My only complaint about this episode is a tiny one: it felt like a season finale, and we've still got one week left.
The main plot -- will the study group stay together? will they fail the suddenly-difficult Spanish class?-- seems like something a sitcom would do at the very end of its season, whether those dilemmas were resolved or not.
In this case, they were: the group realizes their friendship is more important than grades, and rushes to Annie's rescue -- showing off an actual command of Spanish in the process. Senor Chang gets to stick around, as a student instead of a teacher. And everyone passes the test. (Mainly because Pierce apparently seduced the hardass -- i.e., actually qualified -- Spanish professor.) Very funny, and very sweet stuff.
Meanwhile, after a few weeks of episodes that were almost half hour movie parodies -- well done ones, to be clear -- this one held back on the references, save for Troy's Good Will Plumbing subplot, and Jeff telling the group to imagine Annie looking like Paul Giammati so they'd get past her puppy dog eyes. (She is just mind bendingly adorable though, isn't she?)
Funniest lines of the night: a tie between Jeff's "key-tar or gee-tar" question, and Troy griping why, if the new professor was a doctor, she didn't "go cure something."
Tom Coombe
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