Jump

Jump by Van Halen is featured in Mattress, the twelfth episode of Season One. It is sung by the New Directions, with Artie, Finn, Mercedes, and Rachel singing solos.

The song is sung while they film a commercial for the store Mattress Land that Rachel gets them cast in. It features the Glee kids jumping on multiple mattresses as well as singing, rolling, and flipping.

This later becomes a huge setback for New Directions on their way to Sectionals because Sue sees the commercial and tells Figgins about it. No glee club can compete if they have been paid for their activity, and as the kids got paid in mattresses, they shouldn't be allowed to compete because they have lost their amateur status. They give all the mattresses back, except for the one that Mr. Schue slept on (because of his break up with his wife Terri). The kids are still allowed to compete, but they are forced to compete without Mr. Schue, who, by sleeping on one of the mattresses, accepts "payment" for doing the commercial. Emma took them to sectionals in his place.

Lyrics[]

New Directions:
Pa pa pa pa pa pa ra pa pa ra ra (Finn: Ow!)
Pa pa pa pa pa pa ra pa pa ra ra
Pa pa pa pa pa pa ra pa pa ra ra
Pa pa pa pa pa pa ra pa pa ra ra
Oooh

New Directions Girls (New Directions Boys):
Jump (Oh), Jump (Oh), Jump (Oh), Jump

New Directions:
Pa pa pa pa pa pa ra pa pa ra ra

Finn:
I get up, and nothing gets me down

Finn with New Directions Boys:
You got it tough
I've seen the toughest around

Rachel with New Directions Girls:
And I know, baby just how you feel!

Finn and Rachel with New Directions:
You've got to roll with the punches
To get to what's real

Finn with New Directions Boys (New Directions Girls):
Oh can't you see me standing here
I've got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen (Ain't the worst that you've seen)
Oh can't you see what I mean? (Oh can't you see what I mean?)

Finn with New Directions:
Might as well jump, Jump!
Might as well jump
Go ahead, jump, Jump!
Go ahead and jump

New Directions Girls:
Aaa-ooh

Artie:
Hey you! (New Directions Girls: Who said that?)
Baby how you been?

Artie with New Directions:
You say you don't know
You won't know, until you begin

Artie with New Directions Boys (New Directions Girls):
Oh can't you see me standing here
I've got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen (Ain't the worst that you've seen)
Oh can't you see what I mean? (Oh can't you see what I mean?)

Mercedes:
Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah

Finn with New Directions:
Might as well jump. Jump!
Might as well jump.
Go ahead, jump. Jump!

Finn and Mercedes with New Directions:
Go ahead and jump

Mercedes:
Yeah! Hey yeah, yeah,
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

New Directions:
Jump!

Pa pa pa pa pa pa ra pa pa ra ra
Pa pa pa pa pa pa ra pa pa ra ra (Mercedes: Jump! Yeah!)

Finn with New Directions:
Might as well jump. Jump!
Might as well jump. Jump!
Go ahead and jump. Jump! (Mercedes: Hey! Hey! Yeah!)
Go ahead and jump. Jump!

New Directions:
Pa pa pa pa pa pa ra pa pa ra ra

New Directions Girls (New Directions Boys):
Jump (Oh), Jump (Oh), Jump (Oh), Jump

Mercedes:
Yeah!

Mercedes with New Directions:
Jump!

Trivia[]

This is the first time Artie is seen out of his wheelchair. It occurs while Matt and Rachel are jumping for him. However, he does appear throughout the song in his wheelchair holding up a sign that says "Jump."
Chris Colfer was accidentally kicked in the groin by Dianna Agron while rolling on a mattress and had also injured his neck while rehearsing the song.
The mattresses are actually trampolines. Zach Woodlee, Glee's choreographer, tried to make the performance on real mattresses, but it did not work.
Zach Woodlee said a lot of the choreography was just seeing what the cast members can do and just throwing that into the number.
Cory Monteith said his favorite part about this number was his scream at the opening of the song.
Jenna Ushkowitz, Dianna Agron, Mark Salling, and Chris Colfer recorded the backing vocals.