CRISIS ALERT! My man gets Dr. Duncan’s best burn (poor John Lennon), has the whole school rally around him (even if it didn’t work, Kim), just wants ice cream, and is the weatherman we all deserve. “It’s still sunny,” told in such an exasperated tone never fails to lighten my spirit. Garrett, when God made you, it was the best spill he’d ever done.

Hi Human Beings! I'm getting ready to do a model un conference and managed to snag a spot in a Community-themed room (yay!). I've been assigned Russell Borchert, and I have to help solve two problems: Subway returning to take over Greendale, and the return of the Ass Crack Bandit. In this committee, the aim is to create an interesting arc for your character that you fulfill across the days, hopefully consolidating power and stirring up chaos while remaining on topic. Any ideas for a cool arc I can make Russell go through?

"I'm gettin' rid of Britta!" -Vaughn

"Home Economics" picks up with Troy (Donald Glover) asking Annie (Alison Brie) for advice on asking a girl he has a class with out on a date. At first, Annie believes Troy is talking about asking her out on a date and is very disappointed to learn otherwise, but suggests he can go to a concert on campus the next night. Annie later gives Troy a blanket that her grandfather used to court her grandmother to use for his date and even helps him rehearse. Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) pushes her to tell Troy how she feels, but Annie is hesitant because she doesn't want to ruin their friendship. When Troy tries to go get ready for his date, Annie claims her appendix has burst and he takes her to the school nurse, who eventually quarantines Annie and gives Troy plenty of condoms.

Jeff (Joel McHale) looks a little more ragged than usual and deflects any questions about his appearance. Britta (Gillian Jacobs) and Shirley spot him living out of his car and confront him about it, but he claims it's just a temporary situation and doesn't need any help. However, Jeff's condo is put up for sale and his car gets towed. Jeff reluctantly asks Abed (Danny Pudi) if he can move into his dorm and Abed excitedly agrees.

Abed convinces Jeff to take a break from his materialistic life and the two fully embrace the low-expense, dorm lifestyle. When Jeff starts skipping class and losing all motivation to do anything besides eat sugar and watch TV, Abed realizes that this isn't healthy for Jeff and asks Britta to use her sexuality to motivate Jeff into putting his life back together. She refuses and instead breaks into Jeff's old condo and steals his expensive, Italian faucets. She gives them back to Jeff to use as motivation to work his way back to his old, materialistic life. Jeff moves out of the dorm and starts looking for an apartment and thanks Abed and Britta for helping him.

Britta tries to apologize to Vaughn (Eric Christian Olsen) for the way things ended between them, but Vaughn isn't interested. Pierce (Chevy Chase) offers to talk to Vaughn for Britta, but she firmly tells him not to. Pierce does anyway and ends up joining Vaughn's band. They play their new song for Greendale, which turns out to be an unflattering song about Britta. Later, Pierce and Vaughn get into an argument about who actually wrote the song and Pierce leaves the band. He asks Vaughn to be nicer to Britta though. Vaughn tells Pierce he's moved on from her and at their concert, they play their new song, which is unflattering song about Pierce.

During the concert, Annie interrupts Troy's date and takes her grandparents' blanket back.

The episode ends with Pierce working with a rapper, MC Dan Harmon (Jacques Slade), to create a diss track to get back at Vaughn, who walks in on them mid-performance.

What Works:

Alison Brie is really great in this episode and gets to show off a wide range. She's lovestruck at times and unhinged at others. I love her performance as she rehearses Troy's date with him and her freak-out involving her appendix.

Both of Vaughn's songs are very catching and they've been playing in my head nonstop since I watched the episode. They may be disrespectful to the definition of rhyme scheme, but they're pretty funny and Eric Christian Olsen really sells the pettiness. Plus Chevy Chase makes some very interesting choices in his musical performances, which really crack me up.

Britta's motivational speech to Jeff is also a highlight. It's like the inverse of a speech about growing and becoming a better person. Instead, Britta encourages him to embrace his materialistic tendencies. It just feels like a classic Dan Harmon bit.

Finally, the scene where Jeff thanks Britta and Abed for helping him out and caring about him is really nice. It's good growth for Jeff and I love when Abed calls him a huge nerd.

What Sucks:

I think this episode bit off a little more than it could chew. It has two really great premises that could have carried entire episodes. Jeff living in his car could have been a whole episode. Jeff living with Abed could have been a whole episode. I don't think either idea was as fleshed out as it could have been and Jeff's arc felt a little rushed even if I like the conclusion.

Finally, this episode does a great job of setting Vaughn up as a villain, but they never really go back to that well. They use him again as a love interest for Annie, but that's about it. I would have liked to see more of the Pierce/Vaughn feud. That's more of a knock against the season as a whole, but this feels like a good place to bring it up.

Funniest Moment:

To me, the funniest moment of the episode is when the school nurse hands Troy a roll of condoms for his date. Troy leaves and tells Annie that he'll be thinking of her. The way he delivers that line while holding the condoms in his hand is just fantastic.

Heavenly Human Being:

The Heavenly Human Being Award goes to the MVP of the episode. For "Home Economics," this Award goes to Britta Perry for being willing to break into Jeff's old condo and steal his faucets to help him get his life back on track. Honorable mention to Abed though. This is Britta's 2nd time winning this Award, which puts her in 2nd place overall.

Verdict:

"Home Economics" is an episode that tries to cram too much into it with both Jeff living in his car and later living with Abed feeling rushed. Those storylines should have been two different episodes. And while Vaughn is well used here, it's a setup that never really pays off. That said, Alison Brie gets to perform a real showcase of her range, I love Britta's motivation speech, and both of Vaughn's songs are catchy. Even with its problems, this is still a fun episode.

7/10: Good

However, I find season 3, despite having epic scenes and some great episodes, to be the Britta of all seasons. ( I am only mentioning the seasons on NBC and not the season on Yahoo).

Hey Guys, anyone know what happened to Community Live in Pluto? its only available as „On Demand“ but not in the Live TV section.

I love Britta’s a B, but the soothing sound of Daybreak is present throughout. What do you guys think?

I know this has been discussed in this Subreddit a lot, but I this video highlights their relationship perfectly. These two characters are so well-written it's beautiful. so I thought I post it in case there are fans who have missed it.
the way the smart and "cool" guy of the group switches between Jeff and Abed in different situations is so interesting to me because considering that they were both sort of based on Dan Harmon as a person, we can just consider them the same type of guy with the difference that one doesn't yarn for other people's acceptance and one does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_gWBYUo7bg&t=2321s

yo okay i highly doubt this is the right place to ask but i read a jeff x dean pelton fanfic a long time ago and i can't find it again, its driving me crazy. here's what i remember:

• it was from craig's perspective, maybe first person
• it was really poetic
• Jeff says something like "i need to get this out of my system" before they hook up
• there's an ambiguous ending, but craig notes that jeff is smiling as they fall asleep

i cant find it on ao3, i don't know how to search properly on ffn, and i need help lmao. please help me find this I've been looking for ages

I had the opportunity to meet Joel McHale this weekend at a comic con and he wanted one of the most kindest celebrities I have ever met.

I’ve been doing comic cons for a few years now and met a decent amount of celebrities but I was blown away with how he interacted with his fans.

You only get to talk to celebrities for a 2-3 minutes but man, in that small amount of time he was funny, humble, and made you feel special!

Great guy!

One of Jeff's better excuses but not today! S6E2

For Shirley’s friend Gary, I think Curtis Armstrong (Booger in Revenge of The Nerds/Principal Foster in New Girl) would be a fun choice.

(EDIT: Ugh, fixed Booger's name.)

Exhibit A: Evil Darryl on Charmed sporting “the goatee”. I know its probably in homage to The Matrix, but this made me laugh this morning.

I realized that there’s a lot of lore about the characters and plot that are confirmed in other locations like Reddit, Twitter or DVD commentary. The ones that I can recall are Britta being molested by a man in a dino costume as a child, confirmed by Dan Harmon on Reddit, Annie being the Ass Crack Bandit, confirmed by a writer on Twitter in a now deleted pic of the script and Alison Brie in an interview, and Gwynnifer from the bottle episode being a code name for Britta, confirmed on the DVD commentary for that ep. Is there anything else that I’m missing lore wise?

Edit: I uploaded the pictures:
I promised I would post this a few weeks ago, I forgot, but every year is mentioned, even S3 which ran over 2 years mentions both years.
Season 1, its in the Abed/Troy Rap
Season 2, you need to do maths but when they mention Troys birth year (89) and the fact he is 21
Season 3, are both Leonards reviews which in my opinion proves its an Easter egg as thats the only season with two years and they show them both with Leonards reviews
Season 4, Dean makes a picture with scrap pictures of Jeff with his year of Graduation.
Season 5, is the old timey photo of Ben Chang after he talks to "ghosts"
Season 6, is probably the most in your face with Elroy wearing an up to date shirt.

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I was wondering if anyone could help me find a doll that looks like this one from S3E4 "Remedial Chaos Theory" that is available;e for purchase.

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Part of the appeal of the humor is realizing things later, whether re-watching the show or doing the dishes.

In season one, episode five it is revealed that back in episode one Britta wrote down a fake phone number on the group study sheet. This is because she does not want Jeff to have her phone number. In episode five, he asks her to give him her real number and is rejected.

Fast forward to season six, and the audience learns that the dean does not have Jeff’s real phone number, but he thinks that he does. In reality, Dean Pelton has been communicating with a minor in Japan. The dean fully believes that he is and has been in a regular, intimate, long-term messaging contact with Jeff. In reality he has been getting mercilessly trolled by somebody on the other side of the planet.

In theory, Jeff could have pulled the exact same move on the dean that Britta pulled on him as early in the series as those first few season one episodes.

The best part of this joke, and that episode, is that it retroactively means that in all likelihood for potentially all six seasons (that’s six years!), the dean has been in constant contact with a young Japanese boy, developing what, to the dean, is a deep and intimate but verbally and publicly forbidden relationship. For years.

One of my favorite parts of the humor of the show is how there are implied scenarios that must have occurred at some point in the past in order for something like this to happen in a later episode.

That means that at some point in time, Jeff gave the dean either a 14 or 15 digit long string of numbers as a fake phone number. We know this because 14 and 15 is thamount of numbers required to call Japan from the United States (where there are only 10 digits when calling One American number from another).

However the scene plays out that resulted in this long-standing situation, a scene where Jeff gives the dean the fake, way too long phone number would be hilarious, and while we don’t know exactly how it would play out, we do know that some variation of it did.

Just imagine Jeff typing on his phone, ignoring the dean, and when the dean asks him for his phone number, Jeff probably doesn’t even move his head and throws out random number after random number at the dean until the dean stops bothering him. Also, at some point the dean must have had questions as to why there are four or five extra digits, and Jeff would have to explain that away also, which is another hilarious scenario.

It’s a very funny gag, and it is executed flawlessly.

The comedy works so well because we don’t need to see the scene itself to recognize that the dean has been in constant contact for several years with this Japanese minor, who the dean clearly, completely believes (and has believed for years) is Jeff. On top of that, the biggest part of it, is that the dean believes and has believed that he has developed a years long, deeply intimate relationship with Jeff.

It’s one of those jokes that turns the entire show on its head because it recontextualizes the show-long nature of the relationship that dean thinks that he has with Jeff. This gag makes rewatching the earlier seasons even funnier. In that season six episode, Jeff even comments on how dean has been doing these weird things for him for a long time, is genuinely confused, that, and asks him why he has been doing these weird, seemingly inexplicable things forA very long time.

The “scene we don’t see” invites viewers to picture the hilarity themselves without the need of recording it for expository reasons. That is one big part of the ”Community“ storytelling appeal.

Why is no one talking/laughing more about the krumping scene with Abed, Troy and then cue Jeff? It's a great moment for Donald Glover to showcase his true dancing talent while also simultaneously being a very fun moment between best friends. When Jeff walks in...you would never think he would react the way he does. Just another reason why I love these characters and this show!

I would love to have a short series, maybe full series, maybe TV movie or something for the characters 10 years later and out of community college and something. that seems like an easy thing to do. I think so many people would love it. it would be real interesting for where are the characters now.

All those in the industry, is there any talk going on? or is this just overly hopeful and unrealistic?

Laughing to myself right now realizing that part of the movie "Ghost" DOES in fact go through doors in S1E19!

Any theories, they dont even give clues. Unless ive missed something.

So, in season 2 episode 7, "Aerodynamics of Gender" (the episode with the trampoline), at a certain point Jeff changes outfits (the scene where Pierce finds the trampoline), and he's wearing these light brown/gray/greenish cargo pants that look really cool. They're kinda slim/tapered, the back pockets have covers with buttons, and above them there's a sewn tag that's black with orange letters.

I thought they looked really cool but couldn't find them. Does anybody have any idea, or at the very least, does anyone know of a clothes brand with this type of tag?

Thanks in advance!