Touchdown

There's little question that "Glee," coming off a surprising (and undeserved) second Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical, is one of the hottest shows on TV (and certainly on Fox), so it would make sense to slide it in after TV's biggest sporting event. However, the show's subject matter and audience are in many ways antithetical to those of the Super Bowl. After all, "Glee"'s two breakout stars are openly gay actors Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer, the latter of whom plays a gay character on the show who is frequently bullied because of his sexuality. In case you've been living under a rock in a very red state, "Glee" focuses on the day-to-day dramas of a high school show choir. The show is geared toward teens and does a great deal of speechifying about acceptance and tolerance. These touchy feely messages, on a show where the football players are often demonized as testosterone-crazed bullies, doesn't exactly scream "Super Bowl Synergy." But there "Glee" was, in all its singing and dancing glory, moments after yet another Green Bay Packers Super Bowl victory. Sunday night's episode wasn't particularly strong or even star-packed (though I appreciated the completely out-of-place Katie Couric cameo), but it tackled the issue of bullying head on. Within the first five minutes, self-absorbed diva Rachel Berry insulted pigskin star Dave Karofsky as a "known homophobe" before protesting his joining of the glee club. Without going too far into the backstory, Karofsky has tormented many of the members of the show choir, none more than Colfer's Kurt Hummel, who Karofsky targets due to his homophobia.