"sourface"
― Mordy, Friday, 18 March 2011 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Good ep. Like the incidental use of "Tall Kyle" by Britta - arbitrary throw-away detail.
― Comics can't all be syringes and scalpels poised before eyes. y'know? (R Baez), Friday, 18 March 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't get the ending (at the table). could someone explain?
― bakumastah, Friday, 18 March 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Presumably what the actual study sessions are like, minus wacky shenanigans and sub-plots.
― Comics can't all be syringes and scalpels poised before eyes. y'know? (R Baez), Friday, 18 March 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
the devices they were using were progressively more modern, but not sure i got it other than that
― rockapads, Friday, 18 March 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't see the whole thing because my DVR cut it off. Thought the joke was that Pearce was using a calculator when everyone else was texting or something. What devices were everyone using?
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 March 2011 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah you're right, i re-watched the end. jeff = texting on phone, annie = laptop, shirley = phone texting, pierce = old adding machine, troy droid 2 looking thing, abed = ipad 2 it looked like, britta = txting on phone
― rockapads, Friday, 18 March 2011 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i think its mostly just an observational joke abt how much time ppl spend texting or w/e when theyre hanging out w/ friends
― nu rave electro banger coked out art school college party (Lamp), Friday, 18 March 2011 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah maybe so. also looked like troy & abed may have both been gaming
― rockapads, Friday, 18 March 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
old adding machine? I'm not THAT old but it looked like just a regular old calculator. Not like he whipped out an abacus or something!
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 March 2011 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, yeah, you're right. guess i was thinking of this http://www.kegcoat.com/howtoguides/AddingMachine.htm
― rockapads, Friday, 18 March 2011 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the saw jokes, but thought Chang was getting a little too cartoony for even that character.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
YES. I absolutely agree.
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 March 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno, if they're even going to keep Chang in the show, it seems unlikely at this point to ever bring him back down to the "normal" level of the main characters ever again (like say the episode with his ex-wife from last year), so I guess that's why they just keep ramping him up
His best moment this season has gotta be that one at the end of the drug play episode after Shirley forgives him, and he just says "I'll tell Chang when I see him!" with the most stone cold serial killer vibe
― Nhex, Friday, 18 March 2011 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"...I haven't Chang-ed that many women."
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 March 2011 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Not the greatest episode, but I'm such a stan for this show now I get untold amounts of joy from things like Troy's "what was that?" after Britta's Genie in a Bottle thing.
― Gukbe, Friday, 18 March 2011 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
speaking of which, this was just posted to Ken Jeong's FB page:
http://www.screenjunkies.com/tv/tv-lists/16-hilarious-animated-gifs-of-senor-chang-from-community/
xp
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 18 March 2011 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
This one's so excellent
http://cdn2.screenjunkies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/chang-chew.gif
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 March 2011 06:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I see your Annie's boobs and raise you Jeff's nipples.
― ThirtyPennies, Friday, 18 March 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think Jeff "Nipple Player" Winger is necessarily a reference to his own nipples
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, Donald Glover's timing and delivery on lines like that is fucking genius.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 18 March 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i want one of the post-paintball hoodies
― Aerosol, Friday, 18 March 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I assumed it was, given the pasties callback at the police station.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 18 March 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't get the end bit
― nultimate fighting champ (cozen), Friday, 18 March 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
was a joke about what happens when they don't have wacky adventures.
― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 March 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
also was a joke about ppl hanging out together everyone on their own little tech device
― Mordy, Friday, 18 March 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
+more Pierce & Annie, who were just in the cold open.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 March 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The end was, like, a total lazy, shit joke, which I feel like is really rare for Community.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Friday, 18 March 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
It was okay, but even the most half-cooked Troy & Abed in the Morning joke would've been better.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 March 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Pierce made it worth it for me
― da croupier, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
The funniest part about Britta's 'Genie in a Bottle' thing was Britta's 'Genie in a Bottle' thing. It basically set up me laughing at everything Britta said or did for the rest of the episode.
― U2 the musical by Spiderman (CaptainLorax), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Friday, March 18, 2011 4:48 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
bring it up w/ yr boys glover and pudi coz it's their bit
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i dind't get this joke either. maybe there was some dinosaur pregnancies in the background we didn't notice?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I bet Annie's Boobs is running around in the background or something...that, or it's a setup for a future joke.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 18 March 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I totally think that's possible and would be awesome, but I also think there's the distinct possibility that sometimes comedy writers write a lazy "observational humor in our wacky future times" joke.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Friday, 18 March 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw it as sort of a 'what would each character's style of handheld device be?' conversation between writers, maybe it wasn't supposed to be funny. I was definitely thinking idgi afterward though.
― rockapads, Friday, 18 March 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it was supposed to be "this is what real ppl do when they get together in groups, ignore each other in favor of technology." which is true, but not exactly lols-a-minute.
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Friday, 18 March 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i have a friend (A FRIEND!) who's in some sort of D&D-esque gaming group and apparently they've devolved to just sitting around on their laptops ignoring each other.
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Friday, 18 March 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The episode confused me because my DVR told me it was going to be the "pulp fiction" episode and then it totally wasn't.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
was a joke about what happens when they don't have wacky adventures.― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Friday, March 18, 2011 8:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
also was a joke about ppl hanging out together everyone on their own little tech device― Mordy, Friday, March 18, 2011 8:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
really? was that it? guess sometimes community just isn't funny. will have to ~adjust~ to this new information
― nultimate fighting champ (cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm guessing that it was a way to mess with regular viewers of the show. when the camera turned to pierce i was really expecting something to happen. the idea of a 'how people behave in this situation' joke just doesn't fit with my picture of the show.
english is not my native language so i would appreciate any corrections to my posts. especially when it comes to grammar.
― bakumastah, Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
a lot of their little ending segments are kind of deliberately simple or expectation-defying, and really who watches those and goes "gahh they totally wasted those 15 seconds, i'm losing my faith in this show"
― some dude, Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Am I missing the joke with the paintball sweatshirt text?
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it was a meta joek about fans who claimed that the show went downhill from that episode
― Mordy, Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp i know but it was the first time that i asked myself 'what just happened?' after the last segment. all previous endings, even if not connected to the plot of the episode, were just simple and straigthforward fun.
― bakumastah, Saturday, 19 March 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
and i never said that those segments have any influence on how i rate this show.
― bakumastah, Saturday, 19 March 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
geez you guys, even my mom "got it" (and enjoyed the observational humor)
― U2 the musical by Spiderman (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 19 March 2011 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cache.reelzchannel.com/assets/content/article/norman_bates.gif
― rockapads, Saturday, 19 March 2011 07:06 (thirteen years ago) link
no uhttp://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4351/50313349402850000643602.jpg
― U2 the musical by Spiderman (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 19 March 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
liked the horn gag best
― Darin, Sunday, 20 March 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link