More Who as Bill eats cereal and shares awkward glances with the back to the future gym teacher (Love Reign O'er Me).
I'll stop now as I'm destroying this community (thread).
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
lol just got to 'Squeeze Box'
brb gonna binge Freaks and Geeks again
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
"Squeeze Box" was so great on there.
That bit was in the teaser for the never-happened NBC airing of the ep.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
gillian jacobs is two months older than alison brie
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
*updates .xls
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 July 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
lol. just found it curious that one was playing a character roughly the correct age and the other a character ten years younger
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 July 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
lol i was just razzing ya. It is funny! I always forget that Annie is meant to be so young, her & Britta def feel the same age to me except when its specifically called out and when annie’s age WAS called out it was usually in reference to Jeff & then i’d get that jarring UGH WHAT moment
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 July 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
She was on tv as Trudy Campbell at the same time so I definitely never thought of her as an actual teenager (she also didn't look it, no matter how infantilizing her wardrobe was). Which was fine because I couldn't imagine romantic scenes between Jeff and someone that actually looks like a teen, yucky
― musically, Thursday, 16 July 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
They kind of covered for her appearance by saying she'd had extensive reconstructive plastic surgery after going through a plate glass window at a party whilst high.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
Didn't watch Mad Men, so didn't have a problem with Annie's on-screen age. OTOH they were sexualizing her even in season 1, tons of Jeff/Annie jokes on that wavelength
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
Debate episode is one of my favourites.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
Just heard “Evil Woman” in the supermarket and immediately thought of the debate episode.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 July 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
so good! i love that one too
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 July 2020 21:02 (four years ago) link
HE WAS HORNY, SO HE DROPPED HIM. Man is evil!
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 July 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
Re: F&G music- Wikipedia sez some of the songs were replaced with generic music when reruns ran on Fox Family
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
I watched the S6 “We gave a dog a degree?” episodd and found it p funny esp everyone saying that line allthe time, it cracked me up S6 so far not too bad! It’s not early season giddy heights but still v enjoyable & often funny. at this point I’m thrilled at anything that is an improvement on the nadir of the puppet episode, my bar is maybe too low idkoh and the s6 episode where Dean does virtual reality filing was also *hilarious*
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 July 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah, for me it's:S2>S3>S1/S6>>S5>>>>>>>>>>S4
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 23 July 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
S2>S1>S3>>S6>S5
nah
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 23 July 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
I'd rate S1 higher if it didn't take so long for them to de-center Jeff and figure out who Troy and Britta were. Granted, to me the show's peak is the trampoline story.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 23 July 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
rewatching s2 and it's striking what an utter over-the-top asshole pierce becomes. (the d&d game and the one where he pretends he's dying, specifically.) and not in a funny way or a way that can be reconciled at the end by hopeful music and shirley and annie going 'aww'
sort of wonder if the writers made pierce worse than necessary because everyone hated chevy? i don't feel like he needed to be this awful simply for comedic effect
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 July 2020 06:56 (four years ago) link
By S2 they were largely writing Pierce's dialogue by putting things that Chevy actually said to his coworkers into the scripts. The plots were probably similarly motivated.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:05 (four years ago) link
Even at the time the wheelchair felt like a device to physically keep Chevy apart from the rest of the cast as much as possible and he has way fewer scenes when he's physically in the room with them.
Even some of the study room scenes tend to film Pierce separately and on his own. Like you can just see in all those scenes where they're all supposed to be round the table together and Chase just isn't there except when he absolutely needs to be.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
Granted, to me the show's peak is the trampoline story.
I've been rewatching the DVDs with the commentaries, and someone (I think McHale) talks about how Donald Glover and Matt Walsh (janitor who made the secret trampoline garden) would do hilarious improvs with each other. When he shows the swastika tattoo, "It's going to be a maze" was improvised. An alternate line for that reveal, which was Donald's idea, was, "It's the original U2 logo."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 26 July 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
Ha!!
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 26 July 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
We made it up to the episode where Troy leaves to go sailing on Pierce's yacht last night, Season 5 was like an immediate uptick again in quality after S4.
Being able to binge these seasons made me realize just how much darker S5 in, and I don't just mean the tone. The color is more muted and everything seems filmed with less lighting or something. I saw a few reddit threads that mentioned it was due to the lower budgets by that point, but that seems to be a weird specific place for the budget to impact.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
Back half of S6 is proving to be weird as hellThere was a great ep on Grifting 101 with Matt Berry guest starring, super funnyBut we just watched Giant Hand/RV episode which was about as bad as you can get without puppets + singing
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
I saw a few reddit threads that mentioned it was due to the lower budgets by that point, but that seems to be a weird specific place for the budget to impact.
Production design overall takes huge steps down as the series progresses. It's probably that they were no longer lighting to make sure 43 background jokes were clearly visible on a fifth rewatch, than that they couldn't afford the same bulbs as before.
(Harmon paid props and design staff overtime out of his own pocket on the first two seasons, partly out of appreciation for the incredibly great job they were doing, and largely because his own constant rewriting and rewriting of the scripts meant that they weren't able to do such a great job on regular schedules. In the third year, he stopped doing this and bought a house instead.)
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Interesting, that makes sense about the background stuff. Had no idea he paid so much out of pocket.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
But we just watched Giant Hand/RV episode which was about as bad as you can get without puppets + singing
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 1:05 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
That was where I bailed. I was pretty hopeful up to that point, but this episode just felt so desperate. I never saw any of S6 after that.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
the next episode is the final paintball episode though!
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
yes we watched that last night & it was fun!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
Wait, there’s a paintball in season 6?! OK, will revisit.I’m about halfway through rewatching season 5, and it’s much better than I remember. Jonathan Banks’ reaction to the Meowmeowbeenz presentation is one of my favorite moments of the whole series. And the darkness pointed out upthread is only in the first episode and the Ass Crack Bandit episode.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 August 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
We just got the Ass Crack episode, was ok.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 August 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
I ended up stopping my rewatch at the My Dinner With Abed episode, I remember being...not confused...but taken aback by it. Obviously it's very tonally different from the average episode, but also iirc the previews of the episode were focused on all the Pulp Fiction costumes and all the online chatter was dedicated to theories re: what kind of Tarantino homage Dan Harmon was doing to do. Then of course you watch the ep and realize the episode has absolutely nothing to do with Pulp Fiction. Am I making that up or does anyone remember that?
Anyway all that said just makes me think about what the show would have been like if Dan Harmon had direct access to the viewership through twitter...an important part of being self-aware is making sure that everyone else is aware of how self-aware you are.
― musically, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
Am I making that up or does anyone remember that?
I honestly have no memory of those promos, so I went into the episode blind. I believe I shouted out loud, "THEY'RE DOING MY DINNER WITH ANDRE?!" I mean, of all the referencey stuff the show had done up to that point, this was not an expected reference. iirc, Danny Pudi had neither seen nor heard of the film, so he had to watch it a couple of times in preparation.
But TV promos were notoriously misleading. The promos for the Simpsons episode where Bleeding Gums Murphy dies were, "BART GOES TO THE E.R.!" (implying some kind of E.R. crossover).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
Harmon did have twitter, but was always very self-aware of the difference between a general audience, dedicated viewers, and the kind of microniche of super-dedicated fans who track down offscreen communication from the uncredited writer of a TV show.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
He talked about twitter all the time on Harmontown
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
he incorporated the term "streets ahead" in an early episode because some Tweeter claimed that Modern Family was "streets ahead" of his "meta-bullshit", so of course he had Pearce trying to coin the term.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
I know episode promos are either misleading or totally uninformative (shout out to the Mad Men previews) but they really seemed intent on playing up the Pulp Fiction angle. I guess as I watch less and less TV in the traditional week to week format I forgot that preview promos used to be pretty disconnected from the material.
“Critical Film Studies” has been sold as “the Pulp Fiction episode” of Community. Even NBC, which often doesn’t promote the show all that heavily, has run many, many promo slots for the show playing up the crazy costumes and situations involved in the Pulp Fiction-styled B-plot.
(I tried expanding the comments in this post to find old discussion too and I broke firefox so never mind)
― musically, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
all the online chatter was dedicated to theories re: what kind of Tarantino homage Dan Harmon was doing to do
although it may have come from dumb decision-making in the promo dept, preserving the surprise of the Dinner With Andre-ing is a great result of this tactic
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
That's very true! That's why it made me wonder about how else the show could have played with/subverted expectations if Dan had been showrunner and on contemporary Twitter (and not 2009-era Twitter which hardly counts) at the same time.
― musically, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
Considering the swirling cesspool that 98% of Twitter is right now, I can only imagine how much worse it would have made the show. Harmon would have gotten in huge arguments with fans eight episodes in and/or canceled in real time for the Chang Drow gag and never would have even finished the first season, imo.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
(yes I know the D&D episode was in season two, but still...)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
I think he would have gotten through season 1 but by season 2 he and the show would be literally and figuratively cancelled for sure
― musically, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
almost suffocated watching danny pudi's nic cage impressions
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
I still think the (first season?) "Goldbluming" joke is one of the funniest things ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv6mA0qyOo4
Well there ya go
.@alisonbrie @kenjeong @dannypudi @YNB @donaldglover @GillianA @peacock @SonyTV @CommunityTV pic.twitter.com/ynVqgaPuQD— Joel McHale (@joelmchale) September 30, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 September 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
Amusing oops
Lmao just realized he tagged Gillian Anderson instead of Gillian Jacobs— Preeti Chhibber 🔜 NYCC (@runwithskizzers) September 30, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 September 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
Hooray!
― Nhex, Friday, 30 September 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link