TVGuide.com reported over the weekend that Don Most (Happy Days) and Valerie Mahaffey (Desperate Housewives and, the last time I was there, LAX) are guest-starring on Glee as Miss Pillsbury’s parents in an episode tentatively “Asian F.” This episode will also feature the introduction of Mike Chang’s parents. Here’s a brief synopsis:

Mike is under pressure to quit New Directions; Rachel and Mercedes face-off for the lead in the school play with unforeseen results; the campaign for class President gets a new candidate; and Will worries that Emma is embarrassed by him.

Rumor has it that known Asian Mike Chang gets an A- on an exam, the equivalent of an F in his family’s eyes. His parents pressure him to spend more time studying and forget about that pesky, distracting Glee Club, to which I say, YOU ARE RIGHT, CHANGS. These New Directions kids are always changing schools, having sex, and spending time with a teacher whose behavior borders on sexual harassment. (What I really want to know is why, then, they allowed Mike to attend the wine cooler party at Rachel’s house.)

Will is worried that Emma is embarrassed by him. Even though she probably should be embarrassed by her boyfriend and his vest collection, I’m sure she’s actually just apprehensive about Will judging her for her upbringing. The question is whether they will depict her parents as warm, loving people who take their children on field trips to dairy farms, or cold-hearted meanfaces who never tried to get help for their daughter’s mental health issues. My guess is that Emma is embarrassed of herself, for having gone through a fiancé and a husband in the course of a year and a half, and she doesn’t want her parents to think of her as the girl who cried I LOVE THIS GUY, even though she knows in her heart that Will is different. Also, introducing a boyfriend to one’s parents is serious business, and with serious business eventually comes sexpectations, etc.

So by the end of the episode, I expect that Emma will have, in fact, introduced Will to her parents, and it will be cute and they will love him. This is the fun part of TV relationships where nothing hurts—the beginning, before the writers decide to add silly angst and drama that can’t be resolved in one episode.

It’s interesting that both of these parental plotlines are happening in the same episode. We should expect that they will in some way be juxtaposed against each other—possibly in relation to having a fear of one’s parents accepting who you are. Bonus points if a guidance session with the Chang family is what gives Emma the courage to bite the bullet and make the introduction.

And now, the fun announcement! This season, I will be producing “Glogical,” a weekly video series chronicling the logical fallacies on Glee. Confused about the Glee Club’s inexplicable budget problems? Me, too! Confused about how the Cheerios continue to win titles while their roster so frequently changes? Me, too! Expect a lot of WHAAAAATs. 

The newest Glee promo is the first to feature new footage from season four, and it contains a big spoiler: Will and Emma are together! It’s presented super-casually in the promo, and Michael Ausiello reported on their togetherness as if it was already old news and not a huge scoop.

Maybe it’s just everyone’s collective enn-Glee (that’s Glee ennui, for those not up on their French-English portmanteaux), but this is big news. The question is — how did this happen? I mean, are those lunchboxes they’re holding? Are they making lunches together? Like, in the morning before work?

Sure, they were back on good terms by season’s end, but there was no indication that they were about to spend their summer getting cozy. Brad Falchuk confirmed that a Will/Emma scene was deleted from “New York,” and there was a rumor that went around that there may have even been a kiss in said scene. So here’s what I think went down:

Will was humbled at Nationals, both because of New Directions’s shame-ridden defeat and his embarrassing performance of “Still Got Tonight.” (By the way, I had to Google the name of that song, because my instinct was to call it “Waiting for Tonight,” but I knew that wrong. Now there’s a song that Glee should cover!) When he gets home, he tells Emma that his real dream is here, with the kids and with her. Bonus points if he actually said, “I came back for you.” So he is back, and he is ready to be in a relationship with her whenever she is ready to be in a relationship with him. And maybe in that scene, we find out that she is probably not ready right this moment, but she could maybe spend the summer getting ready! Perhaps there was even a chaste kiss full of promise, but I’m not really buying that rumor.

It would have at least set the stage for the lunchbox kissing. As it stands, the lunchbox kissing seems super-surprising. But, hey, you don’t see me complaining. You know what else is super-surprising? That Will seems to have gotten a pretty drastic haircut, but he still looks vaguely like a sexual predator.

Glee season two DVDs come out September 13, at which point we may finally learn the truth about what happened to Will and Emma in the finale. There’s also the possibility that we will just NEVER KNOW, and that’s okay, too. Whatever. Enn-Glee.

Damian McGinty, co-winner of The Glee Project, will appear in episode four as a foreign exchange student staying at the Brittany S. Pearce residence. This is funny because on TGP, the first time writer Ian Brennan heard Damian sing, he leaned over to Ryan Murphy and suggested he be a new kid who Brittany can’t understand. So they really don’t noodle on any ideas, do they? They just go for it over there.

When asked about Will and Emma yesterday, TVLine said, “The first part of the season is really about them adjusting to being in a relationship, and Emma making progress working through her considerable issues.” That’s news to me, considering no one knew they were going to start the season together. Does that mean they’re going to start the season together? Who knows. I’m ready to see that storyline become about her pushing through her OCD challenges, rather than the continuing will-they-won’t-they.

Santana and Brittany are re-joining the Cheerios. This is funny because I honestly don’t remember them leaving, and I saw every episode last season. Ah, well. Quinn is likely not a Cheerio at the start of the season, because she is going through a little phase where she hates everything and has pink hair. She has also apparently quit Glee Club over the summer, to which I say–stay strong, Fabray.

In all likelihood, Blaine will be in New Directions very early this season. While this ultimately makes sense plot-wise, I will lament both the loss of the Dalton blazer and the poor judgment of these McKinley parents and their impetuous school-changing. The Glee kids must be doing just terribly in classes.

Speaking of McKinley newcomers, Idina Menzel will be back in episode two as Shelby Corcoran for a decent-sized arc. She’s joining the faculty full-time, and will likely cause drama for Rachel, Quinn, Puck, Will, Emma, and everyone who believed Ryan Murphy when he said “no guest stars” this season. Truthfully, even though that double-talk was irritating, I’m looking forward to her return. The bottom line is that she is a great talent and there are interesting stories to be mined from her return. Puck and Quinn’s sacrifice has barely been mentioned since Shelby adopted Beth, and Rachel’s justifiable jealousy toward the baby her mother chose has never been mentioned. (Whether these are the stories Glee chooses to tell remains to be seen, obviously.)

So … there’s a lot. There are also brand-new characters being introduced and a political campaign for Sue Sylvester, but it’s been promised that Glee will get back to basics this season and focus on its core characters. I’ll be here, not holding my breath.