Bad Reputation (Glee)

"Bad Reputation"
Glee episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 17
Directed by	Elodie Keene
Written by	Ian Brennan
Featured music	"Physical" "Ice Ice Baby" "U Can't Touch This" "Run Joey Run" "Total Eclipse Of The Heart"
Production code	1ARC16
Original air date	May 4, 2010 (2010-05-04)
Guest appearances
Jonathan Groff as Jesse St. James Molly Shannon as Brenda Castle Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins Patrick Gallagher as Ken Tanaka Stephen Tobolowsky as Sandy Ryerson Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez James Earl as Azimio Max Adler as Dave Karofsky Heather Morris as Brittany Pierce Harry Shum, Jr. as Mike Chang Dijon Talton as Matt Rutherford Robin Trocki as Jean Sylvester Olivia Newton-John as herself
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"Bad Reputation" is the seventeenth episode of the American television series, Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on May 4, 2010. It was directed by Elodie Keene, and written by series creator Ian Brennan. In "Bad Reputation", cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is publicly ridiculed when a video of her dancing to Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" is posted on YouTube. A salacious list about members of the glee club circulates the school, leading certain members to try to earn themselves a bad reputation. Newton-John guest-stars as herself in the episode, and Molly Shannon makes her first of two appearances (both in season 1) as a teacher at the glee club's school. Following their romance in the episode "Mash-Up", club members Rachel (Lea Michele) and Puck (Mark Salling) are reunited, a decision made by the producers due to the unexpected popularity of the pairing.

The episode features cover versions of five songs, all of which were released as singles, available for digital download, and two of which are included on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers. "Bad Reputation" was watched by 11.62 million American viewers and received mixed reviews from critics. Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly and Bobby Hankinson of the Houston Chronicle both considered it a return to form following disappointing episodes. Franich also praised the episode's cover version of "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice, which in contrast was criticized by Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal and Gerrick D. Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times, with Kennedy deeming the performance his least favorite moment of the entire series thus far.