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.
― Mordy, Friday, 4 February 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
still waiting on that annie fingers gif
― Gukbe, Friday, 4 February 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
"you're the AT&T of people"
― Gukbe, Friday, 4 February 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't get that line
― rockapads, Friday, 4 February 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Personal favorite:
"I won Dungeons And Dragons - and it was Advanced!
― Keep on the good work! (R Baez), Friday, 4 February 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"You hump the sword"
― i pl0p bombs like hiroshima (San Te), Friday, 4 February 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Chang in blackface peopleAnnie flopping out the endowed
― if there is a King Kenny, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 4 February 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
omg Chang's elf was hilarious. Just watching him speak cracked me up every single time
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 4 February 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
orchestral theme change with re-drawn credits! I can't imagine the man-hours spent for 20 seconds of gag, but good on you, anonymous production people.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 4 February 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, how cool was that.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 4 February 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
whenever they change the theme + credits you know you're in for something special (they changed it for the zombie ep too)
― Mordy, Friday, 4 February 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i want an mp3 of that theme
― rockapads, Friday, 4 February 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"Are we just gonna ignore this hate crime over here?"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 4 February 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
"you remembered to invite al jolson here"
― Mordy, Friday, 4 February 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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― goole, Friday, 4 February 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
From what I remember the funniest parts for me were was when Chang during the intro, Annie's fingers, Britta being Britta, and Pierce at his meanest. Also, Pierce sort of ended up being the nice guy because he ratted out Jeff. Oh, and Troy's comments like "hurrah!" were always good for a laugh.
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Friday, 4 February 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Troy's second huzzah is especially amazing because he kinda looks sad when he says it
― Mordy, Friday, 4 February 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Still haven't found an Annie's fingers gif, so I'm downloading last night's show and making one. Coming up soon!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 February 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TUyFO9iPsZI/AAAAAAAAAbg/9ktZzLnioaM/anniefingers.gif
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 February 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, you watched the same rip I did. what software did you use to capture?
― rockapads, Saturday, 5 February 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Virtual Dub creates jpegs from the video frames: http://www.virtualdub.org/download.html -- and then I made an animated gif in Photoshop.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 February 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
cool, i'll give it a shot - thanks.
― rockapads, Saturday, 5 February 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
best D&D epi since freaks & geeks
― cozen, Saturday, 5 February 2011 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
first of all -- GAY
― if there is a King Kenny, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 5 February 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
having the cleaner as voiceoverlady was the best punchline
― if there is a King Kenny, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 5 February 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yea i'm glad I didn't watch this at my house or our condo mates woulda been screaming "shut the fuck up" through the walls
― r0b /via/ orl (San Te), Saturday, 5 February 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
this was good, but i don't understand why you guys go so gaga over the hi-concept episodes such as this one, the paintball one... i think that the previous couple, the anti-drug play and the rich one, were much funnier
― dell (del), Saturday, 5 February 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
to me the writing on d&d, paintball gets too labored, like they are tripping over themselves trying to be too clever
― dell (del), Saturday, 5 February 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
This was basically a bottle episode, to offset the elaborate costumes and sets of the drug play episode...
Abed should've had a DM's screen.
― Kerm, Saturday, 5 February 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Personally it hit hard because of Depression and what it's really like but ya know, was also p funny
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 5 February 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
should add i was heartened to hear the cry of "excelsior"
also, off-topic, but yesterday i watched the simpsons for the first time in like eight years or something, and it happened to be the "sleep, that's where i'm a viking" one!
― dell (del), Saturday, 5 February 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
u crazy
― Mordy, Saturday, 5 February 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched all three with a friend and she thought the same thing!
― dell (del), Saturday, 5 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
was the inverse of the xmas one..instead of the show expensively recreating the aesthetics of the world in which characters were imagining themselves, you saw them in the study room simply discussing this imaginary world.
― scottpl, Saturday, 5 February 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I love this show. The editing, the sound design, all of it. Really awesome.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 5 February 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Like when Chang turns in his character sheet, its all slo-mo and he fades into the hallway. So rad.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 5 February 2011 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't really care about the high conceptness .. I just thought this episode brought the laughs. But also I am a huge nerd so all the AD&D stuff was welcome.
Last week's episode was pretty weak I thought.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 6 February 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
It wasn't really very "hi concept" except for the occasional narration and chang's slo-mo scene. Otherwise it was just like any other episode with an additional character.
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 6 February 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it was very tightly directed wrt things like sound effects (which often reflected what was going on in the game) and scoring such that it felt much more high concept than it actually was. there was definitely a level of artistry in so many details this last ep
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 February 2011 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXw6znXPfy4
― jaxon, Sunday, 6 February 2011 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― dell (del), Sunday, 6 February 2011 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Googling for an interview with the showrunner made me realize that this isn't the first time Dan Harmon's contributed something to mass D&D culture. when he was back in the Dead Alewives(the mid-90s sketch comedy troupe with Rob Schrab), he wrote this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHdXG2gV01k
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Sunday, 6 February 2011 06:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Dan Harmon wrote that sketch?? I've been hearing it for years and never realized.
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 February 2011 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
does one of the voices, too, apparently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_and_Dragons_%28sketch%29#Dungeons_and_Dragons_Sketch
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Sunday, 6 February 2011 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally caught this and
one of the best community episodes ever
OTM. Holy shit, the love scene.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 7 February 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
omg please tell me this librarian thing goes somewhere
― j., Friday, 11 February 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, she is beautiful.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 February 2011 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
It seemed like a one-off to play up Abed and Troy's bond, but who knows.
The girl with Leather Tuscadero hair and the beauty mark on her cheek who hung out with Annie was CUET.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah she was! The non-lesbian girl had a weird Marlee Matlin look, odd looking girl.Loved Jeff carrying Chang back inside;Chang yelling at the hermit crabsItalian fanny= British for pizzaAnnie making kiss face at Britta
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Alison Brie addressed it on twitter earlier (apparently they're irl friends): she was Cyrina Fiallo.
http://cyrinafiallo.net/pics/solonew4.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:35 (thirteen years ago) link