Annie goes where no woman has ever gone before: The Dreamatorium.
But…I love it.
Abeds line from a few episodes ago could pretty much sum up how many of us feel aboutCommunity.
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So much more than just a clever hodgepodge of pop culture references.
To quoteTroy, There are so many levels!
We can come close, sure.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle applies to so very much more than just electron behavior.
It tells us that, in the end, we all truly do stand alone.
Thats why Virtual Systems Analysis is fundamentally different from Remedial Chaos Theory.
Did Charlie Kaufman write this episode?
It all began with a mnemonic rig:Kevin, hey come over for gay sex.
Yes, the study group was cramming for Professor Kanes bio exam.
Despite their continual presence in the study room, they never actually seem to get anything done.
Definitely maybe because they have such fun together.
NEXT: Professor Kane has the flu.
Maybe hes gone back to Baltimore?
And Annie plays Cupid for Britta and Troy.
But sometimes Fate smiles upon you, and it did this day for the Greendale Seven.
And the exam was pushed back a day!
That meant they had three whole hours just to themselves.
What to do with this heady thing called freedom?
Pierce suggested they could watch the first halves of three movies.
Oh, and they could have a date together!
That meant Abed could finally show Annie how to play in the Dreamatorium.
Hardly the best vessel to protect a universe full of innocent unremarkables.
Nor was Annies Constable Reggie stand-in, Constable Geneva, particularly equipped to fight Blorgon scum.
)But put Annie in a hospital administration simulation, and shed be all over that.
Just goes to show how this is so much more than a place to play Dinosaurs Vs. Riverboat Gamblers.
NEXT: Annie breaks Abed and finds that herGreys Anatomyfantasy isnt as McSteamy as shed like.
Annie was fed up by Abeds total inability to relate to other people.
JakShowtime from ourCommunitylive chat anticipated Annies response: She broke Abed!
He could become anybody else now, but this thing called Abed would no longer exist.
Ripped from the headlines.
Dr. Winger was indignant because he left his pregnant wife to be with her.
Administrator Annie fired back, Who do you think inseminated her?
As God was her witness shed have his stethoscope if he didnt tell her what she wanted.
So he led her to Dr. Perry, who was fooling around with Dr. Barnes.
Im not scared of you.
)To get answers, Annie injected him with sodium pentothal.
That makes two of us, Abed/Troy.
That makes two of us.
NEXT: An aside about why we should all have an inception to forget aboutInception.
HowCommunityreveals the path high-concept storytelling should take.
I could also have titled this aside What MakesCommunityOne of the Most Formally Daring Shows on TV Today.
But theInceptioncomparison makes the most sense because I think it illuminates how truly uniqueCommunityis.
For the most part, we live in the Era of Plot.
A film likeInceptionuses its high-concept framework to spin off an intricately knotted yarn.
(Because we all know peoples dreams look like Michael Mann movies.)
If Hitchcock had gotten ahold of that material, he would have fully exploitedand rightly sothat characters oh-so-obvious necrophilia.
But sexuality doesnt have a place in Christopher Nolans world.
Community, as typified by Virtual Systems Analysis or Remedial Chaos Theory, goes in a completely different direction.
Its not interested in plot for plots sake.
It merely reveals desires that are already there.
So does Virtual Systems Analysis evenhavea plot?
Theres a word for that…oh, yeah, empathy.
Thats so much more relevant than depicting grief via the metaphor of a runaway train.
Annie manipulated Jeff into giving her Abeds files with the promise of making love to him.
Abed/Jeff transported her back to the night they first kissed, which must have been her own memory.
Or Leonard was watching from the bushes, because he doesnt have cable, and told Abed about it.
People bend over backwards to cater to him.
Upset by her own lack of empathy, Annie decided she needed to be alone.
So Abed decided to playherand ask Annie why she wanted to ruin her magic moment with Jeff.
Wow, suddenly this episode revealed deep, deep self-loathing on the part of Mr. Nadir.
Did we have a space odyssey?
We got snowboarding in the Olympics and we overvalidated Carson Daly.
(Take that,The Voice.)
Annie helped Abed see that life cant be lived according to a script.
And he was convinced.
At least this would help him cut down on his Dreamatorium time by 18 hours a week.
NEXT: WhyCommunityreally is in the best timeline.
So Abed stopped worrying and gave Annie the Dreamatorium experience she was truly looking for as a wannabe Constable.
They found themselves back on the bridge of the HMSSpacetime 12battling, you guessed it, Blorgons.
(Line of the Night #2, Courtesy of Inspector Spacetime: Blorgons in this sector?
Well, this mission has gone pear-shaped indeed.
)This may be the first time Ive ever heard the word tachyons uttered on a non-Star TrekTV show.
It seems like Greendale is now firmly in the best timeline.
Actually, it turns out that hedidsit on his balls, and it hurt so bad he saw eagles.
Because somehow Glenn Frey and groin injuries go together.
I cant think of a better way to start your morning right.
)She then revealed that she had given their Casa Trobed blanket fort a makeover.
Abed immediately launched into his air-raid cry and Troy had to soothe him by humming Daybreak.
Ah, the fragility of happiness.
What did you think of Virtual Systems Analysis?
Do you think Britta and Troys romance has any future?
Has Annie put her feelings for Jeff aside?
Can we expect Abed to become, [gulp], normal?
And what would you say to someone who doesnt likeDie Hard?
