Community, the tv show

when writing conversationally, you are allowed to use sentence fragments. ffs

whatever, s1ockbot5000.

^ sentence fragment http://www.olbermannwatch.com/DrudgeSiren.gif

i'm pretty sure Webster's decided last year that "whatever" now functions as a complete sentence.

i guess if you define it as a verb

What is the subject and ever is the predicate. What did what do? Ever.

Whatever voted most irritating word in poll

pretty sure it's a verb

1. interrog. An emphatic extension of what, used in a question (direct or indirect), implying perplexity or surprise. Now colloq.

b. adj.

2. As nominal relative, in a generalized or indefinite sense: see ever adv. 8e (Occas. with correlative demonstrative following.)

a. pron. Anything at all which, anything that; sometimes contextually (esp. poet.), all that, everything that.
b. adj. (sing. or pl., of things or persons): Any‥at all which (or who), any‥that; sometimes (poet.), all or every‥that.

3. Introducing a qualifying subord. clause equivalent to a conditional or disjunctive clause, often with verb in subjunctive ( whatever happen = ‘if any (sort of) thing happen’, ‘whether one thing or another happen’).

a. pron. = ‘No matter what’; frequently implying opposition (equivalent to a conditional clause with though): = ‘Notwithstanding anything that’.
b. adj. = ‘No matter what‥’; often implying opposition: = ‘Notwithstanding any‥that’.
c. adv. Whatever may be the case, at all events. dial. (and colloq.).

4. As indefinite adj. or pron., with loss of the relative force: cf. what.

a. adj. (sing. or pl., of things or persons); Any‥at all.

(a) preceding the n.: cf. what 9c.Obs. or merged in the elliptical use under 3b.
(b) following the n.: usually, now only, after any, no, all (anything, nothing), etc., which it qualifies like an adv. = ‘at all’: cf. ever adv. 8.

b. pron. Anything at all: cf. what 1.rare.
c. or whatever: used after a noun (or nouns) to suggest that some other unspecified term might be employed instead, as being more usual, preferable for any reason, or more applicable; or something similar; or the like. colloq.
d. Similarly replacing other parts of speech.

n. Substituted for a word, name, title, or category which is not known or cannot be recalled; chiefly used as a perfunctory designation of anything a speaker is reluctant or unable to describe specifically.

a. In phrases, as whatever-it-is, whatever-you-call-it, etc.
b. Chiefly in pl.

I believe the full sentence 'whatever' is the 3c definition, and here is the OED's history of word use for that definition:

1870 Barber Forness Folk 15, I cuddent leave t' pleass whativver wi'out seein' her.
1900 ‘A. Raine’ Garthowen 93 She's got a tidy pair of ankles, whatever.
1933 ‘R. Connor’ Girl from Glengarry 120, I am doing my utmost whatever.
1960 R. Williams Border Country i. ii. 58 What do it matter it's down?‥ He is Will whatever.
1962 Amer. N. & Q. I. 15/1 Whatever, from the early 1700s to the present day‥it was the musical that struck root as an indigenous form.
1980 New Musical Express 12 Jan. 33/1 Whatever, the myth looks momentous in its sleek new American threads.

http://rlv.zcache.com/whatever_dude_mug-p1688753014254541012otmb_400.jpg

did i seriously incite an actual debate about the word "whatever" with my throwaway joke? R.I.P. cool laid back thread about funny comedy show

im just talking shit personally

i guess i just inadvertently activated Mordytron's dictionary app

She's got a tidy pair of ankles, whatever.

(Re: Alison Brie)

@AnniesAnkles available as twitter handle

seriously dude, I have a friend that only says "whatever" when I say I don't want to hang out or talk on the phone. the word has taken on such disgruntled connotations for me that I will never see it as laid back 90's slang again

but back to gnawing alison brie's ankles

i think we all should raid community twitters until one of us is mentioned on the show

this thread is becoming a fascinating catalog of lorax's telecommunications-related neuroses

x-post

@AnniesBoobs already taken.

okay, I figured out how to use twitter and I just harassed Dan Harmon. let's hope he lets me be on the show now

GillianJacobs Chevy gave us all cat urine detectors for the Holidays. No joke.

HA!

okay, I figured out how to use twitter and I just harassed Dan Harmon. let's hope he lets me be on the show now

― more affecting actually. (CaptainLorax), Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:26 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

wonder if this is a joeks

history mayne should probably just stick to the safe, emo-free climes of adult swim

― da croupier, Thursday, December 16, 2010 2:59 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

ehh i like HIMYM, that's pretty emo isn't it?

anyway i have liked some of this series

this thread is becoming a fascinating catalog of lorax's telecommunications-related neuroses

― some dude, Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

sloooow news day

not that "emo" is ever really a weighty term to be used in a particular proper way, but i feel like you're just throwing it around to the point of meaninglessness. maybe be more precise about whether you don't like the relationship stuff or the mopey 'profound' moments or something?

I didn't really like this episode. I like the actors, I like to see them playing those characters. Whoever said upthread that you wouldn't want to watch a live action Family Guy was right.

think abed is the problem for me, most of this season, being meta about the meta, and in this case turning into... id even k what, but it seemed emo to me

it was mostly the execution with this particular ep, but mean, i don't care if annie 'grows as a person' either, and i don't mind if they reveal that shirley had a drinking problem as a throwaway gag. it's a g-d sitcom and at its best when, um cartoony, except not literally. as for being meta and then getting hung about it -- include me out.

'hung up'

"being meta about meta" has been Abed's thing since day 1, not really any more this season than last (although the best use of it was in the messiah movie episode).

he's not hung up about the meta he's a meta-crazed guy who misses his mom

This thread is affecting me in a negative way

that's bc you're a robot

YESSS

Takes one to know one, Mordytron

I. Am. Vegetron. How. May. I. Help. You.

the messiah episide was the worst episode!

idk abed's thing has become more grating for me, reaching a nadir when shirley said 'meta'; and this ep seemed to be, in the end, for me, trying to 'explain' it, but not in a funny way (that's the only part that matters)

xpost

Are you sure you're not a robot, HM?

i am a stabbing robot [via 30 rock]

idk abed's thing has become more grating for me, reaching a nadir when shirley said 'meta';

you were pissed off at the show for acknowledging how older people sometimes aren't sure they're using a buzzword correctly (a buzzword that undoubtedly would be tossed around in re: abed by the other characters)?

i dunno if 'meta' has that much currency, but ehh it felt like playing to the twitter-gallery.

who should they be playing to?

"ugh, observational humor about generational differences---how pandering! i expect so much more from NBC"

i love this show but some of you are getting a little overdefensive here. history mayne's right that it can way be too sappy, and the sappiness is really uneven from episode to episode - some eps are just joke-a-thons and others are all feeeeeeelings and it would be nice to see them get a good mix of both in all the episodes. but ultimately i just want them to be funny.

the episodes do vary wildly in tone, but i dunno what sitcoms people are watching where this show doesn't qualify as a daring but reliable, audience-intelligene-respecting jokeathon. So if you ignore this to make incoherent complaints about "emo" you might be asked to pin those down.

it's hardly reliable! you just agreed that it varies wildly in tone!

anyways you can love something but still admit that it has flaws. this is one of my favorite shows on right now but it's hardly perfect.

huh, two "hardly"s, something freudian going on there

i said it's reliably funny. even the episodes that contain feeeeelings are also smart with a shit-ton of jokes.

also anybody acting like Abed's shtick is getting tiresome better not still be repping for HIMYM.

haaaaaaa

i dunno if 'meta' has that much currency, but ehh it felt like playing to the twitter-gallery.

tbh, this entire show plays to that gallery

this weeks's HIMYM was funny and last week's community wasn't -- there weren't many jokes so far as i'm concerned. or to put it another way, HIMYM has done things looking at why barney is barney without being wack, community failed that test. of course there've been less-funny HIMYM eps, but not *as* less-funny.

still like community -- liked the ep in the bar the other week