Glee and Love are 4-letter words. In a good way.

Okay, I love, love, LOVED this episode!

I know I say that about almost every episode, but I really, really loved this one. I don't know what it was - a combination of the hilarious voice overs, the priceless one-liners, the music, the love.

Yup, love was in the air at McKinley High this week as Valentine's day descended upon our favorite Gleeks!

It began with a voice over from Puck, who we see, is head over heels for one Miss Lauren Cices. However, unlike most girls, does not fall for his usual charming ways. When she saved him from the garbage bin (in a previous episode), he promised her "7 minutes in Heaven". Unfortunately for him, she couldn't even last 3 minutes in the janitor's closet with him. Because he sucked. Anyways, he spends pretty much the whole episode mooning over her and trying to get her to go out with him to Breadstix, but she ain't havin it. She thwarts each and every one of his usual moves and even his singing to her doesn't sway her. She doesn't think he's "ready for this jelly" (LOL!) She may be bad ass, but she finally tells him that if he really likes her she would like to take it slow - she doesn't just want to be a one-night stand.

Meanwhile, our new MVP, Finn is (in his voice-over) finally "ruling the school". Or at least has all the girls swooning over him. With the kiss from Quinn still fresh in his mind, he figures that if he could just get her to kiss him again, she'd fall back in love with him and leave Sam. And he's pretty confident about it too. So much so, he's decided that to get it to happen, he'll open a kissing booth and in the process also raise money for charity (in this case New Directions). Enter the first of the great one-liners (most of which came from the awesomely bitchy Santana!). Upon hearing Finn state he would charge a $1.00 per kiss, she states a kiss from him is not worth a buck. However, she'd "gladly pay $100 to jiggle one of his man boobs." OMG. Ba hahahaha!!! (Funny to me because my sister has been telling me for ages that she thinks that Finn has man boobs. I keep defending him saying that his sweater is just baggy...or those are just his pecs...or the camera angle is weird). The next hilarious one-liner comes almost right away when everyone begins to get on Santana for being so bitchy and Tina tells us that Santana just said Mr. Schu needs to be in a 12-step program. Because he's "addicted to vests". BA HA HAHAHA!!! So true. She says she is just trying to keep it "real". LOL

We also got to see more of Kurt and Blaine! (Kurtaine? Blurt? Hm..I'll have to think about that one.) Yay! After that little taste on Sunday's episode, I was happy to see more than 5 minutes devoted to this dynamic duo. We find out that Blaine is in love, but unfortunately for Kurt, it's not with him, but some junior manager at the Gap. Boo. Poor Kurt - he comes to a realization that he may have had the whole "Blaine loves Kurt love affair" in his head (at a Diva Sleepover with Mercedes and Rachel).  But Kurt, who seems to have become wiser in the ways of unrequited love encourages Blaine to serenade his true love when he starts to chicken out. Another awesome one liner: "If he and I got married, the Gap would give me a 50% discount." (SO True! Friends, I know of which he speaks, as my own beloved husband used to work at the Gap. It's probably one of the top 10 reasons I married him. Maybe top 5. I was devastated when he quit. But I digress...)

Back to Finn's lover lips kissing booth: Sam sees Quinn and Finn talking and starts to worry - he tells her he's pretty but he ain't dumb. Aw...(just like Nate on GG. lol). She denies any feelings and to prove it, tells him she will kiss Finn. She and Finn kiss (in front of Sam) and...literally, Fireworks. (Are Finn and Quinn really meant to be?!) Quinn runs back to whisper to Finn to meet her in the auditorium the next day.  Meanwhile, Rachel puts down her dollar, also thinking that if Finn would just kiss her again, he'd realize he missed her and would want to get back together. Finn just gives her a kiss on the cheek. "What the hell?! On the cheek?! That wasn't a dollar kiss!" (Is this the end of Finnchel?!) Instead of a love triangle it's like a square. What's going on here?

Elsewhere, in the land of "Blissfully in Love" we have Mike Chang and Tina, and Artie and Brittany...and a fun rendition of "PYT". It was cute, but at first when Artie started singing, I thought it was to Mike Chang. It was a little bit weird. Tina is so in love with Mike Chang she could cry. And she totally does, while singing "My Funny Valentine". (PS. Why is she dressed like Olive Oyl?)

In the meantime, Santana gives a receipt to Puck -  "I went to Jared" (hahaha!!!) but gets into a cat fight with Lauren. Later, (in her voice over) she realizes that Quinn is cheating with Finn (she knows the signs, because she does it all the time) and because she's irritated about not being with anyone on Valentine's Day, decides to ruin everyone else's. She kisses some guy in the infirmary to get mono, kisses Finn, who of course kisses with Quinn. Uh oh...we know where this is going.

So after enlisting the Warblers to help him serenade his Gap guy, (I didn't hate the song - though I didn't really know it.) he later finds out that "it was all in his head". The Gap guy doesn't reciprocate his feelings and alas - what goes around comes around. He and Kurt are pretty much in the same situation. Kurt bravely reveals that he thought that Blaine was in love with him and calls him on his flirtsky ways. (As an aside, why do guys do that? They are all flirtsky and make you think they are just as in love with you, then when you fall in love with them, and tell them so, they get all shocked and claim they are "clueless" and tell you they just thought you were "friends". Hm. Sounds familiar...My husband did the SAME thing. But I strong-armed him into loving me, so it's all good now. Haha just kidding! He knew he was hooked on me right from the beginning...But again, I digress).

And even though her heart was broken after finding out Finn didn't feel the same fireworks when kissing her as he felt when kissing Quinn, Rachel's rendition of Fireworks was glorious! (WAY better than Katy Perry's version!) Mercedes was right (as per their conversation during the diva sleepover).

Finally, at Breadstix, we see everyone (minus Finn and Quinn) at Kurt's Lonely Hearts Club Dinner. But even though not everyone is in love, it doesn't seem that anyone is really lonely. (Aw!!!) The Warbler's last song "Silly Love Songs" was perfect. And what was that look between Santana and Sam????

Yup, this was a really good episode. It was silly and cute, sweet and bittersweet, funny and comforting. I can't say enough how much I enjoyed it. (I had to watch it twice and take notes the second time, just so I wouldn't miss anything I wanted to say on this post. Yes, I'm a G(L)eek.)

And next week: Glee finally jumps on the Bieber Bandwagon (what took them so long?!) and Sue becomes part of New Directions?! (Can't wait!)

Until then...I'll be downloading the songs from tonight's episode!