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Episode Title: | Pilot |
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Original Air Date: | September 17th 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 9:30 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x01 -- Season: 1, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Jeff Winger has his law degree revoked. He forms a a study group with the help of his peers and learn new things about themselves. |
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Episode Title: | Spanish 101 |
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Original Air Date: | September 24th 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 9:30 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x02 -- Season: 1, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | In Spanish class, Senor Chang asks the students to pair up for a project. Jeff's attempt to team up with Britta fails and he ends up displeased with his actual partner. Annie and Shirley assist Britta with her cause for social justice. |
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Episode Title: | Introduction to Film |
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Original Air Date: | October 1st 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x03 -- Season: 1, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Jeff joins Professor Whitman class for an easy A grade. Jeff realises how much work he needs to put in to pass. Britta helps Abed fulfill his dream. |
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Episode Title: | Social Psychology |
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Original Air Date: | October 8th 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x04 -- Season: 1, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | For Professor Duncan's psychology research team, Abed and Troy are recruited as test subjects by Annie. Also, Shirley and Jeff start to bond as they gossip about Britta and her boyfriend. |
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Episode Title: | Advanced Criminal Law |
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Original Air Date: | October 15th 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x05 -- Season: 1, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Seņor Chang warns that he'll give failing marks to the whole class unless the cheater admits to his/her indiscretion. Jeff then defends the one who comes forward. Annie and Pierce team up to compose a new school song. |
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Episode Title: | Football, Feminism and You |
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Original Air Date: | October 22nd 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x06 -- Season: 1, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | While Jeff urges Troy to sign up with the football team, Britta learns girl talk etiquette from Shirley. Dean Pelton and Pierce work together on the college football team mascot. |
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Episode Title: | Introduction to Statistics |
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Original Air Date: | October 29th 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x07 -- Season: 1, Episode: 7 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Jeff is crushing on his statistics professor and is bent on asking her out on a date. He needs to choose between pursuing her or showing up at Annie's Day of the Dead party. Pierce accepts and deals with his being old. |
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Episode Title: | Home Economics |
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Original Air Date: | November 5th 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x08 -- Season: 1, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Jeff's schoolmates come to his aid when they learn he is living out of his car. Pierce joins Vaughn's band while Annie and Troy plan out his date with another girl. |
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Episode Title: | Environmental Science |
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Original Air Date: | November 12th 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x09 -- Season: 1, Episode: 9 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Jeff's classmates entrust him the task of discussing with Seņor Chang about the unreasonable amount of homework assigned to them. Troy and Abed loses their subject for a biology lab experiment. |
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Episode Title: | The Politics of Human Sexuality |
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Original Air Date: | December 3rd 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x11 -- Season: 1, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Britta dares Jeff to find himself a partner for a double date with Pierce and his new girlfriend. Meanwhile, Shirley and Britta lend their hand as Annie tries to learn anatomy for a special health fair presentation in school. |
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Episode Title: | Comparative Religion |
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Original Air Date: | December 10th 2009 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x12 -- Season: 1, Episode: 12 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Shirley does the preparations for an upcoming holiday party. Jeff goes up against a school bully after being challenged to a fight. |
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Episode Title: | Investigative Journalism |
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Original Air Date: | January 14th 2010 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x13 -- Season: 1, Episode: 13 |
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Program Network: | NBC - 30 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | While Jeff takes on the role of Greendale Gazette Journal's editor, the gang must decide whether or not to admit an eager classmate into their study group. |
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Episode Title: | Competitive Wine Tasting |
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Original Air Date: | April 14th 2011 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x20 -- Season: 2, Episode: 20 |
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Program Network: | 30 min |
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Episode Summary: | While the crew selects their electives for the spring semester, Pierce gets involved with a woman and Jeff suspects she is up to something. |
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Episode Title: | Paradigms of Human Memory |
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Original Air Date: | April 21st 2011 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x21 -- Season: 2, Episode: 21 |
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Program Network: | 30 min |
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Episode Summary: | Although the concept of bottle episodes was something that I was aware of, I'd never really come across one that wasn't directly referencing that it was one until this week's Community. "Paradigms of Human Memory" sees just about nothing happen whilst the study group reflects on previously unseen events from the year past.
Whilst the group is making a diorama about making a diorama, Troy's monkey from season 1 episode "Contemporary American Poultry" appears and runs away into the ventilation shaft of the study room with a paint brush. This sparks the most unnecessary and random scene that Community has ever aired when Chang enters, dressed only in speedos, and chases the monkey into the vent. Searching the vent, Chang then discovers the horde of items that "Annie's Boobs" has been collecting over the year and brings them out for the rest of the group to see, leading to a series of "remember when?" moments that constitute most of the episode.
In amongst the various memories we see the group visit a ghost town before being chased out by a prospector in long red underwear; fill in for the glee club after their untimely demise by singing only the word sing and we get to see a human perspective of "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" in which the entire cast was clay-mated. The only real plot development point of the episode was the revelation that Jeff and Britta had been hooking up in secret, however, even that potential paradigm shifting discovery was short lived when, upon the group deciding that it would be fine if they continued their relationship, they decided to stop.
When it comes down to it, "Paradigms of Human Memory" was just about as bad as Community has ever been. Whether the writers simply ran out of steam towards the end of the season, or were truly saving their budget to make the upcoming paintball episode as big as possible remains to be seen, but I really do hope that this filler episode isn't a reflection of the rest of the end of the season, or the new season to come. Every show is entitled to bad episodes and we can only hope that Community has just gotten its quota over and done with. That being said, a bad episode of Community still blows mostly everything else on TV out of the water. |
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Episode Title: | Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts |
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Original Air Date: | April 28th 2011 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x22 -- Season: 2, Episode: 22 |
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Program Network: | 30 min |
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Episode Summary: | In a way, this episode of Community was completely different than last week's; last week was another example of the show indulging in lampooning a certain genre of television or parodying something.. this episode is another one of those character driven normal-type episodes, and I would say it was equally as good as last week's. We got everybody jumping in on the fun, even if some were better than others.
It's the Anthropology final and Professor Duncan (who has killed it this year as far as I'm concerned) is slacking off during it until the Dean pops in, claiming he'll be sitting in on it. Soon after this, Shirley goes into labor, and a riot outside prevents her from getting to the hospital. Therefore, we get the typical "deliver a baby outside of the hospital" theme that every show seems to do... but this is Community, so it never feels lame. We get Chang explaining that "Chang babies are notorious for coming out early.. they grow fast by feeding on the mother's insides" and we also get Britta trying to help but failing after she gets a look at the cervix. Meanwhile, Troy and Abed realize their handshake has lost its meaning after Pierce pays them a thousand dollars to use it.
It's a weird episode, with a callback that episode where apparently Abed delivered a baby in the background of the episode despite it never being referenced. But it works so well because the writing is top-notch, and we get great input from Dean Pelton, who has raised the bar for the supporting cast and especially Duncan, who steals the show with just a few lines.. all around, a very good episode. |
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Episode Title: | A Fist Full of Paintballs |
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Original Air Date: | May 5th 2011 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x23 -- Season: 2, Episode: 23 |
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Program Network: | 30 min |
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Episode Summary: | Coming soon.. |
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Episode Title: | For a Few More Paintballs |
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Original Air Date: | May 12th 2011 (Thursday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x24 -- Season: 2, Episode: 24 |
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Program Network: | 30 min |
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Episode Summary: | Coming soon.. |
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