User Reviews

This is an important episode for two reasons the main one being it is trying to teach you to stay true to who you are because if you give in to the pressure of those who want to change you and thus become something you are not you lose sight of who you are. So what I got from it is a lesson similar to what most of Boy Meets World was trying to teach you which is to stay true to yourself and the ones you love that love you because that is how you learn and grow to be who you want to be. While the other plot revolved around the consequences of cheating and how that can impact the choices you make, what I take from all of these episodes is the same thing I got from Boy Meets World, which would be the valuable lessons about life and the importance and impact of true life-long friendships.

Boy, did they EVER get this one wrong! I'm still scratching my head as to how DISNEY CHANNEL of ALL networks, ever agreed to air such a controversial episode, that is SO wrong headed, in its approach. Doing nothing for 22 minutes is bad like World Of Terror, but what they did here, was WAY worse. Let's get the easy stuff out of the way first: This episode aired out of order, which basically means that characters develop BACKWARDS, from the high note that Girl Meets Money left them on two weeks prior. But that's a minor complaint compared to the major problems. This episode tried to equate an entire social ideology to cheating, one of the few aspects of life with no grey area. Cheating is wrong, literally 100% of the time. That's how cheating works! But if you then equate that to communism, or commonism, then the message becomes that those viewpoints are 100% wrong, which is so comically bias, that it could be interpreted as political satire! But it gets worse, because now the subtext essentially reads that America and its democracy is flawless! I'm sure America is a great place with a lovely democracy, and democracy is a good form of government, but calling either perfect, would be like calling this episode INSIGHTFUL. And what's more, it's made abundantly clear that the cast, doesn't even understand the title of the episode, and keeps confusing it with communism. The idea of this trio being communists makes no sense; Not only because they really don't understand the terminology, but it also goes against the rebellious personality Maya has always supported, along with the unique perspective Farkle has always had! Riley going overboard in an effort to help her friends is more in line with her character, but that's not an argument in her favour, this time around. But what really kills this episode even beyond those aforementioned critical missteps, is that not even Mr. Matthews himself, gets the lesson right. Because here, the lesson is taught in such a way that kind of discourages ANY form of group work! Because doing that would be un-American, or something; And spends way too much on the cheating plot line! As it is, the viewership didn't NEED this episode, and this episode was just unnecessary.