Community, the tv show

whiney hates it bc people like it iirc

also didn't realize the *ahem* implied circumstances with the coat bit either!

Yeah, I didn't get that until it was explained on this thread.

and the scene was great regardless.

same here, i didn't get it while i was watching it, but it was still really funny

what is so hard about boner jokes

i think about how much time it took for you people to get it and i think "really? that long?"

throw me a frickin penis

i didn't get it till reading it here either. why must you taint our innocence.

balls to you zachlyon

you're both close, but no cigar

i didn't even mean the 'taint' bit. LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE.

My first viewing of a Community episode tends to be somewhat inadequate and not terribly penetrating. I'm generally a much less sloppy viewer the second time around.

plus you don't want to blow your load too early

Well, yeah, I've learned the hard way how disappointed people in this thread can get when there's a premature congratulation.

we're really not getting enough meta ilx laughs out of the fact that the fast food chain Subway is a sinister force in recent episodes of "Community"

yes i was laughing really hard at how the episode was developing, but it was really not going to be worth it to try to explain to my wife the additional levels of hilarity

Wait what's the ilxor subway deal?

Do we like it or something?

ilx poster Whiney W. Weingarten is known for a) eating at Subway often and b) vehemently hating "Community." that is all.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l32bnjpnf01qzb0x0.gif

'might i trouble you for a delicious sandwich?'

haha whiney "w" weingarten, i wasn't THAT drunk last night was i

Do people on this thread not get boners

Tbh I thought it was a very simple joke that went on for too long, sort of out of keeping with the show

I mean it's fine but it's just a boner joke people

I thought you all were going to be talking about the Whiney Weingarten of Community.

Suedey! I didn't know you were still hanging around here, my man! Yeah, I'm ashamed to say that I wasn't able to get a grip on that boner joke. I'll try harder next time.

And why am I not surprised that Chevy Chase is still a huge pain in the ass?

I'm sure Chevy is a huge dick, this part isn't really news, but honestly if Harmon wants to keep this show going he should probably take the high road a little more often instead of playing into Chase's game. Its not helping the show's future for him to run around playing Chevy's nasty voicemails all over the place or making sure all the dirt finds it way online. I'm sure NBC has to be looking at that stuff too when decided what to do with the show.

"Top notch whoresmanship, Britta"

I'd be sad if Pierce were to disappear actually, they've really brought his character round this this season. I will never tire of Hawthorne lol-technology jokes.

I liked the gag about kids being forced to read 1984 as well. This was a really great, multi-layered episode.

Also, poor Kim. Community really gets a lot of mileage out of the pathos of interchangeable sidelined nerds (see also Todd).

I'm sure Chevy is a huge dick, this part isn't really news, but honestly if Harmon wants to keep this show going he should probably take the high road a little more often instead of playing into Chase's game. Its not helping the show's future for him to run around playing Chevy's nasty voicemails all over the place or making sure all the dirt finds it way online. I'm sure NBC has to be looking at that stuff too when decided what to do with the show.

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, April 1, 2012 10:01 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah this is otm, they had to know what they were getting into casting him in the first place. anytime i've glanced at harmon's twitter he seems to be taking these little potshots at CC and it's like damn, dude, either write him out of the show and move on or shut up.

There's probably network pressure to keep him on the show. Some ancient exec who still thinks he's a 'name' or something.

this is the first i've heard of him taking shots at CC!

http://crushable.com/entertainment/community-returns-march-15-dan-harmon-chevy-chase-687/

Then at the wrap party, Harmon got up and gave a “Fuck you, Chevy” speech in front of Chase and his wife and daughter, and encouraged the crew to join him in saying “fuck you” to the actor.

wow, what a piece of shit that harmon guy is

community is pretty much the worst comedy in the history of american tv btw

Only because you're not a show on American TV, fwiw.

btw the worst comedy in the history of america airs wednesdays at 8 and is called whitney.

CaptainCrawl went down today:

Dear music blogosphere,

due to legal reasons and intense server costs CaptainCrawl has to go offline - forever.
And - sadly - this is not an April the 1st joke.

In the past 4 years CaptainCrawl has been one of the most visited sites in the music
blogosphere, with more than 4,500,000 (searchable and tagged) music blogs posts,
16,000,000 unique visits and some 10,000s of high quality one-click audio previews
(tracks, mixes, talks). From April 1st 2012, this site will be offline.

CC will never come back as a search engine. The possibility to perform full text searches
within the entire music blogosphere was always a problem for labels & lawyers.
CC got serious complaints from major labels and major artists, so CC has to
react on that. And we are talking about big names here. Like Coldplay.

wrong thread

DAN HARMON IS NOT A PIECE OF SHIT

Coldplay are though, by the looks of things.

harmon's always been a piece of shit. he's a child. you're allowed to know this and still like the show.

After listening to the WTF with the guy who did Scrubs and Cougar Town, I'm tempted to believe that a lot of these TV dudes are children.

DAN HARMON IS NOT A PIECE OF SHIT

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, April 1, 2012 4:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Right on. Not getting the whole "he's a child" bit either, unless wanting your creation to reflect your vision makes you a child. Sounds like Chase probably just got what was coming to him.

um, it's more than that. the guy can't not respond to a single human being disagreeing with him in any form without blowing up and acting like he's been victimized and i'm not talking about people connected to the show. his twitter is embarrassing. the chevy thing is perfectly in character and i don't think involving his wife and daughter in the mess would ever be "coming to him." i would never really care to be in the same room as the guy.

seriously, i love the show he's created and think he's brilliant when it comes to crafting his vision, but following his twitter for even a week will reveal that the dude really struggles with basic civility and getting along with other people with big egos.

I remember him writing a lot of horrible things about his girlfriend, when she broke up with him -- he seems to have a lot of anger issues. Otoh, Chevy seems awful as well so I don't feel sorry for anybody in this situation.

i feel sorry for his daughter, i can't even imagine being in that situation

what, having chevy chase for a father?

I haven't actually been following his Twitter feed; my impression of Harmon mainly comes from the DVD commentaries and interviews.

OK, on another viewing, this was brilliant, up there with top-notch Simpsons at least. The satire of corporate personhood is actually really on-point, the tribute to Orwell is masterful, and I love the way they just throw in random gags like Pierce drinking ink. Maybe I was just tired when I watched the first time.

I liked how the catchphrase to bring in the eavesdropping security people was 'the bread is stale'.

This whole situation with Harmon and Chase is really awful. For the good of the show, though, I'd ditch Chase in a heartbeat - in the past couple of seasons they've tried to show Pierce as being terminally insecure and regretful, which is fine and made him tolerable, but in this season he's just a villain that the rest of the characters can rally around opposing (when they notice him at all). If it's been this terrible working with Chase, I'm not sure why he'd still be on the show - those Paley clips show everyone locked into a forced-laughter circle of contempt. It's professional for actors to congratulate and praise each other publicly, even when things didn't go so well on set, but this ... man.

Loved the drinking-ink bits though. Revisited a few eps from earlier in the season to see if things had dropped off in quality in the third season, but we had foosball, halloween ... it's been good overall.

Oh, and I'm definitely aware that Pierce's character weakness this season might be by Harmon's design who would be happy at this point to starve Chevy of any reason to continue on the show.