Community, the tv show

haha dude didn't notice at all that none of the "clips" had been shown before

:)

omg this person has never seen a clip show

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tbh it got very boring very fast so i didn't read it

tbh though i'm glad there are people like this who love the show even though it's going completely over their heads, that demographic is probably the one keeping them on the air

I know about bottle episodes only because Community did one earlier this season, in a show called "Cooperative Calligraphy."

basically this guy needed Abed to say "OK, we're doing a clip show" at the beginning of the episode for him to get it

otm

He kind of acknowledges the "this never happened bit" later on, but kudos for managing to read that far, I only came across it by skimming:

"Oh, the deputy's badge from when we spent the day in that old ghost town," he says. This is a key moment, because we're sure the group never did spend a day in a ghost town in any of the previous episodes, and it didn't plausibly happen in any case.

im not sure who that kind of article is meant for. it's too entry-level for people who have seen the show. we don't need him to describe the cast. but it's too long and boring for anyone who hasn't seen it. or anyone who has.

The Clerks tv show would really blow this guy's mind, since the 2nd episode was a clip show.

im not sure who that kind of article is meant for.

For people who don't watch sitcoms but will check it out now that someone has deemed it the most smartest of all.

stupid article but if it keeps the show alive for a 4th season i can't complain

yeah im sure the comcast execs are poring over it as we type

does anyone have an email addy for slate's editors? have a pitch for them about parks and rec.

sometimes you r pretty obtuse. do u think maybe slate's reading audience might bring better numbers to the show and help it stick around longer if slate keeps writing fawning articles about it?

Slate is the weirdest site. They have a Culture Gabfest podcast where like 2 weeks ago they first discovered this show called "Breaking Bad".

Culture Gabfest is a horrendous joke. I listen to it on occasion out of a masochistic urge to hear middle-class idiots try to reconcile what is popular with their limited understanding of culture.

sometimes you r pretty obtuse. do u think maybe slate's reading audience might bring better numbers to the show and help it stick around longer if slate keeps writing fawning articles about it?

― Mordy, Friday, August 26, 2011 3:54 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

fair point, but i did already say no non-viewer would get past paragraph one

The Clerks tv show would really blow this guy's mind, since the 2nd episode was a clip show.

― President Keyes, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:35 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol wut

the Clerks animated show is probably the best Kevin Smith project released and that second episode is why; it basically does the exact same thing as the "Community" episode

it's also probably a large reason as to why there are only 6 episodes of Clerks, lol

except that it did flash back to a clip from the first episode every time iirc?

Clerks was canceled after that 2nd episode. The other 4 came out on DVD later.

Also, ABC only aired episodes #4 and 2, so the flashbacks to Ep. #1 didn't make any sense--or perhaps functioned as the Community flashbacks did.

KNOWLEDGE

steez is abed level yo

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/09/yay-new-community-preview

ok i generally think the dean is the least funny character, but if he's now modelling himself on walter white, that is something else

I don't know how a song and dance number fits into the story, but lol @ the line "we're gonna have more fun and be less weird than the first two years combined."

http://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/k3kls/i_just_had_a_facesmack_realization/

season 2 dvd is out! i put it in my netflix queue, and noticed that the capsule description of the show calls Abed "a film student with Asperger's." the show's never officially diagnosed him, has it?

no and that description is annoying

seriously

abed is a student of human nature

Abed is deliberately 90 deg out if phase with everyone else, and with the show as a written creation.

I think Dan's addiction to TVTropes might feed into this.

IIRC, in one of the early episodes, Jeff answered something Abed said with "...and you have Asperger's", which was the most blatent reference, although (grain of salt ready) the line is more about Jeff being a dick than whatever it is that makes Abed Abed.

yeah, early on they obv intended Abed to be strictly aspie, then pulled back from this, eg "Abed The Undiagnosable"

yeah they definitely tiptoe around it and make a show of not pinning him down to anything like that -- Big Bang Theory walks that line even more precariously with Sheldon

seems pedantic to think too much about it. they can have more fun with it this way.

15 MINUTES, Y'ALL!!!

"Can it, boobs!"

Felt off, airless, a bit too predictable. Did Cougartown really need to be a continuing thing? Would prefer it if they just moved moved moved.

Did like the Doctor Who bit, though.

I hope that's the last show for a while where the group analyzes its own dynamic. I thought it was a good episode, but that topic is stale.

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I hope that's the last show for a while where the group analyzes its own dynamic. I thought it was a good episode, but that topic is stale.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it's the kind of thing that head writers like to talk about in extensive online interviews but nobody else gives a shit about. just give us the funny.

<3 all the British TV stuff.

Cougarton Abbey

hopefully pierce being back in the group means an end to the in-fighting plotlines, because that was old last season. less yelling, more zings!

but still some quality stuff tonight. i liked shirley quietly suggesting they use abed's catatonia as a chance to baptize him.

liked the 2001 and Shining nods but would've liked a full blown Kubrick ep more

I was dying already the instant Abed said "I'm on episode six", enough that my wife paused the episode and made me explain why I was laughing so hard and I said pretty much what Britta said 20 seconds later when we pushed play again.

I'm annoyed they just didn't use Dr Who and used some lame stand in.

Ep was kinda lame, but they always start slow. Not feeling the lizard but I <3 the 'lets breaking bad together' w/ omar line.

'Cut it boobs' p much the only line i lol'd at, along with the rectum bit.

Nah that was great, I hope it's the new Kickpuncher.

Episode was fun but kinda felt like they were trying to cram too much in, maybe the Dean/Goodman stuff could have waited an episode or two. Better than the start of S2 though. Shirley had most of the best moments although the idea of Chang as the security guard has serious lol potential.