Yet another Community post

Oh hai Annie!


So I recently picked up Season two of "Community" from Netflix and realized that I had missed one of the episodes when the season first premiered. After watching 'Critical Film Studies' I was absolutely blown away. I think it's safe to say that it has officially replaced the Dungeons and Dragons episode as my favorite. Granted it isn't as action packed as the three painball episodes, it doesn't have the same elements of humor that most every other episode has, but what it lacks in all of that it makes up for by being a really well written story.

Now most of you would assume that I am probably most like Jeff Winger being that I am incredibly handsome, I could charm the pants off of a horse being led to water (Idioms!), and I seem to have chemistry with everyone I meet, but you would be wrong. I actually relate more to Abed.

The episode starts out with Jeff meeting Abed in a really swanky restaurant for dinner on Abed's birthday. Abed is completely out of character in that he is charming, personable, and actually expresses emotions. It's an Abed we never see and it actually quite jarring to both the audience and Jeff. During the dinner Jeff and Abed have Abed's first actual conversation and Jeff reveals some very disturbing things about himself, yet another reason why I love this episode... In the beginning Jeff was portrayed as this egotistical perfectionist leading man character but in 'Critical Film Studies' we actually see past all of the cool to the mess of a human being inside. Anyway, somewhere along the line Jeff realizes that Abed isn't trying to break free of the pop culture obsessed robot that he has been since day one, he's simply doing an homage to "My Dinner with Andre". Then later in the episode we get a real glimpse into the reason why Abed chose to pay tribute to that particular movie. The movie itself is about a man who has an unexpectedly pleasant evening with a friend he has been avoiding for quite some time. Abed felt that because everyone around him was growing and changing, a feat he was incapable of doing, that he was going to lose his friends. It's an incredibly touching moment between the two characters without being heavy handed.

Of course there are still some of the same elements in the episode that make Community a fantastic show; Troy being ridiculous, Annie being adorable, Pierce being insensitive, Shirley being cloyingly sweet, and no one liking Britta, but the focal point of the episode is the relationship between Jeff and Abed.

I realize this entire post has been lacking in the hatred/humor you've come to expect from me so here is an animated gif of Troy crying which has got to be one of the funniest things on Community when it happens. Enjoy!