The episode kicked off with the Cheerios’ firepower-heavy rendition of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” a spectacle of skimpy costumes, BMX tricks and sparks-shooting bras that still left Coach Sue cold. So that meant bringing in the big guns – literally. As a solution to her pom-pom ennui, Sylvester scored a cheerleader-flinging cannon from as a means to take the squad’s stunts to new heights. When Principal Figgins objected, she started trashing his office and equipment room before making another bold announcement: she’s moving the cheerleader competition to the same night as the football championship.

So where did that leave the team? Stuck rocking their own halftime show, a situation which was further complicated by the fact that Mr. Schuester and Coach Shannon insisted all the anti-glee club football players join New Directions for a week to quell the feuding within the team. Using the example of the Filipino prisoners who stopped getting into trouble during the four months they practiced for jailhouse rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” Schuester decided they should take on the game-changing smash, modernizing it by mashing it up with the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s acid jam “Heads Will Roll.” But even after Rachel and Puck’s soulful rendition of Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now,” the ballers and belters still erupted into a fight, nearly ripping each other’s heads off.

Forced to get their sing on, the footballers turned up to practice, where Schuester told lead bully Karofsky that he’s get a decent voice – a compliment that appeared to empower him enough to ask Finn to team up for a warm-up number. Pairing their faux undead maquillage with letterman jackets, the team eased into the glee thing by busting out a rendition of The Zombies “She’s Not There.” But just as they strolled out into the hallway, still buzzing from the high of owning the stage, they got doused with slushees by the wannabe cool kids on the hockey team. Washing the makeup and the sugary ice from their eyes, Karofsky and his crew decided to ditch both New Directions and the football team, which put the future of the team in jeopardy. And due to Sylvester’s nonstop meddling campaign Santana, Brittany and Quinn were forced to quit glee club or commit “social suicide” by ditching giving up their high-school supremacy as cheerleaders. (Actually, Sylvester got Brittany to stay on the team and get thrown from the cannon by convincing her it had baby cannons that would die if their mother remained out of work.)