Shouldn't 7-Eleven be into this slushee-in-the-face 'Glee' action?

Of all the indignities raining down on the teenagers at William McKinley High School, the slushee facial may just be the worst. It's cold, humiliating, public and sticky. And it requires "patience, persistence and Palmolive" to remove. The scars, well, they last longer. Such is life in the hallways of Glee, the hit Fox show where the fictional drink dubbed the Big Quench is as much a star as rap songs from the '80s. The musical dramedy, which has helped propel the network's strong fall season, has made the Big Quench the ultimate arbiter of who's in and who's out. (And as we learned this week, it's one thing for the Glee Club nerds to get a slushee in the face, but it's a shocking mighty-have-fallen moment when the formerly cool kids get doused with ice pellets and corn syrup.) There's no connection, at least formally, to 7-Eleven's Big Gulp or its Slurpee, though the resemblance is unmistakable. Maybe there's a tie-in possibility? There was some overlap when a character took a big swig and claimed he had "brainfreeze." Careful, Mr. Schue, that's trademarked. He probably had the regular old brain freeze (the unbranded kind).

—Posted by T.L. Stanley