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COMMUNITY continues its six season with "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care." The second episode deals with Britta's rocky relationship with her parents and the Dean's obsession with virtual reality.

Britta moves in with Abed and Annie, since she was homeless living in a tent on campus. When she gets there, she notices they got a new couch for her, but the tag said Perry on it. Abed and Annie try to lie their way out of it, but after calling the couch store, Britta finds out it was her parents who bought the couch. Britta confronts Abed and Annie, who admit that her parents reached out to them on Facebook, saying her parents are very nice people that are even supplementing her rent. Britta is furious; she storms out and ends up at her parents' house to confront them. She gives them a check, post-dated a year, to pay back for all of their "dirty money." Her parents tell Britta that they have no other choice, because every time they try to get close, she pushes them away. Britta doesn't know who they are now since they are being nice, because growing up they did a lot of bad things, like had her drug-tested at 11 for laughing too much. Annie and Abed had been hiding the whole time at her parents, and Britta storms out yet again, steals a little boy's Green Machine and rides away.

Britta scares Frankie by hiding in her car. Britta tells her about the issue with her parents. Frankie tells her that she had the same issue with hers growing up, and asks her what she can do to help. Britta and Frankie go back to her parents' place, where Annie and Abed still are. Britta tells her parents that running away from home at 17 may have made part of her stuck at 17. She makes amends with her parents and they hug.

Meanwhile, the Dean spends $5,000 of the school's money on a virtual reality machine, so that he can enter the "3rd Dean-mension." (Yay for Dean puns!) Frankie, who was hired to avoid these kinds of stupid decisions, is unsurprisingly angry. She tells the Dean that they need to return the machine, but Dean becomes so immersed in it and the "power to control worlds" that he refuses to get out of it. In reality, the machine just sorts files and such, like a regular computer would. Frankie finds an address to the creator, and Jeff goes to visit him. However, the creator of the virtual reality machine, Elroy Patashnik, is a bitter old man who lives in a mobile home. Elroy is angry that people don't respect what he made and he makes Jeff leave.

Jeff comes back to Greendale to try and stop Dean, and Elroy shows up and gives them their refend. Unfortunately, Dean won't get out of the machine, so Elroy goes into the game, and helps Jeff get the Dean out. They pull him out and put him in front of his computer so he can "manipulate worlds." The Dean thanks Elroy for the refund, and gives him $500 for the taste of being powerful. Elroy admits he has no idea what to do with his life, and the Dean points out they offer a wide variety of classes: The Greendale Effect. Jeff realizes he will never get out of there.

Via a really no-so-eloquent voice-over monologue from the Dean about change, we see that Elroy is introduced to the group, and Chang, who spent the entire episode delirious trying to find someone to help him after he was bit by Britta's cat, gets the medical attention he needs.

The second episode of this season continues to impress me, with its interesting storylines and constant wittiness. I lost it at the "Hard Drive and Wing Man" bit that makes fun of cheesy sitcoms, and Chang's attempt to get his cat bite taken care of was the perfect amount of ridiculous. I think the addition of Elroy will be a good fit to the cast, since he, like Frankie, is a little more down to earth, but at the same time has the ability to do crazy things, like trick the Dean, for the "good" of the school.

However, I think Britta definitely stole this episode. She had to deal with issues she's harbored since 17, and after a lot of yelling, weird noises, and storming out of rooms, she came to terms with her issues with her parents and finally made amends. I wonder if now that she has grown up in a sense, Britta will be more mature and less of "the worst," as Abed says. It will be interesting to see where her character goes.

As always, the Dean succeeded at taking things to the extreme. He becomes totally obsessed with his virtual reality machine and considers himself a god because he can "create new worlds" aka make new files. All he wants is to be a good Dean, and he often gets way too carried away with things that aren't important in his attempt to do a good job. But if he didn't do that, he wouldn't be the Dean we know and love. Also, side note, I still lose it every time we are in his office and we see all of his Dalmatian paraphernalia. Such a weird fetish.

Favorite Lines from "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care."

-Dean: "And Jesus wept for there were no more worlds to conquer!"

-Abed: "I wanted a Murphy Bed for shenanigans, but the cost to shenanigan ratio was too high."

-Dean: "The power. The facility. Jesus wept!"

-Britta: "You ate the potatoes?! You don't even eat carbs!"

-Elroy: "You're a clever young man." Jeff: "I'm forty."

- Britta's dad: "If you were on Tinder, you're mom and I think you'd be the prettiest."

-Dean: "Oh my god, I put a tilde on this "N!"

-Frankie: "Yeah, Jimmy Fallon Syndrome, I get it." (This line absolutely KILLED me.)

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