have you even ~seen~ beastmaster
― how rad bandit (gbx), Friday, 6 November 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
xp I dunno. I laughed about as much as usual, but I just don't think it will ever be the kind of show that inspires riotous fits of laughter. And I keep finding new ways to compare it to Scrubs. If they start doing fantasy sequences regularly, watch out.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 November 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I did like the that every poster in Abed's room was from a movie from 1985 - 1988, and this fact was never ever remarked upon.
I mean, there was a poster for 'Vibes.' VIBES, people!
― kingfish, Friday, 6 November 2009 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
great episode, esp. vaughn getting garfunkel confused with garfield
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 6 November 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that bit was great, really think the show is coming into its own
― lindsay goham (some dude), Friday, 6 November 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
when the black dude came out to rap about pierce i lost it
― cutty, Friday, 6 November 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"In the last two days, I've spent a quarter."
― kingfish, Friday, 6 November 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
that was definitely my favorite episode so far. it had the most going on. even chevy's prog keyboard solo was pretty inspired.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 November 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Great episode, I think they've finally moved on from introducing the characters and started using them as an ensemble.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 6 November 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"I'm kind of the Hawkeye around here."
^^^this and Annie's over-enthusiastic dice rolling were the biggest lols of the night
― musically, Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
This show has been great and the cast as nearly flawless. The biggest problem I see with it, though, is that the Joel McHale character is, for a protagonist, really unlikable. This last episode the character was improving a bit and moving beyond aloof smartass so hopefully, like Ed said, they're going to start using the characters better and they're done setting them up. I worry that the show could have Arrested Development's problem in that, as funny as it is, the average viewer is turned off by all the eccentrics and the lack of normal, sympathetic characters.
And the "Do you like Dane Cook?" dig at the beginning of the inspirational class episode may have something to do with the fact that NBC was recently debating whether or not Joel or Dane should be given a major push by the network.
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i just realized annie is also trudy campbell
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 7 November 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
The biggest problem I see with it, though, is that the Joel McHale character is, for a protagonist, really unlikable.
― Cunga, Saturday, November 7, 2009 11:54 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
all the more reason for troy to step to the fore
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 7 November 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
btw tiny nipples is rad in aggro mode
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 7 November 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Why on earth was the guy that plays Troy relegated to the role of writer on 30 Rock? Everyone who owned an internet connection back in 2006-07 knew he was a funny actor, and that he belonged in front of the camera.
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe it's just because these skinny jeans makes my ass look like a skinny pumpkin
― cutty, Saturday, 7 November 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
baby pumpkin!
this show got good so fast
― iatee, Saturday, 7 November 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I really hope it doesn't get cancelled :/
― iatee, Saturday, 7 November 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Got a full season pickup. Not sure about the 2nd season yet.
― kingfish, Saturday, 7 November 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't understand what this means. Was Dane Cook going to have a show on the fall schedule at some point? I'm sure he was never considered for Community.
The biggest problem I see with it, though, is that the Joel McHale character is, for a protagonist, really unlikable. This last episode the character was improving a bit and moving beyond aloof smartass so hopefully, like Ed said, they're going to start using the characters better and they're done setting them up.
I understand this, but I disagree with it. I think it's kind of great how they've set up this dynamic where the main character is someone who's always been slick and successful, but screwed up and now has to hang out with the uncool kids, and they keep dancing around the line between sympathetic and unsympathetic. It reminds me a little of the relationship between Sam Malone and the rest of the Cheers gang.
― lindsay goham (some dude), Saturday, 7 November 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah and this was the first episode where they acknowledged that jeff is a loser too
― cutty, Saturday, 7 November 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a friend who was a summer intern and he told me one meeting of tv executives was essentially about whether Dane Cook or Joel McHale would get certain promotional resources. I know no more details other than that Joel McHale had more support (and one female executive, the one my friend was interning for, thought nothing of Joel McHale other than that he was mean and rather unfunny).
I love that dynamic, too, but the very qualities some like about the show (its unapologetic meanness towards Community College, Joel McHale's aloof and sarcastic persona, the comic-pathetic characters) might be a turn-off to NBC's usual audience. But it's changing and McHale might prove more likable. I like it precisely because it doesn't have those usual sitcommish qualities but I just wonder if, like AD, its own unpopularity might come from the show being so different.
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
this show makes community college look 10x more fun than community college is, so I'm not sure it has 'unapologetic meanness'...
― iatee, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
wait you're worried that audiences won't embrace an "aloof and sarcastic" sitcom character? jesus it's like the 90s never happened.
― lindsay goham (some dude), Saturday, 7 November 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I probably am just being nit-picky, but dont' twist my words and be mistaken - I think the double-edged sword is that McHale's sarcasm and the show's tone is more biting than yr average sitcoms, and I'm just wondering out loud on here if that could pose a problem, or not.
iatee: mean in that it makes CC look like a circus of losers. Most other network television gets intentionally ambivalent but this show is content to not please everybody (and I like that about it).
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Have they revealed the reason why Pierce is there? I remember him being a former CEO but have they gone into that backstory?
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
how is this show's tone more biting? seems pretty harmless to me
― cutty, Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
It's all pretty harmless (this is American network television), and occasionally it does cop-out like with the way they try to deal with everybody's problems, "I'm okay, you're okay"-talks, as mentioned upthread, but they go further than most (non-cartoon) network sitcoms would in making fun of people and CC.
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
what people?! seriously who is getting made fun of here? people who go to community college?
― cutty, Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
the characters quirks are why the show is funny, not some biting commentary on american education
Never mind. Let's go back to agreeing that this show is super funny.
― Cunga, Sunday, 8 November 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
DAMN MY TALENT!
― some dude, Friday, 13 November 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Annie = hotter every week.
Also, I really love this show now.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
falling into a drumset really hurts
― cutty, Friday, 13 November 2009 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Revisiting the Spanish rap at the end was priceless.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 13 November 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha kept laughing during this ep. As long as they keep juggling the weekly combos each week, the character building should continue quite well. Annie is starting to show the fact that the actress is like 9 years older than the character.
― kingfish, Friday, 13 November 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah the whole annie/jeff thing is a little creepy given that her character is supposed to be 19ish and his is supposed to be 35ish
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 November 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Annie or Troy being 18 is the one thing that's hard for me to suspend my disbelief.
― ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 13 November 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
her character is supposed to be 19ish and his is supposed to be 35ish
nothing creepy about this ;)
― cutty, Friday, 13 November 2009 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
whoah is she really supposed to be 19? that was totally lost on me
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
her and Troy are right out of HS
― cutty, Friday, 13 November 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
that was part og the reason jeff was so skeeved out by his attraction to her
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 November 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, shit, i was thinking of the blonde one
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Brunette = Annie. Blonde = Britta.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
riiiight
how old is britta supposed to be?
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
mid 20s?
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
great ;)
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Love that all the movie characters all kind look like the group and then there is the coolio troy.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Britta was revealed to be 27.
― Cunga, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link