Community, the tv show

Dean was episode MVP

It was a really good acting performance but I'm pretty burned out on his obsession with Jeff - and this was an especially weird way to express it.

xp yeah but highest gpa doesn't mean smartest

It doesn't have to but Annie's character was previously established as smart, hard-working, and pretty honest.

I swear that episode last night was very reminiscent of an episode of My Little Pony. This is what happens when I watch an episode of Community now.

I had a hamburger the other day and suddenly I'm not cold all the time.

that one was sort of vintage. i'm getting used to laughing once per episode.

Yeah, one real banger per ep this season. Yogurts-burgh is up there, too.

They gave Britta a Kieslowski reference.

Yeah, that was good. She totally Britta'd the pronunciation.

Thought the concept was pretty good but it wasn't funny enough. Also you get the feeling that old Community would have done more to make the Troy and Annie origin stories tie in with the others a bit more.

Also the substitute Pierce was lame.

Incidentally I hope Chang's "they'd give a degree to a monkey" line was foreshadowing the season actually ends with Annie's Boobs graduating from Greendale.

rip

Last night's was...ok. About as decent (if sometimes forced) a wrapup as you could expect at this point. It was written and directed by Harmon-era vets (Ganz and Shapeero), which probably accounts for most of the jokes landing, even if going back to the multiple-timelines well was a bit cheap.

I'm assuming they didn't announce cancellation yesterday because the finale hadn't yet aired, but if this was being renewed it probably would have been announced along with Parks & Rec

This was the dumbest fucking thing

When Abed announced that none of it was real and it was all happening in Jeff's head I went "oh thank god" because I really couldn't take it anymore, and then they had fucking "6 seasons and a movie" written on the chalkboard in the graduation scene and I wanted to scream "nooooooooo"

Watching that felt like being forced to watch how much someone else is enjoying jacking off

6 seasons and a movie is literally the most annoying meme ever propagated via television

otm. Like I love Arrested Development to death, I've rewatched those three seasons over and over so many times it's ridiculous. But there's really no way you could do 6 seasons and a movie of THAT show and not have a ton of duds in there.

I also really like when bands play a song live and it's a minute or 30 seconds long, then they stop and immediately go into the next one, and it's also a minute long.

Haven't watched this ep, but read the AV Club eulogy last night. As long as it makes me laugh as much as usual it's fine w me.

I laughed exactly once

And it's not even that I require every episode of every sitcom to be a nonstop laugh riot; this particular episode was a gigantic pile of irredeemable bullshit top to bottom with little humor, no emotional resonance, and a fuckton of "Ooh look remember this? You liked this! You liked this, too! The Cape, lol! Annie is sexy! Let's get Jeff naked! Wooooooooo oh shit we forgot to write an episode"

It was the Community Farewell Tour. They played all the hits, the performances were spirited, got to see them one last time, and hopefully that's the end of it.

The show went out as the gigantic animated GIF it aspired to be, having abandoned plots and dialogue and likeability for the most part.

Last week's episode ends with Chang signing on for actual friendship and the City College dean laughing maniacally about an alternate plan...except whoops! We only have 30 minutes of season left, so forget you ever saw that. No time to carry that story out.

I really wanted the (likely) final episode to be a good and make me laugh a lot, but tbh it's probably fitting that it was mostly terrible and not very funny.

I really didn't like the sound design for evil Troy's voice.

In retrospect I feel like they rang a bell with Remedial Chaos Theory that ended up destroying the show

I liked that episode but, yeah, I've groaned inwardly any time they referenced it since then.

The descriptions of the last two episodes have not inspired me to check them out.

Bring on an Alison Brie sitcom!

ha ha haaaa they renewed this jfc

and then cancelled Goon? I thought that was a "hit"

I never thought I'd be annoyed by news of a Community renewal, but it should be put down like Old Yeller.

def needs to be taken to the back of the woodshed

My main reason for half-wanting it to be renewed is so that I can still see Yvette Nicole Brown on my tee vee, because I fear she'd be dropped back down to working bit parts and Nickelodeon/Disney shows and I <3 her.

http://hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/nbc-renews-community-for-season-5

oh wait I see it's already been reported. might skip next year but probably won't be able to help myself.

Christ, I'm actually pissed about its renewal. There's nothing left in this show to care about.

"mistress in a lifetime movie" gag was a+

goon's ratings started out really high and ended really, really low, so i guess that's not too surprising. nbc also canceled the new normal, whitney, and guys with kids, so unless i'm mistaken parks and rec and community are the only returning nbc comedies next year (???). what a world.

i think i am the only person that liked whitney

and even then i liked it for trying.

I will watch an episode next year if Jim Rash writes it again

(I will watch six if he writes six)

I'm happy to watch subpar Communitu rather than none at all. Still better than According to Jim or whatever other crap is out there.

This current incarnation of Community is much, much worse than The Big Bang Theory

Amazing how one mindbogglingly terrible episode can ruin a season

for some reason I didn't think this episode was too bad. It was certainly a conceptual mess but some of the other better episodes this season were too, I guess that's something I can overlook if it holds together in other ways (mainly being funny regularly enough), which I think this one did for the most part. Though that doesn't give me any idea why they'd want to continue with it, I'll still watch but I can't foresee anything but me coming ever more to resent that it still exists and still commands some of my attention.

holy shit NBC is so pathetic

It would be funny if they just keep making a new excuse every episode for why Pierce isn't present instead of properly writing him out.

Wow, I'm really disappointed that this is being renewed. Seriously, just allow it to salvage some dignity.

(╯︵╰,) this is the darkest timeline (╯︵╰,)

I've been moving to the pov that s1 was the strongest overall, after the pilot. I think I might get the most lols from it + I think it's the only season where every element in the show worked and worked together. Despite the brilliant ideas in s2, you could already see them straining with Chang's and Pierce's characters.

season 1 is the funniest overall, 2 had the big conceptual eps but there are definite seeds of the reddit/tumblr-baiting fanwank that really flourished in the third season. (and i mean if you're into that, that's cool, but that shit kinda grates. and the third season also somehow manages to waste both john goodman AND omar!)

i'm feeling pretty solid now about dropping out after s3.

i wonder if they've been keeping any cast loyalty by promising them more (better) work down the road, development deals. (not that many early-career actors would give up paying work just because it kind of sucked.) or if nbc is bringing it back just to prove themselves right.

Season 1 is virtually flawless I think, although S2 maybe has higher highs - the conspiracy thriller episode is probably my all-time favourite.

S1 > S2 >> first part of S3 >>> second part of S3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> S4.

Gonna make a bold prediction and suggest that S5 will be funnier than the fourth.

One kinda sad thing was seeing the assorted tertiary characters all there for Jeff's graduation and realising the extent to which the Community universe has shrunk over the last couple of years.

community mostly got renewed cuz nbc wanted some of the new sony pilots and sony wants that guaranteed syndication $.