128 Facts About Carmen Tibideaux

1.

Carmen Tibideaux auditioned with the song "Let It Be" and tested alongside Colfer and Ushkowitz.

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Carmen Tibideaux briefly goes out with his best friend Puck, and later dates Jesse St James, the lead singer of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline, who ultimately betrays her in favor of his club.

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Carmen Tibideaux gets back together with Jesse, whom she later marries.

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4.

Carmen Tibideaux ultimately decides against it, though briefly works after hours at the school as a janitor to earn extra money.

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5.

Carmen Tibideaux has her own spot on the local news, which she uses to editorialize on issues such as support for caning and littering.

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6.

Carmen Tibideaux is later reinstated after blackmailing Figgins, and wins her sixth consecutive national cheerleading title.

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7.

Carmen Tibideaux begins a run for a vacant Congressional seat, which she loses to Burt Hummel.

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8.

Carmen Tibideaux later finds out that she'll be having a baby girl, but it has birth defects.

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Carmen Tibideaux is later re-hired as principal when Becky confesses.

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10.

Carmen Tibideaux is dating cheerleader Quinn, but is conflicted by his growing feelings for Rachel.

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11.

Carmen Tibideaux reappears unexpectedly that fall during the show's fourth season, while Rachel is attending NYADA, after he has been given an early discharge from the army.

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12.

Carmen Tibideaux feels that he doesn't belong in her world in New York, returns to Lima without telling her.

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13.

Carmen Tibideaux later goes to New York after being told by Santana that Rachel's live-in boyfriend Brody is an escort, and physically attacks Brody, warning him to "stay away from my future wife".

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Carmen Tibideaux has a high vocal range, and is identified by Fox as a soprano singer.

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Carmen Tibideaux joins the football team as a kicker, with Finn's help, and the cheerleading squad as a singer, though he ultimately quits both.

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16.

Carmen Tibideaux later tries to get into NYADA and Carmen Tibideaux asks him to perform a song on the spot to get into NYADA.

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17.

Carmen Tibideaux sings "Being Alive" and gets applauded for his performance and gets into NYADA.

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18.

Carmen Tibideaux meets Adam, a British student and crushes on him briefly.

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19.

Carmen Tibideaux goes to Lima for his father's tests and gets relieved on learning that Burt is out of danger.

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20.

Carmen Tibideaux goes back to New York and starts his own band "Pamela-Lansbury".

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21.

Carmen Tibideaux becomes popular in NYADA and that causes insecurity in Blaine.

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22.

Carmen Tibideaux later assures Blaine of his love and they both decide to go on a healthy diet from then.

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23.

Carmen Tibideaux becomes friends with Quinn when the pregnant ex-cheerleader gives her advice during her stint on the Cheerios, and when Quinn is unhappy having to stay at Puck's house, invites Quinn to move in with her family.

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24.

Carmen Tibideaux still has feelings for him, and eventually breaks up with Shane, though she refuses to date Sam while she is unsure of her true feelings.

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25.

Carmen Tibideaux directs Grease along with Finn Hudson during his senior year.

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26.

Carmen Tibideaux later starts dating Kitty, who encourages him to keep their affair secret.

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27.

Carmen Tibideaux goes to New York after his graduation and joins Film School.

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28.

Carmen Tibideaux goes on a date with Artie, and confesses to him that she has been faking a speech impediment since the sixth grade, explaining that she wanted to drive people away, but now that she's a part of the glee club, she no longer wants that.

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29.

Carmen Tibideaux develops a brief obsessive crush on Blaine, but it is later diminished and turns into a close friendship.

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30.

Carmen Tibideaux was described by Agron as Rachel's enemy, and "terrible, the meanest girl".

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31.

Carmen Tibideaux reveals to Finn that she is pregnant and tells him that the baby is his, although the real father is Finn's best friend Puck.

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32.

Carmen Tibideaux begins a relationship with Sam Evans in "Duets" but is later unfaithful to him, rekindling her romance with Finn.

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33.

Carmen Tibideaux is eventually able to walk again, and even to dance in performance with the glee club.

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34.

Carmen Tibideaux makes brief appearances during seasons four, five and six.

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35.

Carmen Tibideaux starts dating Brittany, which is initially kept a secret.

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36.

Carmen Tibideaux was originally hired as a choreographer to teach cast members Colfer and Ushkowitz the "Single Ladies" dance.

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37.

Carmen Tibideaux is used by the series' writers to say things no other character would, to the point that Morris considers some of her lines nonsensical.

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38.

Carmen Tibideaux later discovers that he is the father of Quinn's baby.

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39.

Carmen Tibideaux rejects him when he offers to support her and the baby, calling him a "Lima loser".

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40.

Carmen Tibideaux falls in love with Lauren, and they run unsuccessfully for junior prom king and queen together, but she breaks up with him at the beginning of their senior year in season three.

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41.

Carmen Tibideaux sleeps with him once, though she tells him afterward she has made a mistake, to his disgust, and subsequently resigns from McKinley.

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42.

Carmen Tibideaux is introduced as an openly gay student at Dalton Academy and a member of The Warblers, a Sectionals and Regionals rival of New Directions.

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43.

Carmen Tibideaux becomes best friends with Sam, developing a minor crush on him that he later overcomes.

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44.

Carmen Tibideaux is subsequently selected to perform a dance routine with Brittany for Sectionals in "Special Education".

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45.

Carmen Tibideaux reveals to Will that she is a virgin, but does not go through with her plan to lose her virginity to him.

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46.

Carmen Tibideaux admits that she still has feelings for Will, and she and Carl separate; he later requests an annulment of their marriage.

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47.

Carmen Tibideaux begins to get treatment for her OCD in "Born This Way".

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48.

Carmen Tibideaux discovers she has actually experienced a hysterical pregnancy, but hides this from Will, afraid he will leave her.

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49.

Carmen Tibideaux briefly becomes the school nurse, but is asked to step down after giving the glee club pseudoephedrine tablets.

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50.

Carmen Tibideaux explained that Will and Terri's communication is weak and that Terri is "missing a lot of the skills for the marriage", commenting that Terri feels threatened by Will's commitment to the glee club, worried that it will pull him away from her.

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51.

Carmen Tibideaux feels left out when Burt and Finn bond, but Burt reassures him that he will always come first.

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52.

Carmen Tibideaux sends Kurt to New York in the fall, and when he visits at Christmas, reveals that he has recently been treated for prostate cancer, and that it appears to have been caught in time.

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53.

Carmen Tibideaux's doctor tells him that he is cancer free a few months later.

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54.

Carmen Tibideaux comes to William McKinley High with an enviable record of coaching successful football teams, and Principal Figgins boosts the football program budget for him by reducing the cheerleading and glee club budgets, which alarms coach Sue Sylvester and director Will Schuester, respectively, and drives them into a temporary alliance against him.

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55.

Carmen Tibideaux contemplates resigning as coach upon learning that several students have been fantasizing about him in order to curb their arousal while making out.

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56.

Carmen Tibideaux was one of three actresses from the show to be nominated in that category in 2011; the victor was another Glee nominee, Gwyneth Paltrow.

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57.

Carmen Tibideaux was part of the Glee cast ensemble that was nominated in December 2011 for the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series award at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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58.

Carmen Tibideaux develops a crush on Ryder, but is too afraid to demonstrate it, so she makes a fake account to get close to him.

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59.

Carmen Tibideaux begins presenting as a girl in that episode during school hours, despite the pressure she experiences from classmates to appear in male attire.

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60.

Carmen Tibideaux is later transferred to another school by Sue Sylvester as she wants to remove all the remaining members of Glee Club in the school.

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61.

Carmen Tibideaux makes his first appearance in the fifth episode of season four.

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62.

Carmen Tibideaux is a sophomore student at McKinley High School and plays football.

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63.

Carmen Tibideaux helps her with her self-esteem issues and kisses her as Jake Puckerman looks on.

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64.

Carmen Tibideaux is directed to a professional and begins treatment to improve his studying.

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65.

Carmen Tibideaux later finds out that "Katie" is someone in the glee club when he calls the number while being in the choir room and the phone goes off.

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66.

Carmen Tibideaux is a younger half-brother of Puck, whom he has never met.

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67.

Carmen Tibideaux is not admitted to the glee club, but when director Will Schuester discovers that Jake is related to Puck, he personally invites Jake to join New Directions, telling Jake that he is talented, and he thinks joining will help him as it did Puck, but Jake declines.

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68.

Carmen Tibideaux later appears in the final episode with everyone singing "I Lived".

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69.

Carmen Tibideaux comes from a low-income family, her mother, Millie Rose, works at the school's cafeteria and is morbidly obese.

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70.

Carmen Tibideaux's goal is to become a singer on the radio, rather than aiming for Broadway.

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71.

Carmen Tibideaux is attracted to Jake Puckerman, who is new at McKinley, but although the attraction seems mutual, she is upset to discover he is dating Kitty, a cheerleader and popular girl.

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72.

Carmen Tibideaux's bulimia gets worse, and she passes out on stage during Sectionals competition during New Directions' first number; when the glee club leaves the stage to get her first aid, the Dalton Academy Warblers are declared the winners, but they are later disqualified and New Directions gets to go on.

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73.

Carmen Tibideaux tells Jake, which temporarily strains their relationship, and nearly ends Jake's friendship with Ryder.

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74.

Carmen Tibideaux was ostracized by her friends, and eventually switched schools.

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75.

Carmen Tibideaux has been compared in the media to Perez Hilton and Gossip Girl.

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76.

Carmen Tibideaux briefly joins New Directions in order to fill the membership quota for sectionals, as a temporary replacement for Finn.

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77.

Carmen Tibideaux does appear in a fantasy dream sequence during that season's Christmas episode, "Glee, Actually", as Artie's guardian angel.

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78.

Carmen Tibideaux's audition is a stunningly horrendous rendition of "Big Spender", and she becomes the first person who fails to get into New Directions after auditioning.

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79.

Carmen Tibideaux said that it was difficult to sing poorly on purpose, especially with piano accompaniment.

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80.

Carmen Tibideaux is a Christian, wears his hair in dreadlocks, and has been home schooled until that point; he joins the "God Squad" club, whose other members include three who are members of the glee club: Mercedes, Sam, and Quinn.

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81.

Carmen Tibideaux continues at McKinley and in New Directions in the show's fourth season, and performs in both Sectionals and Regionals competitions, but has not appeared in the fifth season; Larsen cut his trademark dreadlocks after fourth-season filming ended.

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Carmen Tibideaux was therefore surprised—and thrilled—when his religious beliefs seemed to interest and inspire Glee's Ryan Murphy during an episode of The Glee Project.

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83.

Carmen Tibideaux assists Sue with her Congressional campaign, though Sue loses the race.

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84.

Carmen Tibideaux asks him out on a date, and while they do have a good time, he balks at a more serious relationship, to her great disappointment.

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85.

Carmen Tibideaux is a member of the hockey team who slushies Finn, but by "Theatricality" he's on the football team with his friend and fellow bully Azimio ; they regularly target members of New Directions.

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86.

Carmen Tibideaux later warns Kurt not to tell anyone about it, threatening to kill him if he does.

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87.

Carmen Tibideaux is expelled for his death threat, but allowed to return by the school board as no physical violence was witnessed—and Kurt had not revealed the kiss.

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88.

Carmen Tibideaux next appears in the third-season episode "The First Time".

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89.

Carmen Tibideaux has transferred to another high school from McKinley for his senior year; he sees Kurt in a gay bar, and tells Kurt he has become a regular there and feels accepted.

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90.

Carmen Tibideaux is later outed at his new school and bullied so mercilessly that he attempts to commit suicide but is saved by his father; Kurt visits him in the hospital and they agree to become friends.

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91.

Carmen Tibideaux is first introduced in "Homecoming" alongside her twin brother Mason.

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92.

Carmen Tibideaux is first introduced in "Homecoming" alongside his twin sister Madison.

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93.

Carmen Tibideaux makes his first appearance in "Loser Like Me" and offends Rachel when he calls a fellow football player a "whiny homo" until Sam reveals that Spencer is actually gay.

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94.

Carmen Tibideaux is approached by Kurt Hummel during "Homecoming" about the possibility of joining the New Directions, but he declines, saying he shouldn't have to join a stupid glee club just because he is openly gay.

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Carmen Tibideaux is introduced in the season 6 episode "Homecoming", when Rachel Berry hears the voice of someone singing and attempts to recruit them to the New Directions, but is unsure of where the sound is coming from.

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96.

Carmen Tibideaux remains in New Directions through the season's final episode, and they win the National Show Choir Championship.

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97.

Carmen Tibideaux's surname is never mentioned during the course of the show; however, Guthrie stated that the character's surname was "Meeks" in a post on his Twitter account.

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98.

Carmen Tibideaux is overweight and has a love of candy, specifically Cadbury Creme Eggs.

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99.

Carmen Tibideaux is seen in the episode "The Substitute", in which she is taken advantage of by Sue Sylvester to spread a disease, which Sue calls "loud bisexual primate flu", to a number of students and faculty, namely Will Schuester and Principal Figgins.

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100.

Carmen Tibideaux joins New Directions in the episode "Special Education", enabling the club to meet the member quota for sectionals.

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101.

Carmen Tibideaux was the director of glee club when Will Schuester was a member.

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102.

Carmen Tibideaux's plaque was viewed during the course of the series by Will and other glee club members as a further source of inspiration.

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103.

Carmen Tibideaux makes out with Will shortly after meeting him, but she resists sleeping with him when he says his divorce is not yet final and that he has just broken up with his new girlfriend, Emma.

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104.

Carmen Tibideaux had signed a contract that stated that she could not seek out her daughter until she was eighteen.

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105.

Carmen Tibideaux is blackmailed by Sue for most of the first season: she uncovers internet footage of him appearing in a support stocking commercial for Mumbai Air, and she later drugs his drink and takes a compromising photograph of them in bed together.

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106.

Carmen Tibideaux finds Figgins a challenging character to play, as it entails finding "the right mix of someone who is an authority figure but who is very insecure about his own strengths as a person".

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107.

Carmen Tibideaux's behavior is often eccentric, including doll collecting, writing fan fiction about Desperate Housewives, and attempting to create a role for himself as Cleopatra in the school production of Cabaret.

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108.

Carmen Tibideaux did not return for the second season; the new football coach, coach Beiste, is played by Dot-Marie Jones.

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109.

Carmen Tibideaux is briefly seen in the season four episode "Shooting Star" as a potential match for Coach Beiste on an online dating site.

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110.

Carmen Tibideaux is first introduced in the episode "Audition", escorting his new recruit Sunshine Corazon out of William McKinley High School and taking her away from its glee club, having been tipped off about her by Sue Sylvester, and employed the underhanded tactics of offering to sponsor Sunshine's visa and arranging an apartment for her and her family as payment for her joining Vocal Adrenaline despite her being enrolled at McKinley High.

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Carmen Tibideaux has been working in show business since before birth—an ultrasound of her was featured in an episode of Murder, Carmen Tibideaux Wrote, and she later appeared in commercials for Gerber baby food.

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112.

Carmen Tibideaux returned in "Hold On to Sixteen", leading her glee club, the Unitards, to a third-place finish at Sectionals, after which she tells Kurt that she's a sophomore.

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113.

Carmen Tibideaux is persuaded by Sue to use songs from New Directions' set list at Sectionals to give her group an edge in the competition.

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114.

Carmen Tibideaux is introduced as a new Dalton Academy Warbler in the fifth episode, "The First Time".

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115.

Carmen Tibideaux is a part of the effort to persuade Blaine to rejoin the Warblers.

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116.

Carmen Tibideaux had been playing the role of Baby John in the touring company of Broadway revival of West Side Story since it opened on September 30,2010, and left the show after performing on September 23,2011 to return for his first day with Glee.

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117.

Carmen Tibideaux admits to Shelby that he agreed to "seduce" Rachel because he thought it would be a good acting exercise, but he started to develop real feelings for her.

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118.

Carmen Tibideaux joins Rachel, Sam and Mercedes, who have teamed up to go do "prom on a budget", at the McKinley junior prom; however, after getting into a fight with a jealous Finn, he's kicked out of prom.

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119.

Carmen Tibideaux's resumed relationship with Rachel ultimately fails when Finn suddenly kisses her in the middle of a Nationals performance and Rachel chooses to get back together with him.

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120.

Carmen Tibideaux encourages him on his first Nationals as a coach and jibes that the New Directions are going to beat him, to which he tells her he likes her cocky side.

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121.

Later, after sadly watching Rachel perform at Nationals, Jesse talks to Carmen Tibideaux and tells her Rachel's the most talented person he knows and that she will make an excellent contribution to NYADA.

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122.

Carmen Tibideaux had auditioned for NYADA a few years prior but was rejected; Carmen tells him at Nationals that despite the rejection, he has remarkable vocal range and passion.

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123.

Carmen Tibideaux is made fun of by students and the glee club members initially for her weight, but when they discover she is Marley's mom they stand up for her.

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124.

Carmen Tibideaux makes all of Marley's clothes and is particularly fond of Marley's boyfriend Jake Puckerman and the rest of New Directions.

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125.

Carmen Tibideaux is a factor in Sue's decision to admit Becky Jackson—who has Down syndrome—to the Cheerios.

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126.

Carmen Tibideaux briefly rejoins the glee club as an adult, during a period in which Rachel had left the club and it was in need of a female lead.

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127.

Carmen Tibideaux appeared again, including at the Nationals competition in Chicago, and returns in the fourth and fifth seasons for scenes set at NYADA.

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128.

Carmen Tibideaux was introduced in the fourth-season premiere for a six-episode arc Cassandra only appears in five episodes: four in 2012 and one in 2013.

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