OK, am I the only one who thinks the new football coach is the OLD football coach?

I thought that at first too! Haven't done any investigating as to who the actor(s) are/is though.

Sadly, as someone with a background in music, I can tell you that there really are people that crazy, or at least close to it.

She's something like a professional or champion arm wrestler. And no, I'm not making that up.

Wife and I felt really old last night -- we only recognized one song in the entire show. Obviously, we're not Brittany Spears fans. :o Overall, I thought last night's episode was "eh." But Brittney really can dance. (My wife read that she started out as a choreographer for the show, then they pulled her into the cast.)

Yes - that was Mark Kanemura from SYTYDC Season 4 and he was one of the all stars for season 7. I'm a huge fan!

And I loved the Brittney episode last night!

Yep, they originally brought her in for the Beyonce choreography and then realized she could do a lot more. Smart move! She is a great dancer, you could tell they wanted to build a show all around her- her quips, singing, and dancing all in one.

I didn't recognize all of the songs... or had heard them but very briefly. So you aren't alone.

I don't think Rachel is made for Britney. Granted she isn't my favorite voice on the show, but her singing Britney just seemed wrong. The last song she did at the end was more her.

She actually was one of Beyonce's back up dancers on tour.

Agreed. I love Lea Michele's voice, but it's made for Broadway and the Great American Songbook.

i was soooooo impressed with brittany last night. i always thought her quips & 1-liners were cute, but now i am officially a fan. she is an AMAZING dancer!

this ep made me feel a little old, though. i literally remember where i was the first time i saw the "Oops I did it again" video. Britney has had a LONG career!

I nearly choked on my food when Santana said: Leave Brittney Alone!

LOLs

I agree on all accounts...

also Heather Morris (aka Britney) was first on SYTYCD as well, then the beyonce stuff and the glee stuff....and the girl can dance...as a former dancer myself, I was astounded....

Yea, Lea Michele and that song last night made me cringe...

Here is a picture of Dot Jones aka Shannon Beiste aka New Football Coach
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...gGQexRLyoUI6c=

I about died laughing at Brittany's spaceship line. OMG that was classic.

I was so excited about John Stamos. Seriously let the man sing!

Kudos to you for giving us this good scoop! Thanks! I must not have been a SYTYCD fan when "Brittany" was on!

2 things I noticed again after watching the eppy again

1) the Toxic dance routine was a tribute to Bob Fosse ala All That Jazz, if you are not familiar with him, go view Paula Abdul's Cold Hearted video....

2) Rachele Brooke Smith...she starred in Center Stage: Turn it up and Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, was a back up dancer in the eppy....
Just in case you don't recall what she looks like..
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:a...mith-1.jpg&t=1

Also, I totally see a duet/battle between Mr. Shue and Carl...

Heather's (Brittany's) dance skills were first really apparent to me in the "Dream On" episode, during the Safety Dance number. She is a fantastic dancer. But I'm worried the show has figured out how much people get a kick out of her one-liners and now they're going to do too much of it, which will just make her seem useless as a character.

I am reeeeeeally getting tired of Rachel (Lea). Hit Me Baby (One More Time) is not a Rachel song. She sounded weird singing it, and she can't dance - she looked awkward. They should have given that number to Quinn. And as others have said, Rachel is overexagerated to the extreme this season, from her lip syncing faces to her self-absorption to her overacting.

I am also over Mr. Shue. He is written SO SQUARE. I've never thought of Britney Spears as racy or too sexy. She's way more tame than the R&B/Hip Hop singers they've borrowed from the past year. I'm tired of the writers giving him split personalities when it comes to music selection, and his general lameness.

Also, what is with the principal's constant threats to disband the glee club? Seriously, enough with it, it got old after the first couple of times. And if the student body loves the performances like "Push It" and "Toxic" so much, why are all the glee club kids still nerds? At my school the select/jazz choir kids were actually really popular.

I thought last night's episode was one of the weakest Glee has done. It seemed like they just wanted to do a Britney/Brittany episode, they picked songs, then tried to write an episode around it. It was a big zero in my book.

Ugh. That was my rant on Glee. The show is losing some of its sparkle for me.

quinn should have done bomt, her voice would have been perrrfect