TV DeathRay Archive

I’m just gonna come right out and say it: Community owns Halloween. For two years in a row, the show has delivered some mighty fine TV around Halloween time. Last year, a drugged-out Pierce dressed up as the Beast Master, a Day of the Dead celebration almost turned deadly, and Abed swooped in to save the day wearing a Batman costume. This year — Zombies!

I loved how the zombie attack on Greendale didn’t turn out to be a dream or a hallucination someone was having after eating too many candy fangs or fun size Snickers. Dean Pelton accidentally served everyone finger food laced with an experimental agent that turned the entire student body into zombies. That’s right, zombies are (sorta) cannon on Community! And the only one who could stop them was (Surprise!) Troy.

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Community knows exactly how to woo my little nerd heart.

‘Basic Rocket Science’ wasn’t quite as clever as last season’s chicken finger mafia episode, and it lacked the ambition of ‘Modern Warfare,’ but it was still pretty damn amazing. This was one of the best, funniest and nerdiest eps of the series so far.

I guess you could file this one under the “gimmick” pile or whatever we’re supposed to dub these insane concept eps. A lot of the funny came from the non-stop movie and pop culture references — Armageddon, Apollo 13, Galaxy Quest and old school KFC commercials to name a few – but the story also spoke to the heart of the series. It was all about teamwork.

Community follows a group of very different people united by their shared hopes, dreams and, well, failures. They might all be sidetracked losers stuck in a low rent community college, but this ep reminded us that they’re a team, and they’re better off working together than alone. I know that sounds a little flowery but, thankfully, Community never gets to gooey or overly sentimental.

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Jeff faced his own mortality as Pierce refused to face his mother’s death on last night’s Community. Actually, Pierce refused to accept the idea that his mother’s “body vapors” wouldn’t live on forever inside of a goofy-looking lava lamp. Of course he did — this is Community we’re talking about, people!

While the boys dealt with their meta-issues, Britta and Annie decided to raise funds to support the cause-of-the-week at Greendale – the Gulf oil spill. It was fun to see the show kinda sorta address the whole “Who’s hotter, Annie or Britta?” question and even give us its own silly version of an answer: They’re pretty much equally hot, but the boys like Annie better because of her impossibly bubbly personality and her excellent posture.

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