Modern Warfare (Community)
| "Modern Warfare" | |
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Jeff awakens to find the campus deserted. The scene is an elaborately filmed parody of the opening to 28 Days Later (2002).
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 23 |
| Directed by | Justin Lin |
| Written by | Emily Cutler |
| Production code | 119 |
| Original air date | May 6, 2010 |
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"Modern Warfare" is the 23rd episode of the first season of Community and originally premiered on May 6, 2010 on NBC. In the episode, after the Dean announces the prize for a friendly game of paintball, Greendale sinks into a state of all-out paintball war, with every student battling for supremacy. During the chaos, Jeff's study group teams up in order to last longer in the game. Meanwhile, Jeff and Britta confront their unresolved sexual tension.
The episode was written by Emily Cutler and directed by Justin Lin. The episode's plot is a pastiche of multiple action movies, such as Battle Royale, Pitch Black, The Matrix, Die Hard, Terminator, 28 Days Later, The Warriors, Rambo, Predator, and the films of John Carpenter and John Woo. The episode received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and came third in its timeslot. Three sequels to this episode, "A Fistful of Paintballs", "For a Few Paintballs More", and "Modern Espionage" followed this episode.
When Jeff and Britta enter the library arguing with each other again, the rest of the group complains and Abed remarks that the constant sexual tension between the two is dividing the study group. Angry over the claim that he and Britta have any sexual tension between them, Jeff leaves to take a nap in his car. An hour later, he wakes up to Greendale resembling an apocalyptic wasteland covered in paint. When he enters the school, he is told by Garret, a casualty of the paintball war, that the prize of the Spring Fair Paintball Assassin game announced by the Dean raised the stakes of the event. Before Jeff can discover what the prize is, Leonard shows up with a paintball gun, shoots Garret multiple times, and then goes after Jeff. Jeff flees until he meets Abed in the hallway (decked in a Rambo-esque uniform), who shoots Leonard, saving Jeff.
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