Glee (TV Series)

Grilled Cheesus (2010)

Jayma Mays: Emma Pillsbury

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• Finn Hudson : I have to confess something. I'm the reason Sam got hurt. I asked for three things to happen: one, for us to win our first football game, two, to get to second base with Rachel, and three, to be the quarterback on the football team again. All those three things happened because I prayed for them to Grilled Cheesus.

  Emma Pillsbury : [unsure what to say]  Okay. Where to start?

  Finn Hudson : No, no, I know it sounds crazy, but it isn't. Jesus appeared to me on a sandwich, and it has special powers, I'm telling you. But I didn't mean for anybody to get hurt.

  Emma Pillsbury : Okay. Okay, let's just... let's take a second. Okay? Um... look, first, you won the football game because you actually have a coach who spends the game watching the plays rather than biting his toenails. And God didn't let you touch Rachel's boobs. Rachel did.

  Finn Hudson : Just the sides of them, but wait, why would she do that?

  Emma Pillsbury : Well, what were you doing right before you were... touching them?

  [seeing his expression] 

  Emma Pillsbury : What?

  Finn Hudson : I remember yawning. Right, 'cause we were talking about emotional stuff.

  Emma Pillsbury : Oh, yes, well, there you go. That's it. Girls like that. She felt close to you, thus the inappropriate touching. Uh, more importantly, you didn't hurt Sam. It was a 300 pound left tackle who just got expelled because he's on steroids and he's 23. God works in all kinds of mysterious ways, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't spend a lot of time trying to speak to us through sandwiches. You look disappointed.

  Finn Hudson : I am. It was sort of cool feeling like I had this direct line to God. Now I just feel like everybody else, you know, like we're all just floating around in space. I don't like that.

  Emma Pillsbury : You're not alone. The big questions are really big for a reason: they're hard. But you know what? Absolutely everybody struggles with them.

• Emma Pillsbury : There is a boy in that Glee Club that might lose his father. How could you get in the way when the only thing anybody is trying to do is give that poor child just a little bit of comfort? What happened to you, Sue? Please tell me what horrible, horrible thing happened to you that made you such a miserable tyrant.

  Sue Sylvester : Have a seat.

  [Emma sits down] 

  Sue Sylvester : Since I was a little girl, I've had exactly one hero. My big sister. You know how much I worshipped her? She was the sun and the moon to me. And while I was still very young, I noticed that other people didn't feel the way I did. People were rude to her. They were cruel. They laughed at her. And so I began to pray. I prayed every night for her to get better. And nothing changed. So I prayed harder. And after a while, I realized it wasn't that I wasn't praying hard enough; it's that no one was listening. Asking someone to believe in a fantasy, however comforting, isn't a moral thing to do. It's cruel.

  Emma Pillsbury : Don't you think that's just a little bit arrogant?

  Sue Sylvester : It's as arrogant as telling someone how to believe in God, and if they don't accept it, no matter how open-hearted or honest their dissent, they're going to hell. Well, that doesn't sound very Christian, does it?

  Emma Pillsbury : Well, if that's what you believe, that's fine. But please keep it to yourself.

  Sue Sylvester : So long as you do the same. That kid could lose his father at any moment. You should start preparing him for that. Now get the hell out of my office. I realize you're only half orangutan, but I'm still very allergic to your lustrous ginger mane.