Community, the tv show

upon rewatching, that particular Inspector Spacetime gag made me realize that the entire series is lazy and awful and all of my previous laughs were lies.

Currently lunching at a dive bar and somebody just put on an R&B track on the jukebox which sounds suspiciously like a barely masked "Daybreak"

Every time T&A make an Inspector Spacetime joke, I picture internet heads exploding the way they did when someone on Lost said "Hanso."

not sure i have thought any of the inspector spacetime gags seemed well-advised, let alone funny

i wish they'd just do their dream inspector spacetime ep and get it all out of their system

making fun of doctor who > making fun of robocop tho

kickpuncher is funny because his punches have the power of kicks. the robocop thing is just a little extra.

o yeah it's funny but as but as parody dr who is such a better target

ah you mean as a law of comedy

i dunno. it seems like doctor who is already intrinsically goofy. robocop has that seriousness to it.

Where does said law fit on the Universal Comedy Meter, please?

robocop is great but more intrinsically goofy to me bc of its 80s campiness/verhoeven campiness

i don't actually watch dr who but i do have a tumblr so

ppl are fucking life and death abt that show

after all this time, it's still impressive how ilx can drain the fun from anything at all

let's discuss that

i say that to myself about a lot of things before thinking "maybe if i don't want to read a discussion about this thing i shouldn't be going to places where it's going to be discussed"

ppl are fucking life and death abt this show

i would watch a three episode inspector spacetime arc with great joy, but only if they never mentioned it again

your favorite things and why they suck, coming up on ilx

It's important to give good things a dressing down when they aren't perfect, I find.

The Inspector Spacetime-knockoff webseries Kickstarter is still active, btw.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1878253293/inspector-spacetime-the-webseries

Almost to their goal

after all this time, it's still impressive how ilx can drain the fun from anything at all

it's called a raison d'être, fella

after all this time, it's still impressive how ilx can drain the fun from anything at all

― mookieproof, Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if u really, truly, like something, don't talk about it on ilx.

anyway now that i am caught up i can say this was pretty good by season 3 standards which means it wasn't really that good.

haha i'm hardly a community stan -- i was honestly still amazed, after nine years, at ilx's ability to kill fun.

i mean srsly -- it's a fucking american network sitcom! ppl are complaining about character development vs. world building vs. consistency vs. whatever. i don't care if ppl dislike it, just don't act like it's this huge life disappointment or something.

sub-Godard. worst episode ever.

only sub-custos counts

in all srsness though it was a quality episode, but as others have said, not "the" episode I'd look to as evidence that the show was amazing. but it still brought the lols (/chaki)

Brit was the hero of that ep.

oh yeah by far

give a man big enough straw & he can suck the fun out of anything, even message board posts bemoaning the fun sucked out of other message board posts

i like talking about things i like

sry

ilx = Pierce

ilx = Britta

Am I the only one who sees lots of "Seinfeld" parallels in this show?

i think so, yeah, i can't think of anything offhand more specific than 'funny nbc show'

in this post-seinfeldian tvscape etc etc

Also shows about nothing (really). Lots of surreal subplots, often hinging on infantile, selfish behavior. Troy and Abed=Kramer. Jeff is Jerry. Chevy Chase is George-ish.

nottttt really

yeah, not at all

Not at all? That's the vibe I'm totally getting. Thinking stuff like drugging a girlfriend to play with her toys is something this show would do and only this show.

Not saying this is by design, mind. I'm just getting Seinfeld vibes in season 3.

I think all of the Seinfeld characters are a lot colder than anyone on Community.

I think Seinfeld is way more nihilistic

Think it's the combination of selfishness and surrealism on display each week. I dunno. I think the characters on Community are pretty cold, personally. They're all kind of robots, and even when there are glimmers of heart it feels kind of tacked on, because we know these people can't change. Like the S3 season where Britta suspects someone is homicidal, and it's perfectly plausible that any one of the group can be the crazy one.

Now, I, personally, feel more affection for the Community crew than the Seinfeld folks, but they're still a bunch of self-involved loons.

selfishness and surrealism is like the template for half of all post-Seinfeld sitcoms

I could not disagree more, but w/e. xp

I was going to rebut this but I had a flashback to "Bring it in for a breast bump, ladies! ...No? We'll get there!" and am too busy lolling.

I agree with you, some dude. Not saying the shows are identical.