Community, the tv show

(^o^)

is that a bat taking flight?

there was a lot of amusing stuff in this episode, esp anything involving Todd, but I one thing I loved about the show was how there was always relationship and character growth underneath the genre exercises - Det Chang just felt like empty wackiness in comparison, even if there were some decent lines.

Liked it plenty on the first watch and like it even more on the second - the Todd bits get funnier.

Todd is an amazing character and I hope we see more of him. I also love it when Jeff gets butthurt about not being as popular as he thinks he is.

The Chang stuff was pretty funny as well but I'm not sure Community works as well when it's just one character off doing their own thing. It would've been a better central
concept rather than a side-adventure.

Chang was so entwined with Britta last week that it worked to have him off being mental with Nunez and the Dean this time

The dual voiceover near the end is really funny once you work out what's going through the Dean's head.

I might be wrong but I think Williams' character is meant to be a pisstake of Shawshank Redemption style prison mawk?

Det Chang just felt like empty wackiness in comparison, even if there were some decent lines.

Yeah, this really registered on second viewing. It also seemed much less funny than it did at first. I think I felt similarly about Britta's OTT-ness in the previous episode.

The mannequin leg was classic IMO: "Get some rest. You must need it."

yes, this episode.

PIZZA PIZZA IN MY TUMMY PIZZA PIZZA ME SO HUNGY

Pregnancy test joke was all-time.

holy shit this episode was so good

oh god the outro

I like that they're illustrating quantum mechanics and multiverse/timeline-theory using _actual_ dice rolls.

Community for the win.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING:

RT @meganganz The troll is named Torg. #TorgFYI

Countdown to someone bitching about "another episode about the group dynamic in 5... 4..."

Seriously though, this was great. Best episode of the season so far.

britta is amazing this season

Bottle episode means an elaborate one can't be far off!

hoooooooooly maaaaaaaaaaaacaroni what was that? jeff lost an arm!

I didn't mind another group dynamic episode when done this way. Although, I thought it worth noting that the only time things got better when someone left the apartment to go get the pizzas was when Jeff went. Things went from normal to better, whereas when anyone else left it went from normal to various degrees of terrible.

britta is amazing this season

PIZZA PIZZA IN MY TUMMY PIZZA PIZZA ME SO HUNGY

^ 1000% otm

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Wow! That was perfect!

Troy's voice!!

And Troy and his candy cigarettes.

So psyched to see this. I have been waiting for Troy and Abed to throw a party for about two seasons now.

I hope they invited Pavel and Magnitude.

yeah this wasn't a 'group dynamic' episode imo. something that advances individual relationships between troy and pierce, jeff and annie, britta and shirley etc etc with all these great little moments is much better than "is pierce in or out?" part 12.

some dude otm, my comment wasn't aimed at anyone around here, mostly other boards where I've seen excessive bitching about the "group dynamic" stuff

Gah, fucking Torg was in my dream last night. I hate you Dan Harmon for putting that nasty little troll on my tv!

the past 2 episodes werent so bad but this was, kind of awful?

the thing theyre doing with jeff and annie I DONT LIKE IT I WANT IT TO STOP

none of the characters are cool anymore theyre all just these dumb caricatures of themselves who only ever do embarassing things and its not even hot or fun when they fall in love just gross

wait, the characters used to cool?

You should stop watching this terrible show then, imho. I mean if you thought this episode was awful, I'm wondering exactly what you've seen in the show in the past.

to be cool, I mean?

i like the idea that this used to be a show about cool people getting into hot love scenes

chaflopson

maybe the comments were meant for a gossip girl thread?

some good moments tho

jeff: this club looks like it was designed for me
abed : it was, i designed it for you so that you would keep tonight free

also pierce getting shot in the leg was a huge lol

those were both nice breaks from the caricatures doing embarrassing things, weren't they?

ya idk i only caught up on community over the summer so none of my love for the first two seasons is documented on this thread, then again i don't see the need to explain my challenging opinion about why i think its dropping off to people who were keeling over at PIZZA PIZZA ME SO HUNGY

re: "cool:" jeff and britta used to be, like, impenetrably witty, from both within the group & with each other. i realize the softening is part of their char development but they dont even have good zings or comebacks anymore & say awkward dumb crap all the time. this has been noted previous but abed has always been cool in a nerdy way, the episode where its revealed tons of girls are into him kind of makes sense; he's detached and smart and observant. now i'm not so sure what they think he is

ceiling fan gag = gold

also: the jeff britta romance was fun and tense and hilarious! this annie thing is gross and i know thats the joke but its TOO GROSS

i will admit now isn't a good time for a jeff/britta shipper

fwiw I thought the Britta "HUNGY" thing wasn't funny, so flopson otm there I guess

Fortunately for that line, it didn't exist in a context- or setup-free vacuum.

Twasn't a joke, just a nice bit of ridiculousness one does a) when in the loosened atmosphere of a party and b) as a stupid bit of nonsense you do when you're stoned. It's OTM in that regard.

the shocking revelation that a disbarred, fradulent lawyer and a 30 year old who has done peace corps and foot modeling after dropping out of high school to "impress Radiohead" at a community college are prone to foolish behavior

xp That was my point. The criticisms against it seemed to miss the setup.