Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz confessed that the iconic drunk episode of Glee was inspired by one of the cast’s on-set shenanigans.“We got caught having a dance party at base camp — where our trailers are — after going to lunch and having a little bit of some substances,” Ushkowitz, 37, recalled on the Monday, July 31, episode of the “And That’s What You REALLY Missed” podcast. “And by substances I mean sake.”McHale, 35, remembered that the cast decided to go to a nearby sushi spot, and one of their costars instigated the boozy lunch.“We went out, and I won’t name names.
There was one person who was the ringleader. It wasn’t either of us … [they] started pushing us all to drink,” he confessed. “And we’re like ‘I don’t know if we should.’ Some of us partook more than others.”Both McHale and Ushkowitz teased that neither of them got too intoxicated during lunch.
However, they did reveal that the “ringleader” and some of the other cast members ended up going into others’ trailers and doodling on the walls with permanent markers.
Ushkowitz was “very upset” that her trailer was one of the victims.“Then the producers came down and they partook in our dance party … but then went back and snitched on us and we got in trouble,” Ushkowitz said. “And they wrote an episode about it”The incident inspired the season 2 episode, “Blame It on the Alcohol,” which focuses on underage drinking.
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