Burt: Hey, what did you just call him?
Finn: Oh, no, no, I didn’t call him anything, I was talking to the blanket-
Burt: You use that word, you’re talking about him.
Kurt: Relax Dad, I didn’t take it that way.
Burt: Yeah, that’s because you’re 16 & you still assume the best in people. You live a few years, you start seeing the hate in people’s hearts. Even the best people. You use the ‘N’ word?
Finn: Of course not.
Burt: Yeah, how about ‘retard’? You call that nice girl in Cheerios with Kurt, you call her a retard?
Finn: Becky? No, she’s my friend. She’s got Down’s Syndrome, I’d never call her that, that’s cruel.
Burt: But you think it’s okay to come in my house & say ‘faggy’?
Finn: That’s not what I meant!
Burt: I know what you meant! What, you think I didn’t use that word when I was your age? You know, some kid gets clocked in practice & we tell him to stop being such a fag, shake it off. We meant it exactly the way you meant it. That being gay is wrong. That it’s some kind of punishable offence. I really thought you were different, Finn. You know, I thought that being in Glee club & being raised by your mom meant that you were some new generation of dude who saw things differently, who just kinda came into the world knowing what it’s taken me years of struggling to figure out. I guess I was wrong. I’m sorry Finn, but you can’t, you can’t stay here.
Kurt: Dad!
Burt: I love your mom & maybe this is going to cost me her, but my family comes first. I can’t have that kind of poison around. This is our home, Kurt. He is my son. Out in the world, you do what you want. Not under my roof.
Glee, 1x20 ~ Theatricality.
This scene was beautiful.
