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On "Glee," Coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is usually the one to harp on personal attributes, ranting about the birds in Mr. Schue's hair or about deflating Santana's "airbags." In the case of season 2's new kid Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet,) however, "Glee" kids Puck (Mark Salling) and Santana (Naya Rivera) seem overly obsessed with his giant mouth. From the moment he set foot in glee club, the focus on his most noticeable feature has led to some of the best lines in the show.The Introduction
Of course the girls were going to love pretty blond Sam once they set their eyes on him, but how would he win the guys over? Finn, anxious to get another guy in the glee club, hears Sam singing in the shower and urges Sam to try out for the group. When Sam meets with Finn, Artie, Puck and Mike (Cory Monteith, Kevin McHale, Salling and Harry Shum, Jr.) in the music room, Puck is instantly mesmerized.
Puck: "Dude, your mouth is huge. How many tennis balls can you fit in there?"
Sam: "I don't know, I've never had balls in my mouth. Have you?"
Finn grins, Puck looks sheepish, and it's Instant Dude Approval. The kid has a mouth on him...literally. "Glee" fans at home cheer.
The Truth According to Santana
In "Glee" episode "Comeback," Santana meets Sam in the library and says what every girl at home is thinking: "Despite the fact that your mouth-to-face ratio is like, way off, you still somehow manage to be cute." This of course leads to one of Sam's cutest crooked smiles. Santana, as usual, has an agenda however--and it's not to build Sam up.
Santana: "Every time you open your humongous mouth to do an impression, or moisten an enormous stamp for a lazy giant, you take one step closer to everyone seeing that you are actually a dork."
Santana tells Sam the hard truth about Quinn's cheating, and offers herself up as both revenge and an aura of coolness that Sam apparently needs. After all, he can't just bank on Finn being afraid that, as Santana taunts, "you can unlock your humongous jaw and swallow him whole like a python."
Bieb-ilicious
Surprising Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Finn both, Sam unexpectedly woos the ladies with his new tousled mop top and Justin Bieber song and dance routine. Puck is once again stunned:
Puck: "Dude, that haircut makes your mouth look even bigger."
We're starting to think Puck has a man-crush on Sam.
What's All the Fuss?
Actor Chord Overstreet loves the personalization of the script and the focus on his enormous mouth. "I always got compliments or comments on my lips because I do have big lips," Overstreet tells Zap2It. "They definitely write about the actors' actual features, which I think is funny. It's something everybody's thinking and when you actually hear it on the show, it's like 'I can't believe they said that.'"
"Glee" has never been afraid of sexual innuendo, and let's face it, women think a lot of things about giant mouths and full lips on a guy. An AskMen poll of women rated "Luscious Lips" as the 7th most desirable physical feature on a man, for some pretty compelling reasons. As Santana would say, "I wants on them froggy lips, and I wants on 'em now!"
Sam's mouth has so much power, that they even causes the feisty Santana to become possessive of Sam during a game of Spin the Bottle in "Glee" episode "Blame It on the Alcohol":
Santana: "A reminder. I owns that guppy mouth. Those trouty Aerosmith lips belong to me."
Steven Tyler has definitely had no problems scoring the ladies with his giant trouty mouth, so Sam should be doing all right for himself even after Santana's done with him. Aside from the sexy factor, that humongous mouth is also a part of how Sam sings so beautifully--and the singing reels the girls in, too. Even though the "Glee" writers don't always seem to know what to do with adorable Sam, the ladies surely will. And it doesn't have anything to do with tennis balls.
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