TV shows have never been obligated to follow the actual calendar with their plots. Those episodes that do are the exception.
I went to a real college, not a community college, so maybe it’s different, but where I went there were no two semester classes at all, so I found it weird last year when their Spanish class was two semesters. If they’d just said it was something like Spanish I the first half of the season and Spanish II the 2nd half of the season, that would’ve been fine, but then they should’ve had different background characters instead of all the same ones (like Starburns), to account for not everyone always taking the next course, students taking different sections, etc.
Then again, I was surprised at them apparently going to CC for 4 years instead of 2 then switching to a real one, so I’m just gonna not think about this stuff too hard.
Troy and Abed in the morning!
I want to see an episode about them actually doing a morning show on public access cable for credit for a class…a real “Troy & Abed in the Morning”
I also went to a 4-year college, and although it was unusual to have a two-semester course it wasn’t unheard of. Well, they weren’t technically the same course, they had different course numbers and you had to enroll again for the spring semester if you wanted to continue, but there definitely were cases where one would take the same subject two semesters in a row with the same professor.
Almost everyone did a full year of their foreign language, as we were required to have at least 6 credits in the same language to graduate. (I think it was actually at least 6 credits AND at least through the Intermediate level, so many people needed 12 credits.) I was in Intermediate German, and with the exception of one girl who switched to Advanced everyone from the fall class continued in the spring. It doesn’t seem strange to me that the Community gang might take two semesters of Anthropology either, as when I took Psych 101 I had the option of continuing with Psych 102 (same textbook and instructor) in the spring.
Some community colleges do offer 4-year degree programs, although at the moment the Community gang is still only in their second year. They may not all be at full-time either.
I know, I’ve resolved not to think too much about this stuff either. I went to a 4 year college and took classes at the local community college as well and neither of them had two semester classes, especially for liberal arts and social science classes.
For season 1, they actually made an effort to show that the gang took Spanish 101 in the Fall and then took Spanish 102. I just rewatched the Christmas episode from season one and Chang tells everyone that they’d be joining him in Spanish 102 in the Spring. As for the background characters all being the same, I’ll just convince myself that there’s only one Spanish 102 class and everybody needed the credits.
Someone on another board pointed out that Rich isn’t exactly a nice guy for leading Annie on like that. I mean, a guy like him had to have known that Annie was basically flinging herself at him, right? Also, there’s more signs that he’s once again taking classes that are beneath his level a la ceramics: Annie points out that Rich is really good at anthropology and if you look at his house decor in the scene where Jeff visits him, you can see lots of African and tribal statues along the wall and shelves. Hmm, looks like someone needs to feel special.
“I love footballs”
Unfortunately, I’m apparently out of the loop. What was that a shout-out to?
He played the son in The Cosby Show. Bill Cosby wore many unique sweaters during the show’s run.
And of course Rich needs to feel special - if the pottery ep is anything to go by, his mom wishes that his brother was alive instead of him.
:smack: For some reason I didn’t remember who said that line, and was thinking it was Rich. But if it was not-Theo, it makes more sense.
I liked the opening when they are trying to guess who Annie found the “river finger” with:
Troy: “Is it black Michael Chiklis?”
Annie: “No.”
Pierce: “What about white George Foreman?”
Britta: “You guys are talking about the same person. He’s biracial, his name is David, and he’s a human being!”
Abed: “We really need to start learning people’s names.”
Jeff: “You’ve got a point, brown Jamie Lee Curtis.”
(I had never noticed it before, but he kinda *does *look like a brown Jamie Lee Curtis!)
I really liked this episode. I’m glad their dialing back the surrealness, its fun in limited doses, but part of why its funny is that its surprising. They were really starting to hit the bottom of that well before the break, IMHO.
Looks like because of the heavy dose of those types of eps lately they’re back to more ‘normal’ eps for a while now.
From Alan Sepinwall :
I have to agree with others above: Donald Glover has spectacularly good delivery.
Yup. I was referencing that episode and the Halloween episode where he didn’t say anything about getting bitten cause he thought he was special.