page_title: Goodbye (Glee)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Goodbye (Glee) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Gloria Estefan in 2009.
context_page_description: "Goodbye" is the twenty-second episode and season finale of the third season of the American musical television series Glee, and the sixty-sixth overall. Written and directed by Brad Falchuk, it aired on Fox in the United States on May 22, 2012. It features the graduation of the McKinley High class of 2012, and with it, eight members of the New Directions glee club. The episode introduces special guest star Gloria Estefan as Maribel Lopez, Santana's mother, and has appearances by six other parents of graduating seniors.
  The episode was well received by many reviewers, though some were not as happy with it. The enthusiastic ones cited the combination of humor and tears, past events and present revelation, while those who were more critical felt there was not enough time to wrap up all the storylines or that it strayed into sappiness. Particular praise was given to the scene with Burt and Kurt Hummel that featured the former's "Single Ladies" number, which was the favorite performance of the reviewers, and the scene when Finn tells Rachel he's sending her to New York instead of marrying her, which was described as Monteith's and Michele's best acting on the show.
context_section_description: The season's final episode was written and directed by series co-creator Brad Falchuk. Shooting began on April 30, 2012, and was scheduled to take two weeks. The cast recorded their final vocal tracks for the episode's songs on April 21, 2012, and the final scene was shot late on the evening of May 10, 2012.
  Some scenes for the episode have been filmed on location in New York City. Falchuk tweeted two photos on the evening of Monday, May 7, 2012. One was a photo of Lea Michele sitting on a suitcase on a sidewalk, along with the message, "Two from yesterday. Yep. NYC Sunday, back in LA Monday."
  It was originally announced that this episode would include eight songs from the album Glee: The Music, The Graduation Album. However, only five of the album's tracks are used in the episode, none of which have been released separately as singles. These are Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" performed by Monteith and Salling, Madonna's "I'll Remember" performed by Colfer, New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" performed by the graduating members of New Directions, Rod Stewart's "Forever Young" performed by Morrison, and Room for Two's "Roots Before Branches" performed by Michele and Monteith. The episode also has new performances of three songs that are not on the album. "In My Life" by The Beatles, performed by the non-graduating members of New Directions, is the only song that has been released as a single available for digital download. The other two are repeat performances of "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from Guys and Dolls, first sung in the series' pilot by Colfer, Michele, Kevin McHale, Ushkowitz and Riley, and Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" from "Preggers", performed by O'Malley, Ushkowitz, and Morris; both numbers include flashbacks to the original performances, which for "Single Ladies" included Colfer rather than O'Malley. There is another flashback to the pilot episode showing Monteith's a cappella performance of "Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon.
  Gloria Estefan makes a special guest appearance as Maribel Lopez, the mother of Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera). Estefan was reported to be in talks to play Santana's mother as early as November 30, 2011, the morning after the episode "I Kissed a Girl" aired. After the episode, in which Santana comes out as a lesbian and her grandmother—the only relative of hers shown on screen—disowns her, though Santana says her parents accepted the news, Estefan tweeted, "Did anyone see Glee last night? Santana could really use a sympathetic mommy right about now, don't you think?? Lol!" Estefan was definitively reported as having signed to be a guest star on December 8, 2011, and as being scheduled to appear in one of the then-upcoming winter episodes, but this episode marks her debut on the show.
  Many recurring guest stars appeared in the episode. These include glee club members Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet), Joe Hart (Samuel Larsen), Rory Flanagan (Damian McGinty) and Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies), Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba), football coach Shannon Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones), synchronized swimming coach Roz Washington (NeNe Leakes), European geography teacher Eleanor Doosenbury (Kathleen M. Darcy), and the parents of many other graduating students: Kurt's father Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley), Finn's mother Carole Hudson-Hummel (Romy Rosemont), Mike's parents Michael Chang, Sr. (Keong Sim) and Julia Chang (Tamlyn Tomita), Quinn's mother Judy Fabray (Charlotte Ross) and Puck's mother (Gina Hecht). James Lipton of the Actors Studio makes an appearance as himself.
  On August 6, 2012, co-creator Ryan Murphy uploaded a deleted scene from this episode to YouTube in which Kurt reads a message Rachel wrote in his yearbook. On August 9, 2012, Murphy uploaded a second deleted scene, this one featuring Mike and Tina, in which Mike's parents give him a graduation present. Murphy noted that the episode had initially run "15 minutes long", and these were two of the scenes that were cut from the finished version.
caption: Although Gloria Estefan (pictured) was reported to have signed to play Santana's mother in early December 2011, her debut was in the season finale
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