Community, the tv show

thought you were talking about WTF until the bit about Brie

don't understand why anyone would think Community has an offensive amount of feewings compared to any other sitcom. if anything its emotional moments are done with more ironic distance and/or imbedded jokes than most other shows.

i don't watch much tv.

maybe it's just code for "I hate Britta and Shirley"?

and my favourite current show is it's always sunny and favourite of all time is seinfeld so you can see where i'm coming from.

i feel like they spread the emo stuff around fairly evenly.

yeah if those 2 shows are your control i can see how you're approaching the variable

tbf community laid on the feewings stuff relatively thick in the first season

i totally agree that community has feelings. one of the things i love about the show, but i can understand how someone with absolutely no tolerance for sentiment in sitcoms might be turned off

sitcom sentiment generally doesn't work for me at all because of the way that it's quite often so arch and the "lesson" or whatever is compacted into a very predictable arc over 20 odd minutes and the resolution at the end is accompanied with an artless song fading in and a realisation etc.

i get to love a sitcom character because i consistently find the lines they come out with, their foibles, and the performance of the actor doing the character charming and or compelling. not because they have a will they or won't they romance or have to overcome a prejudice or whatever.

and i shouldn't really be shitting up this thread with this, ha.

sitcom sentiment generally doesn't work for me at all because of the way that it's quite often so arch and the "lesson" or whatever is compacted into a very predictable arc over 20 odd minutes and the resolution at the end is accompanied with an artless song fading in and a realisation etc.

― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, March 8, 2011 7:10 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dunno i feel like Community parodied that kind of thing much more than they indulged in it particularly in the first season. which might rub you the wrong way too, but i dunno, seems like a big difference.

Other people have made that claim on this board too... I never saw that much parody in it tbh.

sitcom sentiment generally doesn't work for me at all because of the way that it's quite often so arch and the "lesson" or whatever is compacted into a very predictable arc over 20 odd minutes and the resolution at the end is accompanied with an artless song fading in and a realisation etc.

― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, March 8, 2011 7:10 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Didn't Community get children chanting I LOVE DRUGS or something?

haha yes it did

Other people have made that claim on this board too... I never saw that much parody in it tbh.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, March 8, 2011 7:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

one of the dominant themes of the show is having Abed know (or imagine or whatever) that they're in a TV show and point out sitcom tropes, undercut sexual tension between Jeff & Britta by comparing them to Sam & Diane, etc. it's been less overt this season but still a lot of deliberate building up expectations for emotional payoff and then cutting them off with a joke (Jeff walking in the rain to what you think will be Annie's apartment, etc.). not saying this is the best part of the show or that it completely overshadows the sentimental moments the show does indulge in, but i don't know how you could miss it.

Oh, I do see what you're saying there. I guess I just always found many of the storylines and conclusions relatively sentimental and heavy on the-power-of-friendship anyway (esp compared to e.g. the shows jim mentions).

i think a lot of that is them just working overtime to establish a bond or rapport between the characters that goes beyond them being in a study group, compared to most shows about families or co-workers or whatever where there's not chance of the viewer going "wait why are they hanging out all the time? don't they have social lives?"

The overarching narrative of the show is about a heartless corporate lawyer learning how to reconnect with people, so the power-of-friendship angle isn't that unsurprising IMO; what I appreciate is the off-kilter, unpredictable way in which they are making that journey AND how Jeff is still retaining an essential core of self-involved narcissism that makes his connections with the other characters more believable.

Sentiment doesn't bother me if it's earned.

I didn't say it bothered me, just that it seems pretty central and evident, even compared to other TV comedies, and I can understand how that puts some people off. It's my favourite show on TV fwiw.

Ditto! <3 Community!

Also cannot wait for inevitable Western ep, esp since the Western idiom is so much about community formation.

greendalewood

fat neil takes anthropology with the group in the rerun that is currently on! he didn't just come out of nowhere

Per Variety: NBC renews OFFICE, COMMUNITY, PARKS & REC.

YES! Considering 30 was already picked up, that means at least one more year of fun (and potentially one year of the most awkward Office episodes ever).

Fuck yeah!

we we we so excited

I just put four notches in the table (labeled "FUN")

should do a community tertiary characters poll to celebrate

great news.

Fuck yeah. I wonder what class they'll get stuck in next.

xp You don't think Chang would win in a walk?

he's more of a secondary character, isn't he? tertiary would be more like Leonard and Magnitude

he's more of a secondary character, isn't he?

yeah thats why i want to do a tertiary character poll - like ppl that have been in multiple episodes but not ft'd roles

Dan Harmon has been talking to people on Twitter about Bioware RPGs for the last two hours and took a break to announce this.

Star Burns, the dean...is the dean secondary though? Because he'd trounce Lenny and 'tude.

In that case, I vote for the cute girl who was hanging around with Annie while Britta was mistaking that other girl for a lesbian.

there's also abed's roomie whatshisname

And Garrett. Fuckin' love that guy.

yeah garrett is great! looked it up on wikipedia and man this show is packed with amazing peripheral characters, it's not just about annie's boobs

i mentioned this on this thread before but it turns out fat neil has been in the background of episodes before his role in the DnD ep.

I remember him first being mentioned in the episode before; John Oliver calls on "Fat Neil," and he says, "Um, just 'Neil' is fine." Did he appear before that, though?

he's not even just in the background, is called by his name fat neil in the episode before the DnD one iirc.

or what he said.

worst tertiary character = john oliver.

i like oliver. is it a british thing to hate on him?

haha jon oliver annoys me but i consider him a 'secondary' character also i started that poll

For some reason, I love Oliver on Community, hate him on everything else. Ditto Chevy Chase.