Season 1 Rewatch: 1x05 "Category 55 Emergency Doomsday Crisis"

[sorchasilver]

Hi everyone, and welcome to rewatch week 5. As usual, just watch the ep whenever you can, then join the discussion in the comments.

Writer(s): Michael Schur (creator), Matt Murray
Director: Morgan Sackett
Originally aired: 6 October 2016

Synopsis:
Teaching Eleanor about ethics becomes a full-time job for Chidi; Michael and Janet must deal with an emergency.

Memorable Quote:
Chidi: I am not going to have sex with someone to get them to stop talking to me.
Eleanor: Really? You and I are very different.
Chidi: Yeah I noticed.

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Episode Transcript
IMdB entry

Comments

[erinptah]

My take with Chidi is that he's desperately trying to pretend to himself that everything is fine. Because when someone earnestly wants to learn, the Good Thing To Do is to have infinite reserves of patient indulgence, and he's doing something wrong if he doesn't.

[enemyofperfect]

Oh, that's all too plausible. Poor guy!

Watch me get so swept up in emotion I comment from the wrong account...