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Season 5  "Cooperative Polygraphy"  5x4

Aired 10 years ago - Jan 16, 2014

A team of investigators has the study group take lie detector tests before they can be considered for distributions from Pierce's will.

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Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 1
Yeah, what a waste of murder. I mean, he was, like, 79.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 2
Have you ever had any thoughts of violence towards Pierce Hawthorne?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 3
just as Mr. Hawthorne wrote them down, I assure you.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 4
- No. - She thinks that's true.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 5
Yeah, well, if I wanted the Government in my uterus,
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 6
Did you get angry when Mr. Hawthorne told you Fat Albert died of diabetes?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 7
just in case we need to bargain our way onto a boat.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 8
we might have to endure just to get on a boat?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 9
Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 10
No.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 11
Then send him a message about the roles he chooses.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 12
Aww! And no.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 13
You'll be thanking me in six years when you find out you have $86.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 14
- Was that anti-semitism? - No! That's sensitivity.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 15
All right!
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 16
Look, respect for the dead is only a thing
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 17
into a labyrinth of emotional manipulation and strategic instigation.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 18
Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 19
and replaced it with a midwestern tofu substitute called "meatfu"?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 20
Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 21
Guys, these questions are obviously designed to turn us against each other.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 22
- It's where Jesus gets his mail. - Answer the question, Adrian Grody!
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 23
You exploited me and made me believe in a slightly more magical world.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 24
And why does your bathroom mirror say, "You're special," when you fog it up?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 25
Mr. Barnes, did you invent that handshake?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 26
Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 27
Is it true that you planted geo-trafficking devices
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 28
Do you not read my status updates?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 29
Is that why you were spending so much time by the coffin?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 30
Miss Edison, is it true you once secretly dosed
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 31
I put 5 milligrams of something-something in your coffees and we all got an "A."
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 32
- You kind of do. - I don't think I do.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 33
It wasn't about hurting you. I did what I did in the name of breakfast.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 34
Britta's the one that invited Garrett to Annie's birthday party!
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 35
We have to stop letting Pierce do this to us!
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 36
Or no better than him.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 37
Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 38
It's strange after all these years how much we've kept hidden from each other.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 39
and Pierce is no worse than us, then that means...
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 40
Pierce admitted he was flawed, and he died rich.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 41
So does anybody have anything left before we continue?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 42
to improvise such an ethnically specific vehicle.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 43
You may as well have submachine guns in your mouths. It vibrates my skull.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 44
Do you know that you hate yourself more than you should
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 45
I also leave you this liquid nitrogen cooled cylinder of my hyper-virile sperm
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 46
To Shirley Bennett,
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 47
I leave you this tiara, which you once refused to accept.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 48
so that you're less tempted to drink this cylinder of even finer sperm.
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 49
And that it's up to you not to waste it like I did?
 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 50
but, um, I'm kind of disappointed.

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Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 2
Have you ever had any thoughts of violence towards Pierce Hawthorne?
#2 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 3
just as Mr. Hawthorne wrote them down, I assure you.
#3 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 4
- No. - She thinks that's true.
#4 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 5
Yeah, well, if I wanted the Government in my uterus,
#5 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 6
Did you get angry when Mr. Hawthorne told you Fat Albert died of diabetes?
#6 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 7
just in case we need to bargain our way onto a boat.
#7 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 8
we might have to endure just to get on a boat?
#8 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 9 #9 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 10
No.
#10 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 11
Then send him a message about the roles he chooses.
#11 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 12
Aww! And no.
#12 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 13
You'll be thanking me in six years when you find out you have $86.
#13 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 14
- Was that anti-semitism? - No! That's sensitivity.
#14 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 15
All right!
#15 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 16
Look, respect for the dead is only a thing
#16 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 17
into a labyrinth of emotional manipulation and strategic instigation.
#17 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 18 #18 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 19
and replaced it with a midwestern tofu substitute called "meatfu"?
#19 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 20 #20 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 21
Guys, these questions are obviously designed to turn us against each other.
#21 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 22
- It's where Jesus gets his mail. - Answer the question, Adrian Grody!
#22 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 23
You exploited me and made me believe in a slightly more magical world.
#23 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 24
And why does your bathroom mirror say, "You're special," when you fog it up?
#24 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 25
Mr. Barnes, did you invent that handshake?
#25 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 26 #26 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 27
Is it true that you planted geo-trafficking devices
#27 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 28
Do you not read my status updates?
#28 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 29
Is that why you were spending so much time by the coffin?
#29 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 30
Miss Edison, is it true you once secretly dosed
#30 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 31
I put 5 milligrams of something-something in your coffees and we all got an "A."
#31 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 32
- You kind of do. - I don't think I do.
#32 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 33
It wasn't about hurting you. I did what I did in the name of breakfast.
#33 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 34
Britta's the one that invited Garrett to Annie's birthday party!
#34 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 35
We have to stop letting Pierce do this to us!
#35 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 36
Or no better than him.
#36 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 37 #37 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 38
It's strange after all these years how much we've kept hidden from each other.
#38 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 39
and Pierce is no worse than us, then that means...
#39 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 40
Pierce admitted he was flawed, and he died rich.
#40 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 41
So does anybody have anything left before we continue?
#41 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 42
to improvise such an ethnically specific vehicle.
#42 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 43
You may as well have submachine guns in your mouths. It vibrates my skull.
#43 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 44
Do you know that you hate yourself more than you should
#44 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 45
I also leave you this liquid nitrogen cooled cylinder of my hyper-virile sperm
#45 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 46
To Shirley Bennett,
#46 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 47
I leave you this tiara, which you once refused to accept.
#47 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 48
so that you're less tempted to drink this cylinder of even finer sperm.
#48 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 49
And that it's up to you not to waste it like I did?
#49 Recap of Community Season 5 Episode 4 (S05E04) - 50
but, um, I'm kind of disappointed.
#50