COMMUNITY: Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality

Welcome back to Greendale after the Olympic hiatus. We’re still a little raw around the edges from what happened with Troy, but let’s see how everyone’s doing.

Duncan should never try to show interest in Britta with Jeff’s help because it means he’s doing a good job of being into everything Britta’s into, but by making the announcement in the group, Duncan’s date is now being attended by Annie, Shirley, and Chang. Date buzzkill at 7:30, Friday night. Of course, Abed can’t be bothered with the cause – children with cleft palates – and is going to the Kickpuncher reboot in the original costume instead of taking the time to care about poor children around the world.

Once at the event, Chang has one of those side plots that makes everyone really question his sanity. He kills in a one-man show to a room full of people, but then is told that there shouldn’t be anyone there because there was a fire that killed everyone ages ago. But everyone in the room says that the janitor, who told Chang the story, is the one who actually died. Does the show need to question Chang’s sanity season after season? Or is it just something that’s ingrained in Chang’s DNA?

Still at this event, but ignoring everything with Chang, Britta runs into an old friends from her anarchist days, and while one of them admires her, she wants to have people admire themselves. Turns out that Britta’s friends really have sold out – they own the building that the event is at – and Duncan realizes that Jeff’s still in love with Britta, because that has everything to do with Britta’s self-worth. Too bad her old friends don’t still hold onto her spirit of wanting to ruin an ad in town, and they won’t do it because that they have something to lose and she doesn’t. Diheartened, Duncan takes Britta home after her friends belittle her, and she wonders if Duncan has any friends because Britta wonders if Duncan and Jeff actually are friends because they don’t act like it. Wise words, Britta. Wise words.

Being Kickpuncher without Troy looks sad on Abed, but now that means that he’s going to bother Professor Hickey’s work – and by showing off the Kickpuncher outfit, destroys so many comics. As punishment, Hickey handcuffs Abed to some file cabinets and keeps Abed from going to the new premiere. Hickey has the idea that everyone gives Abed what he wants, and so he’ll be the one to show Abed what it’s really like to not get what they want. Of course, Abed sees that Hickey was drawing his comic, but Abed can’t tell the duck from an imagined chicken. This time together makes it clear that there could be something good between these two, but they’re each to stubborn to see what others might appreciate or look to enjoy. After enough of a fight, Hickey frees Abed from the cabinet but Abed comes back to Hickey with a script that Troy thought was funny, but lacks substance, which Hickey can supply.

After a night of odd friendships forged (or strengthened), the group seems ready to work on the next task to save Greendale.

This button is so strange: why did we need to see Duncan and Pelton having an awkward moment over going to the Tex-Mex place.