They were definitely giving a LOOK to the episode. But after the Law & Order episode they shouldn't have gone anywhere near this territory this soon without a more solid target.

Even the credits - anyone recognize that font from another show?

Seriously, if they want to go off the deep end, they should come up with an American Horror Story parody. I'd love to see an opening credits for Community with the AHS font, music, style, etc.

I'm gonna say it was a little Se7en, a little Zodiac, a little The Killing, probably some stuff I don't watch. More akin to paintball and zombies than Law and Order as episodes go, but serial killers. If that makes sense to anyone who isn't me.

Anyway, I enjoyed it muchly. But not enough to shun.

And then Parks & Rec was pretty great. So I'm happy.

I'm with Frankenbuddha on this ep. It was just weird, and not in a good way, for me.

I also think Pierce deserved more.

I also think Pierce deserved more.

That was really abrupt and offputting.

I also think Pierce deserved more.

How do you mean?

I'm gonna say it was a little Se7en, a little Zodiac, a little The Killing, probably some stuff I don't watch. More akin to paintball and zombies than Law and Order as episodes go, but serial killers

Yeah, I thought it was in a different arena, and I really liked it. I laughed a lot.

I didn't mean they were doing a Law & Order pastiche; just that I spent so much of the time trying to nail down just what they were riffing on that it distracted me from actually enjoying the episode.

Maybe they were going for a more generic hommage, but it looked so specific I kept thinking I should know exactly what they were working off of, and I couldn't. The meta kept throwing me out of the story, and that doesn't usually happen with this show.

I also think Pierce deserved more.

How do you mean?

More of a send off/acknowledgement that "He's dead, here's one brief monologue about him being dead, and now back to the episode".

I'm assuming there will be more in a later episode. But we shall see.

ETA: I"m a little disappointed that they killed Pierce off at all. Just having him banned from campus and not impacting the story really worked for me. But maybe they will take it somewhere good, who knows?

Pierce in the darkest timeline faked his own death, so this Pierce might not really be gone. It definitely felt anticlimactic in a way that makes me assume there will be more.

I agree with pretty much every word that Frank has already posted, so just pointing & saying "yes, that."

And I'm not usually the one who can't "take a joke" in the room, but I not only didn't find the coin thing funny, I found it actively disturbing - like to the point of debating myself whether it constituted sexual assault.