This is legit my favorite episode. It's not even the fact they're parodying Law & Order it's HOW they're parodying Law & Order; they got it down to the most minute detail in the directing, writing, and acting. Excellent homage, they really did their homework.
When they're at the hot dog stand and they make greendale look like an NYC street, amazing. It's my favourite episode too and I feel like it's a little underrated
This is why Community is the best artistic comedy show to have ever existed. They warped Community to be whatever it could be, from a documentary, to a post-apocalyptic western. It didn't matter.
They totally nailed all the silly mannerisms in 'L&O'. Like the way every time the detectives are questioning someone the person is always, ALWAYS busy doing something, like putting books on a shelf or unloading a truck or getting files out of a filing cabinet. Something, anything, but NEVER just standing there answering the questions, like a normal person would.
My favourite is Britta acting like a Law & Order computer tech person, complete with glasses and a mug. She goes "I transferred or DOWNLOADED the photo..." I love that when she says she's a pysch major they just walk away.
I love this episode, and everything about the L&O parody was perfect, but special shoutout to Yvette Nicole Brown for nailing the Lt. Van Buren character so completely. She was amazing.
Doubly great: she nailed Lt. Van Buren *and* it was an excellent "translation" of Shirley's moral-mom authority figure into the world they created. So good!
From one detective with a leather coat to the other with a peacoat, the NYC street scene with a vendor, steam and construction, the way they move (especially when they corner Pierce), the interrogation and Shirley interrupting it by tapping on the glass aquarium like it's a 2 way mirror, Jeff being dressed like McCoy, all 4 walking like in a L&O episode, and so many others. It's so clever and so accurate while at the same time not taking itself serious.
From the cadence of Abed's voice it sounds like maybe they had to get all that info out of him through various pop-pops. "Did you check out a key to the bio lab?" "Pop-pop!" "And what time did you go to the lab?" (disappointed) "Pop-pop ..."
The camerawork and dialogue styles are spot-on for Law & Order. As a fan of L&O I couldn't stop laughing even when there were no actual jokes being told on screen. This is a serious contender for the best episode of the series.
I recognized from the transitions and the opening credits that it was parodying Law and Order even though I don't watch the show. This episode kind of made me want to watch Law and Order.
@@hittingyouoverthehead If you do watch it.... please understand that the best seasons are 1 - 5. Check out season 4... you get Briscoe and Logan as the detectives, and Ben Stone (the best ADA) and Kincaid. Dream team.
The Britta scene was my absolute favorite of this episode. Not just the fact that they cut her off before she finished talking but the fact that we get to see the others physically become disinterested and start to walk away is just icing on the cake. This show was brilliant
"It's a burn. Home-ec class, muffin" "What kind of muffin?" "Blueberry" "Why not raisin?" "That... Wasn't the assignment" It's just so hilariously dumb yet well executed.
Robertson Thirdly that bit when Neil went “God forgive me, I did it for love” and Todd began to weep! Actually, Todd during the entire interrogation scene is gold
I saw this episode years ago, and then recently I watched a bunch of SVU episodes in quarantine. The level of parody community was able to pull is at UNREAL heights both in terms of accuracy and irony...
This had to be such a fun episode to make. Writing the L&O style dialog, the actors adapting their characters, I'm sure Rob had a blast directing... perfect. I specifically like Neal in the key sign-out scene. In L&O he could have been a worker on the wharf where the body was found, a garbage man on the victim's route, etc. Just change his costume Nd it would work.
@@nathanielwilliams3891 Hulu also took it down. I do hope both will release it again, albeit they'll likely remove the blackface from the episode (and subsequently remove Chang entirely), but it was a good episode.
I love how the whole cast has a role to fit in this parody… Then there’s Britta whose almost completely useless as a Law & Order Character. Love this show.
After watching years worth of Law & Order, I absolutely despise the "dun dun" sound. That being said, I immediately knew what was up when this episode started. I was dreading the sound more and more as every second passed. Then it happened, and I absolutely erupted in laughter. It was great. This is why I love this show.
0:04 the old guy with the burgundy cardigan who says “that’s offensive?” Isnt that the actor in Abed’s short film series, the Community College Chronicles that plays “Pierce Hawthorne” ?
Leonard saying “Youth! Scatter!” was streets ahead
But he got caught. So really he was Streets Behind!
Lenord was streets ahead
@@alessiman "BUSTED!"
Is streets ahead like miles ahead
@@yahiabdi3897 If you have to ask you're streets behind
Love the fact that Dan Harmon paid for the actual "dun dun" to be used in the episode.
I didn't know that kkk
and they also got a L&O director i think
They also added a "thanks dick wolf" at the end
He also paid for the actress that played the coroner on L&O to appear in the show because NBC wouldn't
what is "dun dun" ?
This is legit my favorite episode. It's not even the fact they're parodying Law & Order it's HOW they're parodying Law & Order; they got it down to the most minute detail in the directing, writing, and acting. Excellent homage, they really did their homework.
Yvette Nicole Brown doesn’t get enough credit for how well she fits into the role of someone who would be on Law and Order
They had to think fast
This is the exact reason why it's my favorite episode
When they're at the hot dog stand and they make greendale look like an NYC street, amazing. It's my favourite episode too and I feel like it's a little underrated
@@andrewfeistner3384 Agreed! the medium-level authority: ADA, precinct captain, etc. Yvette Nicole Brown resonates perfectly.
"I can also help! As a psych major i can prov-" I love that they never fail to make fun of Britta for her career choices
With a few adjustments I can make the image...old west color
I love how they cut her off
The way she types on the keyboard too 😂
@@keretaman even better is that she never shows up again for the rest of the episode
And how awkwardly she press those keys 🤣🤣
The interviews with people who can’t stop doing their jobs 😂
"Double rape and murder? Nahhh... he's gotta unload that van."
How often? Are you questioned.... by homicide detectives??
Dude... people have DIED
"Yes! That's why we're here... asking questions... talking about her in the past tense.... There's been an incident!!!!"
Didn't realize how insane it was until John mulaney pointed it out
"I'm gifted in other ways" Every time I watch I get something new
one of my favourite lines in the show is from this episode
'you don't order ketchup, it's a condiment!' *smashes filling cabinet*
"Walk it off!"
Such a good episode
@@schleichface And then later, "Abed, walk it off! Sorry, he's been on edge ever since we switched." I died.
'my friend, he's a bad cop...I'm a _good_ cop...You can trust me'
Bad cop 💀 good cop? 🥰...wait a second?@@cdbsk76
Love the way they interviewing Fat Neil while doing his job just like typical L&O scene
And he was the yam murderer.
His name's just neil
John Mulaney would be proud.
The camerawork is amazing, it's just like those kind of shows. The whole episode is genius.
@@jeancarlodelaluz6415 pop pop!
They did so well at making this feel like a Law & Order episode.
But instead of a dead human it was a dead yam
This is why Community is the best artistic comedy show to have ever existed.
They warped Community to be whatever it could be, from a documentary, to a post-apocalyptic western. It didn't matter.
@@zachb1344 hahaha Yea a dead yam that was “pregnant.” Funniest part
Yeah like Todd continuing to stack shelved while being interrogated
well Dick Wolf did write this episode
“What kind of muffin?
Blueberry.
Why not raisin?”
Questions that need to be answered
@@henrym5889 You could dance all day Henry but sooner or later the music's gonna change!
Todd: That wasn't...the assignment
@@henrym5889 Go back home
Troy’s lightning fast response with the “why not raisin?” was comic genius and gets me every time,
Ngl I prefer raisins to blueberries
"5:1 on the black guy"
- "Thats offensive."
"Fine, 6:1"
I love this show so much :D
Love this quip 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Watched the show 100 times and only caught that one today
And the little detail of Pierce holding the pearls that someone bet / used as collateral.
@@gregorylevine1850 just noticed that too lmao
@@radhiadeedou8286 same
They totally nailed all the silly mannerisms in 'L&O'. Like the way every time the detectives are questioning someone the person is always, ALWAYS busy doing something, like putting books on a shelf or unloading a truck or getting files out of a filing cabinet. Something, anything, but NEVER just standing there answering the questions, like a normal person would.
I just love Abed's expression at 0:34. He completely nails that
Yeah, Abed was imitating Detective Lennie Briscoe's signature smirk from Law & Order.
Dany Pudi not winning any Emmy is unbelievably unfair.
@@karga23 as Abed says, "Some flies (actors) are too awesome for the wall (awards)"
Yes! the smirking micro-moment of skepticism!
@James Cooper Wow, after 3 viewings, I still forgot this micro-detail: the skeptical detective smirk Part 2!!!
My favourite is Britta acting like a Law & Order computer tech person, complete with glasses and a mug. She goes "I transferred or DOWNLOADED the photo..." I love that when she says she's a pysch major they just walk away.
clack, clack "Old West colour"
And the cutoff in the middle of her "psych major" line: perfect rudeness! 😂
I also love how, when she makes the photo "Old West" color, she is typing on the keys like it's the first time she's ever used a keyboard, lol.
“I can also help! As a psych major, I can-“ DUN DUN
🤣🤣🤣
Genius. Britta is the worst
On the line at the bank and passing out laughing at this.
0:26 The way Pierce react is like he being shown picture like a person being murder. Chevy really nailed it.
I love this episode, and everything about the L&O parody was perfect, but special shoutout to Yvette Nicole Brown for nailing the Lt. Van Buren character so completely. She was amazing.
Its an homage
Doubly great: she nailed Lt. Van Buren *and* it was an excellent "translation" of Shirley's moral-mom authority figure into the world they created. So good!
*homage
I like Shirley’s low key joke that she had to come in after hours to complete a piñata for Advanced Spanish.
It’s my favorite line in the episode. Also “see you in class” is great as is”I object. I hate you both”.
They got this episode SO RIGHT. EVERY key aspect of L&W was packed into 22 minutes or so
From one detective with a leather coat to the other with a peacoat, the NYC street scene with a vendor, steam and construction, the way they move (especially when they corner Pierce), the interrogation and Shirley interrupting it by tapping on the glass aquarium like it's a 2 way mirror, Jeff being dressed like McCoy, all 4 walking like in a L&O episode, and so many others.
It's so clever and so accurate while at the same time not taking itself serious.
I love how Abed fills in what Magnitude told them, and all Magnitude says on screen is POP POP
I noticed that lol.
Yeah!
From the cadence of Abed's voice it sounds like maybe they had to get all that info out of him through various pop-pops. "Did you check out a key to the bio lab?" "Pop-pop!" "And what time did you go to the lab?" (disappointed) "Pop-pop ..."
The camerawork and dialogue styles are spot-on for Law & Order. As a fan of L&O I couldn't stop laughing even when there were no actual jokes being told on screen. This is a serious contender for the best episode of the series.
Yeah this is 100% my favorite non-paintball episode of the show.
I recognized from the transitions and the opening credits that it was parodying Law and Order even though I don't watch the show. This episode kind of made me want to watch Law and Order.
@@hittingyouoverthehead If you do watch it.... please understand that the best seasons are 1 - 5. Check out season 4... you get Briscoe and Logan as the detectives, and Ben Stone (the best ADA) and Kincaid. Dream team.
I love that the humor does not derive of making fun of Law and Order, but from applying all of its tropes into a silly premise.
The Britta scene was my absolute favorite of this episode. Not just the fact that they cut her off before she finished talking but the fact that we get to see the others physically become disinterested and start to walk away is just icing on the cake. This show was brilliant
Yes! the micro-detail of the sub- inner- characters reacting to Britta even while they're surface playing at L&O. What a complex scripting!!!
Love how they just cut off britta lol
"It's a burn. Home-ec class, muffin"
"What kind of muffin?"
"Blueberry"
"Why not raisin?"
"That... Wasn't the assignment"
It's just so hilariously dumb yet well executed.
They created a cadence-perfect, note for note, interrogation dialogue composed of pure nonsense! Brilliant.
“I’m gifted in other ways” got me rolling the first time I saw it😂
Written by Megan Ganz. Directed by Rob Schrab. That's a 5-star behind the scenes team right there
They're streets ahead
Agreed x2: this ep. is a blue-ribbon reel & resumé. Genius.
I love how even the credit text is designed to resemble Law and Order. Good attention to detail.
It is so scary how accurate everyone's portrayal to law and order is, no matter how small the role
I love the commitment to the parody. Even the camerawork is different from other community episodes.
"I had to come in after hours a few times to finish a piñata for Advanced Spanish"
lol I never noticed that joke before
Todd is one of the best parts of this episode.
Robertson Thirdly that bit when Neil went “God forgive me, I did it for love” and Todd began to weep! Actually, Todd during the entire interrogation scene is gold
@@chiizu1299 Todd during the entire show was great
@Robertson Thirdly Saw the actor that played Todd doing some commercial work recently. Keep at it, dude!
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I love the little detail of Neil's face after Abed congratulates him for his yam blooming, bit guilty
Wow! Three viewings and I missed that detail! (And you're not inferring wrongly: they did intentionally conceive of tiny details. )
Its kinda sad that they didn’t but the scene in where Abed was the Bad cop. In my opinion it was the funniest scene😂
Thiviyan Saravanamuthu you don’t order ketchup it’s a condiment!
He’s been on edge since... we switched
I'm sure they will upload it in a few days
Walk it off!!
@@StefveoX The acknowledgement -- that's only meta in their world! -- that Troy & Abed switched up who's the good and bad cops. A wee bit of genius.
One of my favorite episodes of the entire series. It's perfectly done. Megan Ganz was a great Community writer.
I love how they don't suspect Magnitude for a second.
who would ever suspect Magnitude lol
Pop...
@@kalpbhavsar pop what? what are you trying to say?
"You can dance all you want, but the music's gonna change". That is a very quotable line lol
Abed mathing out the clock made me laugh so hard. "Im gifted in other ways" 😂
"i fell asleep in a sunbeam" my fave Pierce moment, so cute
And they're brave enough to let it be real! Troy had a bad time living with Pierce, yet acknowledges this sweet thing.
Pierce’s “Duh-Doy” always gets me with the way Chevy contorted his face for the word.
Neil playing the part of the blue collar worker to busy to stop what he's doing to talk to the detectives was my favorite part of this episode
I saw this episode years ago, and then recently I watched a bunch of SVU episodes in quarantine. The level of parody community was able to pull is at UNREAL heights both in terms of accuracy and irony...
I find it adorable how abed can’t read a clock, "I’m gift in other ways!"
The whole dinamic of people doing their job while talking to the detectives.... Community was amazing
The stares they give each other make me laugh that much
I just love the look Abed gives Troy at 0:33
Its such a typical "i knew it look" for generic cop shows(Law&Order) where they discover a person lie.
Lmaoo all the little mannerisms are so good. Every second of this episode is jammed pack with great examples of how to make a parody/homage
When life gets you down, and you don't know where you should be headed in life, just remember this classic nugget of wisdom:
"Pop! Pop!"
Pierce: I fell asleep in a sunbeam
Abed: Likely story
Troy: Actually it is, I used to live with him, It's kind of adorable.
Brilliant
This had to be such a fun episode to make. Writing the L&O style dialog, the actors adapting their characters, I'm sure Rob had a blast directing... perfect.
I specifically like Neal in the key sign-out scene. In L&O he could have been a worker on the wharf where the body was found, a garbage man on the victim's route, etc. Just change his costume Nd it would work.
The timing, the tone is pitch-perfect .
This episode is so close to flawless I can't even comprehend how amazing it is
I love how Neil deflected the situation like a true "Smooth Criminal"
2:23 damn is he a new character, we haven't seen him before now but all the characters act as if they know him. Damn that's crazy hey
/s
He appeared in AD&D in season 2 before this, its nice to see him again tho!
@nullptr_t Only Netflix took it down, Amazon Prime still has it.
@@nathanielwilliams3891 when did netflix take it down? Just watched it a few weeks ago
mr.JDaniels At the beginning of this week I thing. It’s because Chang was a black elf
@@nathanielwilliams3891 Hulu also took it down. I do hope both will release it again, albeit they'll likely remove the blackface from the episode (and subsequently remove Chang entirely), but it was a good episode.
This is, by far and away, the best Law & Order parody ever written.
I love how the whole cast has a role to fit in this parody…
Then there’s Britta whose almost completely useless as a Law & Order Character. Love this show.
I love how the credits are stylized like an actual Law and Order episode
2:36 Abed realised that they never told Fat Neil him about their yam he suspects Fat Neil.
0:13 omg the swagger😂
Over the years, I've grown to love Britta as a character. Gillian Jacobs did a good job.
I love how Todd gives himself away by having a scripted alibi with way to much detail he hadn't been asked for. He was prepared.
I love how Danny/Abed got the Jerry Orbach mannerisms down
Oh dear god. I was watching this episode around an hour ago. They’re watching me.
One of those times you *shouldn't* speak too close to your phone.
This episode is more law and order than the original law and order itself.
There's so much I love about this episode!
I love Troy and Abed's classic reaction to the "pop pop" at the end as if to say "look at this guy!"
Community manages to pack so many jokes in a matter of seconds. The writing & execution is seamless & impeccable. The seasons 1-3 are unprecedented 💟
When Magnitude said "Pop Pop", I felt that.
"I can also help! As a psych major I can pr-DUN DUN!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
The way they cut off of Britta is gold!
Shirley was amazing in this episode
"I'm gifted in other ways." after failing to calculate the time
The fact Dick wolf was involved is hilarious
I love how Shirley became the Chief. Lmao
This is in fact the greatest parody episode of any sitcom ever.
I love that Abed can't read a clock.
Cutting it @ "Pop, pop" was a nice touch! XD
Troy pointing to Todd's bandage is hilarious! It's such an L&O move 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They missed the "WALK IT OFF! WALK IT OFF!" lol
"Duh doyyy! *TODD!"*
Probably my favorite episode. Annie’s interrogation later on is hysterical
After watching years worth of Law & Order, I absolutely despise the "dun dun" sound. That being said, I immediately knew what was up when this episode started. I was dreading the sound more and more as every second passed. Then it happened, and I absolutely erupted in laughter. It was great. This is why I love this show.
I just realized magnitude signed out the key using his nickname lmao and no one questions it
2:53 Perfect use of the Magnitude transition there
Abed not knowing how to read an analog clock is an underappreciated joke
1:40 is my favorite Britta moment
So funny
Neil's acting in the office scene is so spot on.
It's wrong for Pierce to call him " the black guy", he should call him by his name, Old Black Man.
I'm surprised he's even awake.
Wonder if Sam Beckett has leaped yet
That's two things, Dennis
This episode is just perfection.
It’s kinda funny how Pierce was exactly right about Todd with zero evidence
Magnitude really was the core of the group and the show. Pop Pop.
"why not raisin??"
"That...wasn't the assignment?"
Lol love it
Who ever did the camerawork is a total pro. Looks exactly like law and order
2:18 Shirley's face is top notch acting that just makes this scene
That bit with Abed and the clock is so underrated. I also have ASD and can't process numbers, especially on key pads and clocks.
Why is the way troy says “the guy we’re looking for had a key to the bio room Monday night” so perfect?
The Law & Order opening credits are a nice touch.
The line 'I'm gifted in other ways' always makes me laugh as an autistic person who can't read analogue clocks
i love that the tie is both a reference to one of glovers bits but also like something troy would wear sincerely
"the door was locked"
Abed- there's a lot of that going around 😂
0:04 the old guy with the burgundy cardigan who says “that’s offensive?” Isnt that the actor in Abed’s short film series, the Community College Chronicles that plays “Pierce Hawthorne” ?
Troy's coat is so funny 😊
I love how britta did absolutely nothing to contribute in the search. Shes just adorable
She does walk that line
@@DPMusicStudio haha! nice one