Community, the tv show

"is related"

I don't even think Big Bang Theory or Modern Family get this weak about basic writing.

xp ime valedictorian has never been "the smartest" or really the most anything, it's always been the person who really wants to be valedictorian and has spent their entire time in school primping up their credentials, so that part makes sense to me

no, valedictorian is the person with the highest gpa? which just sort of happens if you work hard to get good grades?

They keep bringing up that they got a C+ on that last thing.

fuck this show -- *totally* unrealistic portrayal of community college grade point averages

That's not anyone's criticism, though.

This was mostly funny, although it's super telling that Abed impersonating Troy had more chemistry with Britta than actual Troy.

Dean was episode MVP

xp yeah but highest gpa doesn't mean smartest

is that the normal standard/definition for valedictorian? i always thought it involved an application process and stuff

Dean was episode MVP

It was a really good acting performance but I'm pretty burned out on his obsession with Jeff - and this was an especially weird way to express it.

xp yeah but highest gpa doesn't mean smartest

It doesn't have to but Annie's character was previously established as smart, hard-working, and pretty honest.

I swear that episode last night was very reminiscent of an episode of My Little Pony. This is what happens when I watch an episode of Community now.

I had a hamburger the other day and suddenly I'm not cold all the time.

that one was sort of vintage. i'm getting used to laughing once per episode.

Yeah, one real banger per ep this season. Yogurts-burgh is up there, too.

They gave Britta a Kieslowski reference.

Yeah, that was good. She totally Britta'd the pronunciation.

Thought the concept was pretty good but it wasn't funny enough. Also you get the feeling that old Community would have done more to make the Troy and Annie origin stories tie in with the others a bit more.

Also the substitute Pierce was lame.

Incidentally I hope Chang's "they'd give a degree to a monkey" line was foreshadowing the season actually ends with Annie's Boobs graduating from Greendale.

rip

Last night's was...ok. About as decent (if sometimes forced) a wrapup as you could expect at this point. It was written and directed by Harmon-era vets (Ganz and Shapeero), which probably accounts for most of the jokes landing, even if going back to the multiple-timelines well was a bit cheap.

I'm assuming they didn't announce cancellation yesterday because the finale hadn't yet aired, but if this was being renewed it probably would have been announced along with Parks & Rec

This was the dumbest fucking thing

When Abed announced that none of it was real and it was all happening in Jeff's head I went "oh thank god" because I really couldn't take it anymore, and then they had fucking "6 seasons and a movie" written on the chalkboard in the graduation scene and I wanted to scream "nooooooooo"

Watching that felt like being forced to watch how much someone else is enjoying jacking off

6 seasons and a movie is literally the most annoying meme ever propagated via television

otm. Like I love Arrested Development to death, I've rewatched those three seasons over and over so many times it's ridiculous. But there's really no way you could do 6 seasons and a movie of THAT show and not have a ton of duds in there.

I also really like when bands play a song live and it's a minute or 30 seconds long, then they stop and immediately go into the next one, and it's also a minute long.

Haven't watched this ep, but read the AV Club eulogy last night. As long as it makes me laugh as much as usual it's fine w me.

I laughed exactly once

And it's not even that I require every episode of every sitcom to be a nonstop laugh riot; this particular episode was a gigantic pile of irredeemable bullshit top to bottom with little humor, no emotional resonance, and a fuckton of "Ooh look remember this? You liked this! You liked this, too! The Cape, lol! Annie is sexy! Let's get Jeff naked! Wooooooooo oh shit we forgot to write an episode"

It was the Community Farewell Tour. They played all the hits, the performances were spirited, got to see them one last time, and hopefully that's the end of it.

The show went out as the gigantic animated GIF it aspired to be, having abandoned plots and dialogue and likeability for the most part.

Last week's episode ends with Chang signing on for actual friendship and the City College dean laughing maniacally about an alternate plan...except whoops! We only have 30 minutes of season left, so forget you ever saw that. No time to carry that story out.

I really wanted the (likely) final episode to be a good and make me laugh a lot, but tbh it's probably fitting that it was mostly terrible and not very funny.

I really didn't like the sound design for evil Troy's voice.

In retrospect I feel like they rang a bell with Remedial Chaos Theory that ended up destroying the show

I liked that episode but, yeah, I've groaned inwardly any time they referenced it since then.

The descriptions of the last two episodes have not inspired me to check them out.

Bring on an Alison Brie sitcom!

ha ha haaaa they renewed this jfc

and then cancelled Goon? I thought that was a "hit"

I never thought I'd be annoyed by news of a Community renewal, but it should be put down like Old Yeller.

def needs to be taken to the back of the woodshed

My main reason for half-wanting it to be renewed is so that I can still see Yvette Nicole Brown on my tee vee, because I fear she'd be dropped back down to working bit parts and Nickelodeon/Disney shows and I <3 her.

http://hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/nbc-renews-community-for-season-5

oh wait I see it's already been reported. might skip next year but probably won't be able to help myself.

Christ, I'm actually pissed about its renewal. There's nothing left in this show to care about.

"mistress in a lifetime movie" gag was a+

goon's ratings started out really high and ended really, really low, so i guess that's not too surprising. nbc also canceled the new normal, whitney, and guys with kids, so unless i'm mistaken parks and rec and community are the only returning nbc comedies next year (???). what a world.

i think i am the only person that liked whitney

and even then i liked it for trying.

I will watch an episode next year if Jim Rash writes it again

(I will watch six if he writes six)

I'm happy to watch subpar Communitu rather than none at all. Still better than According to Jim or whatever other crap is out there.

This current incarnation of Community is much, much worse than The Big Bang Theory

Amazing how one mindbogglingly terrible episode can ruin a season