Community, the tv show

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/03/15/britta_on_community_why_the_gillian_jacobs_character_is_confusing_the_show_s_writers.html

opinionz 4 U

Hey, welcome back the old "I find funny, attractive women confusing" argument.

When the main example for your thesis misses the blindingly obvious fact that the character in question was super super high, you may have written a Terri le article.

Grr terrible

i was wondering who this Terri Le person was

btw guys, the answer isn't happy endings, even tho that show is super fun. the best new sitcom is suburgatory.

ugh, no, that show is terrible

Also terrible: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/16/communitys_identity_crisis/

xp you're so wrong. funniest new show. i lol constantly

i really like Suburgatory but i don't feel like it's a constant lol kind of show

lol @ dumbass Salon writer saying Community just started its 4th season because there was a short mid-season break

How much more wrong does it get from "fourth season premiere? I couldn't bear to read on when their facts are so bogglingly wrong from the get go.

(lol xpost)

Also wasn't that episode actually written ages ago?

Also smh at the idea of this show having an "identity crisis", was this his second episode ever?

Suburbagatory is funny but I wouldn't call it the BEST NEW SHOW or whatever

Tessa's creepy friend next door is fantastic tho

omg the black sticom article underneath the Community article is almost as bad

maybe suburgatory is funnier if you actually live in the suburbs

not really. i gave it two chances now and i thought both were awful.

jon, nothing personal, but aside from the fact we're both posting on the Community thread i don't really suspect we share tastes in anything

lol

Fine, we both went to public school

troy comes out the dreamatorium wearing the ivory wig

I noted that too. How did they wind up with it?

power of dreams i guess

"I didn't even make a Christmas list for Santa because I didn't want to depend on a man for anything!"

"'Webster's Dictionary defines?' That's the Jim Belushi of speech openings: it accomplishes nothing, but everyone keeps using it and nobody understands why."

I agree that this was a really underwhelming season premiere. I wish people weren't forcing me to like this show.

P.S. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6841249186_627d8fc0f9.jpg

absence makes the heart realize this is kind of a shitty show

I'm interested in learning more about this shittiness metric you're using.

Because I think you might be using it wrong.

absence makes the heart realize this is kind of a shitty show

― Lamp, Friday, March 16, 2012 11:09 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm :(

lol @ a slightly subpar episode somehow "proving" that its been "shitty" all along

Because I think you might be using it wrong.

as a fan of parks & rec you should ask yourself: 'do i think this is good television?' and if the answer is yes than its probably a shitty show

I dispute the premise that this episode was in any way subpar.

it was better than the ACTUAL season premiere at least

"looking back this show is actually bad" is the kind of thing you're supposed to say about a show from childhood, not a show from a few months ago

unless you're just talking shit i mean

The A-Team? Objectively bad, it's true.

Community? Still great.

as a fan of parks & rec you should ask yourself: 'do i think this is good television?' and if the answer is yes than its probably a shitty show

Well, admittedly neither show holds a candle to the revolutionary and mindblowing Revenge..........

I think what we really need is lagoon's Universal Comedy Meter to settle the argument once and for all.

fuck all y'all. I thought it was funny. hmph.

and you guys, if you want to see an actual not-funny show go watch GCB.

I hope Community calls out ABC jacking their use of the initial "B"

I think the story was shitty. Make shift sitcom wedding is a crappy cliche and the husband came off as a dick you wouldn't want to be happy for. Britta's part didn't really make sense but was pulled off well enough that I didn't care. Jeff's part seemed badly written. Annie just seemed a device. Abed, Troy and Pierce were funny but didn't add anything to the story.

Oh and the end was that awful thing I hate. 'Piece turns on machine, freaks out when all he has to do is turn it off' just pisses me off for a show that treats the audience as having a brain cell.

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I recently read the av club rundown w/ harmon talking about every season 2 episode. and he hates and is disappointed with 'normal' episodes that are just shitty sitcom tropes that don't fit community and that they have proved themselves to be better than. In particular he hated the 'jeff hates pierce because he can get laid and jeff can't' one. This seemed like that. None of Jeff's growth over 2 and a half years mattered, he falls apart straight away. Second marriage in which the groom learns he needs to be less of a dick to his housewife was done by the simpsons better, over a decade ago. Crazily, this episode added absolutely nothing to Shirley's character.

If it didn't have some A+ jokes this might have been my least favourite episode.

Another thing to give me hope though was the shitty 'normal' episodes in S2 were put in place to distract the network and keep them happy while they did stuff like My Dinner w/ Abed and stuff. So hopefully this wasn't Dan Harmon selling out his principles for a 4th season of mediocrity and stale tropes and instead means he's selling out some principles to go out with a bang.

Crazily, this episode added absolutely nothing to Shirley's character.

I completely disagree with this, btw. I think showed a lot of growth in terms of how she wants to be successful! It was kind of an important turning point in her development this season.

The weirdness thing was funny, but I feel like they underused it. The whole restaurant plot was supremely boring.

Like seriously, from that whole group, no-one felt to pipe up when he was all 'be a housewife, woman!'? I hate confrontation and even I would have something to say if my friend was hanging with someone like that, let alone marrying into it.

Maybe my favorite throwaway joke in the episode was during Shirley and Pierce's presentation to the dean, and the little dean cartoon appeared and Jim Rash says "THAT'S ME!"

that was awesome

^^^ otm

"How did I get to be holding those giant bags of money?"

also when Dean throws shirley that line about her fiscal whatever and she says 'that doesn't make any sense'