Community paid homage to the old Rankin/Bass films like Rudolph: The Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Year Without A Santa Clause in “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas.” The episode dove into the inner machinations of Abed’s mind, and also pulled inspiration from Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory with its death outro songs.
Horror Movies: Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps
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Dan Harmon explored the clichés of horror movies by having each character in the group create their own spooky story, complete with cutaways. Their rankings in order from best to worst are: 1. Shirley, 2. Troy, 3. Pierce, 4. Annie, 5. Abed, 6. Britta. Jeff’s doesn’t count because it’s a resolution to the episode, no further questions, thank you.
Oceans 11: The First Chang Dynasty
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Pierce: “Oceans 11, baby!”
The study group pulls the ultimate heist to dethrone supreme leader Chang at his “Birthday Changstravaganza.” They have to improvise near the end when they wanted their real plan to look like it failed but it really worked but their real plan really failed.
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