Community, the tv show

"You can't stop me because what are you going to do, not have butts?"

xpost hannibal is like if fincher was an interior decorator. ITS SO GOOD content-wise, and rad to look at

zodiac levels of holy shit LOOK at that pause-moments

gonna miss Troy

this. damn you childish gambino.

i still haven't gotten around to seeing Hannibal -- basing a whole episode around a moderately popular NBC show that's been on for one season, really? that's like if instead of having a great throwaway gag about The Cape they actually let Abed make an entire episode about The Cape. Hannibal doesn't even half a half-red/half-white logo like the Community logo in that ep, does it? what was that about?

i suppose Community may have accurately surmised at this point that most of their audience is people whose remotes are broken and the TV is stuck on NBC. kinda lol but mostly sad that the season premiere preceded by months of "Harmon's back!" excitement got lower ratings than the last season premiere that was preceded by months of "Harmon's gone!" outrage.

very different timing for both premieres but in both cases community beat the newer more friendly nbc sitcoms in the ratings that week

i still haven't gotten around to seeing Hannibal -- basing a whole episode around a moderately popular NBC show that's been on for one season, really? that's like if instead of having a great throwaway gag about The Cape they actually let Abed make an entire episode about The Cape.

did you watch the episode? read the thread? plenty to laugh at, plenty of references to recognize even if you haven't seen hannibal.

and yeah the important thing is community's relative standing to its peers in the NBC thursday crypt

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/NBCs-COMMUNITY-Up-17-in-Key-Demo-vs-Year-Ago-20140110

if dan harmon can avoid posting naked drawings of castmembers on his tumblr or disappearing for a month, i think the chance are pretty good for a season 6. I mean, NBC has to renew something and its hitting that syndication gravy train. as for a movie, that's up to kickstarter.

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/photos/3/6/7/9/8_05f14de1719aeb2/community-fincherthA.jpg

this isn't a "omg have you seen hannibal" image they gave to all the blogs, this is a "omg have you seen a procedural about a serial killer since the mid-90s" image

i watched and enjoyed the episode but the whole time i was confused about what it was parodying and had no idea until i read the thread

i'll admit i didn't recognize the red dragon credits and while they're not particularly iconic they're undoubtedly cheaper than seven-style credits

i mean i LIKE that the show doesn't trade exclusively in spoonfed Star Wars-level pop culture references but My Dinner With Andre refs >>>>> this

i wouldn't say its up to the level of that episode, sure, but if you got confused because they were paying tribute to a popular filmmaking aesthetic rather than one specific movie that's on you

it sounds like you're mad no one said "ITS LIKE ZODIAC!"

i thought the montage at the end where life goes on and no one is certain who the culprit was while the ben folds song played felt like a direct homage to zodiac

iirc there was also a photo of a dragon-tattoo-ish punk lady on a locker early on

did they not really deal w/ torture serial killer flicks in the ep or did i miss some references (hostel/saw/etc)?

nah it was pretty much the post-seven brand

well i got all the stuff that was broad genre parody but i'm assuming there's some Hannibal-specific stuff that went over my head -- again i have no idea how much.

in any event it felt like they wanted to do something else in the vein of the Law & Order ep or the conspiracy theory episode but didn't have as strong a hook for it, i dunno.

i've never seen an ep of hannibal fwiw and didn't catch any refs to it

i dunno, the stuff vg ref'd up thread - "rain, classical music, weird colors" - are all fincher tropes too

if i hadn't read the thread first i would have primarily assumed zodiac, considering the show consisted of attack sequences followed by threatening letters, paranoid detectives in glum settings and an ambiguous "will we ever know" montage

but if this is all like hannibal too, then shit i gotta see me some hannibal

are creepy greenhouses a film noir thing, or am i just thinking of "the big sleep" and extrapolating it to all film noir?

more just going into a claustrophobic space, a spooky guy at the end of the hallway bolting upon spotting the detectives, and the detectives having to thrash around the claustrophobic setting, hopefully breaking at least one glass object

almost disappointed there wasn't more of ben folds

first time i've said that since high school

also i don't think this really pulled anything from hannibal other than a heightened stylized air, but everyone should still watch hannibal cuz it's great.

i think creepy greenhouses/labs are definitely a thing tho the main example i can think of atm is varicella

both make great lairs, naturally cluttered spaces with sharp corners

there's the creepyish greenhouseish guy in Twin Peaks too.

re this episode, I thought I was missing a key reference point because I didn't recognise the credits, but I think if not for those I'd just have taken it as a general post-Seven serial killer thing.

i don't think it was just hannibal. but abed's "profiler" was def a hannibal ref. "so many.. profiler shows... on basic.. cable.. so much pain.. ful writing."

except hannibal isn't on basic cable and is a spin-off of a movie franchise dating back to the 90s

not saying they aren't aware of hannibal (as per abed's dvr) just that the slow talking profiler wasn't invented in the last three years

'80 actually, re hannibal

the music in the DMB reseach scene was taken from a research scene in Seven

oh, and Abed was deleting episodes of "The Bridge" and "Hannibal" show that have detectives with Aspberger's. He was also deleting episodes of "Johnny Spectrum"

or maybe the Hannibal guy doesn't actually have Aspberger's but they say he's "on the spectrum"

oh, and Abed was deleting episodes of "The Bridge" and "Hannibal" show that have detectives with Aspberger's. He was also deleting episodes of "Johnny Spectrum"

― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Saturday, January 11, 2014 12:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha ok that's great. especially if that's an indication that one of the things they're walking back from season 4 is how Abed had begun to seem less like a functional adult than he had in earlier seasons.

except hannibal isn't on basic cable and is a spin-off of a movie franchise dating back to the 90s

― da croupier, Saturday, January 11, 2014 12:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right i wasn't saying the _content_ of the bit was all about hannibal. the delivery and setup was pure will tho.

man i hope hannibal is like the platonic ideal of these tropes cuz everything being described as oh so hannibal seems oh so familiar even though i've never seen the show

"rain? classical music? a slow talking profiler? someone's clearly picking up what nbc's been putting down since april '13!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXuNJxWw88

filmed in 1999

I'm on the "what are they parodying?" train, but I totally dug this episode. Love Troy with the blankets and cups, and Starburns' "hee haw!" was A+.

"This is how they comfort victims in movies"

"Wait a minute, ants DO have butts!"

yeah starburns dave hee haw was probably the second biggest laff of the night for me after the dean snapping his fingers trying to get the call traced

oh man, the snapping thing stressed me out.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/84e0a0ad660be36c380191a57bfb68da/tumblr_mz5rj673gE1rd1qi0o1_500.gif