Community, the tv show

They could go back to the three hour Thursday night sitcom thing. Or cancel Whitney. Both options good!

I don't think they want to fall back on the 3-hour comedy block option so quickly. It didn't really work for them.

But yes, cancelling Whitney would be great. I imagine the ratings will drop off significantly. Of course, she's also co-created 2 Broke Girls, which might also be a hit. If it is, they'll want to keep her happy to stay in the Whitney Cummings business.

Also I have a sneaking suspicion that it's just shit enough that people might actually like it.

I just want to add that I'm always nervous that NBC is going to finally try to get its act together, clean house, and start over. NBC being pretty miserable failures at being a broadcast network over the last 7 or so years has been great for television.

still bitter about Journeyman's cancellation

Of course, they could move Whitney to Wednesday, so the older, cooler shows won't bully her.

Abed not knowing *Doctor Who* perhaps isn't that unlikely - has he ever shown any awareness of British TV or films?

It's a sci fi institution. How could he not have heard of it? Even as a young child, I was aware of Dr Who without even trying. It always seemed to be on public broadcasting, in Ontario at least. Is it that much easier to miss in Colorado?

I mean, if Britta could know it, why wouldn't Abed?

Ha, bad assumption, actually, considering that Coronation Street is also always on the Ceeb.

Anyway, not a classic but a perfectly decent little episode.

I mean, if Britta could know it, why wouldn't Abed?

Didn't Britta spend time abroad or was she just lying about that? She probably saw these "shows" on tv in the UK. Still, I think that Abed being the media omnivore that he is, would probably a) already know about them and b) know that typically series run 6 episodes over there.

As for the state of NBC, Free Agents is pretty much a sure thing to be the first show axed this season (if Playboy doesn't beat it to the punch). What might happen is that they swap out Up All Night for Whitney and pair her show with another three-cam sitcom on Wednesday nights. At least that's what I'd do, but I'm not the president of NBC.

Not sure any of this will matter when the show gets axed mid-season.

Did NBC order a full season or did they hold off on the back nine?

The ratings have always been consistently crap, but it's alive because it pulls in just enough of the 18-34 male demographic to make advertisers happy. Nevermind that the show pulls in an audience more likely to be college educated and thus, more likely to have a disposable income, another obv. pull for advertisers.

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How much does it matter that Community obv. will be the breakout show for a bunch o' stars of the future (Glover, Brie, presumably mchale)? Also I know it was only a 30 Rock injoke but Glover is p much alone as a big name marketable black dude on NBC right now? Just thinking that ratings wouldn't be the sole assestment of a show like Community.

Abed not knowing *Doctor Who* perhaps isn't that unlikely - has he ever shown any awareness of British TV or films?

It's a sci fi institution. How could he not have heard of it? Even as a young child, I was aware of Dr Who without even trying. It always seemed to be on public broadcasting, in Ontario at least. Is it that much easier to miss in Colorado?

Because it isn't actually Doctor Who and this isn't the real world we're talking about here?

haha THANK YOU matt

Ha, OK, fair enough. I guess by that point, I was responding to other posts more than to the Community episode. I still think the 'Inspector Spacetime' thing was kind of weak but that's probably not the best reason why.

I don't think it's absurd to critique a fictional show for making a cultural reference below its usual level of intelligence. I wasn't too bothered, but honestly I'm surprised they didn't have Abed say "it's a cheap rip-off of Dr. Who" before announcing it was the best show ever.

Thanks, croup. I think that's probably a better way to articulate what I was thinking. The 'show' was such an obvious allusion to Dr Who in the first place.

Inspector Spacetime Confessions

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/09/community_bloopers_season_2.html

The most important thing is that that fake logo is AMAZING

The commentary for "Early 21st Century Romanticism" is hilarious, almost funnier than the actual episode.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls6fluUsvq1r3itvoo1_500.jpg

A+++++

Watched this episode again last night and I thought Goodman was great actually, real comic potential there for clashes with other characters throughout the season. Most excited about Chang as security guard though, he's at his funniest when he has some authority to abuse.

The monkey gas Lynchian hallucination section was pretty weird for a show supposedly pandering to new viewers.

you mean the 2001 parody?

Haha maybe, I've never actually seen it.

Also I hope Professor Ian Duncan turns up soon, anyone know if he's slated to appear much this season?

Well on the Bugle he keeps talking about being in LA, when he's not too busy filming in LA to do a Bugle.

In the bloopers, Chevy Chase comes across as more agreeable than he's generally supposed to be.

Oliver is going to be too busy doing all the Vanity Smurf voice in the sequel.

xp Chase comes off similarly in the commentaries he's on. Haven't gotten to the anti-drug-skit episode commentary yet, though, where Pierce fighting with one of the actors in a bee costume was directly inspired by an SNL backstage fracas.

rewatched this. lol'd at the "national lampoonery" line.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7035000/the-walk-on

joel mchale on his college football career

That straw/cup gag...

Garrett is KILLING IT.

right now nothing about this show makes me laugh harder than the dynamic between Chang and Britta

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obviously i really enjoyed tonight's episode

so much better than last week. chang/britta was gold.

<3 Garrett.

it always surprises me when people talk about garrett because i forget he exists as soon as he's offscreen every time

He's a one-note character, to be sure, but that one note is Miles fucking Davis.

That straw/cup gag...

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THIS

also omg at the britta n-word bit.

A reviewer pointed out the Blue-UN/Red-UN Fringe reference that I didn't pick up on. Either way, that argument about the real worth of the UN at the end was pretty great.

CRISIS ALERT

also cheap lols at the greendale anus symbol in the background constantly

Professor Cligoris

Either pronounciation is fine.

loved martin starr in this, he was crazy but like deftly crazy

also i was happy that annie and britta got some good material, but the percentage of troy jokes was wayy too low

Pierce was pretty good in this one too, "Not Asians, women".

but the percentage of troy jokes was wayy too low

Really? I thought the Georgia run was epic.

Also the joke about the smell almost being a solid.

troy and abed didn't have much to do and the dean wasn't even in the episode but that's what happens with ensemble shows, no biggie