Since last week was October 19th, that makes this week Halloween. Vicki's having a big party, and everyone but Pierce is invited, since she hates him for screwing her over during the election for student president back in season two. As such, everyone's in costume. Jeff had planned a couples' costume for himself and Annie, but due to a miscommunication, he's dressed as a boxer, and her ring girl costume is the freaky girl from The Ring.
Shirley's Leia, Abed and Troy are Calvin and Hobbes, and Britta is a ham. |
He made the right choice. |
Dun dun dunnnnnnn. |
Meanwhile, Abed and Annie search some other room. I'm not sure which one, though. The map says they're in the library, but their dialogue indicates that they're somewhere else.
Maps can be confusing, even to the graphics department. |
The final team consists of Shirley and Troy. They're looking for the library, but Troy can't remember where it is. Instead, he leads them to Pierce's "secret gym" filled with leather collars and other workout gear.
He's not using that swing properly. |
Elsewhere, while discussing the issues he has with his father, Jeff reveals the fact that he's had his dad's phone number for three weeks. Britta tries to snatch it from him so she can help heal his heart holes, but he flees and locks himself in Cornelius Hawthorne's bedroom. He settles in for a few swigs of the old man's scotch and discovers the notebook with the door code, but then the room starts flipping out, Poltergeist style. As does the wall behind Troy.
I don't see what the big deal is, it just wants to give him a hug. |
Pierce quickly reseals the panic room with everyone inside and tries to explain that he doesn't know what's going on, but no one believes him. He tries to keep Jeff from opening the door, but it doesn't matter: Someone starts opening it from the outside. The door slides open and reveals the killer:
Although, I guess he *technically* hasn't killed anyone. |
Awwwwwww. |
What I Liked
-Pierce has a portrait of Ty Webb in his bedroom.
Caddyshack was an awesome movie. |
This week's best line: "Ghosts can't go through doors, stupid. They're not fire."-Pierce
What I Hated
-More hashtags. This week they included #HappyValloween, #GhostDad, and #GilbertRturns. I'm no longer sure whether they're doing it ironically or not. Either way, it's dumb as hell.
-The whole map thing is screwed up. It shows characters in the wrong places, and is always missing icons. It was a cool idea, but I guess they couldn't find a way to execute it properly.
-The tag during the credits with Troy and Abed engaging in secret room hijinks was pretty lame.
Final Thoughts
I got really stuck on the idea that Troy was Tigger, so it took me forever to figure out what Abed's costume was. Calvin and Hobbes has been gone for 17 years now, which means today's young people have never heard of it, and it is, therefore, officially obscure.
The ending was really abrupt and came out of nowhere. Giancarlo Esposito is everywhere, but I honestly didn't expect to see him back on Community again. If they were trying to genuinely surprise the audience, I'd say they did a good job, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea in the first place.
I've watched it a few times and I'm still not sure whether I liked it or hated it, but Annie's creepy Ring girl crawl was creepy.
That part in The Ring where she comes out of the TV legitimately freaked me out the first time I saw it. |
Speaking of character development, I'm no longer sure what the deal is with Jeff and Annie. I was under the impression that they settled things last season when the line "And we're gonna sleep together" from Jeff's fantasy turned out to be completely wrong. However, they planned on wearing matching costumes, and he wanted hers to basically be a bikini. While I do fully appreciate and condone attempting to get Alison Brie to walk around scantily clad, that's not exactly the sort of thing you do with a friend who you have no interest in. The whole "will they-won't they" thing has become tiresome, not only on this show, but in general. Annie is an attractive, young, college-going woman and because the writers need her to have sexual tension with Jeff, she hasn't had a boyfriend or even a date that I can remember since the first season. Far be it from me to decry the lack of realism on Community of all shows, but that's as fantastical as Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas.
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