership numbers were down over 11% from the 3.6/10 rating/share and 8.42 million viewers from the "Asian F
Asian F
"Asian F" is the third episode of the third season of the American musical television series Glee, and the 47th overall. Written by series co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, it first aired on Fox in the United States on October 4, 2011...
" broadcast on October 4, 2011. "Pot o' Gold" tied for the second-lowest rating/share Glee had ever received in the 18–49 demographic—the fourth episode of the first season, "Preggers", also earned 3.0/8 rating/share, though it only had 6.62 million viewers. It was still ahead of the eleventh episode of the first season, "Hairography
Hairography
"Hairography" is the eleventh episode of the American television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 25, 2009. It was written by series creator Ian Brennan and directed by Bill D'Elia. The episode introduces New Directions' rival glee clubs, the Jane Addams Girls Choir...
", which received a 2.5/7 rating/share in the 18–49 demographic and 6.08 million viewers when broadcast on November 25, 2009, the night before Thanksgiving.
Viewership also decreased in other countries. In the United Kingdom, "Pot o' Gold" was watched on Sky1 by 1.03 million viewers, down 6% compared to "Asian F" four weeks earlier, when 1.10 million viewers were watching. In Australia, "Pot o' Gold" was watched by 724,000 viewers, which made Glee the fourteenth most-watched program of the night. The viewership was down 11% from "Asian F", which was watched by 843,000 viewers. It was the lowest number of viewers of the third season, just below the second episode, "I Am Unicorn", which drew 729,000 viewers. In Canada, 1.62 million viewers watched the episode, and it was the eighteenth most-viewed show of the week, down four slots and 11% from the 1.82 million viewers who watched "Asian F", though up 8% from the 1.50 million viewers who watched "I Am Unicorn".
Chart history
Only one of the five cover versions released as singles debuted on the Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
: "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" debuted at number seventy-two. "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" was also the only song that debuted on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100
Canadian Hot 100
The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
chart, at number eighty-six. In addition, it is the only single from the episode to be included on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 7.