'Born This Way'

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"All right, guys. Nationals are just a few weeks away, and it's time to bear down. Okay... your singing at Regionals was amazing, but your dancing...It's booty camp time." Mr. Schue tells them, as they gather onstage in the auditorium. "Booty!" Artie yells out. "Booty bump." Venus says hip checking Mike. "So let's get it going. Five, six, seven, eight. Push yourselves, guys. Vocal Adrenaline takes no prisoners." Mr. Schue says, as they dance.

Finn ends up smacking Rachel in the nose with his arm and she falls to the ground holding her nose. "Oh! I'm so sorry." Finn tells Rachel. "Are you okay?" Mr. Schue asks Rachel. "I'm bleeding." She says as she brings her hand up from her nose. "Let's get you to a doctor." Mr. Schue says, helping her to the nurse's office.

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"Oh my God, you're getting a nose job." Quinn says, as Rachel stands in front of the room. "I'm...considering having a minor procedure to repair my deviated septum." Rachel says. "So, a nose job." Santana says, bluntly. "Look, I'm... I'm happy with the way that I look, okay? And I've embraced my nose. But let's say I wanted to have a slightly more demure nose. Like Quinn's, for example. I-I would never change my appearance for vanity, but, I mean, the doctor said that it could possibly improve my talent, which would help us all for Nationals." Rachel tells them.

"Possibly? What about the risks? Your voice is amazing as is Rachel." Mr. Schue tells her. "Hold up. Could we all just get real here for a second? I hear that Rachel's got a bit of a schnoz. I mean, I wouldn't know because, like Medusa, I try to avoid eye contact with her. But can we all just stop lying about how there aren't things that we wouldn't change about ourselves? I mean, I'm sure that Sam's been at the doctor's office and rifled through pamphlets on mouth reduction." Santana says, and Sam tries to hide his lips.

"I'll bet Artie's thought about getting his legs removed since he's not really using them anyways. I'm sure Venus has thought of getting leg-lengthening surgery because of how short she is." Venus shrinks down into her seat at that. "And I'm definitely sure that Tina's looked into getting an eye de-slanting." Santana finishes. "That's extraordinarily racist." Tina tells her. "I'm keepin' it real." Santana shrugs.

"Sorry, Santana. I'm a beautiful person. I'm in love with myself, and I would never change a thing." Tina tells her. "Is that why you're wearing blue contacts today, Tina? Self-hating Asian." Mike murmurs. "Not many Asian sex symbols, Mike. I'm just trying to be in fashion and mirror what I see in the magazines." Tina tells him. "My dancing kind of bothers me. Uh, it almost killed Rachel, but I like the way I look." Finn tells Santana.

"Oh, please. You have weird, puffy pyramid nipples. They look like they're filled with custard." Santana says as Sam tries to look at Finn's nipples. Finn slaps him away. "You could dust them with powdered sugar and they could pass for some sort of dessert. Look, maybe Rachel's fine with having an enormous beak. Maybe she needs it to crack hard seeds. All I'm saying is that if you look in the mirror and you don't like what you see, you should change it." Santana finishes.

"Whoa, guys. I'm really shocked at what I'm hearing here. It goes against everything the glee club stands for. I'm telling you, the thing you would most like to change about yourself is the most interesting part of you." Mr. Schue tells them. "Well, maybe, but at this school, the thing that makes you different is the thing people use to crush your spirit." Mercedes says sadly, Venus nodding along.

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Venus was walking with Sam down the hallway when they spot Santana. "Jack Ryan, you've just boarded the Red October." Sam says, doing an impression. Seeing Santana's confused face Venus speaks up. "Sean Connery." She tells her. Sam stops at the water fountain for water when Venus sees Karofsky walk past glancing at Sams' but. She looks around, seeing if anyone else caught it, catching Santanas' eye, looking just as shocked as she was, before doing a smug smile.

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