Community Season 4 Episode 13 Recap

Community

Season 4 Episode 13 Recap

Advanced Introduction to Finality

Wow, so this is it, the beginning of the end.  I got a little misty-eyed during this ep. I don’t want things to change, especially since they've been renewed. 

Jeff is finally graduating.  He’s offered a position at his old firm and he decides to take the job. The group plans a wedding-like graduation ceremony for him.  Later with Britta he says he’s worried about the group if he leaves, especially Abed.  Britta assures him Abed has made progress and hasn’t even brought up the darkest timeline.

The following day, Jeff pops in and discusses who gets the sodas by rolling for it. He tosses the die in the air and it lands on its side. Abed panics and leaves feeling this may have caused something. Later, while Dean Pelton has his back turned, a nearly naked Evil Jeff spawns in his office and runs out. As he is at his locker, Evil Annie appears with his mechanical arm. Evil Jeff plans to make Good Jeff take the job and leave his friends behind. Evil Jeff and Evil Annie set out to turn the group against Good Jeff. One by one, as he impersonates Good Jeff, he makes the group angry at him to where they don’t show up to the party. Abed is the only one to know that he has encountered Evil Jeff. Evil Jeff zaps Abed with a paintball warp gun and sends him to the darkest timeline.

Jeff shows up to his party where no one is there and he is confused when he see Annie in a tight, red, strapless dress.  She hands him his phone (the she stole earlier) and pushes him to call Mark and take his old job back. Jeff refuses. Evil Jeff shows up and attempts to send Good Jeff to the darkest timeline but at the last second, Chang jumps in front of the shot. Chang is never mentioned is this ep again.

In the darkest timeline, Abed finds Evil Abed or just regular Abed.  He dropped the evil and has focused on making his timeline brighter. Formerly Evil Abed equips Good Abed with warp paintball guns and sends him back to the good timeline.

Jeff finds the others and tries to explain that it’s Evil Jeff that insulted them. They don’t believe until Abed shows up with Evil Dean and zaps him to the darkest timeline as a demonstration.  The group arms themselves and hurries off to the cafeteria.

In the cafeteria, the Evil gang is already there looking for them. Evil Pierce gets tricked into zapping himself back to his timeline. Evil Britta clumsily does the same. The Shirleys, the Troys, and the Annies take on one another with the Good version winning in each scene. It comes down to Jeff versus Evil Jeff. With Abed’s telling Jeff that none of this is real, Jeff comes out to face Evil Jeff. Evil Jeff shoots and Good Jeff stops the bullet with his mind and then zaps Evil Jeff. Jeff plucks the paintball out of the air and is now back in the study room holding the die. He realizes it doesn’t matter who brings sodas or what as long as he celebrates with friends.

The next scene is Jeff’s graduation ceremony which is extremely similar to a wedding ceremony. The Greendale Human Being is standing next to Jeff, for some reason, and Dean is officiating. The ceremony is interrupted by Pierce who has decided that he wants to graduate first.

At the reception, Jeff thinks he may take a job at a local firm. If he does, he can pop in any time and visit the group. Man, that sounds so final. I haven’t really prepared myself to let go.

High Points

Dean Pelton had the best lines and delivery this episode. “Oooh, burn on Britta” “Catherine do not EVEN tell me you dropped that cake!” Those are just a couple of gems uttered by my favorite character. 

Predictions

Well since Chang is in the Darkest Timeline,  I think Evil Chang might come through and wreak havoc.

Any other predictions that I didn't think of?

Community Season 4 Episode 11 Recap

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Season 4 Episode 11 Recap

"Basic Human Anatomy"

This past Thursday’s ep was hilars. One of the funniest ones so far. It opened with the group deciding what their group project for history was going to be. They decide on banners because Jeff wants “doable and passable” and also Annie and Shirley both want an A since they are both in the running for valedictorian.

Shirley mentions that it’s Britta and Troy’s anniversary of their first date. Of course Britta and Troy don’t even remember their anniversary and were put on the spot.  But Troy does remember that it’s third anniversary of Abed and he watching Freaky Friday. As a gift, he presented Abed a slew of body switching movies. Abed rifles through them and comes across the original "Freaky Friday". Both lament how the other has it easier and they both grab the DVD and fake body switching as a janitor flips the switch on and off during a “routine light switch check”.

The following morning Troy and Abed start the day as if they had switched bodies. This means that Abed is really going on the date with Britta. And by the way, Donald Glover did an outstanding job playing Troy-as-Abed. Danny Pudi didn’t impress me as much playing Abed-as-Troy but he’s so great in everything else that this is forgivable.

Jeff is irritated at the bit that Troy and Abed have committed to and he finds the dean. Dean tricks him into saying the same phrase as Troy and Abed and holds the DVD with Jeff. He does a fake body switch of his own with Jeff looking at him weirdly. Another “routine light switch check” goes on while this happens.  Jim Rash nailed it as Jeff!  He had the deep voice, the arrogance and even pretended to be on a Blackberry. After Jeff leaves, Annie and Shirley show up to find out why Leonard is ahead of them in the running for valedictorian. Dean-as-Jeff tells them Leonard has been taking easy classes and Annie is visibly attracted to him. I gotta admit………..so was I. Dean-as-Jeff rips off his shirt and hunts down Leonard who leaves. Not sure if that meant he was dropping out of school or what.

Abed-as-Troy is on the date with Britta and she slowly starts to realize that this bit is just Troy acting out because he doesn’t know how to break up with her. I kind of felt bad for Britta.

Jeff finds Troy-as-Abed and tries to get him to drop the bit. Realizing that he has to play along, he goes with Troy-as-Abed to find the missing DVD so they can “switch” back. While searching for the DVD Troy-as-Abed starts talking about how Troy wants to break up with Britta. Jeff is moved and takes Troy-as-Abed to the restaurant where Britta and Abed-as-Troy are on their date. The duo holds on to the DVD (that Troy pulls out of the backpack because he had it the entire time) and they switch back. Jeff succumbs to the bit and does the routine light switch check at the restaurant.

Everyone goes back to the study room to find that Pierce has done the project and it turned out pretty good.  We close with Britta and Troy hugging and knowing that everything is okay. This will ensure that there will be no awkwardness in future episodes.

With Chevy leaving the show, Pierce had a small part in the episode. The phasing out continues. If the next episodes are as funny as this one, then it won't be as painful. 

Again, I loved this episode. It had some of the formulas that worked in previous eps:

• Jeff was being cynical, sarcastic, selfish and on the blackberry. Then he has a revelation towards the end and shares his nuggets of wisdom with the others.
• Troy and Abed were awesomely weird.
• Annie was wound tightly. Yay!

High Points:

The Dean’s monologue about “body switching” with Jeff and referring to Jeff being “inside” of him had me dying!

Predictions:

The race between Annie and Shirley is going to get ugly.

There you have it Delta Cubes, looks like we are back on track. I knew it would get better. Next episode let’s all wear Delta Cube shirts while watching it. Just kidding, looking for a Delta Cube shirt sounds like work. But, I’ll probably make popcorn or something.