stusser
2041
Woah, woah, Annie wasn’t back on the pills, her failure was that she was feeding pills to other Annie Adderalls.
Woah, woah, Annie wasn’t back on the pills, her failure was that she was feeding pills to other Annie Adderalls.
She pretty clearly said she was at the end of ep 2.
Community colleges are really like that, too. In fact, season 1 is way more accurate than I would have admitted before I had a real degree.
Yeah, stusser, she explicitly mentioned that some sort of antidepressant she was on was actively preventing her from reacting properly to an emotional moment, then she had a minor breakdown. I mean, we’re not talking leaping-through-windows crazy, but definitely sub-good.
And yeah, about 75% of the small percentage of my classmates who ended up going to some form of college after graduation (and that was only about 40 people out of 300 graduates out of an originally 400-person class) went to a local community college. I think maybe a quarter of them ever got an associate’s or better in the 8.5 years hence. A lot of Jeff’s comments about the place being a soul-sucking toilet kinda hit home in a weird way after I spent so long on FB watching previously fairly driven people just fizzle out (and no claims I’m better–I majored in a dead-end career at a way more expensive school and never used the degree once in my professional life).
For all the weirdness and fantasy elements and meta-bluster the show’s had over the years, I still keep going back for the very real-feeling moments between its ridiculous cast of characters. I was rewatching some early eps today. The early episode where Abed makes a documentary to explain how he feels about his parents’ divorce damn near makes me cry every time. When Harmon’s on, that motherfucker is on.
stusser
2045
Oh, sure. But she wasn’t abusing drugs. I thought you meant she was back on Adderall.
Spoit
2046
Oh wow, I didn’t realize that. The joke has layers
Yeah, the repilot episode wasn’t just made for fans. It was made for fans who’ve been paying attention. And it was even more awesome that way.
Was that throwaway diversity comment an indication that they’re going to mid-season replace Donald Glover with an asian guy?
Isn’t Chang technically the asian guy? He even made an appearance towards the end of that scene.
I thought that was just a “hah, we’re still not letting Chang in the group” gag.
Yeah, that was the immediate goal, but Glover is leaving, and I assume they want to keep their ensemble numbers up (esp. since it’s not clear how long new-Pierce is going to stick around either).
So what were tonight’s opening credits an allusion to? Looked super-familiar.
EDIT: X-files, duh.
stusser
2053
Why was Abed deleting episodes of Hannibal from his DVR? Was there significance to that?
Thongsy
2054
Hannibal? I thought he was deleting The Bridge. No idea either way.
Where do you get X-Files from? I got a strong Zodiac/Se7en vibe from the show but haven’t seen either of them in years so I’m not sure if that’s where the credits came from.
Mostly from the episode itself, especially the Mulder/Scully nature of the Jeff/Annie relationship.
Abed was deleting both Hannibal and The Bridge because he was, I assume, tired of watching crime shows with investigators on the autism spectrum.
hepcat
2058
I could watch Chang’s “I’m eating a giant churro…with my REAL mouth!” over and over again. And Abed’s take on detective shows with autistic crime solvers was great as well.
Absolutely fantastic episode that proves to me Harmon is the soul of this show.
No, I don’t think it was X-Files. I thought it was pretty clear. It beat to a very similar procedural drum as:
And they brought in a profiler!
stusser
2060
Ahh, I don’t watch The Bridge so I didn’t pick up on that. The Dean’s “can’t you just look at the crime scene and reenact it in your special brain” bit was straight out of Hannibal, though.
