Introduction to Film (1 Oct. 2009)

Brita comes between Abed and his father when she signs him up for a film class, and Jeff risks failing a class unless he "seizes the day."

Director:

Anthony Russo

Writers:

Dan Harmon (creator), Tim Hobert,

Stars:

Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
Joel McHale	...	Jeff Winger
Gillian Jacobs	...	Britta Perry
Danny Pudi	...	Abed Nadir
Yvette Nicole Brown	...	Shirley Bennett
Alison Brie	...	Annie Edison
Donald Glover	...	Troy Barnes
Ken Jeong	...	Señor Chang (credit only)
Chevy Chase	...	Pierce Hawthorne
John Michael Higgins	...	Professor Whitman
Iqbal Theba	...	Gobi Nadir
Matt Jones	...	Coffee Delivery Guy
Jonathan Rado	...	Lance

Storyline

Jeff signs up for a class, taught by a "Carpe Diem" inspired Professor Whitman, thinking he can coast through and get an easy A. Jeff quickly discovers he'll need to put in much more effort than expected just to pass. Meanwhile, Britta helps Abed with his dream of studying film.

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Plot Keywords:

psychological experiment | kissing in public | bare chested male | poem | hacky sack

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 October 2009 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Krasnoff Foster Productions, Harmonius Claptrap, Russo Brothers

Technical Specs

Runtime:

21 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Professor Whitman gives Britta a flower, he has his hand on his chest, But the same scene at another angle Professor Whitmans arm is parallel with his body.

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Quotes

Abed: Jeff, I think you should play the role of my father.
Jeff Winger: I don't wanna be your father.
Abed: That's perfect. You already know your lines.

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Connections

References Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

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Soundtracks

"Please Do Not Go"
(uncredited)
Performed by the Violent Femmes

User Reviews

Incredible Arabic

I know this is arcane, but why the writers have a Pakistani father and his Indian son speaking to each other in stilted, heavily South-Asian-accented Classical Arabic is beyond weird. This particular form of the language is rarely spoken in circumstances like a father and son conversing (as the awkwardness of their dialog shows) and never between people for whom Arabic is not a mother-tongue; that the writers would do it on the plotting assumption that Muslims must be Arabs is –well, I wouldn't have thought it so hard to make this plot aspect true for producers working in as cosmopolitan a town as LA, even by doing something as simple as asking the person who wrote the single sub-title about it. I was distracted when the sub-title appeared, but it begs the question, "who, watching the show, was meant to understand it?"

On the positive side, I thought Abed's film was good, if improbably precocious.