I totally paused!

Community took a slightly different approach with their Halloween episode – to keep it in the context of the theme of the show, Annie throws a Day of the Dead party for Spanish class, in which everyone comes dressed up.  And Senor Chang has to come because Annie is getting extra credit for the party, which he is not happy about.

Their costumes are kind of funny: Annie is a skeleton; Troy is some guy who I can only guess is from the 70’s with that mustache; Shirley is Harry Potter, but everyone thinks she’s Steve Urkel; Britta is a squirrel because she hates that women use Halloween as an excuse to dress slutty; Pierce is the Beast Master, he thinks it’s cool which shows how out of touch he is; and Jeff is himself, he’s not really a costume guy.  I save the best for last – Abhed comes as Batman, specifically the Christian Bale Batman, and he does a really great impression of the voice!  He also takes the costume seriously for the night and saves people, which is amusing.

In the meantime, Jeff is trying to get this teacher to go out with him, but she doesn’t date students, so he sneaks out of Annie’s party and goes to the faculty party to try and show her his non-student side.  Ultimately it doesn’t work, because he has to help the rest of the gang.

See, Starburns gives Pierce some ecstasy, and Pierce is having a bad trip, so he freaks out and everyone comes running to Jeff for help.  I’m not entirely sure why they go to Jeff for it, he doesn’t really seem the type to care or whatever, but he tries to help and talks Pierce out of crushing himself to death with desks and chairs.  I’m not sure that would work anyway.

The episode was pretty funny, and the one line in particular that stood out to me was when Annie was trying to talk Jeff into going to the party, she said her tears worked on Pierce.  Jeff says, “Infomercials work on Pierce.”

I am disappointed that we have gone several episodes with no Seacrest reference.  This is one of my favorite things, let’s have some more!