15. Accounting for Lawyers (Community Season 2)
When Jeff's former coworker and friend Alan begins to draw him back into his old life, the Anthropology study group executes a ridiculous plan to expose him for getting Jeff disbarred.
14. Cooperative Calligraphy (Community Season 2)
Look no further than the absolute worst episode of Breaking Bad for proof that bottle episodes are a bad idea. But the creative team at Community managed to conjure up a pretty entertaining exception to the rule.
When Annie suspects that a member of the Anthropology study group has pocketed her pen, tensions flare and fractures emerge.
It's revealed that Abed has been tracking the girls' menstrual cycles in order to get along with them better.
13. Mixology Certification (Community Season 2)
Greendale Community College's most dysfunctional Anthropolgy study group helps Troy to celebrate his 21st birthday by taking him to a bar. Troy consoles Annie when she has an identity crisis; Shirley's dark past is revealed; Pierce admits that he needs help; and Jeff and Britta argue about how lame the other's favorite hangout is -- but (after making out) they eventually discover that they're talking about the exact same place.
12. Interpretive Dance (Community)
Study group members Troy and Britta find common ground: the fact that they've both been taking a dance class in secret. And Jeff realizes that he has a girlfriend. And Britta realizes that she's not as comfortable with Jeff's new relationship status as she'd like to be.
Despite some pretty condescending messages about male maturity, all-in-all still a hilarious episode.
Jeff's annoyance at the group's (mostly Britta) prying questions into his personal life gives rise to the episode's best line:
"Can't I be the friend in the group whose trademark is his well-defined boundaries like Privacy Smurf, Discrete Bear or Confidentiality Spice?"
11. Honey (The Glades)
Boseman is Michael Richmond, a member of casino house band Blues Rock Boogie and grandson of blues legend Stovepipe Richmond. After a woman crashes through the casino's skylight, Michael becomes one of many murder suspects. But he effortlessly checks full blooded Seminole detective Josie Tigertail, who's leading the investigation, about her prejudices, racial and otherwise.
Meanwhile, after Callie tells Detective Jim Longsworth that she just wants to be friends, she's overcome with jealousy upon seeing him interact with tribal officer Tigertail, with whom he's reluctantly working the murder case.
10. Anthropology 101 (Community Season 2)
At the start of a new school year, Britta finds that her public declaration of love for Jeff during the previous year's final dance has elevated her status on campus and garnered her a legion of fans. Conversely, Jeff's failure to reciprocate has put him in the doghouse with Greendale's female students. Drunk off the power that comes with her newfound fame (the first time she's ever experienced popularity), Britta leads the mob against Jeff. Turning their "love" for each other into a competition, Britta proposes to Jeff, who insincerely accepts.
Jeff and Britta's wedding (arranged by Abed) tears the group apart: Troy's Twitter page is exposed; Abed and Jeff insult each other; and Britta calls Annie out for pursuing two of her exes. Britta eventually confesses that her declaration was merely a part of her rivalry with Jeff's ex-girlfriend, Professor Slater.
Meanwhile, Troy, who's moved in with Pierce, regularly posts the latter's racist utterances to Twitter. While Annie initially finds what Troy's doing amusing, she's offended when she hears one of Pierce's antisemitic comments.
And after having been revealed as a fraud, Senor Chang, no longer a teacher, is now a Greendale student.
The best line goes to Professor June Bauer (guest star Betty White) during her aggravated assault on Jeff:
Jeff: "I respect you."
Professor Bauer: "That is why you fail!"
9. The Art of Modern Warfare (Community)
The study group explores the tension between Jeff and Britta. And there's paintball.
8. The Psychology of Letting Go (Community Season 2)
While the episode primarily focuses on Pierce's inability to accept his mother's death, it was the other stories that provided the comedy.
Professor Duncan's restraining order against Senor Chang is ruining the latter's life.
Annie and Britta point out each other's deepest flaws.
And (in the background) Abed experiences baby mama drama. After being confronted by a woman he impregnated the day before she goes into labor, Abed is attacked by her boyfriend. Eventually, they make peace and Abed actually delivers the baby on-campus!
The best lines stem from Annie's ongoing fight with Britta. Like when Annie suggests that Britta's feminism is hypocritical while impersonating her:
Annie: "I obviously don't need guys for anything. That's why I wear stripper boots during the day and eat only celery and mustard for lunch!"
And this response to Britta's overzealous brand of liberal protest:
Random Student: "You don't have to yell at us. No one is on the other side of this issue."
7. Pascal's Triangle Revisited (Community Season 2)
Britta publicly declares her love for Jeff the day after his ex, Professor Slater, comes crawling back.
The episode's funniest line is Professor Duncan's response to Senor Chang's request for help:
Chang: "I am actually a student now. But I was thinking as a teacher and as my friend if you could help me cheat my way through school."
Professor Duncan: "I have a counter-proposal. How about I point out to you that we've never actually been friends --then laugh at your very well-deserved misfortune."
And later:
Professor Duncan: "Senor Chang, is there a word in Spanish for someone who used to pretend to be a professor but was a teacher who wasn't actually a teacher and is now a student? Is there a word for that? Oh, if it was in Spanish you wouldn't know, would you?"
And this exchange between Troy and Pierce:
Pierce: "What's happened to us, Troy? Remember how hard we laughed when we first heard the term 'teachers' aids'?"
Troy: "Yeah, then we found out that a teacher did have AIDS."
6. The Sacko Bowl (The League Season 2)
5. English as a Second Language (Community)
When Senor Chang reveals that he never got a degree, Annie rats him out so that his firing will necessitate the study group having to repeat Spanish, thus keeping them together.
However, Chang mistakenly believes that Jeff's the culprit, which unsurprisingly results in his becoming unhinged.
Jeff gets the best line during a conversation with Senor Chang:
Chang: "So, you're here because your college degree was fake, right?
Jeff: "I prefer the term 'better-than-real'. But, yes."
Chang: "Two questions: Where did you get it? Could you have prevented being caught? And how?"
Jeff: "One question: Where did you learn to count questions? And are you telling me you need a fake degree?"
But Annnie's acknowledgement of the show's 'elephant-in-the-room' was good too.
Annie: "Of course you think that Britta, it's obvious from your name your parents smoked pot."
4. High School Reunion (The League Season 2)
While none of the leaguers initially wanted to attend their 10-year reunion, Ruxin's encounter with a high school bully changes everyone's minds. While the former's plan to show off trophy wife Sophia works wonders, the rest of Ruxin's, Andre's and Pete's night goes completely off the rails.
3. Ghost Monkey (The League Season 2)
After dimwitted slacker Taco steals a monkey from a petting zoo on Halloween, he comes to believe he's killed the animal. So naturally he worries that it's begun haunting him.
When Jenny agrees to let her daughter pick her costume, she ends up dressed as a giant frog instead of the sexy girl scout outfit that she intended to wear for the gang's "adult Halloween".
After Pete meets a sexy witch, he discovers that she's not in costume -- she's practicing her religion.
These and other shenanigans make for an unforgettable holiday for suburban Chicago's dumbest Fantasy Football League.
2. Aerodynamics of Gender (Community Season 2)
Shirley, Annie and Britta use Abed's ability to psychologically destroy mean girls for their own selfish purposes.
1. Basic Genealogy (Community)
When Greendale celebrates "Family Day", it becomes clear why some students and faculty members aren't close to their relatives. After Professor Slater dumps Jeff in the crassest way possible, he rebounds with Pierce's ex-step-daughter. Eventually, Jeff sticks up for Pierce (in spite of his racism) when he realizes that said ex-step-daughter is using him for money, proving that the study group has become Jeff's family.
Meanwhile, Britta's self-righteousness comes back to haunt her when she subjects herself to a painful beating from Troy's toxic grandmother in order to prove her evolved respect for the elderly, commitment to her ideals and appreciation for diversity ( which, in this case amounts to unfamiliar styles of discipline).
Finally, Abed's dad calls Shirley out for being a bad mother when she lets her sons run wild.
One of the funniest moments comes when Pierce goal tends Jeff with ex-step-daughter Amber during this exchange:
Pierce: "Jeff, this is my step-daughter, Amber."
Jeff: "Small world."
Pierce: "Actually, it's a very big world filled with 5 billion OTHER women in it. Good luck."
And then:
Pierce: "Listen, when she [Amber] gets back, come up with some reason why you have to leave. I'll beg you to stay but you don't. In fact, why don't you just leave now and cut our work in half?"
And later when Amber runs into Jeff in the hallway:
Amber: "You're leaving."
Jeff: "My girlfriend is pregnant."
Amber: "Pierce said you're gay."
Originally Posted 5/10/20
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