Glee "Tweet-peat," Video, and Cool Promos

I keep throwing my hands in the air in joy, too.

The east coast of the U.S. is now about twenty four hours from the season premiere of Glee, and I couldn’t be more excited if I was in the show myself.

Last week, I watched the pilot – twice. Once to relearn everything I'd forgotten, and then the second time during the live Tweet-peat, to follow along with the cast.

And I learned a few things about the show I didn’t know before. First, Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt, is actually pretty funny. Or else somebody did some writing for him that they didn’t do for anyone else. For example, upon seeing this:

Why do I think Rachel has a rough life?

Chris and Cory Monteith (who plays Finn and Twitters under FRANKENTEEN) had these separate thoughts on the subject:

Taking a little pity on his tall, climbable costar, Chris tossed him an easy line … which Cory failed to catch:

During the discussion of the episode's shower scene in which the teacher realized he had to blackmail Finn into the Glee Club, this exchange happened:

Then I became slightly concerned about the show’s choice in casting Finn, as well as a background actor we have yet to see:

For those of you over the age of twelve, you may be unaware of Miley Cyrus' inappropriately aged 20-something ex-boyfriend Cory mentioned:

Justin Gaston - how could I miss him in a lockerroom scene?

During the rival team's performance of Rehab which, in the earlier Tweet-Peat, we learned the dancers were from So You Think You Can Dance, and lip-synching and that:

As parting shots, Chris has dropped all his fans these notes as well:

But the real joy was suddenly discovering the serious social media campaign the network is running for the show. There’s the main Fox site. They covered the Tweet-peat with video and photos over on Facebook. And MySpace gives us this behind the scenes video:

And finally you can get music videos for free over on iTunes (the link launches iTunes).  Lea Michele’s Les Miz was vocally stunning, but the extended video for Gold Digger, sampled above, is prone to cause chair dancing.

In case you’re at work, enjoy a few stills from the performance:

Mercedes brings it to the opening.

Have I mentioned I'm hot for teacher? But who wouldn't be?

  Uh oh, looks like these kids are going to have trouble with dancing.
First Kurt.

Finn may have trouble keeping the beat.

But teacher has skills.

And they may all get it together.

Glee airs on Fox Wednesday, 09-09-09 @ 9