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Community Season 2 Episode 9

Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design

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AIRED: Nov 18, 2010

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As the Dean is going over class schedules, he finds out that Jeff Winger is enrolled in a class that does not exist. When it seems that Jeff is going to be caught in the lie, a mysterious Professor Professorson emerges from the shadows and states that Jeff has been taking his class: "Conspiracy Theories in U.S. History" during night school. Jeff later admits to Annie that he has never seen Professor Professorson before in his life, so they decide to investigate who he really is. Meanwhile, Troy and Abed are building the most elaborate blanket fort in Greendale history.moreless

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By sh811a, Feb 07, 2013

This is another of my personal favorate epiosdes, it's just a great because it both satires and parodies on the suspense thriller genere along with it's elements and cleches. This is something not parodied much the only other one I can think of is the movie "Burn After Reading".

There are a lot of great moments like Jeff going in slow motion about to save Annie from an unspetacular model car explossion. I really loved the back and forth between both Annie and Jeff, I liked that there was a bit of sexual tention overtone thoughout it, which is true in most suspense thrillers, for some reason dangerous thrilling experences make both the boy and girl duo hot for one another.

And of course there are two of my favorate moments. One, which of course is typical chase scene, but this was a great chase scene because of how non cleche and daft it was. Instead of running though a city each of them had to crawl though a blanket fort. I'll admit that blanket fort Abed and Troy built I thought looked cool, just the way it's detailed in archetechture and what was in there, it really looked and felt like it could be a funtional city. But anyway, this chase scene is both thrilling and funny because it's also kinda the slowest chase I've ever seen, well their all crawling you can only go so fast. However to make this chase intersting was the fact that it including the cleche of things just coming out of nowhere, which is always just a device just to create dificulty for the pursuers; one of those was some sort of parade which was hillarous not just because that's also common in suspense thrillers but just the fact they can even have a parade at all in such small space.

And of course it gets down to the final moment which is my favorate where Annie, Jeff, and the Dean are just pointing guns at one another and shooting. This I found hillarous because it parodies on how sometimes when the main protagonist is gunned down but then miraculously survives, as well as the twists/reveals at the very end. What were seeing at the end is basically a twist within a twist, scheme within a scheme, man wrap your head around that.

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Fantastic

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By efonsecajr, Sep 05, 2012

This is excellent from start to finish. More like these please.
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Great episode

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By Mischa, Dec 16, 2011

Jeff invents a class and gets caught by the dean. During his attempt to prove he was actually taking the "Conspiracy" class he made up, Jeff's story is surprisingly confirmed by the also fictional professor, "Professor Professorson." Hilarity ensues as Jeff, Annie and the Dean attempt to unravel this homespun conspiracy, the answer to which does not disappoint. While Jeff and Annie are off chasing their tails, Abed and Troy construct a giant blanket fort so complex I would have gladly crawled around in there for hours. Sadly, Abed and Troy can't stand anything too "mainstream". Overall, this is the kind of episode that makes me love community. We get introduced to a fun new character or two (Professorson), the study group splits up and and we get multiple good plotlines, and we get plenty of Abed and Troy. Really the only thing I would have liked more of in this episode was Pierce.moreless
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Blanket Fort!

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By Sami5118, Aug 30, 2011

This was one of my favorite episodes of the season. Jeff gets in trouble for taking a class that doesn't exist, but gets help from a mysterious Professor Professorson who says that he has been taking that class at night. Jeff later confesses that he has never seen Professor Professorson before, so he and Annie decide to investigate. Meanwhile, Troy and Abed build the biggest blanket fort Greendale has ever seen. After watching that, I really want to build a blanket fort now. My favorite lines:

Abed: Welcome to Funkytown. No smoking, no farting, no pillow fighting.

Annie: We're in a chase!

Abed: That's allowed.

Abed: You can't be in here Leonard. You already have three farting strikes against you.

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Take the Community kids, some conspiracy movie cliche and a whole bunch of blankets, sit back and let the magic happen.

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By RachelHyland, Apr 08, 2011

This show just keeps getting better and better.

In this outing, we have Jeff (Joel McHale) busted for faking a course credit. Perennial over-achiever Annie (Alison Brie) is, of course, outraged; meanwhile, the Dean (Jim Rash) demands proof of the existence of Professor Professorson, the faculty advisor in the so-called Conspiracy Studies. Everything that comes after that is simply an enigma inside a riddle wrapped up in a mystery served up on a platter of awesome. With gunplay.

Alison Brie acts her little opaque tights off in this one, and the ever-engaging Joel McHale shines as the calculating Jeff. I know I shouldn't be shipping these two -- Annie's barely legal, and Jeff's a thirty-something burnout with a proven track record of untrustworthiness -- but I can't help it. I love their dynamic, and this episode only serves to make the couple's appeal even stronger. (Especially as rival for Jeff's affections, Gillian Jacobs's harshly-used Britta, has proven herself to be even more dreary and self-important in this new season than the last.)

It was great to see the Dean get a little screentime here that wasn't ALL gay and/or fetish jokes (though much of it was, of course), and yes, that is Kevin Corrigan in there as the Professor; once perhaps best known among a certain segment of the population as Olivia's annoying bowling alley shrink in FRINGE, he's not nearly as annoying here.

The B plot of Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) and their phenomenal tent city brings us more of the usual random adorableness those two so often exhibit, and the "chase scene" throughout its blanketed precincts is absolutely priceless. (Hardly any Pierce and Shirley isn't too bad, either.)

All in all, this was a top drawer episode of COMMUNITY, in a season that has been bursting to the seams with same. Next lesson: "Mixology Certification". Can't wait!moreless
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Joel McHale	Jeff Winger
Chevy Chase	Pierce Hawthorne
Gillian Jacobs	Britta Perry
Alison Brie	Annie Edison
Danny Pudi	Abed Nadir
Donald Glover	Troy Barnes

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Kevin Corrigan	Professor Sean Garrity	Guest Star
Jim Rash	Dean Pelton	Recurring Role
Craig Cackowski	Officer Cackowski	Recurring Role
Richard Erdman	Leonard	Recurring Role

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- In Abed's visor in the episode "Aerodynamics of Gender" has a Memo of building a blanket fort and he does build one in this episode.
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- Abed: Welcome to Fluffytown. No smoking, no farting, no pillow fighting. Annie: We're in a chase! Abed: That's allowed.
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- Abed: You can't be in here Leonard. You already have three farting strikes against you.
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- Police Officer: Fact: In 100% of all fake gun shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun.
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- Original International Air Dates:
  Canada: November 18, 2010 on Citytv,
  Sweden: April 9, 2011 on TV6,
  Czech Republic: January 25, 2013 on SMICHOV,
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