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Shirley and Pierce recruit Britta to sabotage the new Subway restaurant in the cafeteria. Jeff finds a hate-letter in the school locker he never realized he had. Troy and Abed begin ... See full summary »

Director:

Dan Eckman

Writers:

Dan Harmon (created by), Chris McKenna

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
Ken Jeong	...	Ben Chang (credit only)
Chevy Chase	...	Pierce Hawthorne
John Goodman	...	Vice Dean Laybourne
Travis Schuldt	...	Subway
Richard Erdman	...	Leonard
James M. Connor	...	Subway Rep (as James Michael Connor)
Dan Bakkedahl	...	AC Repairman
Dino Stamatopoulos	...	Star-Burns

Storyline

Shirley and Pierce recruit Britta to sabotage the new Subway restaurant in the cafeteria. Jeff finds a hate-letter in the school locker he never realized he had. Troy and Abed begin constructing a pillow fort, but thanks to some outside manipulation Troy splits off to build his own blanket fort.

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Plot Keywords:

blanket fort | cafeteria | pillow fort | hate letter | locker | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 March 2012 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment, Harmonius Claptrap, AGBO

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

John Goodman's character (who is the Vice Dean of Air Conditioning Repair School) puts on a hat that says "Kelvin & the Zeros" while he mentions heading to band practice. This is likely a nod to the fact that Kelvin is a scale of temperature measurement, and 0 degrees Kelvin is absolute zero: the point at which heat ceases to exist. (0 K is about -273 C or -460 F)

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Goofs

In the library scene where Brita meets Subway, he has circled a paragraph from George Orwell's 1984. He then goes on to quote a different passage from 1984, which is clearly meant to be the one he has circled.

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Quotes

Troy Barnes: Vice Dean Laybourne. You have a beard. And a ponytail.
Vice Dean Laybourne: I'm going through some stuff right now, Troy. Don't worry about it.

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Connections

Spoofs The Conversation (1974)

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Soundtracks

At Least It Was Here (Community Main Title)
(uncredited)
Performed by The 88

User Reviews

community utilizes subway to stay afloat

Commmunity is (or maybe was) on the verge of getting canceled so what do they do, plant a big subway restaurant in their school so we see and hear about subway for the whole episode.

I guess I can't be that hostile towards this, I like the show, I want it to stay on TV but not if they have to work in commercials into the layout.

The best part of this episode is a side-plot where Jeff finds out from Annie that they were all assigned lockers to use for school, Jeff finds a bunch of old ads in his locker along with a note from someone angry at him. So they go and check that out.

Troy and Abed get into it over whether or not to make a blanket fort or a pillow fort, and Pierce and Shirley use Britta to try to take down a Subway representative.