Community, the tv show

nothing wrong with Pudi's performance at all, I just don't think it redeems the, as you say, lame meta-ness

i'm with some dude - it totally does! i mean that My Dinner With Andre episode basically redeemed him for the lifetime of the entire series

cool x 5

I even really like the idea of Abed's character, actually.

early in the show's run when Abed's whole participation in the show was just the occasional one liner addressed out beyond the 4th wall, i didn't care for him, but now he just kind of busts through the wall and sprints around the room in these increasingly entertaining ways.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll44uuLFTx1qa37hco1_500.gif

great show

xp lol wow didn't even catch that

just got that.

lol I just got that now

Holy fuck, brilliant.

looooooooooool

Re-watching s1 and in the cold open of the Christmas episode... Jeff seems to have jizz in his hair?

if you're in town, going on tomorrow night:

http://www.meltcomics.com/blog/2011/05/08/nerdmelt-presents-danharmon-harmontown-5232011/

abed in cougar town cameo hilarious

I will now watch my first episode of Cougar Town.

Show's actually not bad, but not really amazing either. Kind of like season 4/5 Scrubs.

Wait, did Abed show up already?

yes. got my biggest lol of the night.

Was he Abed or Danny Pudi?

I think it's pretty clearly a reference back to My Dinner with Abed

The trade is complete between the two shows

I know it was a ref but was he Abed as a character or just an actor as a character?

well, they didn't call him by name and probably either interpretation is valid. i think it's clearly abed tho, since he pretty much does what he says he did in the Dinner with Andre ep

OMG. Youtube please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4recvP3lNw

ha omg

nice!!

Haha I realised I was intently watching for subtle signs of the pants pooping moment but hell they really went to town on that.

HA AH HA A h ahha hahaa

I didn't even notice Abed in the background until my husband texted me (he was watching elsewhere) with "Abed is on Cougar Town!!" I got the text about 7 seconds before the end of the scene. I am seriously unobservant.

Also, I like Cougar Town a lot more than I want to. Buck's sad/happy songs last night brought serious lolz.

i'm not sure how i felt about the Scrubs cameo. that show really destroyed any good will it had left w/ me by the end of the run.

well, they didn't call him by name and probably either interpretation is valid. i think it's clearly abed tho, since he pretty much does what he says he did in the Dinner with Andre ep

― Mordy, Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:59 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

haha it actually really bugged me that Courtney Cox wasn't in the scene since that was part of Abed's story

Dan Harmon's on WTF today:

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_179_-_dan_harmon

I'm enjoying the ep so far, but am amused that Maron does a harsh left turn when they get into nerd shit and has to escape to safer territory as it were

Come play minecraft with dan!

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@danharmon

Servercraft fixed old server...let's open to fans, see what happens? Respect each other's stuff. sc31.servercraft.co:1893
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I don't play minecraft but I'm guessing that he just opened a can of worms

right now nothing about this show makes me laugh harder than the dynamic between Chang and Britta

After an initial burst of enthusiasm, I sorta drifted away from this show in the middle of S1. Largely because, despite my proselytizing, absolutely no one I knew was watching it, and I had no one to share my love with (outside of ILX, obvs). So once I discovered recently that absolutely everyone I know has apparently been watching it (and proclaiming its greatness) since I quit, I did a two-season mainline last week. And, not to toot my own horn overly much, I'll be damned if the show didn't do exactlywhatI predicted.

Aside from all of the undeniable discussion upthread about Community being an amazingly funny, well-written, and well-constructed show, Community now occupies a special place in my heart reserved for those rare comedic works that are legitimately funny in the pursuit of something more profound than belly-laughs (The Larry Sanders Show and Marc Maron's aforementioned WTF podcast spring immediately to mind). The framework upon which this show hangs is basically a long-form exploration of interpersonal dynamics and what constitutes the concept of community in the 21st Century. I don't think it would've been as apparent had I watched this on a weekly basis for the past two years, but it I'm in awe of the writers' weekly employment of what would have been, in lesser hands, a laundry list of stock sitcom conflict as an ongoing exploration of the difficulties inherent in coexistence with others and the importance of learning to resolve those conflicts* and deal with everything from fleeting insecurity to full-blown psychosis if we want to be part of a larger community. Which strikes me as a really important and admirable and ambitious project in and of itself, even beyond the fact that the show is funny as shit. So, yeah: two seasons in, easily one of the best shows ever made.

And for those that haven't, I want to strongly recommend listening to Dan Harmon's WTF interview. As has so often been the case with that show, it's made me love someone who I already liked an awful lot.

*I might be tempted to think I'm overreaching somewhat with the lofty goals I'm ascribing to the show if it weren't for the extent to which the writers bend over backwards to resolve the lingering conflict which other sitcoms (and narrative entertainment in general) tends to perpetuate for the sake of tension. The goal in terms of character interaction seems to be making sure, in the least sappy way possible, that everyone figures out how to get along. Which I think, in retrospect, is a large part of the reason why I felt really uncomfortable whenever a character (Pierce towards the end of the season, the Shmitty kids) intentionally stirred up a hornet's nest. I kinda feel like a serious book could/probably will be written about this show. And probably already exists in Harmon's head.

Rewatching season 1 and its amazing how quickly this show hits its groove

also I'm so used to cable TV pacing now that two seasons of a network series feels like 4.

Sneezed OTM.

Danny Pudi threw out the first pitch at a White Sox game today. Disappointed, I pegged him as more of a Cubs fan type.

Massive Harmon interview/season 2 overview (part one of FOUR!): http://www.avclub.com/articles/dan-harmon-walks-us-through-communitys-second-seas,57085/1/

I want to always make sure that all of these characters can all be worlds and universes in and of themselves. And I just felt obstacles there with Shirley, and I felt like I just wanted to make her human. So I had her make out with Chang in the bathroom.

love that Harmon feels the same way about Basic Rocket Science as i do

great, great stuff. dude is a mad genius.

Part two is full of gems:

And I remember one of the notes on that from the studio was, “I don’t understand why they’re going out drinking.” “Because Troy’s turning 21.” “Yeah, but why does that mean they have to go out drinking?” “I don’t know, man.” That just goes to show you that one of the inherent problems of the old world of television, which is that 1 percent of the country is controlling what 99 percent sees. And I think, in their world, on your 21st birthday, your pony gets a different haircut.

lol thats great

that would be a pretty cool 21st tbh

Posted: Tue., Jun. 7, 2011, 4:00am PT

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118037818/

'Community' student Abed analyzes the Emmys
Pop culture guru ABBA-plectic about Emmys

By Abed Nadir

Hi, I'm Abed Nadir, a film major at Greendale Community College. The editors of this paper have asked me to share my 2011 Best Comedy Emmy pick, I'm assuming as part of some diversity program.

man that thing i hilarious

OK, I had watched a couple of episodes of this show and found them faintly amusing, but I saw the "clip show" episode last night, and man. I totally need to catch up, because that was great.