I was extremely excited to get back to the adventures of
my favorite study group. Since I started
watching Community about a month ago I haven’t gone more than a couple of days
without watching at least one episode.
In most cases I watched three or four at a time, don’t judge. The show is that addicting. To be honest, if it wasn’t for this blog I’d
still be watching right now. Hooray for
productivity!
One of the aspects of the show I really like is how the
show remains character driven. Community
isn’t just about the antics of a study group at Greendale Community
College. Their antics are always driven
by the characters.
In this episode Greendale opens a Subway in their
cafetorium, which sends Shirley and Pierce on a war path to shut it down since
they had wanted to open their own sandwich shop in the cafetorium. Britta is dragged into their scheme when the
gang learns that one of the students has changed his name to Subway, which
allows Subway to open a branch at the school.
Britta, being Britta, is outraged that a corporation would be allowed to
turn a person into a puppet of their corporation and wants to rebel against
them.
Another story line emerges when Troy and Abed, recently
kick out of their apartment which is being fumigated, decide to build a pillow
fort, but when Troy wants to turn their pillow fort into a blanket/pillow fort
to beat a world record they turn against each other.
Meanwhile, Jeff realizes, after two and a half years,
that the students have lockers. When he
and Annie open his locker for the first time they find a hate letter to
Jeff. He spends the rest of the episode
trying to come to terms with being disliked by “Kim,” who left him the
letter.
All of these storylines lead to crazy antics including
Pierce, played by the great Chevy Chase, drinking ink from pens because he
thinks they’re mini-flasks, Troy and Abed starting a war between the pillow
fort and the blanket fort, and Jeff hunting down Kim to learn about how
inconsiderate he is to people.
As always, this episode is very well written. The writers always amaze me with their
ability to structure an episode, which I respect because that is something I
would like to get better at in my own writing.
This post is abnormally short, but Community has only
half hour episodes so I don’t have quite as much to say other than I can’t wait
until next week when I get to watch “Blankets and Pillows,” in which the
blanket and pillow war will come to a climax.
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