Community, the tv show

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.

(And I probably even missed a lot of in-jokes/references.)

actually i wouldn't say the clip show was that heavy on in-jokes, although a lot of the humor did play off of established character traits and common storylines

I like Harmon's statement, on WTF, that the show is precisely calibrated to be both new-viewer friendly and seem like the most self-referential thing imaginable to the super-fan.

from part three, posted today:

I think there was an element in there at one point where we were going to mirror Chevy [Chase]’s biography in a strange way, not in an obnoxious way, but hopefully in a profound way. That this play for kids was actually going to mirror Saturday Night Live’s first season. [Laughs.] That’s why there’s bee costumes involved, because the legend is when Chevy returned to host Saturday Night Live in its second season, he and Bill Murray got into a fistfight backstage that a killer-bee-clad John Belushi had to break up and shove Chevy out for his monologue. And that you could see Chevy coming out, kind of being pushed out, or that he was just in fisticuffs with Bill Murray because of something he said. These legends, probably none of them are true, but that is why there are bees. I think we were going to build to some kind of weird scuffle backstage.

I remember there was a complication in there somewhere. This is the Pierce complication. There was this original plan that we were going to trace his addiction to painkillers from the moment he broke his legs in “Trampoline,” and then we were going to have him go down a rocky road with pills, culminating in the hospital episode. But it was built around this idea that Chevy had asked for a week off in there. So we’d built a whole thing around this thing, so we were like, “Week off to Chevy, that’s great. We can build a story around that.” And so that’s why he’s unconscious on a park bench at the end of Valentine’s Day. The idea is that the next episode would have been the only episode without Pierce in it at all. That he would be missing, and then they would find him and then go to the hospital. We were breaking those stories about him being missing when Chevy found out the reason we were so gung-ho about him taking a week off is because we wouldn’t have to pay him. Then his agents wanted to be paid for the week he was gone, and we were like, “We’re not fucking paying you not to be here.” So everything fell apart, and we just jumped from Valentine’s Day to “He’s in the hospital” and stuff. That’s unfortunate.

ooooh, i remember feeling like that was weird

NBC is selling a Notches T-Shirt.

Yvette just posted a photo on twitter of "dvd commentary day". I'd love to hang around that studio and re-watch episodes with all the creators and cast.

http://i.imgur.com/JvZcS.jpg

Ack! Can't wait for that!

http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/emmys-communitys-dan-harmon/#more-141211

‘Meta’ isn’t even a word.

DEADLINE: Why did you pick a community college as a sitcom setting?
HARMON: I went to community college in Glendale when I was 32. I had an emotional experience there that I bookmarked for mainstream television. A fish out-of-water experience. I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life. I was playing this game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.

this is interesting, i'd never heard anything before about the show's premise having an autobiographical origin. kind of a good way to circle back to the concerns itt back when the show started that it was just mean ridiculing of community college from people who just think of it as a punchline and have no personal experiences in a place like that.

he talked about it a few times

oh i'm sure he has, but i've read a ton of interviews w/ the guy and it'd never come up in any of those, so it was a mild surprise to me

and hadn't been mentioned itt either

its been on the wikipedia page forev

im sorta ashamed of how much i like this show

d.harmon interviews def not doing anything to alleviate that feeling either

dude is thoughtful -- even tho I've read so much material from him since season finale that I kinda feel like: dude, you have too much free time! make something shiny and new and stop talking about your perfect show!

That huge thing he wrote for Onion AV Club is a good read but really really long. Dude must love writing about himself whole lot.

p sure that was transcription

yes it was an interview w/ harmon, not written by harmon himself.

adam bruneau as joe morgan in moneyball

lol

so I was reading Futebol, a 2002 book about soccer in Brazil, and I came across:

"In Sao Paulo crowds would hold up different colored cards to form an image visible at a distance - a technique that was popularized internationally decades later at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Brazil were streets ahead of the rest of the world."

Rewatched the first season last weekend. Didn't realize how much the Dean's Dalmatian Furry fetish was set up.

Streets Ahead is a dance and performing arts school in Ireland. Located in Dublin, its junior crew placed 3rd in the World Hip hop Championships 2006. Three more teams from the school qualified for the world Hip Hop Championships in 2007. In which the junior crew placed 4th.The junior also received second place in Eurobattle qualifiers 2007 and were asked to travel to Portugal to participate in a competition.

sym3: holy crap! awesome

I never quite understand this: "streets ahead" has been a phrase as long as I can remember - perhaps it is just a britishes thing?

ah, I had never heard it before Community. /Canadian

I think Harmon used it because someone tweeted "Big Bang Theory is streets ahead of Community," so he made it the catchphrase of the douchiest character.

there's a Harmon interview somewhere where he talks about how he thought "streets ahead" was just that one guy's weird jargon and then felt silly when it turned out to be a somewhat widely used phrase

I know I'm not a good judge of ubiquity here since I'm a massive Anglophile but that is hilarious to me

"Stop trying to make it work, England"

also it was Modern Family that was streets ahead

Didn't realize how much the Dean's Dalmatian Furry fetish was set up.

the beauty is that it wasn't just the endpoint that was set up—it was the process of something 'awakening' in him

did not know it was a britishes thing, though googling made it clear /Canadian (I think I need this tag for all my posts)

This is a really funny show. Good time for the US sitcom at the moment.

Not right this moment though, they're all on summer holidays.

WOULD THAT THIS HOODIE WERE A TIME-HOODIE

lol i find 'streets ahead' hilares now but it is an unremarkable phrase in britland

"Streets Ahead" may even have been a brand at C&A, iirc which I probably don't.

Streets Ahead is still a way lame phrase.

it sounds like an alternate title for "the warriors" no?

Not right this moment though, they're all on summer holidays.

Two of my favorite sitcoms are on right now so it ain't too shabby.

Well, comedies anyway.