Community · S06E01 · 2015-03-17

Ladders

Written by Dan Harmon & Chris McKenna. Directed by Rob Schrab.

Mirrors including this episode

• Andrea and Frankie: the outside professional who reorganises everyone

  Scene reading4 beats

Connections

• The consultant arrives holding the power to remove people

  has its subplot mirrored by↑ earlierEstablished interpretationAND-01

  NewsRadio S04E02 “Planbee” — An outsider with delegated institutional power reorganises a group that had been governing itself informally.

• The incumbent is tested for necessity

  has its subplot mirrored by↑ earlierScene readingAND-02

  NewsRadio S04E02 “Planbee” — Efficiency arrives as a question about whether a familiar person is required.

• The efficiency review turns into forced intimacy

  has its subplot mirrored by↑ earlierScene readingAND-03

  NewsRadio S04E02 “Planbee” — The professional relationship becomes personal in one scene, and the imbalance of power is what makes it uncomfortable.

Script passages under research

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No line in this episode carries an annotation yet. The connections above still resolve, because a connection can name an episode without naming a line.