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
Like seriously, from that whole group, no-one felt to pipe up when he was all 'be a housewife, woman!'? I hate confrontation and even I would have something to say if my friend was hanging with someone like that, let alone marrying into it.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe my favorite throwaway joke in the episode was during Shirley and Pierce's presentation to the dean, and the little dean cartoon appeared and Jim Rash says "THAT'S ME!"
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
that was awesome
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ otm
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
"How did I get to be holding those giant bags of money?"
also when Dean throws shirley that line about her fiscal whatever and she says 'that doesn't make any sense'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
this is overstated but still p much true
the dig on last nites 30 rock about character growth on sitcoms was p good, this whole increasingly solipsistic and grotesque interest in character 'growth' on sitcoms is horrible this is not what makes shows good you sad ppl
― Lamp, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
None of Jeff's growth over 2 and a half years mattered
this happens almost every episode.
sorry guys, i hate it when people are like "uh this show sucks now" and it's weird to say it about community because it's always been wildly inconsistent in tone and quality but i agree that seeing this again after it being gone for a chunk of time is kind of making me feel like "huh that's what i was missing? i wish parks and rec was on instead"
jim rash was funny though.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know, I do think it was a less-than-stellar episode, but I really don't understand how this one single episode since the hiatus could make you question your enjoyment of the show in its entirety.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
If you view the series as being primarily about people figuring out how to live and interact with one another in a healthy and harmonious way (which I assert is the intended overarching theme), just about every episode is a success. This episode is no exception.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not questioning that i've enjoyed it in the past, i'm questioning whether maybe it should just be canceled and done because they don't seem to going anywhere or doing anything or recognizing/repairing the flaws in the show.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
I AM NOT ARGUING ABOUT COMMUNITY ON THE INTERNET
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't watched last night's episode but this season so far has been scattershot enough that if they DID cancel it, I wouldn't be like "not in its PRIME!!!!" Though I'm not at a point where I don't want to see where it goes with the episodes made.
― da croupier, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know, I feel like, as a hoy hoy kinda was getting at, there have always been these "middling" episodes from time to time that kind of take up room between the epic laughfests. This was another one of those and I think its too early to write if off just yet.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
Somewhere an Onion AV Club writers/commenter just threw up a little.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
i think we can safely assume that 24/7
― da croupier, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link