I loved this episode and have watched it often enough to spot a glaring set of continuity errors. Happens when Britta is holding a gun on Jeff after sex and the camera goes back and forth between them. From Britta’s point of view she is holding the gun normally, and from Jeff’s point of view she is holding it sideways gangsta style. Happens about three times.
That was epic. I finally got to see it yesterday night and it was everything the promos promised and more. I love everything about Senor Chang in this episode, from his tiger-stripped paintball gun to his paint bomb. That scene with him and the dean in the dean’s office was wonderfully shot. Poor Troy, the black guy always has to die first.
By the way, as a current community college student who was unable to register for required science labs for one freaking year, priority registration is something I would have killed for.
“Checkmate, bitches!”
What else do you have?
I’ve got:
When Jeff and Britta first walk into the study room, Britta puts her books down on the corner of the tables. (The group is using two tables pushed together.) The angle of the rest of the group shows that corner empty. Then the shot of Jeff and Britta shows her books on the table again.
When Abed comes around the corner to rescue Jeff, he first reaches a point next to the middle one of 5 posters on the wall, running normally. When they cut back to him doing the wall climb, his foot hits wall below the same middle poster.
When Senor Chang first comes into the study room, it’s clear that there is nothing under the left side of his jacket. It hangs flat and then flaps out easily when he raises his arm. The bulge of the paint bombs only appears when he is lying down after being shot. The distance shot shows 3 bombs. The close up when he starts the timer shows 1 bomb. There is one clearly empty loop. (The 3rd bomb may be off camera.) There is also an extra wire across his chest that wasn’t there before.
Also, the timer is for 5 seconds and we hear 5 beeps, but it takes several seconds more for the bomb to go off. I count 9 seconds total until the slo-mo sequence start. But this may be an homage to such things.
It didn’t notice most of those 
My belief is Futurama failed because it got poor ratings, and it got poor ratings because it was always pre-empted by football games, at least on the East coast. Since it was in a 7:00 time slot, I was lucky to see the last 10 minutes of it. Often the post-game show would kill it.
Anyway, back to Community, this was a great episode. The lack of eye protection also bothered me. I’ve never seen those paintball pistols before.
I think the editing/camera shot on the Diehard “pistol duct-taped to the back” scene was too subtle, it was easy to miss.
It’s also interesting that even though the prize was so important to everyone, the only real way to prove win or loss was the honor system; you are “out” if you get shot and without any referees it seems that would be easy to cheat.
yes, but who in their right mind would want to ref this game? I imagine any faculty refs would have gone running in terror from the carnage that had obviously ensued. Except Señor Chang, who would have been laughing maniacally at the beauty of it.
Anybody who has paint on them is out, though, right? That shouldn’t be hard to judge unless someone can change clothes quickly and clean the paint off their skin.
The biggest problem would be people shooting after they got shot, I’d think. You could easily take out someone with you after you were already dead.
I’ve played quite a bit of paintball and yeah, it’s mostly on the honor system. “Wiping” is the greatest sin you can commit (and not far behind that is firing at someone who’s not wearing a helmet).
Yes exactly. You could say “Yeah, I got shot, but I got shot by someone who was already out.” Also paintballs aren’t really paint, they’re more like colored liquid soap on the inside. The dye part of the color can stain, but not always.
Another continuity error: The tape on Jeff’s back which holds his hidden gun passes thru the left armhole of his shirt. But earlier you can see just enough of his left back (e.g., when he throws the big gun down) that there is clearly no tape there.
Yes, I have watched this episode many times, why do you ask?
But I still haven’t figured out what Annie yelled when she popped up out of the trash can. “??? mother trouble ???”
FtGKid1 thinks that a lot of the Jeff and Britta interaction is from Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Esp. the slide under his legs and the conversation behind the couch.
“pop The Lord is my shepard, pop I shall not want. pop”
The black guy dies first!
Heh, yeah. I never really looked at it that way.
Any episode that showcases Joel McHale’s tight bod is instantly my favorite. Cowboy Halloween Costume, Strip Pool, and now this. I’m going to have to start watching this without my husband, least he get jealous.
“Freeze, mamma jamma”.
Thanks Pedro.
Now then, as to the low user rankings at tv.com, etc. mentioned earlier. I suspect that Community is upsetting the fans of a certain show that needs to write some original songs. When you get a ticked off group of fans of such a show, they tend to go out of their way to display their anger on the Interwebs.
I love the use of the “zing” sound when Senor Chang whips out his pistols. An homage to audible sharpness.
Eh - I don’t see it. It was a one-time throw-away line. If there’s a Glee community out there that’s up in arms, I’d be extremely surprised.
I think they poked fun at glee in earlier episodes, but I can’t remember any specifics.
There was also the bit a couple of weeks ago, when Jeff and the stats professor broke up. He was crying that she made him watch Glee, and he just didn’t get the appeal. I think Pierce was very sympathetic.
Actually, what made that scene REALLY funny was that Jeff was crying on the shoulder of Abed’s father, played by the actor Iqbal Theba–who also plays Principal Figgins on Glee!