Community, the tv show

Sadly, I think the Law & Order ep will never live up to what I imagine: Detective Munch walking in to investigate the crime in Greendale; Troy and Abed recoiling in horror as they realise they're part of the Westphall universe and spending the episode trying to prove that this isn't the real Munch...

cool cool cool

hot... hot... hot

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Where do I know Sub Way from?

i think he was Dudemeister from Scrubs?

wasn't he in 30 rock?

i think he was Dudemeister from Scrubs?

Lady Scrubs' boyfriend, right?

OH - great episode. The Britta-1984 romance plot was excellent.

Yeah, that's him.

Loved this week's Magnitude appearance, and this is definitely one of the better product placement workarounds I've seen.

Also, I love the way Shirley will sometimes say "Brit-ta".

at one point britta was eating popchips

The 'get my coat' exchange was the best.

I figured as much last week, but I feel much more certain at this point that pieces are being positioned in anticipation of a season(ish)-long story arc of some sort.

in some pre-season interviews Harmon talked a bit about watching the wire all summer and wondering if you could do big long arcs like that on a sitcom and that it was his goal to try, so yeah, probably.

He also said somewhere that serialization is a crutch.

Anyway, "Britta Unfiltered" "I get it!"

Rash brought it during the coat rack bit.

Loved this week's Magnitude appearance, and this is definitely one of the better product placement workarounds I've seen.

"Pop pop, captain."

"But we saved Garrett!"

"Did we?"

at one point britta was eating popchips

I didn't even get the coat rack bit! My o/h had to explain it to me!

what was the 'get my coat' thing?

I dug this ep. I loved the sword noises and gunshots during the fight scene at the end

Watched the last two eps tonight:

We know that they can bridge universes b/c that's what happened in model U.N./Crisis Alert ep. Evil Abed showing up and Chang building his personal guard of 13-year-old jewish kids were nice little set-ups for the rest of the season. I enjoyed all the meta-Seacrest jokes, including the ones that chimed in with those Joel himself makes on The Soup. Also, nice Incredible Hulk tv-show ending ref at the end.

Curious to see if John Oliver makes an appearance at all.

I didn't even get the coat rack bit! My o/h had to explain it to me!

― kinder, Friday, 30 March 2012 06:46 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what was the 'get my coat' thing?

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 06:50 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he had a boner from listening to the tapes

eat fresh? eat fresh? eat fresh.

I didn't even realize it until I watched it a second time, but Chang wasn't in last night's episode at all. And I think I preferred it that way.

xxpost ohhhhhh that's awesome

We know that they can bridge universes b/c that's what happened in model U.N./Crisis Alert ep.

are you serious

Imma be completely honest with y'all: I thought the coat exchange was just a non-sequitur and pretty funny on that level. It didn't occur to me that there were layers, I guess because my mind isn't in the gutter.

the best part of that whole exchange was the Dean's face as he looked from the dude to the coat rack and back

Jim Rash = <3

Thinking out loud: this was better than last week's, more like decent Simpsons as opposed to crap Simpsons, but I still feel like something has been lost. Like, it was clever that they did the whole 1984 thing but the 'corpo-humanoid student' idea just seemed kind of dumb and contrived to begin with. If it was supposed to be some kind of satirical comment on corporate power (?), it's too OTT and not pointed enough. If it's not, it's just ... trying too hard for a laugh? I dunno, something like the chicken fingers mafia worked because i) it actually illuminated things about the characters and their relationships ii) it was funny because I could totally imagine people being really desperate for the one edible thing in a college cafeteria. Same with e.g. Abed's stop-motion wonderland. I liked the 'Kim' thing though.

Btw, I only expect great things from Community because it delivered them so consistently in the first two seasons. If it really were just a simple sitcom with nothing to it beyond jokes, I don't think there would be such a long thread about it (any more than there would be for Modern Family or Big Bang Theory).

are you serious

what, you don't think they wouldn't use this?

we're really not getting enough meta ilx laughs out of the fact that the fast food chain Subway is a sinister force in recent episodes of "Community"

john goodman was awesome. loved this episode.

i recognized Subway from It's Always Sunny...
also didn't realize the *ahem* implied circumstances with the coat bit either!

we're really not getting enough meta ilx laughs out of the fact that the fast food chain Subway is a sinister force in recent episodes of "Community"

is this why whiney hates it?

whiney hates it bc people like it iirc

also didn't realize the *ahem* implied circumstances with the coat bit either!

Yeah, I didn't get that until it was explained on this thread.

and the scene was great regardless.

same here, i didn't get it while i was watching it, but it was still really funny

what is so hard about boner jokes

i think about how much time it took for you people to get it and i think "really? that long?"

throw me a frickin penis

i didn't get it till reading it here either. why must you taint our innocence.

balls to you zachlyon

you're both close, but no cigar

i didn't even mean the 'taint' bit. LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE.

My first viewing of a Community episode tends to be somewhat inadequate and not terribly penetrating. I'm generally a much less sloppy viewer the second time around.

plus you don't want to blow your load too early

Well, yeah, I've learned the hard way how disappointed people in this thread can get when there's a premature congratulation.

we're really not getting enough meta ilx laughs out of the fact that the fast food chain Subway is a sinister force in recent episodes of "Community"

yes i was laughing really hard at how the episode was developing, but it was really not going to be worth it to try to explain to my wife the additional levels of hilarity