How to Keep the ‘Glee’ Kids on TV After they Graduate from McKinley High

Rachel, Kurt, Blaine, and Brittany (who decided she needed to be closer to her publisher) get their own show, GleeNYC (because everyone loves a rhyming title). They make their money singing show tunes on the subway and bedzzaling on the side.

Back at Mckinley, everyone else has been held back. New kids come in, and it seems, oddly enough, they've cast the Rachel, Brittany, and Kurt Oxy-gleeks. Cut to seven episode arch in which Finn and Sanatana eye the newcomers speciously, kiss them in a broom closet, and spend the rest of the 6.5 episodes sobbing into their music wailing "It's just not the same!"

Some people are happy to see the beloved Gleeks go, crying boredom. You know what I'm bored of? McKinley High. So Cheerio-less Sue can get a top spot at U of O, Shue goes back to school for a masters in music ed (Spanish? Has anyone made sense of that? Does he even know any Spanish?), and though Kurt and Rachel had their eye on the Big Apple, financial aid woes have them dominating the a capella scene at a school a little closer to home with their fellow New Directions. Sure, you can throw in a new character, maybe a new roommate for Puck who finally gives Quinn someone to love, but the important thing is that everyone's still together. And mandating a capella numbers would mean more of this, and less of that.

McKinley faces harsh times, and such big budget cuts, graduating seniors are presented with a diploma and a teacher's certificate. Now that they're all college kids (and legal), everyone can stop pretending and Mr. Shue can slowly get over Emma and his ex-wife with a series of skeevy nights at Breadsticks with the girls.

Ok, so maybe not all of the McKinley kids are college bound, and maybe it's not as easy to get faculty jobs at Boy Meets World might imply. So while most of the New Directions move on to higher (and local) education, Puck works with Kurt's dad at the car shop, Brittany's "Fundue for Two" has gone viral and she's shopping the book rights (from home) and Mr. Shue inexplicably keeps teaching Spanish, but really he's just there so his former students (and current besties) can drop in on him asking advice.

It's "Blame It On the Alcohol" over again. After a rough summer that results in the break-up of every couple they slapped together for the season two finale, the Gleeks lapses into their booze soaked ways. They're slurring their songs, puking on the costumes, and even Sue doesn't have the heart to say anything about it. Pretty soon the viewers are so depressed they start drinking too, and no one really notices if anyone graduates or not.