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(S01E07) My wife bought me one of those giant weekly pill containers as a joke once. She even took my allergy medication and dispersed them across the different daily containers. Looking at it, though, made me think about that day in the future when I just might need to be taking a bin full of medication on a daily basis.

Granted this revelation that Pierce carries one of these around with him shouldn't come as a real surprise. His age is a huge part of his character. That, and the pills were a major part of getting us where we needed to go in this episode for Pierce's arc. And Jeff's for that matter, but then again Jeff is at the center of everything, isn't he?

Speaking of which, is he really all that charming and good-looking? Maybe I don't see it because I'm a straight man. So tell me, if you're not, would Jeff's best moves and lines work for you the way they were working on the teacher this week, or are you more resistant to his affectations, like Britta?

The actors were clearly having a lot of fun in their Halloween costumes. Danny Pudi, in particular, was awesomely hilarious as Abed. I know he told Jeff that he knew he wasn't Batman, but where did he end the episode? Exactly!

Pierce as the Beastmaster was perfect, too. In his attempts to be hip and cool, he still missed the mark by twenty-five years or so. I wonder how many young viewers were as clueless as to who the Beastmaster was as Britta? Granted there was a TV series in the '90s, but still.

About the only thing that bothered me a bit was Abed pulling Pierce and Jeff from the tower of chairs and desks Pierce was planning to crush himself under. It was implausible, and it wasn't executed as well as it needed to be for me to suspend my disbelief. Of course, that could have been the point all along.

I'm glad to see the issues these characters are facing coming out more, so they can help one another work through them. Britta was able to use all that sensitivity ladies restroom etiquette she learned from Shirley a couple weeks back to help Shirley now with her relationship problems. Nice nod to Britta's deep-rooted feelings for Jeff by having her snap the head off of one of the teacher's trophies.

As for Jeff, man he is just one self-centered slimeball until the last 2-3 minutes of every episode. I guess that's consistency for you. I know some of you are for that, but I'd still like the formula mixed up a bit. Jeff's a selfish douchebag for the first 28 minutes, and then he realizes that he actually cares about these people and helps.

Granted, he did agree to go to Annie's party earlier in the episode, but that was as a direct result of her using the tears blackmail. All women have it, and Annie already knows it works on Jeff so she pulled out the heavy arsenal. That, or she's a bit unstable. My money's on a little of both.