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Brooklyn 99 Moo Moo and Community Pie Mary - Reflection

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I've seen this Brooklyn 99 Episode at least four times now, in fact, it's my most watched B99 episode. This episode focuses quite strongly on police racism, at the start of the episode Terry is desperately looking for his twin daughter's toy, Moo Moo. While looking he's stopped by a white police officer, and the only real reason the cop can seem to give is that Terry was arrested because he's black. Which isn't exactly the best look or reason. I believe the creators have chosen to tell this story as police racism is still very prevalent in countries like America, where they show is set. And even in 2019, there is still police racism going on, although the episode wasn't released in 2019 the creators chose this issue as it wasn't a small little problem that would fix itself in a week, but a long problem that's going to need to stop over a long period of time. With Brooklyn 99 being a popular comedy show, it has a massive platform to inform people o

Community: A Fist Full of Paintballs and For a Few Paintballs More - Reflection

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After many weeks and me consistently missing the lessons in where we watched these episodes last year, I've finally seen the episodes, even if it took me forever. And I'm not particularly a fan of the show, but hey I saw the episodes and that's what matters. Last year I also saw season 1's paintball episode, so I did manage to get a few of the callbacks in this episode. Such as the black and orange paintball gun (seen in the above image) that was used at the end of the last paintball episode. In A Fist Full of Paintballs, the most obvious genre is that they're using is western. A few main things are able to tip us off to this, such their choice of fashion during the episode, which again is shown in the image above. Another notable thing when each of the characters is seen for the first time in the episode there's a freeze frame that only shows the character with a background and then their name (the cards they picked in a previous episode). And if I remembe