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"Advanced Introduction to Finality" is the thirteenth episode and the season finale of the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Community. It originally aired on May 9, 2013.
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In this episode, Jeff is set to graduate and expects things to go quietly. But when the darkest timeline breaks through, the evil counterparts try and make things messy.
Synopsis
The study group reveals they made a fest in Jeff's honor because he has been graduated. When he suggests to play roll and die, he accidentally re creates the darkest timeline and Evil Jeff appears in the Dean's office. He escapes and tries to ruin the fiesta , making bad things in order to sabotage Jeff's relations with his friends . Jeff mistakes Evil Annie for the real and gets surprised to find nobody at the ceremony until the Dean (disguised in damsel drag) shows up in order to tell him he is a bad guy. Meanwhile, Abed has been sent in an alternate reality where he meets his doppelganger who gives him some guns in order to shoot the doubles. When Jeff arrives at Troy and Abed apartment, he explains what happened but nobody believe him until Abed shows up and convince the others that Jeff is actually right. Meanwhile, the Evil Study Group (minus Evil Abed) arrive in the real timeline and meet Evil Pierce who actually faked his death, though he has now a metal leg and crutches. They discuss until Evil Britta gets sent in the evil world. The real stugy group then shows up and process to eliminate one by one their demoniac doppelgangers. With only Evil Jeff left, Abed explains to Jeff that he was stressed about graduation because he thought that Greendale did'nt change him. However, thanks to Abed, Jeff realizes that he now has friends and that made his life better. He manages to destroy Evil Jeff and send him back in his own reality. The scene is then back at the moment where Jeff decided to throw the die but he forgets it and the ceremony takes place in the study room. At the end, Pierce is finally graduated too and a meal follows the reception.
The end tag shows Evil Troy and Evil Abed who introduces us to a parallel universe (Where Pierce was chosen to get the pizza) and shows us Britta and Troy having a non human baby. The Evil Jeff appears saying the show Evil Troy and Evil Abed does not exist anymore.
Continuity
- Jeff talks to his former work colleague about not trying cases other than "yams and sandwiches." This is a reference to both "Basic Lupine Urology" (episode 17 of season 3) where Jeff is in a mock trial over who destroyed the group's yam experiment, and "Introduction to Finality" where Jeff spoke for Shirley against Pierce in an another mock trial ran by the dean over who own's Shirley's sandwich shop.
- The study group's evil doppelgangers cross over and return from the Darkest Timeline. The timeline plot point was introduced in "Remedial Chaos Theory", episode 4 of the third season after the roll of a die to decide who would collect the delivered pizza. Both this episode and "Remedial Chaos Theory" was written by Megan Ganz.
- A continuity error is present in this episode. Greendale is listed in the closing scene right after Jeff's graduation as being "Est. 1974" yet episode 11 of season 4 "Basic Human Anatomy" had a student named Leonard who had been at Greendale since 1968.
Production
The season finale aired as the thirteenth episode, but was the eleventh episode produced.[1]
This is the second "Introduction to Finality" episode of the series, following season three's finale, "Introduction to Finality".
During Jeff's graduation ceremony, "SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE" is seen written on the chalkboard as the first words of several sentences. The show's production code of #411 is seen in the upper right corner.
Reception
The episode was met with mixed reviews.
Gabrielle Moss of TV Fanatic was positive, saying, "this episode was an excellent tribute to the slow-burn character development of Jeff Winger."[2]
Alan Sepinwall of HitFix was less favourable, stating, "The actual non-dream graduation ceremony was sweet, but nearly everything leading up to it was a mess."[3]
Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club rated the episode a D, saying it was, "no longer a show that's capable of much beyond repeating elements it thinks the audience will like over and over again."[4]
References
- ^ Ganz, Megan (November 12, 2012). "Day one of shooting the finale". Twitter. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
- ^ Moss, Gabrielle (May 9, 2013). "Community Review: Not Without My Study Group". TV Fanatic. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
- ^ Sepinwall, Alan (May 9, 2013). "Season finale review: 'Community' - 'Advanced Introduction to Finality': The folly of evil". HitFix. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
- ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (May 9, 2013). ""Advanced Introduction to Finality" S4 / E13". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 9, 2013.