I haven’t seen them all yet, but I’ll be very surprised if the fall collection of new prime-time series offers anything more enjoyable than “Glee.”

Deceptively simple in concept but brilliant in execution, this hour-long, single-camera comedy from Fox skewers not only small-town high school life, but small-town existence itself, not to mention marriage American-style, the housing foreclosure crisis and, holiest of holies (in some circles), high school celibacy clubs. (“Glee” airs at 9 p.m. Wednesdays on KSWB/Cable 5. An extended version of the pilot, which first aired last May, airs at 8:58 p.m. this Wednesday, Sept. 2. New episodes begin Sept. 9.)

Created by Ryan Murphy, who gave us the diabolical and dark-as-midnight “Nip/Tuck,” the equally sunny “Glee” seems to begin with the notion that if young viewers are so entranced with “High School Musical,” why not give them a fresh one every week. Add a few adolescent romantic complications, secondary school intrigue, backstage backstabbing, a middle-age crisis or two, recruit an effervescent cast, and you’ve got a winning combination.

To top it all off, add the inimitable Jane Lynch (“Best in Show,” Julia Child’s sister in “Julie and Julia”) as Sue Sylvester, the take-no-prisoners faculty head of the cheerleading squad. Tall and blonde, swaggering through the set like a Marine drill sergeant, Sue brooks no dissent and tosses around politically incorrect phrases like “cripple in a wheelchair” as carelessly as a teenager dropping a taco wrapper on the sidewalk. Lynch is irresistible, in a good way.

Sue is locked in combat with Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), the earnest if naive teacher who hopes to revive McKinley High’s moribund glee club. Any school resources that go to the glee clubbers, she fears, any attention they receive, any recruits they attract, will be won at the expense of her cheerleaders. Best move for Will, she advises, is to “do the same thing with your depressing group of kids that I did with my wealthy mother - euthanize it.”

But Will has faith in his half-dozen misfits. After all, every one of them sings and dances better than most of the finalists in any given edition of “American Idol.” Otherwise, the kids in “Glee” couldn’t perform two or three such professionally polished musical numbers – where they seem to singing with the voices of 15 or 20 – in every episode.

If it’s a realistic picture of a high school glee club you want, you’ve come to the wrong place.

But one aspect of the plot is eerily true-to-life. When Will and his relentlessly acquisitive wife, Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig), go house-hunting, and the real estate agent beams seductively, “Welcome to your little slice of the American dream,” it’s hard not to shudder in apprehension. The foreboding builds as quickly and darkly as a tornado careening toward a trailer park.

We all know too well what has happened to that dream in the past couple of years. If we’ve forgotten already, Will is there to remind us: “There are nine foreclosures on our street, why can’t we buy one of those at half the price?”

Terri will not be deterred. She wants the house, complete with grand foyer -- $14,000 extra – and sun deck – another $24,000: “No matter what, I want my grand foyer!”

There's nothing in any horror movie half as frightening as Terri Schuester, and Will is justifiably terrified of what the future holds.

His fears, like Terri herself, and the pangs of jealousy harbored by innumerable high school sweethearts, grow more intense in future episodes.

In another couple of weeks, we’ll see more of one Glee member, the indubitably gay Kurt (Chris Colfer). He’ll convince his macho and very dubious dad that he’s only wearing a black sequined leotard because he’s gone out for football and that’s what the players are wearing this year.

Kurt, we’ll see, can do more than sing and dance.