Community, the tv show

All the money to ever be made from Community will be in dvd/digital sales.

And action figures.

following Big Bang Theory would probably be the best possible option for the show to pick up "normal" viewers.

http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/23339272200/hey-did-i-miss-anything

Harmon speaks, says he will not be involved with the show.

Fans will annoyingly tout that last night's episode was the "real Series Finale" of Community. I'll hate them, but they might be right.

― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, May 18, 2012 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Community 2.0 might be awesome, but as far as any vision of the original creative team, this was the real series finale.

geez harmon's blog post is kind of devastating.

Weinman pretty good here: http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/19/the-community-brouhaha/

Looking at the resumes of the new runners-- never seen Happy Endings. Why isn't it on Hulu? Never heard of Aliens in America. Just Shoot Me? Ugh, the worst.

still haven't seen the last 3, but I'm glad it sounds like he got to complete an arc.

Love the part of Harmon's tumblr post about NBC brass predictably wrongfully assuming that fucked-over creative talent will not go away mad.

harmon is so totally fucked over with his contractually guaranteed paycheck for doing nothing after trying so hard to get fired for three years, i feel for him

can you figure out the error in your logic?

The same contract also gives me the same salary and title if I spend all day masturbating and playing Prototype 2. And before you ask yourself what you would do in my situation: buy Prototype 2. It’s fucking great.

the limits of my sympathy for this person show no bounds

this clearly has been his goal since the pilot

Looking at the resumes of the new runners-- never seen Happy Endings. Why isn't it on Hulu? Never heard of Aliens in America. Just Shoot Me? Ugh, the worst.

I know I'm the minority on ilx but I hate Happy Endings -- it is so smug and cynical. RIP Community, I wish it could have ended properly with the finale.

Surely we've learned by this point that speculating on Community's future is a waste of time and energy? I'm happy to wait for season four before writing it off.

you picked the weirdest to place on this board to suggest everyone knows speculating on Community's future is a waste of time and energy.

like, yeah, i'll check out season 4, but there's a new head chef at the restaurant the old one created. it's fair to be concerned.

i've really enjoyed the first three seasons of this show. i'm sure the writing will not be as strong for the fourth season, yet as long as alison brie continues to be an actress on it, i will continue to watch it. no matter who is in charge.

Season 4 will mostly be improvised Chevy Chase pratfalls.

Opening episode of season an homage to The Chevy Chase Show.

Without Harmon, Chase is more likely to get his way. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that won't be a good thing.

We may actually get to see a 13-episode homage to The Chevy Chase Show, if we're lucky!

I'm really interested in people's contracts at this point, both wrt the writers and the cast. I mean, I'd imagine most people will stay put if they have nowhere else to go for the moment, but if, say, Donald Glover gets a sweet offer and his contract doesn't inextricably bind him to the show, I wouldn't be surprised if he split.

I'd be quite surprised if they agreed a fourth season without signing up the main actors (possible exception = Ken Jeong).

Most of the cast, except possibly Yvette and maybe Gillian Jacobs, could easily break out and do their own thing these days. Willing to bet on Danny Pudi appearing in whatever Harmon decides to do next as well.

Other things I liked from the last couple of episodes:

- Abed as plumber was awesome
- "JEFFREY!... oh, hey Britta"
- RAVING DEAN
- Leonard lives with Sexy Dreadlock Guy

Also I love how there's apparently only one policeman in the Greendale area and that guy rules. Shame we didn't get any Garrett or Magnitude in the finale though.

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of the actors are just glad they'll be working another year, but for anyone with a future outside of the show they might not want to be involved with a season that will likely be mercilessly picked apart by critics and fans.

Or, y'know, it might be good? As was mentioned upthread, the Community universe is pretty well-defined by this point, although I think we're unlikely to get anything totally batshit like the chaos theory episode or the Dean doing Apocalypse Now.

Things like Leonard's YouTube clips and the constant references to his rich non-campus life are one of the brilliant things I'm going to miss. There's no way in hell any more trad-oriented-staff is going to have those included with the same deft touch.

I've seen Happy Endings, so I have my doubts. xp

These new scab show runners won't be in any position to fight the network on anything

This will be Sony's vision of what Community could have been like without all that weird stuff

I'm not writing the next season off altogether. I still love the cast and the writers. However, the more diminished the old-school team becomes, the more strikes it has against its potential success.

Not to mention that whoever's left is likely to feel somewhat demoralized by the bowdlerizing of the show.

as upsetting as it is to hear that a shitty person got fired for being bad at their job lol @ thinking that what dan harmon brought to the show was 'funny jokes' or, yknow, remotely irreplaceable

i don't think you have to think highly of dan harmon to realize that tv shows are like ecosystems that can be easily unbalanced, esp by seismic shifts in staffing, writers, etc. if you liked the show until now, dan had at least something to do with that (either as a writer himself, as an editor, as a manager, whatever myriad tasks he was responsible for).

So how was Harmon bad at his job?

I mean Bob Oedenkirk could be kind of a dick but I'm glad he wasn't fired from Mr. Show and replaced with like Drew Carey.

he couldnt deliver a show his bosses were satisfied with?

like idk i had this whole sarcastic thing about how rare it is in hollywood to find a verbally abusive writer with a drinking problem and an inflated sense of their own importance or w/e but harmon fought publicly with the shows biggest star and 'privately' with other writers/producers delivered shows late had problems managing budget/time seemed to actively delight in not compromising w/the studio blah blah blah

the dude calls his blog dan harmon poops... what a visionary

Yeah but your blog is called Lampfelches

i also have a drinking problem and have watched other tv shows before, maybe i can run community

not to mention all those abusive voicemails chevy chase has left for me

Satisfying the stupidest people in the world is a job I hope we all fail at

Maybe Harmon can get the Black Sabbath drummer gig.

P. sure getting rid of Harmon is just one facet of an intricately-plotted latticework of decisions that will rocket NBC back to the top of the heap. Or, more likely, this was a decision not unlike the one to burn off and quickly get rid of Bent and Best Friends Forever (i.e. "I'm the new guy so fuck the old guy's stuff why because of my big swinging ego.").

Although, yeah, I'm sure there's some historical precedent a la Letterman and Norm MacDonald and Al Franken. NBC execs don't cotton to guff.

Most executives don't, though, to be fair to NBC (even though they're soulless cretins).

https://mobile.twitter.com/cpmckenna/status/203696977794449408

Nov. '09 I joined my favorite show on TV and today leave my favorite anything ever. Thanks Community, fans, and @danharmon. E Pluribus Anus.

9:01pm - 18 May 12

You know, I was going to talk about how much I enjoyed the last few episodes but instead I am just going to back away from this thread

like mordy, i am bummed about this but will watch season 4 regardless

Harmon was horrible at his job and only wanted to get fired and anyone who thinks otherwise is obviously a fan of Community.