# Community: 5/6/10 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596 "2010-05-07T03:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/41 "2010-05-07T18:54:08Z")
I think he said “I’m not an ambassador.” ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/42 "2010-05-07T18:55:41Z")
> [@Disheavel](#): > > I am going to agree with you with two minor exceptions- the Buffy and How I Met your Mother musicals. > > Yes Buffy is not a sitcom I don’t believe that ‘How I met your mother’ has done an episode-length musical. They’ve had one big song-and-dance number that I can recall, (that was hyped) but that’s not the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/43 "2010-05-07T18:56:22Z")
Either way: Codpiece! ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/44 "2010-05-07T19:03:47Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > I think he said “I’m not an ambassador.” Ya, that sounds right. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/45 "2010-05-07T19:15:11Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The AV Club rundown of the episode also mentioned that the roller derby team was a reference to the movie The Warriors (which I think I’ve never seen). It was. The classic moment from that movie is a bad guy from a rival gang clinking bottles together, chanting “Waaarriors…Come out and plaaaayyyyy”, parodied in this episode. Chang’s entry was wearing the linen suit and sunglasses from John Woo’s The Killer. His pair of golden pistols was from another Woo movie. Hard Boiled, I think. The paintballs colliding in mid-air was from yet another of his movies. Chang’s green paint bomb was reminiscent of Predator. Man, now I want to watch it again and annotate everything. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/46 "2010-05-07T19:25:49Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > I thought the whole Senor Chang moment was from Scarface, but I don’t really know. The first part with the machine paintball gun was Scarface to me, then when they brought out the double pistol’s with Britta and Chang going at it and diving and shooting that was John Woo’s Hardboiled? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/47 "2010-05-07T19:46:27Z")
Of course, Abed’s entrance (“Come with me if you don’t want paint on your clothes”) references the Terminator movies (“Come with me if you want to live.”) I was thinking Jeff’s speech in the dean’s office was a Rambo or First Blood reference. The opening with Jeff walking the empty campus feels like a nod to 28 Days Later or Resident Evil. ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/48 "2010-05-07T19:54:15Z")
I thought the gold pistols were from “Face Off”. Best. episode. ever. 2nd place goes to “Goodfellas”. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/49 "2010-05-07T20:12:18Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I was thinking Jeff’s speech in the dean’s office was a Rambo or First Blood reference. That’s what I was thinking at the time as well. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/50 "2010-05-07T20:22:12Z")
Joel McHale, how\* you\* doin? ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/51 "2010-05-07T21:46:37Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > That episode was truly inspired. This show has become my new favorite show, and that episode only cemented it. > > One question - the first guy that Jeff meets was clearly a reference to something, and it was vaguely familiar - something with a guy with an eye patch and a bad accent. Did anyone catch that one? It’s bugging me too - especially, “You think this is over? This is _still happening_!” In fact, almost every reference rang a general bell, but I’m not sure I could place any of them specifically, except the Die Hard taped gun. I still enjoyed the hell out of it. What about the whole, “There’s no such thing as priority registration, hahahaha!” This seems to be frequently used as a trope, but again I can’t name a specific instance. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/52 "2010-05-07T23:51:05Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Joel McHale, how\* you\* doin? Did you see the pool episode (when he played a game in his briefs)? Damn. The mechanical whirring sound when Jeff meets Abed and Troy was great- out of ALIEN or every other techno disaster setting. The Glee Club sounded like Rosemary’s Baby soundtrack. Loved the old standard of Abed smiling in victory then looking down to see he’s been hit. The “what will you do if we ever get out of this?” scene. Poor Starburns. “You son of a bitch… we thought you were dead!” after he’d been in his car for only an hour. “I’m going home… no, I’m going home.” “EZ there sugar bear… talk him through the hunger Abed.” What was the “no such thing as priority registration” a take-off on? RUNNING MAN (which is where I thought they got the “put me in the game” from, though that’s also MATRIX.) So now they’ve done gangster movies and zombie movies, what other genre can they take on? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/53 "2010-05-08T00:56:34Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > …The opening with Jeff walking the empty campus feels like a nod to 28 Days Later or Resident Evil. Definately a 28 Days Later reference. Now if only they’d gone whole hog and found an excuse for Jeff to wake up buck naked. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/54 "2010-05-08T05:56:20Z")
I thought the “You sit up here in your ivory towers” line towards the end was a _Running Man_ reference. And I second Naked Jeff! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/55 "2010-05-08T06:02:41Z")
Am I the only one who was bothered by the fact that almost nobody was wearing eye protection? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/56 "2010-05-08T06:09:00Z")
The paint dripping down the wall in the bathroom felt like a reference, but damn if I know what it was. The only thing I could think of was Doom, but that would be a bit obscure, and it didn’t even fit particularly well. Maybe Species? It’s hard to come up with bathroom scenes. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/57 "2010-05-08T06:25:02Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > Am I the only one who was bothered by the fact that almost nobody was wearing eye protection? Who needs eye protection? There was a PRIORITY REGISTRATION on the line! ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/58 "2010-05-08T10:29:55Z")
I love this show. “Priority registration” is about the funniest thing ever on TV. It’s bugging me too that I can’t name the “we turned on each other like animals” reference. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/59 "2010-05-08T15:33:08Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > The paint dripping down the wall in the bathroom felt like a reference, but damn if I know what it was.\ I think it was intended to symbolize every movie that has blood running down somewhere, and the person seeing it looks up or around and then gets blown away/eaten/etc. Or it could be a specific movie that I can’t put my finger on. I loved it, anyway, with him looking around and seeing the outlines of a man’s head and shoulders at every urinal, outlined in paint. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596/60 "2010-05-08T17:46:17Z")
Oh God, that was a funny, funny episode. It was streets ahead of any other show I can think of. I caught many of the referneces when I was watching it, like Terminator and Warriors, but I just kind of gave up and just started enjoying it as a send up of all those genre movies as a whole. It was brilliant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-6-10/538596.md?page=4)