Community, the tv show

Thursday is a pretty great night for TV...Office, Community, 30 Rock (starts in October?), Sunny, Project Runway; it's already taking me a few days to catch up.

p&r has been pretty great so far this season, really strong supporting cast

the best parts of this show thus far have been the scenes with aped and troy during the credits

p&r has been dece. aziz ansari and aubrey plaza and the dude with the tache especially.

rashida jones is attractive but maybe they should make her funny in some way?

not really feelin community so much.

I don't know what show you haters are watching. Community has been tops so far. Funnier than The Office this season, at the very least.

Oh, and for those who even know what I'm talking about, the Community creator was apparently also responsible for Heat Vision And Jack.

wait what ben stiller has returned to tv?

rashida jones ex bf is great in p&r too

yeah it's like a bizarro the office where roy is the funniest character on the show instead of just being this grunty clueless guy

I don't know what show you haters are watching.

its this show called Community.

Maybe it'll get better, but I haven't enjoyed the first few episodes much.

Funnier than The Office this season, at the very least.

Yes, but at this point that's not saying much. It does seem like it is getting funnier as it goes along though.

I'm curious: what's not to like? Like, specifically?

I also wonder if I like this more because I'm a Soup fan. But pretty much everyone in the show is good (including Chevy, who I often think is a humorless turd), the writing is funny. I can see this developing into something really good (the next 30 Rock?) if the premise is something they can work with and expand on.

Also, it's worth noting how solid it is straight out of the gate. I can't say that about most of my favorite sitcoms.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE The Soup.

But I don't yet LOVE or even like Community that much yet, though it has some moments.

But I also think the first few episodes of every sitcom are awkward and usually terrible.

Except for Arrested Development.

Watched the first few eps of this tonight. I'm sold.

This show got so brilliantly funny so fast I fear for its future. Tonight's ep FTW.

I am looking forward to watching my "legal download" of the most recent episode.

A few years ago, I prematurely called 30 Rock the logical successor of Arrested Development, and I haven't been particularly disappointed on that front. So:

PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SOLD YET! I BELIEVE THAT COMMUNITY IS THE LOGICAL SUCCESSOR OF 30 ROCK. SET YOUR VCRs.

luvin this.

'you're an 8, and that's a british 10'

I nearly choked from laughing when Troy was crawling out of the waiting/testing room like a paralyzed dog.

I look forward to this show more than The Office now. I can't get enough of Abed, he's like the living embodiment of TV Tropes.

The show is getting better now that the characters are more fleshed out.

im enjoying the show but its just a lil too rote - u can feel the writers paying the storyline and character bios etc too much respect - they need to let dark comedy delight guide them

it has potential def but they need to let peoples bad intentions win occasionally - the lesson learning however breezy makes things too predictably neat

yeah they need to do more w/ aped and troy too imo

when they let troy be funny hes really funny but they give him so few lines

John Oliver's line to the chunky bespectacled dude - "Go shoot John Lennon, you loser!" kept cracking me to an irrational degree.

Me too, because the moment I saw him I was thinking "that dude looks like Mark David Chapman."

"Cheers"

"MASH"

"Fawlty Towers. I win!"

(John Oliver wrong, btw)

Really into the super-manic pace. Feel like half the jokes get, like, a bonus beat that sends them over the top.

"What language are you writing in?"
"It's probably Arabic."

Also the Dean is kind of the reincarnation of Tobias Funke, but I'm not complaining.

"AT THE PICNIC!"

"Cheers"

"MASH"

"Fawlty Towers. I win!"

Really dig the fact that they're spending these early episodes pairing everybody up in different combinations, good character development. Though Britta still needs a chance to be funny and be more than just a stern foil to teach the main character lessons.

I thought her role was being hot

"Annie said that Benjamin Button was compelling. She's a smart girl, but sometimes she's just wrong!"

"i'm saying you're a football player. it's in your blood."
"that's racist."
"your soul."
"that's racist."
"your eyes?"
"that's gay."
"that's homophobic."
"that's black"
"that's racist."
"damn."

okay, those were basically the two funny moments...

i can see this show getting cancelled.

I can see that, but I can also see this show hanging around for a while and doing well, which is often hard to visualize after just a handful of episodes.

i think it could be really good if it would just settle down and find its rhythm.

but yeah, probably will be cancelled, unless NBC decide they've got nothing better (not unlikely!).

hope it doesn't. it can be pretty funny, i like the cast, and yeah britta's kinda hot.

"i'm saying you're a football player. it's in your blood."
"that's racist."
"your soul."
"that's racist."
"your eyes?"
"that's gay."
"that's homophobic."
"that's black"
"that's racist."
"damn."

this was really, really funny

I thought all the shows tonight were funny, and Community even more than usual. It seemed like the pace was quicker or something.

And WTF with the mascot?

they got picked up for the second half of the season by NBC.

I liked this episode quite a bit.

this show is great when it actually has jokes and pretty bad when it goes into heartwarming mode (esp. when dude showed his home movie about his relationship with his dad wtf). i wish they would abandon the relationships and character development and just be funny.

otm

troy was on fire this ep

"when you say jump he says how high. when you say stop he says hammer time."

I read an interview with the creator where he claimed he wasn't really having a go at community college, a claim somewhat undercut by "We used to be the Greendale Grizzlies, but, you know, some of these students have been called 'animals' their whole lives."

Abed meta-commentary went to a whole new level last night, too!

Veiled St Elsewhere reference imo.

i liked this episode a lot actually - the jeff/annie thing worked better than i would've expected, and I don't think it veered too far into cuteness like the abed documentary one. also it was worth watching just for a few bits (the racism bit above, troy's horrible 2004-era political fight songs). more donald glover!

Yeah, I think last weeks was my favorite episode. I'm glad this show got picked up.

I just realized recently that Donald Glover (Troy) was a writer on 30 Rock. He's very quicky rising in my esteem.

I can't believe SNL rejected him in favor of Armisen playing Obama. Lorne must be on crack.