ha I had no idea she went to the University of Akron
I wonder if any of my cousins know her
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I misread that as the University of Akon.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am still cracking up at "the version of myself that would go over there and talk to her would be a vampire" joke from S1
OTM
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Uniform!"
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 April 2012 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
okay lol
also, aw Starburns
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 27 April 2012 00:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow - they nailed every aspect.
ALSO: Eddie Pepitone!
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Friday, 27 April 2012 00:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
when they went to the bio lab and the L&O ME was there, I was beside myself
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 27 April 2012 00:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
theme song was the best part
― Mordy, Friday, 27 April 2012 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dean in the credits tag was one of the funniest things of the season.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 April 2012 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
nailed it
― balls, Friday, 27 April 2012 01:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Loved it!
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 27 April 2012 06:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
can a biased mod please threadban any joyless bastards who come in here moping about anything to do with this delightful episode?
PS
Pepitone's been in as a janitor before, in at least one ep
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 27 April 2012 10:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
this episode sucked
― thomp, Friday, 27 April 2012 11:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
When I first heard this was going to be a Law & Order style episode, I was sort of concerned that it might not work, but goddamn they nailed it. Fantastic episode.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 27 April 2012 13:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
i liked this one! preferred the first half (the order part) to the second half (the law part).
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 27 April 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think it says something about me that i laugh EVERY SINGLE TIME they use magnitude
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
The cutaway to them summarizing everything he'd said and then him offering only a pop pop was pretty great.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
RIP Starburns aka "Alex"
― LaMonte, Friday, 27 April 2012 19:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
It really nailed every aspect of an L&O episode in a half an hour.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really enjoyed this even though I never watched L&O. Troy and Abed were on fire. Yam-boiling thing was v clever.
B-b-but they killed off Starburns! They'll have to bring him back somehow.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
totally. there was an insane perfection to the autopsy scene, in its rhythms and the way they were turning away and the ME made the comment about it sprouting.
― GoT SPOILER ALERT (Gukbe), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Last scene when Kane announces Star-Burns' meth truck explosion was precision L&O
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm
didn't dino say on wtf or somewhere that he doesn't really like acting and didn't want to be on the show and starburns was only supposed to be a one-off joke
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
guess he wants to concentrate more on frankenhole :/
― Mordy, Friday, 27 April 2012 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's... troubling
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's no moral oral
― Mordy, Friday, 27 April 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I LOVED Morel Orel but Frankenhole is pretty weak.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 27 April 2012 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
NBC got the hat trick last night, community, P&R and 30 rock were all fantastic!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 27 April 2012 20:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Office was pretty good too, but nobody cares.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 April 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Office wasn't so great
― Mordy, Friday, 27 April 2012 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I haven't been watching it much this season, but watched it last night and found it kind of painful.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 27 April 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
every scene I accidentally see of the office has at least a dozen people in it
― da croupier, Friday, 27 April 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
The costumes were perfect. So many great details. The hot dog cart. The prosecutorial moral dilemma. The twists.
― s.clover, Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Copy/pasting from http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/04/27/community-law-order-death/
Why was Star-Burns taken from Planet Greendale so soon? He had so many more reptiles to station on his body and drug deals to attempt to make! The reason is simple: He asked for it — literally. Dino Stamatopoulos, who plays Star-Burns, is actually a consulting producer and writer on Community, and he requested that his character meet his maker so he could focus on his main job. It’s hard to believe that a scribe who got to moonlight as a cult character on a beloved network TV comedy would ask to be written off, but Stamatopoulos just wasn’t itching to be in the semi-spotlight.“I’m not an actor,” he explained to EW via email. “I don’t enjoy waiting around for hours on set, I hate when people touch my eyes and neck (make-up department!), I can’t learn lines quickly (yes, even the amount of lines I get), and I don’t need other actors (Joel McHale) asking me why I never got my teeth fixed. There are certain acting roles that I don’t mind doing because I’ll write them and I’ll know how a specific character is supposed to behave. So in those instances, I’m comfortable with performing. The Star-Burns character was basically a conduit for the joke-sideburns and the one-note attitude about not being happy when people called him ‘Star-Burns’. I didn’t have a character in mind so it’s always been an uphill battle for me to perform the part. Yes, he’s been given funny lines, and I suppose the writers made him more like me eventually, but playing yourself is very difficult as well. I really don’t know how people perceive me. Obviously it’s as a scumbag, which is fair because I am, but that doesn’t mean I can play one on TV.”And he didn’t ask to in the first place — rather, the job found him. At the beginning of season 1, series creator Dan Harmon needed an actor to sit patiently in a chair for hours so the hair and make-up department could figure out a way to pull off those now-famous star-shaped sideburns that initially defined this extremely ancillary character. “To pay an actor to do that was going to be expensive — it was cheaper to make a writer do it,” he says. (Harmon, by the way, declined to comment on that feud with Chevy Chase.) “I called Dino and asked him if he’d do it and he said yes.”He decided to throw Stamatopoulos on camera in this low-stakes role, and viewers quickly took an interest in Star-Burns. The writers did too: Not only was Star-Burns an amusing visual gag, he represented another point of view in the halls of Greendale. “What I always loved about him was that joke where Jeff (McHale) is ripping on him from afar,” says Community story editor Megan Ganz, the obsessive L&O fan who wrote last night’s episode. “And then you cut over to Star-Burns and Star-Burns is calling Jeff a douchebag. That was the first moment you’re telling the audience, ‘Hey, just because we particularly choose to focus on this group doesn’t make them heroes.’”No one would call Star-Burns a hero. In fact, he was “the one-man seedy underbelly of Greendale,” as Ganz perfectly sums up, giving drugs to Pierce (Chase) in a Halloween episode (one of Stamatopoulos’ favorite moments), and getting kicked out of biology class after trying unsuccessfully to persuade Prof. Kane to “get a Breaking Bad type of thing going” and venture with him into the drug business. While brainstorming the L&O episode, the writers made the logical choice to make Star-Burns a suspect early on: He confesses to stealing supplies from the classroom for his meth lab. And as they were deciding to include a fatal phone call twist at the end of the episode à la L&O, one man who’d been lobbying to have his character killed off appeared in a lightbulb above their heads.Not that there wasn’t some hesitation in ridding Greendale of one of its most colorful characters and formidable forces. “My first thought when we talked about killing Star-Burns was, ‘Oh no!’ because the whole point was that each year he was going to have a new affectation,” says Harmon. “I wanted the show to run forever and have the guy turn into this umber hulk covered in branches and monocles and roller blades, and unable to function as a human being because of all these things that identify him. But then I think of Daffy Duck being tiny and grabbing that big pearl and saying, ‘Mine, mine, mine!’ and the clam shell slowly closing, which is how I always perceive people who won’t let go of stuff in the moment. You need to be Bugs Bunny and not Daffy Duck. You took a left turn at Albuquerque, you’re in a genie’s cave, you have to deal with it on the fly. That’s where joy comes from… I keep finding on this show that plans are the antithesis of good TV.”While Stamatopoulos was a bit disappointed that his demise wasn’t seen on camera (“That would have been cool, but expensive. I can see why they didn’t do it. But I did think it was funny”), he found a certain appeal in Star-Burns being offed as opposed to, say, transferring to an overseas community college. “I thought to myself, ‘If my character dies, I’d be in a very elite group of characters dying on a prime time network show,” he says. “So, that was definitely an attractive prospect for me. It would be me, Coach from Cheers (who really died, gulp) and that guy from Two and a Half Babies.”He may be dead, but he’s not gone just yet. In next week’s episode, the study group attends his funeral, and we will see him in some sort of “video” form. And McHale wonders if the joke could live on: “My guess is Dan will find a way to make him a ghost and continue to torture him by making him stay on set. Who knows? His twin brother will show up and it’ll be like, ‘What the f—?’”
And he didn’t ask to in the first place — rather, the job found him. At the beginning of season 1, series creator Dan Harmon needed an actor to sit patiently in a chair for hours so the hair and make-up department could figure out a way to pull off those now-famous star-shaped sideburns that initially defined this extremely ancillary character. “To pay an actor to do that was going to be expensive — it was cheaper to make a writer do it,” he says. (Harmon, by the way, declined to comment on that feud with Chevy Chase.) “I called Dino and asked him if he’d do it and he said yes.”
He decided to throw Stamatopoulos on camera in this low-stakes role, and viewers quickly took an interest in Star-Burns. The writers did too: Not only was Star-Burns an amusing visual gag, he represented another point of view in the halls of Greendale. “What I always loved about him was that joke where Jeff (McHale) is ripping on him from afar,” says Community story editor Megan Ganz, the obsessive L&O fan who wrote last night’s episode. “And then you cut over to Star-Burns and Star-Burns is calling Jeff a douchebag. That was the first moment you’re telling the audience, ‘Hey, just because we particularly choose to focus on this group doesn’t make them heroes.’”
No one would call Star-Burns a hero. In fact, he was “the one-man seedy underbelly of Greendale,” as Ganz perfectly sums up, giving drugs to Pierce (Chase) in a Halloween episode (one of Stamatopoulos’ favorite moments), and getting kicked out of biology class after trying unsuccessfully to persuade Prof. Kane to “get a Breaking Bad type of thing going” and venture with him into the drug business. While brainstorming the L&O episode, the writers made the logical choice to make Star-Burns a suspect early on: He confesses to stealing supplies from the classroom for his meth lab. And as they were deciding to include a fatal phone call twist at the end of the episode à la L&O, one man who’d been lobbying to have his character killed off appeared in a lightbulb above their heads.
Not that there wasn’t some hesitation in ridding Greendale of one of its most colorful characters and formidable forces. “My first thought when we talked about killing Star-Burns was, ‘Oh no!’ because the whole point was that each year he was going to have a new affectation,” says Harmon. “I wanted the show to run forever and have the guy turn into this umber hulk covered in branches and monocles and roller blades, and unable to function as a human being because of all these things that identify him. But then I think of Daffy Duck being tiny and grabbing that big pearl and saying, ‘Mine, mine, mine!’ and the clam shell slowly closing, which is how I always perceive people who won’t let go of stuff in the moment. You need to be Bugs Bunny and not Daffy Duck. You took a left turn at Albuquerque, you’re in a genie’s cave, you have to deal with it on the fly. That’s where joy comes from… I keep finding on this show that plans are the antithesis of good TV.”
While Stamatopoulos was a bit disappointed that his demise wasn’t seen on camera (“That would have been cool, but expensive. I can see why they didn’t do it. But I did think it was funny”), he found a certain appeal in Star-Burns being offed as opposed to, say, transferring to an overseas community college. “I thought to myself, ‘If my character dies, I’d be in a very elite group of characters dying on a prime time network show,” he says. “So, that was definitely an attractive prospect for me. It would be me, Coach from Cheers (who really died, gulp) and that guy from Two and a Half Babies.”
He may be dead, but he’s not gone just yet. In next week’s episode, the study group attends his funeral, and we will see him in some sort of “video” form. And McHale wonders if the joke could live on: “My guess is Dan will find a way to make him a ghost and continue to torture him by making him stay on set. Who knows? His twin brother will show up and it’ll be like, ‘What the f—?’”
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wonder if we'll see the return of his son w/ the bluetooth.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
great episode
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
very
― some dude, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was watching the draft last night, so I just now got caught up. As a L&O fan since the beginning, this was the finest tribute I could imagine. Not only was it a great tribute, but a great Community episode. I want to marry it. OMG
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like this was a missed opportunity for chang, but i don't really care
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
probably would've been overkill to tangle up his "not really a cop" jokes with all the other ones going on in the episode. he got to be in those opening credits, though!
― some dude, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
So I guess Starburns is the death that was mentioned earlier in the season and Ken Jeong is around for a while yet?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I laughed at Chang standing next to Michael K Williams' desk, just dead-eyed, slack-jawed, and slightly out of focus, during the court scenes, but I don't think it was supposed to be funny.
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a significant sorta-spoiler in that EW piece, re: how Starburns' death affects the rest of the season.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Said spoiler was revealed in the post-hiatus teaser montage, though.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 28 April 2012 04:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Sorry about my partner. He's been on edge since we switched."
Had to watch this again tonight.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 28 April 2012 07:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
laughed at Chang standing next to Michael K Williams' desk, just dead-eyed, slack-jawed, and slightly out of focus, during the court scenes, but I don't think it was supposed to be funny.
I thought it was, so there
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 28 April 2012 07:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
the cast mentioned during the paleyfest panel that ken jeong will do that dead-eyed, protruding-tongue thing during scenes to try and get the other actors to break. they call it "chang-tongue."
― supreme sundae (reddening), Saturday, 28 April 2012 09:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was pretty happy to see Williams and Todd reappear in this episode. I always really enjoy the episodes where the minor characters get a load of play, but I think I would probably have got a load more out of this one had I ever actually seen Law & Order.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Saturday, 28 April 2012 09:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also I hope Neil gets to get it on with Vicky. That guy deserves a break.
"a man's got to have a code"!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 April 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink