McGinty, one of the two winners of The Glee Project top prize of a seven-episode recurring character role on Glee, makes his first appearance in this episode as Rory Flanagan, an Irish exchange student [REF].
Additional recurring guest stars appearing in this episode include Menzel as Shelby Corcoran, Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba), Kurt's father Burt Hummel, Burt's wife and Finn's mother Carole Hudson-Hummel (Romy Rosemont), student Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies), and TV news co-anchors Rod Remington (Bill A. Jones) and Andrea Carmichael (Earlene Davis) [REF].