BWW Recap: This Week's COMMUNITY Teaches 'Laws of Robotics and Party Rights'

In the fifth episode of this season of COMMUNITY, we find Jeff squaring off against Willy, an inmate taking classes at Greendale as a part of a rehabilitation program. Greendale is allowing prisionors to be students, attending classes via "telepresence robots," which are essentially rolling iPads on a stick. The Dean greenlights this program due to Jeff's insistence, since the school would get a $300,000 incentive for allowing the inmates to attend class.

Willy, a convicted murderer, is taking Jeff's law class, and when Jeff does his usually teaching--putting on a video for the class to watch while he texts--Willy doesn't take to kindly to that. So much so that he tries to murder Jeff by pushing him down the parking garage stairs. Fortunately for Jeff, Willy has no strength since he's an iPad. However, when Jeff goes to talk to the Dean about what happened, Willy had already gotten to him. Willy, who seems charming to everyone except Jeff, told the Dean about Jeff's teaching methods, and the Dean sided with Willy over Jeff. The Dean didn't even beleive Jeff when he said that Willy tried to murder him, saying "why would an actual murderer want to kill a community college teacher?"

The Dean even pointed out that Jeff lies all of the time, too, and all he does is manipulate. Jeff is obviously upset that Willy is winning and gaining the love of his peers. It gets so bad that when Willy tries to confront Jeff again, Jeff throws him down the stairs, effectively shutting off his iPad. Before he gets fully disconnected, however, the Dean sees what's happened and runs to his aid, cradling the iPad in his hands before they completely lose connection, a la a death scene in a dramatic film. This incident causes the Dean to ban Jeff from campus for a 2-week sabatical. The study group meets off-campus for Jeff's sake, and there he realizes that he does care about Greendale and the Dean and that's why he's so upset. Jeff finds out that they're holding a ceremony at school to give Willy Jeff's job, so in typical romantic comedy fashion, Jeff sneaks his way into the ceremony, thanks to Elroy's iPad on a broom contraption, and gives a rousing speech to win the Dean back.

At the end of the day, Greendale loses the $300,000 contract, but all is well because no one is being manipulated and Jeff was able to be honest about his feelings.

While all of this madness is taking place, Britta wants to throw a party at her--well Abed and Annie's--place. Annie shoots down this idea, saying Britta gets a couch, not the decision to throw huge parties at the apartment. Britta cunningly uses Abed, who's lived at the apartment longer, to throw a party under the disguise of it being a movie about a party that is based on a true story. However, things go wrong, because Abed takes the film very seriously, even hiring extras to play the roles for days after the actual party so that he can get the one shot he still needs: someone partying like it's their last night. Britta apologizes to Annie and gets her help to shut Abed down. Britta admits to Abed that she used him, and that parties are stupid and his movie is stupid, which effectively shuts down the film, but upsets Abed at the same time. Annie tells Britta that Abed is going to punish her, but that hopefully she'll get used to it, or else she'll go insane.

This is the first episode of the 6th season where we got a major storyline for Jeff. I love Jeff-centric episodes because they are always shrouded in a deeper emotional issue that needs to be addressed. He loves to come off cool and cocky, but he does get upset about things, even if he doesn't want to admit it. I enjoy watching him come to terms with his feelings and finally have the courage to admit this. In this episode, especially, he is finally able to tell the Dean that he considers him a friend and that he cares about him, something that only took 6 years for him to say! It was also perfectly fitting that they used the style of a romantic comedy or dramatic love story for this situation to unfold, because the Dean and Jeff have such a strange relationship that fits perfectly into that overly dramaticized style.

This episode also offered an insane amount of great little moments that could be easily overlooked:

-Abed's flashback where he says hi to "Troy" who is just an arm.

-Garrett making a joke at Jeff's expense and everyone laughing but then canned studio audience laughter being added in

- The plug for "Female Friends!"

-Abed does a mean Jerry Seinfeld impression

-Annie finds out via telepresence conference with the study group that Chang uses their bathroom to poop.

-The DOCTOR WHO parody callback with Abed's "Eradicate!"

Favorite Lines from the Episode:

-The Dean: "Before you got here, they had two...they had to...often remind themselves that they weren't one collective ray of light."

-Elroy: "Is this a cult? Are you going to eat me?"

-Jeff: "Can we focus on this? Because now this is happening."

-Chang: "Gross! Who farted? Oh, wait, never mind."

-Jeff: "I guess I'll see you in class tomorrow, guy who tried to murder me."

-Dean: "You destroyed my device, and my heart."

-Chang: "Gross! Get a house!" Frankie: "Ben, aren't you homeless?" Chang: "Yeah, but I poop in a house."

-Britta: "Don't question rules. Rules are good. I'm bad. All hail Annie."

-Annie: "You're going to be punished in ways you won't understand for longer than you think is rational or possible. But then one day, you'll do something he likes and he'll stop. And eventually you'll either adapt or lose your mind."

-Dean: "Let's do this by community college rules: fight! fight! fight!"

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