Community, the tv show

saw dan harmon speak on a panel yday, he was pretty awesome, didn't really talk about community that much tho

Harmon on Reddit today.

Among the more interesting tidbits:

The rumour mill says that Chevy Chase walked off set at the end of filming for Season 3 because he refused to do something. What did he refuse to do?

He refused to do the "tag" for the Digital Estate Planning episode (the 8 bit video game episode). In the scripted tag, Abed comes to Pierce with the thumb drive he took, and says "Pierce, I've been able to adjust some of the code for your Dad's video game and I've made a version I think you might like better." He puts the thumb drive into a laptop in front of Pierce. We cut to the laptop screen, where we see Pierce's avatar on a front lawn with the giant floating head of Cornelius. Every time Pierce presses the space bar, his avatar throws a baseball to his father's head, which gives him a thousand points and a "great job, son!" Pierce presses the space bar a few times, pauses, then leans over and embraces Abed and we fade to black. When Adam Countee pitched that tag, tears instantly rolled down my cheeks, and in point of fact, my eyes are getting watery describing it to you. It was the most important part of the episode and possibly one of the most important moments of the season. I was very upset to hear that it wasn't shot because someone didn't feel like shooting it, especially since it was literally the last day of shooting, which meant we'd never be able to pick it up. I regret nothing about how upset I got. My job was to care about my show.

Sounds like Chevy made the right move there.

Sounds like a douchebag of a working actor

Sounds like Chevy Chase.

LOL that sounds incredibly stupid and cheesy.

perhaps I'm a soulless monster but if I'd actually seen that as the tag to that episode, there's a 40% chance I never would have watched the show again

if I want Futurama, I will watch Futurama

On a related note, man do I want that 16-bit Greendale 7 shirt on sale today

When Adam Countee pitched that tag, tears instantly rolled down my cheeks, and in point of fact, my eyes are getting watery describing it to you.

Rhetoric like this bothers me because it's this reach for emotional earnestness that in its OTTness defies that very earnestness and paints the speaker as being at an emotional disconnect.

http://www.nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/jvc25POST.jpg

Janet Varney completes the "Women of Community" trifecta with a Yvette Nicole Brown interview today: http://www.nerdist.com/2012/08/the-jv-club-25-yvette-nicole-brown/

Listening to this now. You guys, I <3 Yvette so much.

does she say much about Harmon or other behind-the-scenesiness?

JV Club's set up is that guests talk about youth and high school, so there's not really any Community talk at all aside from just a little here and there.

figured!

http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/img/product/resized/885/00375771-156885_cat06_348.jpg?k=d8ff3f05&pid=375771&s=cat06&sn=nbcuniversalstore

here's the shirt

aw that's great

$10 off til midnight with HAWKTHORNE10 as the code

On a related note, Megan Ganz just twittered a link to this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/yw4se/the_missing_digital_estate_planning_tag_pierce/

The Missing Digital Estate Planning "tag" - Pierce and His Dad (self.community)
submitted 1 day ago* by Derferman

In Dan Harmon's recent AMA he revealed the scene that Chevy Chase refused to film. All of us over at /r/hawkthorne thought the scene too good to never see the light of day, so we recreated it. Enjoy :)

Sample Screenshot

DOWNLOADS

http://i.imgur.com/bxX45.png

Reddit is good for something, it seems

holy crap, it plays a bit-tuney version of Abed's sad "Britta-Bot" song

Reddit also developed/is developing the entire Journey to Hawkthorne game - they're up to the village, now, I think.

That's a full-on Reddit thing? I just thought it was some dudes who took it on themselves.

http://www.reddit.com/r/hawkthorne

smh

let it out

i think enough people have let it out, from the looks of things

nvm. they've built everything up to like... gay island or something, complete with an 8 bit pocket full of hawthornes theme.

oh wow:

http://projecthawkthorne.com/soundtrack.html

http://projecthawkthorne.com/soundtrack-disc2.html

Tracks 2, 3, and 14.

yessss 8-bit version of daybreak

reddit association aside i think this is pretty great. i have a soft spot for fan games, i spent all last sunday playing those king's quest remakes that meticulously update the outdated graphic style of 1984 to the slightly less outdated graphical style of 1992.

Reports are in that James Brolin will play Jeff's dad.

!!

nice of them not to pick someone dan harmon would be excited to write for

http://www.avclub.com/articles/watch-the-first-episode-of-the-inspector-spacetime,84911/

The kickstarter'd Inspector Spacetime series is being released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0-YTpAMmew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHGcIabB1Rc

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

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60226_10151166862128184_1410835103_n.jpg

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/545582_10151163090788184_1397498956_n.jpg

From that top picture I can only surmise that the new season will be lame.

The mere premise of Jeff being required to do ballroom dancing or something similar with the Dean is hilarious.

From that top picture I can only surmise that the new season will be lame.

In the future, the creative geniuses of The Internet will be able to discern a television season's lameness from the mere description of a promotional photograph!

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60226_10151166862128184_1410835103_n.jpg

would ya look at that, 1511668 indeed, talk about a shark jump.

http://gawker.com/5946096/chevy-chase-continues-to-crap-on-community-generally-be-an-asshole

actually for chevy, that interview seemed downright jovial

Well, I have to say that one of the things that bothers me about our show is that it is placed in that study room all the time, with the same light, the same colour

dude misses psychedelic comedy bad

no matter what this season turns out, nothing will be as cringey as the "#sixseasonsandamovie" tag that ended last season

From this:

In 2010, former troupe-mates Donald Glover and DC Pierson returned from Los Angeles to perform at The Creek and The Cave, in New York City. Glover was tossed a question from an audience member: What's it like working with Chevy Chase? In response, he described how Chase had delivered a 40-minute lecture to Saturday Night Live cast member Bobby Moynihan laying out the case for why Glover has to be homosexual, which he is not. "That's the only way a guy like Chevy Chase has of processing a black guy who looks like me, talks like me, dresses like me," said Glover on stage that night. "That's how alien I am to him."

oh man, I want Moynihan to play Chevy on Comedy Bang Bang

Drunk Uncle is already fairly close to Chevy.

Not coming back in 11 days after all.

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/community-whitney-premieres-delayed-by-nbc

oh for ffs

"proper support" my ASS

nbc sure knows how to deal with rabid fanbases

Tankin' it.