Halloween night on NBC! The comedies tonight add some scares to the mix. Not really, but there are costumes.
Community - "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps"
Britta has the results from everyone's psych evaluations and it says one person is possible homicidal. This leads her to get everyone to tell a scary story. Unfortunately, due to NBC rearranging the order of episodes, this comes immediately after we already had an episode of seven different stories. While the last episode showed us how things would go if someone was absent from the group, this episode dealt with how each person perceives their standing in the group. Shirley sees herself as the righteous one who loves her friends, but knows they can't be saved, Annie is still conflicted by her feelings for Jeff, Troy is still a fun-loving kid, and Pierce concocts a preposterously over the top version of himself because he knows the group sees him as the opposite. Britta's story was mainly just set-up (but hilariously bad), Abed's showed how a realistic scary story doesn't really work, and Jeff's was just to bring the group together as he usually does at the end of episodes. Annie's story was the real standout because it was the best constructed. Showing her true feelings through who she sees each character as, but still could be seen as a regular scary story if no names were given. It was nice touch (and entirely predictable) that Abed turns out to be the only same one. Also, Troy and Abed sewn togeeether!
Parks and Recreation - "Meet N Greet"
Leslie has a meet n greet with local business owners hosted by Entertainment720 while April and Andy have a Halloween party. Every few episodes should have a party at April and Andy's house because those episodes seem to turn out pretty great. It was good to get back to the colliding nature that is Ben living with April and Andy. Andy dragging Ben around in a headlock was great (especially the talking head reveal), and his enthusiasm at his broken nose was classic Andy. Ron was also handyman extraordinaire with some help from Ann. I like the pairing these two together and I can see Ron warming up to Ann the same way he has to Leslie, April, and Andy in the past. The Chris storyline was not as great. Chris can be kind of oblivious sometimes, but his actions this episode almost border on cruel. When Jerry says it's okay for Chris to bring his daughter to the party, that does not include making out with her on the couch right next to him. It did lead to the best gag of the night with April changing Jerry's Mr Potato Head costume's smile into a frown. In the Leslie-Tom story, I liked how she kept getting more and more peeved at him throughout the night. Her instantly mellowing when she found out Tom's company is going under was right in character and became funny because she was slumping into a hot tub at the moment. Tom's awesome video tribute to her was a nice little cap on the episode.
The Office - "Spooked"
The office throws a Halloween party and it's mostly just a blah episode. It falls right back into the Andy trying to impress Robert storyline. There were a few nice things on the periphery. Jim and Pam's little squabble over ghosts, Andy shooting down Phyllis' risque costume, Robert's final roundup story with everyone's fears, but overall I could take it or leave it. I'm not quite sure where they're going with the Andy-Erin relationship. People liked them together, it was sweet and goofy, but then they broke up for a not very good reason. After that, it just been kind of "huh?" Erin dates Gabe and Andy's jealous. Okay, fine, that was done alright, probably going for a Jim-Karen thing. After she broke up with Gabe, though, it seemed everything was over with them since Andy didn't try to get back in the picture. Now after it seemed to be dropped they bring it back with Andy has been dating some woman for a long while all offscreen. Seems a little forced. I hope the writers don't muck this up.
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