I didn’t understand the episode title until reading this thread. Amazing and hilarious!
Loved Troy’s Spider-Man tie and Abed’s Inspector Spacetime jacket.
The scene in the Dean’s office with a “Man’s gotta have a code” slayed me. Jim Rash is brilliant and I wish they used Michael Kenneth Williams on the show more often.
“Uniform!”
“Urghgle!”
“Dear god.”
Check out the classroom sketch artist’s work.
That was an incredibly good episode. A pitch perfect Law and Order parody.
Even the theme song was awesome. They were able to keep their theme song, while still sounding so similar to Law and Order’s.
I was wondering what would happen when they went to talk to Magnitude. They found a way to keep him from saying nothing more than POP POP! Which, as always, gave a thrill to Troy.
Thanks for pointing out the title! I didn’t notice that at all!
Oh yeah. The medical examiner cameo was so funny. Just made me laugh and laugh.
Another great touch, was having one person answer another person’s phone for the bad news. And, everything happening off screen. So L+Oish.
The more I think about it. The more I remember the L+O touches. The arrest in a publich place and fading out on something in the room? Jeff looking back at the camera after saying something profound? The surprise opposing attorney.
This was a good night for Donald Glover. Awesome on Community. And, his Tracy Morgan impression on 30 Rock was terrific. He’s a funny talented dude.
Awesome episode. For me, it’s up there as one of their best. They’ve had a great season.
Ohhhhhhhh… :smack: Of course.
I didn’t give the title a second though.
When they first interview the fat keymaster, he never stopped working while answering questions. This is a huge 1st act staple of every episode of L&O.
Just “keymaster” would have been fine. 
Can someone answer this question, though? In the first scene, this exchange takes place:
Annie: In the meantime, I need someone to drum up suspects.
Shirley: I can help you with that; I watch crime shows when I’m bored. [To Abed and Troy] You boys canvas the witnesses, establish a time frame and motive and bring me a suspect. We’ve got 48 hours until the trail runs cold, so start with the last person to see that yam alive. **It’s been a long 15 years.
**
What does that bolded part mean? I looked to see if Nicole Yvette Brown had been in an episode of “Law and Order,” but IMDB doesn’t have her listed. Is that simply an oversight on the website’s part, or is there a joke I’m missing there?
She said that she’s watched a lot of L&O. I think the joke is that L&O in its many forms has been around forever, hence she’s had a long 15 years watching the show.
I loved the scene at the hot dog stand. “Keep the change. Actually, keep the hot dog.”
And then pulling back to reveal a street scene increasingly crowded with New York-style street cliches: traffic cones, construction signs, workers, etc.
And in that time she’s been bored a lot.
Charley “Fat Neil” Koontz was on a recent episode of Awake and I shouted to Mrs. FtG “It’s Fat Neil!”. Sorry, that’s his character name.
Noticed Vicki sitting in the classroom. So I knew the plot would get to her. But no dancing or Twinkies.
3rd appearance of Michael Kenneth Williams a.k.a “Omar”/“Chalky White”. He is seriously funny.
“Uniform.”
While this episode packed a huge amount of parody into a half hour, it didn’t leave much time for actual Community-style humor. Some of the Abed/Troy interaction, etc. I would have preferred less parody and more of the usual oddness.
I’d say something darkly funny but…
we can’t both have the zinger.
Just watched it again. Abed’s tantrum was so hilarious. And there are so many funny lines.
Jeff: “If it’s any consolation, she got me here on a very misleading text message.”
Annie: “Technically, you ***are ***about to be screwed in the biology room.”
“Objection, I hate the both of you!”
“Diffuse the IED of dishonesty.”
“Boiling water is the icicle stabbing of yam killing.”
“Holy crap, we are definitely dissecting pine cones next year!.”
I love how a full blown parody episode is simultaneously getting the show back into the classroom, dealing with homework and other students. And what a parody it was, after all the L&O I’ve watched even the looks the characters gave each other were making me laugh.
I missed the hints to the real culprit the first time:
“Mine just bloomed yesterday.”
“For a raw yam to get it this badly you need more than gravity.”
Not only was that yet another awesome, all-time great episode but it was like a textbook smackdown of why scripting and editing is so fantastically important in a one-camera show. It made a live episode like the one that 30 Rock did right afterward look like your co-workers staging a skit at the office picnic by comparison.
30 Rock did seem amateurish.
I really enjoyed Annie playing a lawyer. She really got into it.
One of the first times they show Fat Neil, the prof (I think) calls him “Fat Neil” and he says, “Just ‘Neil’ is fine.” It was an allusion to that.
Kinda like whenever anyone calls Starburns “Starburns,” he would say, “My name is Alex!”
Well… not any more… [fade to black]
