5.01/5.02 “Repilot”/“Introduction to teaching”
5.03 Basic Intergluteal Numismatics
5.04 Cooperative Polygraphy
5.05 Geothermal Escapism
5.06 Analysis of Cork-based marketing
5.07 Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality
5.08 App Development and Condiments
5.09 VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing
5.10 Advanced Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
5.11 GI Jeff
5.12 Basic Story
Season finale. Hopefully not series finale. Six seasons and a movie.
The burst of Jeff-emotion was odd, but I did like the “open the door” song that ran exactly as long as it took to open the door.
And 127 in binary is indeed a palindrome, but if we’re using exactly seven bits, so are 8, 20, 28, 34, 42, 62, 65, 73, 85, 93, 99, 107, 121, and maybe a few others I missed.
Decent but not great. If that turns out to be the series finale, it’s a letdown. I was hoping when they revealed the treasure map, that they’d go full-on Goonies. Alas.
+5 points for having some funny parts.
-100 points for requiring an entire unfunny episode as set-up.
Could someone explain the joke about the Gerald Ford dollars? I could tell there was one, but it went right over my head.
I think it was just that there was a lot of inflation in the Ford Administration, so someone who had been living underground all that time would’ve assumed inflation had continued at that rate and so a million dollars was worthless now.
(Fun fact: a million dollars in 1976 would be worth 3,000 today, assuming inflation continued at the same rate as its 70’s highpoint).
And the “close the door” song that was “faster than it opened for dramatic effect.”
Everything that was happening was so silly and far fetched I kept waiting and waiting for the twist when somebody would shake Abed awake and we would find out that it was all in his head because of his desire for an adventure.
And then the episode ended and it turns out we were supposed to believe that all of this took place in the “real world”. The clues which lead to a room hidden for 50 years. The school was run by a secret underground robot. Jeff and Britta instantly deciding to get married at the beginning, then just a quickly changing their mind at the end. All that money and Chang buying gold teeth with it.
Even though it’s a sitcom I couldn’t suspend my disbelief that this was supposed to be happening for real. Just like that Halloween episode. If it would have been a dream or fantasy sequence I would have been happy. But since it wasn’t I was disappointed.
Don’t worry. There’s a good chance a comet comes and annihilates all life on Earth soon.
I was afraid the long-lost computer guy was going to be played by Andy Dick. I’d been trying to identify the actor from some of the earlier photographs.
Poor Christ Elliot ;).
That was really strange, but I enjoyed it. I think I enjoyed it because it was so strange. I loved some of the small stuff, such as the board members have names now and that Jeff’s real emotion came from looking at Annie (speaking of that, Jeff & Britta’s pilot failing due to having a real future was great).
I too was trying to figure out who he was, but then Chris Elliott’s name showed up in the credits.
I thought Elliot was a possibility (I hadn’t noticed the credits), but I didn’t recognize him, and by that time the story was getting distractingly far-fetched and overstuffed.
I see that Nobody notes the muddle I’ve seen.
I’ve seen every episode, and if that’s a Community joke it sounds vaguely familiar, but I’m drawing a blank.
At the end of this current episode, Abed says that they will return next year. If they don’t, it’s because a comet has destroyed all life on Earth and it is CANON.
It was a reference to what Abed says in the “Basic Sandwich” episode.
Oh right, of course. Thank you both.
“Depends on what fails”
This felt like a season 4 episode (which I liked). Everything just seemed a little off somehow. I’m really hoping this isn’t the series finale.
More and more it seems the 6th season will be a reality:
Zap2it seems to think Community is more likely to be renewed than canceled.