Community, "Aerodynamics of Gender"

This week's episode had the main group of characters split up.  Annie, Britta, and Shirley were unexpectedly joined by Abed in their new women's studies class.  Meanwhile, Jeff and Troy find a "secret" garden on the campus after playing a simple game of basketball with Pierce.

The plot with the girls and Abed soon involved a group of mean girls, led by the guest star Hilary Duff.  The mean girls intimidated them at first, but predictably, they soon turned very mean themselves.  This particular storyline was obviously very similar to the movie Mean Girls.

Abed has a unique personality, which you would know if you have watched this before.  Once he becomes a mean girl too, it gets pretty funny.  To add a sitcom feel to the episode, we see inside Abed's brain in a RoboCop way as he "scans" people and classifies almost everyone as bitches.

Jeff and Troy met a worker named Joshua in this garden. There is also a trampoline there, which they end up jumping on for hours.  Joshua enlightens them about this area, which is a place of peace, and instructs them they must keep it a secret.  Once they see Pierce in school again, he can't quite figure out what is up with them.  He guesses that they are even on weed, because of their blissful and laid back attitudes.

Pierce finds them in their garden, and ultimately becomes the reason they are banned from it.  Joshua has the funniest reveal of the episode, when he turns out to have been a racist all along but Troy and Jeff had never noticed.

Quirky story lines like magical gardens are to be expected from a show like Community, so if you need a light-hearted comedy, I would strongly suggest tuning in on Thursdays at 8PM on NBC.

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