M: Hey, babe. Looking good.
R: I'm feeling good, Mercedes.
M: This is amazing. Ever since Glee club won Sectionals, everybody looks at us differently.
J: I want to be with you, Rachel.
K: We're Glitterati. I feel like Lady Gaga.
R: Get use to it, guys. We're stars now. On par with all the jocks and popular kids. Oh, it's a dawn of a new era here at McKinley and we're going to rule this school!
K: Oh, welcome to the loser town
A: Population you.
F: In some ways, I'm happy football season is over. I did set the single season record for being sacked but we only won one game. So, I'm hoping basketball can be a fresh start. Fact is I'm kind of depressed.
R: Hey, Finn.
F: Oh.
R: I made us his and her relationship calendars. That way we always know what the other is up to so you can't say you forgot we had plans when you miss our dates anymore.
F: Great but I'm kind of allergic to cats so...
R: I filled in all of our dates for the next month. On the 6th, we're going to go see Phantom at the Autistic Children's Center.
F: I know I saved Glee club and I guess chicks dig me but I guess if I'm being honest I feel like I'm not over her.
F: And Rachel... now that we're sort of dating, I have to work so much harder to pretend to be listening to her.
F: That sounds great.
F: Sometimes I wish I could be more like Coach Tanaka. He pulled a Jessica Simpson - you know, loss his fiancé, gained forty pounds, and stopped showering - and everyone acts like it's totally normal.
R: That's my boyfriend!
F: I'm off my game and I don't know how to get back on it.
W: Hello. Hello.
A: Hello.
W: What do you guys say when you answer the phone?
M: What up?
A: Who this be?
K: No, she's dead. This is her son.
W: O-kay... Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, liked to say "Ahoy, ahoy!" when he answered the phone. It was Edison who decided "hello" was a more appropriate greeting. Look, I'm really proud of what you guys did at Sectionals but as most of you have realized by now it hasn't made a bit of difference in your day to day at school.
R: I have a slushie stained training bra to prove it.
W: Fact is we're going to have to be better. Even more spectacular at Regionals. Time for some reinvention, some new New Directions. We need a new hello. Here's your assignment for the week, come up with a fresh number but it has to have "hello" in the song title. Alright?
Hello, I love you / Let me jump in your game / Hello, I love you / Won't you tell me your name? / Hello, I love you / Let me jump in your game
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello / I want you / I need my baby / Hello, Hello
R: And that, fellow glee clubbers, is how we say "hello".
R: Mr. Schuester, I'd like to run some of my Hello ideas by you.
S: Breadstix. Eight o'clock. Tabe for three.
F: Cool.
R: What did they want?
F: Uh, nothing. Just the time.
R: I know being my boyfriend is a challenge. I'm not Quinn, I don't look like her. I'm not popular. And my personality, though exciting and full of surprises, isn't exactly low maintenance but...
R: I'll always be honest with you.
R: Painfully so and all I ask in return is that you're just honest with me.
F: I don't think I want to be your boyfriend.
R: What?
F: Rachel, you're really awesome... but I think I need to connect with my inner rock star before I can fully commit to one woman. I need to find out who I am now.
R: I'll tell you who you are. You're a scared little boy. You're afraid of dating me because you think it might hurt your reputation. And though you'll never admit it is very important to you.
R: You hate what Quinn did to you not just because it hurt but because it was so humiliating.
F: You're freaking me out. It's like you're inside my head right now.
R: I just see you for who you are. Unlike you who can only see me as this silly girl who made a fool out of herself in her first Glee club rehearsal. And that's where you lose, Finn.
R: Because if you would take a second look at me you'd realize that I'm the only person in your life who knows you and accepts you for who you are. No matter what.
F: Obviously Hawaiian pizza is the best because it's got ham and pineapple on it, right?
W: Alright, guys! We've got to get moving on those hello numbers. Who's got something to show us? Volunteers?
R: Mr. Schuester, I think I've found a song that sums up my feelings perfectly.
W: Fantastic, Rachel. Show us what you got.
I wake up every evening / With a big smile on my face / And it never feels out of place
When you see my face / I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
Now where's your picket fence, love / And where's that shiny car / Did it ever get you far?
You never seem so tense, love
I've never seen you fall so hard / Do you know where you are?
And truth be told I miss you / And truth be told I'm lying
When you see my face / I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell / When you walk my way / I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell / If you find a man that’s worth the damn and treats you well
Then he's a fool you're just as well hope it gives you hell
Now you'll never see / What you've done to me / You can take back your memories / They're no good to me / And here's all your lies / If you can look me in the eyes
With the sad, sad look / That you wear so well
When you see my face / I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell / When you walk my way / I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell / If you find a man that's worth the damn and treats you well / Then he's a fool you're just as well hope it gives you hell
When you see my face / I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell (hope it gives you hell) / When you walk my way / I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell (hope it gives you hell)
When you hear this song and you sing along well you'll never tell / And you're the fool I've just as well I hope it gives you hell
When you hear this song I hope that it will give you hell / You can sing along I hope that it will treat you well
W: Guys! Guys! Guys! I don't want to be a buzz kill but the assignment was "hello".
R: I'm sorry. I was just focusing on the first syllable.
W: You know what? I don't think you guys understand the seriousness of what we're up against. While we were busy winning our Sectionals, Vocal Adrenaline was busy winning theirs. They're last year’s National champions. They haven't lost a competition in three years. This is the big league, guys. If we don't place at Regionals, Glee club is over.
J: Lionel Richie, huh? One of my favorites.
R: Oh my god. You're Jesse St. James. You're in Vocal Adrenaline.
J: And you're Rachel Berry. I saw you perform at Sectionals.
J: Your rendition of Don't Rain On My Parade was flawed. You totally lack Barbra's emotional depth... but you're talented.
J: This is one of my favorite haunts. I like to come and flip through the celebrity biographies. Pick up some lifestyle tips. I'm a senior now so this year is kind of my victory lap. Snagging a fourth consecutive national championship would just be gravy. I'm getting out of Ohio soon.
J: I got a full ride to a little school called the University of California Los Angeles. Maybe you've heard of it? It's in Los Angeles.
J: What you say we take it for a spin?
R: Here? I'm kind of nervous.
J: I remember when I use to get nervous. Come on, I do this all the time. I like to give impromptu concerts for the homeless. It's so important to give back.
I've been alone with you / Inside my mind / And in my dreams I've kissed your lips / A thousand times
I sometimes see you / Pass outside my door / Hello! / Is it me you're looking for?
I can see it in your eyes / I can see it in your smile / You're all I've ever wanted / And my arms are open wide
'cause you know just what to say / And you know just what to do / And I want to tell you so much / I love you
I long to see the sunlight in your hair / And tell you time and time again / How much I care / Sometimes I feel my heart will overflow
Hello! / I've just got to let you know / 'cause I wonder where you are / And I wonder what you do / Are you somewhere feeling lonely? / Or is someone loving you?
Tell me how to win your heart / For I haven't got a clue / But let me start by saying I love you
J: We should do this more often. How's Friday night?
F: Hey, Rach. Can we talk? Look, I want to apologize. I realize I don't want to date other girls. Only you. You do talk too much and usually you just talk about yourself but at least I don't feel alone when I'm with you.
R: I'm glad you've to that realization but you're too late. I met someone else. A boy who's finally worthy of my talent and love.
F: Whoa, whoa, wait. Do I know him? What is he bigger than me?
R: He doesn't go to this school. And he's a senior. His name is Jesse and he's the male lead in Vocal Adrenaline. We're both aware that our Romeo and Juliet romance will be a challenge but our deep respect for each other’s talent will carry us through.
F: Rachel, don't you think that's kind of suspicious? We make it to Regionals and suddenly the top guy in our main competition picks you up.
R: I know it's hard to believe that anyone would like me without an ulterior motive but you have to respect that our love is real. Move on, Finn. I finally have.
R: Hey, guys.
K: Cut the butter, Benedict Arnold. We heard about your new boyfriend.
M: Look, Rachel, we're all happy that you're happy but we worked too hard in Glee club to let you throw it all away on a relationship that might not even be real.
R: Why because he's in Vocal Adrenaline?
K: Their motto is "Aut neca aut necatus eris". Which loosely translates to "murder or be murdered".
T: They give their dancers human growth hormones.
M: We're not saying that dude is playing you-
K: He's playing you.
M: We just think until Regionals is over, we can't risk the possibility that he is.
T: And none of us want to go through what happened at Sectionals again.
R: Okay look, Jesse and I might not be true love but what if we are? I know who I am and how many chances at this am I going to get?
K: If you don't break up with him then you're out.
R: You can't kick me out!
A: But we can all quit if Mr. Schue doesn't.
R: Well... good luck winning without me.
K: Everyone's replaceable. Even you.
R: How could you do this to me?
M: How could you do this to us? We're a team and all you've ever wanted was for us to be great and to be part of something special. And now is that still true or not?
R: You wanted to see Coach Sylvester?
S: I did, Rachel. I want to introduce you to the McKinley High Old Maids club.
L: Have a seat, boy hips.
R: I don't understand.
S: Well, Rachel, it's come to my attention that you've been given the old heave ho by that terribly uncoordinated Finn Hudson.
D: Ouch.
S: And I also understand you have a serious suitor in the form of a piping hot hunk wad from another district. But that your fellow Glee clubbers are so incensed with betrayal that they barely have time to apply Freeze Off to the clusters of warts between their knuckles.
R: How did you know that?
S: Brit and I have told everyone in Glee club about Jesse St. James. They're furious.
B: If Rachel falls for him, the club will self-destruct.
S: Outstanding. Step two, round up a bunch of mustache sporting teenage girls with glandular conditions. Anything else?
B: Sometimes I forget my middle name.
L: I know how torn you must be, Berry. My freshmen year, I fell for a boy on our opposing wrestling squad but my team wouldn't go for it. So, the next time I stepped on the mat I pinned him so hard it ruptured his scrotum. Ending his run for State Championship and my run for his heart. To my team, I was a legend but I relish this victory in solitude. Now, I spend my Friday nights making out with my cat and watching Ghost Whisperer.
S: Well, Rachel if I weren't ignoring what these ladies were saying, out an overwhelming sense of deep repulsion, I would probably hear them encouraging you to go for it with your Carmel High beau. Or you might end up like Dottie here. Who although her father offered a sizeable dowry - which included livestock - couldn't get a date to Homecoming.
R: No Homecoming?
S: No Valentines, no Sock hop.
S: Rachel, you need to become even more narcissistic and self-centered than you already are. Think of yourself. Your potential happiness. If not join the club.
R: Jesse? Who's there? I carry a rape whistle!
J: Just me.
J: Most spots are 2500 watts. This one is ten times brighter. We have to wear sunscreen onstage but it's worth it.
R: I guess everything is bigger and brighter here.
R: I have to ask you something. And I need you to tell me the truth because if you don't there will be consequences. Life and death consequences. Because if I give myself to you and it turns out you're just playing me, I might die. Not literally but emotionally. It will be the kind of heartbreak that girls like me hold for the rest of their lives. Like Barbra in The Way We Were.
J: Oh my god.
R: What?
J: You're more of a drama queen than I am.
J: Hi, I'm Jesse.
R: I know who you are.
J: You know Jesse St. James, the star of Vocal Adrenaline, your competition at Regionals. I want to introduce you to Jesse, the guy who's nuts about you. The guy who would never hurt you.
R: No one can know.
J: I understand.
R: Hey, I ended it with Jesse. You can spread the word. I know you know how to do that.
F: Look, I'm sorry.
F: I know it really sucks for you but I think it's for the best.
R: Taking one for the team. I get it.
F: No, not just for the team. For us. You and me. I've been thinking a lot lately. I feel like I have all these problems, you know, Quinn, basketball, and girls and stuff and I've been so overwhelmed trying to figure them all out.
F: Then I realized the only thing I needed to fix was us.
F: I want us to be together, Rachel. A real couple. Look, I even circled some dates on your crazy calendar.
F: Is you not being able to talk right now a good thing or a bad thing?
R: I can't.
F: Can't what?
R: I can't be a couple with you.
R: It's the team. W-we can't have any, um, drama right now. You know we need to focus on Regionals. And I appreciate your offer but in the spirit of being a team player, I have to decline your offer.
F: Hey, whoa. I'm not just some guy you met at the music store that you can just blow off. I don't give up that easy.
F: See you in rehearsal.
You say yes, I say no / You say stop and I say go, go, go
Oh, no / You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello, hello
I don't know why you say goodbye / I say hello / Hello, hello
I don't know why you say goodbye / I say hello
You say yes, I say no / You say stop and I say go, go, go
Oh, no / You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello, hello / I don't know why you say goodbye / I say hello
Hello, hello / I don't know why you say goodbye / I say hello
Hello, hello / I don't know why you say goodbye / I say hello
Hello / Hello
I ♥ Rachel Berry