Zachary: Y’know, this one was funnier than I remembered. When I saw the wee preview yesterday, I thought, oh no, the one where Jeff plays pool naked. Unfunny and uncomfortable. Well, at least there’ll be a few screen caps for the lasses. But it was a good one!

Logan: dude, i think you need to step back and let me take over.

Zachary: Why?

Logan: cuz it’s also about—well, just let me tell it and you’ll see at the end.

SO…the theme of this show was the difference between being cool and being cool with who you are. Jeff didn’t want to do his billiards class wearing the regulation shorts and T-shirt (cuz he didn’t think he would look cool in them), so he quit the class (we’ll get back to him, maybe). 

meanwhile, the rest of the group decided to “Can’t Buy Me Love/Love Don’t Cost a Thing” Abed to help him get a girl. they tried to remake him, and even had him “practice” on Annie. 

does this REMIND YOU GUYS OF ANYONE? like, maybe Zach on #tweetlikeabadboy day?

Zachary: Was I that bad?

Logan: you were worse than—i mean, better than—i mean…Abed was also a vampire, briefly:

(source: Vertiline wiki)

Zachary: I don’t see how that’s relevant.

Logan: ok, shut up, I’m getting to the good part. after it didn’t work out with “Jenny” because she was already dating White Abed (long story)…

…the rest of the study group was bummed. but Abed wasn’t:

Abed: Everybody wants me to be happy. Everybody wants to help me. But usually when they find out they can’t, they get frustrated and stop talking to me. Or they trick me into buying them ice cream and then shove me in a clothes dryer…

…The truth is, lots of girls like me, because face it, I’m adorable.

Troy: (nods)

Abed: And my aloofness unconsciously reminds them of their fathers…

…That’s why I was willing to change for you guys. Because when you really know who you are and what you like about yourself, changing for other people isn’t such a big deal.

Jeff: Abed, you’re a god.

Zachary: May I speak now?

Logan: no. see, this is the first time since we started 67 Days of Community that I really saw you in Abed. or Abed in you, whichever.

Zachary: OK.

Logan: and that’s why Tweet Like a Bad Boy day didn’t freak you out the way it did me. cuz when you changed the way you acted, you didn’t really change who you were.

Zachary: Of course not. Why would it?

Logan: cuz of the way people reacted.

Zachary: Well, it wasn’t me, so I didn’t take it personally for good or bad. And it’s not true that it didn’t freak me out. It did, a wee bit, that anyone would find some of the more stalkerish tweets swoon-worthy. 

Logan: do you think you’ll ever #tweetlikeabadboy again?

Zachary: Sure, if it makes you happy.

Logan: i’m not sure if it did.

Zachary: Then I won’t.  What I will do instead for now is post these two pics of Jeff playing pool mostly naked:

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Logan: VAUGHN’S BACK!

Zachary: aka, “MicroNipples.”

(photo source: Episodic Memories tumblr, but ultimately NBC.)

Logan: aka, “gateway douchebag,” as Jeff called him. he & Britta were worried that Vaughn was bad for Annie (and that by dating him she would attract even worse guys like Starburns), so they tried to get Troy to finally return her ancient crush, and, um…

Zachary: And…there were complications that, em, ensued, which…

Logan: ok, screw the soap opera. this episode introduced the world to none other than our favorite cyborg cop—

Zachary: KICKPUNCHER!!!

Logan: his cyber-punches have the power of KICKS!

Zachary: The excitement of watching and mocking this film (and its sequel Kickpuncher 2: Code Name Punchkicker) produced the first perfectly executed Trabed secret handshake:

Zachary: (photo source: My own screen cap off Hulu Plus. I figured out how to rebrighten our shots using Preview, so no more gloomy Community freeze frames!)

Logan: dude, did you know Kickpuncher has a comic? it shipped with Season 1. here’s the cover:

Zachary: I must possess this. 

Logan: and i need this T-shirt. it’s my new dying wish:

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Logan: it’s TUESDAY & i feel like DANCING!

Zachary: What’s one got to do with the other?

Logan: um, nothing, i just wanted to put a little distance between my name and “i feel like DANCING!” and justify it in some way. 

Zachary: Cos you’re like Troy and are scared to admit you like dancing?

Logan: how can you even say that, after our trip to the Apple Store in Munich with Dylan?

Zachary: You’re right. Sorry. So the main storyline in this episode was Jeff’s secret affair with his former statistics teacher, Professor Slater. My favourite line was this, when his mates tried to pry:

Jeff: Can’t I be the friend in the group whose trademark is his well-defined boundaries, like Privacy Smurf, Discreet Bear, or Confidentiality Spice?

Logan: i couldn’t find an image online for Privacy Smurf, so i made one:

Zachary: Brilliant. Now, you and I may disagree on who Jeff should be with. I’m #TeamBritta and you’re #TeamAnnie, but we can agree on one thing…

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Logan: ok, today is definitely NOT the day we make up for Saturday’s miss. but the longer it takes, the more guilt i can shoot Zachary’s way for letting us down.

Zachary: So tomorrow we’ll do two episodes. Today’s is “Investigative Journalism,” which I admit, I didn’t quite understand, since I’ve never seen the show M*A*S*H.

Logan: i’ve seen a few reruns. it’s about this Army hospital in Korea during the war. the main character was a wise-cracking doctor named Hawkeye (not his real name). he somehow got lots of nurses, even though he wasn’t that good-looking. 

anyway, Abed thought Jeff had sorta become a Hawkeye-type character after winter break because he was more laid-back, but Jeff got SO laid back that he let the study group fall apart over whether to let this weird guy Buddy join.

(photo source: tvfanatic.com. btw, when we don’t give a source, that means it’s our own screen cap.)

Abed: Not all weirdos are bad. Buddy could be a puckish agent of change, who changes our lives with a musical montage.

Britta: Or he could have a row of jars waiting for our genitals.

Zachary: Buddy was played by Jack Black, in a stunningly unfunny role. But maybe that was the point.

Logan: the only thing that made this ep worth watching was Buddy’s dream sequence about Annie and Britta:

Zachary: Aye. That and Señor Chang’s rap, “I Can’t Be Killed”.

Logan: you think this episode sucked cuz it was #13? maybe it was unlucky.

Zachary: You know I’m not superstitious.

Logan: sure, Mr. “Walk Clockwise Round the Faerie Mound.”

Zachary: OK. Here’s a video I’ve been saving for when we needed to end on a positive note, the Community opening credits, Friends-style:

Logan: CUTE. time to go.

posted by Logan & Zachary, who’ll be back at least once tomorrow, starting with “Interpretive Dance.” G’NIGHT!

Zachary: Sorry we missed yesterday. I had family obligations.

Logan: i thought you had weekends off from family.

Zachary: Aye, usually, but it was one of those rare days where both the weather and my dad were in good shape. So the three of us went to the countryside overnight. It was lovely.

Logan: COOL! funnily enough, family was a theme of today/yesterday’s Community episode, “Comparative Religion.”

Zachary: It centered around Shirley’s resistance to the secularisation of Christmas. Here’s a shot of Dean Pelton as the studiously inoffensive “Mr. Winter”.

My favorite quote was this, when Shirley accused Jeff of thinking religion was stupid (earlier he’d admitted to being an agnostic, which Pierce called “the lazy man’s atheist”):

Jeff: To me, religion is like Paul Rudd. I see the appeal, and I would never take it away from anyone, but I would also never stand in line for it.

Logan: the episode was also about bullying. ironically, the bully was played by Anthony Michael Hall…

…who also played the dude who got bullied in The Breakfast Club, which Z still needs to see. it’s surprisingly awesome, despite being one of my mom’s favorite movies.

Pierce and Troy tried to train Jeff to fight so he could defend Abed’s honor. Check out this great scene:

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Logan: i don’t know how we’re going to make this one remotely suitable for a YA audience. the episode centered around the Greendale STD Fair (“Catch Knowledge!”).

Zachary: It would be quite the coup if we could keep it clean. I say we take the challenge.

Logan: but Annie saw a, um, p-word for the first time, during the reverse Porky’s scene:

Zachary: Are you imitating her, or are you similarly incapable of saying ‘penis’?

Logan: i thought we were keeping this clean.

Zachary: There’s nothing dirty about the word ‘penis’. You’ve used it here on the tumblr before.

Logan: but not in the context of, of…

Zachary: Penises.

Logan: right. anyway, i found Annie’s little speech inspiring:

Annie: I don’t want to sit in a roomful of people and say…the p-word. I like being repressed. I am totally comfortable being uncomfortable with my sexuality. And maybe if everyone were a little more like me we wouldn’t have to have an STD Fair!

Zachary: Speaking of which, I found a nice image of the Wheel of Remorse, which includes bits like “What’s Your Name Again?” and “Mysterious Rash”:

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Logan: ima let Zachary introduce this VERY special episode of Community “Environmental Science,” Season 1, Ep 10.

Zachary: Em…you just introduced it. What makes it special again?

Logan: guess.

Zachary: Troy turned out to be afraid of rats, like you’re afraid of monkeys?

Logan: NO. besides, he said this:

Troy: I’m not afraid. I choose not to be around rats because they’re unpopular. Same goes for centipedes and lakes.

guess again.

Zachary: Jeff sorted out that Señor Change was cruel to his class cos his wife left him? 

Jeff: When you pick juries, you learn to notice the little things: Wearing the same shirt twice in one week. Teaching us that the word “esposa” means liar. The picture of you with a woman with a Post-It note dialogue balloon above her head that says, “Enjoy it while it lasts.”

Logan: that was funny, too. but guess again.

Zachary: Oh! It was a very special episode cos Troy and Abed sang a duet!

Logan: that was extremely happy-making. but no, and you’re out of guesses.

“Environmental Science” was a very special episode cuz of…

KILTS!

KILTS!

KILTS!

Zachary: I thought you said our “67 Days of Community” was for us, not for the lasses.

Logan: i did, but i figured once in a while, we oughta throw them a bone.

Posted by: Zachary & Logan, who’ll return tomorrow with “Politics of Human Sexuality,” featuring the Wheel of Remorse! In the meantime, let’s let Troy & Abed take us out with an epilogue:

Logan: YEP! this is the one.

Zachary: In tonight’s episode, Jeff joins Annie’s debate team to get a free parking space. The question is, “Is Man Inherently Good or Evil?”

Logan: and Annie lets her hair down. literally:

Zachary: In the debate finale, their archnemesis, Russell Simmons, tries to prove that man is inherently good by launching himself out of his wheelchair at Jeff, who catches him.

Russell: He hates me, yet he caught me. Man. Is. Good!

Logan: then Annie kisses Jeff, who drops Russell:

Annie: He was horny, and he dropped him. Man. Is. Evil!

Logan: so now we’re even. 1 kiss for Britta, 1 for Annie.

Zachary: It’s interesting how both first kisses were for the benefit of onlookers, rather than Jeff and the woman in question.

Logan: cuz these characters are WAY too scared to admit they have the hots for each other. 

to illustrate, here’s a cool video someone put together for Jeff & Annie, a montage featuring Sara Bareilles “Gravity.” apparently Dan Harmon made a reference to it in Season 2, Ep 21, “Paradigms of Human Memory.” i think it’s awesome when writers can secretly refer to fan stuff.

Zachary: The one bit that bothered me was when Jeff quoted the Bible saying, “There is none righteous. No. Not one.” 

Logan: i figured you’d have a problem with that, heathen.

Zachary: My problem is that he attributed it to Jesus. It’s actually from Romans 3:10.

Logan: so?

Zachary: So it was said by the apostle Paul (or whoever wrote what is commonly known as Paul’s epistle to the Romans). The full context is: “As it is written, ‘there is none righteous. No, not one.’” The author was referring to Psalm 14: 1-3 or Psalm 53: 1-3, which basically say the same thing.

Logan: how did you know that?

Zachary: I didn’t know the exact verse, but it didn’t sound like something Jesus would say, so I looked it up. 

Logan: oh. good instinct.

Zachary: Who’s the heathen now?

Logan: i bet Jeff knew he was misquoting but threw Jesus’ name out there to pander to the audience.

Zachary: But you’d think Shirley would know it was wrong. Instead she stood and cheered.

Logan: lots of Christians don’t know the Bible.

Zachary: Nae comment.

Logan: SO, changing the subject before we go, Britta tried to quit smoking and became a total hag.

Zachary: I remember when Martin quit. He called me a heathen, too. Except it was an adjective before the word we’re not allowed to say in public EVER.

posted by: Logan & Zachary, who love it when people reblog or like our posts, but even if you don’t, we’ll keep doing this cuz we’re having fun. tomorrow’s episode is “Environmental Science”!

Logan: AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! banner day for #TeamAnnie! eat it, dude!

Zachary: Dunno what you’re talking about. 

Logan: “banner day” means a good day. and “eat it” means—

Zachary: I speak American. What I mean is that this was in fact a fantastic episode for #TeamBritta.

Logan: but Vaughn, her ex-boyfriend, wrote a song called, “Getting Rid of Britta,” which I guarantee you will have stuck in your head the rest of the week:

Vaughn (in later scene, to Britta): I’m an artist, and I write what I feel. And I feel that you suck.

Zachary: Britta doesn’t suck. She nicked Jeff’s faucets from his old flat and brought them to him when he was in that downwards spiral in Abed’s dorm. She gave him the hope he needed.

Logan: true. for once she was there for a friend and not as part of some crusade. by the way, i’ve never heard of a community college having dorms. especially not ones that big.

Zachary: I thought that was odd. My favourite line was this:

Abed: Do it, Britta. Seduce him. Draw the tapeworm of Jeff’s old self out of him with the bowl of milk that is your sexuality.

So what made you think this was a good Annie episode? She didn’t have the courage to tell Troy how she felt.

Logan: um, yeah, but she did do the “rolling dice” thing:

Zachary: (stares) You’ve got me there.

posted by: Zachary and Logan, who will see you tomorrow with “Debate 109,” which is a MAJOR #TeamAnnie episode!

Logan: okay, this one was just weird. 

Zachary: I don’t think I saw it the first time round. I’d have remembered Britta in the squirrel costume:

Logan: this was my favorite exchange, where Troy asks Batman an urgent question:

and then their epilogue, about waking up as a doughnut:

it’s cool to know other people think about this stuff, too.

Zachary: We also learned about the Mexican Halloween phenomenon. Here it is on a Zazzle mug:

Logan: i won’t even ask if you’ve had a Mexican Halloween.

Zachary: As I am included in “people”, of course I must say aye, I have.

Logan: okay, but i didn’t actually ask. i WILL ask this: after a week of watching Community every day, what life lessons have you learned?

Zachary: I’ve learned that even the best friendships often have awkward beginnings.

Logan: ours did. it started with you kissing my girlfriend.

Zachary: Ex-girlfriend.

Logan: that’s debatable. 

Zachary: I wouldn’t say our friendship started that way. Just our, em, intersection of world experience.

Logan: in which you experienced my girlfriend’s lips.

Zachary: Sorry. I should state, however, that out of consideration for your feelings, I held off on the Mexican Halloween.

Posted by: Logan & Zachary, whose friendship will try to survive long enough for tomorrow’s episode, “Home Economics.”