I just watched the episode on Hulu and they showed Leonard’s pizza review at the end.
For a brief moment I was thinking the boy Shirley defeated and bullied would turn out to be the Dean, and that this incident was why he wound up the way he is. I’m glad that’s not what happened, though.
Did anyone notice the landlord was watching Quantum Leap porn? “Ziggy says you’re going to have to bang all these hippies at woodstock to get out of here”
It’s things like that that make multiple viewings a requirement.
You can also see Troy lock the sheet behind him when he leaves his and Abed’s “room”.
I like how it’s always the same cop.
Cop: Say, you look familiar. Did I ever pretend to shoot a guy in front of you to teach you about gun safety?
Annie: Nods sheepishly
Cop: I’m really good at faces.
Nope, it’s Micahel Haggins - Daybreak, the same song the listened to in Abed’s Halloween story.
Britta’s phone was massively frustrating to me, because she previously had a super cute cell phone identical the one that Richard Blais had on Top Chef, and which I once spent a boring day at work trying to identify. I want to know what happened to her cute turquoise phone!
Well, it’s not just that they met - it might not be unusual at all for two people of roughly the same age to have incidentally met as kids in elementary school or a youth center or whatever, if they’re in a town or small city. The contrivance is that the encounter was so formative and significant for each of them that they both remember it clearly years later.
FWIW, I thought the ending with Shirley and Jeff being bestest buddies, and showing them as kids, was painfully over the top cheesy. I often like when the show gets warm and fuzzy, but they overdo it sometimes.
You’re right, my fault. The Halloween episode isn’t one of my favorites, so I didn’t remember the actual song. The melody is strikingly similar, though.
Where does air hockey fit in?
It’s the hockey of ping pong. Obviously.
I found Annie’s Christian Bale/Batman voice to be oddly hot.
I thought it was kind of sweet.
Cacio e Pepe, the classic Roman cheese and pepper pasta.
Serves 5-6 as a side dish
8 ounces spaghetti
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons cracked fresh black pepper
1-1/2 cups freshly grated Pecorino Romano cheese
Cook pasta in salted water, probably a minute or two less than what the package says. Heat skillet with olive oil, saute cracked pepper for a couple minutes. Remove pasta from pot with tongs, add to skillet, coat the pasta. Add cheese, toss and coat again. Add a bit of pasta water to the pot, coat again. Bam, you’re done.
And don’t throw it away just because it’s sitting half eaten on a plate in the living room.
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Actually, that kind of works. Skimming the recipe, I thought you were doing some kind of Leonard spoof with a prepared pasta dish.
Was that a very young Abed standing around the foosball table in the flashback?
I thought the same thing but Abed would’ve been a baby (or not born) when those guys were kids.