In 2009, no television show gave me more joy than Fox's high school musical, "Glee." The cheeky series about a ragtag Midwest school show choir struggling to make it to Sectionals and avoid getting Slushied in the hallways by the cool kids has delivered an arguably solid 13 episodes full of drama, forbidden romance, bitter rivalries, teen pregnancy, marital duplicity, show tunes and pop covers, and the full comic force of Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), the scariest villain to ever wear a two-piece track suit.

This week the first 13 episodes of "Glee" are being released to DVD, which should sate those of us going through withdrawals from now until the first season resumes four agonizingly long months from now. But why bring up a TV show on a movie site? Well, because once upon a time, "Glee" was conceived as a major motion picture.

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Would Glee: The Movie have worked? Writer and co-creator Ian Brennan first conceived of "Glee" as a film script based on his own experiences in high school before showrunner Ryan Murphy transformed it into a series. Watch all the episodes on "Glee – Volume 1: Road to Sectionals" back to back (although if you're a true Gleek you've got them all DVR'ed) and you get the sense that no two-hour movie could contain the exploits of the manic, Broadway-bound glee club star Rachel Berry (Golden Globe nominee Lea Michele), let alone a host of characters that include Cory Monteith's doofus quarterback, Chris Colfer's adorable, out of the closet Kurt, Dianna Agron's pregnant cheerleader, or the deliciously adversarial relationship between Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch, who are both also nominated for Golden Globes.

And then, there's the music. How much would we lose under the time constraints of a movie-length Glee? I live for seeing an offensive line of football players break into "Single Ladies," and for numbers like Lea Michele and guest star Kristen Chenowith singing "Maybe This Time" as dueling Sally Bowleses. Or for Kurt's "Defying Gravity," or Mercedes' "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."

Take it away to the comments below, Gleeks! Could "Glee" work as a film, or would it have become lost in a sea of High School Musicals watched only by tweens and musical theater junkies?