Boy, tonight’s episode really didn’t want me to watch it. For starters, check out what the official teaser said:
While Jeff takes interest in a pottery class, Pierce invites his friends to his boating class.
Secondly, because I am a super smart and interesting person, I noticed that this episode was the fourteenth episode produced. If NBC broadcast the episodes in order, this would have been aired between Jeff entering the relationship with the professor (who broke up with him last week) and Annie getting together with Vaughn (what happened with that by the way?). Usually if an episode is swapped out for another one during sweeps period (February), it means the network didn’t find it to be strong, or you know, funny.
And dude, March Madness is on! Several one shining moments!
Jeff claims you get an easy art credit for taking a pottery class. The teacher turns out to be Buster Bluth who is VERY upset about the movie Ghost. Oh my god, don’t you even try and reenact it. Don’t even hum three notes from the Righteous Brothers song. You’re killing him! Jeff keeps claiming he doesn’t want to make an effort, but some dude named Rich is ridiculously good. Jeff becomes obsessed with this Rich falling from his “I’m actually a doctor” high horse.
He spends the night googling(!) to figure out if Rich is just pretending to be a pottery prodigy and actually takes different beginner pottery classes. What do you think Winger, everyone is you? He thinks he busts Rich with an “intermediate pottery” move, and nobody knows what the fuck he’s talking about. When Jeff gets behind Rich trying to make him do whatever it is he did again, it freaks Buster out because it’s reminiscent of the Ghost sex scene. In the funniest part of the show, Buster screams that he only had ONE damn rule, and points to a poster of Patrick Swayze that is X’d out. When Annie gasps, Buster explains he did that before he died, so it wasn’t in bad taste. Jeff somehow just failed the easiest class to pass.
Jeff talks to the Chever about his frustration. Pierce tells him he’s used to failure, and it’s nothing to be pissy about. Something like that. It was okay. Jeff goes back to the class and pretends his mother in the past told him he isn’t King Shit, but it’s fine.
Pierce, Britta, Shirley and Troy meanwhile take a sailing class (it’s a ship in the middle of the school parking lot.) Even thought Pierce claims he once was captain of a jetski, Shirley ends up being captain. Pierce ends up getting himself thrown overboard, and captain Shirley decides for the sake of the other students to not try and save him, lest they end up drowning and getting a crappy grade. By Act Three however, she realizes she’s not a cold-hearted bitch and lets Pierce back on. Everyone gets an A! In the second funniest moment, Pierce’s “I’m king of the world!” pronouncement gets interrupted by the teacher, holding an X’d out picture of Leonardo DiCaprio from Titanic. “Let’s not ruin a perfect week.”
Ugh, another off week. We don’t need to be knocked over the head with Jeff’s journey into becoming a better human being stuff. And how annoying is it that Tony Hale has been wasted on now two shows post-Arrested Development? First he wasn’t utilized to his full capabilities on Chuck, and now this. Cut it out Community!
Things To Say While Stealing Senor Chang’s Clothes From The Y…Again
“Guess which class I signed up for?” “Singing with Tennille?”
“More importantly you stopped laughing at the word seamen, a true mark of a real seamen.”
“Is that nautical talk or urban speak?”
“Good luck Pierce!” “Don’t need it, never had it.”
“Do you still have the number of the detective you hired when you thought Ross Perot was sleeping with your mom?”
P.S.
I completely missed that the sailing teacher was Lee Majors. We can rebuild him and junk!
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