Community, the tv show

skot is usually my MOR trad sitcom bro, disappointed to hear he doesn't share my mild affection for Better With You or Mike & Molly

i would REALLY like to know what redeeming qualities you find in Better With You! it's in the dictionary under the word generic, etc, etc. i mean, i don't even think its worth trashing cuz its so negligable. want it gone already.

the women on Mike & Molly are fine and i enjoy my hero Swoosie as much as ever, but i kinda can't stand big dude OR his cop sidekick. they really really really turn me off/rub me the wrong way/etc. and they just ain't funny. not even James Burrows can turn this sow's ear into, um, gold cloth or whatever. and he is a genius! he helped make the MTM show, the Bob Newhart Show, Rhoda, Laverne & Shirley, Taxi, The Associates, Cheers, Wings, Frasier, Friends, Newsradio, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Will & Grace, Two And A Half Men, and The Big Bang Theory the fine shows that they are and were. But he also worked on Dear John, Dharma & Greg, Caroline In The City, The Class, Back To You, and Gary Unmarried, and no amount of genius could make those stinkers float. and i put Mike & Molly in the same stinky boat.

"negligible" even

Better With You - for people who think Modern Family is just too darn edgy! It's OK.

So many boobs in this show.

Watching the Mafia Movie one. This has to be the best episode of "Community" ever.

Found an even older "streets ahead" use on ILM (the Rehabilitaing The Adverts thread).

Kind of agree and disagree! To me they're mid-way between the two categories you've defined. Buzzcocks and Wire are streets ahead of The Adverts and Penetration, who in turn would be well ahead of say, Slaughter and the Dogs or Eater. That's not to say that the one 'fun at the time single' some of those 3rd div drongos released isn't still fantastic fun once in a while.
― Dr. C, Sunday, September 30, 2001 5:00 PM

"I love you, drugs!"

dildopolis

Not necessarily bad, but a little too obv. sitcommy, this one? You could see the premises be set up and labored over.

Yeah, it was a little broad, but I thought it still brought the lols.

Omfg Chang slayed this tonight.

8=>

jeff and britta in cat costumes and sunglasses with heads tilted identically = amazing.

also the "period fairy" which opens up new dimensions of wau in annie's backstory.

jeff and britta in cat costumes and sunglasses with heads tilted identically = amazing.

^^^

thought that was a rather weak episode minus changs love for Johnny Gill.

The Johnny Gill was a v. nice touch.

woah

jeff, the liar!!!!!

annie, the day-planner, herself a recovering headcase!

troy, the obtuse!!

HOLY SHIT OMG this EPISODE

Yeah this is streets ahead thus far.

i cannot stop laughing

the people who wrote this episode have played d&d before. i'd say a lot.

Pierce is so evil!

Aww, Fat Neil. :(

one of the best community episodes ever

Yeah, that was great. I assume it would've been even better for people who know the ins & outs of Dungeons & Dragons.

Best ever. And without wall-to-wall lols. And I know less than shit about D&D.

The love scene montage is one of the best silent gags they've ever done.

Yeah..."three...no four(!) fingers"

best episode

just... damn.

"He's not that skinny!"
"But he's bald...and he's Black!"
"I prefer not to see the world through that lens!"

to apparent internet ppl who think that Pierce was too over the top tnite;
1. y do u hate fun
but also 2. i like to think that the group made him this way when they cut his casts off and abed is like, "this is how super villains are made"

Pierce was awesome; this episode was legendary; so so so fucking great. Love.

omg omg omg. so great!

also: during the character introductions, britta is yelling "julian assange is a modern-day thomas paine!!"

The love scene montage is one of the best silent gags they've ever done.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 February 2011 01:52 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah..."three...no four(!) fingers"

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 February 2011 02:05 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

NEED A GIF OF THIS MORE THAN ANYTHING IN LIFE

^^^

this show is pretty filthy for 7 p.m. CST

abed was great in this episode. "just so you know ... my name is ... kyle"

nice to see him get to stretch his acting muscles a little more

Great episode. THIS should have been the claymation episode. The episode had a dark and sad undercurrent, especially in the beginning where it seemed like Neil was about to do something pretty drastic (my first thought was suicide). I don't really see how Pierce remains in the group after this, but maybe we can consider it an 'Elseworlds' type episode.

i like to think that the group made him this way when they cut his casts off and abed is like, "this is how super villains are made"

Good point - thanks for that (I laughed just remembering it)

I don't think Pierce has really been "in the group" for awhile, except that I guess they tolerate him hanging around (tho on the same note they tolerate Chang hanging around too and he's pretty psychotic). Harmon seems like a deft enough writer that he's not going to totally dismiss the way Pierce has been acting over the last few episodes and I'd be really shocked if he was just "part of the gang" again without some kind of reconciliation. I've said this before but one of the greatest things about this show is how well developed all the relationships and characters are. Sometimes a character doesn't step forward in any given episode but so much of the show's canon + mythos are built on relationships that make sense and have been developed over numerous episodes. Just thinking about how the Annie/Rich/Jeff thing has been developed through the pottery episode, the annie/jeff episodes, the zombie episodes, all to make that kettle corn episode work in a way that made sense and was true to the characters.

still waiting on that annie fingers gif

"you're the AT&T of people"

I didn't get that line

Personal favorite:

"I won Dungeons And Dragons - and it was Advanced!

"You hump the sword"

Chang in blackface people
Annie flopping out the endowed