Competitive Wine Tasting

Episode Summary & Review

Summary

As everyone settles on their spring semester electives, Troy and Britta explore the fundamentals of acting, while Abed tackles an advanced study of 1980s sitcom “Who’s The Boss?” with a professor who has written a book on the topic. Meanwhile, Pierce and Jeff enjoy a wine tasting class, where Pierce meets “Wu Mei” a mysterious Chinese woman who sweeps Pierce off his feet. Suspicious, Jeff vows to find out what’d going on with Wu Mei and why she would agree to marry Pierce so quickly.

Our Take

This one’s a mixed bag, with the Who’s the Boss? debate wearing thin pretty fast despite Abed selling it hard. The Pierce storyline gets some good mileage out of his cluelessness, and Troy’s acting class has a few solid moments. It’s fine background viewing, but compared to what this season is capable of, it feels like the writers were coasting a bit.