Given that 9 of 11 fields “prove” Angela, can we reverse derive Abed’s proof?
I’ll take a stab at a couple:
One, if Tony is the boss of the “Micelli faction” comprising {Tony, Samantha}, then Angela is the boss of the superset “Bower faction” comprising {Angela, Jonathan, Mona, [Micelli faction]}, since the Micelli faction lives under the roof of the Bower household, and Angela heads the Bower faction, then Angela has dominion over Tony and is therefore the “boss”.
Two, if we understand a boss as someone who takes precedence over another, this implies order. If we examine name ordering using a String comparitor, we see:
“Angela” before “Tony”
“Angela Bower” before “Anthony Micelli”
“Bower” before “Micelli”
However, “Mr Micelli” comes before “Ms Bower”, but that’s due to gender conventions, the very conventions the show subverts by making the male housekeeper subservient to the female housemaster.
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There’s a path you take and a path untaken. The choice is up to you, my friend.
Um, do you mean Professor Professorberg?
No no, you’re right. I forgot about the Nazi-fleeing.
Love this actor, he’s in my two favourite shows right now and I wish he’d show up more on either of them.
All in all, this episode fell a little flat to me. I think Donald Glover does a great job with the character of Troy, but for some reason, the “Troy says little-kid things” lines grate on me - cheap humour. The show can do better. The Abed plot didn’t do much for me either… it either needed to be a one-scene throw away thing or an A-plot, not a little side plot, as there wasn’t enough time to flesh it out into something funny. Pierce’s plot was… fine. It was okay. That’s about it.
On the plus side, my girl Britta in something skimpy, Abed as Troy’s conscience, and the perfect amount of Chang.
Yeah, not the strongest episode ever, but some good laughs for sure. The writing is still pretty sharp.
I paused on Pierce’s wine bottle and translated the Italian phrase on it: “You become more beautiful with every bottle.”
I think the picture of him on the bottle was from Caddyshack, and Jeff had a line which began “Oh, don’t sell yourself short,” while patting Pierce on the arm, echoing a line Chevy Chase delivered to Ted Knight in the movie.
OK, this was one of the best shows this season. Some good meta humor, and some good overt humor. I’m tempted to say it was my favorite, but that could just be 'cause my memory is for crap and I don’t recall the rest of the season well.
I was kinda happy they did an episode that actually referenced the fact that they’re supposedly in Community College. I like the show, but I think it does best when they reference the premise at least once every other episode.
Perhaps they would consider changing the theme song to explain the premise like Gilligan’s Island or The Brady Bunch, assuming a sufficient amount of tainted mushrooms found their way into pizza ordered for a writer’s conference.
Every time I see the guy that played the TV professor I think of Ned Ryerson on Groundhog Day. “Phil? Hey, Phil? Phil! Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!”