GLEE taps Carol Burnett to play Sue Sylvester's Mom

[quizking101]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 11:00am

I know this is fantastic news. But wouldn't this cause a continuity eorr as Sue said in an early Season 1 episode that she "euthanized her wealthy, elderly mother"?
Carol Burnett as Mama Sylvester

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 11:07am

I've always thought Sue's mom should have been a pushy stage mother, who ruined Sue's childhood by dragging her to auditions against her will. That would explain her antagonism to the glee club.

[quizking101]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 11:17am

Now that you say that, I definitely can see a loose "Gypsy" themed episode on the horizon.

[mattyp4]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 11:24am

I don't think Glee concerns itself with things like continuity.
Updated On: 8/4/10 at 11:24 AM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 11:26am

Worrying about continuity would get in the way of signing guest stars.

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 11:28am

Picture it: in Burnett's episode, Sue visits her sister in the hospital/nursing home, and they reminisce about their childhood, running from audition to audition, with Sue as the Baby June type and her sister as a Louise. They then talk/sing If Momma Was Married, like they used to as kids.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 11:51am

OH, WOW!!

[Jon]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 12:48pm

I always assumed that half of what Sue says is bullcrap. It would be completely in character for her to say her mother was dead for dramatic effect.

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 1:05pm

Wow... I didn't think anyone had tapped Burnett for AGES. Woman's got needs, I guess.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 1:11pm

"Wow... I didn't think anyone had tapped Burnett for AGES. Woman's got needs, I guess."

[twinbelters]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 2:16pm

"I always assumed that half of what Sue says is bullcrap. It would be completely in character for her to say her mother was dead for dramatic effect."

I was thinking exactly that. Sue's statement could easily be explained away as a lie--if they would even address it.

Explaining the gay dads seen in a photo in the pilot is a bit more difficult, but it was the pilot after all. They could say Rachel's fathers have had some work done. =)

[sabrelady]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 3:34pm

Burnett is 77. Her present husband is 23 yrs younger (married 2001) So I'm thinking the taps a pretty regular!

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/4/10 at 4:38pm

This is enough to get me to tune in to an episode, despite the fact that I don't really care for the show. Curse you, producers! *Shaking fist in the air*

As for the dead parent continuity, it could be just as easily explained as the dead-dad continuity from Cheers to Frasier. Sam Malone showed up in Seattle and made the comment about Frasier having previously said his father had died. Martin heard this, is shocked that Frasier had said this, and Frasier replied that at that time "We were in a fight."

[Q]

Posted: 9/8/10 at 2:42am

"This is enough to get me to tune in to an episode, despite the fact that I don't really care for the show."

I just heard about this, and that is exactly how I feel. Dammit.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/8/10 at 10:50am

Jane Lynch recently said that she herself never knows when Sue is telling the truth or bul****ting. She didn't know if the "Nazi Hunter" thing was true until she saw the script for the 2nd season premiere.

[Overkill]

Posted: 9/9/10 at 12:26am

That would be GREAT....but this should be on the off-topic board. A tv show about show choir isn't Broadway..

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/9/10 at 2:10pm

If BWW can post articles about Katie Holmes and the Harry Potter movies, Glee can be discussed on the main board. It's a TV show starring Broadway veterans; it's on topic enough.