Community 1.25

Pascal's Triangle Revisited

- It's the end of the school year and Greendale is having a a dance to celebrate those students that are moving on to 4-year universities: Transition Dance
- Troy wants to move in with Abed but Abed changes the subject each time that Troy brings it up; Pierce invites Troy to come live with him; Troy resists Pierce's offer until the end of the episode when he comes to understand that living with good friend (Abed) might not be a good idea because you can get too much of a good thing
- Britta gets nominated for Transition Queen; at first she resists the notion of participating in the competition but later changes her mind
- Professor Slater, Jeff's ex, returns and wants Jeff back; Britta isn't completely over Jeff; Britta and Slater get into it over Jeff; it all comes to a head with both women declaring their love for him; Jeff doesn't know what to do and leaves the dance
- Outside Jeff runs into Annie who wasn't at the dance because she left with Vaughn; they were going to move to Delaware; Annie changed her mind and came back; Jeff explains his dilemma to Annie which somehow leads to them making out
- Shirley is also in this episode although she doesn't have a lot to do; I think Dean Pelton might have had more lines than Shirley

- Season Finale
- great ending to the season; love how it leaves things open for the 2nd season
- on the whole I think the 1st season ended strong with 4 of the last 5 episodes being solidly good or better in my book
- loved the Jeff-Britta-Slater triangle; I laughed a number of times at the way it developed and the participants reactions to the circumstances they got themselves into
- there was a number of cameos by characters who had only appeared in an episode or two prior to this one
- I'm not always crazy about each episode but I like the continuity that the show has going and look forward to seeing how it evolves in the next season

Community 1.24

English as a Second Language

- Better than the last episode, which was a lot of fun but also a bit of a gimmick; this one was much more solidly set in the reality of the show
- Annie doesn't want the group to break up; she learns that Senor Chang doesn't have the proper credentials to teach Spanish and rats him out; the dean brings in a real Spanish teacher to administer the final; it looks like the study group will be retaking the class next semester
- loved the group dynamics in this one
- the scene where Jeff reveals what Annie did and tells them not to look at her for fear that they will fall pray to her sad face and forgive her is priceless
- the subplot with Troy and the plumber did nothing for me; it felt like it was trying to reference something else, probably a movie, but I'm not sure what if anything it was calling back to
- possibly my favorite episode of the season, if not it is right up there very close to the top
- just one more to go in Season 1

Community 1.23

Modern Warfare

- Jeff wakes up from a nap only to discover that the campus of Greendale Community College is in the midst of a paintball war; there is paint everywhere; the campus seems deserted but there are pockets of people who haven't been eliminated from the game yet
- at first the men and women of the study group are on separate teams but then they join forces to fight other groups like the rollerskating disco fanatics and the glee club
- Senor Chang even gets in on the action while the dean hides out in his office
- Britta and Jeff hookup in the midst of the paintball war but agree afterwards that it was a mistake that shall never be repeated again or mentioned to anyone else; although Abed senses that something has changed

- one of the best episodes yet
- too many nods to movies and tv shows for me to begin to name them or recognize them all
- episodes like this and Contemporary American Poultry give me hope for the subsequent seasons

Community 1.22

The Art of Discourse

- after Jeff and Britta get dissed by a trio of high school students they start scheming how to get back at them
- Abed gets some help from Troy checking things off his bucket list
- Pierce insults Shirley and gets kicked out of the group
- ends with a food fight and an Animal Party like series of updates

- meh; I could have done without this one; it really didn't do anything for me; seems like it was aimed at a younger audience; much less intelligent episode than many of the other ones

Community 1.21

Contemporary American Poultry

- Abed temporarily usurps Jeff and becomes leader of the study group as they infiltrate the school cafeteria and start an operation distributing chicken fingers (the only decent thing the cafeteria serves) to the masses in return for favors
- all the characters get their moments but Jeff and Abed are at the center of it all
- I loved the commitment to the joke; it felt like a parody of a gangster film and I really liked that
- possibly my favorite episode up to this point

Community 1.20

The Science of Illusion

- a bit of an oddball title since the focus of this episode is April Fool's Day
- the group fools Pierce into thinking he is a wizard, or do they?
- Britta decides to play a prank on Senor Chang but instead ends up killing a frog and pushing a dead body out of a window and into the quad; Jeff gets accused of breaking into the lab and pushing the body out the window after Britta frames him for the crime
- Annie and Shirley sign up to be temporary campus security and end up getting into a fight over who is the bigger bad ass; Abed follows them around narrating, directing, and sometimes inserting himeslf into their adventures as campus police

- overall a pretty good episode

Community 1.19

Beginner Pottery

- the groups splits with Abed and Annie following Jeff's lead and opting to take a pottery class; at first Jeff thinks it will be a breeze but then he meets another student in the class who is cooler than him and seems unnaturally gifted at pottery; Jeff becomes obsessed with finding out what the other student's deal is; the pottery teacher is played by Tony Hale (Buster on Arrested Development)
- the rest of the group (Pierce, Shirley, Troy, Britta) sign up for a yachting class which takes place on an actual yacht which is in the school's parking lot; the yaching teacher is played by Lee Majors (aka Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man)

- this one had some good laughs

Community 1.18

Basic Genealogy

- it is family day at Greendale Community College
- Jeff's girlfriend (Professor Slater) dumps him; Amber (Pierce's adult step-daughter) is on campus for family day and the the two men get a bit competitive about getting her attention, all be it for different reasons
- Britta goes to some rather extreme lengths to accept and understand Troy's grandmother, despite Troy's numerous warnings to stay away from her
- Abed's father and sister (who arrives wearing a burka) and Shirley's young sons also visit the campus
- the A plot is the Jeff-Pierce-Amber story
- Annie is also in this episode but to a much lesser degree than possibly any of the other regular cast members
- Senor Chang's brother (who is a rabbi) also shows up for family day

- the pictionary scene probably got the biggest laugh from me
- on the whole a good but not great or awful episode