Community, the tv show

yeah you're right n/a. never mind.

Yeah, I think the characters are much more complex than that. For example, compare Abed to Sheldon Cooper, who really is a stereotypical Aspie nerd (or at least was the last time I watched BBT): first, Abed is extremely athletic and doesn't seem to have trouble attracting women; also, he often displays a greater insight into other people's thoughts and feelings and relationships than other characters do. It's much more ambiguous whether he actually has Asperger's. And he is a film student at a community college: his 'aspie' obsession is with films and TV, not with science or technology. I can't offhand think of a stereotypical nerd character anywhere else with that sort of fixation. The hyper-imaginative childhood-regression aspects of his character don't really seem to fit the stereotype either (thinking of Sheldon or Steve Urkel etc).

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He has to be one of the most unique sitcom characters I can think of.

yeah i think one of the show's greatest creative victories has been to keep letting Abed zig when other shows would have him zag

last night my friend claimed troy and abed were based on the "classic geordi laforge/lieutenant commander data pairing."

uh

we were drinking frozen mojitos.

clarity

although there is a rough mapping of community characters to the star trek TNG bridge crew.

u kno, bc black guy + pale robot guy friends

"classic" geordi/data

makes them sound like fkn laurel and hardy

I love TNG but that's just kinda weird

last night my friend claimed troy and abed were based on the "classic geordi laforge/lieutenant commander data pairing."

actually, i totally see this.

I can see Abed/Data, but Geordi/Troy doesn't work for me.

who is riker

Leonard

pale?

Chevy is Riker

how is that even a question

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/DataTNG.jpg/250px-DataTNG.jpg

what's your objection? that it's more pasty than pale? xxp

maybe he thought you meant Geordi

but if chevy is riker, who is troi?

Troy is Jordy in that he is the link connecting/translating Abed/Data to the human world of irrational feelings etc etc.

uh the description of abed as "pale" was what i was questioning

well.... he's paler than Troy?

he was describing Data as pale

is it really going to turn into that conversation

some dude, u may also be surprised by the fact that abed is not a robot.

i mean i'm not like acting offended or anything, it was just a v odd choice of words

oh i see. it was a tonal misfire. i was being snarky in the original comment, i was not seriously suggesting that abed is a pale robot dude.

abed may not be a robot, but according to jeff he is a computer.

jeff is a total riker. shirley is troi, britta is worf, and pierce is wesley crusher. annie is the crystalline entity.

that was amazing.

otm

i may still be in the afterglow, but that was probably better than the first paintball episode.

It was fun, but not Chang-as-Chow Yun Fat fun

i thought it was ok. the ken burns thing kinda wore me out tbh

That's Enter-Chang-Ment!

Such a perfect piece of television. Fat Neil with the Pipes of Steel! More "Daybreak"! And Keith David's Britta burn!

the pledge drive thing at the end was genius.

"Were you on The Cape?"

"No."

community bringin it

god that was so much awesome

When Pierce came out in that suit thing I lost it

I like this post - Leonard.

Birthday cake birthday cake women's shoes birthday cake

Or whatever.

I would have maybe preferred a bit more action and running around and a little less narration but overall this was fantastic. I love that Abed actually made Jeff go back to the office to get the real imaginary pointy friendship hats. Also that there's now a Greendale student even older than Leonard. Also Shirley openly glorifying in the violence was lol.

holy motherfuck of changness i lost it so hard when pierce's weapon was revealed

also if they ever do get to do a bill murray episode, it now has to have a bit of a ghostbusters riff so chevy can be a bitter stay puft marshmellow man.

Pajamas without children, violence with no purpose. I saw mommy kissing Exxon Mobile. —Amanda Johnson, poet by choice, lesbian by birth.

omg yesssssssssssssss

I think the thing I appreciated/enjoyed the most was that at one point a few years ago I was trying to figure out how to capture the experience of really enjoyable messageboard threads in the context of mainstream entertainment and the closest thing I could imagine was basically the email/text/Facebook exchanges in this episode.