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Beginner Pottery

"Beginner Pottery"
Community episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 19
Directed by Anthony Russo
Written by Hilary Winston
Production code 114
Original air date March 18, 2010 (2010-03-18)
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"Beginner Pottery" is the 19th episode of the first season of the American comedy television series Community. It aired in the United States on NBC on March 18, 2010.

Jeff (Joel McHale) discusses his selection for "ultimate blow-off class" to the study group, naming Beginner Pottery. Annie (Alison Brie) seems skeptical, based on Jeff's pick from last semester which taught her to live in the moment (a reference to a previous episode "Introduction to Film"). Pierce (Chevy Chase) enters the study group room wearing a sailing outfit. He manages to gets Troy (Donald Glover), Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) to sign up for a one-week sailing class with him that takes place on an actual sailboat in the Greendale parking lot.

Jeff, Abed (Danny Pudi) and Annie are in pottery class. The professor (Tony Hale) lets the class know that the only thing he won't tolerate in his class is "ghosting"—any reenactment, sincere or ironic, of the pottery scene with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in the movie Ghost. One of the students, Rich (Greg Cromer), makes an amazing vase that impresses both the students and the professor. Jeff becomes instantly jealous of Rich, which is attributed to excessive praise given to him shown in flashback. At the end of the day, when no other students are around, Jeff returns to pottery class to try to make a creation that rivals that of Rich, as he remember his mother praising him in his childhood and telling him that he is a special and gifted person. But his efforts are ultimately in vain.

The others in the study group are on the boat located in the Greendale parking lot and are greeted by Admiral Slaughter (Lee Majors). After discussing the rules, Admiral Slaughter appoints Shirley as the boat's Captain, much to Pierce's dismay.


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