Community, the tv show

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.

I like this post - Leonard.

― Clay, Friday, April 6, 2012 5:21 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the Britta running gag was brilliant too, particularly the payoff with the "accidental" Troy-Abed shot

Just watched the last two episodes back to back, and both were great. At first I was worried this would just be some unexplained genre parody, but they did an excellent job of explaining HOW this documentary got made, and having it fit in the known Community universe. Granted, a lol's a lol, but that extra care is really appreciated.

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Leonard fought for North Korea, huh

"Yeah. Gee, that's a good one."

Wow, this is pretty awesome!

I like this post - Leonard.

― Clay, Friday, April 6, 2012 5:21 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, April 6, 2012 3:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Leonard fought for North Korea, huh

Yeah, that was a nice touch.

Later on, Troy would say the war was awesome, but also... not awesome?

Holy shit, Keith David

Wow, could this show have picked a less timely object of satire? I don't know if that made it funnier or less funny but my wife thought it sucked. I guess I'm on the fence, but there was a lot I loved, but the meta in this one was pretty meta.

Oh, the Rambo joke was dead-on. It totally technically should be "Rambo II: First Blood Part III."

Ken Burns documentaries are always timely ffs.

Hard to believe, but "The Civil War" was almost 25 years ago. Time flies when you're timely.

"North Korea" was my fav gag...
so who thinks that was actually Chase in the pillow suit?

On the s1 DVDs, they say that he does all his own physical pratfalls etc so I can believe that it was.

Still on the fence about this one. Might need to watch a second time again. This is OTM:

the meta in this one was pretty meta.

Having said that, this show's genre parodies have never been that timely. My Dinner with André was 30 years old, surely; Goodfellas 20 years old; 1984 65 years old, etc.

Well, "1984" is a perennial, and explicitly referenced in the episode. "Goodfellas" is iconic and oft parodied. "My Dinner with Andre" I thought was being willfully out of date. "The Civil War" ... I dunno. Ken Burns's style is iconic and oft-paradied, but this was pretty specific. Which is why I'm not sure if it was intentional enough. It would have been funny if it was it was a "Jazz" parody.

Did cynical folk roll their eyes and hand-wring about Kane homages in early Simpsons episodes when they came out?

probably!

Tbch, I didn't know there was a Burns documentary about the US Civil War that this was directly parodying. I just thought it was a spoof of PBS historical documentaries more generally.

Do you think the Christmas episode could have worked as a Jazz parody? The parody of Glee, while timely, was pretty weak as parody.

Tbch, I didn't know there was a Burns documentary about the US Civil War that this was directly parodying.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, April 7, 2012 4:51 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How on Earth...

not everybody lives in the U.S.

(i did not know that either)

b-b-b-b-b-but ken... BURNS... does this THING. A THING that he DOES.

i've seen his baseball ones tho, if it makes you feel better. (they bored me to tears)