abed and troy's beatboxing was so cool????
Jeff: "Exploit them? They're my friends."
Abed: "Can I bring your car around, Jeff?"
SCORE: 7/10
The show started “meh” in the pilot... and then they throw Ken Jeong into the mix and suddenly became awesome :clap_tone1:
Ah, the origin of the Spanish rap. This episode was so much more iconic and important to the character's burgeoning relationships than was obvious back in September 2009. At the time, I still thought Pierce and Troy were gonna be the wacky pair-up comic relief, but rewatching it yet again makes it clear how Troy and Abed were destined for that Turk and JD friendship.
Yet again, some of the writing is so much funnier and unexpected for the time period when lazy sitcoms were not sharply written or funny.
Pierce: I'm not sterile! In fact it's a rare condition called hyper-virility; apparently my sperm shoot through the egg like bullets. Can you believe that?
Jeff: I can't. But you can, so that's fine.
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Jeff: Nice try, but it's actually Secretary's Day and it says that I'm sorry about crashing your protest with that drunken, self-immolating Baby Boomer.
Shirley: We don't blame you, sweety, Pierce has always been on my watch list.
Troy: That dude is crazy! He told me girls have two pee holes.
i love their buddy vibe:heart::fire:
Can't say I’m immediately in love with the show but those last five minutes really HIT and if it’s like this the rest of the way I can see it becoming one of my many favourites
oh, yes. Let the fun begin ..
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-03-07T02:24:40Z
[7.6/10] Another quality outing right out of the gate. You can see a bit of the commerce side of things coming into play as they pair up the main character and the biggest name in the show in episode 2, but I like how it plays out. For one thing, Pierce is at his comedic best when he’s being kind of terrible and Jeff responds incredulously to him. For another, the setup and payoff with their terrible Spanish skit and the setups and payoffs of it work.
I even like the mini-arc of the story. Jeff trying to impress Britta, blowing her off, and then earning a bit of her respect by being a decent guy to Pierce is a little easy, but also solid. The way that Jeff uses his cool guy persuasiveness to be kind of a jerk to the rest of the group, and Britta being the only one who sees through is, in the same way, a bit of a cliché dynamic, but the show makes it work.
But I love the B-story even more. The comedy of Shirley and Annie being so excited but misguided in protesting Guatemala’s treatment of journalists is great (especially the pinata), and I really like Britta realizing that for however much she looks down on their protest as tacky, they’re actually doing something, which is more than she can say for herself.
Plus the stuff on the margins is excellent here. The Dean’s announcements are a hoot. Troy and Abed’s Spanish rap is the stuff of legend. The only thing that doesn’t work here is Chang. He’s outsized and grating even for an outsized show like Community, and it reminded me why I found his character pretty annoying in the beginning.
Overall, still a quite good episode that shows the way Harmon understood the way to balance and bounce his characters off of one another from the beginning.