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Documentary Filmmaking: Redux (2011)

Danny Pudi: Abed Nadir

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• Abed Nadir : Documentarians are supposed to be objective to avoid having any effect on the story. And yet we have more effect than anyone. Because we decide to tell it. And we decide how it ends. Will your story be yet another sad one of yet another man who just wanted to be happy? Or, will your story acknowledge the very nature of stories, and embrace the fact that sharing the sad ones can sometimes make them happy?

• Dean Pelton : I thought you were a fly on the wall.

  Abed Nadir : Some flies are too awesome for the wall.

• Dean Pelton : Abed, true to form, has decided to do the weird thing and film a documentary instead of helping.

  Abed Nadir : [voice-over]  As a student of character, I have a feeling that trying to make this commercial may cost the dean his sanity. And my camera follows the fire, not the smoke.

• Britta Perry : I'm in Psych 101, and even I don't know what's happening.

  Abed Nadir : The dean is going insane and taking all of you with him.

  Troy Barnes : If you know that, then do something!

  Abed Nadir : I'm doing everything I can. I only have so many cameras.

  Britta Perry , Troy Barnes : [both quietly sobbing]  Oh! Aah!

• Pierce Hawthorne : Hey, Dean. Dean? Hey, Dean!

  Jeff Winger : Pierce mistook me for the dean today.

  Pierce Hawthorne : I want windows.

  Abed Nadir : How did that make you feel?

  Jeff Winger : [whispering]  I've become a stranger to myself. I'm bald now. I've always been bald. I merely dreamt of having hair. And now the bald man is awake.

• Annie Edison : The dean had his seventh epiphany today, which has given me an epiphany of my own. The dean is a genius. He has to be. If he isn't, I've given almost two weeks of my life to an idiot. That is unacceptable. Therefore the dean *is* a genius and I *will* die protecting his vision.

  Abed Nadir : Are you by any chance familiar with Stockholm Syndrome?

  Annie Edison : Is it something that the dean created? Because if not, I don't care.

• Leonard : I'm in Psych 101, and even I don't know what's happening.

  Abed Nadir : The dean is going insane and taking all of you with him.

  Britta Perry : If you know that, then do something!

  Abed Nadir : I'm doing everything I can. I only have so many cameras.

  Leonard , Britta Perry : [both quietly sobbing]  Oh! Aah!