it was that combined with the slow-motion moment that reminded me of the run-up to Wild Bill's end. but i hear ya

this is the scream I feel inside me when I see that: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

and recognizes all the timelines exist, too!

i completely agree. also, keep in mind that they have 20 minutes to make an awesome spoof/ensemble piece AND lick the Germans at the same time..er, creatively provide just enough detente to delay the conflict's emotionally messy fallout for another time. the writers certainly aren't going to hit full reset and forget…

one little thing i found so intriguing about CFS was that Abed and the guy who played Andre in My Dinner with Andre looked so similar…not to mention *were so similar in character. I could almost imagine one of the writers being like…'you know who looks and is eerily similar to Abed? Andre from My Dinner with!'

so did anyone who went back to watch the first part notice at the end the Deadwood-like twangy music in the Deadwood-like slow-mo look of inner turmoil Troy and Abed gave each other right after the war broke out? i'm convinced of this allusion…maniacal laugh

if this episode's tag is not foreshadowing [in the Troy vs the air conditioning story], i don't know what is

Right, but what he chooses to think from the facts and the actual mechanism at work here is highly suspect and self-serving. He doesn't seem to look at the problem and suggest anything - in all his mathematical wisdom - to do about it; instead, it's segregation he suggests…'cause that worked?

"You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice."

boy does he draw all the wrong conclusions. you say he's good at math? how about the compounding effects of systematic poverty?

yayyy SnB with the killing blow!

you've got me thinking about how reading Todd's reviews of this show is sometimes a bit of a kick in the head…like the last two or three, which have been about Community's central tension of reality vs fantasy and how that plays out in people's actual lives. maybe it's because i'm a 25-year-old and have an abed-like…

right.fucking.on

and by somewhat compelling, you mean fully up its own ass? a lot of bells and whistles to disguise some half-assessment of Community's characters without so much as a probing look at the distance between BBT's nerd-otherness and the sitcom-sacrifices to mass appeal.

so much fail here. for one, jeff is definitely someone who had his lunch money stolen. he's a hipster. QED

you're late, so i'm not paying! *thumbs his bass

a little something to go with Todd's idea that Deadwood and Community are linked: i re-watched the 1st part of this pair, and at the end i noticed music that could have been a dead ringer for the Deadwood theme music, in a slow-motion moment of helplessness and chaos that could have come from season 1 Deadwood…perhaps…

funny little detail about Leonard in this episode: the first time we see him, a caption gives his name and the fact that he was in the Korean War. The caption disappears for a moment, and when it reappears, it updates his info to say Leonard fought on the North Korean side!!! that was a real wtf moment for me…it…

re-watching the episode with this in mind, i saw this is true. a lot of these jokes - like for the go-fish surprise attack - needed near perfect direction, as well.

I didn't feel that way about the narration. In fact, I thought the smart alecky stuff worked well for the show, especially when implying that Britta is the worst - *Britta fails to snap a shot of Troy's agony, takes instead a photo of her nose from below* "Yeah, gee, that's a good one." [Priest whispers, "You're the…