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 "Tell your disappointment to suck it!  I'm doing a bottle episode!" -Jeff Winger "Cooperative Calligraphy" picks up with the study group finishing up a diorama for anthropology class.  The Dean (Jim Rash) announces that a Puppy Parade is happening outside and most of the group decides to go, except for Jeff (Joel McHale), who has a hot date.  Just before they can all leave the study room, Annie (Alison Brie) asks them all who took her pen and explains that she has had 8 pens taken from her recently and has had enough.  The group promises to be more respectful of her property and tires to leave again, but Annie starts screaming. The group reluctantly searches the study room for the pen, but can't find it.  Annie points out trust is at stake and that no one has entered or left the room, so somebody has to have it.  The group looks at Britta (Gillian Jacobs), who has a habit of "borrowing" pens from everyone.  The group convinces her to empty her ba...

 "It's going to be a maze." -Joshua "Aerodynamics of Gender" picks up with a basketball game between Troy (Donald Glover) and Jeff (Joel McHale).  After losing the game, Jeff kicks the ball into a garden and Troy has to go and get it.  He discovers a secret trampoline.  Jeff catches up with him and they meet the gardener, Joshua (Matt Walsh), who allows them to use the trampoline to reach a state of bliss and relaxation.  He asks them to keep the trampoline a secret because of its potential to be a serious lawsuit.  He also tells them to only use the trampoline one at a time. Meanwhile, Annie (Alison Brie), Britta (Gillian Jacobs), and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) sign up for a Women's Studies class as a way to take a break from the guys, but when Abed (Danny Pudi) finds out, he signs up as well.  The girls try to sit away from Abed, but a group of mean girls, led by Meghan (Hilary Duff), force them to move out of their seats after insulting them....

 "Our lives are not defined by any one action.  Our lives are the sum of our choices." -Luther Stickell With the world on the brink of nuclear war, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team are the only people who can find a way to stop the Entity, a rogue AI system, from destroying everything and prevent everyone else from trying to control it. Spoilers below!  In short, this is a weaker entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise due to it's ridiculous length and dull first half, but it picks up in the second half with some incredible action. What Works: The best performance of the movie comes from Ving Rhames, who plays Ethan's best friend Luther and is the only actor besides Cruise to appear in every entry.  Luther doesn't have a ton of screentime because he is killed off pretty early, but his performance is very emotional, especially the message he leaves behind for Ethan.  It's a really nice way to end the movie and seemingly the franchise. The bi-plane sequen...

 "Hi, Kevin can't come to the phone.  He's on a spaceship with me, George Takei.  Please leave a message." -George Takei "Epidemiology" picks up at Greendale's Halloween party in the library.  Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) provides food in the form of taco meat that he got from a military surplus store, which causes Pierce (Chevy Chase) and others to get sick.  Annie (Alison Brie) gets help from Dr. Rich (Greg Cromer) to treat the sick partiers. Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) attend the party as Ripley and a Xenomorph from Aliens  respectively.  Troy "saves" some babes from Abed's Xenomorph and tries to ask them out, but they are very unimpressed, which makes Troy self-conscious about becoming a nerd instead of being a jock.  He decides to change costumes and dresses as a "Sexy Dracula" and calls Abed a nerd. Rich thinks the illness is food poisoning until Pierce bites Star-Burns (Dino Stamatopoulos), who starts showing the s...

 "I always thought that Jesus just walked on water and told people not to have abortions, but it's so much cooler than that." -Abed Nadir "Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples" picks up in Anthropology class with Professor Duncan (John Oliver) and the rest of the class just watching funny, YouTube videos instead of actually looking into anthropology.  Pierce (Chevy Chase) doesn't understand any of it and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) is offended by some of the videos and gets sad when she realizes people are far more interested in these videos than Christianity.  She decides she wants to make a Christian movie to appeal to the youths and asks Abed (Danny Pudi) to help.  He refuses at first, but after reading the New Testament, he agrees and pitches his idea to Shirley.  His pitch is complicated, meta, and compares filmmakers to Jesus and God.  Even the title is ABED .  Shirley doesn't like it and decides to rescind her offer to Abed, which just makes hi...

 "I do think I deserve an Emmy." -Kamilla Karthigesu Well, that was certainly a season of Survivor.   I was really enjoying this season until the slog of the Star and Mary boots.  Those were painful to sit through.  It got better with the Shauhin episode, but the finale was a very mixed bag for me.  There were some enjoyable moments and Kyle absolutely deserved the win, but I spent a good deal of the final just feeling annoyed and I wasn't very invested in who won.  I'm glad we're moving on from this season.  I'm sure they're all super nice people, but they didn't make for very compelling television a lot of the time.  Anyway, let's get into who played well and who sucked starting with the Final 5 round of play. Who Played Well: The only person I have in this category for the Final 5 is Kyle.  I believe he should have been the person voted out here.  Everyone would have benefitted from Kyle going home, so I'm going to give him credit for...