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Community Season 2 Episode 10

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AIRED: Dec 02, 2010

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It is Troy's 21st birthday, so the group decides to hit the bars. While Britta and Jeff are drinking too many cocktails, Shirley is taking down incriminating pictures of herself, Annie is embracing her fake identity and Abed gets into a deep conversation with another Sci-Fi lover.moreless

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The gang go out to a bar to celebrate Troy's 21st birthday. Pierce doesn't want anyones help while Annie feels the need to take on the persona of her fake ID.moreless

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By huntercal, Oct 04, 2011

The first season of Community stood out as some of the funniest things on TV. The second season has shown glimpses of what the first season offered without ever quite getting there. This ep is the perfect example of what this show is capable of with a great mix of funny pieces as well as moments of genuine heart between the characters.

This week the gang are celebrating Troy's birthday discreetly before they discover that he isn't 20 but rather 21. The study group agree that it is no way to celebrate becoming a man and decide to go out for a night on the drink. As Jeff and Britta argue over whose bar is better the gang discover that Shirley has a past with the bar they are in with photos of her plastered all across the bar. Meanwhile Annie is worried that the bar employees will look into her ID so she assumes the identity on the card as a girl from Texas, she strikes up a conversation with the bar lady professing that she is a drifter that is trouble, unlike her square friend Annie. All the while Abed gets into a conversation about Farscape with a man that clearly has only one interest, that being getting it on with Abed.

Wheelchair bound Pierce is separate to the group when he spends most of his time trying to blow his chair into the bar. All the while he is refusing help from everyone only making things worse.

This episode was just as funny as it was caring and character enriching. This ep shied away from the usual meta and parody and went for a more simple character-centric ep that really advanced the characters further and their relationships with one another. For all the laughs the best scene was when Troy walked Annie back to her appartment and gave her a pick me up when she was doubting herself. Troy over the course of the episode we see Troy as a far more independent and intelligent kid than most of the gang give him credit for.

All in all a really good ep that gives its audience far more than they would have expected in the lead up to the episode.moreless
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Joel McHale	Jeff Winger
Chevy Chase	Pierce Hawthorne
Gillian Jacobs	Britta Perry
Alison Brie	Annie Edison
Yvette Nicole Brown	Shirley Bennett
Danny Pudi	Abed Nadir

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Tig Notaro	Bartender	Guest Star
Paul F. Tompkins	Nerdy Guy	Guest Star
Joseph Nunez	Bouncer	Guest Star

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- In Aerodynamics of GenderAbed's visor features a foreshadowing note about Troy's birthday being in 2 weeks.
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- Troy: (reading the cake) Hello during a random dessert, the month and day of which coincide numerically with your expulsion from a uterus.
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- Jeff: You were born 21 years ago.
  Troy: Which would make me 20 because everyone is 10 for two years. Because fifth grade is really hard for every... one. Mom, how many lies have I been living?
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- Annie: Weird night, huh?
  Troy: Yeah. Alcohol makes people sad. It's like the Lifetime movie of beverages.
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- Original International Air Dates:
  Canada: December 2, 2010 on Citytv,
  Sweden: April 16, 2011 on TV6,
  Czech Republic: January 26, 2013 on SMICHOV,
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