Unfortunately, ¡Rob! didn't get renewed for a second season. So much potential...lost.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 March 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
I suspect Apartment 23 could be good, but it could also be very very bad.
"Way to commit, Johnny Fever!"
I feel like Happy Endings is the new Show To Watch, but it's more low-key on a Friends tip and doesn't seem likely to crush it with brilliance like Community. You never know, though.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
agree with you on happy endings, but i think it's rocketed up super fast. like it's not quite community and parks and rec level but it could get to that level someday... maybe closer to 30 rock with its hyper joke machine style, but with much less emotional character investment than any of these shows
― Nhex, Friday, 16 March 2012 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
aw man fuck troy's cockblocking. abed was getting down w/ that blonde
drunk britta is the best thing ever
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 16 March 2012 08:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/03/15/britta_on_community_why_the_gillian_jacobs_character_is_confusing_the_show_s_writers.html
opinionz 4 U
― j., Friday, 16 March 2012 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, welcome back the old "I find funny, attractive women confusing" argument.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 16 March 2012 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
When the main example for your thesis misses the blindingly obvious fact that the character in question was super super high, you may have written a Terri le article.
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Friday, 16 March 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
Grr terrible
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Friday, 16 March 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
i was wondering who this Terri Le person was
― some dude, Friday, 16 March 2012 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
btw guys, the answer isn't happy endings, even tho that show is super fun. the best new sitcom is suburgatory.
― Mordy, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
ugh, no, that show is terrible
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Also terrible: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/16/communitys_identity_crisis/
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
xp you're so wrong. funniest new show. i lol constantly
― Mordy, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
i really like Suburgatory but i don't feel like it's a constant lol kind of show
― some dude, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ dumbass Salon writer saying Community just started its 4th season because there was a short mid-season break
― some dude, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
How much more wrong does it get from "fourth season premiere? I couldn't bear to read on when their facts are so bogglingly wrong from the get go.
(lol xpost)
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
Also wasn't that episode actually written ages ago?
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 16 March 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
Also smh at the idea of this show having an "identity crisis", was this his second episode ever?
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
Suburbagatory is funny but I wouldn't call it the BEST NEW SHOW or whatever
Tessa's creepy friend next door is fantastic tho
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Friday, 16 March 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
omg the black sticom article underneath the Community article is almost as bad
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Friday, 16 March 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
maybe suburgatory is funnier if you actually live in the suburbs
― Mordy, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
not really. i gave it two chances now and i thought both were awful.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
jon, nothing personal, but aside from the fact we're both posting on the Community thread i don't really suspect we share tastes in anything
― Mordy, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
Fine, we both went to public school
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 16 March 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
troy comes out the dreamatorium wearing the ivory wig
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 16 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
I noted that too. How did they wind up with it?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 March 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
power of dreams i guess
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 16 March 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
"I didn't even make a Christmas list for Santa because I didn't want to depend on a man for anything!"
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
"'Webster's Dictionary defines?' That's the Jim Belushi of speech openings: it accomplishes nothing, but everyone keeps using it and nobody understands why."
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 16 March 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
I agree that this was a really underwhelming season premiere. I wish people weren't forcing me to like this show.
P.S. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6841249186_627d8fc0f9.jpg
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
absence makes the heart realize this is kind of a shitty show
― Lamp, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'm interested in learning more about this shittiness metric you're using.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
Because I think you might be using it wrong.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
― Lamp, Friday, March 16, 2012 11:09 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm :(
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ a slightly subpar episode somehow "proving" that its been "shitty" all along
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
as a fan of parks & rec you should ask yourself: 'do i think this is good television?' and if the answer is yes than its probably a shitty show
― Lamp, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
I dispute the premise that this episode was in any way subpar.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
it was better than the ACTUAL season premiere at least
― some dude, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
"looking back this show is actually bad" is the kind of thing you're supposed to say about a show from childhood, not a show from a few months ago
― da croupier, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
unless you're just talking shit i mean
― da croupier, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
The A-Team? Objectively bad, it's true.
Community? Still great.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Well, admittedly neither show holds a candle to the revolutionary and mindblowing Revenge..........
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I think what we really need is lagoon's Universal Comedy Meter to settle the argument once and for all.
fuck all y'all. I thought it was funny. hmph.
and you guys, if you want to see an actual not-funny show go watch GCB.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I hope Community calls out ABC jacking their use of the initial "B"
― da croupier, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
I think the story was shitty. Make shift sitcom wedding is a crappy cliche and the husband came off as a dick you wouldn't want to be happy for. Britta's part didn't really make sense but was pulled off well enough that I didn't care. Jeff's part seemed badly written. Annie just seemed a device. Abed, Troy and Pierce were funny but didn't add anything to the story.
Oh and the end was that awful thing I hate. 'Piece turns on machine, freaks out when all he has to do is turn it off' just pisses me off for a show that treats the audience as having a brain cell.
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I recently read the av club rundown w/ harmon talking about every season 2 episode. and he hates and is disappointed with 'normal' episodes that are just shitty sitcom tropes that don't fit community and that they have proved themselves to be better than. In particular he hated the 'jeff hates pierce because he can get laid and jeff can't' one. This seemed like that. None of Jeff's growth over 2 and a half years mattered, he falls apart straight away. Second marriage in which the groom learns he needs to be less of a dick to his housewife was done by the simpsons better, over a decade ago. Crazily, this episode added absolutely nothing to Shirley's character.
If it didn't have some A+ jokes this might have been my least favourite episode.
Another thing to give me hope though was the shitty 'normal' episodes in S2 were put in place to distract the network and keep them happy while they did stuff like My Dinner w/ Abed and stuff. So hopefully this wasn't Dan Harmon selling out his principles for a 4th season of mediocrity and stale tropes and instead means he's selling out some principles to go out with a bang.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Crazily, this episode added absolutely nothing to Shirley's character.
I completely disagree with this, btw. I think showed a lot of growth in terms of how she wants to be successful! It was kind of an important turning point in her development this season.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
The weirdness thing was funny, but I feel like they underused it. The whole restaurant plot was supremely boring.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link