Community shit the bed the previous two episodes, so it had to come back big tonight. Had to. Or else, I’d type that I didn’t like it again. With their backs against the wall tonight, the show came through, particularly in the third act.
Annie and Shirley volunteer to be student security to avoid any April Fools shenanigans at Greendale. Abed asks which one is the straight cop and which one is the bad-ass, immediately starting a fight between the ladies. I guess I was racist for assuming Shirley would be the bad-ass. Shame on me guys. Shame on me. Adding to the fun is that Abed is following them, making sure they follow the buddy cop movie prototype, because his cable is out.
Britta is annoyed when people call her a fun vampire. Her plan to put a Senor Chang sombrero on a frog backfires in a slapstickian manner, resulting in a human corpse being defenestrated. (It made more sense if you saw it.) This leads the dean to cancel April Fools Day. Jeff knows Britta did it, so she frames him. When Annie and Shirley are about to book him, or whatever, Jeff makes a run for it and gets away. Annie and Shirley’s ensuing argument makes me happy that they finally are giving these two something fun to do.
While this is going on there’s a C story of Jeff pulling an April Fools joke: when Pierce announces he’s going to be inducted as a level six wizard, Jeff tricks him into wearing a wizard outfit, including a cookie wand. So basically he’s the cookie crisp wizard.
The third act starts with Abed taking over for the Dean in playing the angry police commissioner caricature. “I just got off the phone with the mayor!” “78 dollars worth of damage”, etc. It lights a fire up Annie and Shirley’s asses: they find Jeff, and actually bang his head on the table twice and cuff him. Britta admits she framed him. Britta ends up crying, hoping she wouldn’t be seen as a buzzkill. Annie cries, saying she just wanted to act as more of an adult to Shirley. Shirley cries, saying she wishes she was more like the youthful Annie. Pierce cries because he was lying about being level six anything. Troy cries, because he didn’t even get the Cookie Crisp wizard joke but he played along because he wanted Jeff to like him. Jeff fails at cheering Britta up and everyone ends up having a big ol’ cry huddled together. “Let’s never have Jeff divide us up again!” Pierce says. Jeff turns to Abed and starts to say something about them being the only sane people left. Abed shuts him up, saying, “I’m watching this.”
Things To Write on Your “Troy and Abed In The Morning” Banner
“It’s the day before April Fools Day!” “Baba booey baba booey!”
“You’re more of a fun vampire. You don’t suck blood, you just suck.”
“Tell them they have 24 hours to solve the case.”
“He kept a dream journal. Dream one: I had that dream again…where the trees were defenseless.”
“You’re off the force! And don’t even think about going near this case!”
“That African-american police chief Abed was playing was right!”
“Oh colonial burn!”
“Cut to action sequence.”
P.S.
Still haven’t bothered with reintroducing Vaughn as Annie’s new boyfriend. I doubt most people even remember they’re a couple at this point.
Honestly? I would have said I loved this episode because I got to use the word “defenestrate” in the write-up even if it sucked. But it didn’t. Just believe me.
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