Glee creator Ryan Murphy says he gets why NBC asked Macy’s to pull the cast of his Fox show out of its Thanksgiving Day parade: “I completely understand NBC’s position, and look forward to seeing a Jay Leno float,” he told EW.com. Sources said yesterday that NBC asked parade organizers to rescind an offer for the cast of the musical comedy to appear in the annual holiday event, which the network broadcasts. While the parade has featured performers from rival networks’ properties in the past — such as American Idol singers or High School Musical actors — sources said featuring an entire cast would amount to too much promotion.
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LOVE Ryan’s biting comment on a “Jay Leno float.” Way to stick it to them!!
ditto, LOL!!!
Wow, Mr Murphy’s comment was funnier than 90% of the stuff in his monologue!
Reposting Jake’s comment from the next page. Freaking hilarious pic of the leno float man!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43632343@N08/4013585618/
Snap!
Except the NBC execs are dumb enough to say “hey, good idea on the Leno float thing!”
lol, so true.
I thought that too when I read it!!! LOL!
I think a giant chin balloon would be better.
Lol, I totally agree! Although I would wonder how to do that without making look like a giant butt ballon.
Take that NBC!
It’s one asinine decision after another for NBC execs. They should all be fired.
Except for Jack Donaghy, of course.
And the line between fiction and reality continues to blur…
Love it!
Nice one, Ryan Murphy. That response was full of SNAP!
I can only shake my head at NBC, what a bunch of idiots.
I heart Ryan Murphy
NBC frustrates me
Reason #159 that barring the ‘Glee’ cast from the T-day parade was dumb: the barring was obviously going to leak to make NBC look stupid and threatened.
Well, I guess I will be watching the parade on CBS from now on!
And…NBC takes another step in their quest to becoming the most hated network in the universe. Of course, who can blame them in this situation. NBC has a ton of their own great programming to promote, like, LIFE and SOUTHLAND.
Life =’(
The fact that that TV show was cancelled after two seasons while Everybody Loves Raymond survived is one of the greatest injustics EVER.
Um, Raymond was on CBS.
Oh I miss Life!
Ryan’s comment is awesome. ROFLMAO!
That’s ok, I didn’t want to waste time watching the parade anyway.
The cast of GLEE is about the only thing that could have got me watching the Parade. Or, NBC for that matter considering all of my viewership goes to ABC, Fox, CBS, and the CW anyway. Thank you, NBC, for proving to the nth degree that there is nothing worth watching on your network.
RRRRRRrreaaaarrrrrwwww!! Cat fight!!
His response to the snub was actually wittier than anything witnessed on ‘Glee’. Maybe there’s hope it yet.
Hater. You wish your own conversations were half as sharp as the worst dialouge on Glee.
I don’t hate it, just find it to be phenomenally disappointing. If I wanted ‘High School Musical’, I’d watch ‘High School Musical’. The show is lame and unfunny.
@Tim-when people do not evince wittiness in their criticisms of others’ I tend not to give them much credence.
Me thinks Tim works for nbc…. hmmmm
You think he works?
dull dull show…focus is off…characters are shallow…a real mess. tried to watch three times…first was ok..fell off teh cliff after that…
@Nicolars Now THAT is funny
WHOA Tim…’Glee’ is NOTHING like HSM. Why don’t you go back to watching Jay Leno?
The Glee cast appearing would have made it the first time I EVER watched the Macy’s parade. Thank you, NBC, for helping me keep my streak alive. Gleek out!!!!
Boo NBC! Not cool!
i agree that the parade would have been too much promotion for glee. with the tour across the country and possibly a concert tour in 2010 and putting songs on itunes before the show officially premiered, and having a cd come out soon is plenty of promotion in my opinion. also, they deserve a break.
I don’t think the cast appearing would have been for promotional purposes per se- Macy’s extended an invitation to them and they accepted. From what I’ve been reading, Fox didn’t approach Macy’s with an offer or anything, or looking to promote Glee, Macy’s wanted the cast there.
Although, yes, those kids do deserve a break.
No wonder other networks are pressuring their talent not to appear on the Jay Leno show. NBC executives are a bunch of hypocrites. They allowed High School Musical and American Idol to have floats – how is that not “promotion” for those two shows? And Jay Leno is the most overrated person in Hollywood. I’ve laughed harder at Dane Cook….and that is NOT saying much.
I wonder what Sue Sylvester would have to say about this turn of events? Hmmm…..
Probably something close to being “shanghai-ed by the bicurious machinations of a cabal of doughy misshapen network executives”….
That’s exactly what she would say! HILARIOUS!!!
Ooh, that’s brilliant.
And that’s how Sue “C”s it!!!!
I HATE NBC.
“Glee” sucks only slightly less than anything on NBC except “The Office”. That being said, Macy’s caved to NBC pressure because they want to be televised & have a contract w/ NBC for exclusive broadcast rights. Otherwise, they could have said “Screw you, we’ll let Fox air it”. It already rankles NBC that they have to let Leno air plugs for non-NBC shows (like “Old Christine”) in order to get non-NBC stars. The Leno show is causing them more problems in more ways than they anticipated.
This is all because GE who was bailed out by the goverment owns NBC and the white house has it in for fox.
do you know who killed JFK?
do you have shots of bigfoot….
LMAO!
Ok, that seriously made me laugh out loud.. really loud!
great way to end the day… thank you stelvis!
The cast of Glee is too good for NBC
so would stuffed animals
Well said Ryan Murphy!
Well there goes my ONLY reason in watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade! I’ll just watch a re-run of GLEE!! Problem SOLVED!!
If Ryan was smart, he would now go rewrite the episode to air around that time, and have it be about getting an offer for the Parade and being DROPPED because of Sue or something. Could be a great last laugh at the whole situation.
NBC is stupid, no wonder GE is trying to dump them. They ruined the Weather Channel.
NBC ruined the Olympics a long time ago, too, with their pre-taped, pre-edited “packages”.
first step toward the C-word!