It must be sweeps: “Modern Warfare” was the Community’s version of the action-adventure movie, and considering they sent McHale and Glover out on the talk show circuit this week, they knew they had a winner on their hands.
Jeff and Britta flirt, annoying the rest of the group. Abed says Jeff and Britta have sexual tension. No chemistry, but tension. Dean Baldy McGlasses announces a paintball tournament is going to take place. Jeff doesn’t care and announces he’ll be taking a nap in his car. When he wakes up, there’s paint everywhere. It’s an apocalyptic movie yo! All the way down to the cinematography, and by that I mean the frames per second is different, and by that I mean I’m not at explaining the technicalities of why the visual is different in which I am apologizing. Abed saves Jeff from Leonard in the “neutral zone”. Abed and Troy inform Jeff that the winner gets priority scheduling. You can schedule all of your classes on Monday and have a six-day weekend! They get the chess club, and find Pierce, who immediately shoots Star-Burns so he can be with the other study group boys. During a pee break they get ambushed by the study group girls. Annie can barely contain her smile when popping out of the garbage to scream for the mamma jammas to freeze. The cast is having fun, and so am I. Almost feels illegal. I’ll risk getting arrested and will continue with the second act.
Jeff and Britta bicker at gunpoint and are told by the gang to shut up. The two gender groups decide to combine before they’re sure they are the final seven left. Troy gets shot by the glee club. They sing “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”. Annie says that’s so uninspired. And gets shot. Jeff tricks Pierce into being shot and revealing Glee’s position. They were on the tree. And now they’re dead. Over a fire a “Warriors” inspired group show up, including the post-ironic Disco Stu seen earlier. Good callback. Shirley gets shot, as does Abed in the legs. Britta tells Shirley she’s going to win the prize for her and her children. Jeff says he will do no such thing. Jeff thinks he was shot but it turns out its just blood. The Dean wishes the game would stop and enrolls Senor Chang into the school so he can kick everyone’s ass.
While Britta patches up Jeff they have a conversation about a sexual tension cliche. The two of them decide it would serve the study group right to bone right there in the study room. Nothing better than revenge sex! Seriously it’s like the Bacon and Blue of sex. Wendy’s can quote me on that.
Post coitus Britta pulls a gun on him. But Jeff took the bullets and calls her Hans. Senor Chang shows up with his bengal paintball gun and goes apeshit. Jeff and Britta hide behind turned over furniture, have a quick make out session. Britta shoots Chang, but Chang got her too. Chang, because he’s a crazy person, starts laughing because there’s no such thing as priority registration, and reveals he has three paintball bombs, and detonates them. Fortunately for Jeff, he slo-mo leaped out of there. Jeff storms into the Dean’s office, who offers a DVD system. Jeff shoots up the office. When the Dean asked if he got it out of his system, he takes the gun taped to his back and shoots him right in the forehead. Who’s the Hans now?! The Dean then gets defenestrated! No he doesn’t.
The next day Jeff gives Shirley the priority registration. Abed senses something is different, but can’t quite figure out that its because of the Bacon and Blue sex. Pierce insists it’s because he’s wearing a man-thong, but we know better. And might I add ew sir.
In the closing tag Troy and Jeff try to figure out how to properly tell Abed via voicemail Troy will meet him at the flagpole in ten minutes. This shouldn’t have been funny but it was.
Definitely the most fun half-hour this year, so much so that I’d feel like such a buzzkill to get into how smart it was of showrunner Dan Harmon to put the Jeff/Britta relationship in the center of it all, to get shippers who may have watched Community for the first time tonight to keep watching.
Things To Say While Pretending To Have Gout
“Yeah well you also put hydrogen in blimps and that was bad.”
“I want TBD! Is that new?”
“I’ll meet you at the flag pole hee hee.”
“And tell the drama club their tears will be real today.”
“Freeze mamma jamma!”
“I’m wearing a diaper for the game.”
P.S.
Extended Community opening theme tonight. Don’t think we’ve had that for awhile.
This was directed by Fast and the Furious himself Justin Lin.
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