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"Remedial Chaos Theory" is the third (aired as fourth) episode of the third season of the U.S. television series ''Community''. It originally aired on October 13, 2011 on NBC. The episode features a housewarming party for Troy and Abed panning out in seven alternate timelines. Each timeline explored the effect of the absence/presence of a character on other characters in similar situations. The episode was written by Chris McKenna and directed by Jeff Melman. It received highly positive reviews, with many critics lauding its unconventional structure and noting a significant improvement from the first three episodes of the season. McKenna was nominated for a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for this episode. ==Plot== Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) invite the study group to their housewarming party. In particular, they bring attention to their Indiana Jones boulder escape scene diorama. When everyone arrives, they begin playing Yahtzee. The pizza delivery man (Robert Tarpinian) arrives, and someone has to go downstairs to collect the pizza. Everyone agrees to Jeff's (Joel McHale) plan to roll a die to determine who has to get the pizza. The episode then splits into different timelines—as noted by Abed throughout, much to the group's confusion—with each alternate timeline playing out the every possible outcome of the die roll. Every timeline features running gags which end differently depending on which characters are present or absent: *Britta (Gillian Jacobs) plays "Roxanne" by The Police on the iPod stereo system; she begins to sing it but Jeff cuts her off. *Pierce (Chevy Chase) attempts to introduce his story about having sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom into the conversation. *Britta excuses herself after being slammed down by Jeff in order to visit the bathroom to smoke marijuana covertly. *Annie (Alison Brie) has a gun in her bag. *Pierce gives Troy a housewarming gift, a Norwegian troll (wrapped in a box) which frightened Troy while he lived in Pierce's mansion earlier in the series. *Jeff gets up from the table to get a drink, hitting his head on the ceiling fan in the process. Annie tends to him, while Pierce laughs at him. *Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) is baking pies in order to curry favor with the group, though the others disapprove of her manipulative tactic of using baking to gain love. *The boulder in the ''Indiana Jones'' diorama begins to roll down whenever someone closes the door, but Abed stops it before it reaches the bottom. *The pizza man is called ugly or creepy. *Abed wonders aloud what happens in all the other timelines, but Jeff dismissively says there are no other timelines. In the first timeline, Jeff rolls a two and Annie (who is sitting second on his left around the table) goes to get the pizza. Troy opens Annie's purse to find a gun, and is too distracted to open Pierce's present. Abed confronts Britta about the smell of marijuana in the bathroom, which offends her. In the second timeline, Jeff rolls a four and Shirley has to go. She reminds the group to take her pies out of the oven before leaving. Troy opens Pierce's present and freaks out. When Shirley returns, she finds that her pies were left in the oven to burn. She berates the group and leaves. In the third timeline, the die lands on three and Pierce has to go. Jeff belittles Troy, which causes him to leave the table and join Britta in the bathroom. She consoles Troy by mocking Jeff's guarded personality. Annie demonstrates her first-aid skills when tending to Jeff. When Pierce returns with the pizza, everyone is happy. In the fourth timeline, Jeff rolls a six and Britta has to go. Annie tends to Jeff in the bathroom since Britta isn't using it. Jeff expresses his concern for Annie; just as they are about to kiss, they are interrupted by Troy screaming. Pierce is terrorizing him with the troll, and reveals that he is upset that Troy has moved out from his mansion. Britta returns with the pizza man, doped, and announces they are now engaged. In the fifth timeline, Jeff rolls a one and Troy has to go. He leaves in a hurry, so as not to miss anything interesting, and slams the door, which causes the diorama boulder to slip and roll onto the floor. Britta and Abed leave for the bathroom, not noticing the boulder. When Annie stands up, she trips over it and falls on the coffee table, in turn displacing Pierce's bottle of rum, which shatters on the floor. Pierce abruptly rises from the table in reaction to the fall, knocking Annie's purse to the floor. The gun inside discharges and hits Pierce in the thigh. Abed rushes to help Annie with Pierce, while Britta comes out of the bathroom and goes slack-jawed upon seeing Pierce on the floor; her lit joint drops from her mouth and ignites the spilled rum. Jeff attempts to smother the fire with his shirt, only for it to catch fire itself and get wrapped around Jeff's right arm. Britta attempts to put out the fire by dropping glasses of water onto it. Troy returns to a scene of chaos with the troll doll, having been knocked from the table during the kerfuffle, staring directly at him from amidst the flames. In the sixth timeline, Jeff rolls a five, meaning Abed has to go. Britta inadvertently reveals to Shirley that she smoked marijuana, much to Shirley's dismay, and the two confront each other about their respective "habits". Troy has a few kind words for Pierce, which causes Pierce to attempt to rescind the gift. In the ensuing struggle, the troll is flung out of the box. Jeff and Annie kiss at the kitchen counter, but the mood is killed when Annie admits that Jeff's actions remind her of her father; he belittles Annie for the remark and for using too much lip gloss. Abed returns to an awkward situation but acts obliviously ("I hope this is the real () because I just found a nickel in the hallway"). In the final, prime〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/11469117959/fine-were-geniuses-but-not-evil-geniuses )〕 timeline, Abed stops the die from rolling, and urges the group to stay united regardless of whatever happens to them. The group then realize that Jeff manipulated the die roll such that he would never be selected. In the end, Jeff has to get the pizza. After he leaves (hitting his head as he stands) and Britta puts on "Roxanne", the five other group members sing and dance to the song. Pierce decides not to give Troy his gift and discards the doll. Abed invites Annie to move in with him and Troy. The end tag shows the universe in which Troy got the pizza. With the (remaining) group members sitting around the study table, it is revealed that Pierce is dead, Annie is in a mental ward due to guilt-induced insanity, Shirley is an alcoholic, Troy injured his larynx trying to destroy the flaming troll (he tried to eat it) and can only speak with the assistance of an artificial voice box, Jeff is missing an arm, and Britta has a blue streak in her hair. Abed declares that, as this is "the darkest timeline", they must become "the evil study group" and find a way to enter the "prime timeline" and take control over it. He proceeds to hand out black felt goatees, mimicking the ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' episode "Mirror, Mirror". Depressed, Britta, Jeff and Shirley depart, but Troy stays behind; he and Abed don the goatees, singing "Evil Troy and Evil Abed," a variation on the series’ running gag of "Troy and Abed in the Morning." Suddenly, the scene changes via the reverse of the dice roll animation used throughout the episode (the camera zooms out from that timeline to the prime timeline at the center this time) to the "prime" Abed and Troy watching TV, where Abed mentions that something felt strange for a moment, but dismisses it without a thought. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Remedial Chaos Theory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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