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Great episode. THIS should have been the claymation episode. The episode had a dark and sad undercurrent, especially in the beginning where it seemed like Neil was about to do something pretty drastic (my first thought was suicide). I don't really see how Pierce remains in the group after this, but maybe we can consider it an 'Elseworlds' type episode.

i like to think that the group made him this way when they cut his casts off and abed is like, "this is how super villains are made"

Good point - thanks for that (I laughed just remembering it)

I don't think Pierce has really been "in the group" for awhile, except that I guess they tolerate him hanging around (tho on the same note they tolerate Chang hanging around too and he's pretty psychotic). Harmon seems like a deft enough writer that he's not going to totally dismiss the way Pierce has been acting over the last few episodes and I'd be really shocked if he was just "part of the gang" again without some kind of reconciliation. I've said this before but one of the greatest things about this show is how well developed all the relationships and characters are. Sometimes a character doesn't step forward in any given episode but so much of the show's canon + mythos are built on relationships that make sense and have been developed over numerous episodes. Just thinking about how the Annie/Rich/Jeff thing has been developed through the pottery episode, the annie/jeff episodes, the zombie episodes, all to make that kettle corn episode work in a way that made sense and was true to the characters.

still waiting on that annie fingers gif

"you're the AT&T of people"

I didn't get that line

Personal favorite:

"I won Dungeons And Dragons - and it was Advanced!

"You hump the sword"

Chang in blackface people
Annie flopping out the endowed

omg Chang's elf was hilarious. Just watching him speak cracked me up every single time

orchestral theme change with re-drawn credits! I can't imagine the man-hours spent for 20 seconds of gag, but good on you, anonymous production people.

yeah, how cool was that.

whenever they change the theme + credits you know you're in for something special (they changed it for the zombie ep too)

i want an mp3 of that theme

"Are we just gonna ignore this hate crime over here?"

"you remembered to invite al jolson here"

still waiting on that annie fingers gif

― Gukbe, Friday, February 4, 2011 11:25 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

From what I remember the funniest parts for me were was when Chang during the intro, Annie's fingers, Britta being Britta, and Pierce at his meanest. Also, Pierce sort of ended up being the nice guy because he ratted out Jeff. Oh, and Troy's comments like "hurrah!" were always good for a laugh.

Troy's second huzzah is especially amazing because he kinda looks sad when he says it

Still haven't found an Annie's fingers gif, so I'm downloading last night's show and making one. Coming up soon!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TUyFO9iPsZI/AAAAAAAAAbg/9ktZzLnioaM/anniefingers.gif

ha, you watched the same rip I did. what software did you use to capture?

Virtual Dub creates jpegs from the video frames: http://www.virtualdub.org/download.html -- and then I made an animated gif in Photoshop.

cool, i'll give it a shot - thanks.

best D&D epi since freaks & geeks

first of all -- GAY

having the cleaner as voiceoverlady was the best punchline

yea i'm glad I didn't watch this at my house or our condo mates woulda been screaming "shut the fuck up" through the walls

this was good, but i don't understand why you guys go so gaga over the hi-concept episodes such as this one, the paintball one... i think that the previous couple, the anti-drug play and the rich one, were much funnier

to me the writing on d&d, paintball gets too labored, like they are tripping over themselves trying to be too clever

This was basically a bottle episode, to offset the elaborate costumes and sets of the drug play episode...

Abed should've had a DM's screen.

Personally it hit hard because of Depression and what it's really like but ya know, was also p funny

should add i was heartened to hear the cry of "excelsior"

also, off-topic, but yesterday i watched the simpsons for the first time in like eight years or something, and it happened to be the "sleep, that's where i'm a viking" one!

this was good, but i don't understand why you guys go so gaga over the hi-concept episodes such as this one, the paintball one... i think that the previous couple, the anti-drug play and the rich one, were much funnier

u crazy

i watched all three with a friend and she thought the same thing!

This was basically a bottle episode, to offset the elaborate costumes and sets of the drug play episode...

was the inverse of the xmas one..instead of the show expensively recreating the aesthetics of the world in which characters were imagining themselves, you saw them in the study room simply discussing this imaginary world.

I love this show. The editing, the sound design, all of it. Really awesome.

Like when Chang turns in his character sheet, its all slo-mo and he fades into the hallway. So rad.

I don't really care about the high conceptness .. I just thought this episode brought the laughs. But also I am a huge nerd so all the AD&D stuff was welcome.

Last week's episode was pretty weak I thought.

It wasn't really very "hi concept" except for the occasional narration and chang's slo-mo scene. Otherwise it was just like any other episode with an additional character.

I think it was very tightly directed wrt things like sound effects (which often reflected what was going on in the game) and scoring such that it felt much more high concept than it actually was. there was definitely a level of artistry in so many details this last ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXw6znXPfy4

:D

Googling for an interview with the showrunner made me realize that this isn't the first time Dan Harmon's contributed something to mass D&D culture. when he was back in the Dead Alewives(the mid-90s sketch comedy troupe with Rob Schrab), he wrote this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHdXG2gV01k

Dan Harmon wrote that sketch?? I've been hearing it for years and never realized.

does one of the voices, too, apparently:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_and_Dragons_%28sketch%29#Dungeons_and_Dragons_Sketch

Finally caught this and

one of the best community episodes ever

OTM. Holy shit, the love scene.

omg please tell me this librarian thing goes somewhere

Yeah, she is beautiful.

It seemed like a one-off to play up Abed and Troy's bond, but who knows.

The girl with Leather Tuscadero hair and the beauty mark on her cheek who hung out with Annie was CUET.

Yeah she was! The non-lesbian girl had a weird Marlee Matlin look, odd looking girl.
Loved Jeff carrying Chang back inside;
Chang yelling at the hermit crabs
Italian fanny= British for pizza
Annie making kiss face at Britta