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Community – Curriculum Unavailable

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  • Title: Community – Curriculum Unavailable
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Two months after the study group is expelled from Greendale Abed (Danny Pudi), convinced there is a conspiracy afoot, sneaks back onto campus in the guise of Inspector Spacetime to prove Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) has been replaced by an impostor. After being caught by a police office with an appreciation for Antiques Roadshow, Abed is forced to attend therapy or face criminal prosecution.

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Gothic Melodrama

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  • Title: Dark Shadows
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dark-shadows-posterLike most of director Tim Burton‘s work Dark Shadows, a humorous hyper-melodramatic update of the 1960’s television show of the same name, gives us an offbeat sense of humor and the macabre, Johnny Depp, and a big-eyed, pale-skinned, waifish young leading lady. Dark Shadows certainly isn’t going to rank among the director’s biggest successes (Sweeney Todd, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands), but for most of it’s running time it finds a way to entertain by showcasing a tale of an 18th Century vampire thrust into the 1970’s.

200 years after being buried alive by the witch (Eva Green) who cursed him and left him to rot, Barnabas Collins (Depp) is freed from his coffin by a group of construction workers making way for a McDonald’s. Confused by the nature of the new world, Barnabas makes his way to his ancestral home where he meets his descendants Elizabeth (Michelle Pfeiffer), Roger (Jonny Lee Miller), Carolyn (Chloë Grace Moretz) and David (Gulliver McGrath).

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Community – Course Listing Unavailable

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  • Title: Community – Course Listing Unavailable
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Although Jeff (Joel McHale), who is far more concerned about having to make up a credit over the summer when a professor leaves Greendale unexpectedly, takes the news in stride the rest of the study group struggles to deal with the unexpected death of Star-Burns (Dino Stamatopoulos) whose final wish was for Abed (Danny Pudi) to create a video tribute of his life (which we see during the closing  credits). Britta (Gillian Jacobs) elects herself the group’s grief counselor, with mixed results.

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Community – Basic Lupine Urology

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Annie (Alison Brie) discovers the group’s the study group’s science project has been destroyed the group sets out to find the person responsible. In an attempt to salvage their grade the group begins an investigation and puts one of their fellow students on trial in true Law & Order style (complete with a parody opening and trademark beats).

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The Big Bang Theory – The Stag Convergence

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Stag Convergence
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As the guys throw Howard (Simon Helberg) a bachelor party Bernadette (Melissa Rauch), Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) gossip and put together gift bags for the wedding. Although the stripper-less party is something of a bust, things pick up when a drunk Raj (Kunal Nayyar) begins telling embarassing stories about the groom to the whole room which special guest Wil Wheaton decides to upload to YouTube.

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