YMMV / Community S2 E06: Epidemiology

• Adorkable:
  • Zombie Annie, curled up with a book while everyone else is shambling around and groaning.
  • Troy trying to pick up girls while wearing a power loader suit.
• Alternative Joke Interpretation: Jeff's curt expression of disbelief at the end. Is it directed at the feds' cover story, or Chang's insistence that he's not responsible?
• Bizarro Episode: This episode has the Study Group being placed in a Zombie Apocalypse where their lives are actually in danger. While some things are continued in later episodes, the Reset Button is hit meaning that nobody remembers the zombies.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Rich's prediction about the progress of the zombie apocalypse - they'll be dead in a year.
  • Why does Troy get the message that Shirley slept with Chang? Because Troy's last name is the first alphabetically in the group. Chang would probably have him first in his contacts.
  • In the "Politics of Human Sexuality", Chang is shown grabbing tons of (defective) condoms. This could explain the less than fortunate outcome of his hookup with Shirley. Of course, Chang was around when they were revealed as defective, but then again, it is Chang.
  • Rich's proposed solution (lowering the thermostat to break the fever and kill the virus) has no medical chance of working in the real world. At the very least, one or more students should have died from blood loss from their bite wounds. Why does it work? Because Rich is The Ace, and has never lost a patient in 10 years, and as the first physician on the scene, all the students are technically his patients.
  • It was the army who cured the students, but they would have died had the thermostat not been lowered, but it didn't cure them, just stopped them from dying.
  • Dean Pelton saved the entire planet by buying out the whole stock of "taco meat" and preventing the possibility of multiple patient zeroes, then quarantining the college to contain the infection to a single building.

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