Regarding the spoiler bit. Knowing the kinda show community is, and how they take tired television/film cliches and "meta" them (yes when referring to Community, meta can be a verb), how on earth could you think they would actually do that. lol I saw it for what it was immediately and LOVED EVERY SECOND of it.
also, Community is incapable of having a "boring" episode , but this weeks was better than the last couple of weeks IMO