Holly Holliday is a recurring fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series, Glee.
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18 Facts About Holly Holliday
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Holly Holliday performed several musical numbers during her appearances, which include critically acclaimed renditions of "Forget You" by Cee Lo Green and "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac.
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Holly Holliday is a substitute teacher who makes her first appearance on Glee in the second season's seventh episode, "The Substitute".
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Holly Holliday is filling in at McKinley High School for the ailing Spanish teacher Will, who is director of the glee club, New Directions.
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Holly Holliday later discovers she is in over her head when Mercedes gets in trouble, and Holly turns to Will for help.
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Holly Holliday reveals that she was once a more serious teacher like Will until a student punched her in the face, at which point she became far more free spirited.
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Holly Holliday makes her final second-season appearance two episodes later in "A Night of Neglect".
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Holly Holliday is still dating Will, and suggests to him that in order to help raise funds for the academic decathlon team, the glee club should present a benefit concert at the school that will feature songs by "neglected" artists.
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Holly Holliday's contribution to the benefit is a performance of Adele's "Turning Tables".
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Holly Holliday refuse to follow Will's assignment of redoing the songs they performed and instead sings "Happy".
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Holly Holliday asks Sue to give glee club a chance to slip onto other clubs at school and Sue gives her a week to try.
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Holly Holliday enlists Artie Abrams to make a video for Will and his unborn baby filled with the glee club members and alumni's testimonies of what he and the glee club means to them.
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Role of Holly Holliday was created by series co-creator Ryan Murphy specifically for Paltrow, a personal friend.
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Holly Holliday's debut was reduced to a single episode, and the relationship plot removed.
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Club Emily VanDerWerff wrote that Holly Holliday injected an effortless sense of fun, despite much of her plot being nonsensical.
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Slezak concluded that what he liked about Holly Holliday, was that she did not succumb to Will, which, according to Slezak, made him less annoying.
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Benigno was one of these and was entertained by the number, but he thought Holly Holliday's "vocals seem oddly subdued trying to imitate Joan Jett's voice" and gave it a "B" grade.
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Holly Holliday approved of the performance, and said that Paltrow "sang it beautifully".
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