Community, the tv show

^^^ OTM

I think it's really a failing of the series that we haven't met Jeff's landlord yet. We don't even know if he's wacky or gruff or anything. This show is the worst.

Yeah, they could be sitting on another Mr. Furley!

I think Harmon said that they realised that Pierce and Troy living together just wouldn't be that funny so quietly let it sit in the background.

wasn't there a brief clip of them living together, though, in the first ep of s1 or s2?

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6857212050_f877e903fe.jpg

please, people, let's make this thread fun again by limiting it only to quotes from the show and blind glowing praise

oh good, just what this thread needed. more smug snarky judgmental comments </smugsnarkyjudgmental>

Guys, I just realized...we are behaving exactly like the cast of NBC's hit comedy Community right now.

I'm such an Abed.

you're such a miranda

why is that highly educated looking young fellow sucking all the fun out of a glass of water, shouldn't he be sucking all the fun out of a discussion of an american television sitcom or something?

It shows the fun being sucked into ILX; highly inaccurate

I am fine reading people's negative reactions to this show but reading long dissertations in which cynical viewers try to pinpoint the exact reasons why community isn't always above average is soooo penile

... You realize your criticism boils down to "'Community' is a television show", right

it... wasn't a criticism

is soooo penile

― monkeys on the ceiling fan, ceiling fan (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5:49 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

. . .

'Of or relating to a penis; see also: cocklike, wangish.' Sounds about right to me.

This damn fun-felching takes up too much time

Anyone else notice that the show is called "Community" because it's set at a community college ... but that the title also refers to our beloved cohort? Huh?

Penile is my new catch phrase. I'm trying to expand it's context to just about everything and everyone

it's also a river in egypt iirc

ew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRcaPTTkXqY

hmmm...so we have reassuring visual evidence that everyone is indeed living indoors, but that shot of britta sleeping at the end doesn't look like any studio apartment I'VE ever seen! someone tweet dan harmon and browbeat him for sloppiness

^^^THAT's the scene with troy living at pierce's i was thinking about.

I think Harmon said that they realised that Pierce and Troy living together just wouldn't be that funny so quietly let it sit in the background.

They lived together mostly between S1 and S2, and it was chronicled, during the non-broadcast months, by Harmon on @oldwhiteguysays

On the whole, this show seems remarkably thorough and consistent. I'm usually very annoyed by holes or logical gaps.

consistent

(in its logic, not always in quality)

Can we Google-proof this thread? Because I feel that, if he were to stumble upon it accidentally, Dan Harmon would probably just stop making things for people altogether.

you think this is the only place on the internet that is overthinking this show?

Absolutely. The rest of the internet is renowned for its levelheaded appreciation for things that are better than most other things. And also for its sense of equality and social justice.

just a heads up, your relentless sarcasm is actually creeping into the top 10 worst things about this thread

can we poll that?

Jokes, some dude, not sarcasm. The difference is all in the vocal inflect...ohhhhhh, riiiiiiiight.

People looking for the top ten worst things about stuff is kind of a lot of the problem with this thread, imo.

i have zero gripes with the show tbh i just think it's funny to watch the thread flail

I hope they do get Bill Murray, as it will complete both the relationships and the metarelationships in the show

Watched last week's ep just to bump up the number on Hulu. Jim Rash really does kill every line he has. I agree with something TVDW wrote, that the only false/off note in the ep was Andre suddenly switching up his attitude at the rehearsal.

Drunk Britta is awesome.

Actually my favourite bit of the episode was Andre going "don't try your sexy voice with me" and the rest of the study group suddenly going "OH!".

Also, I liked Annie's lexicon of various chirps.

the only false/off note in the ep was Andre suddenly switching up his attitude at the rehearsal.

I do actually agree with this. I think they could've given MJW another take or two to mellow out the harshness of the vibe he was putting off there.

This definitely bugged me at first, but on subsequent viewings I noticed Andre and Shirley talking in the background during whatever what happening in the study room. So it could be argued that a discussion was had, and a realization arrived at by Andre, but we didn't witness it.

I did appreciate them showing a glimpse of what prompted Shirley to leave Andre in the first place; when Andre first showed up he was so nice and charming and seemingly reasonable that it was hard to reconcile with the "he cheated on me" bastard specter Shirley kept talking about. While the charm showed why it was plausible that Shirley would fall for him in the first place, the nicey-niceness didn't match the picture Shirley painted of him.

Anxious, upset, thinking-of-himself Andre at the rehearsal, who was prepared to step on Shirley's dreams to put his own dollhouse back together, made a lot more sense. Bringing back the charm and nicey-niceness in his abrupt acceptance of Shirley's changes is either a sign that his character is genuinely beginning to grow and change as well, or an indicator that he uses his charm as a weapon to deceive and trick Shirley into doing what he wants her to do.

^ this guy knows what's up

I also think it was the set-up to a visual gag, namely that self-centered Jeff and Britta's fake drunk wedding takes center stage, while Andre and Shirley are literally out of focus, way off on the background, talking.

this show is like a comedy onion

Yes, thinking-of-himself Andre, who earlier that day hired singers and dancers to do a big marriage proposal in a very public place.

I loved that he had the singers on retainer, they were cracking me up

I saw the clip of the proposal as a teaser and somehow it gets funnier every time I see or think about it

Gillian on Janet Varney's podcast:

http://www.nerdist.com/2012/03/the-jv-club-3-gillian-jacobs/

Yes, thinking-of-himself Andre, who earlier that day hired singers and dancers to do a big marriage proposal in a very public place.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:26 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tv trope 101 is that HE does it to get a huge amount of attention to something HE is doing for someone else.

I think this about any person who organizes a big public proposal. It's gross.

occasionally hilarious.