Community, the tv show

i liked 30 rock last night but this episode took the thursday night cake. and even parks & rec was awesome too and this episode still took the cake. 30 rock ended up looking a little lazy with their actual flashback montages. the whole ghost town thing...

From wiki:

48 23 "A Fist Full of Paintballs"[52] May 5, 2011 (2011-05-05)[52] 223
49 24 "For a Few Paintballs More"[53] May 12, 2011 (2011-05-12)[52] 224

basically all of the NBC shows were amazing last night

Will those be the first eps not named after college courses?

i will even be capn-save-a-Reiser and say the Henry Rollins cameo cracked me up

ha I just said this on the Parks & Rec thread

What is The Cape?

When Abed sneaks up on Jeff in the cafeteria and knocks over his food, I laughed so hard my dad knocked on my door to see what was happening.

The Cape was a failed NBC superhero show from earlier this season. Never saw it, but by all accounts it was awful.

IT WAS

lol at Abed yelling "six seasons and a movie!" about The Cape.

I laughed hard about that, and pretty much all the Cape stuff, too

Will those be the first eps not named after college courses?

Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas, I believe, was the first. That may not be the actual title.

Modern Warfare?

p sure modern warfare could be a course

yah "Modern Warfare" is definitely a course title. and the pilot was just called "Pilot" obv. the only one i'm kind of on the fence about is "Pascal's Triangle Revisited."

I guess I'll take your word for it. It's a hard thing to Google, with all of the Call of Duty and Community references.

I'm sure Modern Warfare is a 101 course at most of the service colleges, and would probably extend into civilian colleges for ROTC programs and whatever.

The Cape was incredibly awful, and every single one of those Cape jokes had me rolling

Veggie gurl one of his parents taught at the american university in rome so he + his brothers were born there but grew up in seattle. no president mchale!

If both of his parents (as opposed to just one) are US citizens, he's in the clear.

Naturalization rules are effed up and probably constructed during a Christmas party after everyone had already gotten wasted on punch.

i missed the beginning of the whole Cape bit so spent the whole time trying to figure out if it was a callback to his Batman costume in the Halloween episode or something else. need to rewatch that, because i wasted a few hours of my life on episodes of The Cape and could use some cathartic laughs to heal the pain.

thought this episode was really good

i missed the beginning of the whole Cape bit

Troy and Abed were in Abed's dorm room getting ready to watch the premiere episode of The Cape when Britta came in and changed it to the news. 2 or 3 more things happened after that, which I'm assuming it was you saw.

Holy shit.

Want to put in a word for the Dean's cartoon as well.

well i mean i was watching but distracted during the first few minutes of the show -- so i just missed the line explaining that the reason Abed was wearing a cape was because of the show The Cape

"The Traveling Wilburys...of PAIN."

OTM

"is that a new stereotype?"

trust me i know these vents like the back of my chang

HUMANITY is premiering, you jags!

the monkey slaps were pretty funny too

xp
that and the whole habitat for humanity bit (the dean had a perfect lead in) were the funniest things

I like how Abed was able to tell by the littlest clue that Jeff and Britta hooked up on the paintball episode but it took him forever to realize they were still hooking up despite the biggest clues ever

they made out on top of him once, he just hasn't cared to think about it

HA!

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk213vXZVO1qcz48ho1_500.gif

YES

WHATS DEAN GOT TO DO WITH IT was possibly the best thing in the whole episode/series/television history.

Also feline aids awareness? obv did not catch that wtf.

feline aids is an actual thing though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_immunodeficiency_virus

Yeah, it's for real. But the joke here is that the dean was just looking for an excuse to dress up like a sexy cat.

It's the number one killer of domestic cats.

MEOW-MEOWWWWW

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NIyxbyYvlU0/SEBV0KjTQdI/AAAAAAAAAN4/GwIRczq4khA/s400/debbie_downer.jpg

And "whip it in the keister," like cats get feline AIDS by having anal sex.

Or am I the only one that made that connection?

on your own there, lol O_o

http://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/gvcaj/iama_creator_of_the_tv_show_community_ama/

Glee answer fucking hilarious.

vexsten 97 points98 points99 points 2 days ago

Glee club dying (in a flashback from the last episode)--wish of the death of Glee the TV show?

– danharmon 594 points595 points596 points 2 days ago

I have no idea what you mean. There was a glee club at Greendale, and their bus was driving on a rainy night, and a downed power line was hanging across the road, and the bus drove through it, and it sliced through the bus and decapitated everyone, row by row, so that the people in the back had to watch all their friends get decapitated, then they got decapitated, and then the bus drove into a pool of lava. And I guess the crazy thing is, the electricity from the power line somehow kept their nervous systems "alive," so they could feel the lava. They didn't escape the pain of the lava just because they didn't have heads. They felt the lava. It was terrible but it was not metaphorical in any way. I would never be that petty and envious of another show's popularity.

ilu Dan Harmon

<3

Alas.

Several of the writers are quitting because the hours were insane. Other than a three act story, there was no consistent template to the show, so every episode had a week to be conceived and executed from scratch, almost as if we were doing a pilot each week. I still owe my girlfriend an anniversary because I was in the edit bay working on Halloween. My girlfriend can justify it, because she knows how rare and important this opportunity is, and if the show sells in syndication, we get super rich, but imagine being someone that's not getting paid any more to write my show than they would get paid to write Glee, where everyone's clearly home by 5. Imagine having husbands and children and fiances, and coming home at 3am, and when they ask why it took so long, the answer is "Dan decided at eleven pm that it needed to be like The Matrix, not like Popeye." I have no doubt that the writers that worked on season 2 of Community worked harder than any writing staff in the world (so did the cast and crew, but that wasn't your question). I also think they will be proud of the work they did for the rest of their lives.