Netflix Instant Pick of the Week: Mystery Team

May 24, 2011 by Shelby    4 Comments    Posted under: Boob Tube, Chick Flick Picks, Netflix Instant Pick of the Week

We here at Chickster love “Community.” And while we may have come for the Joel McHale, we quickly found ourselves adoring all of the Greendale Human Beings. (Yes, even Leonard and Star Burns.) We hate to pick favorites, but if we had to, it would probably be BFFs Troy and Abed.

In the show’s pilot, I’d been excited to see that Troy was played by Donald Glover, who I’d seen in the Alamo Drafthouse‘s limited run of the hilarious “Mystery Team” in 2009. In case you missed this inspired comedy, you can catch it on Netflix Instant.

“Mystery Team” tells the story of three high schoolers who had a childhood detective agency and never quite grew up. Basically, it deals with what would have happened when Encyclopedia Brown hit puberty. I don’t want to give too much of the plot about the mystery away, but the movie is funny and raunchy and also features the comedic talents of Glover’s Derrick Comedy partners D.C. Pierson and Dominic Dierkes as well as the great Aubrey Plaza (a.k.a. April on “Parks and Recreation”).

Check out the red band trailer:

And because now we have to go a whole summer without Troy and Abed, I leave you with these bloopers from the first season’s Halloween episode:

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