"Glee" cast was set to celebrate the end of a breakthrough year

By Christopher Lawrence, Las Vegas Review-Journal

Nov. 22--It's almost enough to make you stop believin'.

By all accounts, the "Glee" cast was set to celebrate the end of a breakthrough year by performing their signature Journey cover song during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (9 a.m. Thursday, KVBC-TV, Channel 3).

Then the Grinches at NBC banned the young actors because they're on the competing Fox network. This despite the fact that Fox's Bart Simpson balloon has been a mainstay of the parade, the unofficial kickoff to TV's holiday season, since 1990.

It's not like Fox was pushing for dancing pharmaceuticals on a "House"-themed "12 Pills of Christmas" float. Or a "The Holidays Can Be Torture" float with "24's" Jack Bauer waterboarding Santa through Columbus Circle. They're a bunch of singing kids!

Maybe next year "Glee's" producers will just pony up for a giant, inflatable likeness of Sue Sylvester, the cheerleading coach played by Jane Lynch.

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