this show makes community college look 10x more fun than community college is, so I'm not sure it has 'unapologetic meanness'...
― iatee, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
wait you're worried that audiences won't embrace an "aloof and sarcastic" sitcom character? jesus it's like the 90s never happened.
― lindsay goham (some dude), Saturday, 7 November 2009 22:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
I probably am just being nit-picky, but dont' twist my words and be mistaken - I think the double-edged sword is that McHale's sarcasm and the show's tone is more biting than yr average sitcoms, and I'm just wondering out loud on here if that could pose a problem, or not.
iatee: mean in that it makes CC look like a circus of losers. Most other network television gets intentionally ambivalent but this show is content to not please everybody (and I like that about it).
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 22:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Have they revealed the reason why Pierce is there? I remember him being a former CEO but have they gone into that backstory?
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
how is this show's tone more biting? seems pretty harmless to me
― cutty, Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
It's all pretty harmless (this is American network television), and occasionally it does cop-out like with the way they try to deal with everybody's problems, "I'm okay, you're okay"-talks, as mentioned upthread, but they go further than most (non-cartoon) network sitcoms would in making fun of people and CC.
― Cunga, Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
what people?! seriously who is getting made fun of here? people who go to community college?
― cutty, Saturday, 7 November 2009 23:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
the characters quirks are why the show is funny, not some biting commentary on american education
Never mind. Let's go back to agreeing that this show is super funny.
― Cunga, Sunday, 8 November 2009 00:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
DAMN MY TALENT!
― some dude, Friday, 13 November 2009 01:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Annie = hotter every week.
Also, I really love this show now.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 01:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
falling into a drumset really hurts
― cutty, Friday, 13 November 2009 01:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
Revisiting the Spanish rap at the end was priceless.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 13 November 2009 03:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahaha kept laughing during this ep. As long as they keep juggling the weekly combos each week, the character building should continue quite well. Annie is starting to show the fact that the actress is like 9 years older than the character.
― kingfish, Friday, 13 November 2009 11:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah the whole annie/jeff thing is a little creepy given that her character is supposed to be 19ish and his is supposed to be 35ish
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 November 2009 12:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Annie or Troy being 18 is the one thing that's hard for me to suspend my disbelief.
― ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 13 November 2009 13:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
her character is supposed to be 19ish and his is supposed to be 35ish
nothing creepy about this ;)
― cutty, Friday, 13 November 2009 13:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
whoah is she really supposed to be 19? that was totally lost on me
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 14:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
her and Troy are right out of HS
― cutty, Friday, 13 November 2009 14:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
that was part og the reason jeff was so skeeved out by his attraction to her
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 November 2009 14:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
wait, shit, i was thinking of the blonde one
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 14:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Brunette = Annie. Blonde = Britta.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
riiiight
how old is britta supposed to be?
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
mid 20s?
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
great ;)
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Love that all the movie characters all kind look like the group and then there is the coolio troy.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think Britta was revealed to be 27.
― Cunga, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
28, hulu desktop just through up the first scene with Abed and Jeff.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 13 November 2009 18:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
27 sounds right for Brita, old enough to drop out of high school & join greenpeace to impress Radiohead!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 13 November 2009 19:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Annie's transformation from cute to megahot this last episode was good stuff.
― Cunga, Saturday, 14 November 2009 03:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Trudy Campbell vs. Annie
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 November 2009 03:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
Don't watch Mad Men but I've assumed Trudy Campbell is 1950s adult Annie.
― Cunga, Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
not in the slightest. wonderful actress.
― cutty, Saturday, 14 November 2009 12:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
What are everybody's favorite lines so far? I could think of:
"You're an eight, and that's a British ten."
"Kick that for me."
"Wassup, Urkel?"
"I'm don't talk to people who emerge from bushes.""cause I'm right, that's why""No, because I'm in not a commercial for kids cereal."
― Cunga, Sunday, 15 November 2009 01:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
the one about John Lennon killed me
no pun intended btw
― musically, Sunday, 15 November 2009 01:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Forgot about that one. Just as funny as the others.
― Cunga, Sunday, 15 November 2009 02:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
slightly nsfw. and slightly creepy
― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
Speaking of slightly creepy, I thought Jeff and Annie had a lot more chemistry together than Jeff and Britta.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh yeah that's totally true. fortunately irl she's not nearly that young
― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
wth with that Alison Brie youtube thing. Is that her video headshot or something?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
UH
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
re: that youtube
How laws are passed, sausage gets made and, new to the crew, what Hollywood actresses did before their big break. The big three, now.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
def made some sausage w/ that video yaknowhwatimsayin
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
wish i didn't
― tehresa, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Handiest gif out there imo.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
the video was only posted less than two months ago though! looks like that guy does a lot of these short "video portraits"
― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
Shows are in rerun this week, right?
― Cunga, Thursday, 19 November 2009 05:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
new eps of all the nbc shows this week. that makes ten straight weeks (minus 30 rocks late start) which means we're nearly halfway through the season already o_O
― love this mumbo (Clay), Thursday, 19 November 2009 06:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
nah, son, it's still sweeps month (xpost)
― some dude, Thursday, 19 November 2009 06:08 (3 years ago) Permalink