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powerhour24 said:
This past episode was all kinds of bizarre, and while hilarious (particularly the Dean, clearly the MVP here) and well executed (barring perhaps the twist at the end, just because it's out of place in this particular episode) it feels a bit early for them to go concept episode given all the heavy lifting they set up with the first two episodes and what the end of this one sets up for next week.

I was a bit mystified at first, thinking I was overthinking the David Fincher-ness of it all but, but it became clear pretty early. Granted, serial killer films are clearly the "genre" here, but the bulk of it is Fincher and I have a feeling that more than any other parody they've ever done stuff went over the audience's head, including many of their crazy cult level fans.

The set up is clearly Zodiac (the "killer" gleefully writing to the authorities, the detectives becoming obsessed with an ultimately unsolvable case, Annie realizing she's talking to a likely suspect once she's already alone with him, etc.) but there are a lot of other direct references to Fincher's work (down to Shirley's kids singing a version of Radiohead's "Creep" that's very similar to the one that scored the teaser trailer for The Social Network) including Seven. The fact that it's raining all the damn time, doing library research while playing the same Bach piece that Morgan Freeman's character did, the chase scene with Star Burns at the end, there's a lot of Seven in it.

It's a bit convoluted though, first off Zodiac, while an incredible film, was a flop and isn't all that highly seen, so hinging the whole thing on that as a parody was interesting when Fincher has a more recent and widely known serial killer mystery in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that's more widely seen and not really referenced here; but also it throws in a lot of other references to other serial killer things like Red Dragon (the opening credits mirror Red Dragon's) and the tv version of Hannibal is referenced with the antlers in the stable scene, and when Abed goes on his rant about mildly autistic detectives on broadcast and cable tv (and then proceeded to delete episodes of Hannibal and The Bridge from his DVR).
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It's a Fincheresque hodge-podge of that whole sub-genre. No need to think it all has to be one focused parody.
 
True, just seems like they should have either gone full Fincher (too obscure) or erred more on referencing more of the sub-genre since it's about 90/10 Fincher/other things.
 
"I've never been to LegoLand, I just wanted you guys to think I was cool." (recalls the buddy cop episode)

"I finally found what I've been searching for all these years... millions of dollars"

:lol:

:sad:
 
I liked last week's episode a touch more* even with the weirdly discordant ending, but this episode had stone-cold perfect banter. The semen delivery slayed me.

*lie detector as plot device for uncovering truth? you might as well have hooked up the kids in The Breakfast Club and started interrogating them to skip to the end ITS MORE EFFICIENT
 
Loooooved this episode. I hadn't felt this way about an episode since Season 3. Gave me that old Community feeling. Just rapid fire brilliance. Great stuff.
 
I'd be lying if I said I didn't get a bit emotional during the goodbyes at the end. It's going to be really weird without him but, what can you do? Lovely partings.

Also, Britta has been killing it this season.
 
I haven't watched any of this season, but happened upon it last night and decided to watch. Glad I did.
 
"By the way, when I cloned you I had to patch some missing parts of your DNA with genes from a homing pigeon. You may notice side effects, like a compulsion to come back."

I'm still sad. :sad:
 
Britta's been the secret MVP for the past 2 years. I don't count the gas leak year.
 
Brie Larson :love:

My favorite bit here was easily the Game of Thrones stuff. To the spoiler goes the victory. The rest of it was kinda just there.
 
Disagree, this episode was pretty hilarious and season 1-like, but it was so slight and disjointed and seems weird that there's no reverberations from Troy leaving, and doesn't portend well to the character heft the show can have after losing characters so quickly. Hickey works well and Duncan and Chang are fine for background bits but none of them belong in the core group or have much potential for depth/resonance that I see at the moment.

This alone makes the episode hilarious:

IT'S A BEAR DANCE! - YouTube
 
I agree that the show has lost something without Troy/Pierce...Shirley never counted as an important character since she isn't funny or compelling, so it's like half the regular cast has left the building. It's just weird to have all of this extra Duncan/Chang material in particular when there isn't a solid reason to connect them to the other characters (especially Duncan since he was pretty much MIA from Season 2-4).

I did laugh my ass off at Annie being amazed that Hickey figured out that the janitors wanted their porn unblocked. So naive. :lol:
 
Also I strongly disagree about Shirley, sometimes she isn't handled the best but she can be an emotional character and very very funny. Plus, she and Jeff are possibly the show's greatest pairing, though they know to use that combo sparingly.
 
Shirley has always been my least favourite, although she has had her moments. Yvette Nicole Brown plays her really well.

Her best moment was the Xmas/Glee episode. The moment she gets converted by those school kids is so fucking funny.
 
It's a very well acted character but not a particularly well written one from a comedic standpoint. She is certainly the character given the least to do.
 
Imperor said:
Think the last one I watched was Donald's departure.
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Same with me. Not surprised it got cancelled. A shame, but the fourth season was awful and probably killed any passion I had for the show (along with Donald leaving).

Still, the first three season were fucking amazing.
 
I quite enjoyed season 5. It ended with a whimper but there were some quality episodes, even after Donald left.
 
I've only began watching Community recently, near the end of season 3, and I hear tell due to Dan Harmon not being with the show in season 4 that it gets kinda crap. Is there anything worth watching in season 4 or can I just skip straight to 5 with maybe the first and last episode of 4 to keep with continuity?
 
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