Part two is full of gems:
And I remember one of the notes on that from the studio was, “I don’t understand why they’re going out drinking.” “Because Troy’s turning 21.” “Yeah, but why does that mean they have to go out drinking?” “I don’t know, man.” That just goes to show you that one of the inherent problems of the old world of television, which is that 1 percent of the country is controlling what 99 percent sees. And I think, in their world, on your 21st birthday, your pony gets a different haircut.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol thats great
― just sayin, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
that would be a pretty cool 21st tbh
Posted: Tue., Jun. 7, 2011, 4:00am PT
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118037818/
'Community' student Abed analyzes the EmmysPop culture guru ABBA-plectic about Emmys
By Abed Nadir
Hi, I'm Abed Nadir, a film major at Greendale Community College. The editors of this paper have asked me to share my 2011 Best Comedy Emmy pick, I'm assuming as part of some diversity program.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
man that thing i hilarious
― 51 Cent (some dude), Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I had watched a couple of episodes of this show and found them faintly amusing, but I saw the "clip show" episode last night, and man. I totally need to catch up, because that was great.
― jaymc, Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
(And I probably even missed a lot of in-jokes/references.)
― jaymc, Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
actually i wouldn't say the clip show was that heavy on in-jokes, although a lot of the humor did play off of established character traits and common storylines
― 51 Cent (some dude), Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
I like Harmon's statement, on WTF, that the show is precisely calibrated to be both new-viewer friendly and seem like the most self-referential thing imaginable to the super-fan.
― My Boyfriend Could Be A Spanish Man (R Baez), Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
from part three, posted today:
I think there was an element in there at one point where we were going to mirror Chevy [Chase]’s biography in a strange way, not in an obnoxious way, but hopefully in a profound way. That this play for kids was actually going to mirror Saturday Night Live’s first season. [Laughs.] That’s why there’s bee costumes involved, because the legend is when Chevy returned to host Saturday Night Live in its second season, he and Bill Murray got into a fistfight backstage that a killer-bee-clad John Belushi had to break up and shove Chevy out for his monologue. And that you could see Chevy coming out, kind of being pushed out, or that he was just in fisticuffs with Bill Murray because of something he said. These legends, probably none of them are true, but that is why there are bees. I think we were going to build to some kind of weird scuffle backstage.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
I remember there was a complication in there somewhere. This is the Pierce complication. There was this original plan that we were going to trace his addiction to painkillers from the moment he broke his legs in “Trampoline,” and then we were going to have him go down a rocky road with pills, culminating in the hospital episode. But it was built around this idea that Chevy had asked for a week off in there. So we’d built a whole thing around this thing, so we were like, “Week off to Chevy, that’s great. We can build a story around that.” And so that’s why he’s unconscious on a park bench at the end of Valentine’s Day. The idea is that the next episode would have been the only episode without Pierce in it at all. That he would be missing, and then they would find him and then go to the hospital. We were breaking those stories about him being missing when Chevy found out the reason we were so gung-ho about him taking a week off is because we wouldn’t have to pay him. Then his agents wanted to be paid for the week he was gone, and we were like, “We’re not fucking paying you not to be here.” So everything fell apart, and we just jumped from Valentine’s Day to “He’s in the hospital” and stuff. That’s unfortunate.
ooooh, i remember feeling like that was weird
― Nhex, Thursday, 9 June 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
NBC is selling a Notches T-Shirt.
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yvette just posted a photo on twitter of "dvd commentary day". I'd love to hang around that studio and re-watch episodes with all the creators and cast.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JvZcS.jpg
Ack! Can't wait for that!
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 June 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/emmys-communitys-dan-harmon/#more-141211
‘Meta’ isn’t even a word.
― lol j/k simmons (history mayne), Sunday, 19 June 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
DEADLINE: Why did you pick a community college as a sitcom setting?HARMON: I went to community college in Glendale when I was 32. I had an emotional experience there that I bookmarked for mainstream television. A fish out-of-water experience. I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life. I was playing this game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.
this is interesting, i'd never heard anything before about the show's premise having an autobiographical origin. kind of a good way to circle back to the concerns itt back when the show started that it was just mean ridiculing of community college from people who just think of it as a punchline and have no personal experiences in a place like that.
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
he talked about it a few times
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 June 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh i'm sure he has, but i've read a ton of interviews w/ the guy and it'd never come up in any of those, so it was a mild surprise to me
― ForbezDVDelsen (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
and hadn't been mentioned itt either
its been on the wikipedia page forev
― flopson, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
im sorta ashamed of how much i like this show
― Lamp, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
d.harmon interviews def not doing anything to alleviate that feeling either
― Lamp, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
dude is thoughtful -- even tho I've read so much material from him since season finale that I kinda feel like: dude, you have too much free time! make something shiny and new and stop talking about your perfect show!
― Mordy, Monday, 20 June 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
That huge thing he wrote for Onion AV Club is a good read but really really long. Dude must love writing about himself whole lot.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
p sure that was transcription
― underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have pwned (sic), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
yes it was an interview w/ harmon, not written by harmon himself.
― Clay, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
adam bruneau as joe morgan in moneyball
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― more delta than delta (symsymsym), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
so I was reading Futebol, a 2002 book about soccer in Brazil, and I came across:
"In Sao Paulo crowds would hold up different colored cards to form an image visible at a distance - a technique that was popularized internationally decades later at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Brazil were streets ahead of the rest of the world."
― get at me frog (symsymsym), Thursday, 7 July 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Rewatched the first season last weekend. Didn't realize how much the Dean's Dalmatian Furry fetish was set up.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 7 July 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Streets Ahead is a dance and performing arts school in Ireland. Located in Dublin, its junior crew placed 3rd in the World Hip hop Championships 2006. Three more teams from the school qualified for the world Hip Hop Championships in 2007. In which the junior crew placed 4th.The junior also received second place in Eurobattle qualifiers 2007 and were asked to travel to Portugal to participate in a competition.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 July 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
sym3: holy crap! awesome
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 7 July 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
I never quite understand this: "streets ahead" has been a phrase as long as I can remember - perhaps it is just a britishes thing?
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
ah, I had never heard it before Community. /Canadian
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
I think Harmon used it because someone tweeted "Big Bang Theory is streets ahead of Community," so he made it the catchphrase of the douchiest character.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
there's a Harmon interview somewhere where he talks about how he thought "streets ahead" was just that one guy's weird jargon and then felt silly when it turned out to be a somewhat widely used phrase
― some dude, Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
I know I'm not a good judge of ubiquity here since I'm a massive Anglophile but that is hilarious to me
― DJP, Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
"Stop trying to make it work, England"
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
also it was Modern Family that was streets ahead
― some dude, Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't realize how much the Dean's Dalmatian Furry fetish was set up.
the beauty is that it wasn't just the endpoint that was set up—it was the process of something 'awakening' in him
― j., Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
did not know it was a britishes thing, though googling made it clear /Canadian (I think I need this tag for all my posts)
― get at me frog (symsymsym), Friday, 8 July 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
This is a really funny show. Good time for the US sitcom at the moment.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Not right this moment though, they're all on summer holidays.
― that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
WOULD THAT THIS HOODIE WERE A TIME-HOODIE
― bro, die (some dude), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol i find 'streets ahead' hilares now but it is an unremarkable phrase in britland
― would s*m*a*s*h 1994 (history mayne), Sunday, 10 July 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
"Streets Ahead" may even have been a brand at C&A, iirc which I probably don't.
― kinder, Monday, 11 July 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
Streets Ahead is still a way lame phrase.
― President Keyes, Monday, 11 July 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
it sounds like an alternate title for "the warriors" no?
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 11 July 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Two of my favorite sitcoms are on right now so it ain't too shabby.
― polyphonic, Monday, 11 July 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link