"Intro to Felt Surrogacy"
aka The Puppet Episode
We open in the study room where the gang avoids eye contact
with one another and no one is speaking. Dean busts through the door and suggests
puppet therapy to discuss what happened and for us to discover what happened
too.
They reveal that they were tired of being in a rut and
decided to go on an adventure. The puppets get on a hot air balloon that the
guide manages to miss. They’re all
frightened and think death is near. Then the balloon begins to descend. They
end up in a wooded area and mountain man played by Jason Alexander (with
longish hair) shows up and gives them berries that make them hallucinate.
This is all being told to Dean and Shirley is the first to
reveal her secret that she spilled that night.
So that’s what it was about, everyone’s awkward secrets. They all look at Shirley with surprised faces
and come to find out, no one heard her secret. As the group discusses what
happened they find that no one heard one another’s secrets. Everyone but Shirley
is relieved. Shirley pulls a guilt trip and now they have to reveal their
awkward skeletons in their closet.
I’m not even going to get into what the secrets were because
I was a little disappointed in this episode. It felt like a rush ep to replace
another one that had gotten trashed. Or as my friend Alex said “They’re just
phoning it in”. Pierce was notably absent in this ep, except in puppet form
which does go with my theory that this was a rush episode.
Community will get a pass from me on this one because I know
they can do way better than this and there had to be circumstances unbeknownst to
us as to why this was shot and aired.
I still have love for them! It sometimes gets worse before it gets better. Until next time Greendalers.
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