ElectricBoogaloo May 13, 2015 Share May 13, 2015 When a secret game of paintball occurs on campus, Frankie threatens to expel those who participate. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/
VCRTracking May 19, 2015 Share May 19, 2015 “Occasionally our campus erupts into a flawless postmodern homage to action-adventure mythology mischaracterized by the ignorant as parody.” Off to a great start with Vicki's one woman show. Loved the code names being Batman actor's including "Voice of Deidrich Bader" for the Dean(he played Batman in the Brave and the Bold cartoon). The elevator scene with the Dean taking out all those guys was great. Annie and Abed looked hot as a Mr. and Mrs. Smith combo. Wished Frankie got into the action instead of being the buzzkill. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1164148
Amarsir May 19, 2015 Share May 19, 2015 This was hilarious. Although I wouldn't have said that a return to paintball was a good idea, the approach and handling was very well done. This felt like a return to old form, yet evolved to a new perspective. Best episode of the season. Loved the code names being Batman actor's including "Voice of Deidrich Bader" for the Dean(he played Batman in the Brave and the Bold cartoon). Oh is that what they were doing? Very cool, I didn't get that. By the way, unless I'm mistaken we didn't actually see who the "Silver Ballz" shooter was. Lapari was shooting green. That leaves it open for a followup. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1164429
Shimmergloom May 20, 2015 Share May 20, 2015 I took the elevator scene as a parody of the elevator scene from Captain America. I thought it was great. I loved the Mr. and Mrs. Smith stuff from Annie and Abed too. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1164528
VCRTracking May 20, 2015 Share May 20, 2015 Oh my god I didn't get the Captain America thing until you posted! Also great that Winter Soldier was directed by the Russo Brothers, who directed the two part paintball episodes in season 2! 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1165217
liqidclark May 20, 2015 Share May 20, 2015 "Did you do stand-up comedy? Is that how you got into custodial arts?" That had me good. Everything about the Dean was great in this episode. Of course he freaks out and flails about in a way that he inadvertently is a ninja assassin. IMO, this was the best episode of the season, funny-wise. 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1165614
arc May 20, 2015 Share May 20, 2015 At the Communicon panel this past fall, Dan Harmon answered a question about opening title sequences, saying in part that when they have the time to keep a single full-length sequence every time, then there's consistency -- and then it's really special when they change things up, as in a David Fincher episode... or in this case, a spy movie episode. Anyways, I was super on board as soon as the title sequence started. Or even before that, when Todd displayed some ninja skills (that flip!) and Starburns (Starburns is back!) faked him out with the ol' hat trick. And then all the repeat guest stars! Vicki! Garrett! The Koog!* * Seriously, Mitch Hurwitz is a genius, but he is a legitimately super-funny guy in front of the camera too and in an alternate universe I bet he could have done very well for himself as a comic actor. The action sequences were great as action sequences, and the final museum sequence was hilarious as well. Fantastic tag again. Like last episodes, it danced back and forth between funny and sad. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1165829
ElectricBoogaloo May 20, 2015 Author Share May 20, 2015 I loved Annie and Abed's Mr. and Mrs. Smith fighting, as well as the Dean doing his Kermit the Frog as a ninja in the elevator. I, too, was afraid that nothing good would come of more paintball, but this episode ended up being funnier than I thought it would be. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1165842
Kalliste May 20, 2015 Share May 20, 2015 I think my favourite part was the Dean taking everyone out in the lift with Annie and Abed during the ball as second. I thought it was a better episode, at the beginning I said "this better be as good as the other paintball episodes!" and I think it was, except there wasn't any reveal as to who Silver Balls was. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1165961
Tetraneutron May 20, 2015 Share May 20, 2015 Wait, who was which Batman? All I got was Britta - Clooney (OF COURSE she'd be the worst one) Dean - Voice of Deitrich Bader Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1166600
DrScottie May 20, 2015 Share May 20, 2015 (edited) I watched it multiple times and jotted in down: Belfry = Send to All Keaton = Jeff Bale = Abed West = Annie Kilmer = Elroy Clooney = Britta and Dean as the voice of Diedrich Bader Edited May 20, 2015 by DrScottie 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1167337
Samsnee May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 I thought for a second Frankie would be Silver Balls. So who was it if it wasn't her? 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1169209
Amarsir May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 I thought for a second Frankie would be Silver Balls. So who was it if it wasn't her? Reddit seems to have determined the answer: It was Lapari. The voice at the beginning sounds like his. The gun and skin tone at the beginning match his. A silver paintball hits Abed during the gala, but then Lapari is out of ammo which is why he switched to another color later. It matches the clues about custodians being behind it. Oh, plus the actor (Kumail Nanjiani) weighed in to say it was him. Of course that's not canon, so if Harmon wanted to revisit (which I don't expect) it could be almost anyone. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1169753
DrScottie May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 To add weight to the spoiler: Lapari, using the handle Silver Ballz, sent Koogler a picture of him in his uniform (the blue jumpsuit) and Elroy decrypted (or unencrypted as Britta said) the messages and downloaded his photo over the really slow internet speed. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1170055
Kalliste May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 I watched it multiple times and jotted in down: Belfry = Send to All Keaton = Jeff Bale = Abed West = Annie Kilmer = Elroy Clooney = Britta and Dean as the voice of Diedrich Bader Of course Jeff is Keaton, if it were me I'd have switched Jeff and Abed.. I feel like Abed is more the off beat Keaton Batman rather than Bale's crybaby Batman. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1170148
tennisgurl May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 Best.episode.yet. LOVED IT! The Dean as Captain American thing was amazing. I watched that scene like three times. And the opening scene was amazing. Plus, we went meta again, but in a good way, not a lame way. I would watch Garret and Vicki and their show. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1171016
arc May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 Of course Jeff is Keaton, if it were me I'd have switched Jeff and Abed.. I feel like Abed is more the off beat Keaton Batman rather than Bale's crybaby Batman. Sure, but to be fair, back in season one and three (?), Abed's Batman was based on Bale's, wasn't it? 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1171046
amensisterfriend May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 This is the first S6 episode I've seen, and I was happily surprised by how much I liked it---especially because I'm in that tiny minority of Community fans who doesn't love the paintball episodes in general :) Annie and Abed are always such a great pairing for me. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1171051
DrLar May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 I throw my I love Annie card again and comes as a winner... that dress, just like Mrs. Smith. I played paintball and those suckers do hurt, imagine with street clothes? Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1171657
Beatriceblake May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 This is the first S6 episode I've really enjoyed. It seemed to have a bit more energy to it. It was great to have Mitchell Hurwitz back as Koogler and I liked Kumail Nanjiani in this as well. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1172510
CletusMusashi May 21, 2015 Share May 21, 2015 If Pierce were still around, he would be West. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1172598
CletusMusashi May 23, 2015 Share May 23, 2015 (edited) This is the first episode this season where I've really urged fans to watch again. First of all, it's funny. Not "Funniest Episode Ever." But funny enough to hold up against other seasons. Absolutely. Second, it's full of nods to the older seasons. Even Starburns is back. Third, it's well paced. It is not, for example, a hilarious ten minute sketch about olives and future Yakuza diluted with twenty minutes of lazy phoned-in dog jokes. Fourth, you don't even need to watch the earlier S6 eps to follow this one. They work for the Dean. That's obvious from context. Frankie has more of an executive role than the rest of the table. Again, obvious in context. Elroy is a better computer guy than Abed. Again, inherently clear. This season's recent episodes have tended to be better than its earlier ones. Who knows? Maybe when it ends and I do a big rewatch, the foreshadowing will be so brilliant that I'll love all of them. But that's what it will take. I don't think anybody has rated this season highly the first time around. So fans might as well just restart with an episode they can enjoy! Edited May 23, 2015 by CletusMusashi 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1177340
formerlyfreedom May 26, 2015 Share May 26, 2015 Oh, how I love this show... 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-1186227
Kel Varnsen February 11, 2017 Share February 11, 2017 On 5/21/2015 at 0:17 PM, arc said: Sure, but to be fair, back in season one and three (?), Abed's Batman was based on Bale's, wasn't it? Jeff is 40 so the Batman from 1989 (ie Keaton) would totally be "his" Batman. Really enjoyed this one. Loved that Chang still had the golden gun since Chang as Chow Yun Fat is my favourite part of Modern Warfare. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-2979427
CletusMusashi February 19, 2017 Share February 19, 2017 One theme I love is that every character, no matter how secondary, who has been around since Season 1 is now an absolute paintball ninja because of all the crap that they've gone through. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-3004076
HotRats2112 February 20, 2017 Share February 20, 2017 (edited) On 2/10/2017 at 11:12 PM, Kel Varnsen said: Chang as Chow Yun Fat In all the time since Modern Warfare you are the only person to mention that. Even on the commentary they don't mention it. Justin Lin isn't on the commentary so Dan Harmon (who said he's not a John Woo fan) might have missed it. But the doves, the suit, the sunglasses and THE MATCHSTICK! Right out of Hard Boiled (aka the best action film Hong Kong ever produced). Or pretty much any action film he made but Hard Boiled is my favorite so I'm going with that. Edited February 20, 2017 by HotRats2112 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-3006157
Kel Varnsen February 22, 2017 Share February 22, 2017 On 20/02/2017 at 8:07 AM, HotRats2112 said: In all the time since Modern Warfare you are the only person to mention that. Even on the commentary they don't mention it. Justin Lin isn't on the commentary so Dan Harmon (who said he's not a John Woo fan) might have missed it. But the doves, the suit, the sunglasses and THE MATCHSTICK! Right out of Hard Boiled (aka the best action film Hong Kong ever produced). Or pretty much any action film he made but Hard Boiled is my favorite so I'm going with that. Interesting. I figured it was sort of common knowledge. I am sure i mentioned on the TWoP Community thread back when the episode first aired. I tried to check but the archive seems to stop around February 2010. The only reason i recognized it in the first place was back around 1998 me and my university friends would regularly rent movies on friday night, if we were to hungover or broke from going out on Thursday night. On frend was really into Hong Kong action movies, so we watched both Hard Boiled and The Killer, so i knew it was one of those movies. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-3011540
HotRats2112 February 22, 2017 Share February 22, 2017 12 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said: I figured it was sort of common knowledge. As did I, but on that other board that just shut down not one person ever mentioned it. And then in the commentaries (I am a commentaries junkie) they do call it a John Woo reference but because "everyone is shooting everywhere" not because Chang looks exactly like Chang Yun Fat. The first time I saw it when Chang walked in I spit my non-carbonated flavor-free diet seltzer all over my mother's basement wall. It was amazing. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/26411-s06e11-modern-espionage/#findComment-3013024
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