http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/emmys-communitys-dan-harmon/#more-141211
‘Meta’ isn’t even a word.
― lol j/k simmons (history mayne), Sunday, 19 June 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
DEADLINE: Why did you pick a community college as a sitcom setting?HARMON: I went to community college in Glendale when I was 32. I had an emotional experience there that I bookmarked for mainstream television. A fish out-of-water experience. I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life. I was playing this game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.
this is interesting, i'd never heard anything before about the show's premise having an autobiographical origin. kind of a good way to circle back to the concerns itt back when the show started that it was just mean ridiculing of community college from people who just think of it as a punchline and have no personal experiences in a place like that.
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
he talked about it a few times
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 June 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh i'm sure he has, but i've read a ton of interviews w/ the guy and it'd never come up in any of those, so it was a mild surprise to me
― ForbezDVDelsen (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
and hadn't been mentioned itt either
its been on the wikipedia page forev
― flopson, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
im sorta ashamed of how much i like this show
― Lamp, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
d.harmon interviews def not doing anything to alleviate that feeling either
― Lamp, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
dude is thoughtful -- even tho I've read so much material from him since season finale that I kinda feel like: dude, you have too much free time! make something shiny and new and stop talking about your perfect show!
― Mordy, Monday, 20 June 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
That huge thing he wrote for Onion AV Club is a good read but really really long. Dude must love writing about himself whole lot.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
p sure that was transcription
― underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have pwned (sic), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
yes it was an interview w/ harmon, not written by harmon himself.
― Clay, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
adam bruneau as joe morgan in moneyball
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― more delta than delta (symsymsym), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
so I was reading Futebol, a 2002 book about soccer in Brazil, and I came across:
"In Sao Paulo crowds would hold up different colored cards to form an image visible at a distance - a technique that was popularized internationally decades later at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Brazil were streets ahead of the rest of the world."
― get at me frog (symsymsym), Thursday, 7 July 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Rewatched the first season last weekend. Didn't realize how much the Dean's Dalmatian Furry fetish was set up.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 7 July 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Streets Ahead is a dance and performing arts school in Ireland. Located in Dublin, its junior crew placed 3rd in the World Hip hop Championships 2006. Three more teams from the school qualified for the world Hip Hop Championships in 2007. In which the junior crew placed 4th.The junior also received second place in Eurobattle qualifiers 2007 and were asked to travel to Portugal to participate in a competition.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 July 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
sym3: holy crap! awesome
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 7 July 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
I never quite understand this: "streets ahead" has been a phrase as long as I can remember - perhaps it is just a britishes thing?
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
ah, I had never heard it before Community. /Canadian
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
I think Harmon used it because someone tweeted "Big Bang Theory is streets ahead of Community," so he made it the catchphrase of the douchiest character.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
there's a Harmon interview somewhere where he talks about how he thought "streets ahead" was just that one guy's weird jargon and then felt silly when it turned out to be a somewhat widely used phrase
― some dude, Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
I know I'm not a good judge of ubiquity here since I'm a massive Anglophile but that is hilarious to me
― DJP, Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
"Stop trying to make it work, England"
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
also it was Modern Family that was streets ahead
― some dude, Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't realize how much the Dean's Dalmatian Furry fetish was set up.
the beauty is that it wasn't just the endpoint that was set up—it was the process of something 'awakening' in him
― j., Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
did not know it was a britishes thing, though googling made it clear /Canadian (I think I need this tag for all my posts)
― get at me frog (symsymsym), Friday, 8 July 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
This is a really funny show. Good time for the US sitcom at the moment.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Not right this moment though, they're all on summer holidays.
― that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
WOULD THAT THIS HOODIE WERE A TIME-HOODIE
― bro, die (some dude), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol i find 'streets ahead' hilares now but it is an unremarkable phrase in britland
― would s*m*a*s*h 1994 (history mayne), Sunday, 10 July 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
"Streets Ahead" may even have been a brand at C&A, iirc which I probably don't.
― kinder, Monday, 11 July 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
Streets Ahead is still a way lame phrase.
― President Keyes, Monday, 11 July 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
it sounds like an alternate title for "the warriors" no?
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Two of my favorite sitcoms are on right now so it ain't too shabby.
― polyphonic, Monday, 11 July 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Well, comedies anyway.
funny how this show entered, with its 2nd season, the sort of indulgent, adventurous phase that many shows don't reach until much later. i def. enjoy all the "concept" episodes, although the "documentary" one was relatively naff.
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
do you mean the one with Pierce in the hospital? because the Levar Burton stuff was gold.
― Gukbe, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah levar burton was good, but the episode lacked coherence, i thought.
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 11 July 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
louie + curb?
― Mordy, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
louie + childrens hospital, but curb is back now too!
― polyphonic, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah, childrens is hilarious. three amazing sitcoms at once! what a summer!
― Mordy, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
Britta is really really fit, BTW.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Friday, 15 July 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
^^
― Psyduck is My Spirit Animal (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 15 July 2011 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
my Paramount studio tour went all over the set on Tuesday. Have never seen the show.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 July 2011 10:00 (twelve years ago) link
^^ jealous! when i went to california with my cousins last month we did an informal nbc comedy set tour, we visited the dunder-mifflin building from the office (it's in van nuys) and pawnee city hall from parks and rec (really pasadena city hall).
― reddening, Friday, 15 July 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
And next season they're joined by...
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 23 July 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
SWEET
― drowning cool (some dude), Saturday, 23 July 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh man
― g++ (gbx), Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck yeah.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link