Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism (2011)

Shirley teaches Jeff foosball so that he can beat a team of cocky, obnoxious Germans, while Annie creates an overly elaborate ruse so that she doesn't have to tell Abed that she broke his special edition The Dark Knight DVD.

Director:

Anthony Russo

Writers:

Dan Harmon (creator), Chris Kula

Stars:

Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
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
Jim Rash	...	Dean Pelton (credit only)
Ken Jeong	...	Señor Chang (credit only)
Chevy Chase	...	Pierce Hawthorne
Nick Kroll	...	Juergen
Richard Erdman	...	Leonard
Craig Cackowski	...	Officer Cackowski
David Ury	...	Rick
Erik Charles Nielsen	...	Garrett Lambert
Alex Schemmer	...	Karl

Storyline

When a group of arrogant students commandeer the foosball table at school, Jeff and Shirley unite to defeat them. Meanwhile, Annie accidentally breaks Abed's new limited edition "Dark Knight" DVD and claims that someone broke into the apartment and stole it. Things snowball out of control when Abed thinks he knows who took the DVD and sets about getting it back.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Release Date:

2011 (USA)

Company Credits

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the Germans says to Jeff, "I wish there was a word to describe the pleasure I feel at viewing misfortune." Ironically, the word "Schadenfreude," which comes from German, means "misfortune-joy," or, "joy at seeing another's misfortune." Psychology considers Schadenfreude, like other malicious emotions, to be a normal part of the human psyche, but, of course, it can become maladaptive or pathological if a person can only derive joy in this fashion.

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Goofs

When Leonard gives his pizza review at the end of the episode, he says that the date is November 29th. However, the text on the web page below the video says that it was uploaded on November 26th.

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Quotes

Troy Barnes: You moving in here was supposed to tone us down!

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Crazy Credits

During the end credits there's a video of Leonard reviewing frozen pizza. He reviews Eugenio's Four Cheese Pizza and rates it definitely a buy.

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Connections

References Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

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Soundtracks

"Daybreak"
(uncredited)
Performed by Donald Glover

User Reviews

Abed is Batman now - Christian Bale

Any community episode that involves Abed dressing up as Batman is an instant classic in my opinion. The two main plot-lines in this episode are that Annie breaks Abed and Troy's exclusive Dark Knight DVD and lies about it causing Abed to go vigilante to discover the truth. Meanwhile Jeff and Shirley get involved in some foosball competition and in the process discover that they share some similar memories.

Highlights from this episode include - as mentioned before Batman Abed, but also Jeff and Shirley morph into Anime characters when they play each other at foosball and some hostility arises.

Also at the very end Leonard gives a review of some pizza, which is funny, Leonard is a good side character.