'Don't stop believin': Musical memes for Gleeks wanting to go back to their high school Glee club

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Sep 5, 2026 11:00 AM EDT

I bet that you got your whole karaoke repertoire from watching Glee and learning a bunch of new songs.

Sometimes I wonder if Glee actually happened, or if it was just a fever dream. Then I remember I have a specific playlist of my favourite covers and the question just answers itself. Yes, I still listen to many of their songs, and I love them; some are even better than the originals, and I'll fight whoever says otherwise. Was it one of the weirdest shows ever? Yes. Did it also have a crazy cast full of awfully talented people? Also yes.

We could sit for hours remembering the whole show and the abnormal amount of unhinged storylines, but we only have 24 hours in a day. We would be here for weeks. I'm telling you, it's way easier to do a recap of our favorite songs and funny moments. Say whatever you want, but there's no denying that the show was funny. All the weirdness made it hilarious, and the musical moments made it even better. There were times when the singing was justified by a practice or a performance, and other times they just randomly started singing, so I never fully understood the rules of that universe. Then again, the craziness made it great. Half the time, there were so many things happening at once that it became confusing, and I couldn't really follow it, or grasp what the point was. Please remind me, what was the actual plot at the end? So many characters, so many subplots that didn't get a proper ending, so many songs that I didn't even remember them singing… It was all over the place in a way that, strangely, it worked.

There's one thing that never made sense to me, and that is that all the members of the glee club were treated as outcasts. Please! The cheerleaders and the football quarterback were in the glee club; they had won awards and competitions, and it made no sense that the whole school treated them like trash. They should have been high school celebrities; there's no changing my mind about that.

They might have been the outcasts, but they sure are our popular when it comes to memes. So here we have an a cappella group of memes to sing and laugh our worries away.