'Community' Recap: Robo-Bitch
This week’s Community begins with a one-on-one basketball game between Troy and Jeff. As they sling insults and trash talk one another, Shirley, Britta, and Annie decide they need a break from the boys. The girls decide to take a women’s studies class to spend some quality time with each other, but their girl’s day is crashed by Abed, who wants to learn more about them.
Once in class, the girls lie to Abed in order to avoid sitting with him, and instead move to the front of the classroom. Once they are settled in, a group of mean girls, led by guest star Hilary Duff, comes in and demands that they give up their seats. Britta, Annie, and Shirley refuse, but soon back down after the mean girls insult their looks and Annie’s “mustache hairs.”
In the back of the class with Abed, Shirley tells them that the leader of the mean girls is named Megan. Abed asks, “Which one is Megan? The one with the hole in her sweater’s armpit, or the one whose tight sleeves are pushing her fat toward her elbows?” The girls realize that Abed has an extraordinary power to insult others, and they decide to harness his abilities and use them to get back at the girls who’ve been mean to them.
In the cafeteria, the girls have Abed “describe” other girls. They tell him that it is okay to be mean if he is talking to “bitches,” because bad isn’t bad if you’re saying it about bad people. Abed takes this to mean that he should insult others to their faces, and makes fun of Megan and her friends until they flee the cafeteria. Britta declares it a “Bitch Free Zone,” and Abed becomes the “Robocop” of insult slinging.
Later, Britta, Annie, and Shirley insult a group of innocent girls in order to take their place on a couch in the cafeteria. Abed’s robotic alarm goes off, and he realizes that they have become the people he is supposed to target. Classification: Bitches. He insults the girls and tells them they’ve become bitches, before leaving to randomly insult everyone he sees. But when he sits down to eat lunch, insults his juice box, and realizes that everyone is afraid to come near him, he decides to restore the natural order. Abed gives Megan “destruct codes,” note cards with insults for her to assault him with later. Publicly, she tells Abed, “Look at your face! It’s like your mom was a lizard who got raped by a muppet!” The natural order is restored.
Meanwhile, Jeff and Troy’s basketball game ends in frustration. Jeff, mad for losing, kicks the basketball far away into the bushes, while Pierce tries to impress them with his new Dragonflier spy robot plane. Troy and Jeff chase the ball and find a secret garden with an illegal trampoline. The keeper of the trampoline, Joshua, tells them that there are only two rules: 1. They must keep the trampoline a secret, and 2. No double bouncing.
Jeff and Troy are changed by their experience on the trampoline. They aren’t just jumping, they’re bouncing “like a baby on the knee of a goddess.” They become zen-like and centered. Jeff even wears Uggs without embarrassment! When Pierce finds out they have, once again, done something without him, he demands to know what has changed. He yells, “Tell me how to get this laid back or I’ll kill your families!” When they refuse to tell him, he spies on them with the Dragonflier and finds the trampoline.
Pierce demands to be double bounced, or he’ll tweet about the garden to everyone! Troy reluctantly agrees, but the double bounce sends Pierce flying into a dumpster and he breaks his legs.
Joshua is fired as a result of keeping a secret, illegal trampoline. When Jeff and Troy apologize, Joshua says, “That’s what I get for trusting some black guy.” Jeff and Troy are shocked to find out that Joshua is racist, but upon further reflection realize that there were signs all along, including a swastika tattoo that he claimed he was going to make into a maze.
Jeff and Troy realize the moral of the story: “Purity that demands exclusion isn’t real purity.” They shrug it off, and go for ice cream.