Community, the tv show

i can't imagine where his WHAT A CUNT status comes from

he is successful, cookdandbombd populated by losers

that's true. but he is a rubbish, one-note performer.

I think he is a funny one-note performer.

kind of lol'd at concept of a show that 'isn't edgy enough' for american tv, but i guess it's actually true of 'the it crowd'.

I dunno, I think IT Crowd and Big Bang Theory are similar in terms of edginess.

Pretty much.

I didn't mean "edgy" like "innovative." By "not edgy enough," I mean that so much of the humor in U.S. sitcoms is based on sarcasm and verbal irony with undertones of nastiness (basically everyone is dicks to everyone because it's hilarious!) and, with the exception of some of roy's lines, that isn't really evident in the IT Crowd, where most of the characters are basically guileless. This ties in to my old thread about the death of the sight gag - U.S. sitcoms are almost entirely based on verbal humor, you could just listen to the audio and get 95% of the jokes, but IT Crowd actually has a lot of visual humor.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/03/entertainment/la-et-jump-the-shark-20100903

Fortunately, my career didn't jump the shark after "jump the shark." When "Happy Days" ended, I went directly to the ABC Paramount hit show "Webster" and, after that, wrote and produced, among others, "It's Your Move," "He's the Mayor, "The New Leave It to Beaver" and "Family Matters." In 1987, Brian Levant and I created the action comedy "My Secret Identity," which won an International Emmy.

um...

MONEY TALKS, MEMES WALK

In 1987, Jon Hein and his roommates at the University of Michigan

Y'know what? I think I actually met this guy. He was a much earlier alum of the same campus sketch/improv troupe that I tried for write for and eventually took over as producer. I met him at a group reunion something like 10+ years ago.

I remember It's Your Move being pretty awesome!

As far as Jason Bateman sitcoms go, it is a very close second to Arrested Development. Or at least that was my memory of it -- I don't think it has ever even been released on dvd.

you can torrent it.

I want to be friends with everyone involved with this show.

I'd settle for Alison Brie & Joel McHale.

I'll settle for Gillian Jacobs

So the Season 1 DVD set is out today, and they've released a soundtrack for the show (!!) on iTunes. Attempting to take on Glee in their stronghold is pretty bold.

Also <3 Donald Glover like everyone else (his physical comedy is kind of brute force/not very finessed, which I dig, cf. the jump onto the lab table in the mouse episode), though some of his tics are clearly cut from the Tracy Morgan mold.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/community-premiere-to-be-preceded-by-twitterbased,45463/

with relevant links

or, just, well, here ya go:

http://twitter.com/annieedisonGCC
http://twitter.com/jeffwingeratlaw
http://twitter.com/abedstweets
http://twitter.com/troytbone09
http://twitter.com/brittafeed
http://twitter.com/shirley_GCC
http://twitter.com/hawthornewipes
http://twitter.com/alexosbourneGCC
http://twitter.com/greendaledean
http://twitter.com/senorchang_gcc
http://twitter.com/oldwhitemansays
http://twitter.com/anniesB00Bs

Back tonight !

he said, fully erect.

I really hope Big Bang Theory doesn't kill this show.

Harmon on multi-camera v. single-camera stuff in that AV club interview is really insightful and cool

this one: http://www.avclub.com/articles/community-creator-dan-harmon,45508/

this "twittersode" thing appears to be happening

http://twitter.com/nbccommunity/characters

http://www.impawards.com/1993/posters/were_back_a_dinosaurs_story_ver1.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1993/posters/were_back_a_dinosaurs_story_ver1.jpg

Immediate Spider-Man ref from Donald Glover. LOVE IT

already lol'ing

looking forward to the gif of that kiss

I'm Old White Man Says??? No wonder he says everything I'm thinking!

Alison Brie makes the best crying faces.

lol @ the burn on Shit My Dad Says.

Also, saboteur Chang will be fun.

good stuff - probably one of the best Britta performances yet

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

Great episode

Annie's reactions to Jeff/Britta were great. Also I know it's cheap but Chang can bring the lolz.

this pocket got any room or a little spare Chang?

shirley's quiet, gleeful clapping during the kiss was also pretty magnificent

Everything about this show is so pitch-perfect right now.

I just watched the season premier and directly afterwards found myself here as a result of getting high. I think I'm going to like this place. Can somebody tell me how it works?

Fantastic start to the season, loved it all but I laughed hardest at the Abed/Sherley exchange about "meta" and him wishing all the adventures could all be more like paintball.

"Since you failed to grasp the central metaphor of those insipid Twilight books you devoured, let me explain it to you: men are monsters who crave young flesh. The end."

"I'll show you the tool that's most important to our survival but I have to warn you, it's my penis."

omg the balloons that come with the wedding and irish singer and george clooney best man have half britta face half jeff face

http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/09/23/donald-glover-likes-to-shit-on-peoples-faces/

In other words, you’re not Joaquin Phoenix.
No, no, I’m not Joaquin Phoenix. I was told that somebody shit on somebody’s face in that movie. I’m not going to do that.

I just saw that movie last weekend, and yeah, that was an alarming part to see.
I’m not gonna do that on camera.

If you do that, we won’t hear about it.
Well, unless she tells somebody.

Oh, it’s a woman who’s getting her face shit on?
Is it not a woman in the movie?

No, it’s actually Joaquin who gets shit on.
Look, all I’m saying is that to be aroused, I need to shit on someone’s face, usually a woman. That’s all I’m saying. Will that make it in?

Yes, we’ll make the headline: “Donald Glover Likes to Shit on People’s Faces.”
The only way Donald Glover can cum.

ratings stayed the same (i.e. abysmal).

boo.