Community, the tv show

a lot of their little ending segments are kind of deliberately simple or expectation-defying, and really who watches those and goes "gahh they totally wasted those 15 seconds, i'm losing my faith in this show"

Am I missing the joke with the paintball sweatshirt text?

I think it was a meta joek about fans who claimed that the show went downhill from that episode

xxp i know but it was the first time that i asked myself 'what just happened?' after the last segment. all previous endings, even if not connected to the plot of the episode, were just simple and straigthforward fun.

and i never said that those segments have any influence on how i rate this show.

geez you guys, even my mom "got it" (and enjoyed the observational humor)

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liked the horn gag best

i don't think Jeff "Nipple Player" Winger is necessarily a reference to his own nipples

of course not, that's why Troy said "Nipple Player" instead of "nipple-play," and then played with Britta's nipples instead of miming playing with Jeff's, and oh wait

great britta episode, especially her delivery on the line:
"maybe we do...
may
be
we
do."

This show is excellent at making me crush on whichever female character gets the most screen time in a particular week. Sometimes it's Annie, sometimes it's Britta, sometimes it's Shirley. Also? Man-crush on Troy always.

i don't think Jeff "Nipple Player" Winger is necessarily a reference to his own nipples

of course not, that's why Troy said "Nipple Player" instead of "nipple-play," and then played with Britta's nipples instead of miming playing with Jeff's, and oh wait

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haha the R was a typo, i didn't actually think they said "nipple player" -- although agree to disagree about the meaning of the joke i guess

great britta episode, especially her delivery on the line:
"maybe we do...
may
be
we
do."

Britta has become my favorite character.

also yay @ Victor from Dollhouse as the babykilling Russian dude <3

Britta has become my favorite character.

yeah britta is rad

I still don't get the whole nipple thing - help me understand it - I must not of been listening correctly.

So Jeff had a nipple mp3 player or more likely he taped his nipples down when he exercised? And what could be embarrassing about playing with Britta's nipples?

amazing

this ep made me feel uncomfortable tbh, i dunno

'white people problems' was pretty lol and the other troy/abed stuff technically great but as i say

jeff's hair pissed me off

Dan Harmon got into a mini debate with someone on Twitter re: the tastelesness of making ethnic cleansing jokes

I get it...but in the context of him playing Medal of Honor or whatever with Troy and Abed and them wooping it up with him over what a stone cold killer he was as a gamer, it was pretty funny
But I have no morals and am going to hell

the "debate" itself was kind of lol, it was basically one person saying "maybe that went too far" and Harmon asking "how so?" and the person replying by saying "by going too far" and no amount of requests for expansion or clarification could produce a single concrete example from the complainer as to what he/she was objecting to

like, I thought it was hilarious and I could have pointed out three things that were in questionable taste (playing a national genocide for laughs, the unseemly relish with which dude enjoyed killing other people, Troy and Abed translating those atrocities into gameplay without even blinking) so it was amazing to me that this person just wanted to make vague complaints and expected Harmon to be a mindreader

hahaha wow

http://splitsider.com/2011/03/the-dan-harmon-school-of-comedy-writing/

neat little breakdown of how the writing process works

ok the My Dinner With Andre homage and Cougar Town jokes are totally upstaging the so-called Pulp Fiction episode

Amusingly, that was the entire point.

"The wardrobe lady gave me new pants."

abed's whole cougar town monologue was incredible

I like the fact that there's a five minute stretch where, for all the knowingness I had about the DWA homage while watching, the show actually stops being a sitcom. That was kind of incredible.

Can't wait to watch it again.

Danny Pudi's opening monologue was delivered so damn well. He is amazing.

Watched this one late because I was away from the tv at 8. I love how it was advertised as one thing that was, in actuality, another. Danny Pudi is amazing.

Died at "Cougar Town High School" tbqh.

I loved this episode so much. Danny Pudi was magic.

^^^

He had me at "Chad".

where the lolz at this week (over on parks & rec heyooo)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/03/24/dear-community-please-don-t-let-ken-jeong-ruin-your-show.aspx

moronic article

things that will never not be funny: alison brie waving a gun around

also MARKET PRICE!!!!!!!

zzp i don't know, i essentially agree that he's much better in small doses than as a main character, at least the way they've been using him for most of this season

WHAT MARKET PRICE

Joke in the credits - "What market are they shopping at?"

Damn did Danny Pudi really do the heavy lifting this ep. Playing Abed playing Andre.

Also, I did enjoy Chang doing the hiss entrance to both preview and completely tip his hand as to his function in the episode.

not sure how i feel about this ep, pudi was obv amazing and i love that they leaked the pulp fiction pics as a total misdirect but i kind of feel like the intentional inconsistency from episode to episode (in terms of tone, style, etc) is a double-edged sword

agreed, this show is much more versatile and surprising than a single-edged comedy

Annie said, "I bet Abed will say 'cool' at least five times!" And then, when they burst into the restaurant, Abed says "cool" FIVE TIMES. Brilliant.

Chang doing the Willis reaction during the 'opening the briefcase' scene almost perfectly

Awesome ep...and Ive never seen My Dinner With Andre lol

i didn't get it with the sweater, but soon as Abed started recounting the Cougartown story I did. He had Andre Gregory's delivery down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHP7gIpTSOs&feature=related

yeah it's funny i just saw MDWA for the first time a few weeks ago and really loved it, but it took a couple minutes of staring at his outfit and listening to the way he was talking and going "wait...why is this familiar?" until it struck me.

http://thevelvetonion.com/2011/03/25/critical-community-studies/

Did not catch this: Richard Ayoade(from the IT Crowd and a thousand other things) directed this episode.

http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/images/comedy/the_it_crowd/showpages_img.jpg