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Chevy gets some of the best one liners but also some of the clunkiest bits, and if some of those are his own idea that might explain a lot.

don't forget the faltermeyer multiplier helps fletch.

chevy's really funny, i love his bits. but the show can live without him. i'd rather it didn't though.

the faltermeyer multiplier would make a fantastic display name

ENBB & I saw Joel McHale today! There was no time to shout "six seasons and a movie" :(

should've shouted, "I compare you to a kiss from a rose!"

at the risk of drawing the wrath of the fans (again): that had to be the worst episode of the season so far, right? i love britta (easily my favorite character) but her whole plot just seemed tonally off and not very funny

i am also more of a chang fan than other people but the chevy/chang plotline was awful

yeah both plots were super weak and this was probably in the bottom half of episodes this season, but still plenty of lols. like Annie's "laugh" when they were talking about Jeff not being able to make women crazy and pretty much all of Jim Rash. the end was pretty sweet, closing all the knowing glances with Abed and Troy.

yeah this was weak

Pierce & Chang was weaksauce and should've been awesome

I didn't love it, but that just means it was "Bart's Girlfriend" rather than "Lisa On Ice." The Chang/Pierce b-story was completely pointless and dull, but I loved the texting hijinx. And even though the dean seemed shoehorned into Troy & Abed's apartment, it worked because Rash is brilliant.

Rash is awesome

Most of this ep was dumb but I liked the texting/fake carnival

dean was funny, esp. the "what's wrong annie? when you came out of the room, you looked happy, but then your smile slowly faded into a frown and now you look upset" line (paraphrased obv)

Also everyone questioning the Dean's presence and his wounded reaction every time made me chuckle

abed's delivery of "yes" after troy asked "do you wanna watch blade tonight?" was perfect

but yeah, ep wasn't great, the ending of the britta plot felt like it was developed from some 'girls only like assholes' nice guy(tm) bullshit which is exactly what i would expect from ugh harmon's annoying side

I dunno, it was kinda silly but it was fun. I love Abed's "Guys I'm going to need your help reacting to something" when Dean shows up at the door

haha yeah that was great too

I dunno, partially it's just that anything was going to feel like a letdown after last week but... they put Jeff and Shirley together and then had Jeff totally ignore her (boo) plus the whole Chang/Pierce thing didn't work (aside from the "first fight" gag, which I enjoyed)

The moment of the episode was Annie's fake carny laugh.

part of my distance from the episode was the feeling that I'd seen Caper Annie be funnier in previous episodes (chloroforming the security guard at the law firm party, macing herself, sending Abed on a wild goose chase to cover up that she broke his DVD, etc)

Rash is awesome

"boy, this guy doesn't give vampires a square inch of leeway"

The moment of the episode was Annie's fake carny laugh.

― Träumerei, Friday, April 13, 2012 10:07 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Quite a few good lines.

"Her pain unifies us!"

"Annie, subdue your guest."

"That's right, Britta. It's a banana!"

people who have been watching this since the beginning and loved s1/s2: has the show totally fallen off or am i just getting tired of its shtick(s)

oh boy you are about to be the brunt of a slew of sarcastic posts from a one mr. deric haircare (yes it has fallen off)

s1ocki: The best episodes from s3 are as good as any from the first two but it's much less consistent imo. And the worst eps of s3 really blow. I'm one of the people who wishes it was still more grounded in the school setting at least some of the time.

But, weirdly, while I've been pretty critical of this season, I actually enjoyed this one all right. Not mind-blowing but a perfectly fine ep imo. Unlike with "Urban Matrimony" or "Contemporary Impressionists", the storylines in this all made sense to me and resolved well. I like that they finally came back to the Troy/Britta tension they'd developed earlier in the season, returned to the AC repair story with Troy, and continued to develop the Annie/Jeff thing. Also, and not least importantly, there were good laughs. "I need help reacting to something" was my favourite.

the ending of the britta plot felt like it was developed from some 'girls only like assholes' nice guy(tm) bullshit

I think it was more "lack of self-consciousness is attractive".

i think there should be a rule that people refer to television episodes "friends"-style ('that one where they...') rather than use their actual titles cuz i never know those.

Some fall-off, not unsalvageable. They should have picked a funnier subject than Biology.

Ha, I forgot that they were taking biology together! Has that class even come up since the first couple of episodes?

im probably the 20th person to say this in this thread but besides the occasionally funny pun they pretty much ruined chang eh

I think it was more "lack of self-consciousness is attractive".

i was talking more about the one-nice-text-from-nice-guy-troy-immediately-turns-britta-off thing and then annie becoming a writer mouthpiece even though she's in love with jeff.

anyway does anyone else just feel like the hiatus has had a negative effect on the episodes? harmon was talking about how there's a definite difference in tone because the staff was all bummed. imo these post-hiatus eps just haven't been as good. your agreement/disagreement probably hinges on whether or not you enjoyed the pillow fight civil war (it didn't do much for me).

imo last night was way way better than the other episodes since they came back (which i wasn't gonna hate on itt because this thread had enough drama but really some of those were pretty depressing)

i just watched the ken burns one, it was pretty blah i thought aside from some good jokes. like ppl said upthread not going FULL ken burns style kinda ruined the joke.

oh boy you are about to be the brunt of a slew of sarcastic posts from a one mr. deric haircare

You'll be very pleased to know that I've been effectively dissuaded from ever again commenting on this show on ILX. Congratulations!

we broke u

"Digital Exploration of Interior Design" (the 1984 one) was up there with their best. Otherwise, some dude OTM.

i feel like i missed that one what happened in it

the episode names are so obnoxious

s1ocki: It's the one where a person is enabled to represent the 'collective humanity' of Subway Inc, enrols as a student, and then has a relationship with Britta? I think it's still up on the Citytv site.

(Yeah, it is.)

(It's better than that description sounds.)

x-post can we just have some kind of shorthand for this kind of talk so we don't have to read the 200th iteration of it? Like NAGAS2: Not as good as Season 2.

i did see that one, it was ok

Wait a minute, didn't they film all these, along with the other ones, before the hiatus? I can't really think of a way to find this out but I was under the impression they write and shoot these all in one block.

I was under the impression the hiatus was pretty much a scheduling thing. Does anyone here work in TV? How is a show like this shot? I imagine they shot this entire season last fall before airing the first ep.

only part of the last episode that bugged me was pierce/chang. This is the second time they've had a non diagetic song play while someone gets pointlessly emotional with Chang (remember Britta and "Hello"?) and it's just beneath them.

xp harmon said that the eps we saw after the hiatus were all written and filmed after it had started. unless i'm misremembering.

I'm a big Ken Jeong defendant but it feels like the writers have no sense of Chang's character beyond incoherent wackiness at this point, would not be upset if they got rid of him.

lol defender, I mean