Community, the tv show

Jokes, some dude, not sarcasm. The difference is all in the vocal inflect...ohhhhhh, riiiiiiiight.

People looking for the top ten worst things about stuff is kind of a lot of the problem with this thread, imo.

i have zero gripes with the show tbh i just think it's funny to watch the thread flail

I hope they do get Bill Murray, as it will complete both the relationships and the metarelationships in the show

Watched last week's ep just to bump up the number on Hulu. Jim Rash really does kill every line he has. I agree with something TVDW wrote, that the only false/off note in the ep was Andre suddenly switching up his attitude at the rehearsal.

Drunk Britta is awesome.

Actually my favourite bit of the episode was Andre going "don't try your sexy voice with me" and the rest of the study group suddenly going "OH!".

Also, I liked Annie's lexicon of various chirps.

the only false/off note in the ep was Andre suddenly switching up his attitude at the rehearsal.

I do actually agree with this. I think they could've given MJW another take or two to mellow out the harshness of the vibe he was putting off there.

This definitely bugged me at first, but on subsequent viewings I noticed Andre and Shirley talking in the background during whatever what happening in the study room. So it could be argued that a discussion was had, and a realization arrived at by Andre, but we didn't witness it.

I did appreciate them showing a glimpse of what prompted Shirley to leave Andre in the first place; when Andre first showed up he was so nice and charming and seemingly reasonable that it was hard to reconcile with the "he cheated on me" bastard specter Shirley kept talking about. While the charm showed why it was plausible that Shirley would fall for him in the first place, the nicey-niceness didn't match the picture Shirley painted of him.

Anxious, upset, thinking-of-himself Andre at the rehearsal, who was prepared to step on Shirley's dreams to put his own dollhouse back together, made a lot more sense. Bringing back the charm and nicey-niceness in his abrupt acceptance of Shirley's changes is either a sign that his character is genuinely beginning to grow and change as well, or an indicator that he uses his charm as a weapon to deceive and trick Shirley into doing what he wants her to do.

^ this guy knows what's up

I also think it was the set-up to a visual gag, namely that self-centered Jeff and Britta's fake drunk wedding takes center stage, while Andre and Shirley are literally out of focus, way off on the background, talking.

this show is like a comedy onion

Yes, thinking-of-himself Andre, who earlier that day hired singers and dancers to do a big marriage proposal in a very public place.

I loved that he had the singers on retainer, they were cracking me up

I saw the clip of the proposal as a teaser and somehow it gets funnier every time I see or think about it

Gillian on Janet Varney's podcast:

http://www.nerdist.com/2012/03/the-jv-club-3-gillian-jacobs/

Yes, thinking-of-himself Andre, who earlier that day hired singers and dancers to do a big marriage proposal in a very public place.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:26 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tv trope 101 is that HE does it to get a huge amount of attention to something HE is doing for someone else.

I think this about any person who organizes a big public proposal. It's gross.

occasionally hilarious.

esp when it culminates with rejection...

i once overdosed on schadenfreude, youtube-ing proposal rejections.

xpost - stadium ones are the best.

http://www.youtube.com/results?q=proposal%2Brejection&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=w1

oh no, there goes my day

"Some results have been removed because SafetyMode is enabled by your network administrator" = "You don't know what you're missing, Dan"

Tonight's episode was brilliant. Started out slightly meh, but soon went galactic.

That...was French Stewart playing the French Stewart impersonator, wasn't it?

yeah, definitely. that chang closing bit was great

Wow, this show and I might be on the outs.

I'm a little intrigued: normally, there is plenty of discussion after a Community ep so I might not be the only one who feels this way.

i dunno about that second half.

That was just self-parody: not about a community college study group, not about advancing the characters' relationships, not about anything except the show's own tropes. The characters were just weak caricatures of themselves.

xpost

I think the only time I laughed was at "both versions of Michael Jackson".

Hm, OK, maybe some Troy/Abed stuff is important. Still, felt off somehow.

that chang closing bit was great

no it wasn't

What an awful, awful show that god is punishing us with.

Guys Chang was pretty awful this episode, but I liked the rest of it! The bit with Troy and Abed in the bedroom was kinda sweet and touching! lolled hard at the meta evil twin thing

i kind of just don't like chang, in general

Oh, man. Did you not get the memo? Yeah, we hate this thing we loved a couple months back. We're only still watching because we hate ourselves too much to watch stuff we actually like. NBD.

also this ep mostly sucked. i liked dean's reaction to jeff in aviators

Chang was the worst part but I also thought the whole premise of Abed being addicted to renting celebrity impersonators was dumb and self-parodic (as I may have alluded to) and completely unengaging. Same with the way the Jeff plot was handled: the way his narcissism was dealt with in e.g. the pottery class episode worked so much better. This was so heavy-handed.

lolled hard at the meta evil twin thing

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:47 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"is this too dark?"
"maybe for them."

^^^^^ hoos otm

Thats not meta thats a Star Trek riff. And didn't they already do an evil twin episode? Or am i thinking Futurama or something?

its a Star Trek riff AND a meta reference. yr mind = blown.

Pssh. The only thing Community is capable of blowing at this point is itself, amirite? (derisive snort)

you're tiresome.

Thats not meta thats a Star Trek riff. And didn't they already do an evil twin episode?

"Evil Troy and Abed" appeared in the 'chaos theory' ep.

you're tiresome.

^ imagining that being said by this character:
http://pics.livejournal.com/notasoldier/pic/0000f4cz/s640x480

senor chang used to be funny, but no longer, alas

abeds at the end was . . . promising? hope they try to retrieve him, expect it'll be ignored

tbf if my apt had a dreamatorium i'd be in there 24/7

If the rest of the season is going in the direction of the latest episode, I am strapping the fuck in for this ride.

senor chang used to be funny, but no longer, alas

Was great as a fraudulent Spanish teacher, so lame as an insane security guard.

http://pics.livejournal.com/notasoldier/pic/0000f4cz/s640x480

every time i see this i think its vince vaughn