'Glee' recap: Rolling Right Along

Quinn, Finn, and Puck: A love-shove triangle
Smarting from being de-Cheerioed, and needing $685 to pay for the sonogram — plus bills to be named later! — Quinn took her stress out on Finn, needling him about job prospects. (''I almost got in at Olive Garden,'' he answered, ''but they said I was too tall to be a busboy.'') ''Somewhere in that pea brain of yours is a man,'' said Quinn. ''Access him and tell him to prove to me that I chose the right guy to have a baby with.'' She continued her frosty mug sensation for most of the hour, interrupting his cozy convo with Rachel to inform him that if he didn't pay the past-due sonogram bill, they were over.

While Finn's stock with Quinn was falling, Puck was trying to boost his. He gave her 18 bucks from his pool-cleaning job — would've been more, but he had dip and numchucks to buy — and asked leadingly: ''How much has Finn given you?'' She told him to stop: ''I don't care if that baby comes out with a mohawk, I will go to my grave swearing it's Finn's.'' Puck warmed her up with his own mohawk quip, and they engaged in a suggestive food fight that Finn interrupted just in time.

The tension was almost as thick as cupcake batter at the WHMS Glee Club Handicapable Bus Bake Sale (which kicked off weakly; ''Six months ago I could've sold 50 of these things on fear alone,'' lamented Puck). Quinn quickly went after Finn, much to Puck's delight. But sideline satisfaction wasn't enough, so later he taunted Finn, ''All I know is that you're a punk who doesn't deserve to have Quinn as his girlfriend!,'' provoking a wheelchair mashup-turned-fistfight. In this episode, Puck was a man driven to prove himself to the mother of his child — at the expense of driving over his best friend.

In fact, Puck even resorted to crime — and Sandy — to achieve his goal. (Need. More. Sandy. Always.) Meeting the ex-Glee Club director under the bleachers in a wheelchair, Puck gave him a sob story about a shark fracturing his spinal cord, to which Sandy exclaimed: ''This is why I don't go to the aquarium.'' (Ha!) He sold Puck some discounted Chronic Lady, which Puck baked into the cupcakes, creating a craze that'd make Sprinkles execs envious. ''I don't put in enough to get you hallucinating,'' explained narrator Puck, ''just enough to give you a wicked case of the munchies.'' (Does this guy know how to party responsibly or what?)

The proud wanna-be papa presented Quinn with a fat stack of cash and said: ''People call me a screw-up because I think school's for suckers, but I got ambition....We could be a family.'' Quinn sniffed out that he'd skimmed this money from the bus fund and said softly: ''I should've never called you a Lima loser. You're not. You're special. And romantic... and a good enough person to realize that we are not going to take money from a friend in a wheelchair.'' It was here that Finn busted in with good news: He got a job! (Putting aside her crush on Finn, Rachel took him in a wheelchair to a restaurant that was hiring, and threatened all sorts of legal action if they didn't hire him.) A happy Quinn rode off into the fluorescent hallway light on Finn's wheelchair. But she did look back at Puck apologetically. Or was it longingly? Hmmm....

I know, that was a lot to swallow. But we're just getting started, because it's time for you to weigh in. Did you like ''Wheels'' too? Did you get misty-eyed when Sue started reading to her sister? Were you digging Artie? Whose version of ''Defying Gravity'' did you like better? And which pairing are you now rooting for — Quinn-Puck, Finn-Rachel, or the original Quinn-Finn? To borrow a word from our friend Artie, preach.

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