This episode was hilarious.
I loved Britta's vague, uninspired story. It seemed so right for her character that she can't tell a good story, and is pretty hopeless at creating a scenario and characters that anyone would care about. And she'd clearly only started thinking about this whole thing an hour or so before the party. Joel McHale's wooden line readings were very funny, too.
Abed's story was very logical, naturally. Of course he would pick out all the nonsensical elements of horror movies, the stupid, inexplicable character actions, and correct them. He gets the mechanics of it, rather than being caught up in the actual experience. Would someone in real life go out into the woods alone to look for a crazy, hook handed killer? No. So they don't in Abed's story either.
I think "teach me to read" is bordering on being the funniest line ever in Community. The delivery was just spot on, and it's such a romantic/fantasy movie cliche for the guy to need the girl to help him be better. Joel McHale was brilliant in this one again, trying to learn how to read. Nice twist with Annie being a werewolf, and I loved her graphic description of how she killed the vampire. Because, yes, Annie's a little bit crazy, and her need to be the best at everything, and her overcompensation as a result apparently permeates even telling ghost stories.
I can only imagine how much fun Donald Glover and Danny Pudi had playing Pierce's evil gangstas. I felt like I was watching a Wayans brothers movie from the 90s. Casual sexism and racism has never been so funny. Pierce has had the hots for Shirley since the pilot, but his sexualisation of Annie was a bit creepy, after episodes like Celebrity Pharmacology and Intermediate Documentary Film Making, where his view of her seemed far more paternal. But hey, it's Pierce.
Shirley's view of them all as horny, idiotic teenagers was pretty on the nose, though I think they need to give her character more than Christianity and baking to work with. Loved the 90s outfits they were all wearing. I wasn't expecting the dean to be the devil, so that got a laugh, but I do remember Shirley describing him as an "innocent pervert" in one episode, so it felt a little odd for her to think of him so badly.
Jeff sees Chang as crazy? Colour me stunned! But I liked that he used his powers of persuasion to reach the killer, and that he turned his story into a Winger Speech to get the rest of them to calm down. I knew he would have filled in his test randomly, but had a sneaky feeling he'd claim that, and then look freaked out at the end that it came back signalling him as a potential nutcase.
Loved the tag, with Troy and Abed sewn together.
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