COMMUNITY: APP Development and Condiments

App developers arrive on campus to beta test their work, meowmeowbeenz (it looks like Yelp but for anything including people), just after the group is having trouble figuring out a date for Jeff’s next dinner party.

After one day of the beta test, the campus is obsessed with these beenz, going so far as to fake a limp (Chang) and wear a birthday hat (Hickey) and everyone (save Britta and Jeff) are not giving into the pull of the actual app.

Shirley walks in, as popular as she can be with the app, and when Vickie only gives Shirley a four, Vickie is “ruined” according to the app.

Day two and the fives are deciding what temperature the campus is set out. There are also colors to indicate where you are (twos and threes are neutrals according to Abed – who is very happy to be a three and not a two.

In only two days, this app has all the feel of Lord of the Flies or any other dystopian society and we haven’t even gotten that far. What will happen when Shirley’s ego grows too big?

Now on day eight, those last questions are more apt. Food is delivered by a two rather than a three and the fives are looking like they own the school. Which they might. The fours are not wearing crazy colors, and the twos are in grey. Britta and Jeff are working together to get rid of the system, and their conversation is mistaken for a forbidden love. If only…

The talent show is grounds to rise of all and now Jeff’s performance is a stand-up routine that is on the money. Shirley is not amused but some of the other fives are. Shirley isn’t the first to tap in her score for Jeff and that means that Jeff becomes one of her ilk.

Britta, not even your words can save the school as it stands right now. Not even your words.

Manipulation is the name of game now – even among the fives. Too bad Jeff and Shirley are the best at what they do. Britta’s manipulation of the twos and threes isn’t going as well either, but that changes quickly as Jeff and Shirley’s fight and are banished to the outlands as Britta’s revolution has legs and takes over the campus

Britta’s revolution is against all fives still has one five left – the app itself – and soon Jeff suggests that everyone delete the app and not play into the app’s game. School returns to normal as if nothing had every happened that made everything think of each other as social constructs.

Jeff and Shirley are back to being friends, even if dinner with the study group didn’t include her.

Cougler doesn’t need his own movie, but adding another tertiary character to the mix is well worth it.