Spoilers Anonymous In-Depth: 'Community,' '30 Rock,' 'The Office' and 'Outsourced'

This is Spoilers Anonymous In-Depth, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we discuss and give our two cents about recently released spoilers and how they may affect the storylines, shows and fans.

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This week, we discuss spoilers recently released for the upcoming episodes of NBC's Thursday comedy shows: 'Community,' '30 Rock,' 'The Office,' and 'Outsourced.'

'Community': Look for a mystery episode this week when Annie's pen goes missing and she suspects a member of her own study group is the thief. The study group will be put in lockdown until the culprit is identified. On Nov. 18, Dean Pelton discovers that Jeff has listed a class on his schedule that doesn't exist! Will Jeff be able to get out of this lie by making the fake class become real?

Everyone loves a good mystery. The missing pen storyline is not the most jaw-dropping puzzle of them all but when given the 'Community' spin, it can end up being very funny! My money is on Annie being the culprit (maybe she misplaced it?!).

As for the fake class storyline, word is that an unknown professor will come forward saying that he teaches the class and that Jeff is indeed his student. Crisis avoided for Jeff but the thing is that he doesn't know the professor ... What is the professor's motive to help Jeff? Who is he? Another clever and fun mystery for us to watch unfold in two weeks.


'30 Rock': John Slattery guest stars this coming Thursday as a Congressional election candidate. Jack will try to influence the election for the benefit of the network. In the same episode, Jenna tries to help Liz find the perfect pair of jeans. In two weeks, Jack tries to find glitches in the new GE microwave design as sales have improved too much without his help. Plus, 'TGS' writers discover that Jack is the voice of an online dictionary's pronunciation guide.

'Mad Men' alert! John Slattery is in the house! Need I say more?! And as a women who tried for years to find the perfect pair of jeans, I can totally relate to Liz's quest. There are so many sizes, types, colors, etc., of jeans out there. What will be funny with Liz's quest is that you can bet Jenna won't make it a simple task. She'll surely try to take the spotlight away from Liz and may have her (Liz) wear jeans that don't fit her personality and body, but would be perfect for Jenna.

Jack not being part of the success of the latest microwave will, to our amusement, surely cause him to have a few nightmares. I'm surprised though that he'll try to destroy the product instead of finding a way to get the credit for the big sales! But witnessing Jack try to sabotage the product will not be as hilarious as the writers discovering Jack is the voice of an online dictionary's pronunciation guide. What words will they have him pronounce?!


'The Office': This week, the gang gets together for a 'Glee' viewing party at Gabe's house.

I wish some of the characters are really into 'Glee' to the point that they sing everything out loud during the viewing party and annoy everyone else. And you know that when some of the characters are annoyed, it will turn in a crazy fest. One nice twist would be that one character is a TV spoilers addict and ruins everything that is about to air. Some TV shows have taken jabs at TV spoilers before, and this could be another chance for them to do so. Then again, there are a lot of upsides to having spoilers out there, but that's an whole other topic.


'Outsourced': This week, Todd must ignore the biggest holiday in India and tell his staff they can't have time off to celebrate. Next week, Todd and his employees try to win a Black Friday sales competition.

As much as I've been trying to love 'Outsourced' -- I haven't missed an episode so far -- the spoilers for the two upcoming episodes are not that exciting. Especially considering that it's November Sweeps episodes we are talking about. It seems that the series didn't foresee they would still be on the air and didn't plan for bigger and bolder episodes for November.


These four comedies air on Thursdays on NBC starting at 8PM ET.

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