As best I can tell:
Shirley: Oh, dear lord! You’re “Tinkle-town” ?
Jeff: Don’t call me that! All of your fake sweetness and religion is just a veil covering a horrible monster! [walks away but turns back before leaving] And I had a lot of Mountain Dew that day!
Well, YouTube thinks so. I dunno about doing this in an actual game, though.
[Jeff and Shirley frantically spin their players, trying to get the centered ball]
Shirley: You get it.
Jeff: No, you get it.
Shirley: You’re the one that needs the advantage.
Jeff: WRONG! WRONG!
Anime Jeff: Every game I ever won, I won fairly! Foosball is how I measured my value as a man, you took that away!
Anime Shirley: Why so you think I had to! You try sprouting three feet just when boys are about to look at you! Everyone stopped liking me! This game is all I had!
Anime Jeff: It’s all I had!
Anime Shirley: Well, that’s stupid! You’re a perfectly fine person!
Anime Jeff: [pause] So are you!
Anime Shirley: [pause] Thank you!
Anime Jeff: [pause] You’re welcome.
Thank you, Bryan Eckers, you’re streets ahead. It’s that sprouting three feet sentence that threw me off. I got everything else, but that just didn’t register with me.
I didn’t get that one - are Europeans really into Donkey Kong or something?
Though I did love it when the German guy said, “If only there were a word to describe my pleasure at viewing the misfortune of others…”
Try, “It’s on like Donkey Kong.”
When–and where?–did “foosball” become popular? I had never heard of it till a *Friends *episode where Chandler and whatshisname got a foosball table, and I thought it was something they made up for Friends. I have still never seen “foosball” in the wild, outside of a sitcom plot device.
After the show last night, I searched and searched YouTube for Leonard’s frozen pizza reviews, and for his outfit of the day blog, Never found it, though; anyone else have better luck?
Do you live in a cave? It’s not really that popular, but foosball tables have been staple furniture in various game/community centers for eons (well, at least since 1921 according to Wiki).
Not actually on YouTube, I believe, but just an incredible facsimile. I looked up leonardlikespizza, which was the tag on the “YouTube” clip, but that’s not real.
You can find his pizza review (it’s just the show credits, same as what aired) on the Community page at nbc.com. Since the Leonard YouTube channel doesn’t seem to exist, I doubt there’s an actual outfit of the day blog, either. Though I could be wrong …
You can follow him on Twitter, though … @Leonard_GCC. That was in the quick-flash title card, and it’s a real Twitter account.
Pretty popular, and have been at least since I was a kid (late 80’s). Usually in college dorms, bars, camp rec-halls, pool halls and the like though, so if you don’t spend much time in those places, thats probably why you haven’t seen them.
More fun then pinball and darts, takes less skill then billiards or ping-pong.
My Fraternity house has one in the late 80s/early 90s. I sucked, but at least, no one ever made me pee my pants and call me Tinkle-town.
I guess I did not spend enough time in pool halls, smoking cubeb cigarettes and reading Snappy Stories.
In the Midwest, foosball tables have been common for decades in bars and at college student centers and dormitories. Growing up, I even knew some kids who had their own foosball tables at home.
I would guess that foosball is more popular in the United States than actual soccer is.
It’s the soccer of ping pong.
Fun episode, but I agree that it’s a little lame to have Shirley and Jeff meet as kids. They did mention before (maybe Season 1?) that they’re about the same age though.
Lots of callbacks for this episode. There was Troy humming the Halloween interlude from Abed’s scary story. The cop recognized Annie from Professor Professorson’s conspiracy theory. Britta had her use of old technology and her one-eyed cat who’s now getting lasik (because monocles would be pretentious). Tiny nipples had a mention. Abed and his batman costume. What else am I missing?
I want to know what Shirley did to Pierce’s hoagie.
It may be lame, but it is also TV convention to find out that characters who meet as adults unknowingly met as children. And as much as the show sends up genre tropes it also revels in them.
This should be Yvette Nicole Brown’s Emmy “for your consideration” video.
That’s true. The Troy/Annie/Abed storyline was also a fairly standard trope though Troy did note that it was a standard sitcom storyline. The Big Cheddar and Tinkle Town rivalry seemed more contrived somehow, but I do think the anime sequence did a lot to distract from that problem.
Love that, “Shut up Leonard” is becoming a thing.
Oh, and the song Troy is humming is I Got A Woman by Ray Charles, though probably the sample used by Kanye. “She give me money when I’m in need.”