Since this is my first review of Community I feel like i should really hammer home just how much I love this show. Right now it is probably the funniest show on TV (trust me, I've seen pretty much all of them). They use all the regular stereotypical sitcom plot lines, but they do it in a different way. For example in season 2 they have a bottle episode (when all the characters are trapped in a room. Think Friends when everyone was eating wax). Instead of just doing the bottle episode they say "well this is looking a lot like a bottle episode", and at one point the group leader calls his date and says "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to cancel. Well, you can tell your disappointment to suck it! I'm doing a bottle episode!"
Last night's episode started with the study group celebrating Troy's 20th birthday in a pretty lame cake and friends fashion, until they did some basic math, realizing Troy was born in 1989, and is actually 21. They did that pretty hilariously "No, I'm 20 because I was 10 for two years because 5th grade was really hard... OH MY GOD MOM, HOW MANY LIES HAVE I BEEN LIVING!?!" So they went to the bar. Without giving away actual spoilers, I'll just tease that two of the six members got hammered, one was propositioned by a gay man, two had seemingly life changing revelations, one tried to preserve their dignity and one didn't even make it into the front door. By the way I'm calling it, Annie and Troy are the next two to hook up.
Episode Ratings:
Overall Season Plot Rating: 8, it drove some stories forward. Granted it's mid-season of a sitcom, so plot isn't the most important thing right now, but still some interesting plots may have been uncovered.
Clean Slate Rating: If this were the first episode of Community I had ever seen I think I would have left with a smile and an intention to watch it again if it happened to be on. 8
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