User Reviews

Giantpanther missed the point of this episode. It was a parody of Glee, not an homage. It was likening the Glee hysteria to the film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978), where alien invaders replace human beings with duplicates that appear identical on the surface but are devoid of emotion or individuality. Most obvious reference being the "Scream" scene with Britta and Jeff.

This ep. also made a great point about the Glee vs. Kings of Leon controversy in which creator Ryan Murphy was being publicly critical of KOL's and other artist refusals of song usage and basically calling them bullies.

Jeff: Oh please, not liking Glee club doesn't make us bullies and implying that is reverse bully-ism!

I know, I know giant's comment/episode are 2 yrs old but, I felt the need to comment in case future Community watchers were interested. It's by far one of the wittier episodes of season 3 and I don't recommend "skipping this one" because beside the underlying Glee insults, the songs and jokes make this a gem.

**vague spoilers** I guess I'm just *conditioned* to laugh at awesomeness.

This was excellent, and another jab at Glee, with SNL newbie Taran Killam as the Glee club instructor (or whatever) putting in a pretty good performance. His character turns on SNL have usually been pretty good, and this works, too.

Fans of the show and Doctor Who lovers/haters will love the Dr. Space Time bits, as Pudi whites up for the role, and Glover puts on a commendable accent for his assistant.

I know that this is slightly irrelevant, but I did want to say how much I loved Troy locking the blanket fort in the last episode.

Oh, and enjoy the coda, it's just silly enough.

Merry Dean/Chang-mas!

I loved this episode. Even though it was more over the top than other episodes but if that really crosses the line for you then 95% of other shows should be unwatchable for you. Just don't take it too seriously.

Not the strongest episode but still a lot of fun. It pokes fun at Glee and makes the Glee Club act as some sort of a cult, luring people in with their disarming friendliness. It's a funny concept and an enjoyable episode.

I'm a lifelong musical lover, and I adore this episode. It's obviously satire, and the people taking it seriously don't seem to get that. It's making fun of glee and other musicals in the nicest way. The entire cast, except for Gillian (which she acknowledges in the featurette) are amazing singers and just put their whole musical-loving souls into the episode.

I'm I the only who hates when shows do this? Abed of all characters shoulder know that it's the most over used boring and cringey trap for a successful show to fall into.

I don't care what holiday it is, musical episodes are never okay. Why do shows keep doing this? PLEASE STOP.

One of the weaker Community episodes, save for one part where Annie seduces/convinces Jeff to get on board with the whole glee club thing. Anyways, the basic plot for this episode is filled with glee references, so if you are into thats how this might help convert you over to the community world but as for the rest of us, i would recommend skipping this one, no significant plot points are touched on, and it made me miss the show less when it went into its forced hiatus until march. But now that its back, its back with a vengeance, thus far three good episodes following this one. Usually what can make a community episode work, is that even if you don't like one plot line some of the other characters are usually up to something entertaining, so you can then ignore the plot you aren't into and focus in on the other stuff. anyways in this case it all flows together in a glee mess, so thats what weakened this episode for me.

This episode is like every other musical episode of any show ever. People poorly singing on poor beats. And the very few jokes they try dont land because they're trying so hard to follow the beat of the music that they miss the timing of the joke. In this particular case, the worst part is that they acknowledge that musicals are the worst at the beginning of the episode, yet they still do it, probably trying to be meta or something.

They need to drop Glovers character being a Jehovah's Witness because they get things wrong consistently and are often very disrespectful. Better to just let it go. I lose a lot of respect for all involved.