Episode List: |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating |
Anthropology 101 | 1 | 1 | Joe Russo | Chris McKenna | Jeff and Britta play a game of relationship chicken that threatens to tear the group apart. | A good season premier and Betty White is clearly having fun. | 8.4 | 8 |
Accounting for Lawyers | 1 | 2 | Joe Russo | Emily Cutler | Jeff re-connects with an old colleague from his days as a lawyer and the group is concerned. | Love the part where Annie chloroforms the janitor twice. Hilarious | 8.3 | 8 |
The Psychology of Letting Go | 1 | 3 | Anthony Russo | Hilary Winston | The passing of Pierce's mother opens a discussion of religious beliefs among the gang while Britta and Annie try to raise money to help clean up the BP oil spill. | Fun but not my favorite. | 8.1 | 7 |
Basic Rocket Science | 1 | 4 | Anthony Russo | Andy Bobrow | The study squad ends up in a hijacked space simulator. | Bizarre but there are good moments. | 8.5 | 7 |
Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples | 1 | 5 | Tristram Shapeero | Andrew Guest | Shirley has concerns about Abed's latest film: a messianic piece with himself as the central role. Meanwhile, Pierce starts hanging out with a group of geriatric hoodlums. | It can be a bit uncomfortable if you think too much about Abed's film, but the episode is not too bad. The bit with Pierce is actually pretty fun. | 7.5 | 7 |
Epidemiology | 1 | 6 | Anthony Hemingway | Karey Dornetto | A Halloween party takes a terrible turn when the dean caters the party with cheap army surplus rations. | Very funny! Love this one. | 8.8 | 9 |
Aerodynamics of Gender | 2 | 1 | Tristram Shapeero | Adam Countee | The girls and Abed take a class in women's studies while Jeff and Troy struggle to keep a new secret. | This one starts off the "Evil Pierce" story line that plays out for most of the season. | 8.3 | 7 |
Cooperative Calligraphy | 2 | 2 | Joe Russo | Megan Ganz | The group is stuck in the library as they try to figure out who stole Annie's pen. | An interesting bottle episode that plays off the inter-personal relationships within the group. | 8.5 | 8 |
Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design | 2 | 3 | Adam Davidson | Chris McKenna | Jeff is caught trying to pass off a fake class for credit while Troy and Abed run the blanket fort to end all blanket forts. | This one is very hilarious and almost a perfect episode. | 9.0 | 10 |
Mixology Certification | 2 | 4 | Jay Chandrasekhar | Andy Bobrow | Troy turns legal and the group decides to take him out to a bar to celebrate. | This one is a fun peek into the off-campus life of our heroes. | 9.2 | 9 |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating |
Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas | 2 | 5 | Duke Johnson | Dino Stamatopoulos Dan Harmon | Abed lives out a stop-motion Christmas and the group works with him to figure out what has caused him to retreat into that kind of safety. | This is a unique episode. pretty fun. | 8.6 | 9 |
Asian Population Studies | 2 | 6 | Anthony Russo | Emily Cutler | The group must decide whether to admit one of two applicants into their group, and Shirley announces that she's pregnant. | Not my favorite. This one seems to mainly serve to move forward with the personal stories of a few of the members of the group. | 8.1 | 7 |
Celebrity Pharmacology 212 | 3 | 1 | Fred Goss | Hilary Winston | Pierce writes Annie a check to help her make rent, then uses it to get her sympathy as he completely ruins her drug awareness play. | This is an odd one. But it's kinda cool to see how Chang is able to salvage the play after Pierce's meddling. | 7.8 | 7 |
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons | 3 | 2 | Joe Russo | Andrew Guest | The group tries to help Fat Neil behind Pierce's back through an RPG session. | Funny! Though it really kicks the Evil Pierce story line into overdrive. | 9.0 | 9 |
Early 21st Century Romanticism | 3 | 3 | Steven Sprung | Karey Dornetto Andrew Guest | Jeff unwittingly hosts a party at his place while Britta dates a 'lesbian' and Troy and Abed both go after the same girl. | Not bad. It's interesting to see Jeff make a personal realization at the end. | 8.1 | 8 |
Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking | 3 | 4 | Joe Russo | Megan Ganz | Abed makes a documentary about Pierce's "last wishes" after he ends up in the hospital from his pill addiction. | This one's a different format for the show and it works well. It's probably best they not do this too much, but one episode is fine. | 8.4 | 8 |
Intro to Political Science | 3 | 5 | Jay Chandrasekhar | Adam Countee | In preparation for a visit from Vice President Biden, Greendale rushes to elect a student government. | A bit odd, but fun. | 8.2 | 7 |
Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy | 3 | 6 | Anthony Russo | Andy Bobrow | Jeff uses Shirley's parental rights waiver against Chang as a way to get Chang out of the apartment, while Britta is afraid to tell Abed and Troy that their new friend is a war criminal. | It's pretty hilarious to watch Britta get it so wrong when she tries to sing like Britta-ney Spears. | 7.4 | 8 |
Critical Film Studies | 4 | 1 | Richard Ayoade | Sona Panos | Jeff sets up a Pulp Fiction themed party for Abed's birthday, but Abed has different plans for the evening. | A little unusual, but it's interesting to see the group dressed up as characters from Pulp Fiction. | 8.5 | 8 |
Competitive Wine Tasting | 4 | 2 | Joe Russo | Emily Cutler | Jeff gets jealous and suspicious after a woman turns him down in favor of Pierce. Meanwhile, Abed studies "Who's the Boss". | Jeff gets pretty childish, but that's not too unusual. And Abed's story line is okay. Not a bad episode but not my favorite. | 7.7 | 7 |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating |
Paradigms of Human Memory | 4 | 3 | Tristram Shapeero | Chris McKenna | The group takes an involuntary stroll down memory lane to remember things that never happened. | Absolutely hilarious. I love how they make a show that looks like a standard clip show but with scenes that we've never seen before at all. | 8.8 | 9 |
Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts | 4 | 4 | Jay Chandrasekhar | Karey Dornetto | A riot picks up at the World Food Festival in the parking lot while Shirley goes into labor in class. | A more contained episode but it's nice to see the group band together to help out Shirley in an emergency. | 7.8 | 7 |
A Fistful of Paintballs | 4 | 5 | Joe Russo | Andrew Guest | The campus is overrun once again by treasure-happy paintballers. This time, however, there may be a more structured and malicious force at work. | Very funny. They've taken one of the most iconic episodes from the first season and really put it on overdrive. | 9.4 | 9 |
For a Few Paintballs More | 4 | 6 | Joe Russo | Hilary Winston | Once the paintballers realizes who is behind the latest paintball war, they must band together to stop City College from ruining their school. | This is a great ending to the paintball story line. It's cool how they shift so easily from the overly western theme to a Star Wars homage almost seamlessly. | 9.2 | 10 |