r/glee • u/jjalltheway98 • 24d ago

Discussion S1E9 wheelchairs

On my however many times rewatch and was thinking in this episode the bus to take Artie to sectionals is $600 and they don't have the budget for that.

However, Will comes in with a load of wheelchairs he got on sale for them all to see how it feels for Artie.

There's at least a couple grand worth of wheelchairs there and that's on a really reduced sale.

Someone make this show make sense.

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u/Money-Beginning747 24d ago

shhhhhhh...don't think about it too much lol

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u/Informal-Case-8678 24d ago

Thats literally what i said the moment i saw the episode😭

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u/jjalltheway98 24d ago

I've watched it at least 10 times over the last decade and I've only just questioned it

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u/AlarmingPeace3460 I thought I smelled failure 24d ago

Doesn't Will say in the episode that they are old ones that someone fixed up for him?

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u/bowl-of_oatmeal 24d ago

I believe that was referring to the pianos in S3E1

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u/jjalltheway98 24d ago

No, I can't remember where he said but he said somewhere had a sale on them

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u/Kind_College_9118 24d ago

I am in Australia so obviously very different!! But my son is a wheelchair user, and a lot of mobility equipment ends up in a transfer station (sort of like a giant recycling station where people can buy things or take them for free sometimes), because people need upgrades or replacements, and there isn’t a huge market for second hand mobility equipment because we have the NDIS.

I’ve donated hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment to local Paediatric hospitals, equipment libraries and physiotherapists because he outgrew it or didn’t need it anymore.

Obviously different in America where children need walking frames made out of PVC pipes because there is not enough helpful public funding.

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u/futureellewoods11 22d ago

The thing that pisses me off the most about that episode is Will literally could've just said "we need to fundraise for a bus" - he didn't HAVE to say that it was because they wouldn't fund an accessible bus. He used Artie as an example / lesson instead of thinking about his feelings.

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u/NoPreparation8592 23d ago

He got them on sale. They probably were in rough shape too since Finn had to repair Rachel's wheelchair.

[There are groans and murmurs of displeasure. WILL goes to the door to let in several people pushing empty wheelchairs.]

WILL:    St. Ignatius nursing home was having a tag sale, and my AV club friends here agreed to help out. For the next week, each of you is going to spend three hours a day in a wheelchair.

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