Rarely does a show come along that is heartfelt, funny, witty and just makes you smile every single time you watch it (when it isn’t pulling at your heartstrings and making you tear up).

Glee is that show.

Tonight was the “fall finale” of this new series that has taken much of the country by storm. While it hasn’t really broken through in the ratings, it scores strong, coming in second in its time slot to NBC’s “Law and Order: SVU” on a few occasions and never out of the top 5.

I watched the original pilot episode back when it first aired in May and got Alli hooked on it this fall.

The show captures the awfulness that is high school, allows the glee kid in all of us to sing along with the soundtrack, and makes us happy. It makes me look forward to Wednesday nights (not that I didn’t already…TOP CHEF is on Wednesday nights) because it is a smart, fun show. Also, JANE LYNCH.

The series was actually intended to be a full-length feature film by creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. From Wikipedia: “Murphy selects all music featured within the series himself, and intends to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits.”

And let’s face it: it’s all about the music.

Glee songs are consistently leading the download charts on iTunes for their unique, choral take on modern music or new renditions of show tunes.

I was kind of hoping that the second half of the season would bring more ratings with possible lead-ins from the new season of American Idol (and what moron didn’t think that was a good idea?), but I just found out that we won’t get any new episodes until APRIL????? What kind of garbage is that? Way to take advantage of that momentum, Fox!

So since no one at Fox seems to understand what to do with a good show, I beg of the few readers I have out there…WATCH GLEE.

PLEASE.