Community Season 5 Episode 11, “G.I. Jeff” (airdate 04-03-2014)
If I hadn’t seen any of this series, this special episode would have bounced off me like a lot of G.I. Joe satires (the unfunny Fox ADHD “Cobra’s March Madness Bracket” skit, for one) — they get some things right, some things wrong, and don’t stay with me. But I’ve seen season 1 of Community, and love it, which helped set the stage for the bigger concept (Jeff Winger is in denial about the parts of his life he doesn’t like) as well as a bunch of smaller jokes (Abed’s codename as “Fourth Wall.”) In a sentence, this was both a good parody of G.I. Joe as well as a great episode of Community. That’s a hard balance to strike. Continue reading
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