This was such a good week of shows. Season finales really let out the best in
most shows, and the ones this week were no exception. The only disappointing thing was that it’s
only the middle of May. It seems really
early to be hitting the finales already, but oh well.
Anyway, on to the shows:
How I Met Your
Mother: This was so cute. Marshall
and Lily have their baby, Marvin Waitforit Erikkson, and are typical first time
parents through the whole thing. And
yes, Marshal made it back to New York for the delivery, thanks to a bus full of
seniors. Senior Citizens, that is. AAAAND, we finally got the 411 on who Barney
is marrying, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, it’s Robin. Still quite a squee moment for me anyway, but
not a surprise at all. Is it sad that
the Ted moments are, for me at least, at best b-plot territory? I didn’t care about him meeting up with
Victoria again at all, especially because he meets the mother for the first
time at Barney’s wedding, so she’s NOT the mother.
The Middle: A
rather forgettable episode, with the dad attempting to get a good room parent
assignment, Sue blackmailing Axel, and Brick being a tattler. This is my inoffensive show for the week, a
little palate cleanser to get ready for the heavy hitters.
Suburgatory: Oh.
My. Goodness. This is the episode that
precipitated my rant on Thursday. I was
seething through most of the episode, and even if there were funny bits, I
missed them all due to being incredibly not happy. As I said in my rant, making fun of a group
of people based on your preconceived notions and stereotypes isn’t funny, and
only makes you look bad, show.
30 Rock: It is bad I completely blanked on the fact that this show was on? Jack and Avery fight some more, Liz and Cris's relationship moves forward, and Hazel moves in with Kenneth. I don't even recall if there were any funny lines. That's a bit sad, I think...
BUT NOW…the best hour and a half of TV I’ve seen all season,
if not longer…
Community: There
were three episodes this week, so I’ll break it down to that.
8-bit episode:
This was just fantastic. From Troy
jumping everywhere to Abed making babies with Hilda, this was a great nod to
all the 8-bit games we played as kids.
Every time a new scene came on, there was something new to guffaw
at. From a cow in a party hat, to ‘Troy
and Abed shooting lava!’ this was
amazing. The vast majority of the
episode was set inside of a videogame, and each of the main characters had
their own avatar. If you enjoyed
videogames as a kid, you should not miss this episode. It is right up there with the D&D episode
in terms of homage-ed-ness. Hilda’s
menus, OMG. I couldn’t stop
laughing. Britta Brittta’d it with the potion,
and Jeff worked that to their advantage…Abed baby farm coming to the rescue,
and giving the whole game away at the end anyway…this episode verged on
perfection.
Chang and Chang’s
bogus adventure: So, not the actual title, but I like mine better…this
episode was a homage to Ocean’s 11, and they again did a fantastic job. Britta’s costume alone was enough to push
this episode into awesome, but then there was the rave night, and dean-duel,
and COPRA!, and I could go on forever. I
won’t, because I want to get this to bed at a decent hour, but amazeballs
again. And, it lead right into the
season finale, with Troy getting ready to sell out to the A/C school to save
his friends *tear*.
Introduction to
Finality: And that is the actual title, fit like a glove. Abed freaks out
slightly due to Troy leaving, and somehow summons Evil Abed. It was as glorious as you can imagine. Subway has decided to sever ties with
Greendale, so Shirley’s sandwich shop can move in! Yay! But
Pierce wants to be the one to sign the agreement, so many heads are butted in
an effort to get that straightened out.
And that led us to Jeff representing Shirley in a hearing to decide who
should sign the sheet, which was about as ridiculous as you can imagine. Evil Abed tried to make everything as evil as
he wants it, and is hilarious in doing so, from popping a balloon with a
cigarette, to dumping said cigarette in some poor girls drink. He about chops Jeff’s arm off with a little
kitchen tool, but a patented Jeff Speech™ snaps Abed back to normal, AND he has
a cute moment with Annie.
And I haven’t even touched on Troy’s great storyline, where
he finds out he is the A/C school’s messiah, and changes it for the better,
allowing him to come back to the group, with a big hug from Abed…and
BRITTA! Squee again. We then cut to a fantastic montage of
everyone moving on, from Troy moving back(and Britta possibly moving in?!?) to
the boys’ apartment, Jeff passing his class, and Starburns, very much still
alive! All in all, a fantastic ending to
three great years.
Now, Community has been picked up for a half season next
year, but Dan Harmon has been fired. Due
to this, I may or may not be watching, I guess it all depends on the first
episode back, and if it is as terrible as some are expecting.
But that’s all folks!
The funny stuff will be back in September, maybe with some new shows to
add to the roster!
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