Dick Wolf’s venerable procedural gets the full Greendale treatment, and one student…dies.
He didnt realize that that could happen when he started hitting on her.
(Line of the Night #7: Hey,shesthe one putting her hands in my mouth.
Credit: Justin Lubin/NBC
And a corpse these janitors found: a yam.
But not just any yam.
It was the study groups biology project.
Professor Kane decided the group would get a passing grade for their efforts, much to Annies horror.
(Line of the Night #6: A C?
Why dont I just get pregnant at a bus station?
It was kind of perfect.
If you think about it, Detectives Briscoe and Logan really did fashion themselves amateur stand-up comics after awhile.
Whats red, blue, black and white all over?
ALaw & Ordercredits sequence of course!
But if only Dick Wolf had allowed them to use the actualLaw & Ordertheme song!
That would have made it complete.
NEXT: The investigation begins.
He told them that he wasnt able to water it because he got there late.
Todd was working in the Greendale Library, where he applied the same military precision he learned in Iraq.
But he did have a bandage covering a cut on his right hand.
)Maybe…he got that cut from the smashed glass of their yams jar.
He said that he got it baking blueberry muffins.
But,dammit, why not raisin?
Abed noted that the time on the clock was Eight Plus Two Times Five.
Hey, hes gifted in other ways.
Britta took the photo for analysis, which basically just involved her making it Old West color.
So she got cut off quickly with a Dung, Dung.
Turns out he gave the key to Magnitude, who said, Pop!
Translation: someone stole his backpack in the library.
Starburns peered around a bookcase, and grabbed the backpack.
Trobed hauled him off for interrogation.
NEXT: Troy and Abed cant determine which is the bad cop and which is the good cop.
Sigh, our live chat commenter ipyngo even noted Troys particular choice of fashion accessory: Spider-Man tie!
Donald SO should have been the new Spider-Man.
If only, ipyngo.
Of course, Troy and Abed couldnt hold Starburns because, well, theyre not really cops.
Shes another master of highly-stylized, zinger-based cynicism, delivering lines like Hey, I just cut em open.
If you want motive, talk to a shrink.
They would have gotten an A.
Time to bring in the legal minds.
The detectives met with lawyers Jeff and Annie over coffee supplied by Garrett.
Lest you thinkCommunitymisses any detail, commenter chewbaccasmom noted They even have those NY disposable coffee cups!!
Annie realized that they needed more evidence, prompting a snarky Jack McCoy-style Oh, sonowyoure finding your softness?
At least he really does have a law degree, even if its from Colombia.
As soon as the door swung open, beakers and beakers tumbled out.
Starburns knew he had to run.
But an even better cover?
Getting some random girl to kiss him.
Hed explain later, of course.
(Line of the Night #3, The explanation isnt the issue!
)Cornered, Starburns very reasonably explained away the whole situation to the detectives.
He leveled with them that he saw the guy with the weird head, a.k.a.
Todd, in the bio lab at the likely time of the crime.
NEXT: Todd is found weaving baskets and lies.
This case is ready for trial.
Shocker, the Dean was inclined to defer to the man in uniform.
You live on, Omar Little.
The trial began, but now Jeff was worried that they didnt have enough evidence to present.
Their peers in bio classtheir makeshift juryhated their guts, so theyd need an airtight case.
Annie was taken aback.
Its the day of the case, andnowyou find your softness?
she threw back at Jeff.
When the going gets tough, Winger gets nervous, huh?
Todd took the stand to defend himself against the accusations levied by Starburns, the Holocaust-denying, 9/11 pedophile.
That must have pissed him right off.
Is that why we beats his wife?
Is that why he drinks and pops pills?
Is he a virgin?
Todd, should have reiterated, Offense taken!
NEXT: Only one thing could interrupt a celebratory Scotch.
But Jeff decided that finding out the truth was more important than merely winning.
A codette, if you will?
Well, there was an incongruity in Todds story.
Why had the jar burned him?
Jeff himself presented the final bit of testimony: their yams had been boiled to prevent them from growing.
The only one that hadnt been boiled?
But the moment suspicion turned to her, Fat Neil stood up and confessed.
He did it for love!
In death, we should use your real name.
Communityfans, would you watch a rebootedSchoolhouse Rocksung by Jim Rash?
Are you devastated by Starburns fiery demise?
Where does this homage toLaw & Orderrank amongCommunitys greatest parodies?
How much more excited would you be aboutThe Amazing Spider-Manif Donald Glover were Peter Parker?
And, most importantly: womenfolk, do you have a codette?
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