Brittany Susan Pierce is a major character on Glee. She is an alumnus of William McKinley High School as of All or Nothing and New Directions. She is a former member of the school's glee club, the New Directions. She was the senior class president for the school year 2011-2012. She is bisexual and she dated her best friend, Santana Lopez, the former co-captain of the Cheerios, but they broke up due to the obstacles of a long distance relationship in Season Four. She was in a relationship with Sam Evans from Swan Song, until All or Nothing. She has also been in a relationship with Artie Abrams, which started between Duets and Never Been Kissed and ended in Rumours. She appears to be very close friends with everyone in the glee club. Brittany was supposed to graduate in Goodbye, the twenty-second and final episode of Season Three, along with her fellow seniors, but did not because she has a GPA of 0.0. She was set to repeat her senior year during 2012-2013, but left McKinley due to an early admission invitation by MIT. She received her high school diploma in New Directions, along with Blaine, Tina, Sam,Artie, Becky and the rest of the seniors, and she also reconciliated with Santana. They both went together to the Lesbos Islands. She was on tour with Santana and Mercedes. Santana proposed to her in Jagged Little Tapestry. They got married in A Wedding.
Brittany Pierce was a recurring character for Season One, but was made a main character in Season Two and remained so for Season Three and Season Four. Due to Heather Morris' pregnancy, she was downsized back into a recurring role for the fifth season onwards.
She is portrayed by professional dancer and actress, Heather Morris.
Biography
She and the rest of the Cheerioswatch Glee Club singing Push Itduring a school assembly. She, along with Quinn and Santana, audition for New Directions, and she performs background vocals in I Say a Little Prayer, and becomes one of Sue's spies in the club. She also attends the Celibacy Club meeting earlier in the episode.
Brittany goes with the Glee Club to Vocal Adrenaline's high school, Carmel High School, to get Dakota Stanley to choreograph for them. He accepts and later remarks that she and the other Cheerios don't need to "change a thing".
Brittany and Tina help Kurt make a music video of all three of them performing Beyoncé's Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It). When Kurt's dad catches them, she tells Burt that Kurt has joined the school's football team as kicker.
Brittany is present in rehearsals for Don't Stop Believin' when Quinn rushes out with morning sickness. She later performs with New Directions in their first performance as a full group in Last Name (with April Rhodes) and Somebody to Love.
Brittany performs on the girls team for the mash-up competition. When Rachel asks where Quinn is during rehearsal, Brittany jokes that she is at the mall buying "elastic-waist pants." She presumably takes vitamin D with the rest of the girls (although she is not seen in the scene) and later performs a high-energy number Halo/Walking on Sunshine.
Brittany taking Quinn's test
Sue splits the Glee Club into two groups. She puts the minorities on her side leaving Will with only five singers (including Brittany) and they perform No Air. While Finn and Quinn are arguing in Spanish class, Brittany tries to steal Quinn's paper to copy her answers, but she angrily grabs it back. When he only gives Rachel and Finn solos, Quinn tells Brittany and Puck that Will obviously doesn't like minorities and they defect to Sue's group, leaving Will with only three singers. She later performs background vocals in Keep Holding On.
Brittany, along with the other Glee Club members, waits to see if the boys will choose Glee or the Football Team and she is happy when she sees Mike enter the music room. She performs background vocals in Bust a Move and, with all the other members, slushies Mr. Schuester at the end of the episode.
The Glee Club raises money by putting on a bake sale in order to get a bus to take Artie to sectionals. Brittany thinks it's a bad idea because she finds recipes confusing. Meanwhile, Mr. Schuester gets the Glee kids to spend several hours a day in wheelchairs in order to make them realize how hard it is for Artie to be in a wheelchair. During these events, it is revealed that Brittany (who within the course of a day, lost her wheelchair) has a sweet and caring friendship with Becky Jackson, a girl who has Down Syndrome. While Quinn, Puck, and Santana look at Becky with disgust, Brittany is oblivious to it and buys her a cupcake from the Glee bake sale. Puck notes that Brittany cheats off of Becky's math papers in school.
Brittany is paired with Santana for the week's ballad assignment. She later performs Lean on Me with New Directions.
Brittany watches the girls from Jane Addams Academy sing Bootylicious while using Hairography. Mr. Schuester calls on Brittany to teach the club the trick of 'Hairography', as she is the only member who can do it. She performs background vocals in Hair/Crazy in Love, Imagine, and True Colors with the Glee Club.
The Glee Club is cast in a local mattress commercial, in which Brittany performs background vocals and several impressive acrobatic stunts in Jump.
While on the phone with Artie, Tina, Mercedes, and Santana, Brittany lets it slip that she and Santana have slept together. After discovering their set list has been leaked, the club accuses Santana and Brittany of giving it to Sue. Brittany admits that she did, but was unsure of what Sue wanted with it. She is asked to help with choreography for You Can't Always Get What You Want, in which she later performs background vocals. Later in the episode, she is seen participating in My Life Would Suck Without You. She is also shown eavesdropping with the rest of the New Directions as they try to determine how the judges are going.
Brittany spends a lot of time with Santana. They go on a date with Finn and start talking about how the boys at the school (including Finn, who they ignore throughout most of the night) should stop dating girls like Rachel and start dating popular and prettier girls like themselves. Finn is asked to leave by Santana while the two Cheerios stay at the restaurant with his credit card. Later, they find out that Finn is now finished with Rachel because she is now dating Vocal Adrenaline's Jesse St. James, so they are asked by Sue to spread it around the Glee Club. Brittany performs background vocals in the Beatles classic, Hello, Goodbye.
Sue asks her cheerleaders to copy her role model, Madonna, by dating younger men. Brittany takes this task seriously and starts dating her sister's seven-year-old friend from soccer, Wes Brody. Santana, annoyed that she can't get a younger man, listens to Brittany who advises her to date Finn, as his birthday is three days before her. At first, Santana is against this, but after hearing from Brittany that the way to get a man to trust you it to take his virginity, she persuades Finn to lose his virginity to her. Later, when Jesse St. James joins the Glee Club, Brittany wonders whether he is Mr. Schuester's son. She performs background vocals in Express Yourself and Like a Prayer.
Mercedes asks Brittany and Santana how they manage to stay so "skinny." They tell her that they drink a protein shake that Sue Sylvester makes up from different ingredients, which Brittany sometimes adds a teaspoon of sand too. They admit that they don't like it, but they would get kicked off the Cheerios if they didn't stay thin. Later, she cuddles with Santana when Kurt sings A House Is Not a Home.
A list gets out ranking the glee club on their social status and hotness (the "Glist"), Brittany is ranked fourth (+38) which doesn't make sense to her because she's made out with everyone at school, even the janitor. She teams up with Mercedes, Artie, Tina and Kurt to help boost their reputations, as they didn't even make it on the "Glist." They intend to cause havoc in the library where they perform U Can't Touch This, but this fails when the librarian ends up enjoying their performance. When Kurt is confessing that he put Sue's physical video on the Internet, she backs him up. She also performs backup vocals in Ice Ice Baby and briefly appears as an angel along with Santana in Rachel's home-made video in Run Joey Run, where she does back-up vocals again.
Brittany is turned on by Kurt's new style and gives him an opportunity to "tap this" so that she can have a "perfect record" of making out with everyone. Kurt invites Brittany around his house where they make out, and Brittany claims to be "turned on" by people kissing her armpits. Soon after, Kurt's dad interrupts them. At school, Kurt and Brittany walk down the corridor holding hands. After talking with his dad, Kurt presumably breaks up with Brittany.
Brittany is only seen briefly, she dances with Artie in his fantasy sequence of Safety Dance.
"You look terrible. I look awesome"
Brittany, along with the other girls and Kurt, gets inspired by Lady Gaga and as a result, they perform her hit song Bad Romance wearing a selection of her classic costumes. Brittany wears a light jacket, black leggings and a lobster shaped hat and glasses. She is very proud of her costume, commenting that she looks awesome (and Rachel looks terrible).
Brittany and the rest of the CheeriHos fall into depression and confusion when cheerleading coach Sue refuses to get head. Brittany is even more confused than usual and this results in her begging the unpopular students to help her, and to even wear her Cheerio's outfit backwards and her hair messier. Sue finally gets out of bed and they go on to win Nationals, which restores the CheeriHos to their normal selves. Sue takes her Nationals trophy around to Will, with help from Santana and Brittany, to gloat about her victory. She performs backup vocals in Give up the Funk.
Brittany, along with the others, goes to Will's house to discuss song choices, but instead she tells them that Sue said, "I am going to crush glee club" which lowers their spirits. However, they all go to Regionals and she performs background vocals in Faithfully, Any Way You Want It/Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin', and Don't Stop Believin'. They lose at Regionals resulting in the disbandment of the glee club. As they are in the hospital with Quinn, she is seen looking down at her belly. But as a gift for Mr. Schuester, after all his hard work, they all decide to sing To Sir, With Love. After Sue asks Figgins not to end glee club he decides to keep it for an extra year and the news excites everyone including Brittany and Santana. During Over the Rainbow, Brittany and Santana look at each other and link their pinkies.
Personality
As a Cheerio, Brittany could be expected to come across as cruel, but she is generally a kind, generous, and caring person, although exceptionally naive and innocent to the point of being considered stupid, though she is very sensitive to this word, such as when she stood up for herself after Finn called her stupid, considering it as 'mean' and 'bullying.'
Although at the start of the series she demonstrated signs of bullying, in truth, any form of cruelty tends to spawn from the influences of her more mean-spirited fiends, such as Santana and for a time, Quinn, though often she's largely unaware of what she's really doing. In fact, her default personality and behavior, as previously mentioned, is far more kind and sympathetic, as demonstrated by her friendship with Becky, a girl with Down Syndrome. Brittany tends to treat Becky with respect and kindness, although some claim it's only because Becky lets her cheat in class. While proudly promiscuous, Brittany has an innocent and fragile demeanor. She depends on the guidance of others, most notably her best friend, Santana, to the point that during the summer holidays, she gets lost in the sewers on the way back from motocross practice. She has an aversion to violence, particularly between her friends.
As the ultimate "dumb blonde," Brittany speaks without any mental filter, often resulting in unexpected statements, such as, "I'm pretty sure my cat's reading my diary." She's even been known to weave up sentences that have little to no relation or relevance to each other. In "Britney 2.0," she even performed, what she thought was a voice-overm in her head at the start of the episode, not realizing that she was actually expressing the words out loud until Blaine pointed it out for her. She also expresses a lack of basic knowledge and common sense. This often results in her doing strange things such as attempting to put the toilet paper back on the rolls. She is, however, aware of her lack of intelligence as evidenced in Duets where she calls Puck dumb while laughing and saying, "And that's coming from me!" Brittany is an accomplished dancer and often helps to choreograph some of New Directions' routines. She has some childish characteristics such as believing in Santa with all her heart and is extremely gullible as evidenced when Artie convinced her that his comb was magical and would help the glee club when competing. Her kindness and childlike innocence can often be used against her, such as when she almost put her life on the line when Sue convinced her to launch herself of a human cannon to help "mama cannon" support her family during a Cheerleading competition.
Her best friend is Santana who is noticeably protective of Brittany and only Santana understands her childish actions. Brittany is the only bisexual character on the show. Brittany can be quite competitive as she stated in Makeover to Sam that she really wants to win.
Even though she is generally a very kind and sweet girl, Brittany will become angry at people who call her stupid. Brittany does not tolerate being bullied by other people. When Finn called her an idiot in Pot o' Gold she stood up for herself, telling Finn that it was mean and bullying and that she wouldn't accept it. She has revealed that everyone in school at one time or another had called her stupid or an idiot. She also claims that because Finn is one of the leaders of New Directions, which makes his insult even worse.
Brittany appears to still believe in fictional and imaginary people. She still believes that Santa Claus is an actual person who can grant any wish. She also believes that Irish people are leprechauns who cannot be seen by anyone except for her, and have the power to grant three wishes. By the end of Pot o' Gold, Brittany appears to have realized that leprechauns are only fictional people.
Brittany doesn't like seeing people sad and often shows sympathy towards people, especially her best friend Santana. This is shown in Silly Love Songs when Santana cries because the Glee club ganged up on her and Brittany comforts her. This is also shown in Blame It on the Alcohol when Santana cries because Mr. Schue says that around 400 people die a year from alcohol poisoning, and Brittany gives her a hug to calm her down. The same happens, in Prom Queen when Santana is upset about losing Prom Queen. Brittany also helps Santana cheering up Quinn in New York when Quinn is still upset about her break-up with Finn. Brittany looks sympathetic towards Tina when she has a very big break down in Silly Love Songs and also in A Night of Neglect when Tina cries after getting heckled off stage, and she comforts Sugar in Girls (and Boys) on Film when she's sad about Mr. Schue not going to pick a winner for the mash-up competition.
Sexuality
Brittany is notorious for being exceedingly promiscuous at McKinley High, having slept with many males and apparently females, though the only known female she has slept with is Santana as revealed in the episode Sectionals. In Bad Reputation, she claims to have made out with everyone in the school. She aims to hook up with as many people as she can, stating that she's made out with boys, girls, and one of the school's male janitors, as claimed in Bad Reputation, even inviting Kurt to 'tap this' in Laryngitis. While Brittany has only dated one girl, Santana, she has shown interest in other females in several episodes, such as in Audition where she claimed she wanted to touch Coach Beiste's boobs. She also was seen slow dancing with a girl at prom during Jar of Hearts in the episode Prom Queen.
Brit and Santana
The episode Britney/Brittany gave many hints about her sexuality, with being bi-sexual with Brittany having fantasies with her acting sexually during musical numbers towards both Carl Howell and Santana Lopez. During the episode, she also calls Britney Spears 'really hot' and gets overly excited when Rachel dresses up in Britney Spears' Baby One More Time outfit.
In Duets, Brittany and Santana are seen in bed together after making out with Santana kissing Brittany's neck. When Brittany says they should sing a duet in glee club of Melissa Etheridge's Come To My Window, Santana gets defensive and rejects Brittany, causing conflict between them. Brittany begins dating Artie Abrams to make Santana jealous while also denying Santana sex. However, after Brittany makes a catty remark towards Santana, she says, "I'm mad at you, but you're still so hot."
Her sexuality was never directly addressed until Sexy, where it is revealed that Brittany is still sleeping with Santana despite being attached to Artie. Brittany prompts Santana to have a conversation about their relationship, which Santana rejects. Eventually, though, the two consult Holly Holiday about their relationship. When Holly asks whether either of them thinks they may be a lesbian, Brittany states that she doesn't know because Santana refuses to talk about it. Later, when Santana admits she's in love with Brittany, Brittany tells her that she loves her too, but is also in love with Artie. In Born This Way, Brittany claims she 'thinks she's bi-curious', but as she is later seen trying to initiate a romantic relationship with Santana, it is made obvious that her feelings go deeper than curiosity. Brittany also urges Santana to come out of the closet in the following episodes.
In New York, when Santana asks about her relationship with Brittany, Brittany tells her that she loves Santana more than she has ever loved anyone before.
In I Am Unicorn, Brittany decides she wants to manage Kurt's campaign for class president, with the idea that students should celebrate being "unicorns," meaning that they're special and not afraid to show it. Eventually, with inspiration from Santana, Brittany decides to run for president herself, telling Kurt that she is a unicorn as well—or "maybe a bicorn," and thus confirming Brittany's bisexuality.
In Pot o' Gold, Santana and Brittany are seen out for dinner at Breadstix. Santana asks if they're on a date, and Brittany claims she thought that they were dating—since both Brittany and Santana are single, Brittany says she wanted to "mingle." Santana starts crying, and when Brittany asks why, Santana tells her that's she's just really happy. At the end of the scene, Santana tells Brittany, "I wish you'd hold my hand." Brittany takes her hand, and they both look happy, until Santana gets nervous and hides their joined hands under a napkin.
In Heart, Santana and Brittany are publicly dating. In the episode, the two share their first freely public on screen kisses (one in the hallway, and one at Breadstix during Cherish/Cherish). Apparently they have kissed in public before since Principal Figgins tells them that they've had multiple complaints about their PDA from somebody for religious reasons. They are now a fully out couple; the rest of Glee Club and the school at large knows their relationship.
In Prom-asaurus, Brittany is up for prom king (causing Sue to comment when reading her name, "That's weird"). She doesn't win, only receiving four votes; Santana refuses to accept winning prom queen if Brittany won't be her king.
Although it has been said many times that Brittany is bisexual, Santana says in Previously Unaired Christmas that they are both lesbians.
Relationships
Brittany and Santana were best friends with benefits (in Season One and Two) and they are girlfriends in Season Three. They're often seen linking their pinkies together and cuddling.
In Duets, they are seen on Brittany's bed. Santana is laying on Brittany kissing her neck, while Brittany rubs her back. Brittany says they should sing a duet together and says they could do "Come to My Window" by Melissa Etheridge, But Santana doesn't accept, and says that she's only with Brittany because Puck is in jail. Brittany then gets upset and starts dating Artie to make Santana jealous. In Sexy, Santana confesses to Brittany that she loves her and wants to be with only her. Brittany tells Santana that she loves her too, but has feelings for Artie as well and doesn't want to hurt him because it wouldn't be right. Brittany is seen supporting Santana in several situations. In Rumours, Santana sings Songbird with only the two of them in the room. Brittany wants her to come on Fondue for Two, so she can tell Santana how she feels, and then ask her to prom. Santana agrees. However, Santana doesn't show for the Fondue for Two episode. Afterwards, Jacob grills Santana about her relationship with Karofsky, as Brittany sadly watches. In Born This Way, Brittany tries to help Santana embrace her lesbian identity and prints her a misspelled T-shirt reading "Lebanese," that was supposed to read "Lesbian." Santana refuses to join in with the Gaga performance, but does wear the T-shirt. In New York, Brittany tells Santana that she loves her more than anyone in the world.
During Season Three, their relationship is further developed, starting with Pot o' Gold, where they're on a date at Breadstix and it is revealed that they are dating. In Heart, they have many demonstrations of affection and love throughout the episode. Brittany meets Santana by her locker with her laptop and shows the playlist she's made for her for Valentine's Day. Santana smiles at the gesture in adoration as the playlist contains a list of songs Brittany dedicates every time they spend their moments together and every time she thinks about her. The playlist also shows a picture of the cuddled up wrapped around in a love heart shape. They went to the Valentine's dance together and they kissed twice: at the lockers and at Breadstix. In Saturday Night Glee-ver, Brittany helps Santana finding a college in Louisville, where Santana ends up going after graduating. In Goodbye, while having Dinner with Santana and Santana's mom, Brittany told them she was not graduating, leaving Santana boring. They both look lovingly towards each other and very commonly show signs of affection such as hugging, holding hands, or cuddling. They usually share glances and happy smiles in every episode and are always seen together. Their relationship shows a lot of sweetness and love and even though they haven't talked much throughout the season on-screen you can see how much they love and care for each other through all their little signs of affection.
Season Four is a breakpoint in their relationship. In Britney 2.0, she has a breakdown and one of the reasons of it is that Santana left and she misses her so much since Santana is also her girlfriend and best friend and no one understands Brittany better than her. They break up in The Break-Up due to the long distance between them since Santana went to college, but Brittany is still in high school. In Glease, they reunite, Brittany says that she misses her and Santana confesses he only accepted the role in the musical, so she could see Brittany again. Both still seem sensitive. In Diva, Brittany gives Santana courage to follow her dreams and go to NYC. In All or Nothing, after knowing about Brittany's weird new behavior, Santana comes back to help her, showing how much they still care about each other and she tells her about MIT and at the end of the episode, Brittany says goodbye to Santana and the rest of her friends and how much she will miss them all.
In 100, Santana expresses her discomfort about the new, math-oriented way Brittany is acting. She convinces Brittany to perform Toxic with the Unholy Trinity and Valerie as a duet. Towards the end of the episode, Brittany admits to still wanting to be with Santana and kisses her. In New Directions, Brittany attempts to woo Santana with lilies and convince her to run away with her to Lesbos Island. Santana declines the offer. Later, after Brittany's official graduation, Santana finds her in the bathroom. She asks if Brittany will go home with her to New York after a vaction to Lesbos and Hawaii. Brittany says yes, they kiss and hug, and are presumably dating again.
In the Season Six episode Jagged Little Tapestry, Santana asks Brittany to marry her and she accepts, making them engaged. In episode A Wedding they got married.
Solos (In a Group Number)
| Season Two | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song | Episode | Solos with |
| Toxic | Britney/Brittany | Rachel, Santana, Tina and Will |
| Time Warp | The Rocky Horror Glee Show | Artie, Finn, Kurt, Mercedes, Quinn, Santana (album), and Tina |
| Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer | Never Been Kissed | Mercedes, Rachel, Santana and Tina |
| Marry You | Furt | Artie, Finn, Mike Quinn, Rachel, Sam, and Tina |
| The Most Wonderful Day of the Year | A Very Glee Christmas | Artie, Kurt (album), Quinn (episode), Sam and Tina |
| Loser Like Me | Original Song | Finn, Mercedes, Rachel and Santana |
| I Love New York/New York, New York | New York | Artie, Finn, Mercedes, Rachel and Santana |
| Light up the World | Artie, Finn, Rachel, Santana and Tina | |
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