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“#We Just Really Love This Episode of \u2018Community\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

This essay is part of our series<\/a>\u00a0Episodes<\/strong>, a bi-weekly column in which senior contributor\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer\u00a0digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Some TV shows have just one or two standout episodes. Community<\/em><\/strong> has dozens. The whip-smart meta-sitcom about a group of community college students started off normal enough, but early on \u2014 around the time of the first season\u2019s epic paintball-theme<\/a>d homage to action movies, \u201cModern Warfare\u201d \u2014 the series began a weekly exercise of topping itself with bolder, funnier, and more unpredictable episodes.<\/p>\n

Two of Community<\/em>\u2019s most celebrated chapters, the aforementioned \u201cModern Warfare\u201d and the alternate-timeline-introducing \u201cRemedia<\/a>l Chaos Theory,\u201d have already been immortalized on our website with words by Samantha Olthof and Sophia Stewart, respectively. When it comes to choosing the third-best episode of the series, the options are plentiful. High points of the genre-spanning series include gut-busting homages to spaghetti Westerns, Ken Burns-style documentaries, Goodfellas<\/em>, zombie movies, clip show episodes, and even Law & Order<\/em>. And while I\u2019ve previously thrown my hat in the ring for the frantically chipper, endlessly watchable Glee<\/em> critique \u201cRegional Holiday Music,\u201d today\u2019s spotlight goes to the centerpiece of a run of fantastic second-season episodes that first revealed the show\u2019s full, madcap potential: \u201cConspiracy Theories and Interior Design<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November 2010, Community<\/em> aired \u201cCooperative Calligraphy,\u201d an excellent and unique bottle episode about a lost pen that saw the series\u2019 writers and actors stretch their ability to mix escalating absurdity with the series\u2019 already established charm. Community<\/em> mastermind Dan Harmon<\/strong> could\u2019ve easily pulled back after that, giving us a milder episode (TV fan Abed often acted as a mouthpiece for Harmon, commenting on the potentially off-putting weirdness of the show\u2019s narrative as it progressed), but instead, he did a full-court press in the form of a hilarious, labyrinthine conspiratorial thriller.<\/p>\n

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The episode opens with Dead Pelton (Jim Rash) reading a fax he\u2019s just received with study group leader Jeff Winger\u2019s (Joel McHale) name on it with a look of mischief and triumph. Rash\u2019s performance as the flamboyant and incompetent dean of students is a master class in comedic acting, and \u201cConspiracy Theories and Interior Design\u201d is a turning point for him. The twisty episode is one of the first that frames the dean as a major character and is a fantastic showcase for Rash\u2019s all-in performance as he manages to steal scenes from an already strong core cast of comedians. Two of the series\u2019 longest-running jokes, Dean Pelton\u2019s implied crush on Jeff (he made a scrapbook about him!) and his rich and intriguing personal life (he\u2019s writing a time-travel<\/a> novel!), are here more apparent than ever.<\/p>\n

Dean Pelton confronts Jeff with evidence of what he thinks is a faked independent study \u2014 taught by a teacher named Professor Professorson, which is so silly it gets a laugh each time it\u2019s repeated \u2014 and the next twenty-one minutes are rife with paranoia, high-stakes double-crosses, and joke after joke that lands perfectly. Jeff and Annie (Alison Brie) start investigating Greendale\u2019s shadowy night school and soon make more shocking discoveries than they know how to handle. A wiki page for the episode includes a flow chart that counts eleven different suspense-laden twists in total; jammed into a short sitcom format, these dramatic turns of fate come across as both wildly ambitious and hilariously overwhelming.<\/p>\n

As if a hyperspeed Hitchockian conspiracy wasn\u2019t enough to entertain us, the episode also throws in one of the series\u2019 most memorable B plots. During a seemingly forgettable interaction early on, child-like friends Troy (Donald Glover, doing all-time-great comedic line delivery in this role) and Abed (Danny Pudi) decide to build a blanket fort. A friend offers to help expand it beyond their dorm room, and before we know it, the fort has taken over the entire school. An inevitable climactic chase scene takes place in the blanket fort, where Jeff and Annie ignore Troy\u2019s recommendation to visit the fort\u2019s Civil Rights Museum, stumble upon classmate Britta (Gillian Jacobs) in an Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>-like lair of decadence, and are slowed down by a Latvian Independence Day parade (\u201cThey had the proper permits!\u201d Troy says).<\/p>\n

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Episode writer Chris McKenna<\/strong>, who would go on to co-write Spider-Man<\/em> and Ant-Man<\/em> movies for Marvel, deserves heaps of credit for a script that layers in a complex web of an A plot, an effortlessly executed B plot, and a dozen off-the-cuff quips about everything from The Mentalist<\/em> to lazy Shakespeare retellings to Greendale\u2019s inexplicable obsession with dioramas. The series\u2019 joke-per-minute ratio was always unusually high compared to its contemporaries, but this episode shows the cast and writers on their comedy A-game<\/a>, balancing several high-concept bits with understated character development and mythology-building. This is the first time the series mentions Cougar Town<\/em>, a lighthearted series on a rival network that becomes a running bit within Community<\/em>. Troy and Abed\u2019s pillow fort also reappears in the third season, kicking off the series\u2019 most serious narrative through-line, while the powder-keg pairing of Jeff and Annie reappears again and again throughout the show.<\/p>\n

While Brie, Rash, and Glover put in memorable and irreverent performances, guest star Kevin Corrigan<\/strong> is the episode\u2019s MVP as Professor Professorson (formerly Professorberg, he says), who is eventually outed as campus drama teacher Sean Garrity. As Garrity, Corrigan\u2019s dramatic inflections and overwrought delivery \u2014 at one point, he blatantly mispronounces the word \u201cetcetera\u201d \u2014 are an episode highlight, infinitely quotable and captivating enough to keep the competing ruses from collapsing in on themselves. Unlike other sitcoms, Community<\/em> commits fully to its premise, and mines some of its best jokes from the bizarre and poorly conceived structure of its community college setting. The courses taught at Professor Professorson\u2019s night school, for example, include \u201cStudiology,\u201d \u201cClass 101,\u201d and \u201cHistory of Something.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By episode\u2019s end, every combination of possible schemers has shot one another with prop guns, a chaotic culmination that calls to mind Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u2019s cult classic \u201cDear Sister\u201d digital short. After the dust has settled, Abed and Troy learn that the blanket fort civilization they\u2019ve built is front-page news<\/a> at Greendale, and they pull the emergency switch \u2014 a tube sock hanging from the ceiling, naturally \u2014 that collapses the fort entirely.<\/p>\n

Community<\/em>\u2019s best parts celebrate the joy of creative play, the inevitability of chaos, and the miracle of being able to blow it all up and start over again. In that sense, \u201cConspiracy Theories and Interior Design,\u201d with its commitment to surprise, disarray, and humor, is the perfect mission statement for a show that never dared to be anything less than strange and fantastic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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