Re: Community

biakbiak Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:55 pm

Chevy leaves the show, with 1 or 2 more episodes left to shoot.

Case Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:19 pm

Now's the perfect time to explain how Tori Scott has been at Greendale as long as the study group, but just has had a different schedule.

bookworm Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:44 pm

What a douche. This is the final season of the show. At least stick around for the final episode!

Case Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:03 pm

bookworm wrote:What a douche. This is the final season of the show. At least stick around for the final episode!

Quitting with two possible episodes to go is a total douche move. He is in the finale, which will cause continuity errors that make the internet explode.

The Dude Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:45 am

and it’s still a sitcom on television, which is probably the lowest form of television.”

Come back to me about that when you are in a screaming match with Meatloaf on the Celebrity Apprentice.

laddical Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:49 am

Case wrote:Now's the perfect time to explain how Tori Scott has been at Greendale as long as the study group, but just has had a different schedule.

Awesome.

Can we transition the verb from "to Britta" to "to Pierce"?

Case Thu Nov 22, 2012 7:41 pm

Can we transition the verb from "to Britta" to "to Pierce"?

I like that idea!

Wildog27 Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:14 pm

Whoever gets to write the oral history of Commmunity is going to have a great book with a small audience.

The Dude Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:19 am

Ferbruary 7th!

There's some preview clips on Hulu.

**blixie** Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:37 pm

You guys? Tonight is October 19th! Happy Day! This will help ease the loss of Ben & Kate/Don't Trust the B, even though I know it is also likely to be cancelled. Whatever I'm SAVORING this last season.

Although I would find it poignant and hilarious if it miraculously turns in to a ratings winner, even relatively, after poor Dan got the boot.

jensa Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:37 pm

Happy October 19!!!!

The Dude Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:18 am

it was ok. Enough to assuage some fears about the new show runners. Punching Leonard is a good start. The Abed stuff didn't do much.

The other seasons took a few episodes to get rolling anyway.

Rhilin Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:36 am

That's kind of how I feel. It was too meta and slapstick for me, but several of the first episodes of the last two seasons have been too meta and slapstick for me, so they might just need to settle in.

Fraoch Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:43 am

The biggest laugh for me was the ad for "Blind/Blonde" starring Britta and Annie that briefly appeared on the bottom of the screen during one of Abed's happy place moments. It took me a second to realize it wasn't an actual NBC ad! I also wish that Fred Willard were on the show all the time.

**blixie** Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:05 pm

It was too meta and slapstick for me,

There is literally no such thing in my world as too much meta or too much slap stick (Threes Stooges, Chevy Chase, Wipeout all of it makes me laugh until my sides ache).

For me it was, not as wittily quotable, but just as funny as ever, if a little pressed and frenetic, but it often is pressed and frenetic even under Harmon. I treated it like a pilot for a new show, and as those go this was better than most.

Greendale babies made me laugh and laugh. I also loved Annie playing out her life as a hospital administrator. The new show runners also got the heartfelt pieces of the shows identity, or maybe Joel McHale just really did a nice job with his super wacky storyline, but I loved how much this Jeff felt legitimately like New Jeff, 180 from the dude we met four years ago. Well maybe 90 degrees.

mo pie Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:46 pm

I had read some bad reviews, so my expectations were low. I really enjoyed it, though! Very entertaining, and nice to have it back for a little while.

The Dude Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:29 am

I agree that it isn't as madly quotable as usual. About the only one that registered was:

"You smell like the floor of a movie theatre!"

"And not for the usual reasons."

They have to be wondering if it would have been better to have cast Fred Willard as Pierce in the first place. A porno theatre bust is preferable to dealing with Chase.

There was what I assume a Madarin character on the door across the hall from the Dean's condo. It probably has something to do with Chang. I hope it's Rabbi Chang's place.

mandalaya Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:22 pm

okay, I'll say it. I was really disappointed in the Valloween episode. It just didn't make me laugh, and barely had any of the sly clever humor I associate with Community. I really hope that Rhilin is right and this is just the usual slow ramping up of the season.

Shalamar Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:09 am

Me too. I didn't laugh once.

Rhilin Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:23 am

I liked it, but I think I'm a little biased about Halloween episodes. Also Jeff and Britta sniping at each other. And I giggle at pretty much everything about Shirley and the....um..indoor swing room.

I was reading the AV Club earlier this week, and there were some mild mentions of the third episode in their review of the first (apparently those two episodes were given to critics), and the comments don't make me hopeful for the third episode. If they have three episodes in a row that long-time fans are "meh" on....that will be unfortunate.

The Dude Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:47 am

I liked it. The haunted house with the Miami Vice aesthetic was enough to hook me and I was happy to see Giancarlo Esposito again.

mandalaya Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:11 am

Well good, I'm glad that other folks liked it. Maybe I just haven't been in quite the right mood or something.

laddical Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:19 am

I enjoyed it as well. One or two of the jokes fell flat - the one that stands out in my memory is Troy whining, "I hope it isn't expensive!" when he realizes he destroyed the remote. But otherwise, I felt like it was simply an average episode. I could see a string of episodes like this signalling that it's time to pack it in before the show sinks to late-season HIMYM levels of crap, but they can't all be the newest best episode ever.

Instant Monkeys Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:28 am

I didn't love it, but I did like it better than last week's. And I was a little relieved, because last week's didn't really feel like Community to me. This one did again, even if it wasn't the funniest thing ever, so I felt better.

Matinee Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:26 pm

laddical wrote:I enjoyed it as well. One or two of the jokes fell flat - the one that stands out in my memory is Troy whining, "I hope it isn't expensive!" when he realizes he destroyed the remote. But otherwise, I felt like it was simply an average episode. I could see a string of episodes like this signalling that it's time to pack it in before the show sinks to late-season HIMYM levels of crap, but they can't all be the newest best episode ever.

That and his "secret dogs?!?" I enjoyed, but overall the ep was only ok.

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