As a devout follower of Mean Girls, I had high hopes for this episode, and they were more or less met. Subbing Hillary Duff for Regina George worked really well, throwing in Robocop for Abed's thought process was hilarious, and sending the other guys to the Secret Trampoline Garden was extremely weird but it worked out in the end.
I guess my only problem with the Trampoline storyline was the fact that I was never a big fan of The Secret Garden. It was funny watching Pierce try desperately to be cool, and ultimately looking like a jackass, and making Troy cry while forcing him to help him double-bounce was funny. Troy and Jeff were just strange through the episode, but it all paid off when the gardener turned out to be a racist. At least Jeff and Troy found out paradise exists in Pierce's medication.
The real meat of the episode was watching the girls utilize Abed's social awkwardness to become Greendale's queen bees. They started off talking about feminism, and how great it will be to have "just girls" time. They even lied to Abed, just to be "just girls," but when Meghan, who was named in case of a bitch shortage, rained hate down on them, Abed rose to the occasion.
Poor Abed. He watched Troy and Jeff play basketball, wanting to join them, but he's not "manly" enough for Jeff to play against, so he felt left out. That's when he joined the girls: he found an activity he excels at that the girls appreciate. It helps that the girls knew how to get him to work perfectly: RoboCop. Watching him analyze all of the girls was hilarious, and full of jokes I missed in the rolling text, I'm sure.
And just like a robot who sinks rowboats, his "programming" worked against the girls, for acting too bitchy, and then against everyone, since making jokes meant bitchy, and finally he ended up alone. As hilarious as all of his takedowns were, I still felt bad when Meghan tore into him with his own insults. At least they were pretty hilarious. And Chang's commentary actually worked for me. Chang is a character who belongs out on the edge, so his awkwardness doesn't infect everyone else, so when he did little else than yell "That was brought to you by the letter 'S', for SNAP!", I liked him a lot.
My Favorite Insults:
- "I don't think we've ever met." "Like your hair and dandruff shampoo?"
-"Like her uneven bra padding? It looks like you're smuggling a lime and a coconut."
-"When I squint, you look like a circus clown."
-"Hey Jeff, 2008 called, and it said that even in 2008 those boots weren't cool."
-"What's up with your face? It's like your mom is a lizard who got raped by a muppet."
-"Nice top. It would look better on a girl."
-"What's it called when your back hair grows into your neck hair grows into your real hair? Better look it up! Cause you have it!"
Other Things:
-Was that the Dean piloting the chopper at the end? He reminds me a bit too much of Andy Dick there.
-"It's going to be a maze." Of course it was.
-"I'm gonna slit your butts' throats!"
-Abed really does work surprisingly well as a substitute for Lindsay Lohan's Cady from Mean Girls. Only instead of coming at girl world like a researcher, he comes at it like RoboCop. Which is more awesome, really.
-Troy on the trampoline at the end: "Why are you doing this?!"
-Britta's whooping after Abed insults the mean girls.
-Even when zen-like, Jeff still shuts Chang out.
GRADE: B
The Mean Girls plot was hilarious. If only the Trampoline was a bit less strange. At least Jeff got some dream boots out of it.
MVP: Danny Pudi, for being the best robotic bitch Abed could be.
Runner-Up Chevy Chase, who perfectly plays old man Pierce as a man so desperate for approval he becomes evil.
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