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Three weeks earlier.

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Huh?

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You know how sometimes a movie
or a show begins on a random,

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intriguing scene with no context
given encouraging you to wonder whoa,

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how'd this crazy scenario come to be?

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And then it cuts to black
and a title comes up and

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says three weeks earlier.

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Huh. Here we are.

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Sitting in silence, crammed into an RV.

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Winding through the mountain roads
of Colorado with a 19 foot fiberglass

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hand tied to the roof.

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If there was ever a time to cut to
three weeks earlier it'd be right now.

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Know what I mean?

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Elroy you got any booze?

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Don't go through my stuff!

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This isn't a bus. You're standing in
my living room, kitchen, and bedroom.

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Ooh I never thought about that.

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And your backyard is 24,900 miles long,

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because it's the
circumference of the Earth.

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Because you have no home.

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Did anyone need water?

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What else can we talk about?

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I guess to make it really intriguing,

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one of us should be visibly injured
in a way that makes you wonder how it

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happened Like if Britta had a black eye.

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Dean, can I speak to you privately?

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I'm pretty sure the answer is no.

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Coming up.

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You know, when I agreed to hold
this thing for you and the school,

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you didn't say anything about
six people sitting back there.

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Man, I wonder what they're talking about.

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God!

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Who knows?

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They're sealed off behind
this soundproof vinyl.

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I will drive my house off a cliff.

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Elroy, we're not here
to snoop or judge you.

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You're not the first person to
have dirty dishes, CD rom porn and

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framed photos of yourself with
two biracial teenagers in a park.

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It's not that.

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All of this weight.

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I may have miscalculated the mileage.

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Darn it, I wanna hijack this RV, but

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I'm foiled by its impenetrable
post-2001 security measures.

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You keep driving and nobody else
needs to know about this, understand?

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The last thing we need is a panic.

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What's going on?

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Are we out of gas?

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Yes!

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It's on empty!

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It's on empty!

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Like, the needle is invisible.

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Oh, my God!

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There's no needle.

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It's gone. It's underneath the plastic or

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maybe the engine tried
to use it as the fuel.

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Oh, stop yelling.

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Well, stop being out of gas.

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You're freaking me out.

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You should be freaking out.

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I have been driving for 25 years,

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and I have never seen
so little gas in my life.

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Aah! Stop, stop, I'm yelling
even louder so you have to stop.

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We're not in control of the gas, okay?

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We have to focus on what we can control.

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Is everyone's phone charged?

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Yes. Charge your phones.

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Good idea.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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See?

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We turned panic into preparedness.

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Now if we do run out of gas, guess
who's got fully charged phones?

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Well charged.

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Full battery.

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For the love of God,
stop charging your phones!

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Aah!

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Excuse me a moment.

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What happened?

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I'm not telling you!

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Fair enough.

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We're all gonna die!

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All in favor?

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And that solves the
matter of the giant hand.

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If there's no other business.

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Yes.

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I'd like to move that we establish
this moment as the opening

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for a flashback.

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No.

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Meeting adjourned.

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Oh, I guess we'll not doing
the three weeks earlier thing.

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Abed insert dialogue here by you
dropping the fourth wall shtick.

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Nice. Careful you don't flood it.

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That's the fifth time you've
reminded me not to flood something.

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I'm sorry but it doesn't
apply to our situation.

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I'm gonna check the battery.

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Can you send someone or not?

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Can you please hold?

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No, I can't hold.

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Darn it.

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When they put you on hold, you
hang up and you call right back.

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Frankie taught me that.

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Hi, it's me.

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Yeah, the one you put on hold.

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See where that got you?

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Can you send somebody or not?

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Please hold.

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Don't you dare.

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When they put you on hold,
hang up and call right back.

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I can play this game all day.

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I told you we need roadside service on
- Could you please hold?

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Oh, you can't be serious.

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Well hello, guess who.

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I got nothing but fingers and time, pal.

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Road side service, Moffett pass.

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All right, all right.

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You, well, you could've
told me that an hour ago.

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RV is full of crazy ladies.

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Your RV is full of crazy ladies, good bye.

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Have any of you heard of Armed Forces Day?

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Because apparently it's today
and it's really boning us.

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Yep, here it is, Armed Forces Day, huh.

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Why would they put it in May?

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It's just sitting there in Memorial
Day's shadow like a military Hanukkah.

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Fitting that both war holidays
have to fight each other

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over the same month.

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Notable that the one we remember
is the one with the theme of memory.

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Way to make this about justifying
your unmarketable sensibilities.

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Well, apparently Armed Forces Day
is the big one for tow truck drivers.

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Because there are three within
200 miles of this spot and

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they're all in the same parade.

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Maybe it'll come by this way
if we offer them instruments?

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Nobody reroutes parades.

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They rerouted Kennedy's parade.

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So, we'll just call the CIA,
tell them we want to assassinate

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the President, and we'll be home
in time for Wheel of Fortune.

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Who are we kidding?

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That'll never work.

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We got Britta'd, yes, I use it too.

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I don't want anybody here
blaming themselves for this.

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I want everyone blaming Frankie.

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What?

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She is the reason we are here.

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This is what happens when you
make decisions outside the moment.

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Whatever moment you were in the
day you got on the Internet and

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bought a gigantic hand, I am proud
to remain outside until I die.

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You will baby.

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And this is where logic gets you,

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stuck in a Rocky Mountain pass at
sundown, gradually freezing to death.

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And forced to decide somewhere in
the backs of our heads, just in case,

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who we'd eat first.

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Annie, right?

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What? It's not a judgment,
it's about biology.

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What?

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Craig, the hand currently
crushing our lives

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is not about being in the moment.

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You bought this thing we can't
return with money we don't have,

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nobody knows why.

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And your latest idea is to put it
on the quad with a plaque that says

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give a hand to your brain.

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Give your brain a hand.

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You're making it sound stupid on purpose.

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It's over Craig, you are
lucky to have Frankie.

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And you're lucky she was
able to find some weirdo,

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excuse me, bigger weirdo on
eBay willing to pay cash for it.

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This is a lot of narrative pipe.

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Maybe we did need a three
weeks earlier flashback.

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Abed. Is this a show?

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I thought you said you
knew it wasn't a TV show.

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Season two you mean?

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I don't know.

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I can change my mind.

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Well can I ask that it not be a
show about you saying it's a show?

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Because dumb.

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You're dumb.

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Go in the back.

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Go in the back and sit by yourself.

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Jeff.

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Give him a shot. What's wrong with you?

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I'm sick of it.

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It's a show, it's not a show,
it's your show, it's my show,

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it's a good show, it's a bad show.

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I am sick of it.

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I don't want to hear the word show again.

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Show, show, show, is a show, show, show.

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So now it's a show about this?

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Oh, you're right, that's way worse.

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Abed, come back.

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Yes. Yay.

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Abed, come back. Yes, yes, yes.

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I'm not sorry.

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It's not good to be back.

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What the hell was that?

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The battery is dead.

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Flooded?

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So help me God.

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The RV has two batteries, a
primary, and a second - Secondary.

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We overloaded the electrical system,
and killed the engine battery.

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So now, the secondary
battery has maybe three or

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four hours of juice
- Charge, juice, charge.

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Then we have a choice to make.

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And Jeff can explain that choice.

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No, it's your RV.

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This was my show.

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You didn't give a damn about that.

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Abed, we're all on your side, so if
you're also on your side, it's petty.

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We could wait for a couple of hours and

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hope that the engine battery resets itself.

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If it doesn't, then we're
spending the night here, and

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at least we have the secondary battery
to keep us warm for a few hours.

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No, no, no, we're not spending the
night here, so what's the second option?

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Which I am nicknaming
little course of action.

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I rewire the secondary battery to
the engine and hope it can start it.

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If it doesn't we're spending a very
cold night with two dead batteries.

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Okay, let's switch the batteries then.

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Good democracy.

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Are we sure the secondary
battery won't just die too?

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Ha. It's a possibility.

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It exists.

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But I'm pretty confident,

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because the secondary
battery only powers the cabin.

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And we've kept the lights off and

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it goes without saying that we've all
learned to stop charging our phones.

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Why you all looking at
each other like that?

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And where are each of your phones now?

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You know, I'm starting to
suspect the unthinkable.

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Namely, that in spite
of all we've experienced,

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there's a cartoonish vampiric orgy of
personal devices somewhere in the RV

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sucking away our remaining battery.

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I only draw limited comfort from the
fact that nobody's running to unplug

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anything.

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You know what?

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Say nothing.

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I'll just, turn the light
switch to the on position.

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There is a bright side to this.

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Most conventional weapons
don't require electricity.

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Are you going to eat me first?

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Hear those crickets?

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This would be a challenging place
to practice your stand-up act.

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So I rented Hotel Rwanda the other night.

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And let me just say, not a date movie.

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What would Arnold Schwarzenegger
sound like if he was bit by Dracula?

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All in favor?

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Then that solves the
matter of the giant hand.

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If there's no other business
- If we're doing this I'd

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like to restate importance of telling
some of this story with flashback.

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What do you mean by restate?

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Oh my god, I fell for it.

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Meeting adjourned.

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Why do we call them elbows?

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Why not arm knees?

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Man, I am dying up here.

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I'm scaling the blanket rations
inversely to the wattage of each person's

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phone.

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That way the person who killed
us the most will die the soonest,

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which feels fair.

256
00:11:34,422 --> 00:11:36,409
Right, Britta?

257
00:11:36,410 --> 00:11:42,373
I can't go all night being this angry.

258
00:11:42,374 --> 00:11:47,371
Heart attacks run in my family
and you people aren't worth it.

259
00:11:47,372 --> 00:11:49,582
I'm sorry.

260
00:11:49,583 --> 00:11:50,478
It's okay.

261
00:11:50,479 --> 00:11:54,418
I caused the situation by
not topping off the tank, and

262
00:11:54,419 --> 00:11:59,069
that vinyl accordion partition
is a totem of distrust.

263
00:11:59,070 --> 00:12:00,354
Sorry for that, too.

264
00:12:00,355 --> 00:12:02,246
Elroy, that's big of you.

265
00:12:02,247 --> 00:12:05,438
And for our part, we're sorry
that charging our perfectly normal

266
00:12:05,439 --> 00:12:07,783
cell phones destroyed
your weirdly fragile RV.

267
00:12:07,784 --> 00:12:11,619
Okay, I'm sorry about that apology.

268
00:12:11,620 --> 00:12:13,060
I'll try to be a better house guest.

269
00:12:14,230 --> 00:12:16,284
Oh, no.

270
00:12:16,285 --> 00:12:17,770
Sorry I've been unavailable,

271
00:12:17,771 --> 00:12:20,033
I've been trying to cut
to three weeks earlier.

272
00:12:20,034 --> 00:12:22,139
Really feels like we needed that.

273
00:12:22,140 --> 00:12:24,529
I have something to apologize for as well.

274
00:12:24,530 --> 00:12:27,565
Perhaps you recall earlier when it
seemed as though we drove through

275
00:12:27,566 --> 00:12:28,267
a skunk patch.

276
00:12:28,267 --> 00:12:29,151
Yeah, you were getting high.

277
00:12:29,151 --> 00:12:30,074
Yeah, you were smoking pot.

278
00:12:30,075 --> 00:12:31,153
Yeah, getting high.

279
00:12:31,154 --> 00:12:32,023
You were getting stoned.

280
00:12:32,024 --> 00:12:35,582
Oh, okay, I remember thinking
I really pulled that one off.

281
00:12:35,583 --> 00:12:37,569
You thought that because you were high.

282
00:12:37,570 --> 00:12:41,233
You also thought that we were speeding
cuz you kept seeing the same bird.

283
00:12:47,762 --> 00:12:48,360
All in favor?

284
00:12:48,361 --> 00:12:51,769
Then that solves the
matter of the giant hand.

285
00:12:51,770 --> 00:12:54,009
If there's no other business
- Let me just explain the need for

286
00:12:54,010 --> 00:12:56,509
flashback here and don't interrupt
- Okay, one quick thing and

287
00:12:56,510 --> 00:12:57,937
then you can talk about flashbacks forever.

288
00:12:57,938 --> 00:12:59,917
Meeting adjourned.

289
00:12:59,918 --> 00:13:00,929
Abed?

290
00:13:00,930 --> 00:13:02,229
When they cut to three weeks earlier on TV,

291
00:13:02,230 --> 00:13:04,809
they're not traveling in time, dip ass.

292
00:13:04,810 --> 00:13:05,720
Jeff.

293
00:13:05,721 --> 00:13:07,078
Okay, my apology now.

294
00:13:07,079 --> 00:13:10,567
I've had some time to think about it,
and I've decided, I'm sorry for not

295
00:13:10,568 --> 00:13:13,964
asking people what they wanted before
buying all the snacks for the trip.

296
00:13:13,965 --> 00:13:15,124
Wow, really?

297
00:13:15,125 --> 00:13:15,816
That's great.

298
00:13:15,816 --> 00:13:16,541
What?

299
00:13:16,542 --> 00:13:18,909
Think about it, it's the worst
thing I've done on this trip.

300
00:13:18,910 --> 00:13:20,604
I've been nailing it.

301
00:13:20,605 --> 00:13:21,819
She has.

302
00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,089
You have, I haven't been.

303
00:13:25,090 --> 00:13:28,889
I shouldn't be yelling at the
dean in front of any of you,

304
00:13:28,890 --> 00:13:30,463
it's unprofessional.

305
00:13:30,464 --> 00:13:31,509
You're all right Frankie.

306
00:13:31,510 --> 00:13:32,510
We got no complaints.

307
00:13:42,291 --> 00:13:44,601
I forgive all of you.

308
00:13:51,622 --> 00:13:52,622
What?

309
00:13:54,229 --> 00:13:55,667
Then that solves the
matter of the giant hand.

310
00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:58,329
If there's no other business
- In a normal road trip story the first act

311
00:13:58,330 --> 00:13:59,649
would end with us
deciding to go on the trip.

312
00:13:59,650 --> 00:14:01,389
The second act would be the
trip ending with a disaster, and

313
00:14:01,390 --> 00:14:02,559
the third act would be us getting back.

314
00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:04,883
The problem is that we've already
decided to take this trip weeks from now,

315
00:14:04,884 --> 00:14:06,626
which means the story starts
with us already on the road,

316
00:14:06,627 --> 00:14:08,440
which means the end of act one
won't be us going on the trip,

317
00:14:08,441 --> 00:14:09,446
it'll have to be the disaster.

318
00:14:09,447 --> 00:14:11,542
Which means something even
worse has to happen in act two.

319
00:14:11,543 --> 00:14:14,365
Unless we make the decision, right
now, that act one is a flashback, so

320
00:14:14,366 --> 00:14:16,282
that the beginning story
is now instead of then.

321
00:14:24,464 --> 00:14:25,565
You forgive us?

322
00:14:25,566 --> 00:14:27,729
Absolutely.

323
00:14:27,730 --> 00:14:29,689
You turd!

324
00:14:29,690 --> 00:14:30,748
I beg your pardon.

325
00:14:30,749 --> 00:14:31,278
Guys?

326
00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:32,617
You have no sense of accountability.

327
00:14:32,618 --> 00:14:33,709
You're like a child.

328
00:14:33,710 --> 00:14:36,479
If I'm a child, you're a child abuser.

329
00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:37,689
No, not cool, Annie.

330
00:14:37,690 --> 00:14:41,899
You never just said, leave my
hand where it is, I like it there.

331
00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:43,369
I demand it stay.

332
00:14:43,370 --> 00:14:44,879
Because everyone complained about it.

333
00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,969
Well, where's that commitment to
spinelessness when we're all admitting we

334
00:14:47,970 --> 00:14:48,660
did stuff wrong?

335
00:14:48,661 --> 00:14:49,759
Okay, I'm sorry.

336
00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:50,353
I'm sorry.

337
00:14:50,354 --> 00:14:51,859
I'm a bad dean, okay?

338
00:14:51,860 --> 00:14:52,811
No, that's what you always do.

339
00:14:52,812 --> 00:14:53,951
That's not a real apology.

340
00:14:53,952 --> 00:14:55,069
Jeff? Abed, shut up.

341
00:14:55,070 --> 00:14:57,102
Go flashback and cut to stuff.

342
00:14:57,103 --> 00:15:00,126
And you, say you're sorry for buying
a giant hand and letting it sit around

343
00:15:00,127 --> 00:15:02,394
until we had to deal with
it, and say it without crying.

344
00:15:02,395 --> 00:15:03,020
No!

345
00:15:03,020 --> 00:15:03,905
I'm an adult.

346
00:15:03,906 --> 00:15:06,560
And you can't make me not cry.

347
00:15:06,561 --> 00:15:10,109
You're all a bunch of bullies, and I
will say, I'm sorry, however I want.

348
00:15:10,110 --> 00:15:12,969
And by the way, I'm not sorry!

349
00:15:12,970 --> 00:15:16,219
It's my giant hand and I love it.

350
00:15:16,220 --> 00:15:17,220
We're not selling it.

351
00:15:18,495 --> 00:15:19,968
Okay, this is like crate training a puppy.

352
00:15:19,969 --> 00:15:22,885
Everyone suppress every instinct
you have to let him out and

353
00:15:22,886 --> 00:15:23,943
sleep in bed with us.

354
00:15:23,944 --> 00:15:25,209
Cold.

355
00:15:25,210 --> 00:15:27,548
No, I mean, it's cold in the RV.

356
00:15:27,549 --> 00:15:28,830
I don't care how we treat the dean tonight.

357
00:15:28,831 --> 00:15:32,773
Abed, don't go out.

358
00:15:41,759 --> 00:15:43,435
Did they send you out
here to be mean to me too?

359
00:15:43,436 --> 00:15:47,249
No.

360
00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:47,841
Good.

361
00:15:47,842 --> 00:15:50,535
Because I can't cry anymore unless
someone brings me a Pedialyte.

362
00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:05,627
Here.

363
00:16:13,777 --> 00:16:15,123
Pretty comforting, huh?

364
00:16:15,124 --> 00:16:18,607
We could've put it outside the
Art Department, or Biology, or

365
00:16:18,608 --> 00:16:21,239
wood working if we
remove one of the fingers.

366
00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:22,050
You don't belong up here.

367
00:16:22,051 --> 00:16:24,109
It's not right that you're up here.

368
00:16:24,110 --> 00:16:25,320
You get it, don't you, Abed?

369
00:16:26,830 --> 00:16:28,239
You know what's important about the hand?

370
00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:29,979
No, I know what's important
about the story, and

371
00:16:29,980 --> 00:16:31,719
I know we're structurally
overdue for a disaster.

372
00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:32,720
Oh, great.

373
00:16:33,540 --> 00:16:37,436
Figures the one person on my side,
is the one playing people chess.

374
00:16:37,437 --> 00:16:40,295
Aah! Don't move, don't move!

375
00:16:40,296 --> 00:16:41,879
What the hell else are we supposed to do?

376
00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:43,099
Flashback with me.

377
00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:43,820
What? Just trust me.

378
00:16:43,821 --> 00:16:45,339
I set a flashback three weeks earlier.

379
00:16:45,340 --> 00:16:46,779
It's how this story begins.

380
00:16:46,780 --> 00:16:48,060
Close your eyes and concentrate.

381
00:16:49,883 --> 00:16:54,880
And that solves the
matter of the giant hand.

382
00:16:54,881 --> 00:16:56,409
If there's no other business.

383
00:16:56,410 --> 00:16:57,190
Oh, there's business.

384
00:16:57,191 --> 00:16:58,269
Yeah, there's business.

385
00:16:58,270 --> 00:17:01,559
When you tie the hand to the roof
we'd like you to use extra thick straps

386
00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:02,100
please.

387
00:17:02,101 --> 00:17:03,179
Extra thick.

388
00:17:03,180 --> 00:17:04,150
Extra thick straps!

389
00:17:04,150 --> 00:17:04,880
Reinforced.

390
00:17:04,881 --> 00:17:06,321
All right. Meeting adjourned, great.

391
00:17:08,705 --> 00:17:10,939
Extra thick straps!

392
00:17:10,940 --> 00:17:12,849
Extra think straps.

393
00:17:12,850 --> 00:17:14,789
Extra thick straps.

394
00:17:14,790 --> 00:17:15,639
Extra thick straps.

395
00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,112
There, that should do it.

396
00:17:17,113 --> 00:17:18,482
Wha, wha, what should do it?

397
00:17:18,483 --> 00:17:19,667
We made the straps extra thick.

398
00:17:19,668 --> 00:17:21,885
Remember? No, I don't remember
because it didn't happen.

399
00:17:21,886 --> 00:17:22,866
It didn't?

400
00:17:22,867 --> 00:17:25,831
Aah!

401
00:17:25,832 --> 00:17:26,829
What?

402
00:17:26,830 --> 00:17:30,022
Did something just fall off the roof?

403
00:17:30,023 --> 00:17:32,170
That's a really stupid question, Annie.

404
00:17:32,171 --> 00:17:34,129
Obviously something fell off the roof.

405
00:17:34,130 --> 00:17:35,603
The question is what?

406
00:17:43,590 --> 00:17:44,716
Abed, where's the dean?

407
00:17:44,717 --> 00:17:47,810
Oh, damn, come on.

408
00:17:49,796 --> 00:17:52,459
Okay, one, two, three.

409
00:17:52,460 --> 00:17:53,489
Carefully, carefully.

410
00:17:53,490 --> 00:17:57,269
How do you lose a hand
off a person haphazardly?

411
00:17:57,270 --> 00:17:58,994
You know what, Annie
- Aah!

412
00:17:58,995 --> 00:17:59,972
Dean, hang on.

413
00:17:59,973 --> 00:18:01,691
Dean, we're so sorry, we love you.

414
00:18:03,258 --> 00:18:06,009
Screw you!

415
00:18:06,010 --> 00:18:06,659
Aah!

416
00:18:06,660 --> 00:18:07,726
What?

417
00:18:07,727 --> 00:18:08,337
Hey, that's my house.

418
00:18:08,338 --> 00:18:10,999
We are not sorry, we hate you!

419
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,549
Are we gonna freeze to death?

420
00:18:12,550 --> 00:18:13,550
I call the hand.

421
00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:17,749
The fiberglass will preserve body heat.

422
00:18:17,750 --> 00:18:22,769
What's wrong with me if that's hot?

423
00:18:27,988 --> 00:18:31,253
Dean these temperatures are lowering
our immune systems in a world that is

424
00:18:31,254 --> 00:18:33,794
swarming with weird people's
unvaccinated toddlers.

425
00:18:33,795 --> 00:18:36,094
Deal with it.

426
00:18:36,095 --> 00:18:39,176
I'm gonna go run to the other side
and see if he's locked that door too.

427
00:18:39,177 --> 00:18:42,066
It probably undercuts my goals
to announce it out loud but

428
00:18:42,067 --> 00:18:45,027
I'm a verbal thinker, I'm not even
sure I have an idea until I say it.

429
00:18:48,107 --> 00:18:50,445
They should make hiking boots
with a compass in the toe.

430
00:18:50,446 --> 00:18:51,884
Go!

431
00:18:51,885 --> 00:18:53,144
But don't you.

432
00:18:53,145 --> 00:18:56,301
Dean, we're sorry and we love you?

433
00:18:56,302 --> 00:18:59,936
Nice uncontrollable question mark, Britta!

434
00:18:59,937 --> 00:19:01,546
You can't even fake it!

435
00:19:01,547 --> 00:19:04,426
Dean, we're sorry and we love you.

436
00:19:04,427 --> 00:19:08,496
Super realistic, Annie,
you're a real sociopath.

437
00:19:08,497 --> 00:19:11,516
I saw all your true colors
when the chips were down.

438
00:19:11,517 --> 00:19:13,246
Abed is the only human among you!

439
00:19:13,247 --> 00:19:16,056
And I think we all know how
ironic that is, no offense, Abed.

440
00:19:16,057 --> 00:19:17,106
None possible.

441
00:19:17,107 --> 00:19:19,736
Abed, you bonded with him.

442
00:19:19,737 --> 00:19:20,677
Talk to him.

443
00:19:20,678 --> 00:19:21,766
You're alone in the end zone.

444
00:19:21,767 --> 00:19:24,006
This ball is yours or nobody's.

445
00:19:24,007 --> 00:19:27,056
I appreciate your appeal to my
well know passion for athletics, and

446
00:19:27,057 --> 00:19:28,836
sarcasm, but I didn't
actually bond with him.

447
00:19:28,837 --> 00:19:29,777
I almost killed him.

448
00:19:29,778 --> 00:19:32,706
My naive obsession with contrived
flashback technique has kept me

449
00:19:32,707 --> 00:19:34,506
from being invested in
any of this actual story.

450
00:19:34,507 --> 00:19:36,236
I mean, what was it even?

451
00:19:36,237 --> 00:19:38,533
A bunch of people in an RV? And
I had to Christopher Nolan it?

452
00:19:38,534 --> 00:19:39,572
Well, there you go.

453
00:19:39,573 --> 00:19:43,786
Now you can forget all about stupid
three weeks earlier flashbacks and

454
00:19:43,787 --> 00:19:46,644
be a hero by joining us
here, in the moment, and

455
00:19:46,645 --> 00:19:48,658
talking to the dean like a human.

456
00:19:48,659 --> 00:19:50,466
That's my arc.

457
00:19:50,467 --> 00:19:52,981
That's your arc.

458
00:19:52,982 --> 00:19:56,648
Okay, here we go.

459
00:19:57,815 --> 00:19:58,986
If there's no other business.

460
00:19:58,987 --> 00:20:01,481
I'd like to propose a heavy use
of flashback in this episode.

461
00:20:01,482 --> 00:20:02,477
No Abed, don't do it.

462
00:20:02,477 --> 00:20:03,477
Thanks Abed.

463
00:20:04,477 --> 00:20:05,257
Stop that.

464
00:20:05,257 --> 00:20:06,237
Get your head our of your ass.

465
00:20:06,238 --> 00:20:07,516
I don't know how. I'm
over saturated with it.

466
00:20:07,517 --> 00:20:08,846
Give me, I, I, I don't know what's real.

467
00:20:08,847 --> 00:20:09,637
You are lying.

468
00:20:09,637 --> 00:20:10,597
You have to be lying.

469
00:20:10,598 --> 00:20:11,796
You enjoy this.

470
00:20:11,797 --> 00:20:12,397
Stop this.

471
00:20:12,398 --> 00:20:13,846
What has gotten into you?

472
00:20:13,847 --> 00:20:15,318
Why are you shocked that he's alienated?

473
00:20:15,319 --> 00:20:17,695
You get him to do something
normal without abusing him.

474
00:20:17,696 --> 00:20:19,300
Abed, listen.

475
00:20:19,301 --> 00:20:21,413
This is a flashback remember.

476
00:20:21,414 --> 00:20:24,014
The real story is happening in the future.

477
00:20:24,015 --> 00:20:27,469
You actually flashed
back to now to help us.

478
00:20:27,470 --> 00:20:29,683
Okay, that was pretty good.

479
00:20:35,636 --> 00:20:38,647
So sad what happened here,
all those centons ago.

480
00:20:39,967 --> 00:20:41,156
So sad.

481
00:20:41,157 --> 00:20:42,017
So preventable.

482
00:20:42,018 --> 00:20:44,796
Space Elder Abed, can you reach
backward with your mind and

483
00:20:44,797 --> 00:20:46,486
save our species?

484
00:20:46,487 --> 00:20:49,372
I can. I'm Space Elder Britta.

485
00:20:56,036 --> 00:20:57,337
What are you guys talkin about?

486
00:21:05,667 --> 00:21:06,337
I'm here now, child.

487
00:21:06,338 --> 00:21:08,217
All will be made right.

488
00:21:11,247 --> 00:21:12,207
Dean.

489
00:21:12,207 --> 00:21:12,947
Abed.

490
00:21:12,948 --> 00:21:14,857
I have discovered the
meaning of the giant hand.

491
00:21:16,577 --> 00:21:18,726
A hand has two functions,
to grip and to release.

492
00:21:20,047 --> 00:21:22,377
But without both of these
powers, it is useless.

493
00:21:23,667 --> 00:21:27,786
Like newborn infants, we grab what
comes near us, hoping to control it,

494
00:21:27,787 --> 00:21:30,096
taste it, jam it into another child's eye.

495
00:21:30,097 --> 00:21:33,857
But, the time we spend
in control of our world,

496
00:21:35,407 --> 00:21:38,086
is the time we spend letting go of others.

497
00:21:38,087 --> 00:21:42,276
Ideas, stories, pride, girls
in soft sweaters, video games,

498
00:21:42,277 --> 00:21:45,536
buttered noodles, grip one
for too long and you lose so

499
00:21:45,537 --> 00:21:51,066
much that you've never held.

500
00:21:51,067 --> 00:21:54,916
This giant hand, was sent to
all of us as an invitation.

501
00:21:54,917 --> 00:21:56,977
To increase our mastery
over the power to hold on.

502
00:21:59,507 --> 00:22:00,507
And let go.

503
00:22:06,328 --> 00:22:09,375
Sorry.

504
00:22:12,925 --> 00:22:14,011
Dummy.

505
00:22:14,012 --> 00:22:15,012
I kinda hate you.

506
00:22:26,182 --> 00:22:27,907
The doors are locked on that side, too.

507
00:22:29,567 --> 00:22:30,138
Took you long enough.

508
00:22:30,139 --> 00:22:32,718
I'd be lying if I said I didn't poop.

509
00:22:32,719 --> 00:22:35,855
Could you lie then?

510
00:22:35,856 --> 00:22:37,736
Sure I can.

511
00:22:37,737 --> 00:22:38,782
Sure I can.

512
00:22:42,126 --> 00:22:43,126
I slapped a man.

513
00:23:12,127 --> 00:23:17,629
Hi, this is Blake, the gentleman to
whom you're selling the giant hand.

514
00:23:17,630 --> 00:23:21,040
I am calling to confirm that
you have the correct address?

515
00:23:22,310 --> 00:23:25,769
We live at the end of a long
driveway which often gets

516
00:23:25,770 --> 00:23:28,772
confused with a road.

517
00:23:28,773 --> 00:23:33,592
Anyway, it's been many hours since
our scheduled appointment time.

518
00:23:33,593 --> 00:23:38,168
Again, it's Blake with a B,
the purchaser of the giant hand.

519
00:23:38,169 --> 00:23:39,956
Bye.

520
00:23:42,771 --> 00:23:48,963
They're not

521
00:23:48,964 --> 00:23:56,964
coming, are they?

522
00:23:58,539 --> 00:23:59,350
I don't know, Karen.

523
00:23:59,350 --> 00:24:00,143
I left a message.

524
00:24:00,144 --> 00:24:02,442
What are you gonna do with?

525
00:24:02,443 --> 00:24:05,242
What am I gonna do with the giant watch?

526
00:24:05,243 --> 00:24:06,163
I don't know.

527
00:24:06,164 --> 00:24:08,302
I, I don't plan for failure.

528
00:24:08,303 --> 00:24:09,682
Have you tried planning for success?

529
00:24:09,683 --> 00:24:12,503
Does everything you do to this family have.

530
00:24:14,083 --> 00:24:15,142
No.

531
00:24:15,143 --> 00:24:16,702
Finish your thought.

532
00:24:16,703 --> 00:24:17,912
Finish your thought.

533
00:24:17,913 --> 00:24:20,922
Does everything have to do with me,

534
00:24:20,923 --> 00:24:24,072
purchasing oversize items on the Internet.

535
00:24:24,073 --> 00:24:26,022
But, that's not what this
is really about, is it?

536
00:24:26,023 --> 00:24:28,562
It's not about a giant
hand, or a giant watch.

537
00:24:28,563 --> 00:24:29,393
Please don't.

538
00:24:29,394 --> 00:24:33,162
It's about a normal sized son.

539
00:24:33,163 --> 00:24:39,675
Who disappeared and it's all my
fault, because I gave him a giant kite!

540
00:24:40,691 --> 00:24:44,912
Yes, how could you not
make that connection?

541
00:24:44,913 --> 00:24:49,212
Why do you continue to buy giant
size versions of everyday objects,

542
00:24:49,213 --> 00:24:52,732
when they are the reason our son is
- Disappeared!

543
00:24:52,733 --> 00:24:53,723
Disappeared.

544
00:24:53,724 --> 00:24:55,752
They never found his body on the ground,

545
00:24:55,753 --> 00:24:57,652
which proves he's still up there waiting.

546
00:24:57,653 --> 00:25:01,869
He's waiting for a better
daddy, with a bigger hand.

547
00:25:05,729 --> 00:25:09,569
Oh, really?

548
00:25:09,570 --> 00:25:12,798
So then why the watch?

549
00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:14,953
I thought it would look really cool.

550
00:25:14,954 --> 00:25:19,565
I'm gonna walk the dog,
and eventually leave you.

551
00:25:19,566 --> 00:25:23,848
I'll put the watch in the garage.

552
00:25:23,849 --> 00:25:26,899
And probably stop showering.