I thought Troy was Tigger at first too, so when I saw Abed was wearing a red shirt and blonde wig I was like “That’s a surprisingly halfhearted Winnie the Pooh costume” before it hit me they were Calvin and Hobbes.
I couldn’t figure Abed out, either. with his red and white striped shirt I first thought “Waldo” as in “Where’s Waldo?” But the blonde wig didn’t work.
Count me as another one who didn’t get the Calvin and Hobbes reference until now. 
I’m another one that didn’t know they were Calvin and Hobbes.
Better than the first… I hope they can recapture what I love about this series.
No way. Greendale doesn’t have a swing room. 
I knew it was going to be Gilbert at the end, but it never would have occurred to me that Troy and Abed were Calvin and Hobbes. I hate reference humor, he referenced.
This was a huge step above the first episode.
I couldn’t figure out Britta’s.
Any love for Inspecticon or Matt Lucas?
And was that Luke Perry at the end?
Yes, it was Luke Perry with his 90210 co-star Jennie Garth.
This was definitely back on track. I’m a sucker for Inspector Spacetime (as a fan of the spinoff 
) and they did a really nice job with not only that, but some of the twists. Abed’s “I hate you” in the end was a terrific punch line.
I could have done with less of the Annie in the hotel room, but otherwise this was very good.
“Without adultery, there’d be no hotel business” - killed me.
Anyway, Tricia Helfer as a convention-going science-fiction fan? Talk about fantasy!
The reviewers over at the AV Club, who I usually agree with, really disliked this one. But I thought it was perfectly fun. Not a great episode, but entertaining, and felt like Community.
Totally disagree. It felt like every average, vanilla, non-original sitcom, except with better background visuals. Having to come up with dozens of original costumes based on a non-existent show must have driven the wardrobe department to drink, but that was the best part of the episode.
Plus, the “Mrs. Winger” subplot turned Jeff into a pedophile. Annie wasn’t acting like a jealous wife; she was a tween in the big city for the first time. Creepy is usually good, but not this time.
The characters seem a little off this season. The one liners aren’t hitting as much as they used to for me, either. Still funny though.
That was the best acting I’ve seen out of Matt Lucas and Jennie Garth since, well, ever, but Sideshow Luke Perry (“My face! My valuable face!”) looks artificially younger than he did on 90210.
The more Jeff Winger ignores Annie’s adorableness the more I’m convinced he’s totally asexual.
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I didn’t see her as a tween as just really really sad and at least as distanced from reality as Abed.
I also wondered who was going to pay for all the room service and how. She’d racked up several hundred dollars of charges probably (high end Scotch alone at room service prices is expensive, and she’d ordered roses and wine and meals, etc.). It’s been established that Annie has no money and Jeff’s is very limited.
I’ve so accepted that this is the show’s last series of original episodes that I’ll almost be disappointed if it’s renewed. I just hope that they have very little Chang.
Alison Brie is 30 and Annie is around 21, so it’s not all that creepy. And she and Jeff weren’t going to sleep together.
Sure, she’s young and inexperienced, but that doesn’t make Jeff guilty of anything, particularly pedophilia.
I’ve never heard tween used to refer to someone older than 14/15. :dubious:
Yeah, I’m confused by the use of “tween” and “pedophile” in this thread.
Alison Brie freestyle rapped on Jimmy Fallon this week. It’s on Hulu, and it’s more entertaining than this episode.
She was also on The Daily Show. The clipped they played was of the Jeff/Thoraxis intro, and it bombed. No laughs. Awkward. I thought it might play better in context. Nope. They should have played the 15 seconds of Annie ordering room service.
This is exactly the phrase that leapt into my head.
This episode felt clumsy. The theme wasn’t very strongly delineated, and instead it was a bit of a jumble. The problem with the season so far is they’re trying to jam too much into a small space, and they lack the deftness that Dan Harmon has.