Glee Episode 12 – Mattress
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“Mattress”, also known as “Once Upon a Mattress”, is the twelfth episode of the television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on December 2, 2009. It was written by series co-creator Ryan Murphy and directed by Elodie Keene. “Mattress” sees the glee club omitted from the school yearbook. Club member Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) has the team cast in a local mattress commercial in an attempt to raise their social status, but her actions inadvertently result in them becoming ineligible to compete at sectionals. Club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) discovers that his wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig) has been lying to him about being pregnant. He steps down as club director so that the team is eligible to compete, but remains undecided over whether to end his marriage.
Gilsig commented that while fan reaction to her character had previously resulted in a backlash which she found “tough”, she hoped that “Mattress” would be the episode in which “anti-Terri fans joined Team Terri”.
The episode features covers of four songs: “Smile” by Lily Allen, “When You’re Smiling” by Louis Armstrong, “Jump” by Van Halen and “Smile” by Charlie Chaplin. Studio recordings of each song except “When You’re Smiling” were released as singles, available for digital download, and feature on the album Glee: The Music, Volume 2.
The episode was watched by 8.17 million viewers, Glee’s series high. It received mixed reviews from critics. Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal, Zap2it’s Liz Pardue and Gerrick Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times were all pleased to see the fake pregnancy storyline reach its conclusion. Pardue, Kennedy and Aly Semigran of MTV praised the calibre of acting during Terri and Will’s confrontation. Pardue was dismayed so few songs were performed, Bobby Hankinson of the Houston Chronicle noted that he “wasn’t crazy about any of the songs”, and Flandez felt that “Jump” was “the only memorable song of the episode”, although Semigran opined that it was the “giddiest musical number on the show to date”.
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