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Class is in session Community fans! Welcome to Intro to
Reviewing, yet another Community related column because dammit, the show is
just tops and it's fun to come up with semi-cool title names. Today, we're
going to review the latest season six episode, "Basic RV Repair and
Palmistry." Or as it'll soon be known, the one with the giant ass hand that's awesome and I absolutely love it! More of that hand please. But alright, let's not
get distracted. ON WITH THE SHOW!
Intro to Reviewing:
Community Episode "Basic RV Repair and Palmistry"
Plot
Dean Pelton decided to buy a large hand statue in between
the last two episodes, presumably because...he's Dean Pelton? Seems legit. It
any event, the study group isn't too keen on the school wasting money on the
thing, so they sell the hand online and take a road trip in Elroy's RV to
deliver the hand to its new owner (Matt Besser). The usual occurs; Britta gets
stoned, Abed keeps insisting the current events tie into a flashback scene,
Jeff is annoyed, the Dean is the Dean, Annie and Frankie are Annie and Frankie,
and the RV inevitably runs out of gas halfway there. Also there's a whole thing
about charging phones, batteries dying, and the Dean really not wanting to get
rid of that hand. Which, can you blame him? Look at that thing? It's even more
majestic than Annie's Boobs.
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| Seriously, what did you think I was talking about? |
Best Line
"What's wrong with me if that's hot?" -Jeff Winger,
after Britta tries to keep warm by climbing into the middle of the Dean's hand
statue. I don't get why he thought that was hot, but it was damn funny.
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| Britta, stuck in the huge hand |
Best Moment
We have a tie! The first comes towards the end, where Abed
appears to be on the verge of falling out of reality due to his inability to
connect a flashback to current events. So Frankie does what Jeff cannot, and
convinces him that the present is a flashback to a future where there's a Space
Elder Frankie, a Space Elder Abed and a whole lot of Mad Max: Fury Road esq
scenery. Oh, and Space Elder Britta! Students, I have seen Blade Runner on the
big screen, I have watched Daniel Bryan win the WWE Championship at
Wrestlemania, I've witnessed every episode of Lucha Underground, hell I've even
seen a grown man satisfy a camel (just kidding, stole that line from Dodgeball.
Again). Space Elder Britta is the best thing ever! The boredom she contains.
The utter bewilderment and contempt Space Elder's Frankie and Abed had for her.
I need more Space Elder Britta dammit! Dear Dan Harmon; there best be a sequel
to this where we get to see more of her!
Oh that's right, the other best moment. It comes at the end,
where we finally get to meet the guy who was going to buy the hand, and learn
perhaps a little too much about his reasons for wanting to buy it. Let's just
say, whole lot of resentment there in that family. Great scene though,
especially the banter by real life married couple Besser and Danielle
Schneider.
MVP
Space Elder Britta. Who the hell did you think it was going
to be? This is the Michael Jordan of characters we aren't going to see again.
Space Elder Britta Britta'd so badly that I think it briefly made present day
Britta 180% cooler. How can you take your eyes off such hilarious lameness?!
Honorable mention to Abed and the Dean, who got some pretty good laughs in this
one too.
This Week's Former Study Group Member I Missed the Most
Troy Barnes. Was I the only one who was hoping against all
hope that he would ride in on an actual white horse (it's Community, they'd get
a white horse) to save the study group from being stuck? I know, I know, Troy
only knew how to repair air conditioners and such, but he could've learned how
to fix a car with his great...fixing ability. And don't give me that he's still
being held by the pirates. He has to have escaped by now, unless the plot for
Community: The Movie is for the study group to save Troy from the pirates.
Wait, that's exactly what they should do! Do it Harmon! I can't take any more
days without Troy and Abed doing something funny!
Grade
Yet another excellent episode in the second half of
Community, season six. It really feels they've turned a corner since Subway
returned and then left. I'm giving this one a solid A. It would've been an A+
if only Troy had showed up.
Class dismissed guys. Short one it seems like, but hopefully
still good. I'll be back with another Lists 101 later in the week, and for
those who enjoy more than the Community stuff, another post later today. Till
then, pass along that idea I had for Community: The Movie, and wonder out loud
as I often do who DUCHOVNY'S favorite character is. My guess; Britta. Yup,
definitely Britta.
Please change disks to
continue...
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