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* [[Prom Is for Straight Kids]]: Discussed, as Blaine is reluctant to go because of a bad incident during a Sadie Hawkins dance at his former school. But it's averted (mostly) as Kurt and Blaine seemingly go without a hitch and Brittany can be seen dancing with a girl at one point.
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]:
** Much of the drama in Finn and Rachel's relationship has shades of this trope, mostly in regards to the former. In the pilot, Finn admits that he doesn't want to be the guy that just drives around throwing eggs at people, and Rachel replies in a manner that suggests he used to do it to her, but this is [[Played for Laughs]]. In "Funk", [[Romantic False Lead|Jesse]] does the exact same thing after luring her to the parking lot, but this is more of an attempt to [[Derailing Love Interests|divert viewer sympathy away from him and drive Rachel back into Finn's arms]]. Much more angst is centered around Quinn telling Finn that he's the father of her child [[Your Cheating Heart|despite the actual father being ''Puck'']], [[Sympathetic Adulterer|but Finn is still portrayed sympathetically despite kissing Rachel during a private rehearsal in "Showmance", the fact that he was still dating Quinn at the time going completely ignored]]. He promptly dumps Rachel in "Special Education" after she confessed that she took Puck back to her place to [[Operation: Jealousy|make out]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|in order to make him feel as bad as she did]], telling her she should have known how sensitive he'd be to cheating after what happened with Quinn and that he never thought she'd make him feel humiliated, but he [[Hypocrite|doesn't seem to care about how sensitive Rachel is about honesty being something that's needed in a relationship]] - after he laughs at Santana's remark about Rachel dressing like one of the bait girls in ''[[To Catch a Predator]]'' and she looks at Finn to question why he didn't defend her, he tells her that Santana has a point and that [[Ironic Echo|he's just trying to be honest]]. The list just goes on and on and on and on...
** This is one of the reasons some critics found the bullying storyline which begun in "Never Been Kissed" inherently flawed, as the show had previously treated bullying in a light-hearted manner. To elaborate: Dave Karofsky is revealed to be a closeted homosexual and these feelings cause him a lot of difficulties and confusion, something that Kurt and Blaine try to get him to come to terms with. However, Karofsky denies that anything happened and soon returns to bullying Kurt, which includes threatening to kill him if Kurt reveals his closeted homosexuality. It's clear that the show treats Karofsky's bullying seriously and his [[Villainous Crush]] does not frame him in a positive light just because he is putting himself through confusion and torture being closeted. The issue arises when the show does just that with Santana Lopez's bullying. In "Sexy", she tearfully confesses to Brittany that she is love with her and wants to be with her, but is also afraid of being bullied and ostracized for coming out as a lesbian. She too continues to act like a bitch even after the truth [[Incredibly Lame Pun|comes out]] despite Brittany encouraging her to be true to herself, but she nonetheless still insists that Santana is not a bad person and defends her - it gets especially egregious in "Pot o' Gold" where Brittany's response to Finn merely telling her that leprechauns are not real and that she is being stupid is to tell him that such talk "is bullying and [she] won't accept it" as [[Alpha Bitch|Santana]] is standing ''right next to her''.
** In "Rumors", a blind item in the McKinley paper talks about a prom queen candidate "spending a lot of time in the closet" after Brittany casually confirms a rumor about Santana playing for the other team on her new internet talk show... meaning that it's not much of a blind item at all. [[The Ditz|Brittany]] claims [[Bait and Switch|she was referring to the fact that Santana used to be on the Cheerios and now is in New Directions]], but the fact that her guests, Mercedes and Tina, already ''knew'' this and had nothing to gain from spreading that gossip around the school makes this out to be [[Blatant Lies]]. This is treated as not being that big a deal, and [[Easily Forgiven|Santana holds it against her for all of ten seconds before dropping the subject altogether to cheer her up after Artie dumps her]]. In "Mash Off", Finn tells Santana to come out of the closet in the school hallway and [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|calls her a coward for constantly tearing others down while not accepting herself and her relationship with Brittany]]. Finn claims everyone knows and doesn't care, but the fact that one of Sue's opponents releases an attack ad that criticizes her for choosing a lesbian as head cheerleader ''just'' after his niece tells him about the conversation between Santana and Finn, and that some douchey sophomore named Josh tries to seduce Santana to "make her normal" after seeing it, makes this claim seem like [[Blatant Lies]]. However, [[Metaphorically True|Finn's claim does still ring true to a certain degree]]; gossip is not of much use for a political campaign since information is more credible coming from a specific source, and Josh would just dismiss simple gossip that seriously acknowledges a relationship between two women since [[Cure Your Gays|being gay is just some silly fantasy to be corrected and doesn't actually exist]] in the minds of men like him, but a commercial on TV is presumably strong enough to get over the same threshold that hearing it from the source does. Considering that Finn is made to look like the bad guy in this glee club competition storyline - be it through treating Blaine like shit, failing to stand up for Rory, or [[Beware the Nice Ones|losing his temper blasting Brittany's simple, goofy belief system]] - this is framed as him [[Kick the Dog|succumbing to his less nice and less responsible side]] once more, and Santana holds it against him to the point that she [[Armor-Piercing Slap|slaps him in the face]].
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